Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-04-17

John Dillman was hanged at Easton, Pa.
April 9Th, for the murder of his wife.
Deputy Sheriff ]. F. Clark shot and killed
Mike Berry, bar keeper, at Texarkana,
Texas
Paymaster Jas A. Ring, of the Asiatic
squadron, is to be contaminated for drunk
enness.
]. J. Britton, notorisus rough, was shot
dead by an officer at Port Huron, while re-
sisting arrest.
The Adams Express office in Allegheny,
Pa, was burglarized and robbed ofpackages
valued at 1000.
The whole east side of the Public square
at Huntsville, Ala, has been destroyed by
fire. Loss, $4,000.
The schooner Nelson Mcfarland, of Glou-
cester, Mass, has been lost at sea and FIVE
fisherman drowned.
Three boys. sons of ]. G. Hopple and c..
! w. Macklefresh, of Cincinnati, were struck
| by train and killed.
An aged couple named Fleetwood were
! found in bed with their throaIs cut, near
Rairdon, Coles county, Ill.
R. H. Turner, railroad agent at Steuben-
! vile, Ohio, has disappeared, and his ac-
counts are found to be 5000 short.
A severe norther prevailed in Lawrence
| county, Arkansas, during which fire start
! ed and a number of houses were destroyed.
! Hubbard, who was cashier of the First
! National bank of Monmouth, H.. and de-
faulter to the amount of $114, 800, has fed.
Robert Johnson, the welI-knoWn horse
trainer, died at Louisville. He was fatally
injured by stone thrown by stable boy.
Hank Lewis, a saloon keeper, murdered
City Marshal J. T. Pierce at Mitchell, Da-
kota, while the Marshal was trying to arrest
! him.
By boiler explosion at Blairsville, Pa,
| Healy, the proprietor, vas badly scalded,
and Peter Stump the fireman, seriously in
| jured.
| David Martin, a Watchman, was killed
| by some Negroes near Vicksburg, while
trying to arrest a colOred man charged with
murder.
Frank James was arraigned at Hunts
vile, Ala, April 9Th, for the MusSel Shoals
robbery, and pleaded not guilty. The case
was set for April 18th.
Miss Anna Schock, manager of a chill
dren's home near Chicago, is on trial for
cruel and inhuman treatment of those left
in her charge.
Lorenzo Dimick, of Buffalo, n. Y, has
been arrested, charged with diverting large
amount Of insurance funds. Eighty thou
sand dollars bail is required.
Sadie Hays, the Negress who shot Police
! Sergeant jerks in st. Louis last October,
while he was attempting to arrest her, was
convicted of murder IN the first degree.
It transpires that the safe in the Office of
the Northwestern boiler works, in Michi-
gan street, Chicago, was blown open Sunday
/ nd in hi H.
| stracted.
At Huntsville, Mich, three masked men
entered the house of Carl SchurZ, killed the
son, and beat the father, mother and daugh-
ter into a state of insanity and secured
SIS, 900 in German gold.
The Albright coal mine, at BraidWood,
| Ills, flooded on April 9Th when 200 men
were at work. All but five Italians are
known to have escaped, and there is some
doubt about their being out
John Young, who died in Philadelphia
from the effects of a wound inflicted three
months before, made an ante-mortem state
ment, declaring that he had been stabbed in
the head by Harry Deemer, in Chicago.
Allan Ingalls,, one of the resurrectionists
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.
Two thieves drove boldly up an alley in
| Wheeling, at 4 o'clock in the morning,
! placed a ladder at a second-stOry window
of dry-goods store, and carried off $40 800
worth of Velvets and silks while clerk lay
asleep beneath them.
N. R. Pierson was found dead on Luna
Island, near Niagara Falls, and the clothes
ofhis brother-in-law, Thos. Vedders, were
found near. It is believed they quarreled
and that Vedders shot Pierson and then
| jumped into the rapids.
A quantity of powder in Beury's powder
mill at Shamokin, Pa, exploded, destroy
ing the mill and shattering windows with
in a radius of a mile and a half. VIM. VOC
UNI, the superintendent, was burned be-
Yond recognition but was alive when
found.
James McHenry, the English railway
magnate, was arrested by the Federal mar
shall on board steamship about to leave
| New York, on account of a judgement OBJ
| tanned years ago by the Erie road: Rather
than be delayed, he turned over to Presi-
dent Jewett bonds and stocks aggregating
! 81 800, 600, with a written promise to pay
| the remainder.
! Thomas Scott, a Well-known thief, lying
| in Jail at Jackson, Michigan, made the
mayor and nine leading citizens surprising
| statements in regard to the Crouch MUIR
ders. The prosecuting attorney then offer
ed him So, 600 in cash, pardon from the
Governor, and ticket to Liverpool if he
would divulge the name of the murderer
| His refusal to do so stamps him as liar.
At NewelIton, Miss, three negroes he ad-
| ed by a white man named Chas. Davis, a
violent man, entered J. Richberger's
| store for the purpose of robbery, and being
discovered attempted to murder all the
inmates. The cook, an old Negress, was
shot dead. Richberger was severely
wounded in the shoulder, and the cOlored
porter fired at several times. Davis was
a discharged clerk. The murderers were
captured.
FOREIGN.