Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-07-17
VOL. VIII. NO. SO.
GENERAL NEWS.

Officer Daniel Ahern Of the Kansas City,
moUnted police force is missing.
The man Allen, who killed Tom Small at
at Carthage, No, was himself killed in
Kansas last week while resisting arrest
The Louisiana legislature adjourned sine
die. During the session about 400 bills Wer
introduced, Of which number 200 becam
laws.
The senate committee ON appropriations
have inserted a paragraph in the sundry
civil bill appropriating S55,5OO for the Bar
tholdi statue.
The business failures during the last seven
Jays reported by telegraph, number for the
United States, 159: for Canada, 20; total
49, which ia above the last few weeks
The employees Of all the blast furnaces In
he Pittsburg district have decided TO de-
nand an advance Of 20 per csut. in wages
The matter viii probably be arbltratsd.
Jack Lambert, a painter by trade, was
executed at Charleston. N O. IN the pres
ence Of several thousand people for the muir
der Of Dick Wilson twenty months ego
The i've boycotters sentenced in New York
City, for black-muillng Thesis, Of concert
e hall fame, have been removed TO the state
prison 10 serve out their respective terms.
The grand jury in New York have found an
indictment for murder in the nrst degree
against Dan DriscolI, leader of the ". II. Y.
.. gang, who shot and killed Bridget Gar
raths two weeks ago. DriscON pleaded not
guilty IN e0urt.
Milton Evans, a farm laborer from south
ern Missouri, died in great agony from
hydrophobia at the police station in Kansas
Git A mad stone was applied and appar-
emily took effect, but its owner said that the
patient had come too late.
The French government has ordered Co.
600 repeating rifles to be distributed among
the troops before August I. This action is
Gently arming her battalions il Alsace-
Lorraine with similar weapons.
A portable engine on the farm OF S. B.
lobe, at Alton Junction, H., blew up. The
result was disastrous. Five men were badly
wounded, three fatally. The threshsr and
three or four horses were killed.
E1-Alderman Waite. of New York City
has been committed to the house Of detsn-
ton as witness against the indicted
doodle" alderman at his own request. de
said his reason was that he had been follow
ed about BY persons who seek Information
from him and bother him.
The striking switchmen al Chicago on the
Lake Shore road have issued a circular, in
which they condemn the imported switch
men. At Armour Il Cos. place at Chicago
the train men put IN eight cars 10 be
loaded. Two gangs Of men refused to load
the cars and were discharged.
a gang of about eight cOnvicts were work
ing in a briekyard a few miles from Pine
Bluff, Ark, when the entire number made
sudden break for liberty. The guards inn
Dediately leveled their rides and fired, kill
ing three Of the ringleaders and MORALLY
WOunding a fourth None escaped.
A limited fast train on the Union Pacific
viii start about July D. The Central Pa
cine is holding OF from the project, but this
viii not materially alter the arrangement,
as the Union Pacific viii put on an addition
al train each way and shorten the distance
between Omaha and Ogden by fourteen
hours.
The village OF Waterford, Bacine county,
Wis. is terribly stricken with typhoid fever.
Fifty people are down with the disease and
four deaths have occurred IN one family of
eleven, and IN another of nine all are in
beds Great excitement exists IN that place
and the state board OF health viii be asked
TO investigate the cause Of the disease.
The city council of Macon, No, recently
passed an ordinance prohibiting the sale of
liquor within the city limits IN less quanti-
ties than one gallon. The prOprletOrs of
the saloons presented to the county court
applications for licenses but they were all
refused, and there ia not an open saloon in
Macon. The same state OF affairs exist in
Linnens, Mo.
At the corouer's inquest held at New
Germ antoWn, n. j., over the death Of the
David WEIGH, one Of the victims of the
Pottersvllle poisoning case important facts
were developed in the evidence showing that
some one had probably placed arsenic in the
ice cream cans Intentionally. One of the
suspected persons, 1t is reported, has left
the community for parts unknown
The voting in the impeachment trial Of
State Auditor Brown was begun by the Iowa
Legislature. Ten ballots were taken. There
were no votes for conviction till the seventh
ballot was reached, and then in the counts
relating to the Bremen company bank trans
actions there were eleven votes for convic-
ton. There are twenty more counts in the
indictment on which the roll must be called.
The entire senate was present.
Judge Van Wagner, Of the criminal
court, has Over-ruled the motion made re-
Gently by Mazwells attorneys for new
trial. AS soon as the prisoner shall have
heen sentenced an appeal viii be taken 70
the supreme court II this shall prove IN
successful the case will be taken 90 ia
United States court on the ground that the
state law which allows the prosecution more
challenges Of jurors than the defense is I'M
constitutional
A young man named Robinson Was shot
and instantly killed by Officer Hesslsr at
Holden, No. Robinson had been arIested
for some slight nisdemeanor and was being
taken to jial by the officer when he broke
away and started on a run down the street
Hessler called npon him 70 halt, at the same
time drawing his revolver and firing. The
bullet passed through RObinsOn's heart,
killing him instantly. The officer was ar
rested.
Representative VIM. II. Cole, of the third
Maryland district, died at his residence in
Washington, in the 49th year OF his age.
He has been a sufferer fIom Bright's disease
Tor several years past, and his demise was
not entirely unexpected. He had not been
able to attend the meetings OF the house, OF
which he was a member, except once OF
twice during the session The deceased
leaves a wife but no children. de was born
ia Baltimore.
st the meeting of the international Bi
Metalist league held at Cincinnati, Ohio,
resolution was unanimously adopted stating
that the compulsory coinage of silver by the
United States under the Bland measure 70
restore silver to its historic position Is.
demonstrated failure, and asking that the
coinage OF silver dollars by the United States
De suspended, waiting concurrent action
among the great commercial nations as the
only means of restoring both gold and silver
money with free coinage
General Miles came to Albuquerque, n.
n, to perfect plans for the conditional sur
cuted a vigorous campaign, Geronimo has
kept out Of the way and 10 now ii the noun
tains Of Old Mexico, 200 miles south of the
Arizona line. Geronimo Is without am
munition or food, and wants to surrender.
In his anxiety to bring the Apache troubles
,cept. The general has chosen number Of
VIII to mountain Apaches TO conduct the
negotiations.
Miguel Chacoor, a Cuban negro, who shot
and killed his mistress, MIRA Maria VII
Gams, on June "A, 1884, paid the penalty OF
his crime at the Tombs prison in New York
CITY. The drop fell and death was
the rope was cot the doctors pronounced life
extinct The body was allowed to hang the