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

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shot q Mrs. b oEse, and dangerously y71ul d
ed Mrs. Gray. The difficulty grew out of
q quarrel which Mrs. Long had with her
husband, and her belief that Mrs. Morse
and Mrs. Gray had been making criminal
charges against her.
The apple crop Of Champaign county,
Illinois is not sufficient for home con
sumption. Last year fifty thousand bush
els were shipped away. More than half
the trees have been winter killed.
Five new members of the Knights of La.
Dor at st. Louis have been arrested for the
recent blowing up Of street cars with dyn-
amits. The arrests were brought about BIZ
the confession OF one OF the cOnspiratOrs.
Two hundred and fifty pounds Of dyna-
amibe stored IN the cellar of q CLARK count
ty, Illinois farmer, exploded. Luckily the
whole family were away from home. Not
q Vistige Of the house remained.
There are /, 5S6 conVicts in the penltenti-
airy at Joliet. Seventeen criminals from
rett L. JOYCE who was serving fifth term,
IVES released on Thursday.
The mint at Carson City, is to suspend op-
Grafton, by order OF Secretary Manning
The yield Of the Nevada mines has so
grately decreased that even an assay Office
no longer necessary.
Mrs. SimOns, Of Austin, Texas, claims to
have been visited in q St. Louis hotel by e
burglar, who threatened her life and So
cured her purse, watch, and diamond jew
elry.
At the last term of the district court at
Parsons, Labette county, four men we're
sentenced TO the penitentiary for terms
ranging from three and half to twenty
years.
The st. Louis Crematory society, organ
ICED by 300 business men, has secured a
permit for a building on Grand avenue,
near tower park, to cost $4,000.
Workingmen in Brooklyn while exca-
waiting for 8 building unesrthed eighteen
human skulls. Nobody can explain the
mystery.
The state veterinarian of Iowa finds hog
cholera increasing, and gives as a remedy
isolation and quarantine, as the disease is
not contracted nom dead animals.
Six passenger coaches on the Vest Shore
road run into a ditch near Little Falls, n.
Y. Mrs. o. r. Pratt, of Rochester, was
killed and number Of Others seriously
injured.
Pressure is being brought to bear on the
president in favor Of a recommendation in
his message to convert the agricultural bu-
reau into an executive department..
The escape of gas in the residence of John
Knell, at Baltimore, nearly caused the
death Of a family Olive persons. 1t is now
thought that three of the sufferers viii sur
Viye.
Work has been commenced at Lincoln,
Nebraska, for the extentiOn of the Missouri
Pacific track, the citizens have subscribed
$40, 900 to aid the project.
John Darragh, a member of the Cincin-
natl council, was fined $40 an kept an hour
in the CalabOOse for opening his saloon on
Sunday.
Milk sickness caused the death Of a heard
Of tWenty-fOur cattle in Jasper county, IL
linois, and is said to be spreading in Gibson
county, Indiana.
A lumber firm of Muskegon, Mich,
transferred for $425, 600 cash its mills, rail-
road and standing pine. purchased in 1880
for $155, 900.
A passenger train on the Cooperston, IN
Y } railroad ran into q gravel train. Sec
ton Boss Thomas Hall was killed instant
ly and three labOrers seriously injured.
There is talk of combined effort to intro
duce cOlOred labor into the cotton presses
and railroads in place of Galveston strik-
ers, but no action has yet been taken.
John H. BradIel Of HinsdaIe, Illinois, has
been awarded Judgment for $100 against
Thomas Cook, a sheep-breeder, for the loss
Of an Irish setter, shOU by the latter.
During panic caused by the collision
Of a Terry boat and a steamer, on North
river, New York, John MallOy Jumped over
board and was drowned.
The Grand Rapids and Indiana road has
sent physician along its track, in q special
train, to Vaccinate every employ at the eX-
Pense Of the company.
The court house at Toledo, Illinois, was
swept away by an inCsndiary fire. The en-
of
strOyed.
The purchase Of the steamer Dolphin
from the assignee OF John Roach has at last
been o5nsumated by Secretary Whitney.
The postmaster general hes decided that
guarantee associations cannot become sure
ties Of the official bonds OF postwasteEs.
Judge Eben Newton, the Oldest member
Of the bar in Ohio, died recently at Can
field, Mahoning county, aged 81 years.
The Pennsylvania Coal and Iron com
pany has purchased II, 600 acres of coal land
in Al kansas, and will open mines.
Minneapolis elevator collapsed and
100 600 bushels of fax are lying on the
ground in consequences.
Active litigation is promised at New o
leans owing to the forfeiture by the city of
the Adick gas franchise.
Four men who were working on an iron
bridge st Keithburg, H., were killed by
the falling of a EcafOld.
The Texas and st. Louis railroad viii at
once change from a narrOW-guage to a
standard gUsge.
Reports of smallpox in st. Paul are false.
There is not q case of smallpox at any
point in the northwest.
The schooner B. B. King was wrecked at
Muskegons Mich,s and TWO sailors dOWned.
The fat stock show egan at Chicago.
FOREIGN
During a meeting of the Young Mems
Christian society at Plymouth, England
be Canadian emigration commissioner.
named Jay, denounced Rev. EteWsrt Rose