Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-17
NEWS SUMMARY.
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Fourth of July was generally cele-
brated all over the country.
Patrick Nugent, Is years old, was cut in
two by the cars at Litchfeld, Ill.
The Fifteenth annual convention of Ger
man-American teachers began at Cleveland.
FRANKIE Steele died in Bloomington, Hi
nois, from wound received in shooting
scrape
In New York eight veterans of lhe war of
1872 celebrated Independence Day by haV-
ing parade and dinner.
Washington's statue in Riverside Park,
New York, was unveiled, the statue being
a gift to the public schools.
us. Grant, relative of the Ex-Presi-
dent, was arrested and jailed at Fit. Worth
Tex, on charge of robbery.
A mysterious disease has within two
weeks swept of fifteen hundred hogs in the
vicinity Of Vandalia, Illinois.
The National Cotton exchange reports
that the general condition of the cotton
crop is better than at the close of May.
Rufus Barr, a wealthy Indiana farmer,
in jealous rage shot his wife twice and
then killed himself. The woman may re-
cover.
The body of man supposed to be w. L.
King of Florence, Kss., or J.B. Smith, of
Memphis, Mo-, was taken from the river at
Keokuk.
Gottfried Oswald, of Indianapolis, quar-
relied with his wife and then hanged him
self.
A woman and two children were killed
during great storm at Columbus, Ky. A
church and several other buildings were
demolished.
At Fon du Lac, Lawrence Connaughty
struck William Puts over the head with a
billiard-cue, causing injuries from which
the victim died.
A train went through burning bridge
on the Missouri Pacific near ChecOla, Tex.
Ten cars were wrecked and burned and a
brakeman named Moore killed.
Two probably fatal cases of sunstrolze oc-
CURED in Dallas, Tex, where the mercury
registered 1O2 degrees in the shade, and wa
ter supply is so low as to cause great alarm.
New counterfeit ten-dollar silver certifi-
Gates have appeared in the West of the Sc
RES Of 1880. The note is a quarter of an
inch shorter than the genuine, and there
are other defects.
Through the detective work of Police Of
ficer Thos. Maher, of Chicago, three coun-
terfeiters were captured in a disorderly
house. They had 81 600 in imitation silver
certificates stored in room.
Robt E. Cherrie, of Chicago, a dealer in
ig-iron and railway supplies, has made an
assignment. His assets are plaCedeat $3.50,
000 including three iron furnaces, and his
liabilities are about $35O,OOO.
Miss Kate Shelley, of Ogden, Iowa, was
presented with the medal ofhonor awarded
by the legislature of that State for her hero
ism in saving passenger train from being
wrecked on broken trestle-work.
The following nominations have been
made by the President: Jno. A. KassOn,
of Iowa, envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary of the United States to Ger
many Alphonso Taft, of Ohio, envoy ex-
traordinary and minister plenipotentiary OF
the United States to Russia; John M. Fran
minister plenipOtentiary of the United
States to Austria-Hungary Lewis Rich
mond, of Rhode Island, minister resident
and consul-general of the United States at
Portugal.
The following condition of crops has
been sent out by the Agricultural Depart
ment at Washington: The area in corn has
increased about two per cent. The total
area will be between 60 600, 900 and 10000
900 acres. Among the States which report
a decrease are Minnesota, Massachusetts,
New York, Louisiana and Mississippi.
There is a good degree of uniformity in in
crease in the southern and central districts.
1t is five per cent. in Iowa, twenty in Ne
braska and thirty in Dakota. There is also
an increase on the Pacific coast. The COM
parison of area with last year is as follows:
New York 81, Pennsylvania 100, Ohio 1872,
Michigan 102, Kentucky 100, Tennessee 1Ol,
Indiana 1O2, Illinois 100, Iowa los, Mis-
souri, 102, Kansas 101. The crop now is
generally healthy in color and growing
rapidly. The average condition is &C. and
has been exceeded but twice in July in ten
years. In 1S79-8O it was 90, in 1881 So, in
1882 88. The condition of barley is good
SO against 81 last year, July oats 9S; last
year at this date 81. The average for rye is
81. The excessive production and low
price of potatoes in 1888 caused a reduction
of three per cent. in the area; condition
good. A large increase, amounting to near
ly ten per cent. has been made in the area
of tobacco.
CONGRESSIONAL.