Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-06-05

been missing for some time, was found in
the river with bullet hole in his breast,
murdered, it is thought.
At Hampstead, Tex, where the white
people and Negroes have been having tTou-
bic for some time past, three bad darkles
were killed in two days.
By an explosion in the straw-board fac
tory of Moore & Wilson, at Waterford, n.
Y, five men lost their lives and 49, eco
worth ofproperty was destroyed.
Samuel Dunlap shot his wife three times
and then cut his own throat from ear to
ear, falling dead across her body. The
woman is not expected to recover.
The case against Louis Enos, charged
with embeZzling 50. 600 from the Cairo Short
Line, was nolle PrOsquied in the Court OF
Criminal Correction, at st. Louis.
A cowboy at Vernon, Texas, shot two Of
his comrades while they were asleepin bed.
One of them was killed instantly, and the
other died in few hours afterward.
William Mantz, brother of Charles A.
MantZ, ex-coliectQr and at one time part
owner of the st. Louis Times, was found
dead in bed at the HoteleHunt, st. Louis.
At Pittsburg during game of base ball
James fash struck William Fortune over
the head with brick, from the effects of
which he died. Both were lads OF six
teen.
Jacob Seramorn, of Chicago, has been
sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary
for vain attempt to reduce to criminal
habits German girl OF IS years, named Te-
resa ROsine.l fsEtaH
The motion for new trial in the case of
William Spence, accused of numbering Ed.
| S. Wheat, at Nashville, Tenn, was refused,
and Spence was sentenced to be hanged on
the 18th of July.
The Pennsylvania Bank, of Pittsburg, has
again suspended because of The serious i'll
ness of the president of the bank. In at
tempting to relieve himself of a severe pain
he took an. overdose of chloroform.
DR.. E. Pierce has, been found guilty OF
manslaughter. He attended lady in Wor-
cester, Mass, and ordered her swathed with
kerosene bandages from head to foot and
continued this rigorous treatment until she
died.
The body of Lula Dyke, a six year ole
girl, residing near Hillsdale, Michigan, was
found on the roadway, the head having
been crushed to Jelly with stones. DaviC
Stone, her uncle, has been arrested for rape
and murder.
The police of Milwaukee have bagged g
couple calling themselves Edward and Ella
! Buxton, who have been swindling grocer
with worthless checks. They carried mask
and burglars tools, and had pawn tickets
for valuables. sfE ssC
Timothy Low, unmarried, went to tn,
house of Timothy Sullivan and there at
tempted gross outrage on his two daughters
aged seventeen and thirteen. He strangleC
one to death and fears are entertained as t.
the recovery of tue other. Low has beer
arrested. ~ 'f
John ]. Nelson, a dealer in agriculture
implements at Waukesha, Wisconsin, re
Gently lost considerable amount by tn,
failure of a business acquaintance, and be
came so erratic that he was ordered to the lu
matte asylum at Oshkosh. He managed tx
escape, wheo he hanged himself.
During violent Thunderstorm Hghtnin,
! struck a petroleum tank at the Excelsior
Works, cleveland, Ohio, glanced and in
stantly struck and fred a 10000 barrel tanl
at the Star Refining Works, one mile dis
tant The latter tank contained 5000 bar
rels of oil. The. loss is $4,000, which il
fully insured. ,gr ..f....,.........
David Stone, the haIf-witted uncle of Lu
! lu Dycke, the Sky ear-Old girl who was out
ragged and murdered near ,Hillsdale, Mich.
recently, confessed his crime, was tried, con
victed and sentenced to the penitentiary fOl
life, and landed in the prison but four days
after the crime was committed. This wal
done to avoid lynching.
Benz. johnson and Allen ingalls, hav,
been found guilty of the murder fifth,
Taylor family at AYOndale, Ohio
This was the case where the muir
dered bodies were delivered the same even
ing of the killing to the Ohio Medical Col
lege and $15 apiece paid for them to ingalls,
! and johnson, the murderers. ingalls, huns
himself in Jail short time ago.
John D. st. Maur, of St. Louis, chief clerk
of Wells H. Blodgett, general solicitor of the
Wabash railway, through a system of false
and fictitious vouchers and certificates, puF
porting to represent claims against that road
has succeeded in swindIing parties there out
in no way responsible and cannot be held
good for the amount. He has been arrested
nd lodged in jail. 1+." Es7 %