Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-12-13

a ecloEed policeman named ID 6utus. shot
Hot Springs. Ark.
By the fail of q soafold On a Baptist
church IN Lee avenue, Brooklyn. one
sister was killed and another was fatally
hurt
Melville, the convicted bigauist at Tole-
DO, tried to commit suicide BY dashing his
0ralns out III his cell He is seriously In
jured.
A train on the Chicago & New Orleans
line was hred on near Duck Hill Miss,
and Tom Mason, brakeman, was seriously
injured.
John MeDuff, a diamond broker of New
york had his wife arrested for shooting
him IN the back. The case is decidedly
sensational.
VIM. ii. Burns, father of Fora Burns, the
n who was murdered At Lincoln, H.,
tried TO kill o. A. Carpenter, who was tried
for the murder, but acquitted.
DISK men who undertook to cross the
railroad track at San Raphael, Cali, two
were killed, one was fatally injured, and
the fourth had an arm broken.
Two confidence men of Charlotte, Mich
lgan, who won eighty dollars at three-card
monte, we're convicted of larceny and SEN
fenced to three years each in the peniten-
f. tiary.
J. II. L. Houek, constable Of Van Buren,,
ARK, was murdered by John Wilt and
a Negro desperate who made his escspe,
but who was later captured near Fort
Smith,
The cutting of of revenue from saloon
licenses leaves Des Moines embarrassed
for means to run the city government. A
bank offered to shave June warrant for
$4,000.
Some thieves at Rockford, Illinois, watch
ed Edward Rush as he entered his house
and hid roll Of money under the carpet,
and they soon broke in anO secured the
currency.
Nick Ames, seventeen years of age, who
has become notorious as the bOy-burglar of
Wisconsin, was recently captured in dug
out near Galena, Ill, and taken back to
Lancaster for trial
A special from Vinita, Indian Territory,
says: In an alteration William Arnold, a
nonresident, was killed by J. n. Gunter. a
Cherokee. Gunter surrendered himself.
His action was justified by the witnesses.
A fire at Salisbury, Maryland, destroyed
the residence of D. r. Alder and J. ShadOn,
the Methodist church and Che livery stable
of WillOughby. Loss, $4,000. The church
was insured for $1,000, but the others were
uninsured.
A court at Albany has affirmed the iudg,
mentrendered against Frank r. SherWin of
fine of $500 and imprisonment for two
years in the penitentiary. He escaped to
New Mexico by deposidng $4,000 in court
in lieu of bail.
A Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern
live stock train Of eight cars of hogs ran
into Chicago q Western train at Cedar
Rapids, Ia, causing bad wreck, killing
the fireman, Fred Phillips, and badly in
Jurlng John benjamin, the engineer.
Edward Condit, a forger in jail at Jersey
City, sawed through his cell door, locked
up Two guards who were asleep on duty,
severed an iron staple on the bathroom
door, and was caught while cutting the
J bars Of the ventilatOr.
At Montgomery n. Y, John S. Sam
mons, an eccentric old farmer, who a quar-
ter Of century ago acquired nOtoriety by
buying for himself a metallic coffin on
Thanksgiving, had paralytic fit, and fall
ing on a hot stove, was seriously burned.
A neighbOr happening IN found him in
sensible, his head resting on the stove, with
the right side Of his face burned to a crisp.