Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-06-26
NEWS SUMMARY.
MISCELLANEOUS.


Athens, Pa, was visited by the most de-
structive fire in the history of the town.
Under the law against gambling Cleve-
land g bucket-shop" was closed by the pO-
lice.
The seventeenth annual convention of
the railway Master Mechanics has been in
session at Long Branch.
P. T. Barnum proves to be the person
who last year quietly gave $50, 900 to TUFTS
college for museum of Natural history.
Reports received by the Illinois Depart
ment of Agriculture are more encouraging
for crops than those of month ago.
Gidiere, Day & Co., cotton factors, New
Orleans, suspended, and extension asked.
mated.
Owing to a continuous run on the Man
ufacturers' Bank, of Milwaukee, Wis, ever
since the New York trouble, it has closed
its doors.
Cincinnati is threatened with a strike by
six thousand shoemakers, fifteen hundred
makers.
The trotting horse, Burns, valued at $40
Co., owned by s.. A. Mclean, of East Sagin-
being exercised.
1t is currently believed that Sidney Dill
lon will resign as President of the Union
Pacific, and that Charles Francis Adams
will succeed him.
liabilities of $4,000, closed its doors re-
Gently. The State is a creditor to the
amount of $4,000.
II. J. Ramsdell, of Washington, will write
Blaine's 'lite'' for the campaign. Stephen
B. Elkins will be his financial manager
during the campaign.
The American Institute of Homeopathy
met in annual session at Deer Park,
Md, with large attendance, including del
egates from England.
DonnelI, Lawson & Simpson have re-
ceived replies from over one-half in amount
of their creditors, accepting their PROPOSE
ton, and confidently expect to resume
shortly.
The directors of the Rock Island road re-
port for the year ending with March gross
earnings of SIS, 1856, 514 and a net income Of
S., 237, 512. The capital stock is $41, $50, 800
and the bonded debt ST., 100000.
Thos. P. Searles, almost an octogenarian
living alone on a farm near Hastings, Mich
| igan, who was believed to have considera.
bic money secreted about his house, was
murdered by unknown persons.
Senator Harrison, of Indiana, was yester.
day given the degree of LII. D. by Hanover
| College. Rev. William Fawcett, of Chicago
received from the Upper Iowa University
the degree Of Doctor of Divinity.
A Muncie (Ind) man, who went to Cali
fornia during the gold fever of 49, returned
to find that his wife had married twice
| l. oI,c l.
He found her, though an imaginary widow
and all is well.
The Missouri Pacific road has put on {
through sleeping-car between Dallas anC
Chicago, skipping st. Louis altogether
Commercial travellers from the latter city
are advising their principals of this discrim
nation against them.
The strike of the coal miners in the Mo
nongahela Valley has spread to nearly ev
cry pit. Four pools and about five thou
sand miners are now idle. The operator
say that they are unable to pay three cents
and half per bushel.
J.H. Mckinney, Clerk of the Suprem,
Court of the United States, was stripped O
$61 900 by the collapse Of Middleton's banE
| at Washington. Envelopes in which ht
had left securities in their safe, were Gu
open and the contents distracted.
The heavy rains of the past week in Cali
fornia have inflicted great damage to crops
Although June rains are not unusual il
this State, never during any year since 1856
have they been so heavy as this, year. Th,
Signal Service Bureau reports the great
est fall in June for the last thirty
four years, one inch and two-hundredths
and at Sacramento, which is better indica
tive point for the whole State, the highes
rainfall for the same month, during thu
same period, was one inch and ten-hun
dredths.
The Supreme Court of Ohio has rendered
a decision on the Scott liquor law which
declares the second section of the law, per
tanning to first lien on the premises uncon
stitutional, and leaves the rest of the Law
valid and operative as heretofore. TIL,
question of the constitutionality of thu
whole law is held as not raised in the cases
and Court stops with the record. The liquo
dealers will, therefore, be required to pay
the June collection of tax under the law
leaving the matter open for further test be
fore the semi-annual payment in Decem
Der.