Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-12-06

love- 70 manufacture goods beyond a Ger
tain limit.
A train-load OF Western oatHs-groVers
visiting chicago, were recently taken over
the Belt Road and shown the features of
the UhiCn stock ards, where a lunch was
served. Another party was CONVEYED to
the horse farm OF Marx w. Durham. at
Wayne, and most Hospitality entertained.
Joe Lane, q c1unterfeiter who recently
escaped nom jan aG Madison, Wisconsin,
has forwarded from the lumber regions to
the Federal authorities an acceptable bond
Tor his appearance whenever wanted. with
the statement that he had to 60 home to
get bail.
A New York IandIady rented rooms to
an actress, who shortly afterWard took sick
and died. The landlady refused TO allow
the funeral to be held from her house, and
demanded that the corpse be removed at
once. She was arrested and commanded to
act like a Christian and permit the cere-
monies to take place.
A farmer named FIoran BenaI who lives
ten milss south of Jefferson City, Mo- was
robbed of $500 in money, and notes amount
ing to $1,000. A man appeared at tue
house as the family were sitting down to
supper and begged a meal. While they
we're eating his pal went through the house
and got the amount as above stated.
Att convention of the School Superin-
tendents of Mass husetts, recently held in
Boston, a resolution was adopted that the
public school buildings In the various cities
and towns be used for evening school pur-
poses. IJ was shown that over 10000 per
sons IN Massachusetts, cannot read and
write.
An excursion of several hundred bust
ness men and capitalists from New York,
Philadelphia and Baltimore Will visit the
Worlds Exposition at New Orleans on the
6Jh Of January. They go for the purpose
of gaining information as to the CONNER
cial resources of the South, and the future
prospects of opening up new avenue of
trade.
Thomas Keefe, Inspector of Customs at
Chicago, recently seized all the goods in
the possession of Edward Morris and Elias
Thomas, Of Vienna, who have recently
been accused OF smuggling and sWlndhng
Chicago jewellers. The value OF the goods
seized is $4,000. Keefe says that Norris
picture is in the Rogues' Gallery at Vienna,
where he was known as q burglar. The
goods seized are forfeited to the Govern
ment.
The counties suffering from the unknown
and fatal disease before reported are Lee,
Dickinson, and the edge of Scott in Vir-
ginia, and Hart and Lee, and the adj )ining
counties, in Kentucky. Hundreds have
died, and allowing for eZaggeradons the
tributes it to mineral poison in the drought
dried waters, and says a strong and disa-
greeable mineral taste like Copperas exists.
At the time he left, few springs were flow
ing freely, and the people we're compelled
to drink this imprsgnated water. Although
1t is an unknown disease, the people call 1t
cholera. The symptoms are desCrb-
ed as like the Asiatic cholera, follow
ed by terrible hemOrrhage OF the bowels, /
and the persons attacked die or recover in
about a week. In most instances 1t visited
an entire family, ana is considered so con-
tagiOus that in some cases where the party
dies at once, their friends are afraid TO 60
near them. AT the late election the num-
Der oil deaths considerably affected the ma
lOrities at various precincts, and thirty new
graves were counted in one small cemetery
as the result. Cattle are also dying in some
parts Of the country.
Loss of life is thus far estimated at from
four TO eight hundred. Among the chill
dren and adults well up in years the NOR
tality has been greatest, but no class has
been exempt.
By the drying of the streams it has neces-
STATED the stOppage Of numerous small
grist mills along the mountain valleys, and
the population for the most part appears to
be in the most abjecJ want and misery. AS
the locality is almost inaccessible to the
outside world, there being no railroad
within one hundred miles, obtaining relia-
BILE news is very difficult.