Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-10-09
OR1MEs AND CASUALTIES.


An unknown man committed suicide at
depot in Evansville Ind.
Allentown, Pa, is infested with and
greatly excited over fire bugs.
The Reading mill of the Dupont Powder
Company blew up with terrific report.
The Tuescbel Union Horn and Rubber
works, New York, have made an assign
menJ.
Benjamin F. Cobb, a prominent young
business man Of Lincoln, Neb., has disap-
peared.
Burglars robbed a Hannibal clothing
store Of several hundred dolIas worth OF
goods.
Michael MoCune, a roustabOut, stabbed a
man and cut another with an axe at Rock
Island, III.
MulHgan Neidham, of Nation, III was
shot through the heart by a revolver he did
think was loaded.
J. W. Tice was placed in jail in Nevada,
Mo, for the murder Of Cassius ThOrnhill.
Whisky the cause.
CarrOIltOn, No, is excited over two at
tempts made by unknown parties to burn
one Of the principal business blocks Of the
town.
At ST.. BOniface, Manitoba fire swept
/
! sufficient lumber to make the total loss
100000.
An unknown man stole a bar of gold
fee and vanished by climbing down fire
escape.
Mrs. Barbara Becht, of Louisville, arose
/ from her bed to hunt for a cat. Her clothes
took fire from a candle, andshe was burned
to death.
BY the collision of freight trains on the
/ Peoria and Rock Island road near Dunlap
/ H., Michael ROdigan, engineer, was in
stantly killed.
Attachments to the amount of SAC, coz
/ have been served on the agricultural nipple
ment stock of Mitchell & ScrOggs, Of Dallas
Texas, who have branch house at For
Worth.
Patrolman jeremiah O'Brien, OF Boston
/ shot and killed Thomas Callahan, one of &
/ party attem pting the rescue of Cornelius
/ Casey, whom the officer had in charge fOI
/ drunkenness.
Hank Adams, a Negro who abducted the
/ daughter of a wealthy farmer in New Jer-
! sey, has, after narrowly escaping band OF
/ lyncbers, been sentenced to the State prison
for fifteen years.
Mrs. NJ. Niehaus, of st. Louis, a feeble
/ old lady, seYenty-twO years of age, suicideC
\ By standing in one wash tub full of water
! and holding her head in another. tub Of
water until life was extinct.
! At Magnolia, Larne county Kentucky
James Ship shot and MORALLY wounded
/ b. j. Beavers, a well known business
man. Ship was a bad character and had
! been ordered to leave the county by the
/ Regulators.
! J. o. Harvey, q well known business man
/ Of Wilton, Iowa, has been taken to Rock.
! ford, Illinois, to be tried On q charge at
! tempting to eXtOrt 500 for a package Of
/ love letters written BY a young lady of that
! Getty.
About thirty passengers were injured, Buf
none fatally, by reason OF a coils
ion of the outgoing LeadviIle ex
pres s on the Denver and Rio Grandt
| with the incoming Salt Lake train, neal
| Aleo.ua, seventeen miles south Of Denver
The body of Mrs. Sophia summerfeIC
/ was found hanging In 8 barn on farm neal
| Charleston, West Virginia, by her husband
/ She had been missing for some time
! Their family relations were not in the Less
the cause Of the suicide. She was fOrJ
/ years old.
A ferry boat loaded with workmen cap
/ sized near Michigan City, and all Wer,
/ thrown IN the water. 1t was supposed tina
all were recovered. The channel has sine,
i been dragged, and Charles Rebbeck and al
unknown youth found. The search Is still
IN progress.
A gang of men called at the house O
Dennis MCGrath at Providence, 3. l., aud
/ invited him to accompany them TO the
woods. His body was found in the river
and his temple was stove IN, and every
thing indicated that he had been murdered
/ A number of arrests haYe been made.
Sam Hayes, cashier Of the Green wooC
Coal Company, on the Cincinnati Southeu
/ Railroad, near Chattanooga, Tenn, wa,
/ found dead On the railroad track Hi
clothes had been riffed and his watch wa,
/ missing. HeWas murdered for the purpos,
Of robbery. Two bullet holes were founc
in his head.
Michael Shay, living in amiserabls hous.