Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-04-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

victed in the District Court at LockpOrt of
miscegenation and sentenced to the Peni-
tentiary for five years.
HE Tewksbury (Mass. Ams-house
investigation on the 9th brought out testi-
mony regarding the smothering of infants
and inhuman treatment of insane inmates.
THREE men have been arrested and
| confessed the completely in the recent MUIR
der and robbery of Count Majlath Won
Szekehly, President of the Hungarian Court
of Cessation.
Outgoing home the other night George
A.Edmonton,o of CorrectionvilIe, Iowa, found
| a grocery dealer named Hoz in his house
and shot him fatally.
ANDREW and Mary Young were ar
rested at Erie, Pa, the other night on sus-
picion of being concerned in the death of
their brother Ralph, who was found the
| night before with a bullet in his head, which
! the suspected persons alleged to be caused
by suicide. l
THE cases OF Joe Brady, Timothy
Kelly, Patrick Delany, Thomas Caffrey,
Daniel Curley and Fitzharris, known as
''Skin the Goat,' charged with the murder
of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Under
! Secretary Burke in Phoenix Park, came up
1 III OuO4A41J Ii S4dLC5 Ou JIG JUL L he pIlS-
Oners were taken to court under escort of
troop of dragons. Brady was arraigned
and pleaded not guilty. An application was
made for postponement of the trials, but
the Judge said the cases must proceed.
| Curley, Kelly, Caffrey and Fitzharris were
aext arraigned separately and each pleaded
not guilty. All were held for trial.
THE central labor union of New York
! &c 70 +aI 6o
the formation of what was to be called the
! American Land and Rent League, the OBJ
! ject of which was to prevent the imposition
of exorbitant rents upon tenants.
The Dublin Qreland) Grand Jury
| found true bills for murder against Joseph
and Lawrence Hanlon, William Maroney,
Patrick Delaney, Tagan and Joseph Null
| lett on the 9th. There were twenty-four
arrests in the outskirts of Cork and Liner
lex on the same day, and it was claimed
many important documents seized.
CHARLES H. Rowan, representing the
Excelsior Manufacturing Company, at
! Beaver Dam, Wis, and J. n. Williams,
| alias "The Mystic Language Publisher"
! at Detroit, Mich, have been declared to be
engaged in conducting fraudulent schemes,
and their names placed on the black list of
the Post-Office Department.
PROF. H. w. WILEY, of Perdue
University, Lafayette, Ind, has been ap-
pointed Chief Chemist of the Department
of Agriculture.
THE Toledo CO., banker, Coy, whose
suspension occurred recently, was alleged
to have left that city few days ago. In
vestigation showed the affairs of the bank
in worse condition than the creditors had
supposed
SECRETARY FOLGER was at the Treas
ury Department on the 9th inst, the first
time in about two months. His left eye was
still somewhat infamed, but otherwise he
was in pretty good health. He had not de-
termined whether he would take trip for
his health or not.
CONRAD, who murdered his wife and
four children in Berlin, Germany, was be-
headed on the 9th inst.
SIX young ladies were confirmed in
the American Episcopal Church at Rome,
Italy, the other day by Bishop Herzog, of
Berne.
DAVID G. BLISS, known to the police
as ''the Doctor" who distracted $4,000
worth of bonds from a safe in the Office of
E. B. Treat, publisher, New York, has been
arrested.
NOTWITHSTANDING the positive assur-
ance of the police that reported explosion
in Ottawa, Cana, was a canard, the Par
lament buildings were thoroughly searched
on the 10th and guard of police placed on
duty at all hours.
A FIRE which originated in the wash
house of theELontour Hotel at Westminster,
Nd, the other morning destroyed an entire
~
which was a liuery-stable, in which two
men and thirty horses persisted. The
financial loss was about $4,000.
FIVE steamers filled with emigrants
arrived at Victoria, B. c., recently, and
1900 Chinese were soon to arrive to work
on the railroad.
THE side wall of carelessly-built
building at Rochester, n. Y, caued in the
other morning and seventeen men at work
in the house were buried in the debris and
all more or less injured. One died.
GEORGE SCHILLER, charged with set
ting fire to the Newhal House in Milwau
III kee, Wis, was placed on trial on the 10th
: No trouble was experienced in getting g
jury.
f COLLECTIONS amounting to $4,000
have been forwarded from Switzerland fol-
2 the relief of the food sufferers in the Ohio
} Valley.
l SAMUEL LEWIS, the colored murderer
Of Dink Weems, also colOred, was takeI
l from Jail at Atlanta, Ga, the other might
l ! by a mob of seventy-five blacks and si1
D whites and hanged. He confessed.
THE Georgia Democratic State Con
vention met at Atlanta on the 10th and or
| ganized by electing Charles Tiersip Per
manent Chairman. Five ballots were take1
! for Governor but no choice made.
e THE Department of Agriculture re
s PORTED on the 10th that the winter whea
e outlook was about what it was last year a
: this time.
/, THE most disastrous prairie fire tina
g ever occurred in Nebraska was raging OF
+ the 10th. a few miles north of Lincoln Mrs