Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-02-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ling, William b. Vanderbilt, Jay Gould and
five ex-Mayors of New York City were sum-
moned to serve on the Coroner's Jury in
Vestigating the death of Michael Kelleher,
the inmate Of the Bellevue Hospital who
was killed recently by g. E. A1ahar,another
inmate.
SEVEN of the Annapolis (Md.) cadets,
in solitary confinement Tor writing insubor-
dinate letters, were released on the Sth.
THE steamer Kenmore Castle foun-
dered in the Bay OF Biscay a few days ago.
Eighty passengers and eight of the crew
were rescued in boat.
THE failure of w. Walker & Co.,
ship builders, London, Eng. was an
nounced the other day. The liabilities were
placed at e67, 900.
The explosion of a boiler at Lost
Creek Pa, the other day killed Barney
Hellenthsl and demolished a building.
ALBERT BALL and Elmer Anderson,
| each aged twelve years, were. arrested at
| Three Rivers, Mass, the other day. charged
with cutting mail bag at the depot and
stealing letters.
DURING the temporary absence of
Assistant Postmaster Morton, of Brooklyn,
N. Y, few days ago, 81, 800, which he had
been counting. were stolen. 1t was thought
man inquiring for missing letter was the
thief.
A RHODE ISLAND clergyman who paid
taxes on $4,000 died recently and his estate
was found to be worth over million dol
lars.
II. G. GURNEY, accountant of the Bank
of Commerce, Durham, Cana, absconded
the other day, leaving a shortage in his ac-
counts Of $12, 900. --.
A MAN who died recently in a New
York emigrant boarding house was buried
in the potter's field. A relation had the
body exhumed few days ago and found
! $1,000 in the clothing.
THE Governor of Minnesota has made
requisition on the Governor of Missouri for
Frank James, to answer for alleged COM
plicity in the Mortified robbery. Governor
Crittenden declined to surrender him till
the charges against him in Missouri were
disposed of. .
ALBERT WILSON, alias J. T. Wilson,
the Buffalo IN. " bank forger, was the
other day sentenced to five years. imprison-
ment.
NINE striking shoemakers were arrest
| ed at Allentown, Pa, a few days ago for
threatening non-unionists.
p Two Frenchmen at Dallas, Tex, had
quarrel over the political situation in
France the other day and it was reported
! were going 10 fight duel.
j. H. PELLET, of Montreal, Cana,
has brought suit for $4,000 against his
mother-in-law, Mrs. De Isle, for an ac-
count of her management of her husbands
estate, in which the Pellet children were
said to have an interest valued at So, OOO,-
600.
CHARLES DE La ROCHELLE, who died
in Montreal, Cana, recently for lack of the
commonest necessaries of life, was of noble
family in France, his brother being GEN
eral in the army.
THIRTY-FoUR of the thirty-seYen
cadets recently suspended from the Penn
sylvania Military Academy for attending a
theatrical performance, in violation of the
rules, were reinstated under conditions
The other three were dismissed as leaders
Of the revolt.
FIVE Sophomores ofBowdoin College,
at Brunswick, Me-, were expelled for haz-
ing members of the class few days ago,
retiring rather than fulfill the conditions
required in petitIoning for return.
THE Irish members of the British
Parliament the other day decided to hold a
caucus. There was some talk of resigning
in body.
FOURTEEN Socialists were arrested in
Spain a few days ago charged with murder
ing peasant.
1T was stated on the 9Th that more
than $50 bodies had been stolen from Mon.
treal (Cana.) graveyards this winter.
JOHN G. RALsToN, foreman of a SOAP
factory in Milwaukee, Wis, claims to be one
of the heirs to real estate in Glasgow valued
at So, 900, 900, which is still in the hands o.
the authorities.
The execution of Milton j. Yarberry,
for the murder of Charles Campbell Ias
year, occurred at Albuquerque, N. NJ, OF
the 9th.
THE French authorities at Paris have
released Prince Napoleon, the indictment
against him being quashed.
AN effort to take from jail and Lynch
negro desperate at Paola, Kas., wal
frustrated by the determined resistance O.
the Sheriff and deputies on the 9Th, who
shot several men. The next Afternoon
another attack was made, and seeing it like.
ly to succeed the negro cut his throat ant
fell dead. The corpse was taken out anG
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hanged to a tree.
The Gem, stern-wheel steamer
plying on Puget Sound, was burned OF TIT
California coast a few days ago and five
persons were drowned.
CAPT: PAYNE, the Oklahoma boomer
was captured recently, while on his Wal
with a party to Oklahoma, outftted witt
one hundred wagons. The, whole party
would be taken to Fort Reno.
THREE Cinnamon were murdered il
cold blood near Fort Bayard, N. NJ, few
days ago by party of Mexicans. One of th'
murderers was afterward captured, and
watch belonging to the dead ChinameI
was found in his possession.
SEVEN men were killed by a boilel
explosion on the 9th at the tile factory il
TaylorviIle, Ill. The verdict of the Cor
oner's Jury was said to have been that TIT
explosion was caused from. the scarcity o
water in the boiler and that John Jones
who was in charge Of the engine, was in
competent and not practical engineer:
AT Detroit, Mich, fire destroyed tn
Albion Milling Company's mill the othe,
morning, entailirg a loss Of 100000.
FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS-.
FEBRUARY BIN the Senate, Mr.. Sher
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