Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-08-14
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The telephone exchange at Clinton, Ill,
was struck by lightning and burned.
At San SODA, Tex, fire destroyed $2O,-
600 worth Of property, including the post
office and fixtures.
E. S. Marimus committed suicide at St..
Paul, MINI. Financial trouble led to the
commission Of the act.
The rear portion of the United States
hotel at Washington collapsed, burying in
the ruins a number of people.
James Moore, cripple had to be carried
into court to receive his sentence for muir
der in the second degree at Pittsburg, Pa.
Chas. Bunk, a brakeman, with his
home in New Albany: Ind, was killed
while making switch at Mt. Vernon, Ill.
Three children of James Burgess. at
Grindstone Islands, on the st. Law
renee river, were killed by the caVing in of
bank.
An atrOCiOus murder was committed in
Phillips county, Arkansas. A negro named
Bright killed woman who refused to
marry him.
The Comptroller of the Currency has au-
thOrized the Third National Bank of St.
Paul. Mimi, to begin business with a CAPT
tai of 100000.
The wall of a rolling mill at Lexington,
KY, was forced out by a load of wheat in
the building, and one man was killed and
another fatally injured.
VT. Hess, highly respected cid gen
tleman, of Holden, No, was murdered by
James Ashby, his son-in-law, who is sub
ject to fits and periods Of insanity.
Miss Mary S. Aulter, the betrothed of Dr.
Osman Terburgh, who committed suicide at
Pittsburg a few days ago by prussic acid,
shot herself through the breast. She will die.
In a family difficulty near Brecken-
ridge, Kentucky, Elisha Alexander was
killed, his brother John seriously wound
ed, and Mrs. Charlie Poole was also wound
The Secretary of the Interior has ap-
pointed Robert Il. Carpenter, of Dodge City
Iowa, Superintendent of the Yellowstone
National Park, to succeed P. H. COnger, re-
signed.
James Tyler attempted to pull Warren
Foster of a hack of which Foster was driv-
er, for the purpose of whipping him. Eos
ter, after warning Tyler to keep away, shot
him dead.
A freight train on the Western and n
@ railroad broke from the engine while
going up the mountain and went back
down the hill, going through a trestle. The
conductor was killed.
The Secretary of War has informed the
Indian Bureau that orders have been issued
to the Commanding Officer of the Division
Of Missouri to expel ali intruders from the
Indian Territory.
AT Ration, New Mexico, a greaser who
had assaulted a young girl was given a
horse whipping by the American citizens
and then hanged to q cottonwood tree by
thirty men of his own race.
A gang of men in Harrison county, Ind,
took Mrs. Sallie Upton out of her house,
tied her to a tree, and beat her numerically
with hickory switches, because she was sus-
pected of being unchaste.
In Powell county, Kentucky, James
Duff, on returning home, found Carter
Spurlock in bed with his wife. Duf drew
his pistol and shot Spurlock several times,
killing him instantly.
Alexander Jefferson, a double murderer,
Of New York, was hanged. He got his
hands loose and tore the black cap from his
face, exposing the contortions as he stran-
'gled to death. A similar thing occurred at
the hanging Of Cephas at Cambridge, Nd.