Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-08-28
NEWS SUMMARY.
MISCELLANEOUS.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Heavy rains are reported in the North
west and in Manitoba.
Two carloads of oat meal have been
shipped from Des MOines direct for Scot
land.
Pittsburg was visited by a disastrous
thunder and hail storm. 1t was the Sc
Verest of the season.
The Louisville exposition opened yester-
day with appropriate ceremonies. The at
tendance was large.
One hundred cars were constructed,
painted and completed at the Pullman
works within the regular hours IN one
day.
Texas fever is raging among a herd Of
cattle near Osborne, Missouri. They were
recently purchases at the Kansas City stock
yards.
The town of CastletoWn, Dakota, was
captured by eighty tramps, who drove lam
lilies out of their houses and committed
other excuses.
An enormous temperance campmeeting
is being held at Milton, Ontario. Workers
from all parts of Canada and the United
States are in attendance.
Morgan, United States Minister to Mexico,
started to Washington, and 1t is believed
the visit is in connection with the 1mprIs-
Onmsnt Of American citizens.
A fatal disease has made its appearance
among the residents of Centralia, Iowa. 1t
has many Of the symptoms OF cholera. The
county physicians pronounce 1t gray lux
A charter has been obtained by William
II. hurry and others for the Jennings Dry
ing-Machine company, OF Chicago, with
capital stock of 100000.
No rain has fallen in some-parts of New
n ainon Streams and wells
are dried up, and in addition to drought
grasshoppers are raVaglng crops.
The schooner Charles Smith recently
rescued six citizens of EVansUan, Ind, who
were found clinging to the bottom of cap
sized rOW-bOat, nearly exhausted.
A barbecue is to be given at Atlanta, Hi
nois, on September 2, as token of esteem,
to all the living pioneers who settled IN the
State PRIOR to the famous deep snow OF 1850.
Owing to a depression in trade the green
bottle factories in Pittsburg will not re-
sumo operations until Oct 1st. The win
dsOr glass factories will all start within two
weeks.
Earl Granville has assured Bismarck
that England is friendly towards Ger
many in the development of colonial en-
terprises in the unsettled parts Of South
America.
Indications now are that Arkansas viii
produce the largest cotton crop IN the his
tory of the State. In some localities pick
ing has already commenced. The crop is
two weeks later than usual.
Several herds of fine Jersey cattle have
been visited by pleurO-pneumOnia in Hi
nOis. The stock raisers are greatly alarmed
over the matter and are making strenuous
efforts to stop the spread of the disease.
WILDER Plumb, a street car driver of Tole-
do, Ohio, was shot and killed by robber in
tent on securing the money box. The muir
der escaped. Plumb was single, forty years
old, and the sole support of his mother.
Chicago, which is rapidly taking control
of everything this side of the Hudson riv-
er, has fastened its grip on the camp-grOund
at Chautauqua, where five leading spirits OF
the Chicago pulpit conducted the exercises
recently.
Miss Dora Buck, sister of Chas. B. Henry,
who was shot in the Arctic regions by or
der Of Lieut.. Greedy, has requested the cor
oner at Long Island City to eXame the body
of her brother, and make thorough ex-
animation.
At the meeting of the State Grand Lodge
of Odd Fellows at New York City, the
Grand Master recommended that funerals
be held at night, and said that less money
ought to be spent on the dead and more on
the living; that the Order of Rebecca should
receive more attention; that Odd Fellowship
was decreasing in this city so rapidly that IL
was almost unknown to polite society, and
recommended a change of the meeting
places of some of the Lodges from the tene-
ment houses and saloons.
The viii of the late Bishop Mattney
Simpson has been admitted to probate. 1t
bequeaths to the trustees of the Methodist
Episcopal church One-seventh of his estate
in trust for the endowment of an Episcopal
chair for the Bishop who shall reside 10
Philadelphia. 1t provides that, including
this bequest, the sum of $50, O00be subscribed
for this purpose before the meeting of the
next general Conference. The remainder
of the estate, valued at $780, 900, is be-
queathed to the Bishops wife and children.