Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-24
NEWS SUMMARY.
MISCELLANEOUS.

A new industry to manufacture shot has
been started in Cincinnati.
The Anti-slavery society had its semi
centennial celebration in New York. !
Jos. Brown, a welI-known farmer, was
killed by a Wabash train at Decatur, Ill.
The banking house of Fletcher &
Sharpe, Indianapolis, has closed its doors.
David Laupheimer, a wholesale druggist
of Baltimore, killed himself with revolver,
VIM. T. HALEY, postmaster at Camden, N.
J., was arrested on charge of embezzle-
ment.
B. D. Buford & Co., pillow manufacturers
of Rock Island, H., assigned. Liabilities,
100000.
WeII-borers at Wabash, Indiana, devel-
oped a gas vein which bids fair to illumi-
nate the city.
In railroad accident on the Baltimore &
Ohio road at Washington, D. c., several
persons were killed.
A circular relative to collecting the tax
on fruit brandy has been sent collectors by
the Treasury department..
In an accident on the Brooklyn and Coney
Island railroad, a number of passengers
were badly bruised.
In New York eight veterans of che war of
1872 celebrated independence Day by hay
ing parade and dinner.
The anniversary of the fall of the Bastile,
was celebrated by the French-American
citizens all over the country.
Three thousand teachers were at Madi-
son, Wis, to attend the National Educa-
tiOnal Association Convention.
A decided change for the better in the ar
my uniforms for enlisted men will be made,
according TO reports at Washington.
By the caving in of an embankment on
Clarion river, Pennsylvania, two men were
killed and two others seriously injured.
Minister Foster discussed with the Span
ish ministers the proposed new treaty of
commerce between America and Cuba.
The State department will issue a report
on the condition of labor in all countries,
together with wages, cost of living, etc.
The Comptroller of the Currency has or
dered an assessment of 100 per cent. on the
stockholders of the Marine National Bank
of New York.
The cigar-packers of Cincinnati were
ordered out on account of the lockout of
cigar-makers, Which is now in it's nine
tenth week.
San Jose, Cal, was almost destroyed by
fire. Water being exhausted, claret was
used to prevent the destruction of the old
Mission Church.
Newton Carpenter and Ned Macks, Ne
groes of Stailesville, Miss, were arrested
for poisoning two boys in 1882. While on
the way to jail they were hanged by mob.
While masked men were hanging Dick
May at greensboro, KY, Jailer Lucas fired
on them, killing one and WOunding another.
The crowd fred IN the taller and Ri1lo6
him.
Gertie Phillips, of SalineYille, Ohio, who
was missing since June 9th, was found in
the woods with a pistol ball hole in her
head. A party who was with her that day
has been arrested.
Receivers of the Wabash announce in
New York that Col. A. A. Talmage has sew
cred his connection with the Missouri Pa
cifc and will become general manager of
the entire Wabash system.
Miss Kate Shelley, of Ogden, Iowa, was
presented with the medal OfhonOr awarded
by the legislature of that State for her hero
ism in saving a passenger train from being
wrecked on broken trestle-Work.
Four farmers from Macedonia appeared
in Council Bluffs, recently, with search war
rants issued by Justice of the Peace, and
demanded bottles of liquor, enforcing it
with drawn revolvers. They were soon ar
rested for carrying concealed weapons, and
were threatened with tar and feathers.
Official California crop reports, received
at San Francisco, show a loss by the June
rains, to wheat of hundred and thirty FIVE
thousand tons. The loss on wheat is equiva-
lent to seven and a half per cent. The
gross yield was estimated in May at eighteen
hundred thousand dollars. Barley is about
twelve per cent. off the May estimate of
SIX hundred thousand tons.
The Mayor of New York city has investi-
newspaper against several keepers of intel
ligence offices, of procuring girls for dis
reputable houses. The newspaper articles
were written and the charges made by Mrs.
Eliza Archer Conner, of the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette. The lady testified to
the truth of the statementin the newspaper
article. The keepers OF several intelligence
Offices denied that the charges were true.