Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-05-08

| Scott Hill. Brownlow Hill and Charles
Spurlochs, who killed Albert Woods and
fatally wounded his father near Charleston.
! w. Va, have been arrested and one of them
confessed.
| David n. Carpenter, of New Albany, Ind,
cowhided on the street young mer-
chant named, Walter Williams, for circu-
lating damaging reports about the former
daughter.
Thomas Wolf, a notorious horse thief,
who has been operating in Texas and the
Indian Territory the last five years. has
been caught.
A confession of Rugg, the negro arrested
for the Maybee murders on Long Island,
was admitted in evidence against him and
he was convicted.
Frank James has arrived at Bonneville,
Mo-, to answer the charge of the Otterville
train robbery, and was admitted to bail in
the sum of 5000 to the 9Th of July.
VIM Williams was killed and thirteen
others wounded by an explosion of dyna-
mite at EIlettsville, Ill. The explosion was
caused by fire which consumed several
buildings.
Surrogate Stern, of Buffalo, reported to
the board ofsupervisors a shortage of 81, 700
in the accounts of his predecessor, Zebulon
Ferris. The immediate result was the death
/
Burglars entered the residence of Jack
| Woods, near Charleston, S. c., and serious
! ly wounded him and killed his son. Miss
May Woods fired on them and drove them
off, one being wounded.
Fifty thousand dollars worth of lumber
was destroyed at Cedar Springs, Mich, by
an incendiary fire. The burning woods in
the vicinity have done great damage. One
woman persisted while trying to rescue her
children.
At Roland, 10 va, Edward Thompson, a
Norwegian, while drunk attempted to shoot
his wife and then struck her on the head
with an axe, several times, leaving her for
dead. He then ended his own life by
jumping into well.
City Marshal Davis, of Marshall, Mo-,
shot and killed West Music, ferryman, for
whom he had a warrant on a trivial Offense.
Music had jumped into a boat and was
pulling away to avoid arrest. Davis action
is severely criticized.
Isaac Jacobson, tramp carpet cleaner
shot and killed George Bedell at Chicago,
because Bedell would not pay Jacobson
dollar, which he claimed. Eye witnesses
say the shot was fired while Bedell's back
was turned and without the preliminary of
quarrel.
Dennis Regain, cashier in the office of The
Interior, at Chicago, was last December dis
charged for the theft Of $500, or more, but
influential friends secured his reinstatement
He was arrested recently for the theft of
books, stamps and money to a considerable
amount. He confessed that he was KEEP
tomaniac by nature.
Luke Phipps, who killed his wife on
ferry-boat in the Detroit river last August,
has been convicted of the crime and SEN
fenced to be executed June II, at Sandwich,
Ontario. 1t will be remembe that he
broke jail in December and came to Pull
man, ILL.,, where he was employed in a bill
lard room.
An old white man named Milledge Waugh
an was murdered near Chunkey Station,
La. Clarke Sutton, colored, admitted the
crime, but resisting arrest was shot dead
Vaughan'S body vas horribly nutilated;
hs head and feet were separated from his
body.
Allan Ingalls,, one of the murderers
charged with burning the Taylor family at
AvOndale, Ohio, committed suicide by
strangling himselfin the jail at Cincinnati
He left note to the sheriff asking that his
body be sent to his wife. He had dread
of going to the dissecting table, for which
he had furnished several victims.
The trial of Frank James, at Huntsville,
Ala, for the Mussel Shoals robbery, result
ed in an acquittal. James was at once re-
arrested by Sheriff Rodgers, of Cooper coun-
ty, Mo-, who sat Immediately behind him,
awaiting the verdict. Minnesota officers
were also after James, but were too slow
James was taken to Missouri at once and
was accompanied by his wife.
Burglars robbed the farm house of VIM.
Wayne, near Bern, Adams county, Ind,
securing a small sum of money, and then
forced an entrance to the house of Ames
Brackenstras, three-quarters of a mile from
Wayne. Brackenstras awOke and was shot
through the heart and the house was then
robbed Of $73. Two men were arrested on
suspicion.
The latest development in the famous
cotton fraud cases at Dallas, Tex, is that
E. D. Easton, one of the accused, has ar
ranged to give evidence for the State. He
will tell all he knows about the conspiracy,
and the cases against him will be dis
housekeeping one. In this he will
plead guilty and get the hghtest sentence
the law allows.
William Shaw was witness against Jno.
H. Brewster and Richard Skaggs, to be
tried for burglary at Shelbyville, Ill. Just
before daylight recently Brewster with some
friends went to the house of Shaw and &C
tuaIIy compelled him to walk nine miles
with them to Tower Hill. Before they
could get him on a train Shaw managed
| to make his situation known, and the whole
gang of kidnappers were arrested.
The first fight in connection with the
bloody street fight of February 9th between
the Doran and Flynn factions has ended.
| s. A. Doran, D. r. Pruitt, II. L. Lansing,
]. Lucas, John Allison, o. R. Allison and
Robert Pruitt were tried for the killing of
Frank Hall, the hickman driving the
Flynn party when the encounter occurred.
The jury, after two hours deiberatiOn,
rendered verdict OF not guilty. The an
nouncement was received with applause.
POLITICAL AND PERSONAL.