Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-06-19
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

Springfield has been visited by another
disastrous food, the second within a month.
Pat McDermott shot and killed G. and J.
Kennedy in a drunken row at Duluth,
MINI.
Joe Brett, colored, was lynched for out
raging tWelve-year-old white girl at Wins
boro, Texas.
A Negro boy, who shot and killed lad
named, Osborn, at Lynchburg, Va, was
hanged by citizens.
Samuel Bowling was shot and killed at
Steubenv1le, o., by some person whose
identity has not been discovered.
George Donovan, aged IA, stabbed Martin
McGurn, another boy, at Cincinnati. The
wound is pronounced mortal.
Chas. W. Butler, who killed his wife at
Princeton, Ind, last Fall, has been found
guilty OF murder and sentenced to death.
Frank Drively and wife were struck by
lightning and instantly killed while stand
ing in their doorway at Harrisburg, Pa.
VIM. G. Morgan, detauIting agent of the
New York banking firm of Putnam & Earl,
has been sentenced to three years in the
States prison.
The railroad bridges at FL Paso, Texas,
and Yuma, A. T., are washed away, cutting
of commune alton with Mexico andSOuth-
ern California.
At Iowa City, John Niger killed himself
with revolver on the sidewalk, in pres
ence of his brother-in-laW and sister, be-
cause of being crippled for life by fall.
In a shooting ARRAY at Greenville,
Mississippi, Judge Taylor Rucks, a law
yer, was instantly killed, and a hotel
clerk named Godchaux was fatally
wounded.
Two students of Cornell college, at Mt
Vernon. named I. Dean, of Forest City, and
A. N. Tilton, of Wyoming, were drowned
in the Cedar river, near Cedar Rapids, Pa.
while bathing.
On farm near Aurora, Illinois, NJ. O.
Fletcher killed Otto Hope and seriously
wounded one of his employees. The tragedy
| arose from dispute about pasturing COWS
on the roadway.
VIM. Sloom, worthless Negro, while
drunk at Bardstown, KY, cut out the bow
ing him away from the premises. Hughes
will die, and it is thought the Negro will
be lynched.
Gen. o. E. Baboock, Engineer of the Fifth
| Light house District, Levi D. Lucky, his
Chief Clerk, ormerly Assistant Private Sec
rotary of President Grant, and Benz. Suter,
of Washington, were drowned in Mosquito
Inlet, oil the coast OF Florida, while super
intending the work on the lighthouse be-
ing erected at that point.
A powder magazine, containing 10000
pounds of powder, located in the vicinity of
Denver, exploded with terrible force. A
large number of plate-fronts in the business
part of the city were wrecked. A new frame
house, 300 yards distant, was completely
demolished. The occupants miraculously
escaped injury. There is no clue to the
cause of the explosion.
The food at Springfield, Vermont, is
more disastrous than was at first supposed.
The business street of the city was washed
out to depth OF fifteen feet, carrying off
thousands of tons of earth and making
channels one hundred feet wide. It is the
greatest calamity the town has suffered since
the great food of 1869. Business has been
suspended. The grass crop has been ruined,
and the field crops are nearly total loss.
Several families have been forced to aban-
don their houses and spent the night in the
drenching rain on the adjacent hills.