Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-04-24

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bushels. Corn, 16,796,583 bushels increase
81 1872 bushels.
The cases against j. j. McGarry, judge
advocate OF the Knights of Labor and 9th
erss arrested on a charge of tre65p passing up
/ on the premises OF the Missouri Pacific rail
/ way company, were dismissed, the evidences
against the prisoners not being sufficient to
/ convict.
/ A rumor has been current that Il was very
+. probable that the Santa Fe would take the
I Wabash railway out Of the hands of a re-
eeiver by buying it in. An Investigation
I brought to light the TACT that there is no
. truth IN the rumOr whatever.
The following federal appointments have
been confirmed; Postmasters-i. W. Clark
Lyons, kans.; w. III. j.. Peper5ll, COueordia,
| Kan; j.. Q. Wilson, Clay Center Kan; j.
L. Pierce register Of the land Office at To-
/ peka-
The places of the striking trackmen at
/ LeaVenWOrth, have been filed and freight
/ business is handled without great delay.
/ The strikers claim they have been compelled
to work long hours and overtime without
extra pay.
/ A Kansas City paper publishes a statement
I which says that plans are IN progress for the
| purchase by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
I Ee company OF the Wabash railroad proper
/ ty now in the receivers hands, at the trust
] ees' sale on the 10Th inst.
! Grand Master Workman PoWderly has
/ decided that the members Of the Lasters'
union can work on Knights of Labor label
goods without joining the order. There has
Z ton.
Thaddeus Fairbanks, the scale inventor,
/ who was knighted by the emperor eff Austria,
| died at st. JOhnsbury, Vermont, in his 9Oth
/ year. he aided with a generous hand the
religious and educational interests OF his
state.
/ Brinton II. Warner, young physician at
/ Baltimore, undertook last Christmas to cure
a lapdOg which had been run over by a
/ bicycle. He received a severe bite, the re-
| suit being his DEATH from hydrophObias
/ The Masonic and military funeral of the
latS captain Emmett CraW1oFds OF the United
! States army who was recently killed by the
! Meucans, occurred at Kearney, Neb. An
| immense crowd was IN attendance.
/ Over 5000 indignant Louisville demo-
! Gratis assembled at that place and vigorously
| protested against the appointment OF re-
| publican postmaster, which President
! Cleveland has Just made.
A Connellsville, Pa, dispatch says: The
{ advance demanded by Mcclure q 20. g
/ WOrkmen has been granted and all viii re-
/ turn to work. Every mine in the county is
now paying the increase.
/ Twelve or more citizens of La Porte have
been summoned to Washington by the judi
ciary committee of the senate to testify as
I 70 acts OF offensive part1sansh1p by Edward
Hawkins, nominated to be marshal for
Indiana.
jamestown Oak, was visited by a smaucy
| clone, followed by a heavy electric storm.
/ Several buildings were blown down and a
| brewery was blown down and a house was
/ rocked. No one was injured so far as is
known.
! No jury has yet been secured at Waukegau,
/ Illinois, for the third trial of Michael
] Mooney, charged with the murder of his cell
mate in the penitentiary at Joliet. Seventy
] nine men were examined IN one day.
/ Five hundred school boys at Troy, New
| York, struck for a single daily session of
four hours, threw stones and mud at the 20
I lice, and forced the school board to listen to
a statement of grievances
John Ellis, a stOekman, from Mexico, Mo.
was found dead in a room at the Transit
house, Chicago. He had been asphyEiated,
had blown out the gas
The annual report OF the Atchison, To
| peka Il Santa E5 Railroad company, for
1885, has been issued and gives the following
information: Gross earnings, S43,63O, $50;
net surplus, S5O4, loA
! The New York house of representatives
opted concurrent resolution rendering
/ the sympathy of the people of the state of
/ New York to the Irish people il their strug-
I gle for home rule.
The late Ann j. Morcer. Of Philadelphia,
/ beQueathed an estate in Montgomery cOun-
/ ty, and 500, GOO in cash, to establish a home
for intifm Presbyterian clergymen who do
| not use tobacco.
[ A fire started in the basement Of ". W.
/ Morgan 81 Cos clothing house, at Kansas
| City, and destroyed a considerable portion
/ of the stock. Total loss by fire and water
! placed at $4,000.
/ freight train on the Cairo Short-line
/ road was cut in two at Belleville by strikers,
| and Conductor Mhelan was severely beaten.
| A rlOtsr who was arrested was promptly set
free by the mob.
/ Eight years ago Mr.. David Walk, a New
/ Orleans clergyman purchased i've acres OF
/ ground on Ninth street, in Kansas City, Mo-,
l for 81, 800. Recently he sold the same prop
| erty for $4,000.
! 4 AT Galconda, H., John Randolph a farmer,
shot and killed Deputy Sheriff H. M.
/ Thomas because of quarrel growing out of
/ litigation. The murderer was formerly
/ county treasurer.
/ 1t is said that several hundred mining ez-
perts and capitalists of Michigan are about
/ to start from the upper peninsula for Alaska,
/ on account of representations made by gov
| ernOr SWinefOrd.
Thirty-eight head of Hereford cattle owned
] by Iowa parties, were sold at RIYerVlsW park,
/ Kansas City. The highest price paid was
/ 1925. Two brought $500. The lowest price
was so.
/ The public lands committee has agreed
! to report the bill repeating the presumption
! timber culture and desert land laws and
! that fOrfeiting certain railroad lands in Wis
/ consin.
| Masked men entered the residence of Dan
| iel HOlcOmb, Jackson, Michigan, shot at the
/ hOusekeeper, ransacked private papers, and
! carried OF property Of considerable value.
/ The gold coin and bullion in the treasury
April 10, was Sl53 $40, 65S an increase Of 527s 81
%. 265 since last July. OF 226 $40. 121 silver
dollars 81, DAG, 396 are now in circulation.
The President has sent the following
I nominations to the senate: POstmasters.
Charles. ii. Brown Sherling, Kans; Mars
hal Birdsall, EmpoFias Kansas.
US. consul general at Rome has tele-
/ graphed the secretary of state that there
were sixteen deaths from cholera at Brindlsi
from April 8 to the 10th.
The drivers on the street car lines in Mil
waukse have made a demand for two dollars
per day. The city company Is unwilling TO
I grant the increase.
Hon. W. C. White has been appointed
I United States senator from Tennessee to
succeed h. E. Jackson, appointed to the
bench.
A feature of the fisheries exhibition at
/ Chicago is the Matching of three millions of
white tish eggs taken last fall at Worthwhile,
Michigan.
A Leavenworth, kan, dispatch says Ten
traokmen at the Union depot struck for
shorter hours, claiming that their hours are
Irregular.
John r FeathersOn, a leading physician of
Indianapolis, who suffered greatly from
rheumatism, died from an overdose Of m or
phine.
The president has appointed James Lidg-
erWOOd of New York city,tO be a member of
the board Of Indian commissioner