Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-10-19
Personal 4ND GENERAL.

~fERICHARD CHAPMAN, Baptist minis.
| ter, had a difficulty with John Turner al
Pine Bluff Springs, Texas, the other night.
Turner was stabbed three times, and died
soon after. Chapman escaped. -
sREY. j. L. DENTON, Superintendent
Of Public Instruction of Arkansas, cast him
self from balcony at Fayetteville the other
day and was killed. He had been mentally
unbalanced for several days. He was for
many years one Of the most prominent di-
vines in the Methodist church.
e. Q. RANDOLPH, q merchant of Rip
ley, Miss, took fatal dose of morphine at
Holly Springs the other day. Business
troubles prompted the act.
THE labor unions-Of Washington have
adopted resolutions to organize State in
dustrial clubs, composed mainly of work
ingmen residing now at the national capt.
tai, from the thirty EIGHT States of the
Union. The. secretaries of the clubs will i'm
mediately proceed to correspond with labor
organizations of their respective States,
urging the appointment of congressional
district representatives; to the central COM
mittee on national labor legislation.
:ALMON L. MEAKER, under sentence
OF death for killing little girl at Waterbury,
Vt, some two years since, by administering
-strychnine, having previously cruelty beat
en- the child on several occasions, has made a
confession and accuses his mother of insti-
eating the murder.
A WARM attachment between young
Hebrew merchant and Christian lady clerk
in Cincinnati was broken off by the persist
ent efforts of the formers mother, solely on
account Of religious differences. The girl
took dose of rat poison and an ounce of
laudanum, but physician saved her.
] A SERIOUS riot occurred at q political
Injecting at Kenner, La, the other night.
Daniel King, a white drummer boy, was
killed and several negroes were hurt.
THERE is great excitement at the lit
tie town of Secor, Woodford County, Ill
over the discovery of high grade of silver
ore in the bed of Panther Greek, a small
branch of the Mackinaw River.
WILLIAM, the youngest son of Prince
Bismarck, has been raised to the rank Of
Government Councillor.
THE Mexican Government, having de-
clared forfeited the concession to the Te-
huantepec Interoeeanic Railroad, has made
a contract with Del6n Sanchez to complete
the work. 49,
A FARMER named Davidson, living
near DeckerVille, Mich, killed his wife and
seriously injured his son the other after
noon. They were quarrelfng about some
property. .of rrr-s r. ..
ABOUT year ago, at Grand Rapids,
Mich, Mrs. Norah Ryan sued Hon. Henry
Fralick for $40, 600 damages for the seduc-
tionfof her daughter. The defendant being
an old and wealthy citizen, a sensational
trial was expected. When the case came
up the other day, Fralick's counsel raised
the point that on the declaration the mother
could only bring suit under common law for
loss of the services of her daughter, and the
court instructed the jury to find for the de-
PENDANT.
IN political quarrel at the Soldiers
Home, Dayton, Ohio, the other evening,
August Mencke fatally stabbed John Dean
in the groin.
ALEXANDER KIER, foreman of the
men whose incomplete work caused the ter
rible accident on the Long Branch Rail
road, at Parker's Creek, N. J., in June
last, has been indicted for manslaughter.
ADAM DoLEER, a saloon keeper in
Cincinnati, was Shot dead by Anthony BAG
ciocco, drunken policeman, Oct. 10, for
refusing him drink.
THERE was an expensive blaze at Ell
Pase, H., the other night. The fire origina-
ted in the kitchen of the Ell Paso House, and
was first discovered by one of the propie-
tors, who at once aroused his boarders, some
Of whom were compelled TO escape through
windows. The loss is estimated at 900:
AT baptismal ceremony near Can
o. ho
carried two hundred persons into the water,
many of them having arms or legs broken.
Latest reports put the number of seriously
wounded at twenty
ERNEST DoURBouGUE, "a French
maniac, got at large on Fourteenth street,
New York, the other day, and CUT Ind stab
bed all he met, using a pair of compasses.
Quite number of ladies and children we're
seriously injured.
In a collision on the Atlanta division
'of the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia
Railroad, at Ooltewah, twenty miles from
Chattanooga, the other morning, Engineer.
]. N. Waters and Pilot John Hobbs were
killed and two children were fatally injured.
There was dense fog.
A DISPATCH from Detroit, Mich, on
JIG 1Vln SdJo" 4G4l Va a AOSA IA CuO
Republic mine this morning, John Car
roll,s Roe Erickson, Robert Roberts and
Peter Domer were killed. Thomas Hooper
was fatally injured, and It is reported that
others were killed whose names were not
ascertained.
ROBERT SELTz was fatally injured by
a train at Port Clinton, Ohio, the other
night. az 1rlE ~
HENRY KEAIAIE, a carpenter at work
on the tower of st. Xavier's Catholic
Church, Cincinnati, fell distance Of sixty
feet the other day andrwas killed.
Mrs. JAMES CowGER, residing near
cambridge, Ind, committed suicide the
the'other night by hanging herself to tree.
The act Is attributed to iii-health. She was
over 80 years Of age, and the mother of four
children.
Mrs. JOSEPH DABfoNs was killed by
a falling chimney during fire at Suncook,
n. H., the other day. The Methodist
church and several dwellings were de-
stroyed.
A DISPATCH from Chatham, Pittsyl-
vania County, Va, says the ravages of
dipRtheria are fearful. Most of those who
die have black vomit and some are covered
with running sores that eat to the bone.
The doctors are unable to account for the
terrible fatality, and think scarlet fever and
diphtheria are combined. -
R. L. BERKSHIRE, wealthy farmer