Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-09-26

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the monogram eU. s. - the cards have the
words Omitted States" printed az length.
On the address side Of the old card were
printed the words Nothing but the address
can be placed on this side" The express
SIGN has always been criticized a little as
not being true, a. q person could write any
thing he chose On that side, though the
card aight not be received At the post
Office. This expression has been changed
on the new card 80 as to read as follows:
Nothing but the address 20 be written on
this side"
Ten cutters employed at the United States
mint IN Philadelphia formed themselves
into committee waited upon chief coiner
Steele and said that being republicans they
were afraid of receiving summary notice Of
their removal. There were DO charges
against them, they said, and they had IN
der them the new hands recently appoint
ed in the mint for instruction. They desir-
ed protection, they said, that would not be
interfsred with unless for cause. The chief
COinsr informed them he would commune
cate with the superintendent with the re-
suit of each Of the cutters receiving the fol-
lowing note: "You are discharged from
the mint instanter for characterization and
conspiracy to embarTass the business Of the
institution"
s. @. Gull, a farmer living near LIVER
more, Cal, stranRled his wife TO death with
his hands in the presence of 6 VeaT-Old
daughter, and then attsm pied TO commit
suicide by hanging himself with rope to
the bed post. Seeing what her father was
about to do the child began to cry and
begged him not to kill himself. The tear
ful pleading Of the little one induced the
murderer to abandon his intention Of sui
eide, and he then hitched up his team and
drove of. He was found two hours late
asleep in his wagon about two miles from
home and placed under arrest. Gull has
been considered insane for some time, and
was known to be intensely ealOus Of his
wife.
Three sOBs of wealthy and prominent
people of Olivia, Ohio, have been arrested
Tor burglaries committed at that place
One of them is Clayton Marsh, son Of Hon.
D. D. Marsh, speaker of the Ohio house of
representatives; another is the son Of the
county clerk, Of the county, and is a stu
lent at Kentucky military institute. The
whole town is wild with excitement and
he citizens fear that no adequate prOseCu-
ion can be had, owing to the influence of
he friends Of the defendants, who have
started to employ competent prOseou- |
ion.
Prof. J. ". Sanborn, secretary Of the
tate board of agriculture, furnishes the as
.OCiated press with the following latest in
OrmaCiOn regarding the corn crop in Mis-
y
injured by frost, but on heavy
u black soil corn is poor, Backward and
liable TO injury by frost. On September
-st the corn prospect was 85 per cent Of a
rOp. 1t IS now probably 2 or 3 per cent
better, but will be under an average crop,
which, for the past i've years, has been
u, goo 600 bushels"
A dispatch from Binghampton, n. Y,
syE: In the election for school commits
toners here, the women generally voted.
This had the effect Of bringing out large
male vote, and the total number Of ballots
,sst was twenty times as great as usual.
Many young ladies tried to vote, who were
neither mothers nor tax payers, and their
ballots were rejected. The scene at the
POLLS. where Women we're eleCtiOneering, was
novel. The ladies generally voted for the
uccessful candidates.
Postmaster J. ". Flsgg, Of Ellsworth,
Mass, has been recommended for removal
or mailing circulars at his Office that
hOuld have been mailed at Boston. Fourth
lass pOstmasteTs are paid salaries base
upon the number Of stamps cancelled at
heir office. If such a postmaster can from
or through corrupt means in-
luce business men living in cities Of the
presidential grade to mail large quantities
If matter at their offices, the effort is to in
crease the pOstmaster's salary.
A Mexican got into a dificulty in saloon
vt BIsbee, AIRY Eona and was WOrsted. The
morning following his trouble he went to
he saloon armed with a repeating rife and
. belt OF cartridges and fred in discriminate
y fifteen shots into the place severely |
YOunding i've men. After clearing out
his saloon, he went further up the street !
md fired two shots into another, and then |
disappeared into q canon. The following |
lay he was captured by & posse of citizens /
ND taken 70 the nearest tree and hanged. |
A Cincinnati paper says its reports indi- /
ate that the present corn crop of this COun-
~ viii aggregate ], $3.50, O00, GOO bushels, an
Increase OF IS, 600 600 bushels, or nearly IL /
)er cent over last year. From the 18th to
he 14th about three-fourths Of the crop, in
he states which produce a par cent. of the /
entire crop, was out Of dsngsr from frost
Ten to fifteen days more will render the
eInainiEg portions safe. After the 25th Of
september with the present favorable
weather, the danger line viii be past.
The commissioner of immigration Of the
tate Of New York, has reported 10 the sec
etary Of the treasury hat during the year
S84, there arrived at the port of New York /
03 O3O Immigrants, all of whom were ex-
.mined BY the board, and on such eLamine- |
ions ], IA persons we're found to be either
,OnVicts, lunatiCs, idiots or persons unable /
o take care OF themselves without beCom- |
ng public charges, and were returned to /
he countries whence they came.
The most destructive hsll storm ever
Known in Maryland occurred the other /
lay. Entire fields Of corn and tobacco |
we're destroyed. In many fields not even /
leaf of tobacco was left on the stalks. I
Corn was completely stripped from the 1
talks, while little more than half ripe. /
The hail stones were as large as puller
sggs. The destruction was general where /
he storm touched. The damage in Charles /
county is estimated a. 100000.
In the national convention Of miners /
which met in indianapolis, resolutions /
we're adopted faVOring the total abolition |
# the system Of contracting for convict Ia /
,Or, when Is IS brought into competition 1
With free labor. The adoption of two /
weeks pay, the abolition Of the trunk 4
ystem in all its forms, q general susDeD- /
ion Of mining coal in the United States /
nd territories for one week at a date early I