Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-10-09
NEWS SUMMARY.
MISCELLANEOUS.

Richard A. Allen, agrlCul EuraI IMP
ments, New York, assigned.
The St. Louis Malleable Iron Company
have assigned. Assets 81, O0O. Liabilities
$685. 900.
The idle miners in the Hooking Valley
l are charged with killing cattle IN the netos
for food.
! The German steamer Martha, bound for
New York with $50 passengers, is reported
disabled OF LiscOmb.
A considerable quantity of pine lumber
from Georgia has been placed on the mar
ket at La Crosse, Wisconsin.
One hundred Workmen in the Missouri
4 Pacific machine shops in st. Louis, were
discharged for want of work.
The thermometer registered ninety-fve
degrees in the shade at Petersburg Viz
ginia-the hottest day OF the year there.
The Governor of Kentucky, has declined
to call an extra session OF the Legislature to
consider the PleurO-Pneumonia problem.
A citizens meeting was held at COlum-
bus, Ohio, to express sympathy Tor the
| lOcked-Out miners IN the Hooking valley.
All cattle were excluded from the st.
! Louis Exposition on account Of the preYa-
lence Of contagious diseases among them.
The failure of Henry McCallum & Co.,
| carpets, of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, is
/ announced with liabilities Of over $780,
600.
/ Starving Piegan Indians on the Cauad-
| ian border shoot cattle passing to Mali
! tOba unless owners pay them ten cents
/ head.
! Lemuel A. Chichester, chair manufacturer
/ at ChidesterVille, New York, has made an
/ assignment, with liabilities estimated at
/ $4,000.
Plears Matthews, proprietor of the Nc
/ Lean Furniture company, Of Lawrence.
! burg, Ind, has assigned. Liabilities, $20,
! 900; assets $4,000.
The Governor of Louisiana appointed
! fifteen prominent citizens of the State to at
tend the National Conference of Charities
at st. Louis October Is.
Great alarm is felt at Atlanticville, Long
Island, over the spread of a malignant form
| of dysentery, which has brought sickness
or death to nearly every house.
The Cambria Iron and Coal Company, in
Pennsylvania, has ordered a reduction o
10 per cent in wages, which would allow
some of its employs only 81 cents per day.
Five hundred colored Masons of New
England gathered at Boston and celebrated
the Centennial Anniversary of the granting
of an English warrant to the African
Lodge.
Only one saloon keeper in Chicago is still
delinquent in securing a license. The
amount paid into the city treasury by
liquor and beer sellers within eight months
/ is B1OO2, 496.
The stove mOlders of Pittsburg, Pa, who
| have been on a strike for several months
Will hold a meeting tonight and appoint a
| committee to wait upon the manufacturers
to make terms with them.
Statements are sent out from Lacrosse
/ that the damage to wheat by rust Is wide
/ spread, and that Minnesota miller suffered
/ heavy loss in New York on flour mace from
smutty wheat which he had cleansed.
The employees of the Dunbar, Pa, Furnace
| Company were notified that unless a 10 per
4 cent. reduction OF wages was accepted DC
/ tOber 1, the furnace would shut down. The
men decided not to accept the reduction.
! In the assignment of Henry S. Burger,
| Richard W. Hurlbutt and Cyrus A. Heely,
| surviving members of the firm of Burger,
/ HurIbutt q Livingston, sugar refners, their
| schedules show, liabilities 1000, actual
| assets, $360,OO0.
! The Unitarian Biennial Conference
! at Saratoga met at Utica, n. Y, and passed
! resolutions on temperance, on raising
/ money annually for missionary purposes
/ and on permanent building fund. Ad-
] dresses were made on Southern education,
/ its needs and opportunities, by Rev. VIM.
| d. OhnsOn, D D., Rev. A. D. Mays, Miss
I
| and others.
/ Representatives from Michigan, Ohio,
| Pennsylvania and other States visited the
/ battle field of Gettysburg for the purpose OF
/ locating an avenue from Devils Den to the
! wheat held," and towards ShOrTy's peach
| orchard. They work in conjunction with
/ the Memorial Association and Col. BatCnel-
der. This will open ground for the erection
of tablets and memorials at points now in
! accessible. Several locations were decided
to-day, including the spot where Col. Cross,
Of the Second Corps, fell.
The Inspectors of the different ware
| houses of Petersburg, Va, report that the
total inspections in this city for the past
tobacco year, ending October l, have been
over 1852 hOgsheads, showing q decrease of
/ 1898 hOgsheads as compared with the same
period of the previous year; total sales OF
loose tobacco, 4. $50, 900 pOuRds, a decrease
over last year of Sl2 600 pounds: stock on
hand inspected, 1926 hOgsheads; stock on
hand for inspection, II hOgsheads In con-
i sequence Of the prOtraCted drOuth, much
damage is being done to the tobacco crop.
The United States Association of Char
coal Iron Workers at their recent session in
in St. Louis elected the following officers
for the ensuing year: President, W. A
Miles, of the COpake Iron Works, New
York. Vice Presidents, VIM. MargOOde, OF
IrOntOn, Ohio, Perry Warner, OF Tennessee,
and E. w. CrichtOn, of OsWegO. Oregon;
Secretary John Burklng, Of Philadelphia
A committee, with W. ID. Lee as chairman
was appointed to prepare and. report a
plan for charging the scope of the organ
lZatiOn.
The viii of John W. Garrett
the deceased Baltimore millionaire
! and principal founder of the Balu
more & Ohio, R. r. has been fled
Its dated Deer Park, August 8, 1854, and
witnessed by Andrew Anderson Spencer
and w. S. Townsend. He gives to his sons,
Robert and Thomas Harrison Garrett, and
his daughter, Mary Elizabeth Garrett, and
survivors of them . and their heirs,
/ all his estate, real, personal and
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