Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-07
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
A PAssENGER car on the Mississ

"a EASSENGEK Car Oh b10 MISSISSIPPI
& Tennessee road went down an embank-
fnent, near fernando, Miss, the other
night, and DR.. Watson, of Memphis; j. r.
Ayres, of New Orleans; j. L. Boyd, of
Coldwater, Miss; A. Loeb, of Paducah,
KY, and Conductor G. p. Bellinger were
injured.
ADAM FOSTER was killed and three
others were hurt by the explosion of boiler
at Middletowh, Ohio, on the 1st:
In a collision on the Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne 6 Chicago road, near Waterford,
Ohio, the other day, j ohm Shouse, Jr., fire.
man, was killed and Engineer William Fitz-
simmOn and John Snyder were seriously
hurt. One passenger, whose name could
not be learned, was badly bruised.
F. T. IGLEHART and r. II. Tevis,
well known in ST. Louis, Mos, had diff
Guilty the other night and the former was
slightly wounded in the arm. Mrs. fevis
had something to do in the matter, and
scandal-mongers have made the most of it.
HENRY DWELLING, a butcher, was
fatally shot by A. P. Shockwell, night clerk
at the Occidental Hotel. Omaha, Nebraska,
the other night. 0veling was very drunk,
using abusive and obscene language, and
on his refusal to leave the premises Shock
we'll took hold of him to put him out: A
desperate fight ensued, in which the clerk
was overmatched, and he had to use his
pist oil to save his life.
THE large factory occupied by the
Asbestos Company and Joseph & Sons, at
Quebec, Canada, with a block of wooden
buildings, burned Nov. 80. Total loss esti-
mated at $4,000 to 100000; insurance,
$62, 900.
A MAN named Fox, employed in the
Scoville Car wheel Works, at Buffalo, N. Y;
attempted to commit suicide the other day
by plunging his head in a pot of molten lead.
Other employees pulled him away, but he
will be helpless for the rest of his life, if he
survives his injuries. Both of his eyes were
burned out, his scalp was cooked to the
bone, and his face was frightfully roasted.
Mrs. PICKERING, aged 80, mother Of
j. T. Pickering, a prominent lawyer, was
burned to death at her sons residence, neaI
Leesburg, Ohio, Nov. 80, her clothes taking
fire at crate.
WILLIAM HEFFERNAN was killed, two
persons were seriously injured, and James
Murray, q mason, was drowned by the fall
ing of derrick while bridge building, neal
Plattsburg, N. Y, Nov. 80.
F. NJ. MCDOWELL, a well-known citi
zen of Charleston, S. c.; was murdered
near Camden, the other day. The murderer
was colored man named Joe Wilson.
AN express train on the Gulf road wa:
boarded at a station seventy miles south Of
Dallas, Texas, by three armed men, whC
forced the engineer to run three miles whert
a half-dozen more robbers made their ap
pearance. The guards in the mail-ca
opened fire, and the thieves retreated, whel
the train pulled out at full speed.
In the police Court at Cincinnati
Frank I. Frayne was acquitted of any Grim
| inal intent in the killing of Miss Won Beh
rens.
The 12-year-old son of VIM. Haube
was seriously injured few days ago, abou
| three miles south OF Hiawatha, Kan. L
loading his gun the ramrod became fast e1et
In the barrel, and while he was trying to re
move it with pair of pincers a companio
put on cap and pulled the trigger. TIL
gun was discharged, the rod passing throug
Hauber's body.
HENRY HELLMAN, farmer nea
Brooklyn, Iowa, went to the summer kitch
en- the other morning, got on a barrel
swung a rope over the rafter, tied it abou
his neck, sung out "Good- by'' to his wife
who was in bed, kicked away the barrel, an
strangled. Temporary insanity.