Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-05-29
oRlMEs AND CASUALTIES.

John Ochman, wife and grown daugh-
ter were burned to death at Portsmouth,
Ohio.
fee was broken open and everythingit con-
tanned stolen.
At Petrolia, Pa, freight train went
through a trestie and was badly wrecked,
fatally injuring two men.
Chris. Hook, a saloon-keeper of Moberly,
was victimized by the gold brick" dodge
by a man named Smith.
John Norton was accidentally shot and
killed by target rife in the hands of Den
mis- Clary, at Kansas City
The Cincinnati and indianapolis base
ball clubs were arrested in Indianapolis
while playing game on Sunday.
A wooden suspension bridge across the
SciotO river at Portsmouth, Ohio, gave
way, carrying two children with it.
Fire swept away Woodward's planning
mill at Chattanooga, valued at 900, and
destroyed several buildings at Cairo, Mich.
The remains found in soap box at Chat
tanooga, Vermont, are believed to be those
of Herman Kross, murdered by Oscar
Meyer.
John Ketchum, known as one of the
Breathitt, Kentucky, gang, was killed by
man named BOWles, in Rock Castle
county
A mixed train collided with freight
train on the Panhandle railroad at Wheel
ing Junction, killing one man and injuring
five others.
Charles Hynson, formerly a conductor on
the Texas Pacific road, was shot dead in
the bar-room of the cattle exchange saloon,
Big Springs, Tex.
Thirty houses were unroofed and trees
and fences blown down at Tarleton, S. @
The village was practically destroyed and
one man injured.
Four prisoners escaped from the county
Jail at Springfield, Mo, by means of key
of their own manufacture. Two Of them
were recaptured.
At Hampstead, Tex, where the white
people and Negroes have been having trou-
bic for some time past, three bad darkies
were killed in two days.
Foxy Bray and Williams Henderson of
Lawrenceburg, Pa, were fatally shot by
policeman, who attempted to arrest them
for abducting German girl.
A mill boiler exploded near Lewisburg,
Arkansas, instantly killing Frank Weaver,
and MORALLY wounding Capt. A. B. Thomp-
son, Ben Howard and Weaver's son.
wire suspended from rafter in his barn,
near Corning, Nemaha county, Kansas.
Domestic trouble supposed to be the cauae.
At Pittsburg during game of base ball
James Tash struck William Fortune over
the head with brick, from the effects of
which he died. Both were lads of six
teen.
At Glenmary, Tenn, two men named
Trindel and Kirby quarreled over trivial
yJc nd
Kirby shot Trindell. Both died in half an
hour.
DR.. R. II. Williamson, pastor of the First
Baptist church at Chillicothe, was found
dead in pasture outside of town. where he
had committed suicide by taking prussic
acid.
Henry Hughes, a farmer in Davies coun-
ty. XIV was found dead in his bed with
three bullet holes in his body. No clue has
yet been found as to the cause of his
death.
There was lively shooting affray among
well-knoWn citizens of Poplar Ridge, Ala,
but nobody killed. The affair grew out of
the lack ofreadiness on the part of one of
the participants to marry young lady.
At the time of the execution of Horn and
Gribben, at Ashland, Ohio, it was necessary
to guard the Jail, which was done by the
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is Cook, q militiaman was shot IN the leg
by riOter.
at Savannah, Ga, David ]. Dean was
shot and killed by his brother, Buford L.
Dean. The latter made him confess to an
intimacy with his (Buford's) daughter. and
when the confession was made deliberately
killed him.
Through the untiring efforts of his wife,
Edward Bruce has been pardoned from the