Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-05-15
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

Chas. Scrack was killed and the Episeopal
church and other buildings DESTROYED by a
cyclone at Del Rio, California.
A member of the Massachusetts Leeisla-
ture has been held for trial in bond of s., GOO
for bullot-box stufng at Natick.
A Negro who eloped with white woman
at BeemerVille, N. Y, was arrested and
with the greatest difficulty saved from
lynching.
The Longshoremen and Italians and
number OF Greeks at Buffalo, engaged in a
riot recently, during which several houses
were damaged.
The river tug Alanson Sumner, valued at
$2O,OeO, was burned while awaiting repairs.
Captain Doggett leaped into the water to
escape the flames.
The steamship Nevada coIIided with the
Romano in mid-ocean and sunk her. The
passengers and crew were saved. The Me-
vada was badly damaged.
Jacob Dobson, another of the Hill BOYS
gang, which murdered Woods in South Car
DINA, and shot ex-Sheriff Adkins, has been
lynched in Logan county.
George Osborne, toll Collector at Por-
| tage Lake bridge, Lake Superior, Copper
county, Mich, was shot and instantly
killed In very mysterious manner.
Frank Langston, who killed Negro at
Washington, and has since been living in
seclusion at Louisville, has been surrendered
for trial by his father, United States minis
ter to Hayti.
In Newton county, Ark, revenue officers
raided an illicit distillery which was dis
mantled and the mash tubs destroyed. a
| fight occurred in which one distller was
| killed and another wounded.
Thos Simmons, of Turtle Creek, Mich,
haC tod O1oTTO ct
brother-in-law, charging Simmons with
throwing his mOther-in-law against door
and causing her death.
| The statements of the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe, and Southern Kansas railroad
| companies for the past month show net
earnings of 1926, 1852, an increase over the
same month last year of per cent.
Bill spurlock killed Robert spurlock, in
Boone county, w. Va, because he was
afraid Robert would give away the secrets
OF the Hill Brothers gang. Bill Spurlock
was killed by a posse sent to arrest him.
Henry Ward, of Elgin, ILL.,, has mother
over 1O3 years of age, who runs away from
| home whenever she is left alone. as Hen
ry punished her for misbehavior, an agent
of the Humane society caused his arrest.
NJ. M French, Assistant Claim Agent Of
the Gould and Wabash systems, in the
vicinity of MUskOgee, Indian Territory
has been arrested for forging names
to claims and defrauding the company.
Gertrude Ash, the accomplice of Jesse
Williams, the Negro who committed rob
berry and assault upon Maggie Harvey, in
New York City, has been sentenced to the
penitentiary for eighteen and one-haE
years.
A jury in Mason county, w. Va, sen
fenced man to thirty days imprisonment
for murder, and the people are so excited
about 1t that the sheriff has sent for a sup
ply of cartridges. 1t is the Cincinnati case
REPEATED.
agent of Toledo, shot Miss Celia Upright, a
telegraph operator in the Prudence ex.
change office of the Western Union in that
city. Jealousy prompted the affair. Miss
Enright's wounds are not dangerous.
The young daughter of c. J. Whitney, OF
Detroit, recently eloped with his cOacbman
to Toledo, where they were married by q
! justice of the peace. The fellow gave the
name of Charles Grevard Melville, baronet
He has a wife and two children in Detroit
A Youngstown, Ohio, special says, John
Good, farmer living near Morgantown
was MORALLY wounded last night bv an IN
known assassin, who came on horseback to
his bedroom and ired through the window
while Good was asleep beside his wife. Nc
clue.
The foundation of the Methodist colored
church at Mckinney, Tex, gave way dur
ing largely attended meeting. Two lamps
exploded and one woman was burned to
death and another had her clothing burned
off by the burning oil witch was scattered
over the congregation.
Philadelphia reports a case of human
butchery of a startling character. The head
\ -~E, -
Frederick Stahl, who has been missing fol-
some time, have been found, and it is now
believed he was toully murdered. The face
4 was crushed to a shapeless mass.
s On farm near EIkton, Maryland, des-
perate negro threatened to kill his employ
er, Joseph Kirby. About daylight the col
ored brute appeared with a pistol, and
opened fire. A dozen shots were exchanged
when Kirby took a club from his assailant
and fractured his skull, in selfdefense.
A bold attempt was made recently to alb,
duct Lucig Zareb, the Michigan midget, on
exhibition at the Dime Museum in Cincin.
natl. Two men managed to steal her from
the dressing room, where she was left alone
a minute. She was missed and chase was
made and the abductors were seen, but they
! dropped her and escaped. This is the third
attempt to kidnap her, and it is supposed
that the object is to hold her for ransom
A dispatch from Montserrat Mo-, saws: A
party of white men went to the house OF
Jos. Hughes, Negro, living two miles from
town, with the avowed intention of horse
whipping him for an alleged insult offered
by him to white woman few days ago
Hughes made desperate resistance and
with an axe inflicted mortal wounds on
Charles Miller and man named Long
The rest of the party retired and Hughes
surrendered to the authorities.
It has been ascertained that the steamer
State of Florida collided with a bark in
mid-ocean and was sunk. OF one hundred
and sixty-seven persons on board the steam
er forty-four were saved, and of the bark's
crew only the Captain and two men. One
hundred and twenty-three persons went
down with the steamer and twelve with the
bark, making the total loss one hundred
and thirty-five. It is believed that twenty
others were picked up by another boat. The
survivors were taken to Quebec by the
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