Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-25
ORlMEs AND CASUALTIES.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
E. J. Salt & Co.'s, wooden mill at Ports
mouth, o., burned.
Councilman Barney McAtee, of Louis
vile, was kicked to death by a horse.
Dr. Felix O'Hare was arrested in New
York on the charge Of poisoning patient.
Almost the entire business portion of the
town Of Pierre, OAK, was swept away by
fire.
A. F. Roberts, PrOrietOr ofCameron mills.
Alexander, Va, was killed by passing
train.
Two great concerts viii be given in New
York tor the benefit of cholera sufferers in
Italy.
The Temple Manufacturing Company of
MuskegOn burned to the ground. Loss,
600.
The planning mill of Brooks & Fisher, De
trOit, Michigan, was burned to the ground.
Loss, 100000.
A heavy loss was sustained at Oronago,
Mo, by the burning Of the Cranky mining
and smelling works.
The VitrioI Works of James Irwin & Co..
Pittsburg, Pa, were entirely destroyed by
fire. Loss, $4,000.
At Abbott Station, Texas, two stockmen
fought duel to the death with bowie
knives and dirks.
Geo. Wagner, employed by the Frisco
line at North Springfield, No, committed
suicide by hanging.
A construction train on the Alabama &
Chattanooga railroad was ditched near
York, Miss. Engineer Griffin was scalded
to death.
Geo. Latham, editor of the American at
I n T1NFl =y-zzr raE
the Republican party two years ago, and
was repudiated by his family.
Dispatches from Eau Claire represent
that 100 houses were washed away by the
/ unprecedented rise in the Chippewa river,
1 the loss in the city being $1,O00,0OO.
Henry johnson, alias Yellow Henry, who
committed a brutal assault on a little girl
in BrazOs county, Texas, was riddled with
bullets by citizens of the town Of Clay.
! sThe Office of street railway at Augusta,
/ Ga, was invaded by burglars, who finished
/ their work by numbering the night watch
/ man, saturating his corpse with oil, anG
| burning 1t to cinder.
/ The Mazzeppa Mill Co., of Red Wing,
Mimi, made an assignment. Liabilities,
/ $l14, 600; assets, $175,O 600. The failure grew
out of complications with the Minnesota
/ Elevator Co.
| A Wabash train of thirteen cars was
/ broken to pieces by striking a COW and run
ming off a trestie near CarInj, III. The head
/ brakeman was killed, and the engineer ana
/ fireman were badly injured.
At Fit. Dodge, Iowa, masked men entered
/ the County Ireasurer's house and dem md
| ed money. The Treasur wife told them
all the money was in the bank, WhereupOn
| they shot her dead and fed.
Benz. johnson, one of the murderers of
| the Taylor family at Cincinnati, was
hanged. His partner in crime was Allen
/ Ingalls, and the bodies were sold to a med
zeal college just after the murder.
The remains of Brigadier General B. H.
Helm of the Confederate army, who was
killed at Chickamauga, were disinterred at
Atlanta for removal to ElizabethtOWn, Ky.
He was brother-in-laW of Abraham Lin
coin.
A dry-gOOds firm in New York recently
/ suspected salesWOman named Agnes E.
/ Francois of stealing from the stock. She
was soon caught in the act and surren-
dered property valued at 81, 875, when she
was sent to jail.
John 7. Durham was killed in an alter
cation with John Stops at Cory, Indiana.
result OF an old teud. During the shooting
a man named Gardner interfered, and was
shot IN the arm and neck.
The Italian Consul, E. DeMerolla, who
left Baltimore abOuttW weeks ago, has not
since been heard from. BE was a prOmi-
nent merchant, and stood high socially.
Financial troubles supposed to be the cause.
DsMerOlla owes $4,000 borrowed money.
Forged Endorsements to the amount of
/ $50, 600 have been confessed by Samuel
/ Wannamaker, once a very wealthy citizen
of Youngstown, o., Who fed last June. He
recently returned in a penniless state and
nearly dead with consumption, and thought
/ best to diVulge the truth.
A woman sixty years old and a lunatic
/ from birth, was found confined in a nude
| condition in a filthy pen at Auburn, n. Y.
/ She owns considerable property, and has
! been kept in her present condition from
| economy by her relatives. The name Of
/ the woman is Angelina Herritt.
A masked man entered the residence Of
I William JennisOn, school treasurer of
/ Washington township, Iowa, demanded
\ the funds, and killed Mrs. JennisOn when
/ she informed him the money was in the
bank. He is liable to be lynched by a
! party Of citizens.