Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-03-15
In endeavoring to make their escape

from fire in the Cambridge Flats In New
York City the other day Mrs. Abram Wake
man and her daughter were sutocated. a
number Of other persons had narrow es-
eapes.
THE bodies of three victims of the re-
cent fire at Nashville, Tenn, were recovered
on the 8th. They had been crushed to death
by falling walls while rescuing property
from the adjoining building.
THE Mayor of Xerez, Spain, received
aletter recently containing threat to poison
the drinking water if the prosecution of the
''Black Hand" Society was continued.
JOSEPH 81. LOOMS was executed at
Springfield, Mass, on the Sth for the muir
der of his friend David Levitt, in Agawam,
in December. 1881.
JUDGE LILLEY, of Washington, was
confined to his bed on the Gil in consequence
Of injuries received in personal encounter
with S. W. Dorsey, who charged him with
persuading Rerdell to testify for the Gov
eminent in the star-route cases.
Two murderers were executed in New
York City on the 9th, Michael McGloin for
the murder of Louis Hanier, and Basquele
Malone for killing his thirteen-year- old wife.
Bob Cochran, colered, was hanged at Clay
OF NJ. L. Drew.
THERE were 252 business failures in
the United States and Canada for the seven
days ended on the 9th, against 272 for the
previous seven days.
The steamer Navarro, bound from
Copenhagen to Leith, foundered during a
gale on the 8th, and of the eighty persons
on board fully fifty-fve persisted.
SEVEN laborers were drowned on the
9th by the sinking OF scoW In New York
harbor.
THREE men, supposed to be the Ar
kansas train robbers, were arrested near
Russeliville, Ark, on the 9th.
ONE man was killed and three Sc
verely hurt on the 9th by an explosion of
giant powder at McKeesport, Pa.
The Commercial Iron Works Com
pany, ShOreditch, Eng, has failed for ESQ.,
900.
THE Reading Pa.) Hardware Com
pany has increased mOlders' wages ten per
cent.
ONE of the desperadoes who killed
Conductor Cain in an attempt to rob train
near Van Buren,, Ark, was captured on the
9Th. It seems he was wounded in the melee
on the train and being unable to travel had
to stop at a farmhouse near the scene of the
murder, where he gave himself up, having
been deserted by his companions.
HEAVY rains in the Kaladgi District,
India, recently, destroyed 25O houses.
Two hundred girls started from Linn
erick, Ireland, the other day for New Hamp
shire, where they will be employed in
various factories.
A. E. KENT, of San Francisco, Cal,
of the class OF '53, has given Yale College
| 100000 to be used in erecting q chemical
| laboratory.
WILLIAM LYON, of Cleveland, O., shot
his divorced wife through the check the
other day, and, supposing that he had
killed her, shot himself through the brain.
| dying instantly. Uncomfortable jealousy.
LADY FLORENCE Dixie, in recent
letter to the London Times, charged Biggar
and Parnell, as trustees of the Land League
fund, with not accounting for s125, 900.
IN Chicago, Ill. the jury in the case
of Eugene Dougherty for the murder of the
Greek waiter, Nicholas Johns, the other
evening brought In verdict Of guilty, with
| a life sentence.
M. T. RAY, assistant cashier of the
Merchants and Planters Bank, Montgom-
cry, Ala, killed himself the other day, and
an examination Of the books showed his
cash to be S 1000 short.