Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-03-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


bench in the Pennsylvania Railroad Depot
the other day and went to get lunch.
When he returned the sachel, containing
81 900 and gold watch, was missing.
The Chester (Pa.) Grand Jury has
indicted Colonel Theodore Hyatt, Princi-
pal of the Pennsylvania Military Academy,
for alleged assault and unlawful impriSon-
ment of a pupil.
The steamer Commonwealth ran into
and sunk pilot-boat in New York harbor
the other morning and Pilot Campbell was
drowned.
AT Cleveland, O., scaffold on which
some men were at work fell the other morn
Ing and John Lube was fatally injured.
DR.. M. A. RANDALL, q prominent
physician of RoseYllIe, O., was called from
his home the other night and had not been
heard from to a recent date. His hat was
found near creek with hole in it, and it
was supposed he was thrown In the creek.
DR.. ISAAC L. NICHOLSON, Rector of
ST. Marks Church, Philadelphia, Pa, has
been elected Bishop of Indiana.
ALL the furnaces, rolling mills and
other works of the Bethlehem Iron Com
pany, Allentown, Pa, employing 5000 men,
were in full blast on the 7th.
Two children of A. Evans, of Law
renee, o., were burned to death a few days
ago in a stable. where they had been play
ing with matches.
THE police seized number of rifles
and bayOnets on the premises of shop
keeper at Liverpool, Eng, on the 9th. The
discovery was made while the officers were
making inquiries concerning the doings Of
Fenians.
Two alleged counterfeiters were ar
rested at Dallas, Tex, few days ago and
large amount OF counterfeit coin, besides
plaster, dies and material were secured. It
was thought there was g gang of them in
that vicinity and people were on the alert.
The memorial tablet IN the house at
Rome, Italy, formerly occupied by Profess
sor Morse, the "father Of the telegraph, -
was unveiled few days ago. in the pres
ence of a distinguished assembly.
AFTER serving twenty-eight years
under life sentence for murder, Samuel
Ulman was the other day psrdoned out of
the Michigan Penitentiary, his innocence of
the charge against him having been fully
established.
DR.GARCELON, Ex-Governor of Maine,
has been elected Mayor of Lewiston.
A FIRE which started in the cellar of
a wholesale drugstore at Nashville, Tenn.
on the 7th was only subdued after $250,OO0
worth OF property had been DESTROYED.
AN old farmer named a. j. Wing,
living near Somerville, o., was heightened
to death the other night by some boys who
fired pistol near him in sport.
JOHN VOUGT rushed back into the
burning Wabash House, in Defiance, O.,
recently, to save his property, and persisted
in the flames.
THE firm of Master & Reamy, ship
builders, machinists and prOprietOrs of the
dry dock at Locust Point, Baltimore, Nd,
made an assignment a few days ago. Liabil-
lilies were estimated at $S00,00 Provision
was made for the payment first of their
several hundred workmen.
AT Wilmot. O., sparks from Lucinda
Balcom's pipe set her clothing on fire the
other day and she was burned to death.
JUDGE THoMAN has notified the Presi-
dent of his acceptance of the appointment
on the Civil-Service Commission.
A TELEGRAM from Constantinople
| says Minister Wallace is endeaVoring to ar
range better terms for petroleum importa-
| lions into Turkey.
| THE dead body of Frank Hunter was
| found in a water-tank near AIassillOn, o. &,
| the other dav and his wife, her father and
several relatives had been arrested on sus-
| picion Of having murdered him.
F. II. PITT, Secretary of the PENN
sular Mutual Benefit Association of Flint,
Mich, has been arrested on charge of
making assessments upon members on ac-
| count of fictitious deaths.
AT Somerset, Ky, in a recent quar-
! rel over the wife of Peter Golf, Henry
! Thompson was shot dead by Golf, who in
| turn was killed by James Spiney, ThOmp-
sons friend.
IT was reported on the 9th that the
| imprisoned Spanish Socialists were recefv-
/ ing aid from mysterious sources.
A PREMATURE explosion at the Even
dale Coal Mine, near Canton, o., the other
morning, fatally injured Justin Ferret and
Louis Tangley, miners.
THE failure of Henry Chapman & Co.,
wholesale grOcers and wine and spirits mer-
/ chants, Montreal, Cana, has been an.
nounced. Liabilities, $4,000.
URIAH MoYER was hanged at Mid.
dlebury, Pa, on the 7th for the murder o.
/ Gretchen Kintzler in 1877.
IDA II. HOsMER, three feet tall, and
Robert II. Huzza, three feet six inches,
were married few days ago on the stage Of
the Brooklyn IN. W Museum, in which
they were attractions.
GEORGE CARSON, alias Haywood, ar
alleged notorious bank sneak-thief, wa,
arrested in New York City the other day,
charged with the larceny OF SIC, 200.
THE Courthouse at Texarkana, Tex,
was the scene Of sensational affair on the
Ttb, eliminating in the killing of A. L.
Johnson by c. E. Dixon, Sheriff of Miller
County. The trouble, it was said, wa.
caused by Dixon making war on gambling
house in which johnson was silently in
terested.
AN attempt was made by four desper
ADDE'S on the 7th to rob a mail train on tn,
Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroad near vaI
Buren,, Ark. They failed the attempt, bu
killed Conductor John Cain and brakeman
Milton Lester, who gave the alarm. Tn,
railroad company has offered a reward o
s., GOO and Crawford County one of s., 600 fOi
the capture Of the Williams.
THE jury in the case of Colonel Theo
dore Hyatt, President Of the Pennsylvania
Military Academy, charged with an sggra
waited assault and battery on 4 cadet, re-
turned a verdict OF acquittalon the 9Th.
GovERNoR CRITrENDEN on the "a
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