Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-11-23
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THERE was costly FIRE In Boston
Mass, on the 18th.
j. B. TNsLEY, o stock broker o.
Knoxville, presented forged note at the
bank in Cleveland, Tenn, on the 10th, and
when the fraud was detected shot himself
in the head, dying instantly.
MRS. STEPHEN MEYERS, of Buffalo,
N. Y, stepped out on an errand, the other
afternoon, leaving two children in care Of
her aunt, Mary Higgins. When she re-
| turned she found the woman and an infant
lying on the floor in drunken stupOr. A
physician was summoned, but he arrived toe
late to save the child's life, and Mary was
locked up on charge of infanticide. The
little one had been crying, and as the woman
had always regarded alcohol as a general
panacea, she forced dose down its throat.
THE barge Signal was run down and
sunk by the steamer City of Worcester in
the East River, New York, on the 10Th.
There were on board at the time Captain
VIM. Taylor, his mother, wife, and three
children, and two deckhands. The captain
was rescued by a tug; the others went down
with the wreck.
Two children of Rev. Mr.. Gleason,
Of the Methodist Church at Window, MINI. 1,
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The bodies were recovered.
THREE Cinnamon who arrived at San
Francisco the other day claimed to be mer-
chants, but did not possess the certificates
required by the restriction law. They were
refused permission to land, but the ColIec-
tor of the port was summoned before the
United States Court, where it was decided
that the Ceestials had proved themselves
to belong to the mercantile class, while the
prohibition applied only to laborers, and
they came ashore.
A DETECTIVE has been for q month
following a band of thieves in the lumber
regions of Elk County, Pennsylvania. a few
nights ago, with an armed force, he cap
tured thirty bandits asleep in the forest,
and lodged them in Jail at Driftwood. Their
operations have been mainly directed
against freight cars of the Allegheny Valley
road.
FORTY armed men attacked the house
of Magistrate Roach, at Magnoss, Ireland,
the other night, firing several shots and car
rying away two guns.
SEVEN persons were killed in the City
of Mexico by the collapse of the roof of an
old dwelling.
AN engine and twelve cars of the
Canada Southern Road were badly wrecked
at the yard in st. Thomas, Ontario, the other
day, and two men were seriously injured.
REV. PETER LOCKWOOD, Presby-
terian, of Binghamton, New York, who was
ordained sixty-one years ago, has closed his
earthly labors.
FERDINAND SCHRAEDER, who kept a
hotel near Detroit, Mich, recently had an
arm injured in a railroad accident, and
killed himself rather than submit to an am
putation, which the surgeons had pro-
nounced necessary.
JAMES MCCULLOUGH, a troublesome
citizen of Holgate, Ohio, was placed in the
lookup to get sober, when he fired the
structure and burned himself to a crisp.
THE contest over the will of General
John A. Hazard, at Newport, Rhode Island,
has been settled. The widow is to receive
sec, 900 in bulk or have $500 per annnm
during her life.
GUsTAvUs GRIFFIN, M. p, is the
name given by a gaunt and clerical person
who has allowed the people of Montreal,
Canada, to suspect that he was a capitalist.
He bought out the prOprietors of the Vic
toria Hotel, and then commenced swindling
operations of great magnitude. by which he
probably obtained 1000. He made an at
tempt to leave the city the other day, but
was forcibly detained at the depot by the
wife of q victim, and now lies in Jail.