Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-09-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

demeanOr, attempting to pass forged notes,
malpractice, and bad character generally.
He once served three years in State Prison.
Judge Jennison gave him three weeks to
answer the charges.
The triennial meeting of the Supreme
Court for the Northern Masonic Jurisdic-
ton Of the United States convened at Bos-
ton on the 10Th, H. L. Palmer, of Milwau-
kee, Sovereign Grand Master, delivering
the annual address.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge. I. o. 0.
F., at Baltimore, Md, elected the following
officers for the ensuing two years: Erie j.
Leach, of Iowa, Grand Sire; Henry f. Carr,
of Maryland, Deputy Grand Sire; Theodore
o. Ross, of New Jersey, Grand Secretary;
Joshua Warrant, of Maryland, Grand Treas
urer.
Mrs. j. E. GooDRICH, of Union City,
Pa, was knocked down by train, while
trying to cross the track the other day, and
lived but few hours.
WALTER DUNN and r. q. Wilson, of
Sebewa, Mich, exchanged shots the other
day. Wilson was wounded in three places,
and will not live long. Dunn escaped with
a shattered hand.
EIGHT HUNDRED pounds of powder
in mill at Santa Cruz. CAL, exploded on
the 10Th. r. Tufts lost his life and all the
windows round about were broken.
THE Merchants and Pacific hotels
Red Cliff, Colo, and thirteen other build
ings burned the other night.
A COAL THAIN on the North and West
Branch Railway went through trestle near
Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the Goth. Half dozen
miners were seriously hurt.
SARAH ELsToNE, of Woodstock, On
tario, kindled fire the other day and stood
over it until she was fatally burned.
THE President has appointed James
G. Reed, H. B. Fry and Henry Blackstone
to examine the Northern Pacific Railroad.
THERE was grand smash on the
New Haven & Northampton Railway, near
Greenfield, Mass, on the 18TH Conductor
Phillips, Brakeman Curtis and Fireman Egg
gestein were killed; Conductor E. j. Hes.
ley, Engineer Geo. Washburn and Engineer
Hamilton were seriously injured. Two To-
comotiYes and a lot of freight cars were de-
mOlished.
A CAUCUS of the Republicans of the
Oregon Legislature nominated John II.
Mitchell for United States Senator. The
Democrats have selected Judge P. P. Prime.
THE Connecticut Republicans have
placed Gen. w. H. Bulkley at the head of
their ticket.
THE Nebraska Republicans have
nominated j. w. Dawes for Governor.
A BRAKEMAN named Cooper was
placed under $500 bonds by Commissioner
Mccormick at Dallas. Texas, the other day,
charged with violating the civil rights bill
in refusing to allow a co!ored woman to ride
in ladies' car.
THE boiler of the ferry steamer Rich
ellen exploded at Lachine, Ontario, Sept.
81, and killed Pierre Duquette, pilot; Jas.
Richardson and Perselliut Amyot, of Cha
teauguay, farmers. Duquette, son Of the
pilot, is supposed to have been blown over
board. Several passengers were severely
scalded.
GEORGE TERHUNE, formerly conduc
tor, and VIM. Russell, train dispatcher, on
the Central Railroad of Iowa, have been i'm
prisoned at Keokuk on a charge Of counter
feiting. The dies and lot of spurious coin
were found in Terhune's possession. 1t is
thought that others are implicated.
Mrs. JONAS NoRDsTRUM, of Sioux
Falls, OAK, was fatally gored by COW the
other day.
THE Boston Warehouse, on Lafayette
street, New Orleans, with some stores in the
rear, burned on the Goth. Loss, 100000.
ANDREW KEvIT and Henry Snyder
were killed by coIliding freight trains near
Atwater, Mimi, the other afternoon.
MRS. SARAH STORY, in Jail at Pater-
son, n. j., on a charge of poisoning Mrs.
Elizabeth Feest, is supposed to have made
away with another woman and her hus-
band.
Mrs. DAVID WoRDEN, of Fort Wayne,
Ind, after having been cruelty beaten by
her husband, set fire to her house and
threw herself into the flames. She was res
cued by a policeman, but was severely
burned.
MINNESOTA has had sharp frost.
D. H. RANKIN and John KeYser, Ia
boTers, found bottle of corrosive subli-
mate solution in Omaha, Nebr., the other
afternoon. The bottle was labeled FtPoi-
son." but the men thought it contained al
cohoI, and each took hearty drink. In 4
few moments they found out their blunder
and applied for aid, which was promptly
rendered by their fellow workmen. Rankin
died, after few hours of terrible agony,
and Keyser may possibly recover.
IRA KIMBERLY, young farm hand,
was killed by lightning, near Defiance, Ohio,
the other merning.
G. W. HOWELL, a wen-known far
mer, was fatally injured by runaway horse,
near Wapakoneta, Ohio, on the 10th.
HENRY WIENER, a grocer at Caron-
delet, Mo-, made up his mind to die the
other day. He stabbed himself thirty times
just below the heart, severed the main artery
in each arm, made twelve slashes behind the
right ear, cut cash OF an inch on the crown
of his head, and wounded himself in the
right wrist. When the physicians had suffi-
GENTLY revived him, he dr. ank the contents
of a coal-oil lamp.
LIGHTNING killed five persons in a
church at ConcOrdia, Mexico, the other day,
and many others were seriously injured in
the scramble which ensued.
THE corpse of an unknown lad has
been having variety of adventures in Penn
syIvania. The boy was killed by train at
JOhnstown, and the body was identified
by a citizen of Bristol as that Of his son, and
tenderly laid to rest, an event soon followed
by the return of the wanderer from Bristol.
Reading of the occurrence, an anxious
father in Sharon, named Seaburn, had the
remains disinterred, became thoroughly
satisfied that they were those Of his son, and
buried them at Sharon August %. The re-
appearance OF Eddie Seaburn, the other day,
caused the widest excitement among those