Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-11-30
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

pulp, and when taken out the flesh dropped
from their bones. George Bridenstein and
Patrick McKenna were fatally scalded by
the bursting of lard vat in a rendering
house near Bridgeport, Ohio, on the same
day.
FIFTEEN hundred miners have been
thrown out of work by fire in the Short
Mountain colliery, near Lykens, Pa.
A NIGHT express on the Pittsburg,
Cincinnati & St. Louis road was thrown
down an embankment by train wreckers,
near Union Station, Ohio, Nov. %. The
passengers escaped with slight bruises.
Four trainmen were badly hurt.
H. G. WAITE was robbed of 81, 500 by
masked highwayman near Cold Springs,
Mimi, the other day.
THE steamship Wearmouth, from
Quebec to London, went to pieces on one
of the Magdalen Islands and sixteen seamen
were lost.
JOHN HERZER, q resident of Milwau-
kee, Wis, who weighed 486 pounds, liter
| ally choked to death, and no coffin suf-
| fciently large to receive his remains could
be obtained.
A SAILOR named Burns, hailing from
Buffalo, N. Y, was found pinned to the
track by a car-wheel, in Toledo, Ohio, the
other morning. He died while an arm was
being amputated. He had been drinking,
and probably went to sleep on the rail.
FOUR men charged with completely in
the murder of the Joyce family, in Ireland,
| pleaded guilty and asked mercy from the
court, but were sentenced to death.
| w. Z. WHITNEY, a Justice of the
Peace and prominent citizen of Marshall
town, Iowa, pleaded guilty before the May
or's court to peeping through windows into
| private houses at unseemly hours.
In the inquest on the death of Henry
| Clark and John Leo, employees who lost
! their lives at the Park Theater fire, in New
York City, the jury rendered verdict cen
surfing the Inspector of the Building Bureau
and the Fire Commissioners for neglect Of
duty in not condemning the proscenium
walls of the theater, which were wooden
partitions, and should have been brick or
fre-proof material.
d. R. HALE, formerly manager of the
Chicago Clearing house, and his wife are
under arrest at Milwaukee, Wis.,, for rob-
bling jewelry stores. HaIe's friends claim
that he is a victim of a dishonest woman,
she having been the wife Of a noted burglar
now in Joliet.
GEN. THOMAS REYNOLDS was held in
So, GOO bail, in the United States Court at
Madison, Wis, the other day, for signing
| the names of dead men to pension papers and
drawing money thereon.
THE drug house of Gilbert Brothers
& Co., in Baltimore, Nd, was destroyed by
fire the other day. James Shaw, the porter,
was fatally burned, five fremen were Sc
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party of girls at work on the third floor
were rescued while the stairway was in
flames.
HARVEY BAUGH, a young brakeman,
was cut to pieces by train at Bellaire, Ohio,
Nov. %.
JAMES O'DONNELL, a butcher, blew
out the gas in his room at the Menger Ho-
tel, San Antonio, Texas, the other night.
Some OF the guests discovered the fact in
time to save his life.
JOHN KELLY was fatally stabbed by
Michael Meehan, fellow-laborer, during
a drunken brawl at Sunbury, Pa, the other
night.
THIRTY lives were lost by the wreck
Of the steamer Winton, off the French coast,
the other day.
DAN VAN WAGNER, desperate char
acter serving a sentence OF 40 years for a
murderOus assault, made an eloquent prayer
in the chapel of the prison at Ionia, Mich,
the other night, and then made his escape q.
Two negroes were cremated at the
Sloss furn ace in Birmingham, Ala, Nov. %
They were cleaning the stack, and becOm-
ing OYerpowered by gas fell into the mass Of
ore.
FRANK PORTER, aged IS, pleaded
guilty to tampering with the switches of the
Binghamton Railroad Company, at SYRIA
cuse, n. Y, Nov. %, and was committed
for the action of the grand jury.
ABRAHAM MARKS, New York at
torney, has been sentenced to thirty days il
the county jail for contempt in assaulting
opposing counsel while a case was progress
ing in the Supreme Court.
Hon. G. B. FARwELL, of Chicago
was severely hurt by falling into the cellar
of new building the other day.
NINE boys have been arrested at New
Haven, Conn.,. for breaking boxes of the
wheels of freight cars and stealing OILED
waste; fifteen freight cars were thus made
useless.
Two miners were killed and three
others seriously injured in the Oxford air
shaft, near Scranton, Pa, the other night
Hundreds of large icicles which had col
lected on the sides Of the shaft became loose
, and fell with great force upon a platform
one hundred feet from the bottom, and thu
unfortunates were crushed and buried be
meath the entire mass.
THE body of Newton Ashton, aged
a, was found in the woods near Martini
Ferry, Ohio, Nov. p, with bulet-hole il
, the temple. A young lady to whom he wa
, engaged had just given him back his ring
, and as he had threatened to take his life IN
less she married him a verdict of suicide wa
rendered.
FIFTEEN Spanish soldiers were injured
by an explosion of powder at the barraek
in Madrid the other day. The building
was demolished.
7. A. 81. CONES, young physician
: was killed by train near Thornton. Ind.
Nov. %. He was crossing the track, ant
: failed to hear the whistle.
: WHOLESALE robbery of the mails cas-
} from Denver. Colo, is complained of. Owe
$780, 600 in drafts and checks have bee
!. taken.
Ar fire In Indianapolis, Ind, Nov
|, a, Kate Daily and Ella keenan,. servant
!. sleeping in an upper room, were burned t
death.
SEVEN workmen were killed and
, number of others injured by the fall of