Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-02-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

killed by an explosion of the hot-water ap-
paratus Of a kitchen stove a few days ago.
1t had frozen during the night and ex-
| ploded when the fire was built in the morn
ing.
BOIs, FAY & CoNKEY, wholesale gro
GERS, Chicago, ILL.,, were reported in the
hands OF the Sheriff on judgment entered
| against them the other day for $95. 600.
Their assets were stated to be $500, 600; LA
bilities unknown, but said to exceed the as
sets.
The Panama Railroad Company has
offered reward of SO, 600 for the recovery
Of the money belonging to the United States
recently stolen from their vaults and the
capture Of the thieves.
! DURING fire at Vineennes, Ind, the
other day, fire damp explosion occurred
in cistern from which new Ahrens en-
CINE was drawing water. The top of the
cistern blew out and the engine fell through
and was ruined.
THE residence of Senator Frye, at
Lewiston, Me-, was damaged s., 600 by fire
few days ago.
EDWIN BOOTH, the American actor,
was called before the curtain eighteen times
when he appeared as "Lear'' in Berlin,
Oelmany3 the oLher nlSnC.
CONSIDERABLE. excitement was re-
ported few days ago over an alleged dis
eOvery of gold in Owen County, few miles
above Vincennes, Ind.
The failure of Samuel Morgan, Jr.,
flannel manufacturer at Newton, Montgom-
eryshire, Wales, was announced a day or
two ago. Liabilities 913O, Co.,
HENRY BARNARD, late Cashier of the
defunct City Bank of Rochester, N. Y, was
arrested on the oath.
FRANK JAMES, under Indictment for
the murder of Detective Witcher and also for
the robbery of McCoy's Bank at Independ.
ence, was arraigned at Kansas City, No.,
| a few days ago and the Court dismissed both
cases, the Prosecuting Attorney stating that
there was not evidence enough to convict.
Another Indictment was then brought for
ward charging James with assaulting and
rObbing H. A. Fox Of $500 in September,
1881, on the occasion of the Blue Cut rob-
| berry on the Chicago & Alton Railroad. The
accused was held in 50, 500 bond to answer
the charge.
! The great cave-in at Wilkesbarre,
Pa, which occurred recently was said to be
the result of fire that had been smouldering
in the mines underneath that place for eight
years.
GEORGE MUNRO, the publisher, re-
Gently endowed three tutOrships in Dali
| hodsie college, Halifax, n. S.
ISAAC KOPP was pardoned out of the
! Ohio Penitentiary October 10. He was ar
rested at Fremont few days ago and taken
back to prison, it having been discovered
that he ate soap, causing anSabscess which
! led to his pardon on the ground that he
would die.
AT Newport, R. l., Kate Judd, who
had already served five years in prison for
arson, was the other day arrested on a charge
Of burning the Weaver villa. She was sus-
pected of other incendiaries.
DR.. GEORGE NJ. BEARD, of New
! York, who testified as an expert in the
Guiteau trial, died of pneumonia the other
day.
ANOTHER murderous organization
was reported on the 25th to have been dis
| covered in the West of Ireland.
IT was reported lately that the inhab-
! itants OF Innismurray Island. Ireland, were
starving. On the 25th the Government sent
gunboat with provisions for their relief.
THE Bank of England, at London,
has reduced its discount from five to four
per cent.
THE unrecognized dead taken from
the ruins of the Newhall House at Milwau-
kee, Wis, were buried on the 25th.
AT Washington, D. c., the other day
Janson, the resurrectionist who exhumed
the body OF Charles Shaw, who killed his
sister, was sentenced to Imprisonment for
eleven months and twenty nine days.
It was reported from Columbus, O.,
the other day that over 80 families residing
in that city were in destitute circumstances,
caused by the closing down of the Columbus
Rolling Mill Christmas, throwing them out
of work.
THE French Legislative committee in
charge of bills to deal with the royal pre-
! tenders has agreed to advocate the exclu-
sion from France and Algeria of all men,
beTs of any royal family that ever ruled in
France.
ED. GARRETT, colored, was hanged
at Texarkana, Ark. ,on the 2G, for the murder
of his wife in January, 1882, and George
W. Traughber was hanged at TayloTYille,
H., on the same day for the murder OF
Joseph Mckinney.
AT Washington, on the 26th, the
Grand Jury returned presentment against
William Dickson, charging him with cor
ruptly endeavoring to influence the vote OF
his fellow jurors in the late star-rOute cases.
At Philadelphia, Pa, lawyer Thomas
Aahr, Jr., Isaac.L. Street and Joseph Ny
ers, all election officers, we're the other day
convicted of making false returns.
In Philadelphia, Pa, the other day,
Drs. B. Mcdowell and Henry Beales were
held for trial on the charge of conspiracy to
obtain from Mrs. Catherine Bolts, an in
valid, the assignment of all her property
without any other consideration than
McDowell's claim for medical services.
ENEAs MCMAsTER, late manager Of
the Glasgow Canadian Land and Trust
Company, Scottstown, Cana, was arrested
q few days ago, as he was about to start FOL
/ Australia, on a charge of embezzling 49,,
600. He was lately candidate for Parlia-
ment.
Nj. ARMSTRONG 6 Son, wholesale
leather merchants, New York City, have
made an assignment. Liabilities, 500, goo
A RECENT telegram from Dublin,
Ireland. stated that important evidence had
been obtained in regard to the preparation
of outrages the last two years in the west
of Ireland. The police it was said antici-
pated capturing all members of the oTganI-
cation which promoted the crimes, also per-
! soDe coDoarnad in the unurdar oP Lord