Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-11-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


deceased were killed by State militia on the
Granite State, and that said firing was moi
done in the line of duty. The jury holds
Major Allen, commander Of the troops, Gull
pable for ordering and permitting the fire.
BRAVE BEAR, the Sioux Chief who
killed Joseph johnson, near Fort SulIy, in
1873, was hanged at YanktOn, Dakota, on
the 10Th. He desired that the newspapers
should say to the Indians that HE death was
all rights that they should not attempt to
take any revenge. He particularly requested
his relatives not to kill any horses. He also
asked that the President be informed that
he died happy.
SERGEANT E. BERTz, of the Fourth
Cavalry, was killed in disreputable place
at LeavenwOrth the other night. He was
hunting deserters, using his wife as a decoy,
but becoming jealous of her attentions to
other men there was quarrel. The woman
summoned a policeman, and Just as one ar
rived the couple went into an adjoining
room and the fatal shot was fired. The po-
lice think it case Of suicide.
JOSEPH HUGHES and Marcus Davis
won some money from man named Shanks,
in a saloon at st. Joseph, Mo-, the other
night. Shanks accused the lucky ones of
forming a combination against him, and
there was quarrel; but the difficulty was
adjusted at the bar and the three left the
place apparently on good terms. A few
minutes afterward four shots were heard,
and Hughes and Davis were found on the
sidewalk, each with a mortal wound in the
head. Shanks disappeared.
JOHN BURGESS, Canadian Inspector
OF steamboat boilers, has been placed on
trial at Montreal for causing the death of
VIM. Richardson, passenger on the steam
er Richelieu at the time of the recent ex-
plosiOn. The evidence shows that the ex-
plosion was the result of the worn out state
Of the water-jacket.
A WORK TRAIN on the Chicago & Al
ton road was wrecked by collision with
hand-car, near Grain Valley, NO., on the
18th. Henry Dose, John Hamilton, and
Barney Conk were killed; Fred. Graham
and Philip Leon were MORALLY wounded,
and twelve others were slightly hurt. Con-
duetOr Humelett, Engineer Smart, Of the
construction train, and one or two other
Employees, testified at the inquest that the
train was running fifteen miles an hour, had
passed through one cut and was just enter
ing another when a brakeman on the train
then was few rods ahead of the train and
the men were trying to lift it off the track.
The engine was reversed and brakes sp-
piled, bat too late to avert the catastrophe.
Brakemen testified that they were on the
lookout for the hand car, and that the whis-
tie was blown three times shortly before the
accident. It was quite dusk when the colli-
sion occurred. The Coroner's jury returned
a verdict finding that the accident was I'M
aVoidable.
DR.. G. w. WERNER, formerly of Bal
timore. Md. was found unconscious in his
room at Denver, Colo, the other morning.
An Argand gas-burner on the table was
turned on but not lighted. All efforts to
revive the asphyxiated physician proved fu-
tile and he died during the AFTERNOON. It
was probably the result of an accident
A. F. FENDER, resident of Park
Place, on the line of the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton & Dayton Railroad, was found dead near
the freight depot in that place on the 10Th.
His body had been thrown down bank
twenty feet high. The wounds are of such
a nature rs to indicate murder.
A WATER-TOWER designed for the use
of the New York fire department tumbled
down while being tested on the 18th. An
man was killed; G. H. Sayre, of
Philadelphia, was fatally injured, and boy
was badly crushed.
JASPER SPAULDING, a farmer living
near Raub, Ind, murdered his wife and
little son the other morning, cutting their
throats after he had knocked them sense
less, and then severed his own windpipe.
He had the reputation OF thrifty, quiet,
kind-hearted man, and until recently had
exhibited no signs Of mental arrangement.
A few days ago he sold his farm and had
deposited the money in bank.
w. A. ALLEN, a farmer living near
Elkhart, Ind, discovered nine valuable
overcoats secreted in his barn the other day.
He secured an officer and another man and
laid in wait for the thieves, who came at
night, to the number of nine. The officer
called on them to surrender, and in endeav-
Oring to escape one was shot through the
neck, though not fatally. Three got away.
The election returns were stolen from
the Court house at Anderson, Grimes
County, Texas, the other night
FIVE persons were badly injured by
the fall of an elevator in Louisville, KY,
the other day. Captain W. G. Hite and Cap
tain John Howard are in critical condi-
5ion.
The compositors of Vienna, Austria,
demand an increase OF 80 per cent. in wages,
and eighteen leading establishments have
closed their doors.
THURLow WEED, of New York, has
passed his s5th birthday. He is too feeble
10 go outside his residence, and complains
that he can not eat
LOUIS MEYER was fatally injured and
four other workmen were badly scalded by
4 boiler explosion in ReuhI 6 Co.'s picture
frame factory, Cincinnati, Ohio, on the
18th.
A NUMBER of discharged employees
Of the Columbus, Hooking Valley & Toledo
Railroad have been arrested at StraitsVille
for undertaking to prevent another set of
men from taking their places.
SEVERE storms and numerous wrecks
are reported on the coast of Great Britain.
Five pilots were drowned while trying to
reach vessel in distress in the Firth of
Forth.
A eLAzIER at Washington, in whose
putty.box lodged one of the bullets fired at
President Garfield by Guiteau, has psti.
toned the board of audit to give him q pO-
sition as Waterman.
An international exhibition. Of bot
tiers, with machinery and appliances, called