Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-03-27
PHIIRsBURa. KANSAS SATURDAY.. MARCH p. 1856.

homes. The affection resembles epiz0otic
/ No cases have resulted fatally yet, but much
! Inconvenience with business is caused. The
I malady is ascr1btd TO the variable weather.
The house committee on pensions have
I agreed 70 report a committee bin To
/ pension the surviving soldiers and sailors OF
I the Mexican war. The new measure con
I talns a provision requiring the applicants
] for pension to have served atleast sixty DAYS
Z and prohibiting the drawing of more than
! one pension by any penslOner under the
act.
I Information has been received at the war
] department from General Crook, which shows
[ that the reports recently received from pri-
yate sources describing the meeting between
/ General Crook and Geronimo, on the Dor
der; that Geronimo absolutely refused to
surrender, and afterwards fed TO the noun
lains5 are entirely Imaginative.
Miss Abigail Bates died at scituate, Mass.
aged 50 years. She was one of two heroines
who, during the war of 1872 drove the Brit
ish forces from Boston harbor by concealing
themselves IN bushes and playing vigorously
on a fife and drum, thereby leading the en-
envy 70 believe large force was ready to re
celVe them.
The Aiddecomb furniture factory Of
Grand Rapids Mich, employing 900 TO 600
men, adopted the eight hour system volun-
tarily. Indications are that every rlauufHc-
turing concern IN the city VIII be working
only eight hours a day by May I, without
any formal demand from the knights of
Labor.
The kentucky board Of health has order
ed the slaughter of eleven head of infected
Jersey cattle owned by Mr.. Handy, of Gym
thiana. Arrangements are being made for
the purchase and killing of the remaining
eighty head and the quarantiuiug of the
premises for year.
News has been received at Chattanooga.
Tenn, that the steamer Chattanooga, one of
the finest steamboats, on the river, was run
aground by the pilot and totally wrecked.
be allowed the rudder to get the mastery,
and the boat plOughed into the bank with
full head OF steam on. She is a total wreck.
A memorial from the New jersey board OF
agriculture, praying congress to inquire IN
70 the reasons for the exclusion OF American
pork from Germany and Austria, presented
IN the house of representative by Mr..
Phelps.
One Of the Apache Indians who commit
ted an outrage at Dillon ranch, near Tomb
stone, A. T., was killed. The woman was
en- eieglt, and the iends had cut her open and
placed the unborn babe in her arms.
George W. Boque, of Chicago, has former
ly rendered his resignation as permanent ar
bItratOr of the Southwestern railway. North
western traffic and Central Iowa traffic as
sociahOns.
The strike at the national tube works at
offered was declined. About ., 500 men are
idle. They have all Joined the Knights of
Labor.
The president has sent the following nom
IN atlOns to the senate: POstmasters-AtNe New
Orleans, Samuel ii. Buck; at St. Charles,
Mo-, James O.. Holmes; at Sheldon, No,
John S. Preston.
Otto HeiiWagen, an old German citizen of
Quincy, Illinois, threw himself into the Mis-
slssippi river and was drowned. His brother
was some years ago hanged at Rock Island
for murder.
The two little Taylor children who were
badly burned by a gas explosion at Murrys-
vile, H., have died. The death of their
mother is Immediately expected.
Have given Tongaline a trial in two
cases Of neural gia-one lady aged sixty;
four doses gave permanent relief, the
other lady aged forty; neither have had
any return.
J. d. Donnohue, NJ. D., Butler Mo. /