Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-11-16
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


is wanted in Chicago for forgery, surren-
| dered himself at the Central police-station
in Cincinnati, the other day. His father is
leading wholesale grocer at Minneapolis,
MINI.
THE late Jerome G. Kidder, of Bos-
ton, Mass, left large requests to a dozen
charities, including sum to be expended in
sending destitute strangers to their homes.
G. A. KELLY, a Chicago fireman, was
killed by John Flaherty, a special police
man, during a disturbance at the polls. A
negro named Israel Croft drew revolver
upon Policeman CA. Porter at a polling
place IN Baltimore, Nd, and was shot dead
before he could use it.
HENRY HEIsEL, a saloon-keeper at
West Chester, Ohio, was killed and his
wife fatally injured by two burglars the
other morning. Messrs. Kelly and Costello,
who answer the description of the MUIR
| derers, have been arrested in Cincinnati.
DIVERS wire-mill, Pittsburgh, Pa,
burned on the 7th. The loss was 800, 600,
and it is fully covered by insurance. Eight
hundred men are thrown out of employ
ment. The fire originated through work.
man placing lighted lamp near barrel of
| oil, thereby causing an explosion.
The body of dead stowaway was
| found in a coal bunker of the steamer Aus
tralia on her arrival at New York, from
Hamburg.
f. A. DOUBLEDAY and an unknown
man were burned to death in New York
| City on the Sth. A spark from an electric
wire caused the explosion of quantity of
varnish.
SIX tons of powder in the granting
mill at Windsor, Quebec, exploded with
| terrific effect the other day. Ten acres of
ground were covered with debris. Only
one man, John Randall, was in the mill at
! the time. He was blown to pieces. The
! other workmen were at dinner.
THREE women, Mrs. Wright, Clara
| Warren and Mrs. Davidson, have been ar
rested in Pittsburgh, Pa, on suspicion of
having murdered r. T. Simpson, whose
body was found lying in pool of blood on
| Liberty street, the face and hands CIT, and
the head badly bruised.
THREE enthusiasts were badly injured
by the explosion of an anvil at Byron, N.
Y. the other day. They were saluting
election returns.
THOMAS j. NAVIN, ex-Mayor and alb
sconding bond forger of Adrian, Mich, has
been captured in Texas. The $4,000 re-
ward offered for him expired by Limitation
on the 9th.
THE body of boy named Willie Earl,
with bullet in the brain, was found in a
dove cote in Detroit, Mich, on the 9th.
MARCUS GIBBS, first mate, and VIII
liam j. Fleming, steward of the steamer
John w. Hanna, had an alteration, at New
Orleans, the other day, about the quality OF
| 70 ha r anl
minated in the drawing of pistols, when
Fleming shot Gibbs through the left breast,
killing him almost instantly. The boat was
landed and the body delivered to the Cor
oner, while the slayer was taken in charge
by the police.
AN explosion of gas in an old coal
mine created great CONSERVATION near Cir
ardville, Pa, the other afternoon. The de-
tonation was heard at a distance of three
miles. Earth and rock was thrown hun
dreds of feet in the air and scattered to a
great distance. Windows and doors were
blown in, houses shattered and people
thrown to the ground, but nobody seriously
injured, although many miners were work
ing in adjacent pits.
A FEMALE inmate of the County
Almshouse at Erie, Pa, was burned tC
death the other day.
AS a result of investigation by Attor.
ney- General Brewster into the leakages in
the Department of Justice, Chief Clerk Null
likin and Pardon Clerk Gray have rendered
their designations.
Mrs. SCOVILLE is negotiating with
the Young Mems Christian Association a
London, Ontario, to deliver lecture.
THE Duke of Newcastle has left Lon
don for New York, with the intention o.
making an extended tour of the United
States.
In the Supreme Court at Boston
Mass, in hearing as to the alimony to be
paid his divorced wife by Charles r
Thorne, Jr., one theatrical manager testi
fed that the actor could earn SIS, 700 in
season of forty weeks; another placed hi
value at 1920 per week, while a third esti
mated his receipts at $1,000 to $1,000 PEI
annum.
Bob INGERsoLL thinks the politica
cyclone was caused by extravaganza appro
priations and refusal to reduce taxation
especially ON tobacco. He predicts tina
General Sherman will be the next Presi
dent.
PRINCE VICTOR, a son of jerome
Napoleon, has commenced a years serY1c
in an artillery school in France.
THE American Consul at Dunkirk
France, writes that the imports of corn hav
decreased because OF heated cargoes sen
down the Mississippi in barges to New Or
cans.
FATHER MCGwINN, parish priest a
Belhck, ireland, was attacked on the 9th b
an unknown assassin and fatally shot. ii
was extremely popular and much believe
/ throughout Armagh.
j. B. O'DoNOHUE, Catholic prizes
at Morrow, O., died on the 10th from the ef
fects of blow on the head with hammer
inflicted by Timothy Green, who has bee
arrested.
THE people. of New York State hav
adopted the free-canal amendment, the Vot
,, In the metropolis against it being but $50.
THE public schools at Birdsboro, Pa
! are closed on account of diphtheria an
, scarlet fever.
MILT and Sam Hodge, the negroe
/ who killed James Mcfarland in septembe
{ last, near Knoxville, Tenn. were execute
on the 10th. In asFavine half a mile frol
: the Courthouse two posts were set up,wit
q crossbeam, to which ropes were attached
b The men were put in a wagon, driven IN
3 der the beam, the ropes were adjusted abog
+. their necks, the wagon was driven away. IAN