Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-10-23

Rev, A. L1ghtbOurne, Of EastOn, Mary
land, was forced to resign a Methodist
pastOrate for attending a circus.
The people of Worcester, Massachusetts,
are busily engaged in decorating the city
for the celebration Ofits two hundredth an
niversary.
John Buckstaf. ST., who died at Oshkosh
yesterday, leaving nine children, was a sol
der in the British army at Lundy's Lane
In 1912.
At Boston, D. G. Dewen & Adams, gro
GERS, have made an assignment to Reuben
Ring and Edwin F. Atkins. Liabilities
$4,000.
At Providence, R. L, the jeWelry trade
has been notified of the failure of G.. H.
Craig & Co., New York, wholesale dealers
in jeWelry.
Edward Roberts, the Chicago negro who
fatally shot his wife, was captured by a
squad of police in the suburb Of MOntrOse,
and freely confessed his crime.
BENJAMIN Cole, bank president in Bos-
ton, was fined $40 in the Police Court for
whipping a lad whose grocery wagon
blocked Coles way in fremont street.
Frederick Layton, of Milwaukee, who is
building an art museum to present to the
city, has been authorized by Philip D. Ar
mour to draw for $4,000 to be used in fur
nishipg pictures.
Domingo has abolished the export du-
ties on sugars, mOlasses and other prOduC-
tons Of that country. The export duty
was twenty-five cents per one hundred
pounds on sugar.
In the Hastings Court in the suit OF Dick
Lesianer, of HendersOnVille, n. O., against
the Richmond d DanVille Railroad for dam
ages in q fall from bridge here in February,
IN which a collar bone and ribs were broken,
IT, IT, jury gave verdict of $4,000 for plain
At Cincinnati, g. s. Davis, private bank
er, assigned. Liabilities estimated at sixty
thousand dollars. assets, thirty thousand.
Among the liabilities are number OF trust
funds of BENEVOLENT and secret society or
CARNATIONS.
Sat New York, foreclosure suit for $780,,
600 has been begun by the Farmers Loan
and Trust Company against the Long
Beach improvement Company. The prop
erty mOrtgaged was valued at 81, 100000,
and excludes hotel cottages and bathing
houses.
Hog cholera, which has prevailed for
some time at Phillipsburg, Warren county,
n. j., has spread from there, and the indi-
cations are that before the time comes for
preparing pork for Winter use, the disease
will have spread over the greater part OF
Eastern Pennsylvania.
are reported as follows: United Stated, 1856
Canada, "a; total 22O, against 2l7 last week.
The failures are below the average in the
Western, New England and Pacific States,
but cOrrespOndingly in the increase in the
Middle States and New York.
At Winona, Mimi, the Grand Jury pre-
scented indictments against Becker, Roth
and DOtterwick, Judges of last Springs
municipal election, and against Fred Bau-
mann, candidate for Alderman, for ballot
box stufing to the extent of three hundred
fraudulent votes. Becker was arraigned and
plead guilty, and the others asked the usual
time to plead.
Since July 9th drouth has prevailed in
lower East Tennessee North Georgia and
North Alabama, and specials to the Chatta-
nOOga Times indicate all farming interests
seriously impoverished, and unless there is
rain soon, will result in grazing lands being
burned up. The creeks are dry, and the
Tennessee at this point is within three
inches of the lowest point ever known.
The st. Louis & San Francisco, Atchison
Topeka q Santa Fe, and Atlantic q Pacific
railroads have arranged to run fastfreight
train from St Louis, Chicago and Kansas
City to San Francisco. The time will be
reduced to six and half days from Kansas
City, seven and a half days from st. Louis,
and eight days from Chicago. The cars on
this train will be fitted with automatic
freight brakes, and the runningfOr a greater
part of the distance viii be equal to that Of
q passenger train.
At New York, Artemus H. Holmes
lawyer has brought suit against Ex-senator
J. B. Chaffee and David H. MoffaU, alleging
that he had invested some 49, 900 for $50
shares of stock in the Little Pittsburg Min
ing Company in 1879, on the representation
of the defendants that there was ore in the
mine to the value of some S., 900 900, which
would pay dividends of say 100000 per
month tor three years, and that these state
ments were false. The defendants did not
appear, and the Judge directed the Jury to
give q verdict for $4,000.
At Trenton, n. J., the United States
Grand Jury made q presentment against
the New Brunswick National Bank of New
Jersey. The presentment states that the
Jury has made q full investigation, in
which it is discovered that loss Of more
than the whole surplus OF the bank was
caused before last June by fraud Of the
Cashier, with the possible cOnnivance of
the President, but that no other officials
participE ted. The presentment states, how
ever that the statements made to the Comp
troller of Currency last June, after the
frauds were committed, were false, and in
tended to conceal the frauds, and the Di-
rectOrs who attested its correctness did so
without an examination.
Flames Legg s. Co., owners Of the Maple
vile Mills at BurrillYille, Rhode Island,
makers OF fancy cGsnmereSs nave assigned
to Joseph Fiteld. The firm has been doing
business under different names for twenty
years or more, and have an extensive mill
at MapleVille. The firm declines TO make a
statement for publication, Dunn's Agency
estimates the Worcester property as worth
$500, 600, and the liabilities Of the firm from
100000 to $500, 600, including MORTGAGES,
mainly held IN Boston. Other estimates
from private sources are that the liabilities
will not exceed $500, 600. The Blackstone
and Traders oanks are said to hold some Of
the firms paper, but the amount is not
noWn.
Gov Jackson of West Virginia, has com
mitted the sentence of Charles SpurlOck 70
imprisonment for life. Spurlock was TO