Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-04-24


will report a resolution for an investigation
of food and drugs imported into the United
States, to sit during the Summer.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
The Buffalo grand jury are investigating
the gamblers.
A whole business block in Carlisle, KY,
was destroyed by fire recently.
Two men were crushed to death by
the caVing in of sand bank near Pitts
burg.
Six men were injured, two fatally, by an
explosion of dynamite at a quarry near
Frankintown, N. G.
At Canton, La. Isaac johnson cut the
throat of Isabella Booker, his wife, and
killed her. Both colored.
H. Streicher, a Chicago drummer, was
robbed of 81 900 worth of jewelry samples
on Franklin avenue, st. Louis.
A belt containing $4,000 in gold was
stolen by Negro from Gipsy's wagon at
Metropolis, Illinois.
In freight wreck at Hanover, N. J.,
VIM. McCarty, who was stealing a ride,
was killed and another injured.
At Waukegan, Illinois, burglars blew the
safes in the postoffice and United States ex-
press Office, securing about 5000.
Chas. S. Henton, aged forty-fve years. of
Golden Hill, Dorchester county, Nd, was
murdered by his son, aged twenty.
R. H. Turner, railroad agent at Steuben-
vile, Ohio, has disappeared, and his &C
counts are found to be Sc, 900 short.
Harrington and Peacock, on trial for con-
spiracy to defraud the Am erican Legion of
Honor, were convicted at Jersey City.
A Iaborer named Alexander Lee, residing
| in the neighborhood of the Crouch murders
| in Michigan, became insane, and killed
| himself with morphine.
Another murder is reported from Cincin-
natl. A barkeeper, in striking man with
a loaded revolver, discharged the weapon,
shooting by-stander.
Theo. L. Shields, under sentence of death
at Charlotte, S. O., for the murder of JAS. G.
Silton, with the help Of friends cut hole
in the Jail wall and escaped.
A posse of citizens of GAINESVILLE, Arkan-
sas, pursued band of escaped prisoners,
killing one and woundipg three ofthem.
Eight have not been retaken.
Juan B. Patton, the wealthy and highly
| respectable EX-Speaker of the Territorial
| Legislature of New Mexico, was assassinat-
ed by Mitch Nancy, cowboy.
6gIngaIls and Johnson the colored murder
ers of the Taylor family at Avondale, Ohio,
have been indicted at Cincinnati; also Pat
rick Hartnet for the murder of his wife.
A Cuban, named Aurelia Mayollo, has
been arrested at Key West, Fla, on a tele-
gram announcing that MayollO was COM
Ing to America to kill the Spanish consul
at Key West.
! While playing in Philadelphia, Willie,
tho Six-vpar-O10 son of Policeman RlaaIy
ran against Dominic Brett, who kicked
him in the back, producing injuries from
which he died.
A prize fight for $500 was fought near
Buffalo, n. Y, between Thos. Dougherty
of Erie, Pa, and Miles Davis, of Towanda,
Pa. Seven rounds were fought, when cry
of "Police" dispersed the crowd.
A boiler explosion at a mill on Middle
river, about fifteen miles southeast of Des
Moines, Iowa, killed Henry Spencer, and
fatally injured his brother, David Spencer,
and boy named CleghOrn.
At Gadsden, Ala, Geo. Goals, (eolored)
set fire to Jere Green's house while Green
and his wife were at church, and burned
! their four children to death. He was cap
tured and will probably be lynched.
The squatters in West Virginia, who re-
Gently fred on a surveying party, have
served the county Assessor in the same way
and killed his horse. A force will be sent
into the mountains to subdue the rebellion.
]. R. Danforth disputed with his en-
ployer, Vim. Landsburg, at Macon, Ga,
about the amount agreed upon as his salary
and that night went to his store and delib
erately shot five times and killed Lands
burg.
Allan Ingalls,, one of the rsurrectionists
held for the murder of the Taylor family
near Cincinnati, who has been regarded as
| insane, has become violent since the riot
and a strict watch is kept to prevent him
from suicide.
John 7. Cramer, a clerk In the Treasury
Department, was called into the corridor
by q Washington grocer and badly pun
meled, for writing insulting letters TO a LADY
Soon afterward. Secretary FOlger ordered
Cramer's dismissal.
Henry KiIburn, (white) who had record
of having killed eight men, and Ben Strong,
(colored) both of whom were charged with
the murder Of VIM. ThOrp, last January,
were taken from the Breathitt county, KY,
n Jail and hanged by fifty masked men.
In Burleson county, Texas, q Negro
named Gibbs brutality murdered Mrs. L. p.
Moore, because she would not allow him TO
sit at the supper table with the family. The
whole community turned out and effected
the capture of Gibbs and then took him to
MoOre's farm and chained him to q post
and burned him to death. Gibbs was an es-
capped convict and bad man.
A passenger train on the Western and
Atlantic railroad went through trestle