Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-05-22
NEWS SUMMARY.
MISCELLANEOUS.


Thirteen thousand head of cattle were
sold at Dallas in one bunch for $35, 900.
Brigadier General Stanley has assumed
command OF the Department of Texas.
The steamer Alert sailed from New York
harbor to search for the GreeIy party May
10th.
The new elevated railway between East
and West Louisville, KY. has been formal
ly opened.
Several New England towns have suf-
fered considerable damage from thunder
storms.
Director Elwel, of the Marine National
Bank, says he thinks the depOsitOrs will be
paid in full.
Modelling in clay is now taught in the
Polytechnic school at st. Louis, to a class
of sixteen.
There was a heavy wheat decline in Chi
cago, May 18th, Occasioned by reported fail
ures in Minnesota.
The annual meeting of superintendent
of Insane Asylums was held in Philadel-
phia May 18th.
Buffalo gnats have during the season
killed 600 mules within a radius of ten miles
from Grenada, Mississippi.
Herr Most recently delivered lecture in
Kansas City on the subject of Reform,
Humbugs and Revolutions"
A team of horses at Sterling, Illinois, was
quickly stung to death by bees, and the dri-
yer is in the hands ola physician.
The porter ofthe Pacific Express compa-
ny in st. Louis, VIM. Overton, has been ar
rested on a charge of initiating Tiller.
Issue of standard silver dollars for the
week ending May 10, 1884, $342, 697; cor
responding period last year, $165,OOO.
The probability is that Hewitt's tariff bill
will not be reported to the House by
the Ways and'Means Committee this SEES
sion.
The opinion is expressed that the trade
dollar bill will not be reported favorably
at this session by the Senate Finance Com
mittee.
Hail fell to the depth of three inches in
the immediate vicinity of Fort Madison,
Iowa, wrecking windows and destroying
leaves.
In the convention of Southern Baptists
at Baltimore, resolution was offered to
raise 100000 to relieve the religious desti-
tute of the South.
Hallett Kilbourne says he will take $40,
600 damages in his suit against Ex-Sergt-at-
new trial was overruled.
The May crop report of the United States
is nearly as favorable as in April. The May
average is "a against 834 in 1888 The yield
is estimated at 50,OOO,O 600 bushels.
The doctors who have gathered in Ma
honaI convention at Washington, were
given reception at the Capitol by Senator
Edmunds and Speaker Carlisle.
The Legislature of California has adopted
resolution requesting its representatives
at Washington to urge the passage of a bill
to organize the Territory of Alaska.
The General Land Office has ordered an
investigation of charge that the Govern
ment was defrauded in q recent sale of a
portion of the Larned Military Reservation
A license has been secured at Springfield
by the Chicago Electric Storage company,
which proposes to supply electricity for mo-
tive power. The capital stock is 81, 600, 900.
Prominent citizens of Chicago presented
various and sundry excuses as reasons to be
ruled out as jurors ia the trial of McKeague,
who is charged with the murder of the
Wilson's, at Winetka.
Miners in the Falls Greek, st. Marvs and
Hardscrabble mines, Dubois county, Pa,
have struck against the introduction of the
screen system, and /, 500 miners at Canton,
o., are threatening to strike.
The Odd-FeIlows of San Francisco have
laid the corner stone of their new hall. |
Nearly all business was suspended, Gov
Stoneman having proclaimed the day a lei
gal holiday. The hall will cost $25O,OOO.
The liabilities of Grant & Ward, of New
York, are now estimated at $1,000 900 or
more. The sheriff has taken possession of
Wards house in Brooklyn. Fred Grant
states that he is now looking for employ
ment.
William n. Vanderbilt sailed for Europe
May 10th, but before he left he sent for Gen. |
Grant and returned to him all the deeds to |
the property which the General and his
wife had made over to him the day pre-
vious
At a sale of thoroughbred yearlings in
Bourbon county, Kentucky, thirteen aver
aged 81 ,592, and seventeen were sold for
$z2 OBS. Dwyer Brothers paid S., 500 for a
sister to Barnes and So, 200 for sister to
Buxton.
The city of Chicago complains that in
sane persons are shipped to that city from
the police and sent to asylums. Twenty
nine insane persons were sent to asylums
from that city in two days.
Peter Rupp, editor of The Democrat at
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, will soon come into
possession of 81, 100000 by the death of an
uncle in New York. He has also been APP
pointed guardian of his cousin, who will
have $4,000, 600 in her own right
A Geargia postmaster has sent to Wash
ington letter enclosing a circular request
ing contribution of $24 for campaign pur-
poses. The circular was shown to Post
master-General Gresham, who says he will
protect any postmaster who refuses the
contribution called for in this circular.
At Washington Judge Hagner set aside
the verdict of $S7, 800 as excessive, in the
case of Hallett Kilbourne against ex-Ser
geant-at-Arms Thompson, but said if the
plaintiff would accept judgement of $40, |
600, it would be allowed to stand; otherwise |
he would grant new trial.
The Northwestern Manufacturing and
Car Company, ofStllwater, Mimi, of which