Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-11
NEWS SUMMARY.
MISCELLANEOUS.

properly valued at qaarJer OF a Hll11On
dollars or over.
The long drought in Virginia has been
ended by cOpiOus rains, and good tobacco
crop is now assured.
The school census recently taken in Chi
cago shows a population of 1852 of
which there are 209, 631 Germans, $4,000
Americans, and ia, 900 Irish.
The coroners of Long Island haYe decided
to ask for prOOfthat Miss Dora Buck, of
Lincoln, Neb., is the sister Of Private Chas.
B. Henry before his body is eZhumed upon
her order.
A colored nurse summsring at Saratoga
with Cuban family is said TO have been
sold to a WidOWer from Havana for 81, 200.
The purchaser intends to present her to his
bride in Cuba.
The conduct of the White Star Steamship
company in turning loose two hundred i'm
migrants without proper provision for their
care will be called to the attention OF the
Secretary of the Treasury.
Frederick Layton, of Milwaukee, an
nOunces his intention to construct q spa
ciOus museum, fill it with choice works Of
art, and present it to the city. The build
ing and site will cost 100000.
A COW which cost S., 600 in England, one
of a train-lOad of imported ShOrthOrns, en-
route from Massachusetts to the farm of
death by an accidental fire on the track
near Albany.
While several thousand men have been
furnished employment at Pittsburgh, Penn
sYlVania, by the reOpening of the glass fac
tories, great distress has been caused at
Petersburg, Virginia, by the closing Of the
cotton mills.
Twenty thousand representatives of the
various branches of labor paraded on
Broadway, in New York, each division
wearing an emblem OF its trade. The butch
ers proposed to kill a number of cattle dur
ing the march, but the Society for the Pre-
YentiOn Of Cruelty to Animals intenered.
Miss Louisa K. Taylor, of st. Louis, who
recently entered convent, had previously
conveyed to the trustees property worth
100000. Her sister claims that the officials
of the convent were in collision to secure
the real estate, and she has brought suit to
set aside the deed.
The new freight house of the A. T. & S.
Fe r. r. Co., at Kansas City which was
nearly completed, was destroyed by fire,
caused by the WatChman OVerturning a
lamp. A boy named William Williams
was fatally injured. The loss, $4,000, falls
on Billings & Skene, contractors of Topeka.
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
and alleging that the men are held as priS-
Oners and deprived of the right Of habeas
corpus, at the instance or rich cattle cOrpO-
ratiOns whose interests they have threat
ened by attempting to settle the country.
The Attorney General is urged to direct his
subOrdinates to see that these men have all
the legal rights to which they are entitled
Gov. Hamilton, of Illinois, has issued a
proclamation, based upon the report Of the
State Veterinarian, upon the existence of
pleurO-pneumOnia. The proclamation in
Cludes the county of Fairfield, in Connect
cut; the counties of Putnam, Westchester,
New York, Kings and Queens, in New
York; the counties of Lehigh, Bucks,
Berks, Montgomery, Philadelphia, Della
ware, Chester, Lancaster, York, Adams,
and Cumberland, in Pennsylvania; all the
counties in the States OfNeW Jersey, Della
ware Maryland, and South Carolina, and
Miami county, in Ohio, and prohibiting the
importation into this State of any cattle
from these States. Gov. Hamilton is also
in correspondence with GOV. Porter, of In
diana, regarding the appearance of pleurO-
pneumonia among certain ShOrthOrn herds
in that State.
Sergeants Brainard and Long and Private
Cornell, of the Greedy Arctic Expedition,
are in Cleveland under an engagement at
DreW's Museum. They were shown tele-
grams from Washington stating that an
army officer who has seen the diaries of the
were in two parties, one headed by Brain
ard and the other by Long, living separate
ly as TWO tribes and refusing to speak to
each other; that Greedy was an invalid the
last few months in the party headed by
Brainard, who cared for him like a child
that stealing ratiOns was a common
practice; that hunters sent out for
birds concealed them for them selves
Each of these statements Brainard emphat-
iCally denies. All insist that the party was
not divided, but that while five slept in the
wall tent, Brainard and Long slept together
under the fly of the tent because the int
riOr was not large enough for all. Sergeant
Brainard said Lieut.. Greedy walked out ev-
cry day, and was able and competent to
command the party, which he did through
out. All agree that nobody except Henry
was shot The special reports the same
army officer as saying that Brainard when
found was much stronger than the rest, and
when he came aboard the Bear surprise /
was expressed at it, and, when he was
asked why that was, he said: ooh,
could eat the stuff and digest it, but the
others couldn't" When some one of the
rescuing party remarked at the absence of /
DR.. PAWS body, and expressed wonder as |
to what became of it, Brainard said 'He /
is all gone; 1 finished the last Of him Just
before you arrived" This being shown |
Sergeant Brainard, he said ~ don't know
who the army officer is, but whoever he |
may be, he is a slanderer. / was not the
strongest Of the party, and moreover was
not on the Bear, but came on home on the |
Thetis. The story is q lie out OF whole /
cloth" Sergeant Long and Private Con- |
nell COrrObOrated his story.
POLITICAL, AND PERSONAL,