Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-01-04
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


ties, $4,000
LILLIAN SPENCER was shot and Sc
verely injured by one of her company at the
Academy of Music in Rochester, n. Y, the
other night. The shooting was accidental.
1t took place at the close of the first act of
the play called "Article Al" when Duhamel
shoots Clara. A. H. Forrest played Duha-
mel and he iired blank cartridge at too
close proximity to MISS Spencer. She re-
eeived the charge in her ear.
EMMA FRIHOFF was found dead in
her bed in New York few days ago. When
sons dancing in the room. Another son was
not able to tell his name. They were both
insane.
THREE ice gorges in the Allegheny
River broke the other day, carrying away
$1,000 feet of lumber at Pittsburgh, Pa.
THE steamer Volmer arrived at Vic
toria, B. c., the other day, bringing forty
Chinese women. thirty-two were sold to
Cinnamon who reside in the United States.
They went to the American side disguised
as Indian women.
JOSEPH KOsINsKY, employed in the
homework at Cleveland, o., being fatigued
by the days work, lay down beside the
blast.furnace the other night for a short
nap, having volunteered to work double
time. Next morning he was found dead,
suffocated by the gases from the furnace.
He leaves young widow and infant.
AN error of a telegraph-operator
caused a collision of freight trains on the
New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Road, in
which Conductor Theodore York was killed,
a few days ago.
THE two upper floors of William
Whiteley's furniture store in London, Eng,
burned the other night. Damage very
great. The establishment was one of the
largest in London. twenty-five engines
were engaged in subduing the flames.
SAMUEL RIvEs became involved in q
quarrel with his cousin, VIM. Rives, at
Petersburg, Va, the other day, when
cOlored man named Parker endeavored to
restore peace, which so enraged the former
that he shot the negro. Rfyes then shot
himself, blowing his head off.
SHAW & EsREY's wooden mills, Weth-
Grill & Co.'s machine works and othOr i'm
portant Industrial establishments in Ches-
ter, Pa, closed the other day on account Of
depression of trade. Large numbers were
thrown out of employment.
BARNEY HORsTMAN returned to La
fayette, Ind, the other day, from a some
what extended visit near Munster, Prussia.
About twelve years ago he came to America
to escape military duty. In January last he
went back on visit, and after a disagree
ment in settling the paternal estate sister
in-law had him arrested for evading mill
tary duty. He had to work out six months
sentence for desertion in the military pris =
on.
IHE somerset Fibor Cora4oOnyia IaaaiE1
buildings at Fairfield, Me-, burned the 9TH
er morning. A huge digestor, heated by
flames, exploded, throwing the machinery
in all directions. John Pooler was killed by
the falling iron pipe. The building and
machinery were entirely new.
ADYICEs from Berlin, Germany, recent
ly stated that IN consequence of continuous
rain the Rhine and tributaries were consid-
erably swollen. Traffic was suspended on
several railroads in Baden.
FIRE destroyed English & Hueguenin' S
warehouse, at Macon, Ga, containing 8, 256
bales of cotton and large amount of guano,
the other morning. The grocery of Henry &
Sherwood was also consumed. Loss, $40,
$50. Insurance, $50, 900.
THE three oat mills owned by Doug
las, Stuart & Forest, located in Cedar Rap
the aggregate 90, 900 bushels of oats per day,
the other day shut down till the market as
sumed a more favorable aspect.
THE other evening in Richmond, Va.
K. K. Kennedy, of the Post office Depart
! ment at Washington, caned w. B. johnson.
a railway postal clerk.
WHILE drawing a pail of water Ann
! O'Brien fell into at cistern, at Syracuse, N.
Y, few days ago. Her mother went to
her rescue, lost her footing and fell in. Botf
were drowned. The father discovered the
! dead bodies when he returned from work
in the evening.
A FEW days ago the Spanish-Ameri-
can claims commission, which had been in
existence eleven years, adjourned sine die.
A FEW days ago Westgate, who i'm
plicated himself in the murder of Cavendist
and Burke, in Ireland, and received free
transportation from South America to Ire
land, was released.
The lynching of three cowboys a
Prineville, Ore, was reported a few days
ago. The victims were desperate character
and it is said belonged to an organized banC
of cattle and horse thieves, which the citi
zens were determined to break up
AT Cleveland, o., the operators of thC
MassillOn District coal mines a few day
since agreed to reduce the price of mining
from ninety-iye to eighty five cents ton
and appointed a committee to confer with
the miners.
JEALOUSY caused James Clarke t.
shoot and kill his wife at Pittsburgh, Pa.
the other morning.
IT was recently decided by the Dis
trict Court at Cincinnati that the Telephon
Company was justified in cutting out the in
strument of a subscriber for using profant
language over the wires.
The other day Christian Timman
who recently rescued two girls from burn
lug building IN Providence, r. T., was ealie
8 to thealagor's Office and presented wit
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