Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-11-21
GENERAL NEWS.



He was taken to Philadelphia Sunday
night. October %, and taken TO the resi-
dence of is family, where he died. Until
Friday evening be was thought TO be rapid
" recovering. His wife and sister were at
his side when he breathed his last. He was
born in Londonderry about fifty years ago,
and when a mere lad, Wheeled coal for 3
gas works in Philadelphia. The wardrobe
and properties Of Edwin Forrest, we're pre-
sented to him as a worthy successor. His
last appearance on the stage was at
McVicksr's theatre IN ChicsgO, in Septem-
Der of last year. His remains viii, on
Thursday, be placed in a Vi alt at Cedar
Hill cemetery. An estate valued at $40, 600
is left to the widow andtWo sons.
Mr.. Manton Marble, who returned from
Europe few days ago, has reported IN per
son to Secretary BayGrd and PRESIDENT
cleveland the results of his confidential
mission there, in which he has been EN-
ployed since last May. The character and
purpose of this important mission, now
first made was TO visit the principal Coun-
tries Of Europe, there to ascertain the pres
ent opinions and purposes Of their govern
ments touching liked ratio between gold
and silver and their unrestricted coinage
and collateral use as money in domestic
circulation and international exchange
Mr. Marble has spent the last four or hVe
months in personal conferences with the
principal members and the finance minis
I
and Berlin, and in consultation with the
leading economists and monetary experts
Of the khree great powers Of Europe.
Auditor of State Emil Kiesewetter fred
two shots at W. j. Elicit, editor and pro
| prietOr Of the Sunday Capital, in the lobby
| of the Neil house, at Columbus, Ohio. The
| first shot struck Elliott in the ball OF the
/ thumb Of the right hand, producing only a
/ flesh wound, and passed through the left
4 80 l. 81 A. ~ 80
/ body, while the second lodged in the cell
1 ing Of the hotel Office. KieseWetter was
| rested charged with shooting with intent
kill and released on 81, 600 bonds. The
| cause of the attack Is a teud of two or
| three years standing, during which time Ell
lott, in his paper, has severely criticised
KeiseWetter, charging him with official
misconduct on several occasions.
ASS Missouri Pacific passenger train,
due at Parsons at 1:55 a. m. from the east
was coming into the yards at that place the
other morning, it COllided with a train Of
freight cars which had been left on the
'Y - but had run out into the main track.
The engine and tank and mail car and seE-
eral freight cars were demolished. The
mail Car literally split the engine tank in
two, forcing the pieces into the cab OF the
engine. The escape from injury Of both
engineer and fireman was miraculous, as
they both remained on the engine, although
IL was almost certain death. No one was
hurE. The name of the engineer was Geo.
Snow.
Two vacancies in the civil service COM
mission were filed recently. Alfred P. Ed
geEton, one Of the appOintees, is president
Of the board Of education at Fort Wayne,
Indiana, has served two terms in congress.
William 1. Trenholm, of South Car
DINA, who is to succeed John M.
Gregory is a son Of the confederate score
tary of the treasury, and is a commission
merchant at Charleston. At the recent
national convention Of bankers in Chicago,
his paper on the silver question attracted
much attention.
Michael Myers, one of the jurors in the
famous Walkup poisoning case, dropped
dead of heart disease, at his home near
NeOshO Rapids, November II. He was sit
ting in a char at the dinner table, when,
without even gasp, he fell to the floor
dead. Mr.. Myers was one Of the six jury
men who voted from first to last for Mrs.
Waldup's acquittal. He was about 46 years
Of age and had lived in Lyon county tor
sixteen years. Mrs. WalkuB, her mother
and cousin Willie Willis, have left for New
Orleans.
The Washington express on the Bait
more q OHIO railroad ran into a misplaced
switch at BluestOne quarry, Pa, and a
sleeper, two coaches, two baggage and one
[
sleeper rolled into the YOughiOghOny river.
Sixteen persons were injured but none
were killed outright.
The national convention of the WO-
mans Christian Temperance Union was
held in Philadelphia last week. Kansas
was represented by the state president
Mrs. Fanny 81. Rastall and several other
prominent lady workers, including Mrs.
j. j. Buck, of EmpOria, who was a dele
gate.
The strike Iuauguraued by the Knights
Labor at Galveston, Tex, still COntinuesi
No freights arrive here, and the Missouri
Pacific officials have instructed their COun-
try agents to receive 10 cotton for ship
ments to the city. Ten foreign steamers
partially loaded ere lying idle in the bay
On the Chicago board of trade therqu
in November corn is continued, the price
being forced M to AZ cents. This is an
advance of Ct cents per bushel in that
option since last Saturday, when 1t was
first discovered that the market was being
manipulated.
Two cent postage resulted in a deficiency
of So, 756, 345 for the year ending with June.
Illinois is the only western state showing
profit in postal operations, her surplus be-
ing $201, 968. Indiana fell behind S497, 600.
aud Iowa 1856, 269. Both domestic ana in
ternalOnal mOney-Orders decreased greatly
in volume.
James Young, a convict serving a ten
years sentence in the peniteutiary at
Joliet, H., for burglary, has confessed to
the murder OF DR.. Allen, of Sandwich, III.
Wn. Thomas was cOnvicted of the murder,
and has now served six years CT a seven
teen year sentence.
Secretary Lamar is engsged in hearing
the petitions OF nine different telephone in
Serests for the vacation of The patent grant
ed to Mr.. Bell. 1t is alleged that Meucci
used a telephone in 1919, aud never aban-
dOned his invention.
Willard Sears, one of the steeet-csr con
duCtOrs now in arrest at St. Louis for plac-