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

| the Grand Jury for failing to find an indict.
ment in a certain case, stating that the mar
was clearly guilty, but that influence haC
been used to secure his release. Mr.
| Thompson was summoned and asked to Civ,
| his authority for the statement, but he re
fused to answer.
GEORGE HORNE, a brakeman, was
killed while coupling cars at Lenox, Iowa
on the 18th. His head was crushed between
the bumpers.
{. L. G. RENFRo, a well-knowh either
| of San Saba County, Texas, charged will
having killed Winfield Seay, near Carthage,
Mo-, seventeen years ago, has just been ar
rested.
FRosTs' large flour mills at Minneso
ia City burned on the 18th. The loss is very
heavy.
j. H. RUHL. general manager fol
Kaufman 81 Runge, Galveston, Texas, took
dose of poison the other day. He had beer
specializing in 'futures," and when called
upon for a statement of the affairs of the
firm, found himself unable to cover heavy
losses. Dissipation and domestic troubles
made life a burden to VIM. McCreery, Of
Wooster, Ohio, and he took strychnine.
Daniel Brewton, conductor on the Phila-
delphia, Wilmington & Baltimore road,
killed himself at Philadelphia on the same
day.
THOMAS SEDLACK, an inoffensive b.
hemian, was killed by VIM. Swab, saloon
keeper, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the other
night. The murder was wholly unpro-
Yoked.
The Grand Lodge of Free and Ac-
cepted Masons in session at Cleveland, Ohio,
visited Garfield's grave the other day.
ANTON WECKEMEYER and the broth
ers Joshua and Samuel Shipley got into a
fight while working on a scaffold at the third
story of a house in Baltimore, Md, the
other day. The scaffold gave way and all
three fell to the pavement. Weckemeyer
died soon after and the others are in a eriti-
cal condition.
AT Hoboken, N. j., on the 18th, Po-
liceman Kerrigan was probably fatally beat
en- with his own club by a boatman named
Finch, whom he had arrested.
WILLIAM DARLINGTON, an attorney
in New York, went with a diamond broker
of his acquaintance to secure on approval
So, 900 worth of jewels at a Broadway house
the other day, and there snatched the treas
ures from his friend. He pawned two
thirds of the stones, and returned to the
store with the remainder. He was then
taken to the Tombs.
THREE men made desperate attempt
to rob the bank at Hagerstown, Nd, the
other day, while all the employees but the
teller had gone to dinner. One of the trio
engaged his attention while a second lodged
under the counter into the vault, but fed on
being discovered.
HARRY JAMES, aged %, employed on
the steamer Coahoma, committed suicide at
Memphis, Tenn, the other day, shooting
himself in the head. Domestic trouble was
the cause.
THE editor and two reporters of a
Red Bank IN. J.) paper have been indicted
by the Monmouth County grand jury for
conspiracy in giving accounts of typhoid
fever epidemic.
A DISPATCH from Halifax, N. S., on
the 18th says: ''After the adjournment of
the Supreme Court at Paddock, G. B., to-
day, Joseph B. Mcdonald, barrister of
Arichat, fatally shot James Crowds, pro-
was arrested"
JACOB link, of Cincinnati, suffered
from rheumatism until death seemed pref
cradle, so he sent bullet through his brain
on the 10Th.
A PRAYER-MEETING in the Baptist
Church at Roxborough, n. c.; the other
evening, was abruptly terminated by the
fall of an immense chandelier. A number
of worshipers were injured in the panic
which ensued.
THOMAS MURPHY, noted burglar in
Jail at Greencastle, Ind, made his escape
the other morning by knocking down the
sheriff and locking him in.
BENJAMIN LEGAULT, of BeauharnOis,
Quebec, has entered action to prevent his
widowed sister, 60 years of age and worth
hundred thousand dollars, from marrying
young man.
A TRAIN on the Albany & Susque-
hanna Road broke through bridge above
Otego, N. Y, the other day, and the
locomotive and fifteen coal cars were precip-
itated into the river. Fireman Stapleton
was killed, and Engineer Ryndes and Brake
man Bursteed seriously injured.
]. H. COREY, proprietor of the Belle
vue Hotel, Long Branch, N. j., who would
not allow two sick gentlemen to remain in
his establishment for few days unless paid
81, 500, has been indicted for robbery, riot,
0AlOFtIOHs dSSdulG anu UdIC0IyS anu HlalH-
tanning nuisance.
A TRAIN of twenty-five empty stock
cars made a test Of the Northern Pacific
iron bridge across the Missouri at Mandan,
Dakota, the other day, amid salutes from
the steamboats, and locomotives in sight. On
the return trip eight heavily loaded cars
were attached, and no vibration was felt.
PHILADELPHIA has been excited by a
series of remarkable explosions of gas
mains under Twentieth street. Things
were badly shaken up, but nobody was
hurt.
The suit of Marie Prescott, the ac-
tress, against the President of the Ameri-
can News Company, New York, resulted in
a verdict of $12, 800 for plaintifr.
SMALLPOX is raging at Paterson, N.
j., in spite of wholesale vaccination. It is
charged that the virus obtained is useless.
AT Eastman, Ga, Oct. 20, Joe King,
Bob Donaldson, Simon O'Quinn, Reddick
Powell, and Ella Moore, all colored, were
hanged for participating in the riot at
camp meeting in August last which ended
in the murder of James Harvard, a young
white man.
A REMARKABLE tragedy was enacted
in Knoxville, Tenn, on the 10Th, three
prominent citizens engaging in a deadly
on public thOroughfare. Thomas
O'Connor, lessee OF the State Penitentiary,
an extensive dealer in saddlery and harness,
and Prasidenf of the Mechanical National