Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-08-28
VOL. VIII. NO. 43.
GENERAL NEWS.
EoMESTIC.

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render.
A fire at Ludington, Michigan, destroyed
Wards shiaRle-miu and stock, valued at
$4,000.
It is rumored IN Washington that Seere-
tary Manning viii soon be appointed minis
ter 10 Austria.
The Irish national convention which
closed Its session, at Chicago, last week,
was great success
General Sheridan reviewed large proce=-
sion of veteran soldiers at Creston, n, end
made brief speech.
At the democratic convention of the Eighth
Illinois congressional district, Gen. Joseph
wheeler was rencInlnated-
Nearly forty steamboats, are tied up at
various points along the upper Mississippi,
IN account OF the low stage of water.
Andrew Z. Warner. a manufacture of
silverWare at Baltimore, made an assign
ment recently to secure debts of $4,000.
The republican convention for the Fifth
congressional district Of Minnesota nOmi-
mated John A. Lovely on the 10th ballot.
The friends of Senator Malone are urg-
ing him to become ths republican candi-
trict.
The Grand Trunk railroad recently
brought a freight train Of nineteen cars from
Montreal to Chicago, S37 miles, in a hours
and p minutes
Two bombs. one gas pipe and one round,
we're discovered on the Lake Shore tracks
Ia Chicago at the stock yards ''Y'' and taken
10 police headquarters.
An incident of the Ohio republican state
convention, held at Columbus, was the eele-
bratiOn OF the tkirtieth anniversary OF the
establishment of the party.
1t is rumored that Judge Rarrett, Of New
York, who recently tried the New York boy
Sottsrs, has been warned to leave there, or
expect dynamite explosion.
John Sharp, a director of the Union Ia
cihc road, has been deposed from bisnopric
n the Mormon church for promising to
obey the law against polygamy.
Fred Peppenhiscn, who committed suicide
at Louisvilies KY, was Well-educated and
handsome young man, the son of a wealthy
tobacco manufacturer in New York.
Such county fairs in Illinois as permitted
no gam bling on their grounds last year are
now receiving 800 each from the apprOpri-
alton made by the last legislature.
At soldiers' reunion at Fort Wayne, Ind,
attended by thirty thousand persons, a sham
battle with artillery resulted IN the loss of
a hand by one participant and thumb by
another.
The controversy between the city author
tiles and the Metropolitan Street Railway
company in Kansas City, over a car license
tax has been settled by the payment OF the
disputed tax.
Chauucey f. Black, whom the democrats
OF R6nnsylVauIa have nominated Tor COVER
nor, is a son OF the late Jere Black, and was
q student al Hiram college under General
Garfield.
John Fitzgerald, president Of the National
Irish league, on reaching has home at Lin
coin, Neb., was saluted by all the steam
whistles and bells IN the city and eheered
By 1000 citizens
The police of New York are moving to Sc
cure the Indictment of some lOud-mouthed
socialists who recently held a meeting to
sympathize with the condemned Chicago
bOmb-thrOwers.
The Pacific Mail Steamship company has
at last concluded to carry mails for the sea
and inland pOstage-a matter of $4,000 or
$4,000 per annum-after eIhausting It's
appeals 70 congress.
On rumors that the Mexicans had fortified
and garris9ned the town of Pau, on the Rio
Grande, Colonel Bernard detailed twenty
men from Fort Mcintosh, to remain at Pal
afoI, on tbs American side.
The Ohio democracy nominated John Nc
Bride, Of Stark county for secretary Of state,
and M. ID. FOllett for judge of the supreme
court The platform declares for a we'll
regulated license system.
Mayor May, of Agusta, Ne, mas tele-
graphed Grand Master Workman PoWderly
20 visit Augusta and settle the strike. The
mill hands were paid OF and there are no
indications OF settlement.
The Indian mounds in the vicinity Of Oak
land, Iii, are being opened. In one Of them
there was found a stone wall ten feet square,
half dozen skeletons, fifty pounds of ore,
and copper vessels, axes and tomahawks.
So rapidly is the Chicago, and Northwest
ern company pushing it's extension IL
Wyoming that by the end of this week the
and rails will be laid to the new city
Of Douglas, seven miles from Fort Fetter-
man.
James O'Neil followed his wife and her
mother from Ireland to Cambridge, Mass,
to obtain revenge for the taking of 300 Of
his mouey. In cold blood he nearly killed
both of them with pocket knife, for which
ne expresses no regret.
A dispatch from Racine, Wis, announces
a compromise IN the protracted litigation
Q between j. ]. Chase and the Fish Brothers,
involving 100000. 1t is thought the heav-
lest creditors will bid in the carriage works
and resume business.
The central traffic association has ordered
the abrogatiOn of the switching charges of
s. pen car on grain. This Will lower the tax
on the storage of grain in elevators for short
periods aud stimulate the movement of
grain through Chicago.
In the vicinity of Tolono, Illinois. Mrs.
Jack Montcalm killed large panther which
was about to spring upon her children,
asleep beneath a tree. She is making her
way with a team from Indian Territory to
Cleveland. having sloped ten years ago.
With regard to the ruuored resignation of
Df Minister Jackson, minister to Mexico, It
San be stated apOn authority that his pur-
pose 10 resign Entedatcs the present con-
trOVersy with Mexico, but he is expected to
tlsd.
The examination conducted at Atchison,
By Prof. Fitzpatrick, County Superiltend-
emit Meade and Hon. r. III. Williams, a
candidate for admission to West point, re-
Eultad in the choice of Harry A. Smith, of
Atchisou, Who stood 2555 points ahead of
any other candidate.
General Herman Ldeb mas bean appointed
suDerintendent Of second-class mail matter
in the Chicago postofhce, at salary of 81
600 per annum- The property of Colonel
Bolton has been attached by the district at
tornsy, 10 cover detalcat1on Of $4,000.
Two erocers on State street, Chicago,
were held in 81, 900 each for selling fraudu-
lent compound as butter. The testimony
was given BY an inspector who represents
producers Of the genuine article and prose
cutions are under the law Of LllinO e.
Ebert p. Cook, formerly a banker at Ha-
vana, N Y, became a defaulter for a large
been learned that he and his family were
gnHrdered last May, by man named Glucks
from Minneapolis, who Immediately com
Enitted suicide.
The postofhce department has issued mis-
celIaneous advertisements inviting pro
Posals3 foE carrying the mails in the states o
Nary land virginia North Carolina South
'Arolina, Indiana illinois, Colorado, Ore
eon and California aud 10 the terrific
ries Of Wypming, Utah, Idaho and Washing