Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-11-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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table the other morning and then sent q
bullet into his own body and cut his throat.
Mrs. Napp and Baker will recover.
THOMAS NUGENT was killed and Jo-
seph Tinckner seriously injured by the fall
Of scafrold while painting church spire
in Baltimore, Md, the other day.
In drunken affray near Hanover,
Wis, the other day, Charles Stewart
knocked his cousin, Spencer Turner, insen-
sible with a poker, and then deluged him
with kerosene and applied match, follow
| ing this by dragging the blazing body out of
the house. The victim died in terrible
agony.
JOHN HOPKINS is on trial at Towson,
Maryland, for the murder of E. II. flames.
He secured q license to marry the only wit
ness against him, but the clergyman who
was called to the jail to tie the knot knew
enough to see that the woman could not
then be forced to testify. The court ordered
the sheriff not to permit the marriage.
! BENJAMIN LEGAULT. of Beauharnois.
| Quebec, has entered action to prevent his
widowed sister, 65 years of age and worth
hundred thousand dollars, from marrying
young man.
JOHN CLANCY, a river man, flung
himself from the second-story window of
the City Hospital in Vicksburg, Miss, the
other day. and was fatally injured. He had
been suffering from malarial fever.
JAKE WOLFE and Henry Goldwater,
ex-Deputy Marshals, have been arrested by
federal officers at San Antonio, Texas, for
defrauding the Government while holding
office.
ENGLAND has been swept by a de-
structive hurricane. Many districts were
flooded and shipping on the coast suffered
heavily. Nine lives were lost by the sinking
Of steamer near Sheerness.
| THOMAS MARTIN was seriously
wounded by Sheriff Head, of Oldham
County, Ky, the other night. He would
not submit to arrest, and the officer had to
| shoot.
JAMES CARTER, recently arrested for
bigamy, committed suicide in Chicago, the
other night. VIM. Richardson, once dry
goods merchant but recently a Government
gauger, cut his throat from ear to ear in
Bloomington, H., Oct. %. He wanted to
join daughter who had gone before.
HENRY NORTON, a hotel-keeper at
Oaktown, Ind, was shot and MORALLY
wounded by an unknown man, the other
night, for insulting and threatening some
ladies at rival house.
THERE was confagration at Hop
| kinsville, KY, the other night. It origi-
mated in a stable owned by P. L. Smith, and
under gentle wind swept nOrthward, de-
| strOying six squares about fifty-two stores
and tenements. Fully two-thirds of the
houses on Main street we're totally de-
stroyed, together with a large portion of
their contents. The HOpkinsville Bank
was destroyed, but the City Bank escaped,
although the fire swept houses away
on all sides of it. The new Opera house
was saved, but Mozart Hall, the Central
Hotel, the Post-ofice and the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church were burned. The
amount of the loss can not be estimated,
but will reach over 100000. The fire was
the work of an incendiary.
E. G. WATSON, engineer of the train
which ran into the caboose near North
Adams, Mass, causing the death of several
workmen and the manning of many others,
has been arrested on charge OF homicide.
SIX persons were killed and twelve
wounded by the explosion of a mortar dur
ing the pyrotechnic display in Fairmont
Park, Philadelphia, the other evening. At
half past o'clock the lockers on, fully
! forty thousand in number, were startled by
loud, rumbling sound and shock which
shook the hillside on which they stood. A
ten-inch mortar used for firing bombs
exploded and large pieces of iron were sent
| whirling into the crowd. Some of
the victims were shockingly mangled,
one young man being crushed into a shape
| less mass. A fragment of the shell struck
Mrs. Isabella Scudder in the face, tearing
away the lower portion aud killing her in
stantly. Mrs. D. Cookley was dashed into
the earth by a piece of cast-iron weighing
forty pounds. Dorothea Miller, aged Z,
was struck in the forehead and Drained.
The injured were removed to the German
Hospital, where several died while under
going amputation.
| CHRISTIAN SCHRIEBER, member of a
cotton firm in New Orleans, disappeared
| from home the other night, and his body
was found in Lake Ponchartrain the next
day. There are rumors OF financial troubles.
THE board of officers of the Corps of
Engineers is ordered to assemble at Cincin-
natl to examine and report upon the work Of
improvement completed, in progress, and
proposed for the Kentucky River.
PRATT and two other Kewanee Bank
robbers have been sentenced to the Peni-
Tertiary for six years. DIR. Scott got of
with four.
MARGARET HENNECKE, aged II,
daughter Of wealthy citizen of Milwaukee,
Wis, has been missing for some days and
large reward has been offered for infor-
nation concerning her. The police think
that the girl committed suicide in fit Of
mental alteration, while the father believes
that she was abducted for the purpose Of
obtaining a heavy ransom.
A. B. CORNWALL, the New York
embezzIer, has forfeited his bond and fed
to Europe.
JOHN O'DoNNEL, of Frankfort, KY,
crazed by drink, attempted to poison his
mother, sister, and two brothers, the other
day, but physician saved their lives. He
succeeded, however, in killing himself soon
after.
FREDERICK KLINGRELL, desperate
character, attacked his sleeping wife with q
knife, near Saltwater, Mimi, the other
night, cutting her horribly. A son who in
terfered was stabbed to the heart and fell
dead. Another son informed the officers of
the law, who found the murderer in barn.
A desperate fight ensued, Klingbell resisting
like q mailman. The officers shot him
through the body and finally lodged him in
Jail, MORALLY wounded. He is said to have
kiIIa6 fvz- mon r,rezioy1sIv and aarved a