Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-03-27
NEWS SUMMARY.
MISCELLANEOUS.

along the Lower MISSISSIPPI
Fusil oil in dangerous quantities is found
IN Rye and Rock" candy.
The loss of life by the Pocahontas, Va,
mine Is placed at 112 men.
The fast mail service viii be extended
from Chicago to New Orleans.
The Womans Medical College, Philadel-
Pbia, graduated twenty-One students.
Chicago slaughtered zoo, 600 head of cattle
last year Tor the dressed beet business.
Columns spice mills at Philadelphia were
damaged $4,000 by fire. Insurance $4,000
It is estimated that the Texas cattle drive
the Gem Dg season will reach over 10000
head.
Fifteen thousand dollars worth of naph-
TIA explC ded recently, at Hunters Point,
Ii.
A surplus of $50, COO from the Texas pen
itentialies was handed over to the State
Treasurer.
Charles B. Wright of Philadelphia sue
ceeds Henry Willard as director of the North
ern Pacific road.
A child in Philadelphia has just been at
tackled by hydTophobia from the bite OF
dog three years ago.
The Merchants Association of Milwaukee
has passed a resolution calling Tor the sus-
pension of silver coinage.
Sitting Bull has been taken to MinneapO-
ks by Major MCLAUGHLIN to see something
of life among the whites.
Mrs. Cunio an Italian woman of Boston,
has babe which at its birth weighed TWEEN
ty-four and One-halfpounds.
The court of Common Pleas of PhiladeI-
phia refused to admit Mrs. Carrie BUrnham
WngOre 10 practice at the bar.
A company has organized in New York
to build steam ships which will sail much
faster than those Ofthe present day.
A large number of street car drivers in
Cincinnati have struck because of an order
to remove the canvas weather screens from
the platforms.
The inv entor of system of electric light
ing announces that he is about to use the
water-poWer at Niagara to furnish light to
SiXty-hVe cities.
Simeon Beattie, representative of the
Stock Breeders Gazette, telegTapEs from
NeOs no Falls that he don't think the cattle
plague is the foot and mouth disease.
The Interstate Fair Association of Kan
sas City will hold Spring trotting and 1un-
ming meeting. The time Of the Fall meet
ing Is September 10Th to Goth inclusive.
A tract of six thousand acres of pine land
" L
one hundred million feet OF timber, was re-
, Gently sold to d Chicagoan for $4,000.
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe road is
at war with the Western Union Telegraph
company in Texas, and sends ten-Word mes
sages throughout the State for fifteen cents.
Forty prominent Catholics Of Dubuque
met at Tie residence OF Bishop Aennessy,
TO protest against the passage of the bill be
fore the Iowa legislature to tax church
property.
The Treasury Department reports that the
twenty dollar silver certificates have been
counterieited. There are several inaCcura-
cies i'll the spelling and engraving and the
color is bad.
The Secretary of State of Michigan reports
that in the southern four tiers OF counties
oil correspondents think Winter wheat sui-
fered injury IN February, while 271 are of
the contrary opinion.
Senator Hill will introduce bill to make
the postage ON newspapers cent per pound.
1t is claimed that the measure will get
through 10th Houses this session, with the
indOTst ment OF leading dailies.
The British steamship General Roberts
reached New York with her bows broken
and the forward compartment full of wa er
in consequence OF a collision with ice fields.
She was from Galveston.
The Mississippi at New Orleans is with
in one inch of the high water of 1874 aud a
rise of one foot would cause any general in
undatiOn. Governor McEneTy ordered the
lessee OF the penitentiary 10 set one hun
bred cOnVicts at work on the levee in West
Baton Rouge.
A family named Sutthist, living at Loyal
hanna, Pa, who had lost their home by the
food, secured some fresh pork, which they
ate greedilY, without cooking, and have
az kpn hU
members OF the family are already dead and
the others suffering terribly.
The Chicago Livestock Exchange, at its
first meeting, decided to send committee
to Washington to protest against the pas
sage of the animal industry bill and adopted
resolutions declaring disbelief in the exist
ence OF contagious pleuro- pneumonia OF
foOt-and-mouth disease in the Western
States.
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 game
has suddenly disappeared, and the red meI
realized slmos nothing from one thOusanC
acres OF land which they Zealously CultiVa
ted.
Official reports at Washington show thai
for six years and seven months ending
with December last, 4GS, 3OS persons emf
grated from the Dominion of Canada into
the United States. These figures are cor
roboTated by Canadian reports of passenger
coaches IsSing the terIiCs and by The
entries of household goods at American
custom houses.
The opinion prevails in Missouri that the
disease affecting cattle in that State anC
Kansas is not foot and mouth disease bu
foot-rot and the results OF freezing. It is re
ported that the disease has appear ed il
Wayne county, Ill. DIR. Law, of Washing
ton, says he has no doubt that the disease il
Kansas is foot and mouth disease and dom
think it necessary 70 go to Kansas to ascer
tain that fact
CONGRESSIONAL.
In the Senate on March 14ih PlumI