Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-02-14
NEWS SUMMARY.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

A movement is on foot to build home
for INDECENT ex-confederate soldiers at Rich
mOnd, Va.
Atty.-Gen. Brewster says his clerical force
is too small to supply the papers called Tor
by Congress.
The Texas Senate indefinitely postponed
the bill to justify the killing of fence cutters
caught in the act.
Vennor predicted the greatest snow storm
on record to occur Feb. I'd and Sd, but 1t
failed to materialiZe.
There was a clear cut Of fourteen cents per
100 pounds in freight rates from st. Louis
TO New York, on Feb. I'd.
The Ohio Department of the Grand Army
of the Republic passed resolutions against
abolishing the Pension offices.
OF five thousand bills introduced in the
House of Representatives, this session, Jour
teen hundred are for pensions.
A COLONY of 700 Mennonites have pur-
chased two sections of land in Renocounty.
They are from Minnesota and Dakota.
The Newfoundland seaHng-steamer Bear
has been purchased by the United States
government for the Greedy relief expedl-
don.
James B. David, who was permanently
paralyzed by an accident on the Boston q
Albany road, has been awarded $4,000
damages.
The Legislature of New Mexico proposes
to have railroad law and has sent to the
Kansas Commissioners Tor copy OF the
Kansas law.
Gov. Crittenden was asked to pardon Dick
Liddle, that he might be used as witness
in the coming trial of Frank James. The
pardon was refused.
The Humane Society of Massachusetts
has made an award of money and medals
to all concerned in saving life at the wreck
of the steamer City of Columbus.
The Ohio Legislature passed Civil Rights
bill like the one declared unconstitutional
by the United States Supreme Court. The
amendment to the Scott law passed
Mr.. Leedom, Sergeant-at-A Arms of the
House of Representatives, is to be called to
a strict account for the expenditure of So, 500
in escorting the remains Of Mr.. Haskell to
Kansas.
The Supreme court Of California, in con-
sidering the indictments for forgery in the
Sharon divorce case, decided that the MEM
bers of a grand jury'can not be compelled to
reveal how they voted.
The Mississippi Legislature has passed re-
solutions providing for the removal of the
confederate dead from Mumfordsville, Ken
lucky, and inviting Jefferson Davis to deliV-
er an address on the life of S. S. Prentiss.
A suit involving millions of dollars has
been commenced in Pittsburg, by VIM.
Longbrldge, OF Maryland to restrain the
Westinghouse Air Break Company from
further infringements on patents claimed
by LongbTldge.
r. E. Lee camp of Confederate veterans, of
Richmond, sends outa circular appealing to
Union soldiers to aid in raising a fund for
the INDECENT and wounded soldiers of the
lost cause. A fair to further this object will
be held in February.
During the past three years 1876 organiza-
tons with contrivances for the transmission
of intelligence have been incorporated in
the State of New York, under the telegraph
companies act, and the capital represented
aggregated 1925, 100000.
Mr. Shaffer, Secretary Of the Iowa Agri-
cultural society, estimates the corn crop of
that State at III, 800 900 bushels. Consider
able corn is being brought from Kansas for
feeding, but farmers will have no more to do
with seed from the Southwestern States.
Representative Belmont has proposed a
resolution directing the Judiciary Com
mittee to report whether Congress has the
power to regulate commerce with foreign
nations by imposing federal inspection laws
on American pork destined Tor expectation
and whether the States may not require the
inspection and marking of hog product by
State officers.
The members of the Grand Army Post at
Rose Lawn, Indiana, have sent to their
congressional delegation a series of reSolu-
lions demanding the equalization of boun-
ties, land warrants for quarter sections for
each soldier, restitution of the, difference be-
tween good anoney and the deprecated
greenbacks IN which they were paid, pen
sions for every soldier or sailor who served
three months, and 50 for each day spent in
confederate prisons.
The following summary of the condition
of the fruit crop in the Mississippi Valley
Is published: The Illinois peachscrop is en-
urely killed and cherries badly injured;
blackberries and black raspberries killed to
the snow line; pears are touched to some
extent, but red raspberries, strawberries APP
pies and other fruits are in good condition.
The Kentucky peach crop is severely blight
ed. In Mississippi the fruit buds are all
right, but fears are felt of the wet fEOsts in
Spring. The prospects in Louisiana are bet
ter than they have been for six years. The
Winter in Alabama has been so severe as to
almost completely ruin the fruit crop, and
gardeners have turned their attention to the
cultivation of vegetables in Texas. Eears
are felt of frOstS in Spring in Arkansas, but
only a part of the peach crop is injured.
Strawberries promise splendidly, and the
fruit crop is in good condition, with the ex-
ception of grapes.
About 500 delegates were present at the
opening of the Missouri River Convention
in Washington Feb. 9Th. No business of
importance was transacted the first day
Among the resolutions offered on Feb. 9Th
was one urging an appropriation for the i'm
provement of navigation on the greet lakes
Also one urging liberal appropriation to
enable the Chief of the Signal Service to i'm
prove the signal service and river observa-
tions, and one improving the Hennepin
canal project. Speeches were name by
Senator's Logan, Sawyer, Jones, and Walk
er, and others. On Feb. 7th the Committe
on Resolutions reported, approving the
work done by the Commission, also the rec
mendations of the River Improvement Con-
VentioR, favored the connection of the great
river with the Eastern Seaboard and the
Great Lakes, approved the appropriations