Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-07-31
VOL. VIII. NO. 80.
GENERAL NEWS.
DOMESTIC.

of the possibility of a duel between Joseph
Pulitzer and William DOrsheimer.
Included in party of Wyoming convicts
placed IN Joliet prison, was Grow chief,
Who VIII serve one year for stealing horses
r. G. Hummer, wealthy Iumberman of
Hausau, Wisconsin, killed himself with
shot gun because of heavy losses by recent
forest nreE.
One man was killed and several others
were seriously injured by the explosion Of a
boiler in the Water-Works at Columbia, South
Carolina.
There Is some alarm al Boston il regard
5alatea, which sailed from Southampton,
twenty-five days ago.
The Pennsylvania tubs-Works, at Pitts-
iurgh5 have voluntarily advanced the wages
u the one thousand workmen TO per cent,
dating back two weeks.
The Fulton brewery at Galena, Illinois,
the pioneer establishment of the kind in
northern Illinois, was totally destroyed by
IRE The loss is 81, 600
The democrats OF the Second congression-
al district Of Iowa have nominated Judge
Walter j. Hayes to succeed ]. NJ. Murphy,
the Hennepiu canal champion.
The president has approved the act. y
authorize the construction of a railroad,
wagon foot and passenger bridge across the
Mississippi river near Dubuque.
Casper Wehner, a republican politician of
Pittsburgh is the fourth of a squad Of insepa-
rable friends in the G2o peunsy lvania volun
teers who have committed suicide.
William Hunter, second assistant secre-
tary of stats. and the oldest official in con-
tinuOus service in the United States, died in
Washington Of a complication of diseases
incident to old age.
George II. Bates, of Delaware, a personal
friend Of Secretary Bayard, has started for
San Francisco, ON q secret mission to the
Samoan Islands, where % viii meet repre-
sentatives Of the European powers.
Joseph Henderson, a clothing merchant at
Butte, Montana, was killed with a shotgun
by a Nevada miner who at once committed
suicide. The murder claimed that Hender-
son owed mis-.
In the anarchist trial at Chicago, Judge
Gary showed considerable tinhdity when
policeman exhibited four pO1nds Of dyna-
mite rolled up IN pair OF greasy oyerails-
London paper says the liberals hold the
position coveted by the FarnelhteH- They
are the arbitratOrs of the fate of the govern
ment. Lord Harrington will keep the indie
pendent attitude.
The express from New York ran INTO a
gravel train near Bridgeport, Conn, smash
ing several of the gravel cars and killing and
wounding number OF Italians on the train.
The exact number IS unknown. No passen-
gers were injured.
Charles Blekeuey, the teacher of a class in
the Avenue Methodist mission in Brooklyn,
n. y, who was convicted recently Of assault
ing Lutte Peters, IL years old, ard also his
own daughter, Jennie was sentenced to
states prison for nine and half years.
Senator Hoar, as a subcommittee, report
ed to the committee on privileges and cleo
lions that he had examined the material sub
United by the Ohio legislature on the Payne
case, and had found nothing to show that
Payne's seat was secured by bribery.
1t is positively known that A. B. Thomp-
son, the defaulting cashier of the Provident
savings bank, Of st. Louis, is in Canada.
Several residents and friends of the embeZ-
zleE returned from a trap through the pro
Vlnces say they saw and conversed with HIM.
Indian Commissioner Atkins make a long
and explicit statement before the special
investigating committee Of the senate in
answer and III refutatlOn OF the things
alleged against his administration in con
nectiOn with the Indian leadership at Ana
darko.
A Laporte. Ind, dispatch reports the
drowning in Pine Lake, by the capsizing of
their boat of Frank MallOy and Mrs. Rose
Stern. Young MaliOy was a son of Mrs.
Emma MallOy, the temperance evangelist.
Mrs Stern was daughter of Jacob Vile, of
LapOrte.
A real estate exchange was formally in
augurated at kansrs City, for facilitating
the transaction Of general real estate bust
ness and fostering the manufacturing and
business interests Of the city. Speeches
were made by the officials aud prominent
citizens.
4 special from Scotthaven, Pa, says: The
miners employed at SCOTS iye mines. who
recently returned TO work after signing an
ironclad agreement: struck again because
the company had removed the check weigh
man from the TRIPLES. A protracted struggle
Is anticipated.
The widow of c. r. Mabley, OF Detroit,
who made undue haste to marry a man
Er1faHa will q sHIIan into IN
contest an effort being made to remove her
minor children and their property from her
custody on the ground of her cruelty and
indecent language.
Attachments have been granted by the
supreme court of New York, against the
property of the PrOVident savings
bank of St. Louis Missouri, in three
suits brought by Legrand J.. Benedict,
under claims assigned him by Mary A.
3heplsy, amounting 70 IlO,l4J.
A lad named p. A. SehelI, in older to see
his diving mother, rode on a truck of the
limited express, which made but two stops
between Fort Wayne and Pitts burg go
Inilea. such a desperate adventure resulted
ia his being given a bath breakfast, and
sufficient money to continue his journey TO
Washington
Douglas RoOme, for several years the
trusted book-keeper of Wright, Anderson 4
Co, a dry goods commission nrm Of Boston
aud New York, has disappeared. be sent q
robbed them of about $4,000. His specu- |
latiOns have been going on for two or three
years.
Three of the warrants sworn out for the
arrest OF the PrOVldent Savings Bank d. I
reetors, of ST. Louis, have been served, and 1
Msssrs. Swain, Scott and Miller were arrest !
ed They each furnished bond in the sum
81 81 COO. The other directors are absent I
from the city, but upon their return will be
arrested
A report comes from HutohisOn, Mime
sofa. that several persons died there sudden /
Iy, and the people feared an epidemic. An !
investigation showed that the victims had I
been eating picked beef containing poison F!
The butcher protested that he had never I
sold poisoned meats, and to p owe the as I
sertion gave some TO his children who quick I
died.
The democratic state convention met at |
.fontepeiier, Vermont. S. .. Sheriff, and I
a. 81 Meldon, were nominated for governor /
and lieutenant governor respectively by I
unadimOls vote. Thomas "A. Chubb, was
nominated Tor treasurer; W. II. Rider secre- I
tary of state, and J. A. W. der, for auditor .
an nnamiously.
Judge Gresham confirmed the sale OF the .
Louisville, Evansville d st. Louis railway .
company known as the "air line, which .
vas made June 9th to a committee OF bond
hol&ers who are 70 pay $55O 700 Tor the /
properly The final decree provides that /
the pnpehasers shall pay 500, 600 IN cash .
and the remainder in bonds.
A Louisville, KY, paper gives the partiou-
lars Of . mountain tight at Hazard, Ky, be-
tween the French and Eversole fractions.
The Eversole party outnuEnbered and taken
BY surprise, rstEeated after revolver fight
sqf several minutes resulting IN the killing
Of one Of the French party and the wound
ing of three others In subsequent en-