Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-03-27

The announcement is made at st. Louis
that the Pacific Express company lost $780,
600 by PrentisS filler and his accomplices
and that $25, 900 of the amount is still miss
ing.
Burglars blew open a jewelrv store at
Louisville, Ky, and were carrying away
$4,000 worth of diamonds, when they were
discovered and forced to leave their plumber
and fly.
A passenger train telescoped freight on
the Missouri Pacific road between TYLER
and Palestine, Texas. Minnie Hauk's com
pany was aboard and escaped with some
bruises.
Seneca Miller, one of the men who threw
dynamite cartridges into the house of Pawl-
ing, at POughkeepsie, has been convicted of
murder in the second degree, and another of
the gang Immediately pleaded guilty.
Five prisoners made their escape from the
jail at Columbia City, Indiana, andhave not
been recaptured. They had patiently worked
on the stone ceiling for three weeks, having
obtained masons' tools from outsiders.
Jack Davis of Wheeling, and Jim Connors
of Pittsburg, engaged in a prize fight with
hard gloves in barn Il Pittsburg, result
ing in victory for Connors. At the con-
clusiOn Davis was so weak that he could not
stand.
A man named A. NJ. Finch, who was act
ing as station agent at Waynesboro, Va,
has been arrested, charged with an embez-
element several years ago, in Ohio. 1t is
believed that he buried the money and that
it will be recovered.
Walter G. Shepherd, Boston bookkeeper,
who plead guilty to enlightenment, was ar
raigned for sentence, when he claimed that a
woman had urged him on and blackmailed
him. The court released him on light bail
in order that he might find his tempter,
A valise containing $1,000 obtained at the
Treasury Department by a Philadelphia
was thrown by thief from a car window
at Wilmington, Delaware, and seized by a
| confederate. The owner quickly pursued
with a revolver, and recovered his property.
Commissioner Hoyne of Chicago, sent
| James Wilcox and Josephine Marie to Jail
on charge of COunterfeiting, false coin hav-
ing been found in the wOman's bed at No.
AT Blue Island avenue. The man is be-
ieved to be James Maratty, an old offender,
A war has broken out between the Mis-
| souri, Pacific Railway company and the
Texas Express company. At Port Worth
the Express company blOckaded the track
and prevented the Railroad company from
! loading freight, because the Railway COM
pany will not haul the Express cOmpany's
goods.
A trapeze performer named Lehine was
| performing his act ofpassing across the room
head down ward by placing his feet in rings
in the ceiling in the Opera House at Mime
| apOlis, when one of the rings broke and he
| tell twenty-five feet and struck the first row
of seats His skull was fractured and his
| neck broken.
A riot occurred at San Francisco over the
sale of tickets to the Mapleson opera, caused
! by the speculation in tickets, the prices OF
which were run up to fifteen dollars for five
dollar seats. Mems coats and women's
dresses were torn from their backs, and the
plants, pictures and other articles in the
way of the crowd, were smashed. Mapleson
was arrested for violating the fire ordinance,
and released on bonds.
Prentiss Tiller the Pacific Express robber,
made a daring attempt to escape from the
Lindell Hotel, where he was assisting the
Express company officers to straighten up
| the books. He got out of the window OF
| the fifth story, and went down to the second
| floor by the fire escape, and not knowing
| the house, got into the ladies' ordinary, from
which he could not get out, and was forced
to retrace his steps, and was caught. He
says he will Dlea0 guilty.
Mrs. John Schaefer, of Oakland, Gala,
! became insane over the loss of one of heT
children. During the absence of her hus-
| band for few minutes, she cut her baby's
| throat. and then cut her own. Her hus-
band on seeing the terrible spectacle pre-
sented a revolver and attempted sui
| eide but was prevented by the policemen
and some friends who had visited the scene
Among the latter was French lady, Mrs
Leroy, who was so shocked at the sight that
| she became a raVing maniac.