Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-25
NEWS SUMMARY.
busORI.L.AtgHous.

PleurO-pneumonia among jersey caItls
in Illinois is reported as spreading.
The school census ofDubuque, Ia, is the
basis for a claim of $4,000 population.
The Tri-State Fair at Wheeling Yves
Virginia, reports a net profit Of $25,eOO.
Miss Smulzey, of at. Plain. n. Y, has
passed $50 days without food. DR.. aver
has certified to the fact.
Owing to the stringency Of the money
market, n. Q. ThompsOn's bank at Rock
ford, IL, closed IS doors.
Prohibitionists of MARYLAND determined
to place a State ticket in the field, and nom
mated candidates for Congress.
The Garfield Committee for the State OF
New York reports having collected SIS, 6z9 z
for the monument at Cleveland.
It is proposed to build a new line between
Boston and New York. by which the l9O
miles can be Travelled in three hours.
Two of the railroad companies at Mime
apolis. Mimi, caused a wild uproar IN a
fight for tracks leading to an elevator.
President Seelye, of Amherst College
declined the Prohibition nomination as
a candidate for Governor Of Massachu-
sets.
General passenger agents of the various
lines held meeting at Indianapolis with
view to settling the distuI Dances IN rates at
competing points.
In consequence of the rUmOTs of pleurO-
pneumonia. the directors Of the st. Louis
Fair have decided to exclude Jersey cattle
from the coming exhibition.
In a breach of promise suit at Milwaukee,
Miss Elizabeth Phillips was awarded a
judgment for S3,O 900 against Ernst Meincke,
son Of leading manufactures.
A strike of several hundred cigar rollers
at Binghampton, Alabama, for an advance
of five cents per hundred on two classes Of
work, throws over 5000 people out Of en-
ployment.
The war between union and nOn-ulion
men in Cincinnati has grown more serious
The mayor is unable to furnish police to
protect the men at work, for the regular
force has not been paid since June.
The discovery has been made that the
ing southwest of the Chicago stock yards,
have been suffering for food and fuel, and
steps have been taken for their relief.
The State Constitutional Campaign Com
mittee, of the State of Maine, decided to or
ganize at once in every county, city and
town in the State leagues for the enforce
ment of the Constitutional PrOhibitOrY
Law.
Excitement among the rival coal miners
in Pennsylvania has been revived on &C
count of the arrest of one Of the strikers by
officers in the employ Of the operators. 1t
is feared this will precipitate a difficulty as
the strikers are much angered.
It is estimated that of 5000 men usually
employed when the mines are in operation
in the Pennsylvania pools not more than
! /, 200 are now at work, owing to the strike.
The strikers have a "tin-pan brigade, -
which was organized to serenade the nom
union men.
| Carlos Rarmon, employed in a hotel at
/ Springfield, Massachusetts, who lost a for
/ tune by the Chicago fire, is about to receive
! several million dollars by the death Of an
uncle in Spain. He speaks six languages,
/ and was once an instructor in Pennsyl-
Vania college.
Assignments have been made by D. Linn,
| GOOch & Co., grOceTs, of IrOntOn, Ohio, who
| owe $25, 900, and A. NJ. & @. NJ. Clements, OF
! Fort Edward, n. Y, whose liabilities are
! $4,000. An application will soon be made
! for a receiver for the Bankers q Merchants
! Telegraph Company.
The Commissioners of Cook county, Hi
nOis, have passed a resolution to investigate
| she report that people in the settlement
OuthWest of the stOckyards are in a starY-
/ ing condition. The health officer of the
! town of Lake states that since last March
/ he has had no applications for relief in the
| district mentioned.
An old man who reached Cleveland drove
/ at once to the residence of Mrs. Garfield, on
/ Prospect street, and twice endeaVOred to
| Fifer For hours afterWard he kept a close
| watch on the house, and when this grew
tiresOme Mrs. Garfield caused his arrest
! A revolver was found on his person, and he
was sent to Jail for contempt in refusing tC
answer questions in the police court.