Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-01-17
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
TIE record of fires continues to or,

7th, after several weeks of idleness.
AT Harrisburg, Pa.s a new trial has
just been granted to man convicted of
wife murder three years ago.
THE iron men have agreed on no pol
icy regarding the tariff. They are waiting
to see what Congress will do.
THE Pope has confirmed the appoint
ment of Archbishop Gibbons as Apostolic
Delegate to preside at the Catholic Council
in Baltimore next year.
THE Senate Committee on Public
Lands will favor donating part of the mil
itary reservation at Fort Smith, Ark, to
that city for the use OF the schools.
A CLEVELAND Judge has granted an
injunction restraining the Lake Shore Road
from allowing freight determinations in
favor of the Standard Oil Company.
In consequence of the renewal of
threats by dynamiters additional police
guard the Post-office and other public build
ings in Glasgow. Scotland.
THE inquest in the terrible Crouch
murder, near jackson, Mich, was resumed
on the 7th, and resulted in the finding by
the jury that the victims of the tragedy
came to their death by the hands of per-
sons unknown. Nothing was disclosed
throwing any light upon the terrible mys-
terry. Detective skill has thus far been ut
terly baf1ed.
The Texas Live Stock Association
met on the 9Th at Galveston.
The fall of scaffOld in Milwaukee,
Wis, on the Sth proved fatal to three work
men.
FRANK JAMES, the Missouri outlaw,
still lies at Colonel Ralston's residence,
west of independence, No., in very crit
zeal condition. His physician states if he
is taken with pneumonia, with which he is
threatened, the verdict will be final, as he
has but one lung and is otherwise very
much enfeebled by confinement. He may
yet cheat the law.
A SHORT time ago Marie Prescott, the
actress. got verdict for 81 800 against the
American News Company for circulating a
newspaper containing an alleged libel.
The General Term of the Superior Court of
New York reverses the judgment and di-
reefs new trial.
E. N. BLAKE has been elected Presi-
dent of the Chicago Board of Trade.
The Opera-house block at Meadville,
Pa, burned on the 8th; loss, 100000.
account of the Orange riot at Harbor Grace,
N.F.
AT meeting of the1Board of Police
Commissioners of st. Louis, Mo-, on the
Sth. Major Larry Harrigan was appointed
Chief of Police, and Colonel Campbell was
dismissed from the force.
SECRETARY FOLGER has furnished the
Senate with transcriptof expenditures of
the Department of Justice.
The Egyptian Ministry has resigned
because they were prevented by England
from governing according to the constitu-
ton.
AN attack by the French on BAG Mini
is expected on the 18th.
THREE Cinnamon have been arrested
in New York for the murder of fellow
Celestial.
THE steamer Katahdin was reported
disabled off the coast of Maine on the 7th.
SEVERAL idle iron-works in Penn
sylvania will resume operations atreduced
wages.
GEORGE w. CRAIG, absconding
Treasurer of the Montreal Loan and Mort
gage Company, is a defaulter to the amount
of $4,000.
The corpse of young girl who re-
Gently died in Rochelle, ILL.,, has been found
in Chicago medical college.
THE Norwegian bark Norma, with q
cargo of cement, has been wrecked near
Galveston, Tex.
THE French Government will submit
bill for revision Of the Constitution after
Easter.
ARAB PASTA has been interviewed in
Ceylon. He says the loss of the Soudan
will strengthen Egypt.
GOVERNOR WALLER of Connecticut
is in favor of letting women vote at school
elections.
A NUMBER OF roofs were crushed in by
the weight of accumulated snow at Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the 9th.
The French newspapers vigorously
assail England for refusing to aid Egypt IN
the Soudan.
The cooper and blacksmith shops of
the Saltwater (Ainn.) Pem5entiary burned
on the,9th: loss nearly 100000.
ANOTHER corpse was recovered from
the ruins of the burned convent at Belle
Vile, H.. on the 9th.
The New York Legislature asks Con-
gress to pass laws to prevent the spread of
pleuro-pneumOnia among cattle.
HENRY WILLARD, Chas. Lanier, Chas.
Payne and R. T. Wilson have retired from
the West Shore directory.
The Senate Committee on Foreign
Affairs on the 9th had under consideration
the proposed Reciprocity treaty with Mex
leo.
AN ice-clogged switch on the New
Jersey Central Railway caused collision
near Easton, Pa, on the 9th, by which
three persons were badly injured.
THE Committee on Banking and Cur
rency on the 9th discussed the question of
legislation to prevent contraction of the
National bank currency.
G. D. GILMORE, q Washington law
yer, has begun suit against ex-Secretary
Schurz for disbarring him. Damages are
laid at the modest sum of $500. 900.