Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-10-02
NEWS SUMMARY.
MISCELLANEOUS.


zachariah Stern, clothier, New York, as
/ signed.
A. P. Jones, speculator in stocks, New
! York, failed.
Eddie Jones, of Whitehall, H., was killed
by falling under train.
Heavy rains relieved long drought in
the Miami valley of Ohio.
The annual Convention Of Insurance
Commissioners began at Chicago.
TaiIors of Rock Island, Davenport and
Moline all left their benches and are on a
strike.
The attempt to raise the sunken United
States steamer TallapOOsa has been COM
menced.
In digging a well at Denison, Texas, the
wOrkmen struck gold, and the whole town
is excited.
The wages Of iron workers in the shops
of the Brook Iron Company at BirdsbOrO,
Va, were reduced 10 per cent. The works
employ 600 hands.
Rindskof Bros & Co., clothing, New Y Ork,
made an assignment. Liabilities reported
about 5000, 600. The assets are in round
numbers about $1,OOO,O0O.
Stafford & Co., VINO own four mills in
Massachusetts and Rhode Island, called a
meeJIuE OF CEGulbOrSs InGlE llADlllLl6S are
$3.50, 600 and their assets $450,0OO.
Large shipments are being made to China
from San Francisco in view Of the war
clouds that hang over the Celestial Empire.
Within one month 2,7O0 tons Of flour have
gone over.
The Phillips oil well in Pennsylvania is
flowing at the rate of 3oO barrels per day.
Petroleum broke four cents, carrying down
A. P. Jones, a New York broker, whose
liabilities are $50. 600.
The conference of railway managers at
Chicago could not agree upon a pool on
Colorado, Utah and Nebraska business. 1t
is expected, though that the California
pool will be mainteined.
Leading citizens of Eau Claire, Wisconsin,
appeal to the public for AID for the sufferers
by the recent overflow of the Chippewa
river, and and have appointed a committee
to distribute contributions.
The Illinois State Board of Agriculture is
sued a call for a National Convention of
those interested in the breeding and man
agement of the various classes of stock, to
be held at Chicago, Nov. ID, 1884.
The war between union and nOn-ulion
men in Cincinnati has grown more serious.
The mayor is unable to furnish police to
protect the men at work, for the regular
force has not been paid since June.
Statements are sent out from Lacrosse
that the damage to wheat by rust is wide
spread, and that a Minnesota miller suffered
heavy.lOss in New York on -four mace from
smutty wheat which he had Cleansed.
The amout lost by the New Jersey Ma
tional bank at Brunswick, n. j., whose
president and cashier committed suicide a
few days ago, because of their irregular
tiles in conducting the affairs of the bank,
has been found to be about $25 600.
At the annual meeting of stockholders of
the Northern Pacific road, net earnings of
S., 425, 800 were reported. The capital stock
is $88, 607 ,068, and the funded debt $40. 278,-
600. The unsold lands east of the Missouri
river amount to 1919 55 acres, which are
dedicated to the extinguishment of the pre-
ferred stock.
An important land transfer in New Mex
leo has been made to New York parties
through the Department of immigration of
the Santa Fe Railroad Company. The grant
comprises &c, 600 acres, a portion under Gull
tivation in Moro county, near Las Vegas
Springs, and is situated in beautiful Noun
tain park. The purpose is to found an
Episcopal colony of Eastern people, in con-
nectiOn with which an educational institu-
ton will be established.