Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-09-21

Prisoner Taylor was slightly wounded in the
| arm and Carter In the legs. The three res
4 cuers were not hurt. Taylor, with the
others, jumped on the engine and COM
PEELED the engineer to put on steam and
forced him to run twenty miles, to Lenas,
through three towns, without stopping. Al
Lenas the four men jumped from the engine
and secured horses, which were waiting fol
thems and all escaped. At least five hun
| dred men left different points in East Ten
nessee in search Of the murderers.
THE Missouri Car and Foundry Com
pany, st. Louis, Mo-, lost about $3.50 200 by
fire, on the 18th. eHg tl %
Two murderers paid the death pen
atty In Illinois, Sept. 16-James Tracey, al
Chicago and Samuel Redden, at Metropolis.
IT is reported atItheyoffce of thesCen-
trail Railroad. in New Jersey, that Dwight
S. EathrOp; Assistant Cashier. has alb
seconded after, appropriating $4,000 of the
company's money. He was appointed by
the late Judge Lathrop, his uncle, who was
then receiver. 7Ao ~ -1r.47
SEVEN thieves escaped from jail at
Louisville, KY, on the 18th. They captured
the guard and took his keys. 5d laa
THE Mitchell & Rowland Lumber
Company, Toledo, Ohio, lost $3O0, 900 by fire
on the 18th. $50 @
AT Fort Davis, Texas, on the 18th,
Deputy United States Marshal Studemeyer
was shot and killed by ranger on whom he
went to serve writ.
Four boys ran away from their homes
in Chicago, the other day, and boarded a
| freight train on the Fort Wayne road, near
Plymouth, Ind. The train was wrecked,
and Robert Holmes, aged 18, was thrown
Inder the cars and instantly killed. William
Van Berger had one leg broken. The other
two boys got of with slight bruises:
NEAR Acworth, Cobb County, Ca,
the other day. Bob Edwards, a drunken
negro, assaulted his son-in-law with a ra-
zor, when the young man fired the contents
of both barrels of n shotgun into the old
mans stomach, killing him instantly. The
court of inquest said the son-in-laW acted in
self-defense, and he was discharged. =.
AHURRIcANE destroyed ten houses
and five. barns in Winsted, Conn.,, on the
18th. Some twenty persons were hurt.
Destructive storms swept over several coun-
ties in New York on the same day.
Four men were seriously injured on
an express train near Mount Carbon, Pa. ;,
the other day. A piece of timber projecting
from passing freight penetrated the car in
which they were seated. William Snyder,
of Philadelphia, can not recover.
VIM. MEIGs, an aged printer, was run
down by train near Atlanta, Ga, on the
14th, and fatally injured. g
r. BERNHkRDT and M. McGewan
were killed by the explosion of boiler near
Norwalk, Ohio, the other day.
- A SERIOUS break occurred In the Erie
Canal, near Camilfus, N. Y, on the 10TH
One hundred feet of the Bernie bank was
carried away. Two boats were swept into
the break.
CHARLES DALE, engineer, and Charles
Millen, brakeman, were seriously injured by
colliding trains on the Lackawanna &
Bloomsbury Railroad, near Wilkesbarre,
Pa. on the 14th.
WHILE VIM. Spencer and Miss Sue
Allen, of Leavenworth, Kans., were driving
home from the Fort, the other evening, the
horse ran away and plunged from a railway
bridge into a raVine. Miss Allen sustained
injuries which proved fatal soon after, and
Mr.. Spencer received two serious wounds
in the head.
ABRAM MCGLAssoN, farmer near
WilliamstowR, KY, fell dead on the 18th,
after drinking some whisky he had found in
bottle on his farm. The liquor had been
poisoned.