Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-11-08
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The Norwegian bark Lovel, for Philadel-
phia from DantZye, with twenty men, has
been given up for lost.
At Jersey City, the works Of the Frazer
Axle Grease Company were damaged to the
extent of $4,000 by fire, throwing thirty
hands out OF employment.
Al Edgefeld, Ga, twelve stores burned.
Last year ike cOnhagratiOn occurred in
the same part Of the town. Loss 500 COO.
with very little insurance
At Manchester, n. H., the Touring mills
of Chas. II. Hill & Co., were destroyed by
fire lately. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $12s-
600.
James Harper, of Blue Hill, Neb., q
young man about tWenty-eight years of
age, shot himself at st. Joseph, Mo. He
had been in the city some time, and was q
painter by trade.
The magnificent First Spiritual Temple,
which the SpiTitualists of Boston are build
ing in that city, is slowly nearing compile
ton. 1t will have cost about $3.50, 600 when
finished.
The boiler of freight engine on the
Baltimore & Ohio Rail way exploded at
gineer Joshua Dixon and Fireman David
Burke. The engine is a total wreck.
at Parkeville, S. c., there was a white
q
cOlOred man disturbed the service by firing
pistols. A bad feeling has continued since.
and eliminated in the killing of James
Blackwell, an officer, who was attempting
to make arrests, by a vOlley fred by the
Negroes barricaded in a house.
At Roundout, n. Y, while firing salute
during Democratic parade, recently, two
cannOns exploded. Vim. McGrath, both
legs badly shattered; VIM. Nash, collar
bone broken, and John Arnold, heshy part
of his arm torn of from one explosion,
and Herbert BOdner dangerously injured
from another.
Fred W. Devorns, for several years pri-
Vate banker at Detroit, is missing. He
owes depOsitOTs from twenty to forty thou
sand dollars, and was the sgenJ for nine in
surance companies, to whom he owes an
aggre gate of over fifteen thousand dollars.
He transferred his property to his wife sew
eral years ago, but it was nOtTecOrded until
recently.
Burglars recently entered the residence
OF Professor Austin Phelps and Mr.. John
p. Taylor, at AndOVer. At the formers
residence they stole 50, 600 in bonds belong
ing to Phelps. Mr.. Phelps bonds were
8, 800 O., B d5 Q. and per cents. and a So
500 bond issued by Albert Cook Of Toledo,
D. At TaylOr's house they carried of forty
dollars, two gold watches, an OverCOat,
5000.
1t viii be several days before the full
amount Of the defalCatiOu Of President
Jackson, of the Enterprise cotton factory, of
Augusta, Ga, is known. The loss in running
the Enterprise mill and the defalcatiOn to-
gether will amount to one hundred and
eighty thousand dollars. These losses win
make to stand the stockholders IL round
mum Oers, one million dollars. 1t is CAPT
taized at a million and half in stock and
first mortgage bonds to the sum of two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The
mill cost when finished over eight hundred
thousand dollars. DEVELOPMENTS create a
great sensation.
A collision occurred on the Wabash, near
CaylOrVile, Illinois. The West-bOund
freigh train was being run in two sections.
The first had a coach filed with Italians at
taChed, and when rounding q curve at
Clarksdale, mile from TaylorvilIe, the
coupling pin between the engine and first
car broke. A uagman was sent back, but
too late to stop the second section, the en-
CINE crushing into the coach containing the
immigrants. 1t was overturned and thrown
down bank ten feet, and the sides crushed
in and b0JE ends smashed. There were
fOrty-three persons in the carmen, WO-
men and children. The wounded were
taken back to TaylOrville, where physicians
were summoned, and everything done to
relieve their suffering Fourteen of the
were injured, but none fatally, it is
thought.
At PittsbUrg a coIOred woman Known as
Carrie Walters, but whose real name is
Carrie Johnson, shot and killed George
Walters, cOlOred. The couple had been liV-
ing together in q house on Water street for
several months and retired OutmIdnlghJ.
Half an hour later three shots were heard
IN the room they occupied. An entrance
was effected into the apartment and Wal
tiers was found in bed dying from bullet
wounds, while the woman, Carrie Walters,
was lying beside him embracing him. One
bullet entered the breast Just above thenip-
pie, while the third had lodged in his hip.
Walters died in a few minutes, and the
woman was arrested. She admitted the
killing, and said she shot him because she
loved him, and could not let anyone else
have him. She continued to kiss him
through his dying moments, and was torn
away only when arrested by the police.
Walters has wife and child living.
At La Crosse, Wis, business is practically
suspended, theall absorbing topic being the
tragedy of the murder of Frank Burton and
the subsequent lynChIng Of his murderer.
Nathaniel Mitchell. II now appears that
Mitchell had intended, if possible, TO kill
at least two more citizens, one of whom
was Chss. Mcdonald. 10 was only q dues-
ton of whom he met first. He was equip
ped with two self-COcking Smith & Wes-
son r6vOlvers, and pulled them IS fast as
the ticking ola watch. EZ-CLief Of Police
Hatch is out of the city, but evidence now
points towards Mitchell as the man who
attempted his assassination several weeks
ago, and Onl~ left him when hesupDOsed he /
was dead. AninqUest has been ordered and
a large numb Der OF witnesses viii be exam
ined- There is no disposition 10 prosecute \
any one, the general verdict being that it
was righteous execution. The funeral OF u
Sir. Burton took place Sunday afternoon
The cOrOner's jury examined twelve wit I
nesses IN the Mitchell inquest. among
whom we're The Sheriff and policemen. eye
witnesses Of the murder and lynching. No
one recognised any one of Uhe multitude I
who did the lynching. The verdict Is. sub
8 anually, that the deceased was the man
who murdered Sir. Burton, and that he /