Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-09-14

Miss CARRIE HoRLoCKER, aged 10,
threw herself In front of train at Kingston
Station, Ohio, the other night, and was
mang1ed. TO death. Her parents did not like
the man she loved, and she thought 1t neces-
sary to die.
ONE man was killed and much prop
erty destroyed by the explosion of ten thou
sand pounds OF powder in magazine near
GuaYmas, Mexico, recently.
AT Las Vegas, n. Mex, the other
day, a fourteen-year- old Mexican named
Vlibarri settled an old score by killing Paul
Lovejoy, former companion.
OFFICER MARION SHEPPARD lost his
life in an attempt to arrest two brothers
named Barborer, horse-thieves, at rail-
road boarding house near Wadena, Iowa,
the other evening. After the shooting the
murderers mounted their horses and es-
capped, but large party went in pursuit,
bent on summary Justice.
SIX boys managed to upset boat,
near Bangor, Me-, the other day. Charles
Bracket and Leroy Lozier were drowned.
THE Children's Home near Marietta,
Ohio, was damaged by fire the other night.
The little ones fed in all directions, but were
looked up and found to be all right.
KATE CoRBIN, aged 81, jumped from
the fourth floor of burning building in
Chicago, Sept. Z, and was fatally injured.
Two strangers entered the Mer-
chants Bank at Winnipeg, Manitoba, on the
9Th, and during the temporary absence of the
teller cured possession of $40, 900 in bills.
No one saw the men near enough to be able
to identify them and the authorities are at
sea. AS the money was not in bills Of any
particular bank there is no way of identi-
flying it.
GEORGE MALLORY, an inmate of the
Aims house at Norwich, Conn.,, was arrest
ed in the act Of placing a heavy stone on
the track OF the New London 6 Northern
Railway the other morning. Several at
tempts had been made to wreck fast train
and watch had been set. When two de-
tectives pounced upon him just as he was
obstructing the track Mallory said: SCI am
poor, foolish, and knew not what I was
doing.'
JOHN HURST, fisherman living neal
Cambridge, Md, went home drunk the
other day and gave his eight-year-old son a
good thrashing. When the wife interceded
for the boy Hurst threatened her, and man
named Moore tried to pscify him, whereup-
the feet and threw him to the floor, the
blood squirting from his eyes and ears.
When picked up the child was dead.
A TRAIN Of eighty-five freight cars on
the Pennsylvania Central became unmanage-
able on a steep grade near Penobscot the
other day. After running several miles al
great speed it demolished bridge near
Ashley. The traipmen escaped with slight
bruises. The engine and many cars were
wrecked.
THREE bold highway robberies have
been committed in Montreal, Quebec, with
in few days. The latest victim was a
Partisan named Hammered, who was as
saulted near a leading hotel and stripped OF
two valuable diamond rings and large
amount in bank notes. A cabman who had
driven the tourist about town was picked up
by the police and identified as one of the
! robbers.
CUPPLEs & Co.'s broom factory in
! st. Louis, Mo-, burned on the 9th. Loss
estimated at 500, 900.
EIGHT bicyclists of Boston, Mass,
rode one hundred miles over country roads
in twelve hours and thirty-fve minutes, de-
! Quoting the time taken for meals.
A BAND of English gypsies travelled
with carts and wagons from Philadelphia tC
New York, and encamped on vacant lot OF
Broadway. They have been engaged by {:
theatrical manager to appear on the stage il
| an encampment scene.