Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-10-12
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

love letters to young lady of his congrega-
ton, has resigned.
NELSON WALLING, wool manufac-
turer at MIIlbury, Mass, has failed, owing
$4,000. The effects of the Avery Manufac-
turing Company of New York have been
seized by the sheriff.
CITIZENS of Bridgewater, Mass, are
very indignant over the marriage of grand
daughter of the late Hon. Artemus Hale to
divorced man from Denver named Henry
A. Blake. Believing that the scheme was
pre-arranged between the parties, a mob of
twenty-five men and boys serenaded them
with fish-horns and tin pans.
A Texas steer kept two wards of
Philadelphia, Pa, in commotion for two
hours the other day, injuring several per-
sons, and was killed with reYolvers after he
had tired himself out.
CHARLES THORN, a reputable citizen
of Union City, Ind, has been arrested on
the charge of having assisted in the robbery
of a stage coach and the killing of a banker
in California on the 1st Of September, 1879.
His real name is said to be Dorsey.
THE American District Telegraph
Company in Chicago discharged lot of
striking messengers the other day and ad-
vertised for others. The discharged boys
gathered about the Office, prepared TO pounce
upon their successors, and were so demon
strative that police patrol had to be called
to dispense them.
JOSEPH BRADLEY, q horse-thief, es-
capped from the custody of the police at
Hagerstown, Nd, the other day, by OPEN
ing fire on them with a revolver. Deputy
RnOOar badIU yxyOundod
THE Kreich and Geritzki families oc-
cupy cottages near Norwood Park, suburb
of Chicago. we'll on Kreich's place sup
piled both houses with drinking water until
recently, when a misunderstanding arose
and the Geritzkis were forbidden to draw
another bucket on pain of death. Julia, a
Polish domestic employed by Geritzki, went
to the well the other morning and was killed
by charge of slugs from rifle in the hands
of Rudolph Kreich, eight years old.
EDWARD LEWIS was drowned in the
Ohio, near Concord, KY, the other night.
A skiff capsized.
GEN. j. K. BAKER, United States
Collector at Mobile, Ala, was assaulted and
severely injured by a negro politician at a
club meeting the other night.
A TRAIN on the Mont Alto road was
derailed by cow, near ChamberSburg, Pa,
the other day. Nine passengers were In
jured. Mrs. Ditlow, Dr.. Hayes, j. g. Hess,
and Conductor Fahnestock may not re-
cover.
CHOLERA is epidemic in Kotta Radia,
Borneo, and in Atchin, Sumatra.
HENRY GEORGE, in speech at Cork,
ireland, urged naturalization of land as
the only solution of the land question not
only in ireland, but in the United States,
where he said he saw the question coming
TO the front.
JEROME STEWART, recently admitted
to the dental department of the University
ofPennsylVaRia, is charged with completely
in the robbery of stationery store in Hill
nois, last July.
MORRIS KNAPP, a livery man, was
thrown from a carriage and fatally Injured,
near Jackson. Mich, Oct. 3.
WHILE fooling with gun the other
day farmer named Morrison, living near
Nevada, Mo-, shot and killed one of his
neighbOrs, named Large.
COLLECTOR BEERS, of New Haven,
Conn, claims to have unearthed frauds
which, undecided, would have cost the
Government $120,000.
WIN. GRAY, an engineer on the Mexi-
can-Texas Railway, was fatally injured near
Galveston, Tex4s. the other day. He was
rounding a curve at reckless speed, and
was crushed under the tender.
The jail at Fonda, N. Y, was fired
by hardened young burglar named CAT
ferty, who secured some matches in tObac-
co, tore hole in the plaster, stuffed in
straw, and ignited it, Twenty-Five prison
ers were safely removed to the courthouse,
but the jail was totally destroyed. The in
cendiary has been placed N irons to await
trial for arson.
THREE HUNDRED cartmen at the GOAL
mines at Welston, Ohio, have struck for an
increase of twenty cents per day, cutting off
one-third Of the supply of Dayton and in
termediate points.
FIRE was discovered in the air-shaft
of the Stanton mine, owned by the Lehigh
and Wilkesbarre Coal Company, near
Wikesbarre, Pa, the other day. Sixty men
friends were soon on the spot, and their
agonizing cries were pitifnl. All were saved,
however. On coming out many Of them
fell ON the ground in an exhausted condi-
ton.
w ILL 1GOOES G1O AAAnO4o IOOLA1eiAASO
who started for San Francisco on bicycle,
has arrived at Cheyenne, Wyo.
EZRA SMITH, aged 80, killed himself
with a revolver, near Upton, Ind, the other
day, leaving wife and three children. He
was tired of a lawsuit.
CHARLES GOSH, a music dealer of
Columbus, Ohio, has been arrested for vio-
Iating the condition of his pardon from the
Penitentiary, which was to abstain from in
toxicating drinks.
THE weapons used by the murderers
of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Under
Secretary Burke, in Phoenix Park, Dublin,
were found concealed in stable belonging
to man who was recently sentenced to
penal servitude for intimidating Mrs Kenny,
widow of the man who was murdered in Sc
vile place because he was suspected Of haV-
ing given information.
A LITTLE son of Patrick Powers, of
st. Joseph, Mo-. fell into cistern the other
day and was drowned.
SAMUEL HALL, who was assaulted and
robbed by John Jackson, near Jackson, Ohio,
a few days ago, died on the 4th. Jackson
has been captured and made full confess
sion. He said he wanted money to give to
woman.
THIRTY incendiary fires have occurred
within the past six months at Youngstown,
Ohio. An investigation resulted in the ar
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