Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-11-22
FOREIEM-

CHOLERA mas shown itself In BuenOS
Ayres.
The French captured the Chinese gunboat
FethOO.
The British forces in Dongola now num-
Der 2, 800.
At Rome recently the Pope created nine
new cardinals.
Baron Donethan was elected President OF
the Belgian Senate.
The Spanish government viii restore
quarantine against France.
Turkey has demanded to be represented
at the Congo conference.
Diphtheria and typhoid fever prevail to
an alarming extent in Montreal.
Victor Guichard, senior member of the
French Chamber Of Deputies, is dead.
Patrick N. Fitzgerald, arrested in London
on the charge Of treason, was acquitted.
Felix Emmanuel Henri Philip Pot
teaus, historical painter, of Paris, is dead
The man who caused the Glasgow the
atre panic has been arrested. He was
drunk.
The recent Gales along the Newfound-
land coast did great damage to shipping in
terests.
The trial of Fred J. Allen, vice president
Of the Young Ireland society, commenced
at Dublin.
Ia the House of Commons in London the
franchise bill passed a third reading with
out division.
Miss DeYly, of London, has been en-
Oined from publishing Lord LyttOn's letters
to his wife.
There is now good sleighing in Canada.
The Central Railway has already been
blocked by snow.
The British cabinet could not reach an
agreement on the redistribution of parlia-
mentary seats.
Admiral Courbet telegraphs that another
tilt has been had with Chinese, who were
repulsed with heavy loss.
The London Army and Navy Gazette as
serts that the boats built in England for the
Nile expedition are perfectly useless.
6 John McCrimmOn was killed and Alpbeus
Brown terribly wounded by a premature
explosion of gunpOWder, at Bedford Ont.
Gen. Wolsley telegraphedto London that
natives brought in information to the effect
that Gordon Is still in possession Of khar-
tOum..
Twenty persons were killed by an expIo-
sion at Wasmas. Belgium, and fifteen
from another explosion at Tredegar, Eng
land.
During "a hours there were 1879 new cases
of cholera IN Paris ana 65 deaths. This
great increase is causing widespread
alarm.
People are stricken with cholera In Paris
while walking along the streets. The dis
ease in most malignant form is spreading
rapidly.
nr1L.g TD.rr Of
Berlin, refused to accept q challenge sent
him by Professor ShWenninger Bismarck's
physician.
The morning London News had q leader
| to the effect that the American political
! contest was largely IN favor Of the Republi-
can party.
Advices from London say the franchise
! bill passed the House in committee OF the
! whole without amendment. The result
! was greeted with cheers.
/ King Leopold, Of Belgium, has been at
/ tackled by nervous disorders. His health
| has been much shattered by anxiety con-
corning the political crisis.
! The Provincial Assembly of New South
/ Wales failed to pass resolution for the
! federation of the Australian Provinces and
the annexation of New Guinea.
! Prime Minister Ferry communicated dis
/ patches to the Cabinet from which it APP
/ pears that Gen. Gordon has been shot dead
/ while passing from KhartOum to Berber.
/ The French Government has sent an
| official representative to CCrea to watch the
/ interests OF FrencLmen there, as the Ger
/ man influence predOminatss in that
| country.
/ In a heavy gale the British schooners
/ Northern LighJ and Elsie, COllided OF the
north head OF CatOlina. Both sank imme-
! diately. Two of the Elsie's crew, named
/ Carpenter and Ford were drowned.
/ The Queen has received kilograms from
/ the khedive confirming the report of the
/ capture OF General Gordon. Gordon was
/ sent to the Mahdi's camp on the fifth of
] October, where he was at the latest &C
| counts.
! ArrOnauts made a most successful vOysge
\ in France in a balloon. They went from
/ Cne.tOWn to another and returned requir-
! ing'Only fOFty-tiYe minutes. They steered
I the balloon so well that they aIighted in
/ the very spot from which they started.
Peabody Gazette: A leap year skating
I panty was given by a bevy of the fair
maideDs Of Peabody, who took this man
ner Of showing the young men how to
manage things. Music, an oyster supper
and a general good time resulted.
The ladies of the Methodist Episcopal
E church South, Of WyandOtte, set an ex-
/ ceIent dinner in Barker's new building
/ on election day. We should Judge they
made a good thing of it, as the tables
/ were well filed at the times we were in
/ The dinner was hrst class in every par
ticular