Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-02-14


". NJ. Baker. pioneer and leading mer-
chant of western Texas, disemboweled him
self at GeOrWetOwn with razor, and suffered
for several hours until relieved by death.
C. J. Russell, manager of the telephone
exchange at Hyde Park, Mass, has disap-
peared. He is charged with having aided
professional burglar to blow safe in
store.
A plot to burn the Forster Grammar
School building, in Boston, was discovered
by the ianitOr, who extnguished the flame.
Several hundred children were in school at
the time.
On second trial for numbering a Negro in
Memphis, Patrick Haley was acquitted.
The judge said the verdict was disgrace
and directed that none of the jurors ever
be summoned in court again.
James D. Morton, who has teen receiving |
mail and money in answer to letters prom |
Using to secure work for laborers for fifty |
cents each, has been arrested at Dallas, |
Texas, for fraudulent use of the mails.
At WellsviIle, Ohio, child . years spill
ed some oil on her clothes and attempted to
dry them at an open CRATE, the result being
that her body was burned to crisp.
Alfred NJ. Flagg. when arrested at Sioux
Falls, D. T., for embezzling 81 500 from the
Producers Marble Works, of Chicago, at
tempted to kill himself. His bail was placed
at $4,000.
Jas. Kramer was fatally wounded while
| inspecting a car of gasoline on the Bee Line
road at Cleveland. The lamp he carried
under the tank ignited the gas and caused
The wife and little daughter of Morgan
Martin, a farmer living near Gallipolis,
Ohio, burned to death in their dwelling,
which it is supposed was caused by the
mothers dress catching fire.
At Birdsboro, Pa lot of giant powder
cartridges exploded in a Philadelphia and
Reading signal tower, wrecking the tower
and killing James Kenney and seriously in
juring Benjamin Trout.
The electric light has done more than any
other agency to stimulate inventions and
improvements in the direction of gas-Gght-
ing Just as the introduction of gas stimulat-
ed improvements in lamps.
A sleigh containing forty-seven ladies up
set on Crooked hill, at Reading, Pa. Mrs.
Hummel suffered to the extent of a broken
: nose, and three others were badly injured
about the head by the horses teea
) The Daily News Lincoln, ILL.,, special
, says: Grin A. Carpenter, charged with the
murder of Fora Burnes, has obtained a
change of venue to Petersburg, Minard
county. The case is set for trial during the
March term.
f Little Rock advices from the Indian Ter.
ritory, report the finding by some herderS
of the body of a stock dealer of some prom
nence named Muron, supposed to have
been killed by the Indians, as he was un
: popular among them.
S Herman Koerstein, German embezzler
r whose extradition from Chicago had been or
Y dered by Judge BlOdgett, poisoned himsel
in the jail with cyanide of potassium
o When escorted from his cell to the office b.
q fell senseless, and soon expired.
: A stage was robbed between Concho ant
:, Abilene, Texas, and a sheriff and posse il
d another stage were ATTACKED at the SAM
: place. few hours later. A desperate figh
a ensued, in which one rObber was shot anC
It Sheriff Gerald was fatally wounded.
! Mrs. J. o. Fisher, of Lincoln Nebraska
: committed suicide by using chloral, on &C
: count of an unhappy married life Mrs
. Robert A. Humes, the mother of nine child
7 rem, made an attempt on her life near Mead
- vile, Pennsylvania, during an epilepic fit
A party of f1fty-five men, who were cut
ting one hundred cords of wood daily OF
Government land near Ft. Lincoln, were
captured by detachment of the 10Th in
fantry and imprisoned at the fort. An ex
animation is in progress to ascertain who i
" responsible for the work.
The commissioners of Golden Gate parl
G at San Francisco, with a force of twenty
= five armed citizens and six policemen, tor
down the shanties of lot of squatterS OF
It the beach, where HQHOrS and luncheon
S were sold in defiance of law. Denis Kearny
was one of the evicted peddlerS.
S 1t is now believed that Chas. Rugg tn
n mulatto who attacked Selah Sprague, is re
sponsible for ten crimes of robbery and vi
= Olence occurring within few years, in ad
ditiOn to those agitating Long Island TO
the past three months. He will be charged
with four murders.
8 At Racine, Wis, Andrew Johnson,
l young Swede, shot and killed Bertha
Brassrnan, of whom he was enamored, anC
who did not return his feelings and theT
e killed himself The murder and suicide
occurred in a restaurant where the girl
who was only fifteen years old, worked.
/ The investigation of the loss of the City
of Columbus shows ninetv-seven lives lost
I Capt. Wright said he could not tell where
the blame should rest. Engineer Collins
testified that the gale was so severe that
men could not move across the deck after
l the ship struck.
The floods at Cincinnati, Pittsburg Louis
Y lie, Wheeling and other points are worse
l than last year, but the people are better pre-
s. pared and the damage will probably be light
er. Very heavy rains have prevailed foT
: several days and swollen the rivers to i'm
/ mense proportions. At Cincinnati on Feb
ruary 9Th, the river was sixty-one feet and
one inch, and a sixty-six foot rise is expect
ed; at Pittsburg, the rise was thirty-one feet
six inches; at Louisville, thirty -four feet
at Wheeling, forty -four feet; at Cairo, thir-
ty-seven and a half feet. Thousands of fam
lilies have been driven from their homes.
The rains continue with no prospect of abat-
ing, says dispatch dated 2:3O a. m. Febru-
airy 18th. On Feb. 18th there was no change
for the better in the condition of the eastern
rivers. The levee on the Miami river at
Lawrenceburg broke, but the town was
already submerged and no further damage
could be done. The submerged territory
along the Ohio river is practically as great
as last wear. A Cincinnati disnatch saws .