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

MICHAEL Foss, aged so, who had
been drinking too much, fell into the canal
at Akron, Ohio, on the 21st, and was
drowned.
| PATRICK DIVER, a Saloon-keeper in
New York City, was fatally shot by Charles
/ Warren, an acrobat, the other night. Dwyer
defeated Warren in game of pool for $50.
Warren could not pay, and fight followed.
G. G. ROBERTS, of Boston, Mass, who
was arrested some time ago on suspicion Of
having caused the death of Elisha Curtis,
and was honorably discharged when it ap-
peared that Curtis died of heart diserse, has
| brought suit against Assistant Medical EX-
aminer George Stedman for $40, 900 DANA
ges, for failing to make an autopsy and file
a report in time.
CHARLES MATTHEWS, editor of the
! Hornet, was shot four times and killed in
| an ARRAY with Col. S. w. Fordyce, Vice
President of the st. Louis Sc Texas Narrow
| Gauge Railroad, and Col. Rugg, one OF the
! proprietors of the Arlington Hotel, at Hot
| Springs, Ark, On the 22d. 1t is not known
whether Fordyce or Rugg fired the fatal
shot. Rugg was wounded.
THE body of Augustus Green, we'll
known and wealthy Englishman, was found
| in the woods near his late residence, in
| Chesterfield County, Va, the other day. A
starving dog was guarding the remains.
Green is supposed to have wandered off in
fit of delirium.
H. BRADY, assistant Chief Engineer
of the San Francisco Fire Department, was
thrown from a wagon and fatally injured
while speeding to fire the other afternoon.
Mrs. PERKINS, wife of Baptist min
lister near La Cygne, Kans., died the other
day from the development and accumula-
ton OF innumerable parasites inside the
| head at the base of the nose.
M. DAVIS, postmaster at Athens, Ca,
and Randall Brown. another negro, got in
to political discussion the other night.
Davis settled the point by fatally stabbing
Brown in the abdomen.
GUS KNIGHT, a negro, assaulted the
wife of Harmon Mcdaniel, a respected
farmer of Jefferson County, Ga, the other
day. He was arrested soon after, confessed,
and was Fiddled with bullets by a party Of
| disguised men.
! Mrs. DAVID HENNEssY, wife of a
prosperous farmer near Troy, N. Y, took a
dose of Paris green during fit of Temporal
ry insanity, on the 2Ist, and died in about
five hours. She was fifty years Of age, and
the mother of eight children.
The members of the mining stock
firm of James G. Sands s. Co., of New York,
disappeared some days ago. Sands was
secretary of several mining companies, and
is said to have gone to Mexico. Two ladies
have lost $21O,0 each by the collapse, and
several prominent lawyers are out about
| $40, 600 each.
A DAUGHTER of William Smith
| O'Brien visited Castle Garden, New York,
the other day, in search of information as to
the treatment of immigrants on their arrI-
val. She intends to establish q boarding
house for female emigrants in Liverpool.
SEVERAL passengers were killed and
many seriously Injured by a collision of
trains in the tunnel at Eighty sixth street,
New York, on the 22d. Following are the
names of the dead so far as known: Sher-
man AdaMson, Of Mt. Vernon; Frederick
Stein, Of New Rochelle; Miss j. Smith,
school teacher, OF New York City; Eugene
| Aubert, school teacher, of Mt. Vernon. It
is claimed that the accident was the result
of gross Encouragement.
MRS. M. w. FoLGER, aged 80, fell or
jumped off a Wabash train between Bement
and Monticello, Ill.,, the other morning, and
was fatally injured. She was OH her way
from Hennepin to Little Rock, Ark. The
body was inferred in the Piatt County Poor
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