Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-08-07
NEWS SUMMARY.
MISCELLANEOUS.

Carolina.
The estimated decrease of the public
debt for July IS abOut $5,OOO,OOO.
The National Association of Photograph
ers Is in convention at Cincinnati.
Well-borers at Wabash, Indiana, devel-
oped a gas vein which bids fair 70 nlumi-
nate the city.
H. H. Young, statistical agent for Min
nesota, estimates the wheat yield of that
State at A, OOO. 600 bushels.
A steam thresher at Rushville, Ind, eZ-
olOded killing three men and severely IN
juring half a dozen others.
Reports from correspondents throughout
Iowa show that the crops in that State
promise very well for this season.
The Treasury Department has purchased
220 600 ounces Of silver Tor delivery at the
New Orleans and Philadelphia mints.
The State department will issue a report
on the condition of labor in all countries,
together with wages, cost Of living, etc.
The Comte de Paris and family have do
mated e, 900 to the relief Ofthe TOulOn suf-
ferers.
Lewis Spencer, a colored man who died in
the pOOr-house of Niagara county, New
York, is believed to have been 115 years Of
age,
The distillery of A Overholt & Co. at
COnnersville, Pa, and several thousand bar
rels Of whisky were burned, causing loss
Of 100000.
1t was reported thata case Of cholera was
! found on the steamer Annie p. Silver, ply
ing between New Orleans and st. Louis, but
it proved to be canard.
at q meeting of the directors of the
Louisville & Nashville road, Jay Gould,
Russell Sage and three others resigned, and
their successors were chosen.
Donnell, Lawson & Simpaon have OBJ
| tanned consent of nearly all their creditors
! to take their assets out of the hands of the
assignee and utilize them themselves.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
aid $404, 600 for 125 acres OF land at Free
| dom Pa, on which 100000 will bs ex-
pended in round-hOuses and repair shops.
The New York Board of Apportionment
/ has authorized the issue of three per cent.
bonds to the amount of 81, 100000 for the
| purchase of school sites and the erection OF
buildings.
! The Commercial bank of Brazil, Indiana
has suspended. It's assets are nom
| iaally $4,000, and liabilities $140,O 900,
/ including the entire school fund of Clay
COlnty.
! Drought prevails in Indiana, Ohio and
Kentucky. Forest and swamp fires rage in
] Northern Ohio, pastures are almost dead
water is becoming scarce, and altogether
| things look blue.
| Charles Putty, a fare-collector on the
/ bridge at St. Louis, was hurled from the
Structure by the prOtruding step of a mail
car. He fell eighty feet to the water and
/ was drowned before aid could reach him.
! Receiver johnson, OF the bursted Marine
/ Bank of New York City, has made q pay
! mo Of -, ant dividend frhran
| dred depOsiJOrs were paid $500, 0OO The
total amount Ofthe dividend will be 5000, 600.
Shipley & Wells, a large boiler shop and
iron foundry of Binghamton, have notified
their men of a cut in wages of ten per cent.
The alleged cause is the dizziness OF
trade. The men Will accept the reduc-
| ton.
Annie Bennett, at Burlington. n. J.. has
been for some day suffering in a manner
which leads people to think she is affected
| with hydrOPhObia, although it is not
known that she was ever bitten by mad
dog.
The Burlington road is running over its
lines a locomotive from which the steam
and gas escape through iron pipes
at the sides, whitening the weeds and grass
for space Of two feet on each side of the
track.
The vessels Of the Greedy relief exped1-
ton have sailed from st. Johns. The sur
Vivlng explorers will disembark at Ports
mouth, and the bodies Of the dead will be
place in charge of Gen. Hancock, on Gov
ernOr's Island.
The police force of Cincinnati are paid
from the tax raised under the Scott liquor
law, and the liquor dealers are cOntesung,
therefore there are no funds. There is talk
of reducing or disbandjng the force, unless
an appropriation is made.
| ~ -, /,
salaries and wages of the officers and men
employed by the Bethlehem, Pa, Iron
Company is announced to take effect Au-
E gust II. The reduction is made, it is said
10 enable the company to sell its steel rails
at market prices.
The health department of Chicago has
received warning that physician of San
Francisco has started eastward with two
lepers, whom he proposes TO exhibit in all
the large cities and on the steps of Beech
J er's church in Brooklyn. The show will
fail to secure license in Chicago.
The Coal Miners State Convention met al
Pittsburg. The following officers were
elected: President, Geo. Harris; Vice Pres
ldent, Louis Hopkins; Secretary, Richard
Davis; Treasurer, ThOs. A. Armstrong. II
was decided to change the name from
Amalgamated Association to Miners and
} LabOrers' Association.
John W. Mason, one of the pioneers oil
Kendall county, Ill, who passed away
recently, owned one thousand acres Of
choice land, but chung like hermit to an
old log house in the densest part of a large
grove. He preserved every newspaper be
ever received.
At Philadelphia Oliver Ames applied tC
. the United states Circuit Court to be re-
[ heved of the receivership Of the Credit No
, bilier of America. The reason for the &C
ton is that he cannot attend to this
and his duties as Lieutenant Governor OF
Massachusetts Samuel r. Shipley was ap-
pointed the successor of Ames.
The lessees Of the Arkansas State peni-
Tertiary have received q notice from Pope
county requesting them TO take the prison
ers out of The coal mines there within ten