Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-04-17
NEWS SUMMARY.
MISCELLANEOUS.

Wheat has taken great drop and several
failures have followed.
More than $2,OOO,OOO in specie was ship
ped to Europe, April, 8th.
Rain fell at Los Angeles, Cal, for thirty
six hours, deluging the city.
The last of the outside militia regiments
has been withdrawn from Cincinnati.
Thomas Nickerson has been chosen Presi-
dent of the Mexican Central road.
Fire losses in the United States during the
month of March were SIS, 100000.
The railway time convention at Cincin-
natl adopted the schedule of last Summer.
Comptroller Knox has resigned, and ac-
copied the presidency of New York city
bank.
Four fishing tugs at st. Joseph, Michigan,
secured seven thousand pounds of white
fish one day.
Two of the trichina victims at Loyal
hanna, Pa, have died, and another daughter
cannOtrecOVer.
The First National Bank of st. Adams,
VT, and the First National of Monmouth,
Ills, have suspended.
The heaviest snow storm of the Winter
occurred April, 9th, in Pennsylvania, Vir-
ginia and Maryland.
Col. Hawkins, who commanded the NIL
litia at Cincinnati, during the riot, has ten
dered his unconditional resignation.
A motion has been filed to set aside the
Judgment in the case of Hallett KilbOurn
against x-Sergeant-at-Arms Thompson.
A Chicago, st. Louis and New Orleans
train was badly wrecked near Duck Hill,
Miss, and two or three train men badly in
iured.
About two hundred sons of veterans went
from Decatur, Illinois, to attend the ami
versary exercises on the battlefield of
Shiloh.
Fireman Bartlett testified before the Com
mittee investigating the Jeanette expedi-
ton that Melville was in the habit Of get
ting drunk.
Daniel Haron, of Huntingdon, Pa, who
has been insane and closely confined for
sixty years, died recently at the age of
eighty-four years.
The Stock-growers' Convention at Chey-
enne insists on an improvement in the con-
struction Of stock-cars and reform in stock
yards management.
A letter has been received from JohnWalsh
the absent witness in the Star Route cases,
asking that his letters to Merrick be called
for by the Committee.
The Wyoming stock growers will ask the
Secretary of the Interior to reopen the Ma
tiOnal cattle trail from Texas TO the Little
Missouri in the Northwest.
A fast mail train will be put on the Cen
trail Pacific, from Ogden to San Francisco,
which will reduce the time from New York
to the Pacific coast twenty-four hours.
The Gould system of roads has ordered q
reduction of ten per cent in the salaries OF
all officers and employees receiving 500 per
month, engineers and train men not in
Guided
Rev. J. P. Newman occupied his pulpit
in New York, Sunday, April 9th, in spite
of notice from part of his congregation
informing him that his services would be
dispensed with.
The postmaster at Chicago has received
from Washington a package of water-stained
letters found in mail-saek picked up by
English fishermen in the North Sea, having
been lost in the steamer Cimbria.
Hortensia Mason, a colored school teacher
of Shelbyville, Kentucky, has sued the
Louisville & Nashville road for $4,000 for
refusing her the privileges of the ladies'
coach after she had purchased first-class
icket.
The subcommittee in charge of the details
of the National Republican Convention has
made provision for six hundred representa-
tives of the daily press, but owing to the
lack of room will not provide space for the
weekly press.
The Bent County, Colorado Stock Asso-
citation passed resolutions favoring the
passage of the bill for the Governmental
regulation and inspection of diseased stock
and further execution OF State laws to pre-
tect the stock industry.
The investigation of charges of fraud
ON M A Of
Kansas, at Fort Smith, resulted in his COM
plete exoneration. Delegate Wolfe and
Treasurer Lipetate testified that $50, 900 was
paid to these men in Washington to insure
the $4,000 appropriation, but that Phillips
did not receive any OF It,
Great excitement prevails in western In
diana, on account of the threatening atti-
tude of large number of miners who have
been on the strike two weeks, and recently
warned those who had taken their places to
quit, under penalty of death. The Sheriff
of Vego county has declined to interfere
until somebody is killed, and a special
Grand Jury has been called.
The trustees of the Sioux City and st
Paul land grant have obtained an injnnc-
ton at Sioux City, restraining Gov. Sher-
man of Iowa from conveying uncerhhed
lands of the company to the General Gov
eminent In accordance with an act OF the
Legislature as its recent session. 1t is I'M
derstood the case will be transferred from
the District to the Federal Court.
The Cincinnati Bar Association is deter
mined to restore the law library destroyed
during the riot as quickly as possible.
There was an insurance Of $4,000 IN four
companies, but three of the policies had a
clause exempting them from liabilities in
case of riot. Thirty thousand dollars will
be raised by an assessment f$100 per mem
Der, and large amount has been received
books from private libraries. Some of the
volumes cannot be replaced, however.
CONGRESSIONAL.
ate commission to define the boundary