Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-10-05

A FREsHET at Heathsville, Va, car
ried away dwelling occupied by Mrs. Bush
and five children. All were drowned.
w. e. WHITAKER, of Paschalville,
Pa, has been arrested for poisoning his wife
| and six children. A boarder named Cooper
was also poisoned. Some Of the sufferers are
in critical condition. 1t is alleged Whit
taker placed arsenic in bucket of water
with which tea was made.
Four negroes were killed and several
wounded in fight at political meeting at
Lancaster, s. c., the other day.
JOHN ROPER, the Chicago embezzler,
has been sentenced to twenty-seVen years.
imprisonment.
HENRY BURKE and Martin Carlson,
Island City, n. Y, were fatally burned
while upcovering still.
THE police raided sixty-five gambling
houses in New York City the other day.
THE Ford boys are positive that Mrs.
Frank James, if not her husband, is after
them in New York. They have accordingly
! invoked police protection.
DURING fuss between David Pear
son, hack driver, and Charles Patterson, q
gambler. at Indianapolis, Sept %, the latter
shot the former dead.
Q. j. WELToN was killed and his
wife fatally injured by a train at a crossing
near New Britain, Conn.,, Sept. %.
II. M. VALE and colored servant
named Reed were seriously injured by the
explosion of a gasoline generator, near In
dependence, Mo-, the other day.
j. W. MEDKoFF, employed in paper
mil nc oil Il
dead in the woods the other morning, with
gun at his side.
F. B. RUSSELL, grocer in Memphis,
Tenn, shot negro thief the other night
and took him to a drug store to have the
wound dressed, thoughtlessly leaving his
revolver on the counter while this was being
done. Springing for the weapon, the negro
shot Russell in the breast and abdomen, and
hobbled off in the darkness.
A STEAM CAR carrying passengers be-
tween Black Rock and Victoria, Ont,
plunged into the Niagara River, Sept. %,
through an open draw of the International
bridge. Edward Bonn, engineer, and Ed
ward Hershy, farmer, were killed. Mrs.
j. w. Parmlee, of Victoria, Canada; John
Cornell and Miss Connell, Albany, n. Y. ;
Conductor James Haggert and three others
were seriously bruised.
Mrs. LEWIS RATHBONE was killed
and ex-Assemblyman A. j. Parker seriously
injured by runaway horses near Albany, N.
Y, Sept, %. Mrs. Parker and Mrs. Strong
were slightly bruised.
Two THOUSAND veteran soldiers OF
Iowa and Missouri in camp at Council
Bluffs engaged il sham battle the other
day.
GEORGE AMEs, a grandson of the late
Bishop and nephew Of Senator Booth, be-
came insane on the way from Washington
to Indianapolis. Having locked himself in
his room for two days without food, it was
deemed time to send him to private asy-
lum. He sprang past the landlord of a
hotel at Richmond, Ind. and threw himself
from third-stor5 window, alighting head
first on the stone pavement, and there is lit
tie hope Of his recovery.
Two young women of New Orleans
fought with butcher knives, the other day,
on account of the attentions of man. Me-
lissa Power was killed by thrust in the
breast, while Addie johnson Is in critical
condition.
A REYIvALIsT named johnson has
been conducting a series Of meetings al
Waltham, Massachusetts, in a manner sc
Objectionable that prominent citizens have
petitioned the selectmen to abate the gath
erings as g nuisance,