Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-10-03
GENERAL NEWS.
DOMESTIC.


/ petition carrying box Of deooy- ducks.
/ Policeman George DOugherty, taking hin
for a burglar, Attempted 70 arrest him. an q
he. supDOsing the officer to be q highway
man. started TO run, and was fred at by the
latter. He returned the shot, and MORALLY
/ wounded Dougherty. Los blake was ar
rested and taken before magistrate who
promptly ordered his discharge.
Mrs. Woodwork, the evangelist, closed
| q two weeks meeting in the grove near
/ Muncie, Ind. MrP. Woodwork preached
to $4,000 people. Such religious excite
ment never was known there. The woods
rang with the shouts Of the new converts,
/ while here and there lay men and women
/ by the scores in frances, apparently dead.
/ Hundreds of people frOm the city attended
her meetings, and are unable to account Tor
what they saw.
An outbreak similar to that of the PiyTn-
/ oath fever has made its appearance in Ran
/ tieoke, Pa. for the past ten days. 1t is re-
ported that several families are stricken
down with the disease and a majority OF
/ the cases are situated upon hill, near the
n town, which has already been considered
i the healthiest part Of the place. The cpl
/ deuic is said TO be caused by the use Of we'll
water, polluted In some unknown man
ner.
/ An electoral factor of growing import
ancs in England, is found in the spread of
the tory primrose league. This Organiza-
/ ton is growing daily more powerful
/ through comprehensive organization. 1t
| is establishing lodges which are called
] "HabitatiOns," in even the YemObest dis
| tricts. These habitatiOns are conducted on
! the principle of American campaign clubs
and are managed with view to dissemin-
ate party literature and information end
TO keep alive party spirit and pride. EV-
erything possible is done to make member
ship tempting and permanent. Ladies are
| induced TO join the ''HabitetiOns' and per
form missionary work IN their interest.
All that money, social influence, political
! literature and talk can do to catch or
coerce votes is unsparingly done by the
Primrose league.
About thirty girls employed by the
American rubber company of East Cam
bridge, Mass, were affected by the fumes
of naptha which is used in the composition
of the cement in the manufacture of rub
Der goods, the effect being to make them
shrek, dance, laugh, etc. The perform
lnCe Of the girls under the influence of the
| fumes impelled other girls in the adjoining
room to act IN a most extraordinary man
ner, and for some time the shCp resembled
an asylum for the insane. Several doctors
were called in and a large number of the
Work in several of the departments ceased,
and it was several hours before the talk
| over the scenes enacted could be stopped.
The following figures, taken from the of
fetal statement of the board of trade posted
on change, show the amount Of grain in
sight in the United States and Canada on
Saturday, September 10, and the amount
of increase ever the preceding week;
Wheat, 45, $50, 204 bushels; increase, 81, O21
bushels. Corn, 1922, 178 bushels; decrease
997, 740 bushels. Oats, 1, 146, 427 bushels;
increase, SO. $50 bushels. The amount Of
grain in store in Chicago on the date named
was: Wheat, r. S34 500 bushels; CORD, 49,,
I'll bushels; oats, Al, 43l bushels.
A young son of Edward Turnback, died
at HazletOn, Pa, from the effects of a haz-
ing received last week at the hands OF sew
eral Of his sChOOlmates. The scholars Of
public school, to which young Turnback
had Just been admitted make practice Of
limit ating" new scholars by making them
run the gauntlet through two lines of ten
to twenty boys on each side, they punching
the victim with their fists as he passes
/ through. They injured the little fellow so
badly in the region Of the kidneys that he
died in great agony. No action has been
taken in the matter.
The soldiers reunion held at st. Joseph
last week was q most pronounced success,
the crowd one day reached forty thousand,
ten thousand Of them being old veterans.
The parade Of one DAY was the grandest
scene in the history Of the city, it reguir-
ing an hour and thiEEy-iVe minutes to pass
a given point. The procession was fully
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veterans in line, together with the entire
rOsr er Of civic societies in the city on foot
and horseback.
During heavy rain storm which pre-
Vailed st Dublin, COahoma county, Miss,
last week, lightning struck q cotton house
in which were sheltered Chas. Smith, his
| wife and son, Henry IsaaGs and Tom Nee
| ley. Neeley. Smiths wife and son were
killed, also three mules. Smith and Isaacs
were knocked senseless, but soon recovered.
/ All the killed and wounded were COlOred.
Three officers who attempted to serve an
/ execution on Abner Aldrieh, at his home
near Iona, Michigan, met with a vigorous
/ resistance from Aldrioh and his family, one
| of them being shot and dangerously IL iured
Yesterday Aldrich, his wife, and two sons
/ surrendered to q sherih's posse, after hold,
ing them at bay four hours from their
l house, the walls Of which had been pierced
/ from rihe-shOoting.
/ A dispatch from Chicago says: T.
| Schwartz, bOOkkeeper for Dennehy, Wolff
/ & O'Bien, wholesale liquor dealers, has
been arrested, charged with embezzling 81,
/ 600 Of his employers money. Schwartz
| came here from New York four months ago
| and secured his position By means of high
! recommendation and letters of introduce
/ 1On from wealthy and prominent citizens
81 that place.
Eleven men were drowned on q wrecked
steamer at Grand Manin, Ne, and not
twenty, as before reported. The names of
the drowned, thus far learned, are: James
Griffith, James Napier, Robert Johnson,
james CLARK. Bartholomew Armstrong,
Hartley StaokhOuss and Alexander Serb
ner. all married.
I The unexpended portion Of the mOEey
appropriated for the construction Of the
/ three cruisers undertaken by Mr.. John
Roach, viii probably fell $3.50, 600 short OF
/ the amount required to complete them.
/ and the government viii call upon Mr..
ROsCh's bOndsmsn to make up the defcien-
ey.
/ In a decision lust rendered by Judge
| Chapman, Of the Detroit superior oourt, 10
| iG held that patent medicine are not among
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