Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-02-07
NEWS SUMMARY.
MISCELLANEOUS.

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Vanderbilt says that the bottom has been
reached in the stock market
The total iron production of the country
last year was 8, lac, 972 net tons
Gold nuggets are said to have been found
IN the mountains near Marshall, Ark.
The Bessmer steel production of the Unit
ed States fell off A., 900 tons last year.
The United States Supreme Court will
take recess from February to March 8.
The Interstate Industrial Exposition at
Chicago will be held Sept. Sd to Oct. 18th.
The salary of Robert Harris as president
of the Northern Pacific road is $4,000 per
Rnnum.
The estimated reduction of the public
debt during the month of January is $118,
100000.
There is some talk in the Texas legisla-
ture of dividing the State on account of the
fence troubles.
A firm of booksellers paid $26,25 for the
privilege for two meetings next summer at
COvington, KY.
President Arthur gave the first State din
ner of the season at the White House on
the evening of Jan. Both.
A Livingstone. Mont, firm, has levied on
property of the Yellowstone Park Improve
ment Company for debt.
1t is announced that the key to the Aztec
writings has been discovered by Rev. Father
Soto, of ConcOrdia, Mexico.
Chief Charlie of the Flathead Indians an
grily refused to sign an agreement to re-
move his tribe to new reservation.
DIR. J. J. Lawless, superintendent of the
Northwestern Ohio Insane AsyluH. has re-
signed at the request of the commissioners.
About twenty leading ladies and gentle
men of Boston met and made arrangements
for the establishment of a creamatory in that
city.
The bodies of the Jeanette victims have
reached Moscow, where the American resi-
dents placed flowers and wreaths on the
biers.
Four deaths from smallpox in the In
dianapolis pest-house are reported, and the
disease has appeared in the Central police
station.
The official list of awards in the fisheries
exhibition shows that the United States car
ried off far more valuable prizes than any
other nation.
In the common pleas court at Erie, Leroy
Warner asked judicial confirmation Of the
sale of his child to Peter Wilds, the consid-
Grafton being 81.
A party offfty-fve Apache children have
started from Arizona for the training school
at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, accompanied by
Agent Wilcox and four chiefs.
The Pennsylvania Iron Works have re-
sumed work in all departments except the
pudding, where the operatives are on a
strike against a reduction of wages.
Miss Sarah Alton, of Putnam, Connecti-
cut, claimed to have been nearly cured of
spinal disease by simultaneous prayers Of
fered at her home and in Boston.
John G. Patterson of Detroit, Mich,
whose spine was injured for life in an acct
dent on the Wabash road, sued for $4,000
damages, and was awarded 81 900.
The circuit court of West Virginia has
decided that the Salvation Army has the
right to parade and has ordered Mrs. Clag-
gett, captain OF the army, released.
Mrs. Anna Ferguson, of Indianapolis, has
recovered damages of 81, 900 against the
Pennsylvania road for the death of her son
last summer in a wreck near Pennington
Specimens of home made sausage sent to
Peoria from Fulton county, Illinois were
found to be infected with trichin@. Three
persons who ate of it raw are dangerously
Ill
The New York Court of Appeals has de-
cided as constitutional the law of the las
Legislature forbidding the manufacturing
of cigars in tenements in the city of New
York.
The House committee on banking anC
currency passed resolution declaring il
favor of the National banking system, while
not pronouncing for the perpetuation of the
public debt.
A milling firm in Logansport, Ind, sue(
the city for damages caused by taking it
water supply from Eel river, lessening thu
power in the dam below, and was awarded
$500 per year.
DR.. D E. Salmon, of the bureau of agri
culture, who is'now in Chicago, has sent
competent man to Mexico, Mo-, to inYesti
gate the mysterious cattle disease in a herr
IN that vicinity.
Ex-Judge Ernott, of New York, has givel
an opinion that no lien by contractors o
laborers on the West Shore road can Obtain
precedence of the first mortgage by WhiCl
the outstanding bonds were secured.
The Sergeant-at-Arms of the House Q
Representatives presents bills for So, 56
for escOrting the remains of Representativ
Haskell to Kansas. Among the items
one for a lunch before starting from Wash
ington.
Miss Lena Goettig, who was to have bee
married Jan oath at Baltimore, Md. wa
buried instead, dying from the effects c
burns received few days before. The ST
young ladies selected to act as bridesmaid
OBLIGATED as pall-bearers at the funeral.
A railroad official at Indianapolis say
Samuel Sloan is determined to secure a
extension to Chicago for the Lackawann
road, and will parallel one of Vanderbilt
lines unless the latter will sell q track Q
make traffic arrangement tor ninety-n
years.
The Governor of New jersey has sent
special message to the Legislature respec
ing the refusal of the Hackensack Cemeter
Company to allow the remains of a colore
man to be buried in its limits. He recon
mends law making such refusal a criminS
offense.
Miss E. r. Paine, residing near Winche
ter, Virginia, one of the best known ladit