Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-04-03
NEWS SUMMARY.
MISCELLANEOUS.

SlOssOn has challenged Shaeffer to play
for the Balkline championship in Chicago,
in May.
Tn e Sedgwick county, Ks, corn was sold
IN Cincinnati at outside figures, the bidding
being brisk.
There were two shocks of earthquake at
San Fran cisco, March 26th, one lasting tif-
teen seconds.
A conference of the o. P. and c., B. & Q.
officials, in Chicago, resulted in harmonious
arrangements.
Warner Williams, who died at Anita, Ia,
was five and halt years of age and weighed
over 200 pounds.
The first through train between the City
of Mexico and Chicago arrived in the latter
city March 28th.
Eight large whales have within a week
been seen in the Atlantic off the Eastern
end of Long Island.
The steamer Thetis, purchased at Dundee
for the Greeley Relief expedition, has ar
rived at New York.
The Superior court in Chicago has de-
elared invalid the license tax exacted from
Commission merchants.
Two suits to recover insurance, where the
insured parties committed suicide have re
suited in favor of the claimants.
A Yirulent case of CHAMBERS was discovered
at Elgin, ILL.,. and two veterinary surgeons
ordered the horse killed at once.
Frank L. Chamberlain, of Cleveland, has
invented an apparatus by which he charges
1900 shotgun cartridges per hour.
The issuance of standard silver dollars for
the week ended March 22d was 2S8 495, and
for the corresponding period last year 218, 1876.
James Mutt, who ended the career of
Dukes at UniontOwn, Pennsylvania, is COM
ing to Kansas to take charge Of his mothers
farm.
William LankenOw, once merchant in
Brooklyn, who was the son of ship-owner
of Bremen, died in Chicago Of exposure and
starvation.
Governor Crittenden, of Missouri, says
there is not case OffOOt and mouth disease
IN that State. The trouble with the catue
is frozen feet.
Hallett Kilbourn got verdict for $37, 500
against Thompson, eX-Sergeant-at-arms of
the House of Representatives for false i'm
prisonment.
The brig A. G. Jewett of Belfast, Ne, was
wrecked off Hatters in February The only
survivor was picked up by vessel and has
just been heard from.
A disastrous wind storm struck Denver
OneMarch 9th, unrOofng many of the finest
buildings in the city, and injuring several
persons but none seriously.
Charles S. Parnell, the Irish leader, has
purchased from his mother for $4,000 the
homestead of 225 acres on the bluff neat
Bordentown, New Jersey.
Carl Schurz has declined to accept a tes-
tlmonial fund of 100000, which his friends
were trying to raise for him, and the move
ment has been discontinued.
Maj. Gen. Pope says he thinks Charlie
pH mol aV,I
IN the mountains alter the attack on the
Indians by Thom he was held.
Suit has been brought against D. II. Bal
ley, Of Cincinnati, late United States Consul
at Hong Kong, to recover SIS, 900 for which
he has not accounted to the Government.
Among the resolutions adopted by the
inventors convention, was one declaring
that the patent Office should be made de-
partment, with cabinet officer in charge.
The Governor of Illinois has been advised
that twenty-tOur head of horses and mules
at Shannon, Carroll county, are afflicted
with CHAMBERS, and that several others have
died.
President Arthur entertained fifty-four
persons at a Congressional dinner recently.
The east room of the White House was or
namented with 1000 palms and foliage
plants.
President Arthur, in a message to Con-
gress, urges anew the necessity for contin-
uing the reconstruction OF the navy, and
for establishing fOundTies to turn out heavy
ordnance.
Dixon county, Neb., has secured judg-
ment in the Supreme Court of the United
States, declaring certain bonds issued to the
Covington, Columbus & Black Hills railroad
company void.
Lorenzo D. Bean, a respected farmer of
Spring Arbor, Mich, has become insane
from investigating the Crouch murder case.
He sat in buggy, with a rope around his
neck, galloping his horse through the streets.
The battle flags of Illinois regiments
have been formally transferred from the
basement of the State capitol to spacious
hall admirably fitted for their preservation
and display. General Sherman was in at
tendance at the ceremonies.
The National Guard Association at Gin.
cinnati, has endorsed the SlOcum Militia
bill, with an amendment makingthe basis
of an appropriation $50 instead of $50 men.
The next annual meeting will be held at
Louisville, Jan. Sth, next.
The attention of the United States au-
thoIites having been called to the decoy-
ing OF hungarian emigTants to Cuba, where
they are treated as slaves, the announce
ment has been made that hereafter the per
sonal rights of these emigrants here will
be fully recognized.
The natural heirs of Rufus S. King, of
Chicago, have filed in the circuit court a
bill asking that the will of deceased be set
aside because of his insanity for some years
previous to executing it. He ignored his
children and bequeathed $45 600 to his sis
ter, nieces and nephews.
A letter to the Chicago Times from Miles
City, Montana, states that nearly six thous-
and Indians are slowly but surely starving
to death at Fort Peck agency. The game
realized almost nothing from one thousand
acres of land which they zealOusly cultiva-
ed.