Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-02-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


N. NJ, loved the same girl. In order to
settle their claims they locked themselves in
room the other night and fought-a duel
with axes. Zone chopped his rival in hor-
ribie manner, seVering his head from his
body, while he was himself terribly cut up,
and was arrested besides f.e
A SECOND outbreak of the conVicSs
employed at the Naval works. off Cork
Harbor, Ireland, was reported a few days
ago.
A TELEGRAM from Limoges, France,
the other day stated that $500 porcelain
makers were on a strike at that place.
THE farmhouse of A. u. Hage, near
Dassel, Mimi. were burned the other night,
and four children persisted in the flames
Hage, wife and baby barely escaped, and
were nearly frozen to death in the storm
before they could reach the house of a
neighbor.
In Philadelphia, Pa, the other day,
Catharine Berneson, annoyed by children
playing in front of her house, fatally shot
Maggie Carlette, one Of group Of children
passing.
"A TERRIFIC explosion occurred in a
fireworks factory at Ameeameca, Mex, the
other day, followed by flying rockets and
his family were burned to death, and sew
eral others were badly injured.
AT Kingsville, Ont, the other night
masked burglars cleaned out Smart's Bank
and the POST office.
CHARLES CoBB, who shot and killed
Sheriff Shenneman,of Cowley County, Kans.,
few days ago, and afterward confessed to
having killed a constable in Jefferson Coun-
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the LIST, by mob Of masked men, and hanged
from the railroad bridge.
The printer of Prince JerOme's re-
cent manifesto in Paris, France, has been
fined 400 francs. @7 }.'- 80
A FIRE at the Inman Line dock, in
New York, on the 1st inst, destroyed all the
buildings onthe pier and damaged several
ships and their eargoes. Loss estimated at
$1,000, 600. .-~-e-r rr-r.-
The employees at the Pittsburg Chain
works, New Brighton, Pa struck the other
day against ten per cent. reduction. The
works were idle.
ISAAC II. VINCENT, State Treasurer
of Alabama, left Montgomery the other
night, sending back astatement that he was
short in his accounts, and was going to New
York to obtain funds which he had loaned.
/ 1t was afterward learned that he lost heavi-
ly in cotton futures, and his dedication
would probably amount to $3.50, GOO.
NEAR Wilkesbarre, Pa, the other
] day, man and his son were found in bed
starved to death, and his wife and two
| children were dying Of starvation.
SOME medical students at Montreal,
Cana, could not be frightened into giving
up bodies stolen from a cemetery. but the
other day accepted $50 for their trouble in
restoring two corpses to anxious relatives.
HENRY A. BOWEN was indicted by
the Grand Jury at Washington the other day
on a charge of corruptly endeaYoring to in
| fuence juror (Dickson) in the star-route
cases, it was said upon evidence given by
| Dickson. q.
A FIRE at Juniata, Neb., the other
morning destroyed five business houses.
TwENTY-THREE persons were killed
and twenty-eig injured by panic in a
wool factory at Bombay, India, the other
day, caused by an alarm of fire. r ~
In a difficulty between John Stanton
and John England, sailors, at Galveston,
4 Tex, the other day, Stanton was stabbed in
the left side with sheath knife England
was jailed on a charge Of assault with intent
to kill. tt @
AT Philadelphia, Pa, Rudolph Guth,
convicted Of conspirng to defrand the Fire
mans Insurance Company, of which he was
Secretary, was the other day sentenced to
eleven months Imprisonment, ten of which he
had served.
A MAN was arrested at PostYille,
4 Alamakee County, Iowa, the other after
/ noon, who for some time past had been per-
sonating United States Collector, and in
that capacity had raked in a considerable
amount of funds from unsuspicious saloon
keepers, brewers and others.
/ WILLIAM Guy, clerk of the Halifax
IN. So Banking Company. was sent to the
post Office with parcel containing $1,000
the other day. He distracted the money
and substituted waste paper. He was ar
rested and confessed his guilt.
SUIT for $4,000 was instituted against
leading dry goods house at New York the
other day by j. F. Ridday, who claimed
that they sold him for one dollar pair of
stockings, the color Of which was not fast
and which poisoned his flesh.
! A HORRIBLE suicide occurred at New
tonVille, o., few days ago. A young man
named Fletcher Reid became melancholy
because his suit was rejected by a young
lady to whom he had been attentive. He
climbed upon a haystack and set it on fire
and then cut his throat from ear to ear. The
rlSbody, charred almost beyond recognition,
was recovered from the flames.
THE Lucinda Furnace at NorristoWn,
Pa, went out of blast on the I'd. The rea-
son assigned was that it was impossible to
obtain coal, owing to the suspension at the
mines.
4 On the I'd serious mutiny was re-
!. ported to have occurred in India.
u GEORGE A. MASON, who had served
q term of ten years in the Albany, IN. Y. }
Penitentiary for counterfeiting, the other
day made the charge that he was the victim
of the malice Of Elmer Washburn and
BlufOrd Wilson. He had been detective
in Canada, and was employed by the
American Secret Service to trace out coun.
6 terfeiters in the Western States -
WILL BRUCE and Moses Stroyer, two
boys, while skating south of Franklin, o :,
the other evening, broke through the ice
aud were drowned before assistance arrived
THE inquest on the victims of the
NewhaIi House at Milwaukee, Wis, was
closed on the I'd, but the jury. had not
agreed upon verdict.
The Union Steel and Iron Works al