Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-01-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

4ALAS' a. law n was DuEu0u 10 u0dGn
at Westerville. o., recently by her clothes
taking fire from cook-stove about which
she was working.
In Henry County, O., timber man
named Kline, aged twenty two, was caught
by tree which he was telling and instantly
killed the other day.
A HEAVY snOw-storm in the North in
terfered seriously with travel on the 18th.
AN entire block of business buildings
at Macarthur, o., was on the 18th destroyed
by fire.
A FIRE in Tweddle hall block in AL
bany, n. Y, which contained an opera
house, bank, and ten stores, caused loss
of $500, ZOO, few days ago. Erastus Corn
ing's residence was saved by the determined
efforts of citizens.
NICHOLAS FELIX, an inmate of
charitable institution at Allegheny City, Pa,
commenced last July to starve to death, and
| completed his labOrs the other day. Small
quantities OF milk and whisky had been reg
ularly forced down his throat.
| A TELEGRAM from London, Eng, on
the 18th stated that the steamship Helvetia,
New York to Queenstown, lost her fourth
| officer overheard. An American bark had
two men washed away. The ship Undine
had arrived at Colombo, Ceylon, and re-
| ported eight OF her crew drowned.
The village of Marais, Switzerland,
was the other day destroyed by landslip.
AT Tralee, Ireland, on the 18th, The
local workmen refused to erect a scat
fold for the execution of Rolf and Barrett,
sentenced to be hung for the murder of
| Thomas Brown. Upon the arrival of Mar
wood the executioner, at Limerick, en-
route to Tralee, the police had great diff
Guilty in protecting him from the crowd.
JAMES RYAN, in passing a fy-wheel
in the -Htna Mills at Wheeling, w. Va, the
other day, had his foot caught in the cOgs
and his leg was crushed off up to the thigh.
He died in few hours.
JOHN KOCH and wife, three days in
this country, were missing in New York
City few days ago. They had considerable
money when they left the house of a friend.
| Their three children were with friends.
JOHN H. MOORE, Ferry master, in
the employ of the New York Ferry Company
at New York City, was arrested few days
ago on a charge OF embezzllng about $4,000
| from the company.
Two more bodies were recovered from
the ruins of the Newhall House at Milwau-
| kee, Wis, on the 18th, making forty five
who had been recovered from the ruins and
| siXtY-four dead in all.
IT was reported at Gloucester City,
n. j., a few days ago that the Ancona Print
Works were about to resume work. They
employ 800 hands.
In the case of Engineer Melville, of
Jeanette fame, against his wife for the GUS
| tody of bis children, at Media, Pa, Judge
| Clayton the other day remandSd the eldest
! daughter to the custody Of the father, to
be sent to school, and the two younger chill
dren to the custody Of the mother.
E. COOPER HALL & Co., merchants
and bankers, London, Eng, have failed.
Liabilities, e4OO, 600.
CARRINGTON & BACKERVILLE, a
heavy tobacco firm Of Richmond, Va. failed
recently for $125,000.
! THREE persons were killed aud sew
eral others were badly injured the other day
| by the explosion Of a locomotive at Mans
field, La.
IT was reported from Seattle, w. T.,
by the explosion of a steamer in the Skagit
River.
A CoRoNER's jury, after an examina-
|
railroad disaster on the Troy & Boston Rail
road, the other day returned a verdict
finding Superintendent Crandell, Engineer
/! Killingbeck, Conductor Winnard and Train
dispatcher Bennett responsible for the
| deaths of Frank c.. Brundage and John
Riordon. 1t was said the Coroner would
| issue warrants for their arrest.
THR following murderers were exc
cuted on the 18th: Arthur Preston, col
ored, aged twenty zone, at Belair, Nd,
for the murder of Mary Dorsey in April
last; at Washington, D. c., Charles Shaw,
also colOred, for the murder of his sister in
January, 1881.
JEFFERSON ULERY was arrested at
Greenfield, Ind, the other day on two in
| dictments charging him with blowing up
saloons at New Palenstine with dynamite. II
| was said that town had been the scene OF
four dynamite explosions, and every saloon
that had been opened was blown up.
DANIEL COATES was instantly killed
and John Shea fatally injured by an explo-
sion of giant powder at Grizzle Gulch, W.
t., few days ago.
IT was reported that smallpox had
developed in the lumber camps near Rat
Portage, Manitoba, the other day, and the
Government had sent out physicians and
nurses.
THE British steamer Jennie Otto, at
Liverpool, Eng, the other day, from Gal
| weston, Tex, had her boats smashed and
the chief officer killed on the passage.
A BROKEN rail on the Midland Branch
of the Chicago & Northwestern Road, twelve
miles north of Clinton, Iowa, the other
night threw two ears down a twenty foot
embankment, killing brakeman and injur-
ing the conductor and nineteen passengers.
WILLIAM MESSING, blacksmith at a
carriage and buggy factory in Cincinnati,
o., while lacing a belt the other morning
was caught around the neck by the belt and
crushed to death.
ANOTHER man was indicted by the
Grand Jury at Washington, D. c., on the
18th, for trying to influence a star-route
juror.
A FIRE at Cisco, Tex, the other morn
ing destroyed twO-thirds of the business
portion of the town.