Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-09-07
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ZERAs WEBsTER, q resident ofBrazil,
Ind. upsu ecessful il grain speculation,
ended his trouble. Sept. 1, by plunge in
the lake. The body was recovered and taken
to the morgue. ss.,fr,s
DICK REvELL, q eounterfeiter, drew q
revolver and tried TO escape from Deputy
Marshal Yermilye a,near Monroe. Iowa Aug.
81. The officer used his pistol with fatal
effect. ~ D., -
The agent OF the American News
Company at Omaha, Nehr.. has caused the
arrest Of q book eanvasser named Charles
W. Fill, who has been falsely representing
himself as an agent Of the company. Davis
bought sample e5piessof standard publica-
lions at the news room, and exhibiting them
would take orders for duplicate copies at
less than Wholesale rates, always insisting
upon cash in advance. Whatever; he OBJ
tanned was clear profit, as his dHpess never
received theel book sordered. He has been
doing thriving trade, notwithstanding the,
similar swindle erked by the Rev. j. h.
Rockwell only few weekslagos
AT the Dubuque encampment the
first prize, 81, 900, was awardedstO the Por-
ter Guards, OF Memphis; the second $500,
to the Branch Guards, of st. Louis, and the
DEBORAH Drum Corps was given 500. 7ssilA
A FREIGHT train on the Wabash, st.
Louis & Pacific Railway was wrecked by a
misplaced switch at Okolona, Ohio, Sept. 1.
John Conklin, engineer, and an unknown
tramp were seriously injured. s'a@A aas 81
j. d. eWIcKIsER, and Charles Kline
were crushed to death under frame
school house, which they were moving, near
Upper Sandusky, Ohio, Sept. i. f,.-ss,,i a n
1T Dose Al, ny,
Ross, ticket scalpers, Kansas City. has been
arrested. atgthe instigation OF Ed. Jewett,
Of the Missouri Pacific, charged with pass
ing fraudulent railroad tickets. A large
number of bogus tickets were found on
Ross person. He claims that they were
sent him by Eastern, parties to sell. Appear
ances indicate thatca big scheme has been in
operation some time, swindling several
roads. It is thought,the' tickets are manu-.
factufed at some point ia the vicinity Of st.
Louis or Chicago, and that one Of the band
is employed circulating them. 1
A GENTLEMAN in. Bangor, Me-, pro-
tesses to have been informed by men per-
sonally. interested that the Bar Harbor high,
way robbery was q practical joke, and thai
the denouement. has just been reached. The
story 1as told is about as follows: The
Mountain, employed a. celebrated. detective
! in New Yerk to ferret out the robber, and
the practical "jokers, getting frightened,
cleared up the whole mystery. 1t is said
I that two young lady friends OF the Howe
/ brothers persuaded a friend of ali the par.
| ties to personate Claude Duyal, of the des-
| ert dale, with the intention, of course, OF
ultimately returning the valuables. While
the guests of a certain hotel were assembled,
the other evening, the modern Duval en-.
tered the room, wearing the same mask and
costume as ON the road, and with flourish
returned the stolen property to the aston
ished Messrs. Howe. z ! ~
COLLECTOR ROBERTSON, of New
York, received from Washington the other
day an express package containing finely.
mounted spy-glass, gold pocket chronom.
! eter, and a sum Of money. The articles
| were intended ''for the officers and crew O.
the American ship Caravan, for great serv.
ices rendered in midocean to the crew of thu
German bark Lohengrin, as tribute OF APP
probation from the imperial German Gov.
eminent" phe package was forwarded b.
Count Beust. The spy-glass, it was ex
planned. was for Capt. Josiah Daggett, o
New York, master of the Caravan; tn
chronometer was for DANES Dovan, mate O
the Caravan, and the money was for distri
button among Seameh John Fitzgerald, Ed
a ward Williams, J. j. Rarnsiey, and Edward
Watson. 49,. III