Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-18
NEWS SUMMARY.
MISCELLANEOUS.

Very hot weather is reported at chicago.
PIeuro-pneumonia has broken out among
attic at West Chester, Penn.
The second National bank at Xenia,
Ohio, has been authorized to resume.
A steamer arrived at New York from
Liverpool bringing 500 Mormon converts.
Sam Jackson, coIored, who committed an
outrage, was lynched at Monticello, Ark
The funeral of the late Senator Anthony,
Of Rhode Island, was solemniZed at ProVi-
dence.
The principal business block Of Arkansas
City, Arkansas, was destroyed by fire. Loss,
$4,000.
DR.. George r. LewelIiDg, of scottsbuTg,
Indiana, fell from a ferry boat and Was
drowned.
Oklahoma Payne was released on $1,000
bail at Fort Smith, and seven of his follow
ers were set free.
Miss smulzey, of TT. Plain. N. Y, has
passed $50 days without food. DR.. Aver
has certified to the fact.
The mayor of Kansas City vetoed the bill
extending the franchise of the railroad bill
to the COrrigan company.
In Conway county, Ark, Mrs. Richard
freeman recently gave birth to two boys
and two gigAs, all hale and perfect.
The striking miners in the fourth pool
Of Pennsylvania are becoming discouraged
and members are daily returning to work.
A disease supposed to be either pleuro-
pneumonia or Texas fever has broken
out among the cattle near Springfield, Il
HnOis.
The Chinese have cut a military road
through the French cemetery at Canton,
destroying the mausOleum and rhing
tOmbs.
The authorities of Philadelphia notified
telegraph, telephone and electric light
companies that all poles must be removed
before January 1.
The Executive Committee of the West
ern Union Telegraph Com pany recommend
ed the declaration OF the regular quarterly
dividend Of II per cent.
A three-day celebration is being held at
Chamdersburg, Pa, to commemorate the
advent of the first white settler in Franklin
county, one hundred years ago.
Daniel Siford, of Anna, Ill, was thrown
from a carriage with such force as TO tear
his left leg apart at the knee, the thigh
bone protruding several inches.
A clerical parade in Brussels was made
the occasion for riot, in which many peO-
pie were injured, three being killed. The
police were powerless to protect the parad-
ers.
Ben Butler was waited upon at Des
MOines by a dele cation of woman suffrag-
lists, to whom he said he had no doubt of
wOman's right to citizenship under the
Constitution.
In a courtroom at Montreal, an insane
murderer threw large water pitcher at
Attorney General Blair stunning him by a
blow on the temple. The maniac cried bit
terly when removed in irons.
DR.. McEachran, inspector ofthe Canadian
cattle quarantine, urges upon the minister
OF agriculture the necessity Of complete
system OF quarantine to prevent the intro
duction of pneu-pneumOnia from the
United States.
The obsequies ofthe late Secretary Folger
took place at Geneva, New York. Among
those present were President Arthur, Gov.
Cleveland and all the cabinet officers. The
stores of the town were draped in mourning.
The attendance was very large.
Exhaustive reports on the tobacco crop,
covering all the seed and leaf tobacco grow
ing sections of the United States; indicate
that the crop, now nearly harvested, is the
best IN growth and quality that has been
raised for years. The tobacco counties of
Ohio, Illinois and Indiana are the sections
reported unfaYOrably.
The counsel for D. L. Payne, the Okla
hOma boomer, has filed a document ad-
dressed to Attorney General Brewster con-
tending that Payne should have been ar
raigned at Wichita instead of Fort Smith,
and alleging that the men are held as pris-
Oners and deprived of the right of habeas
corpus, at the instance OF rich cattle cOrpo-
ratiOns whose interests they have threat
ened by attempting to settle the country.
The Attorney General is urged to direct his
subOrdinaJes to see that these men have all
the legal rights to which they are entitled.