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

MRS. WELSH, mother-in-law of Seds
den, the prisoner burned to death in Cinein.
natl recently was probably fatally injured
in quarrel with Mary Stockton, the other
evening, who poured bucket Of boiling I've
over her head and shoulders.
CHARLES HEARD, aged 20, attempted
to chastise his sister Laura, near TazewelI,
Ga, Oct. 26, whereupon the girl seized 3
shotgun and killed him.
THE jury in the Ford case at Platts-
burgh, Mo-, returned verdict of not guilty.
RICHARD MAGEE, a brewer at Phila-
delphia, Pa, while ascending the stairway
Of building on Walnut street the other day,
was jostled by three men, who were pro-
fuse in apologies and passed into the street.
Magee discovered few moments afterward
that wallet containing 81, 300 in money
was missing from the inside pocket OF his
coat.
W. T. RANsoAIE, the young railway
and express agent who managed 10 get into
Jail at Jefferson City, Mo-, tried to cut his
throat with case-knife the other day. After
attempting his life, he begged the bystand-
ers to shoot him, and with sobs confessed he
had been acting badly, and wished to die to
end his disgrace. While on the way to Sc
car at Smithton and placed his neck on the
rail and was killed.
WITHIN two years a store at Elk
River, Mimi, has been robbed five times.
On the last occasion the safe was blown
open and laces and silks worth 81 600 car
ried off. An armed posse secured the
| country and found one of the thieves, who
was fatally shot in being captured. The
other was taken on the way home, and gave
up all the plumber.
THE body of John Ryan, the variety
theatre manager missing from Chicago for
some days, was fished up in the lake the
other day.
AUGUST SEIG, the engineer who was
so badly burned in his efforts to save the
lives OF his passengers, near Newark, Nj,
few days ago, is dead.
FOUNTAIN TANKERsLY, who poisoned
his wife and two children, in Lancaster,
KY, the other day, surrendered to escape
lynching.
THOMAS TALBOT, of Cheyenne, W.
t., was fatally shot by his wife the other
morning. They were quarreling, and Mrs.
Talbot says she killed him in self-defense.
GEORGE WOODRUFF, aged 20, Presi-
dent OF the First National Bank of Joliet,
Ill.,, was killed by falling into a bin at the
new elevator the other afternoon.
NEAR Geneva, Ca, the other evening,
Captain Samuel Daire, a prominent politi-
clan, fatally stabbed Calvin Calhoun, re-
Gently a candidate for the Legislature.
WILLIE Connolly, IA years old, was
whirled to death by machinery in the Nc
Donald pump work at Dubuque, Iowa, the
other day. Nearly every bone was broken.
AN express train on the Detroit &
Milwaukee road was thrown from the track
west of Grand Rapids, Mich, the other
night. Wreckers had removed a rail On a
steep grade, and the smoking.car and one
coach went down an embankment. No one
was seriously hurt.
ROBERT MEEKIN, a commercial trav-
eler, pocketed some watches and silver forks
and spoons while inspecting the stock of a
jeweler in Wheeling, W. Va, the other day,
and when arrested pleaded the opium habit
as an excuse.
JOHN HEIsER, trunk-maker, has
disappeared from Milwaukee, Wis.,, with
$25, 600 and young woman, leaving fami-
ly in want.
DENIS BoHLEN and Joseph Holman
were blown to atoms by a boiler explosion
on the tug De Soto at Memphis, Tenn, the
other morning.
FIVE men were buried in a coal mine
near Shenandoah, Pa, Oct. &c.