Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-10-12

| brother died in the insane asylum at Utica,
N. 7. he was colonel in the Uaion army.
A TRAIN on the Midland & Northern
Railroad was derailed while approaching
| Goldsboro, n. c., on the 9th. Several
cars rolled down the embankment. One
man is reported killed and several passen-
gers injured.
THE coroner's jury investigating the
disaster in the Harlem River tunnel, New
York, found the New York Central & Hud-
son River Railroad Company guilty of gross
and criminal negligence in failing to provide
sufficient appliances for signaling trains and
a sufficient number of employees. The YER
dict also censures Rawson, the telegraph
operator; Conductor Rood, Engineer Close,
and Brakeman Robbins.
A FIRE on Broadway, New York, on
the 9th, destroyed about $780, 900 worth Of
property. Stern 8 Co., shirts; Adler & Co.,
gloves; NJ. Fisher, dress trimmings, are the
principal sufferers.
LIEUT.. WELSH, commanding the
Pensacola Navy-yard, reports to the Navy De-
partment that an incendiary fire broke out
in Warrington at 2 a. m. on the 9th. Many
dwellings were destroyed, and most of the
business portion of the town is gone. The
yard is safe.
THE mangled body of an unknown
man was found on the railroad track near
Remington, W. Va, the other day. Both
legs were cut off below the knees, and the
| body cut and bruised. It is thought he at
tempted to board a moving train and fell
under the wheels. There is no clue to his
identity, except small Catholic prayer
book bearing the name of J. NJ. Carmichael
on the fy-leaf.
A LAZY fagman caused collision on
the Baltimore s. Ohio, near Pittsburg, Pa,
the other day. Sanders, a brakemen, was
killed; Conductor Ruftner lost a leg, and
another trainman was badly hurt.
SURVEYOR EIvRET, of Starr County,
Texas, was shot and killed in Rio Grande
City, the other night, by the Lips boys.
Nine bullets were lodged in Eivret's body.
The murder was a cold-blooded one, and
lynch law was generally advocated.
The police of Dallas, Texas, have az
rested man supposed to be Charles Saun-
ders, who murdered Officer Printz, of st.
Louis, on June 1, 1879, and who has ever
since evaded arrest. The accused, however,
stoutly asserts his ability to prove that JUS
tice is on the wrong track.
SEVEN bodies were recovered from
the wreck of the Robert E. Lee on the 9th,
some of which have been identified.
AN accident on the stage of the Royal
Opera House in Berlin caused a panic in
which many persons were severely injured.
In the annual Mohammedan cere-
many of the holy carpet, in Cairo, General
Wolseley and the Duke of Connaught ap-
peared in the procession, following a camel
laaded with gifts for the Caliph.
AT a meeting of the American Board
of Foreign Missions in Portland, Me-. the
other day, Rev. DR.. Alden announced a
financial crisis which scarcely admitted of
hope. William E. Doage electrified the-ss,
sembIage by offering to double his sub
scription, an example which was instantly
followed by a dozen gifts of s., 900 each. A
touching appeal by DR.. Webb, of Boston,
caused fifteen hundred men and women to
rise to their feet simultaneously and pledge
twice the sum they had previously offered,
the total amount secured being $50, 200.
MEXICAN robbers at Tacubaya killed
Frederic Hubbi, the tax collector, MORALLY
wounded his wife, and took $1,000 from
the safe.
GEORGE SCovILLE, of Chicago, has
filed in the Cook County Court an affidavit
that his wife is insane, and asks that pro-
ceedings may be instituted to determine the
question. Not having the So to pay the fees
he swore that he and the patient were
paupers,