Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-11
oR1MBs AND CASUALTIES.


Detectives arrested Ed. Mason and Chas.
Parker, who last week robbed st. Paul
bank Of $4,000.
W. T. & L. J. Ladner, brokers Of Phila-
delphia, have been arrested charged with
embezzling $4,000.
One man was fatally and five seriously
injured by a premature explosion of giant
powder, at Sharon, Pa,
Daniel Wheatley, who with Joseph A.
Robertson was accused of Matchmaking
the Parker House, at st. Louis, has been
arrested.
John Schuman, aged 10, living at Eure-
ka, Ill, stepped up to his mother, kissed
her, walked outside the door and shot him
self dead.
Mrs. Cormac was murdered by Mrs. Thos.
CoWther at O'FallOn, Ills. The difficulty
arose from little difference as to the sum
to be paid for some work done by Mrs. Cor
mac.
I Police Officer LiIler, of Pittsburg, Penn,
was severely wounded by an unknown per
son, while taking two men who had
been fighting to the station. A knife was
used.
H.B. Clayton, a drummer for a Chica-
go wholesale house, is wanted at Galena,
Ill, for securing money on forged checks,
purpOrting to have been signed by a Du-
buque firm.
A Virginia Midland train was wrecked
for the purpose of robbery. The fireman
saw man lump from the bushes and pur-
sued him into the woods. He found bag
in the bushes containing the tools with
which the rail was removed.
Miss Maggie Rathburn, out riding with
A. 3. Benedict, a druggist of Rutland, Yer
mont, was reported by him to have left
the buggy and shot herself with a revolver.
The case excites interest. Benedict was ar
rested and is out on bail.
g Andrew Jackson, a wealthy resident of
HammOnd's station, near Troy, n. Y, was
found terribly mutilated, on the railroad
track. He lived only an hour and said,
VIM. Bolon and John Duffy had thrown
him under the train.
The scafolding Of the new Chicago Board
of Trade building, on which were six work
men, gave way. Two of the men fell p dis
lance OF eighty feet. One was killed, and
the other fatally injured. The four others
fell only short distance and managed to
save Themselves
A riot broke out among the Italian labor
ers near Dixon, Illinois. Over thirty men
were engaged in the melee. Knives clubs
and shOYels 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.
A hurricane which visited Evansville,
Ind, caused a damage to steamboats, and
buildings estimated at $3.50 600. The new
foundry of John II. Rocker was almost
demolished. A transfer steamer at Hender-
son, KY, freighted with a train of cars, was
sunk by the gale, and fifteen lives were lost.
An excursion party of laundry employees
started from New York for a picnic on Sta
ten Island. The barkeeper on the barge
struck man who attempted to steal sand
witches, when the crowd killed the dis
penser of liquids with glasses and pitchers,
following up the crime by cutting the bar.
D. Weinburger, an Austrian, who has
been peddling notions in Chicago for some
months, killed himself with arsenic at his
boarding-place in South Halstead street
He left a note stating that he placed in a
hat one black and five white marbles, to de-
eide whether ne should longer Cumber the
earth, and drew out the black one three
times in succession.
The attorneys for the defense in the libel
suit brought by Blaine against the Indian
apOlis Sentinel, contend that the descrip-
ton of Blaine in the alleged lbelOus publ /
cation was not sufficiently specific, and
might have referred to some other Blaine /
Second, the publication was in the nature /
of an inquiry. Third, the article was not
ibelOus IN itself, and Blaine in order to re- /
cover must sue for special damages. The !
attorneys for Blaine replied briefly, and /
Judge Wood took the matter under advise /
ment. 1t is not known when the decision !
will be given.