Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-04
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.


Forest fires are reported in Michigan.
A heavy cyclone is reported as having
gone over the Southern part OF Virginia.
By the collision of a freight train on the
Pennsylvania Central near Lancaster, Pa,
800 sheep were killed.
The steamer Shields and the wharfboat
Maria Louise were burned at Shreveport,
Louisiana, the loss being $4,000.
w. L. Reynolds, cashier of the Texas tx
press Company suicided at Houston. FL
nancial difficulties the cause.
The annual sun dance of the Cheyennes
on the Canadian river continued without
cessation three days and nights.
John Howard, an old citizen, was shot to
death by a mob at GatesVille, Tex, because
he was supposed to have burned thresher.
An assignment to secure liabilities of
$35, 600 has been made by the Dunbar Coke
Company, Of Fayette county Pennsylvania.
( John P. Sloan, a wife murderer, Of New
bury, S. O., surrounded in a negro cabin,
closed the doors and shot himself, dying
instantly.
Union sailors at Milwaukee tried to mob
Chicago sailors who had arrived to work
on schOOners. Police protected the Chi
CagOans.
Louis @. Paxton, junior partner in a COM
mission firm at the Chicago StOck-yards,
has deserted a wife and two children, and
absconded with $4,000 and an actress.
Elsey Williams shot and killed Thomas
Brown, at StauntOn, Va, and then turned
and shot his father-in-laWs Jealousy is
supposed to have been the cause.
Forest fires are still raging in the vicinity
of Tawas Lake. Mich. The hamlet known
as Harmon City was wiped out by flames.
The black muck in the sWamps burned
down to the roots of large trees.
In Cedar Hill cemetery, at Hartford, the
burning of a temporary staging used by the
carVers ruined the elaborate Italian marble
column at the grave of the late Gov. Edwin
D. Morgan, Of New York.
The Government launch, Daphne, ex-
plOded her boiler at Memphis. Paymaster
n. Golden was blown overheard and
drowned, and the engineer, pilot and two
others were seriously scalded.
The Directors of the First National Bank,
Of Albion, New York, have been forced to
suspend business, owing to the continued
absence Of the president, Albert S. Warner.
The deposits aggregate $4,000.
Theseverest storm known in this region for
years, visited Springfield, Mass, and much
damage was done to the crops and houses,
all through the Connecticut valley. There
were numerous washouts on all the rail
roads.
A masked higbwayman, displaying
rifle and three slX-ShOOters, robbed the dTiY-
er and four passengers on the the stage be-
tween WeatherfOrd and Graham, Texas,
and is now being pursued by a bloOdthirsty
posse.
Peter Gomez, steward of the ocean schooner
Julia Baker, returned to Philadelphia from
West and WAS arrested for 1ornT0ficffV
in the murder of Capt. Lewis and the IN
authorized sale of the cargo Of lumber. He
states that the captain died on the voyage.
Fire destroyed the Sibley cotton mill at
Augusta, Georgia, valued at $50, 000s Pear
son q Co.'S tobacco works at DanVille, Vir-
ginia; Tarle's sack factory at New Bedford,
Mass; the saddIery works of Pollock, Viii
son s. Sons at Cincinnati, and Walters
frui tevapOratOr at Dover, Delaware.
A train stopped at a draw bridge on the
PensacOla & Atlantic railroad, near Pensa-
cola, Fla, and finding no signals to move
forward, the conductor went forward and
found the Waterman murdered. There
were twenty-three balls in the body, which
lay on the track.
Fennimore Clayton, farmer of Middle
town, n. Y, afflicted with delirium ire
mems, took his two year old son into the
yard and shot him through the brain. He
next attempted the lives Of his wife and
his mother, when his wife knocked him
senseIess with a base ball bat.
William Morris, head teacher of a school,
at Markdale, Ontario, Canada, fired i've
times at q second teacher, Miss Ford, three
shots taking effect. He then shot himself,
dying instantly. Miss Ford cannot re-
cover.
A gasoline explosion at UrichsvilIe. O.,
In the hard ware store Of KOeblitz set fire 70
the building and caused a c0n1agratiOn
which destroyed the building and also the
store Of Thrilling, Runner g Hardman and
Urich & Smith. Loss, So, 600; insurance
900.
A riot broke out among the Italian labor
ers near Dixon, Illinois. Over thirty men
were engaged in the melee. Knives clubs
and shOVels were freely used. Three men
were perhaps fatally injured. One was
stabbed five times and another had an arm
and leg broken. The cause Of the trouble
is unknown.
J. o. StrattOn, a prominent criminal law
yer Of TT. Wayne, Indiana, attempted sui
eide by cutting his throat with q penknife.
de was discovered In a few moments, and
his life was saved by a prompt surgical aid.
Domestic trouble and suffering from dis
ease, is assigned as the cause Of the rash
act