Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-12-20
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

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West Randolph, VT, was visited by q
disastrous fire.
Six stores were destroyed by fire at
Schuyler, Neb. Loss, $4,000
Wilson, the sewing-machine inventor.
was taken to an insane asylum.
John P. Martin was shot and killed by
Regulators st Farmers Station, Ky.
Hersey & Co.'s tannery, at Moose river.
Lewis county, burned. Loss, $1S5O0O.
A FIRE in New York destroyed the cbemi-
cal works Of Eriken Bros. Loss, $4,000.
John Wilmott, fugitive horse thief
from st. Joseph, was arrested in Kansas
City.
A Michigan Postmaster violated the Civil
Service Act and complaint was fled against
him.
1t is still insisted in New York that the
telegraph operators are preparing for a
BTike.
A number of forged drafts on the Iowa
Loan and Trust company are said TO be in
circulation.
julius Probes and Herman BeIlman at
Chicago were arrested for attempting to
wreck a train.
Daniel Kennedy at San Francisco was
shot and killed by his wife. She tried to
kill herself and failed.
A Chicago policeman struck William
Lynn on the head, causing q wound which
resulted in his death.
Butterfeld & Crabs saw mill at AIpena,
Mich, with 600 feet of lumber, burned.
Loss $50, 1000. Partially insured.
Mrs. Wine and her little girl were fatally
wounded by an unknown assassin, near
Binumville, Maries county, Mo.
Three members of the Welsh mountain
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syIvan1a, have been committed for trial.
A fire at AIyersdaIe' Pa, destroyed the
principal houses Ofthe town. Less, fifteen
thousand dollars. Insurance light. Incen-
diary.
A terrific wind and rain storm passed
over Western Pennsylvania, doing consid-
cradle damage to property and causing loss
of life.
Charles @. DisbralI, prominent young
suburb Of New York, deliberately blew his
own brains out.
The works of the Centralia Mining and
Manufacturing Company, at the old north
shaft, Centralia, Ill, burned. Loss, $25. 600:
insurance, $1,000.
Palmer, the youthful desperate of Pitt
sylVania county, Va, surrendered to the
Sheriff on condition that he would not let
him be lynched.
John P. Haiden, who resides near Little
ton, W. Va, accidentally shot himself
wife and four children while taking a
load from gun. None were fatally injured.
A monster jaguar escaped from Barrett's
circus at Dayton, .. The beast has killed
a great many cattle and hogs, and the peO-
pie turned out and killed it after an eIcit-
ing chase.
The Mint at Philadelphia reports that
two attempts have been made lately to
llT- r,EErr 500 hill
but steel filings covered with composition
and fine gold.
Colonel G. B. Morton, who abandoned
his position as Assistant Postmaster of
Brooklyn and fed to Europe, surrendered
himself to the District Attorney, recently,
but refused to make explanations.
A portion of the treasure buried in Ar
kansas by the pirate LATTE in 1912 is said
to have been recently discovered in iron
safes by cOnvicts labOring on the Pine
Bluff and Swan Lake railway
The loss by fire in Cummings e. Ken
nedy's woodworking establishment on
Walden street, Boston, will reach from
thirty-hYe to forty thousand dollars.
Insured for thirty-hVe thousand.
Louis Silverman, a Hebrew Merchant. Of
st. Joseph, under arrest charged with crimi-
nal assault upon servant girl in his en-
plOy, attempted suicide by taking NOR
phine. His recovery is doubtful.
Nicholas Fally and John Fitzug. two
local pugilists INDUCED in a vicious prize
fight near Mckee's Rock. Both men were
so badly punished at the end of the fourth
round that the battle was declared a draw.
A robber who was recently captured at
No. proves to be VIM. Gala
CHAN, who escaped from the Jail at
sandwich, Ontario, last March, by muir
dering George O'Leach, the governor of the
jail.
Judge Howard, of Arizona, has fined three
convicted pOlygamists $500 each, and SEN
fenced them to three and one-half years
each IN the house Of correction at Detroit.
Two Bishops were fined the same amount
and ordered to Yuma Penitentiary for six
months.
A fire was discovered in the hold of the
City of Augusta, which was to
sail for New York from Savannah, Ca, and
was not eLtinguished until the ship had
been filled with water. One thousand bales
Of cotton were partly burned. Loss to cargo,
81, 900.
CLARK Bros. g. Co.'s six-story furniture
factory at Philadelphia was destroyed by
lre. A row Of three-stOry brick houses
next to the factory were burned so quickly
-he tenants were obliged to rush out in
their night clothes TO save their lives.
Other adjoining buildings were damaged.
Three blocks Of houses at Trenton. a
small mining patch near Shenandoah, Pa,
was totally destroyed by fire. Thomas Bar
OW, his wife and three children and
1oarder named Fitzerafd were burned to
ieath. Only one Of the Barlow family.
shild i've years old, was saved.
AT Frankfort Plains, New jersey. un-
Known men opened the grave of Zacharfsh
d. Price, broke the Casket, and were en-
saged in removing the corpse when they
we're frightened away. AS Mr.. Price was
veil known throughout the State, it is
thought the resuErectiouigts intended to