Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-04-10
NEWS SUMMARY.
MISCELLANEOUS.


business in st. Louis.
The New York banks hold $7,725, 450 in
excess of legal requirements.
Several cases of trichinosis have developed
IN Westmoreland county, Pa.
The first through train from the City of
Mexico to Chicago left March 22d.
Unusually high freshets in the New Eng
land rivers are causing extensive damage
The bar of Kansas City will give Judge
Brewer a reception at the regular May
term.
Dorsey says he will tell the Springer com
mittee all he knows about the star-route
business.
Business failures for the week ended
March 28th, were: In the United States 172;
Canada 80.
Orrin S. Todd, farmer at Tolland, Con-
necticut, has died from glanders, communi-
Gated from a sick horse.
A convention of managers of all the per-
manent expositiOns in the country is TO be
held in St. Louis June Sd.
Forty Sioux lads have arrived at Yankton,
Dakota, to be educated under the superin-
tendence of Bishop Marty.
The Iowa Senate has passed bill appro-
priating SIS, GOO to aid in the defense OF the
barbed-wire patent suits.
flames Landingham, alias James Wilson,
was assaulted and fatally injured by IN
known parties at Dallas, Tex.
1.-TWO lime schooners from Maine took fire
near Scituate and went topieces, their crews
being rescued by people on the beach.
Thd Department of Justice is hunting for
Walsh, the witness whose testimony is
OF oFfnT~ al
logg.
Evans D. Allnot, a Louisville lawyer,
having been violently insane for some
weeks, has been sent to an asylum at An
ChOrage.
The governor of Michigan has named
April z4th as Arbor day, and suggests that
special effort be made to beautity rural
cemeteries.
The frescoing, stained-glass windows and
furniture of Grace Methodist church, at
Fergus Falls, Mimi, were destroyed by fire.
Loss $4,000.
@. ]. French, superintendent of the Rail
way mail service, at Cincinnati, who has
been the subject of an official investigation,
has been surtained.
Seven valuable trotting horses, including
Jay-Eye-See and Phallas, have been shipped
from, Racine to Louisville in Mr.. Cases stable
car, Tor spring framing
Joel Bryan, the American citizen whose
confinement in a Mexican prison at Victoria
caused so much controversy, has escaped,
and is said to have reached Texas.
Under the wing of a large swallow cap
tured at Hamilton, Ontario, was found a
card from lady at Meadville, South Caro-
lima, stating that the bird was set free
February 4th.
q ,OFo h,-oof 1ay~ Of for
CIV pigeons, at Melrose, Mass, roasted about
5000 worth Ofthe birds, which were con-
fined in cages not easily reached after the
flames appeared.
The House Committee on postofffces has
decided to report favOrably on the bill CIV
ing letter carriers of free-delivery offices
leave of absence for fourteen days in each
year without loss of pay.
The steamer Aurora, after an absence of
eighteen days from st. Johns, Newfound-
land returned with 100000 worth Of seal
skins Other vessels are said to have met
with equally good fortune.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail-
road earnings for January were $l,182, 34S
operating expenses, $569,O net earnings,
$603, 24S; increase over the corresponding
month OF 1888 of forty-fv per cent.
The Legislature of New Mexico has
passed bill fixing the capital at Santa Fe
and appropriatinG 100000 for a building,
notwithstanding determined opposition
from Las Vegas and Albuquerque.
Carpenters in Troy, New York, to the
number Of 250, made demand that work
stop Saturday afternoon at o'clock, a and
struck because 1t was not conceded. The
plasterers of Detroit ask an advance 1880
per day.
"A Cleveland journal was hoaxed into
publishing a statement that s. }. Tilden
and other Democrats were in that city foI
a consultation with Senator Payne, and
would hold reception at a, hotel. Hun
dreds of people were April-tooled.
The doorways of three saloons in Chicago
kept by a Scotch firm, have long been orna-
mented by stone statues of Burns, Macaulay
and Sir Walter Scott, which cost $500 each
Recently the three works of art were toppleC
over and ruined by party of vandals armed
with an iron pinch-bar.
The Illinois State Labor association, il
session at Chicago, adopted platform de
manding the abolition Of the contract sys
TEN for conVicts, the establishment OF bOardi
of arbitration, and the enactment of al
eight-hour law except for farm hands.
The cotton mill owners of the Soutl
held meeting at Augusta, Ga, and OWNS
to the over production of goods, agreed
upon a reduction of the manufacture. Al
association to be known as the Southern
and Western Manufacturing Company, wa
formed.
A letter to the Chicago Times from Mile
CITY, Montana, states that nearly six thous
and Indians are slowly but surely starving
to death at Fort Peck agency. The gam
has suddenly disappeared, and the red mel
realized almost nothing from one thOusan,
acres of land which they zealously cultiYa
ed.
A recent report by a special agent of tn
land office, that a tIact of 10000 acres Q
public land in Colorado had been fenced b,
parties without the slightest authority, hs
attracted the attention of Congress. Com
missioner Mcfarland recommends tina
faDc;Do, Dublic territory he made a pens