Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-11-22
NEWS SUMMARY.
MISCELLANEOUS.

All5CELltLANEOOSs
The street car strike in New Orleans end
ed in a compromise.
The Columbus & Cincinnati railroad win
be opened for business soon.
New York passenger agents held meet
ing to discuss emigrant rates.
The banking house of James NJ. Master
ton & Co., Mt. Vernon, n. Y, closed It's
doors.
The eighteenth annual session OF the. Ma
tiOnal Grange Association convened IN
Nashville, Tenn.
At Lexington, Ky, Maud trotted mile
in 2:103, the fastest time ever made IN the
month of November.
Prof Jones, of the city schools, Burling
ton, Iowa, and three young ladies were
drowned in an artificial lake.
The late rains in Virginia made a good
season for handling leaf tobacco, and the
market is opening actively.
Gov. Hoadly of Ohio issued an address to
the people in reference to the miners
troubles in the Hooking Valley.
The extensive furnace at Lemont, Penn,
viii start up in full blast next Thursday,
after being idle for several months.
There was much excitement in Wall
street the day before election, and large
sums were Wagered on the result.
The schedule in the assignment of Ed
ward J. Birmingham, New York publish
er, show liabilities S27, 900; assets $4,000.
The Oregon Construction Company has
been awarded the contract for building the
Oregon q California road. Contract price
81 100000.
The monument at Freehold, n. J., erect
ed to commemorate the battle of Mon
mouth in 1888, was unveiled recently in
the presence of 80, 600 people.
The st. Louis and San Francisco Railway
Company applied to the New York Stock
Exchange to list s., 600 additional gen
eral mortgage bonds.
Director General Burke's report on the
progress of preparations for the New Or
leans Exposition shows everything IN a
satisfactory condition.
Nine million feet of lumber were de-
stroyed by fire in Mark Paine & Co.'S lum-
Der yard, at Northern Pacific Junction,
twenty-five miles from Duluth.
Plans are perfected for the departure on
the 10th INST. Of the commission appointed
by Congress to visit Mexico, Central and
South America in the interest Of commerce
with the United States.
VIM. Jones, the guard who attempted to
kill Chas. J. Guiteau on the 18th day Of No
Vember, 1881, was recently acquitted by
jury in Washington City. They were out
only twenty minutes.
The bondholders Of the Wabash railraad,
by counsel, made verbal application to
Judge Treet Of the United States District
Court sitting at Columbus, asking that a
new receiver for the road be appointed.
James B. Parke, prominent in the iron
business at Buffalo, who mysleriously dis
appeared three months ago, returned with
a statement that he was rendered half in
sane by business troubles and took trip to
Europe.
The suit of the city of Fit. Scott against
Samuel q. Hickman to recover the amount
of principal and interest on certain i'm
prOvement bonds issued by the city Of Fort
Scott, has been decided by the U. S. Supreme
Court in favor OF the city.
The Third pIenary Catholic council open
ed at Baltimore. Archbishop Kenrick of
st. Louis celebrated pOntihcial high mass.
and the sermon was preached by Archblsh-
Op Ryan formerly of St. Louis, now OF
Philadelphia. The council will remain in
session three weeks.
The second annual convention of the
American StOCkmen assembled in Chicago.
Permanent organization was as follows:
President, Dewitt Smith, OF illinois; Secre-
tary, ThOs. Sturgiss, OF Wyoming; Assistant
Secretary, George +. Morrow, Of Illinois.
Each State and Territory represented was
allowed one vice president. Geo. b. LOr-
ing, u. S. Commissioner of Agriculture,
read an interesting paper on animal indus
try.
The Supreme Court of the United States
has decided in q case wherein the question
presented is whether any right OF appeal
exists in patent cases from the decision OF
the Commissioner to the Secretary of the
Interior. The Court, in an opinion by
Justice Matthews, held that an appeal does
not lie in patent cases to the Secretary Of
the Interior; that the Commissioned OF
Patents has the exclusive right to decide
for himself whether or not a patent ought
to be issued and the Secretary Of the In
terror has no authority to review such de-
cisiOn. If the Commissioner errs the
party aggrieved has statutory remedy, but
that remedy is not an appeal to the Sec