Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-03-20
NEWS SUMMARY.
MISCELLANEOUS.

Detroit, Mich, has had 100000 fire.
Accidental drowning was the verdict Of
he Salmi Morse inquest.
The bolt and nut manufacturers COM
plain of excessively dull trade.
The Longfellow Memorial Association
still needs $38, 600 for the monument fund.
Since the new fast train has been put on,
tWenty-four hours is saved between New
York and Omaha.
Herr Kapp, member of the German par
lament is now accused of having written
the Ochiltree resolutions.
A cloud burst over Florence, A. T. the
water running four feet deep in the street.
Occasioning $4,000 damage.
A convention ofinventors will be held in
Cincinnati March 25-27. tits expected that
5000 inventors will be present.
Heavy rains in California have washed
away railroad tracks and done great damage.
At Daggett passenger train was Dlockaded'
A Southern immigration Society has been
formed at Nashville to induce and aid emil
grants to. settle in the fourteen Southern
States.
The Advance elevator, in East St. Louis,
burned, with 100000 bushels of grain, about
one hundred freight cars and dozen frame
buildings.
The fast'mail train brings New York pa
pers to Kansas City the day after publication
and the Chicago papers the night of the day
of publication.
Nearly $50, 900 was sunk at Portland, Ore
gon by st. Louis journalist in endeavor-
ing to establish the Northwest, which has
ceased to exist.
The relief steamer Carrie Caldwell dis
tributed at New Liberty, Illinois, eighty
thousand thousands
quilts and blankets.
1t is believed that ten men who were 60
ing to connect a trail between ROthdeim
and the Occur D'Alene mining camp have
persisted in the snow.
Hunters in Chester county, South Caro-
lima, captured a ferocious animal, with the
head of lion and the body of a goat, after
t had killed five dogs
A damage of $500, 900 is said to have been
inflicted upon the Santa Clara valley in Cal
ifOrnia by the storm of the past ten days,
and the rain is still falling.
Two of the leading glass factories Of St.
Louis and works at Alton, Ill have started
mp. This gives employment to more than
1000 men who have been idle for months.
A colony of fifty leading farmers has left
the vicinity of Fayetteville, Arkansas, for
Idaho and Washington Territory, and will
soon be followed by party of one hun
dred.
The cOlored people of Washington are
dissatisfied because Secretary Lincoln re-
fused to appoint Negro minister from
Maryland to a regimental chaplaincy in the
army.
A committee of stockmen has made de-
mand that the Texas Land Board restore
the price of leases to four cents per acre. I'M
der thre ats that the cattlemen will leave
the State.
James Riley, a telegraph messenger, was
found ON the streets of New York raVing
maniac. He kept crying out, Il am Butts,
the Boy Detective" His brain had been
turned by boys novels.
Several small breaks in the levees at New
Orleans have occurred within few days
and q larger one fifteen miles above the
city The Texas Pacific Road was covered
and plantations submerged.
Bishop Wigger, of Patterson, New Jersey,
refused to allow the funeral of William
Hayden and wife to take place at this
church, as they three years ago ignored his
order not to sell liquor on Sunday.
An explosion in the coal mines at Lynch
burg, Va, caused the death of over one hun
dred miners. 1t is supposed that a miner
struck assure of gas, which caused the ex-
plosiOn. The bodies that ware recovered at
once were found to be horribly mutilated-
heads, arms and legs being found separated
from the bodies.
Red sticks, the Creek signal for war, have
been placed in the yards of many of the
Spieche full blood Indians in the Nation.
Efforts are being made to impeach Chief
Peruvian, who was declared elected Chief
by the Secretary of the interior, and declare
in favor of Comets Mica, second Chief,
elected on the Perryman ticket.
Attorney General Brewster has issued cir
culars to District Attorneys and United
States Marshals, instructing them to be dill
gent in their efforts to prevent the shipment
of explosives to foreign countries. The ru-
NOR that such explosives are sent abroad
from America is discredited at Washing
ton.
The Treasury Department has been in
formed that foreign brokers are making
heavy purchases in the United States Of
silver trade dollars, at discount of ten pei
cent. or more. The purpose is to dispose Of
the coin to emigrants about to sail to this
country as American coin worth its face
value.
A special from Yuma, Arizona says the
ella river is rising rapidly, and is six feet
higher than the great food of 1862. The
people are constructing levees. This is tt
prevent the lower part of the town from
being swept away. If the river continue:
to rise the railroad bridge will probably go
The people are excited, and afraid to go tC
bed. The Colorado is reported rising rap
idly, and Adonde station is threatened with
destruction.
CONGRESSIONAL.
In the House on March 8th, the Commit
Raa ~, EIacfions rpDOrtad Skinner of NOrtl