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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-10-09
FOREIGN

A reduction in charges has been ordered
by the Suez Canal Company.
Italy's representative at Cairo has protest
ed formally against a suspension Of the
Egyptian sinking fund.
China has paid an indemnity of ell, 400
for losses suffered by German residents Of
Canton in the outbreak last year.
The stability of a number of leading Liv-
erpOOl firms is questioned, owing to the low
prices Of cotton, corn, provisions and sug ar.
The city of Brussels is once more tran
quill, and a renewal of the disorders Is not
expected before the Communal elections in
October.
An American schooner was seized at Via
DiVOstOk, Russia, for having COntraband
goods on board; and an English schooner
for illegal hunting.
The Consul General of Brazil, at New
York, testified before the South American
Commission that butter is taken across the
Atlantic to England and reshipped to Brazil
as Dutch product.
The diplomatic representatives of
Germany, Austria, France and Russia have
presented to the Egyptian Prime Minister
a protest against the diversion of the
sinking-fund revenues to the General
Treasury.
At a meeting of the Irish National league
in Dublin, the Secretary stated that no aid
had been received from the United States
for some time. A son of O'DOnOvan Rosa
has arrived in Paris, claiming to have 80,
900 francs with which to buy dynamite for
use in England.
An inspection of the Canadian Pacific
road has recently been made by the chief
engineer OF the Government lines He re-
ports that a force of Eve thousand men is
at work on each side of the SelkiTk Noun
tains, and that track Will be laid to the Pa
! cihc ocean by next Spring, at the latest.
Vernon HarcOurt the British Home Sec
rotary, suggested to a company manufac-
turing explosives the necessity Of guarding
| their warehouses at night. A reply was
sent that the plan would cost S125, 600 per
annum, and asking that duty be placed
on foreign made dynamite, as a protection
/ against American and German competition.
At New Prague station, in Texas, three
unknown men dismOunted before the store
of e. Kreseek shot and instantly killed
him. Hurriedly riding southwark. There
is a report that they shot and killed a far
mer on the road, and there are runOrs OF
other similar killings farther south in the
county. Officers with posse Of farmers
are in pursuit Of the murderers.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-10-09
POLITICAL AND PFRso,E.r.

Democrats Of the Eleventh PeDnsvIvanie
/ District nominated ". II. Duncan for Con.
/ gress.
The Prohibition State Convention Of
Iowa met at MarshalltOWu and put an cleo.
toral ticket in the field.
It is the belief now that Hon. S. s. Cox
\ viii be the Democratic nominee fol. mayor
of New York, as Tammany is said to prefer
him, and his nomination would suit alI the
other organizations.
/ At a Democratic mass meeting at Charles
/ ton, West Virginia, a drunken man fired
/ into the crowd in front Of the sDes kers'
stand. A negro was killed and a white man
seriously wounded in the neck.
/ The State election for Governor. State
/ House officers and members Of the Legisla-
ture of Georgia resulted in the reelection
| of Harry @. McDaniels as Governor. there
! being no opposition. Not more than q third
Of the vote OF the State was polled
at the Pennsylvania Greenbaclz State
COnVen ion committee Of eight have been
/ appointed to act in harmony with a resolu-
ton adopted by the convention, seeking a
fusion With the Democrats on Joint cleo
tOral ticket, that would contain no less than
One-half (6fteen) Butler electors.
John W. Carrot, President of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company died at
Deer Park, Nd, in the Goth year of his age.
Garrett was a native of Baltimore and com
pleted his education at Lafayette College,
Pennsylvania, when nineteen years of age
He then returned to Baltimore and en-
tered the cOunting-hOuse of his father
where he remained until he was elected Di-
rector of the Baltimore g Ohio Railroad
company in 1857. During the year follow
ing he was electedits President and from
that time the success of the road seemed
assured. Through his management the
connections of the road west of the Ohio
river were made. His IahOrs were cOntin-
uOus. Though hepossessed a robust con-
stitutiOn two years ago his health failed,
but he did not withdraw from active par
ticipatiOn in the management Of the road
until about a year ago. About that time
Mrs. Garrett lost her life by an accident.
Her death caused a shock to his nervous
system from which he never recovered.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-10-09

I at Chicago, went home uring the night In
| q drunken state. and with the body of q
desd infant, to which his wife had given
/ birth during the night. he beat her to death.
/ When arrested he was In such a sOdden
condition that he could not furnish any in
/ teligsnce concerning 1t.
The New York Postal Detective Service is
working up a mysterious mail robbery. It
/ appears that George Crosby, a New York
t broker, registered letter, said to contain
I SO, 500 in bonds, 70 John l. WatrOus, of
I East Hampton, fOnn. The securities were
gone when the package arrived at East
/ Ham ptOn, though the Investigation shows
that the package arrived intact at the New
Haven pOstOhdce.
Geo. A. Wilt, of the firm of A. Wilt &
Co., lumber dealers, also a member of the
Board of Trade Of Philadelphia, while en-
route from Philadelphia to MuskegOn,
Mich, on the limited express of the Penn
sylvania Railway, when near Lima, Ohio,
stepped to the rear Of the sleeping car, cut
his throat from ear to ear and jumped from
the train while at a high rate Of speed, kill
ing himself instantly. His wife was on
board the train and gave no cause for the
act.
The following comes from Sullivan, Ind. {:
Some villain fired into the car in which
Governor st. John sat on his way from Car
Isle TO Terre Haute. The ball passed
through the window on the opposite side,
making a clean hole and lodging in the
side on which st. John sat and a little in
front of him. The tram was just slowing
up little south of Sullivan When the shot
was fired, it being exactly eight o'clock.
The Governor took the matter cOClly, and
no disturbance was made, and many on
the train were not aware Of the occurrence.
There is no clue TO themOtive or identity Of
the person who fred the shot.
Miss c. L WeltOn, wealthy young lady
of New York city, persisted in a snow storm
while descending Longs Peak, near Den
yer, Colorado. She left the house and safely
assembled the Peak, but on the return en-
cOuntered a fierce snow storm, during
which the lady became completely chilled.
The guide assisted her in the descent the
best he could until about g o'clock at night,
when finding his own strength failing, he
told her the only chance Of saving either of
their lives was for him to 60 to his fathers
house, seven miles distant, for assistance.
He left her at 10 o'clock, and returned with
assistance at 4 o'clock the next morning,
finding the lady frozen to death. The re-
mains were taken to New York. Miss Well
ton was highly refined, a great lover of ma
ture and very self-reliant.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-10-09
A COLONY OF c. WIDOW.

The colony OF unhappy wives at New
port is shocked, outraged, chagTlned, and
dismayed. I wrote some time ago about
the large number OF women, including
Mrs. Oliver II. P. Belmont and Mrs
Henry Turnbull, who have been residing
in Newport for the past two years. in
tending at the completion of their third
husbands under the Rhode Island laws.
1t has been the law, ever since law has
existed in Rhode Island, to grant q die
VOTCe to any woman who has lived away
from her husband three years in that
State. There has been no end of family
scandals among the Weather people Of
the city the past two years. The clubs
have been kept gOssiping about them
continually. Not a few of them have
been solved by the retirement of the
wives to Newport, where they have taken
up residences and organized q little set
which cannot be equaled, as far as family
history is concerned, in any portion of
the Union. Here the grass widows have
lived all the year round, their ranks be-
ing constantly added to by unhappy
wives from New York. AS the time adj
Vanced the colony increased until at
present it numbers nearly two score of
ladies, the majority of whose social re-
latiOns are of the highest possible sort,
and who are mainly attractive and
handsome women.
Admittance into this circle is difficult
Of attainment by a man. 1t Is an ex-
tremely exclusive set. Clergymen are
eagerly welcomed, and the officers of
the naval station Of West Point have al
so the entTee into the colony of unfortu-
nate wives 1t is said that a iollier.
happier, and more amusing lot of enter
talners cannot be found than these who
form this set at Newport. By September
next majority ofthe women would have
come forward freed from the shackles of
matrimOny. Such, however, is not to be
their fate, as the laws of the State have
just been amended so that the three
year-residence clause is a dead letter.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-10-09
WASHINGTON TOPICS.

Judge Field decided that a Chinese boy
born in the United STATES and who re-
turned from visit TO China is citizen and
has the right to re-enter the country.
The Acting Secretary of the Treasury has
issued a call for the redemption Of $4,000
900 worth of bonds of the three per cent
loan of 1882, the principal and accrued in
terest to be paid by the first Of November
next.
The appointment of Judge Gresham to
be Secretary Of the Treasury is not temper
airy, but permanent 1t is asserted that
Judge Bradley, Of the Supreme Court, will
retire in a few months, and that his posi-
ion will be rendered to Judge Gresham.
By direction of the President, Brigadier
General Nelson A Miles has been detailed
as member Of the General Court Martial
appointe 10 meet ia Washington for the trial
of Judge Advocate General d. g. Swain
and Col. A. ?. Morrow, vice Col. D. OTIS,
10Th infantry, relieved.
The International Prime Meridian Con
ference is in session at Washington, with a
delegation Of forty, representing twenty-five
countries. Secretary of State Frelinghuy-
sen welcomed the delegates, and suggested
that Count LeWenhaupt, the Swedish Min
lister and OF the Diplomatic Corps, be made
temporary chairman. On the suggestion
of the Count Admiral G. r. P. Rogers, Of
the American delegation, was made perma-
nent chairman. On taking the chair, the
Admiral expressed the hope that prime me-
ridian would be agreed upon.
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ing he would 90 some business along the
/ Central Branch, bad at Atchison several
carloads OF coal OF the H. g st. Joe on H 3
y. Joe cars. destined for points west along
/ the Central Branch
AT this point of the matter the Missouri
Pacific refused to haul Mr.. Curryis coal
/ over The Central Branch unless Mir. Curry,
az ms own expense, would transfer Sc from
the H. g St. Joe cars to No. Pac. cars. Mr.
curry refused TO do this and applied to the
State Board of Railroad Commissioners for
redress They decided against the No. Pac.,
/ but after the company had hauled the cars
over their line he was presented with q bin
demanding payment in addition to the es-
tabllshed freight rate, a mileage charge of
three-Q quarters of a cent per mile upOn the
H. q st. Joe cars. This matter was also re-
rerred to the Commissioners for inVestiga-
ton, and they have made q decision after
all the points bearing thereon, ia which
they say:
1--WE have heretofore said, that freight
charge computed upon the established
tariff rates is the full extent to which the
shipper can be charged for the carriage of
his goods, and this is all that is ever con-
templated In the arrangement for a tariff
To charge car mileage 10 q shipper IN addi-
ton is equivalent TO raising tbs rates. to
chargetnls To some and not to others raises
them unequally and unjustly, and COnsti-
tuUes no just discrimination. Section 10 of
the Statute 80 Concerning Railroads and
other Common Carriers, - sufficiently covers
and condemns the practice which the
respondent company has but recently
initiated against the complainant
II. Meilbergen, of AtchisOn, also fled a
complaint against the Mo. Pacific road, al
leging that he was charged 1912 tor car
mileage at three-fOurths of a cent per mile
from AtchisOn to Downs, a distance of
2O6 miles, and return, making 446
miles an additional charge TO the regu-
lar freight charge upon the car load of coal
paid by him to said company. The Board
has decided that this was an over charge
and ordered it refunded.
APPLICATIONS FOR A SWITCH AND SIDE TRACK.
Certain persons of Castle township, Nc
PhersOn county, made an application to the
A. Z. d s. Fe r. r. Company, for the cree
ton OF a switch and side track on the Ma
riOn and Mcpherson branch at Wheatand
Upon refusal being made, the commission
ers were appealed to, and they refused to
grant the request, saying: I'VE cannot see
that there is any public necessity existing
at this point to justify the granting of this
application, and we therefore decline to or /
der 1t" The commissioners took the same
action on the application for a switch and
side track on the Wichita & Western road,
Kingman branch, at Oakland, in Kingman
county.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-10-09

A NOTED Paris chiropodist says that
seventy-fve per cent. of French people
have deformed feet, and compares with
it the significant fact that the soldiers OF
the French army, who are forced by the
regulation to wear broad-sole boots with
low heels, seem to have feet like ordi-
nary mortals, so far as size is concerned.
GAS soon, however, as a man comes out
of the army he goes in for a course of the
squeezing process, and, in the course OF
time, aided by delusive, bell-shaped
trOuser leg, and after excruciating suffer
ing, manages to crush his feet down to
apparently Chinese proportions"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-10-09

THE property which the late Arthur
w. Austin, of Milton, Mass, bequeathed
to the University of Virginia, amounts
to nearly or quite 100000. The will
provides that the income of the estate
shall go to Mr.. Austin's children, who
are three in number and all grown, until
their death. The entire property will
then revert to the university. The prop
erty consists Of railroad and other bonds
well secured, and some real estate. In
the body of the will the bequest was
made to William and Mary College, but
this was revoked by codicil.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-10-09

SOME men engaged in digging on the
works near the railroad station at Pana-
ma, unearthed number of American
twenty-dollar pieces, which were
promptly divided among them. Rumor
asserts that the true amount found will
remain unknown, as some Of the discov-
ers state that there were only thirty
eight pieces, while others make the
amount reach to $4,000 The money
had evidently been buried number OF
years, and is supposed to have belonged
to some miner returning from California,
who had been taken sick and hid to
keep it from being stolen, and then did
not live long enough to tell anybody
where he put it. Some think it is the
swag secrete6 by one of the noted bands
of robbers that used to flourish in
that district, but were suddenly knocked
out by vigilants.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-10-09

SAM HoUsToN, of Texas fame, married
8 handsome and accomplished Tonnes
see lady, but they only lived together
about three months. One of his biogra-
pliers gives as a reason for their separa-
ton that she told her newly made hus-
band shortly after the nuptials that he
only had her hand, and she loved an
other man and could never cease doing
50. Where upon the old hero left her
and sought the wilds of Texas. Now
comes a Tennesseean, who says the sep
aration took place in three days instead
of three months, and it was because of
Houston's brutality toward mis- wife that
caused the trouble. He was violent in
temper, rude in manners and wanting
in all the finer qualities that go to make
q man companionable to a sensitive, re-
fined lady. 1t was not because of a bro
ken heart he went to Texas, but because
he was ashamed to be seen In Nashville.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-10-09

service to party, q test. 1t should be o0n-
Quoted not in the interest of any particular
section, party, race or color, but in the
interest OF the whole people. TO accom-
plish this all good citizens should promptly
step to the front and be counted for the
right. This IS no time for lodging. Moral
cOWGrdice viii never win, and surely
never deseFvesa victory. Then let us look
10 God for his guidance. and feaFlessly and
faithfully DO our whole duty, never doubt
ing that he via take care of the results
JoHN j.. ST. JOIN
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-10-09

THE latest spiritualistic apparatus con-
sists of a telephone diaphragm attached
to the sounding-board of a piano, and
connected by a wire to a second piano in
the immediate neighborhoOd. Music
played upon the latter is reproduced up
on the former, but more sweetly and
delicately than when originally played.
The device was detected in Providence
after a very remunerative months run.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-10-09

THE fanatics who maintain the descent
of Englishmen from the lost ten tribes
are having a public debate on the ques-
ton in England. A man named Hine,
who is the leader of the movement
declares that England would gain ESQ.,
100000 in reduced taxation by accepting
the craze, but does not state how. They
now propose to transfer the field Of their
labOrs to America as a more hopeful
soil
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-10-09

TIE country horsemen Of Eastern Con-
necticut have introduced a novel feature
into horse racing. Instead Of trOtting
for a purse the horses are trotted for 100
bushels of oats. The oats are divided
into four prizes. the first prize being 40
bushels; second, 80; third, 20; fourth, 10.
1t is said to have a very stimulating eff
feet on the horses.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-10-09

THE grinding of hemlock bark has be-
come a considerable industry in the
West 1t has been discovered that a
fine beer can be made with its aid. 1t is
asserted that the chief substance used in
adulterating beer are tan bark and soda,
with a little rice malt to give it body and
hold the foam. Hemlock bark is being
used instead of these articles.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-10-09

A NEW kind Of compass has been IN
vented by an italian sea captain, and is
in use in the Italian navy. 1t consists
Of a Magnetic needle floating in the wa
ter in a Theoretically sealed glass case.
It's advantages are that it resists sudden
shocks, but it yields readily to ordinary
influences. The firing ola 1OO-ton gun
on board the vessel will not effect it.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-10-09

Kansas City October 4. 1884
The Live Stock Indicator TeDOruB:-
n #OAIILE-Receiptg $50. The market was very
dull and weak, and Zoe lower for grass Texans.
Exports, COOS %; good 20 chOlre ahfDpiug
steers 5000 So common 20 medium 3 COO
90: feederss 90g4 50; COWS, 9 OJa3 90; grass
Texas steers, 3 1908 so.
HOGS-Reoeipta $3.50 Market weak and 15c
lower Lots averaging 208 % rs Us sold At 621Z
a 80. bulk 4 S004 80.
sHEEP-Receipts, 400. Market weak and a
shade lower
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-10-09

Railroad Company for twenty years after
my death. While such stock is 50 held bv
the trustees or their SUCCESSORS thew shall
pay net income therefr0m 10 said three
children who are not only made frDsfegs
but executors of the wiz.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-10-09

A MASSACHUSETTS Judge will not be-
Iieve a professional spy whose evidence
is uncorroborated. He acquitted a hotel
keeper, charged with illegal liquor sell
ing, although a law and order league
agent, who boarded for two months in
the house, swore to regular sales.
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AaBsas UIUy ErOonOs Market.
Kansas Citv Oototar 1ee
The Daily Indicator reDorB:-
FLOUR-Dull and weak.

The Daily Indicator reDoFs:-
FLOUR-Dull and weak.
Quotations; Family, D 25611 80; choice, / 100
90 1ancy 69G1 Co. patent, 1902 20; Rye, so.
WHEAT-Ihe market was again stronger No.
Leu Mlate[s Casl' oO12S; OSyoDoi, o014 NoVeI9-
per 6lS4c; december. CSC; May, Tic, No. 3 red,
$500 $3.50; october, 6S26c. No Z, 43c bid, 46C
asked. Rejected, $50 bid, 36c asked. No. son,
cash. 661zc: October, csc.
CORN-Cash was quiet; October in some de
mand ana higher. No. n1ZeQ cash. 44c bid,
45c asked; october, inst half 44G44]<c; october,
4tH94l1Ic; November. 3O1Ec bid, Sic asked; the
year SIC bid. 29c asked; January, 275zc bid,
white mixed cash acc BID; May, SOC bid, SIC
asked. High mixed, 451zc. Rejected, SIC asked.
0AIS-Entlrely nominal
RYE-Entirely nominal
BUTTER-Unchanged
Quotations Creamery, choice, 2aci fair 70
good, p g25c; hne dairy, in single package lots,
0 tore packed, l2sg16c; sour and poor, 6G29c.
EGGs--E1rm5 Ice 2 dgzeli candled.
PRAIRIE CHICKENS 90 per dozen.
QuotatiOns: Old hens, 3 25 per dozen: mixed,
2 zoos 90 Per dozen; spring chickens, large, 80
O. @ l, small nan, 0092 . per dozen.
DRY SALT AIEATs-shOulderB TIC clear aides
l1c long clear sides 10szci clear rib sides 1870.
sides, Ice; NIB sides, 12o; claar sides, l21So
BREIKF1sT B4C6N2zffs5la
DRIED BEEF-f8c
BARREL NEATS-Pork, homeless. % oJi olea
pork, . coz mes pork. Is So
LARD-Tierce, 8 80; half barrel, 8 IS
TALLOW-NO, /, 619e; No. 2. DC.
SORGHUM-25c per gallon.
CHEESE-EuQ cream, 125; dGtBr partly skim
med, 71S@6JHe: Young America. f3c
BRAN-Bulk S5cs sacked 45c 3 loo Ms.
FLAX SEED 17Bl Is Oh basis nure
BROOM CORH-Hurl 81S04c; self working
394c; short and crooked, 2Q93c
dAY-FancY small naIsu. g 90; large baled
3d.
WOOL-Missouri, unwashed-heavy line, 160
l7c. light fine, i702Ocs medium. l80Z0c; me
dunn cOmbing, 18G2Oc; coarse cOnbing, I7l82Oe.
low and carpet, l2a15c. Kansas and Nebraska2
heavy fine. 11t0l5c; light fine, 159I7c; medium
IT@19c; medium combfng, -: coarse eombing'
choice 2593Oei medium 269Z3c; aingy and low
% "a 26C
HIDES AND PELTS-Hides, dry flint, No. p
10, Ice; No. q 10 13c; dry sailed. @ ID lie. Green
sailed, No. q % Sc; green sailed No. 2 q 10 &c.
Green, No. 4 % 10 &c: No q 10 sc; calf = 10 lie;
-heep pelts, dry, q % Toe.
rF1nFla y 4 rT4T7ryrp crqrf r-srrrrrrarr-.
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DECISIONS MADE.

VVLoIesoms Work o. the Board OF Bailroad
Commissioner In Making q wholesale
Settlement OF Complaints.
The Commissioners have recently made
a lot Of timely decisions. which are thus
summarized:
MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY.
]. P. PCmer0y, the coal man Of AtchisOa,
during the Summer has had a good share
of the coal business along the Central
Branch line Of the Missouri Pacific, but in
process Of time one A. A. Curry. conciud-
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-10-09

The following shows the amount o. gralu Re.
5etVe4, Withdrawn and In store 81 regular oleVE.
LOIS, as reported % thu Board Of Trade today:
Deceived Withdrawn In ftrra
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ST. JOHNS SAY.
county.

He Accepts the Nomination of the Prohibi-
ton Party for President of the United
Following is st. Johns letter of accept
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-10-09
OOMPARATIVB sTATEHE1II.

The following table SHOWS the prices o. Wheat
Corn Oats and Rye az the close OF Chance to-day
Ia comparison vita The previous oay and pr8Vio1a