Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-09-13
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


an imposing affair.
POLICEMAN FRANK HILL was fatally
stabbed at Norwich, Conn.,, the evening of
the Sd by Emanuel Montero, Portuguese.
Hill arrested Montero for some minor Of
Tense. Montero served a term in the State
Prison for shooting one McCabe in 1870.
THE TEmes-StGr publishing house at
Cincinnati burned out on the Sd.
Two HUNDRED persons charged with
brigandage have recently been arrested in
a single province of Italy.
THE Corean Embassy was in San
Francisco on the Sd, and intended leaving
there for Washington on the 7th, stopping
one day in Chicago en- route.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, appropriated $780,
900 for the Willard reception.
CHARLES READ, of the firm of Read
& Carroll. wood-workers, Springfield,
Mass, disappeared short time ago.
He is supposed to have only about $500
with him. He was always considered
man of good habits.
A PASSENGER train went off the
track at high speed on the New York &
New England Road on the Sd, smashing
some cars. No one was killed.
S. H. WALTER, boOk-keeper of a Bos-
ton yeast-powder company, disappeared on
the Sd with some funds belonging to the
frm-raised out, so to speak.
GEORGE WAGNER, a private watch
man at Columbus, O., went to Green Lawn
Cemetery the night of the ID, where he shot
himself three times in the head and fell
across the grave of his daughter. He could
not recover.
THERE were five deaths from cholera
in Alexandria on the I'd, and $50 in Upper
Egypt.
RECENT storms have been so destruc-
tive to crops in the south of Ireland that a
renewal of rent agitation is feared.
THREE British men-Of-war had been
ordered to the Straight of Sunda to make
a survey of the changes brought about by
the volcanic disturbances.
A HURRICANE passed over the City of
Paris on the Sd, spelling the fete at the
Tuilleries for the benefit of the poor. An
improvised theater. was demolished. No
lives lost.
A MAN boarded train at Smithfeld,
Utah, at late hour the night of the I'd,
covering eight passengers and two train
men with his revolver. He relieved them
OF watches and money, and then made his
escape in the darkness.
ONE new case of yellow fever was re-
ported at Pensacola on the Sd, and one
death-Dr. Bosso.
POLICEMAN MCNAMARA, of New York
City, has been held to await the action of
the Grand Jury, the Coroner's jury finding
that he caused the death of John Smith by
clubbing him.
IT was stated from Washington on the
Sd that Supervising Architect of the Treas
ury Hill would shortly resign, whether the
report of the Hill Commission were favora
bic or unfavorable.
A LONDON dispatch of the Sd says the
Bishop and Town Council of Stratford-
upon-Avon strenuously oppose the exhu-
nation of the remains of Shakespeare.
THE sister of Captain Webb, recently
drowned in attempting to swim the Mag
ara rapids, became insane when she heard
of her brothers. death, and had been found
drowned in the river at Lady Smith,
Natal.
THE standard dollars issued during
week ending September, 1, 1888, aggregated
327, 497 against $4,000 for the correspond
ing period lastyea
THERE were three deaths from cholera
in Alexandria on the Sd.
A PAIR of Mormon Elders were re-
Gently treated to dose of over-ripe eggs
in Cometa County, Georgia, the young men
of that section objecting to the peculiar
doctrines of the sect.
LORD HEADLY, one of Uncle Rufus
Hatch's excursionists, is reported to have
a6 in
pursuit of game and to have been severely
hurt.
A DUBLIN dispatch of the Sd says it
was reported that a woman who testified
against the Ballyard Moonlighters in
March, 1882, had been shot dead in Aus
tralia.
THE village of Bitlincourt in Belgium
burned on the 4th. One hundred and six
teen houses were destroyed.
No new cases of yellow fever at Pen
sacola on the 4th. The quarantine against
the city had been raised.
REPORTS from Lancaster County,
Pa, of the 4th stated that splenic fever was
raging among cattle in that section.
Mrs GENERAL ROBERT TOOMBs died
on the 4th at GAINESVILLE, Ga, her summer
residence, of paralysis.
FROsTs were reported in New York,
New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine on
the night of the Sd.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR and party reached
Chicago on the 4th, and were accorded a
genuine ovation.
THE Manitoba railway bridge over
the Mississippi burned the night of the Sd.
WILLIAM LAWRENCE, a night watch
man at Bath, Me-, was killed the night of
the Sd by burglar whom he caught break
ing into store.
A MAN was killed on the 4th by trying
to jump from the elevator of the Grand Pa
cific Hotel, Chicago, while in motion.
Ten THOUSAND persons were drowned
by tidal wave in a single city during the
recent volcanic outbreak in Java.
JACOB HADLEY, a stOnecutter of Tay-
louisville, o., shot and killed his son Charles,
aged twenty, on the 4th. Hadley was drunk
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