Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-08-14
GENERAL NEWS.
DOMESTIC.

Ex-Governor, JOHN W. Stevenson, Of
Kentucky, died at his home IN CoVlngton,
KY, aged 70.
1t is reported from Watch Hill that Secre
tary Manning has almost wholly recovered
his health.
Thep paper mill of Richmond Brothers, at
Appleton, Wisconsin, valued at S6OOOO was
burned recently.
Six persons were killed and many wounded
by an explosion Of gasoline IL the cellar OF
a merchant at Stuttgart
Fifty companies of southern militia are
encamped at Galveston, TO y the state or
interstate contest for prizes.
A controlling interest in the gas plan, ,s at
Des Moiues has been purchased Jay EhlLa-
delphla company for $50 49,
The president appointed Daniel EMagone,
of Ogdeneburg, n. Y, to be COLLECTOR OF
customs of the port of New YORK.
Competing lines have followed the example
of the Burlington road in r educing the prize
of tickets from Kansas City to Chicago to
The Welch grain elevator, at Marysville,
No, owned by Edward Balm, of henosho,
valued at $4,000, has been destroyed by
IRE.
Charles II. Schwab, the new comptroller
Of Chicago, discovered in a voucher from
the police department clerical error OF
5000.
One man was killed and several others
we're seriously injured by tbs explosion OF a
boiler in the water-WOrks at Columbia South
Carolina.
twenty-five new cases of typhoid fever
and three deaths are reported at Flttsburg,
Pa. There are now over 200 cases, many
serious.
Along the docks in Chicago, workmen are
unloading cargo of 100000 feet Of lum-
Der from Duluth, the largest consignment
ever known.
Ned Fitzgibbons and Jack Moore got
drunk together in New York, got into
fight both fell into the river and Fltzglb-
bOns was drowned.
In the recent election Jackson, Miss,
gave 300 majority against prohibition, but
the county was carried by the prohibition
lists by 500 majority
The National Soldiers home near Nil
waukee is soon TO be enlarged by the cree
ton of barracks designed to accommodate
two hundred veterans.
The directors Of the Metropolitan railway
of Boston have decided to discontinue the
use of horses, and are likely to introduce
the cable or electricity.
Alden l. Brother, advertising agents in
New York and Cincinnati, have filed an as
signment in the latter city 70 secure hablh-
ties, estimated at $4,000
The walk-out of the union printers on the
Sedalia, Mo, B0zOOs has proven a slgnal
failure Their places were all supplied and
the paper was not delayed.
The lockout at the extensive packing
establishment of John =. Squire, IN Cam
bridge, Mass, led 70 serious rioting, the old
employees fighting the police.
An attempt to rob the post office at
Astoria, l.. l., was frustrated by the police,
who attacted the burglars, capturing two,
one of whom was wounded.
Madeline Kessler of Chicago, the heiress
to considerable property, has elOped with
Alfred Rickner, a married man anda gradu-
ate of a Canadian penltentlary.
Experts from Chicago went to ChenOa to
oBen a bank safe which passed through
the recent fire, and found therein $4,000 IN
currency and coin in good condition.
In the Grand Army encamDment at San
Francisco, General Sherman reviewed the
causes of the Mexican war and detailed the
history Of the conquest OF California
John Schaefer, of PeBin Ill, 81 years OF
age, arose in his sleep and walked out Of the
sscond-stOry window, breaking leg and IN
juring himself internally, and will die.
Martin II. Rice, representative Of Indiana
to the Grand Masonic lodge OF England
has received from the Prince of Wales a
jewel of solid gold bearing miniature
crown.
There is trouble among the railway PEG
pie over the sales of excursion tickets to the
Topeka educational reunion and the Mil
waukee sasngerfest, limited all the way 10
November.
Alta meeting of the Central Labor union
of Chicago, il was stated that nearly Sl4,-
had been raised for the defense OF the an
archists, 81, coo of the amount coming from
Portland.
Rev. DR.. O'Reilly, Of Detroit, Michigan
cabled to the treasurer of the Irish parlla-
nentary fund in London $500 to sustain the
N1.v in
of Irish grievances.
Alta Westinghouse on Archer avenue,
Chicago, Samuel A. McFadden, livery
stable keeper, was killed with knife by
John Carey or his brother Michael, both OF
whom we're arrested.
BENJAMIN Toulon, whose home is near
Washburne, Barry county, Mo-, made bad
horse trade, which depressed him so that he
hanged himself with hickory bark. He was
seventy-tWO years old.
A stone mason named Robinson, visiting
at Kansas City, from Sedalla, fell dead on
the street His son aud another man were
engaged in a fight and the father was trying
to separate them when he died.
Elmer Macarthur, an insurance agent at
Charlotte, Mich, was arrested IN chicago
and taken bone to answer the charge Of en-
bezzling 5000 from an eastern insurance
company for which he was agent
The Farmers and Merchants bank, Of
New LlsDOn5 N ts5 mas 1t-7k VIII LtS'-s
liabilities. The mercantile hrm OF X L.
Cobb & Co., of Little Rock, has make an as
signment TO secure debts of $1,000.
The president has withdrawn the nOmina-
ton of H. A. Beecher 70 be collector OF Gus
toms at Port Townsend, Washington Terri
tory, and OF w. A. Selkirk, to be register OF
the land office at Sacramento, Gal.
Information was received from Malvern
Arkansas, that John Williams, who was ar
rested on July 3 by placing obstruction on
the track, was tried, found guilty and sen
fenced to ten years in the penitentlary.
The citizens of Georgia will in October
vote upOn constitutional amendment q
supply artificial limbs to confederate sol
Eiers and make suitable provision for such
men as were permanently injured IN the
field.
Marion Gamble, Montana stage robber
gentenced to Imprisonment for life, escaped
from the penitentiaries at Deer Lodge auC
Ananosa. and is now being taken TO Albany
on a mittimus from Attorney General Gar
land.
A 16-year-old son Of Henry Burns, Of
ShelbyVitle, Ind, was standing on a horse q
get al apple. The limb flying back scared
the horse, and the boy in falling caught his
feet in the harness and was dragged T.
death.
8. G. Smelling, formerly treasurer of the
bleachery at Lowell, Mass, cOnfes0es thai
he owes the institution $4,000, but claims
to have advanced twice that amount &
James j. Diggless of New York, with which
to buy goods,
The western whisky pool is being reor.
ganized at Chicago as the American Pro
ducing and Leasing company with a capita
OF $500 600 distributed among uinety=one