Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-10-26

! Grounds on the previous afternoon, Mabry
senior branding O'Connor as a swindler
scoundrel, etc., and telling him that he was
! the cause Of the murder of his son, Will
Mabry, who was killed by Constable Lusby
in December last. Mr.. O'Connor declined an
| invitation to fight then and there, saying he
would settle matters at another time. On
the fatal morning O'Connor saw Gen. MabTy
| approaching the bank, and stepping inside
for shotgun he discharged both barrels
and killed his man. Young Mabry came
along, just some one in the bank handed
out another gun, and fired a bullet into
O'Connor's heart, receiving mortal wound
while aVening his father. One bystander
was painfully wounded in the thigh and an
other in the arm. Four other men had their
clothes pierced by buckshot.
Miss IDA GRAVES, aged 10, was shot
dead as she sat at a window in Marietta,
Mich, the other evening. Suspicion falls
on her fathers hired man, named Sullivan,
a lover, whose proposition she had refused
in the afternoon.
ALICE FIELD, pretty girl of fifteen,
was drugged and assaulted by James Car
penter and VIM. McMurry, at Hasling,
Mich, on the Goth, and died within a few
hours.
R. o. SToRRs & Co., manufacturers
of woolens at Dedham, Mass, have failed.
Liabilities, $43O, 600; nominal assets, 1925,
600.
JOHN WINNING, aged IS, was fatally
injured by the accidental discharge of his
gun while hunting near NeWburg, w. Va,
on the 10Th.
A FREIGHT TRAIN on the Charlotte &
Augusta road, was thrown from the track
near Columbia, S. c., early the other morn
ing, distractions having been placed in a
graVel-pit. The engine, tender and five
box cars were wrecked. The engineer was
badly scalded. The fireman was slightly
wounded, and a brakeman named Tom
Mitchell was killed by the tender rolling on
him.
VIM. GIBSON, City Marshall of Hori-
con, Wis, was shot and seriously injured
the other night by drunken man whom he
tried to arrest.
THE explosion of a three-gallon can
of benzine demolished brick house in
frankfort, Pa, the other day. Mrs. Heff
was badly injured. ~
A DESPERATE fight between Mexican
Custom house officers and fifteen snug
glers is said to have occurred on the road
between Lampasas and Milmos Mountains,
Mex. Four of the smugglers were killed
outright and four more captured and taken
prisoners to Monterey. seven escaping.
The goods found in possession of the SNUG
glers consisted of American prints, and
were confscated.
HARRY and Estella Fancher, aged
about 35 and 45 years respectively, claiming
to be brother and sister, have been arrested
in Detroit, Mich, for obtaining money I'M
der false pretenses in Buffalo, n. Y. They
took rooms, advertised for young ladies
wanting employment at $50 per month, Sc
cured an advance of 50 from about $50 vic
Tins and emigrated. They were preparing
to victimize Michigan girls by similar en-
terprise.
LIB. CoRDER, F. A. Meade, J. G.
Cass, and J. F. Reades, cowboys with Maj.
Falls, who is in charge of a lot of cattle be-
longing to Supt. Strong and others, of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, be-
ing on a big spree, attacked the east
bound train at Lakin, Kans., the other
day. The raid was instituted by a dis
charged operator. The cars were perforated
in many places and the windows broken, but
no one was seriously injured. A posse of
ten men captured all the parties, one of
them making a desperate resistance. He
was fired at over twenty times, and his
horse killed. He was finally dislodged from
a dug-Out.