Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-04-10
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Rev Samuel Bessie, of Grand Rapids,
Michigan, was killed by being thrown from
his buggy.
Eight business buildings in Perryville, |
Ind, were destroyed by fire, entailing -
heavy loss.
Culp, the gas trust fund embezzler in
Philadelphia, goes to the penitentiary for
one year.
Edward Bennett has been sentenced to
six years imprisonment for burning his
own house in Milwaukee.
The machine shops of the Memphis &
Charleston railroad at Memphis, have been
horned by an incendiary.
G. Robeling, of Lyndon, Illinois, has been
convicted of the murder of a lad named
Lucia, and sentenced to death.
Five of the men engaged in the recent
street butchery at Hot Springs have been
indicted for murder in the first degree.
All the gambling establishments at Hot
Springs, Arkansas, are closed and the sport
ing fraternity have evacuated the town.
A Cincinnati juror has been fined $50 for
offering to procure verdict for one of the
parties to suit for a small consideration.
An explosion in Diehl & Co.'S, fire works
establishment at Cincinnati, caused the
death of one man, and others were serious
~ injured.
Michael Conlin, collector of the township
of Troy, Illinois, was robbed of 81, 800 and
| left bound by the roadside, the thieves es-
Gaping in his buggy.
| A passenger train on the Alabama and
| Great Southern road was wrecked thirty
miles from Chattanooga, and Brown, the
fireman, was killed.
At Fairview, KY, John W. Gibson de-
! Iiberately fired two balls into the heart Of
John Mccoy, without any proVOcatiOn
whatever. Gibson escaped.
A building in process of. demolition at
Cincinnati suddenly tell, burying half a
| dozen WOrkmen. Four were taken out
badly hurt and one is still missing.
J. J. Bremmerman, an attorney and
dem ocratic politician of Burlington, Iowa,
has abscOnded, after borrowing money and
securing Endorsements from friends.
James Arthur, the son of retired mer-
chant of Montreal, and the brother Of the
city attorney, killed himself with morphine
in Chicago, because Of lack of employment
Twenty-nine United States prisoners con
victed of various crimes committed in the
Indian Territory, were sent to the house of
correction at Detroit, Michigan, recently.
Two Indians on the Tuscarora reserva-
| ton, near LockpOrt, New York, had a
quarrel over a trivial matter, when they
! fought duel with axes, one being MORALLY
wounded.
Peter Carrigan, foreman of the brick lay
ers on the new Board of Trade structure in
| Chicago, while leaning out of the upper
window lost his footing and was killed in
stantly.
Michael Burns, hotel waiter, was killed
in Dallas, Texas, and Willis Adams, resi-
dent of Dallas, employed as drummer for a
st. Louis house, is in custody charged with
the murder.
Lynch O'Connor; policeman in Lexing-
ton, KY, who was implicated in the murder
of James Campbell, recently, was fatally
stabbed by his mistress, Katie Graves.
Cause jealousy.
Daniel E. Tuley, retired lumber mer-
chant of New Albany, Indiana. becoming
respondent from the inroads of cOnsump-
ton, made desperate attempt to kill him
self with razor.
John Dodd, who some time ago killed his
stepfather near Loami, H., and seCreted the
corpse in drain, has surrendered to the au-
thorities at Springfield, and claims that the
murder was justifable
Burglars blew open the safe in Hempe's
grocery, East st. Louis. Two police Officers
heard the explosion, and on attempting to
arrest the thieves were both slightly wound
ed by pistol shots.
Near Salem, Va, Leslie Lavender, aged
sixteen, was detected by Mrs. Owens in the
act of trying to rob Alexander Owens and
he shot both of them fatally. The muir
derer stole a horse and escaped.
James B. johnson, who had robbed the
wholesale drug house of Samuel I. Smith
d Co., of st. Joseph, of between SIS, GOO and
$50 900. was confronted with his crime al
Denver, and committed suicide.
At Dayton, O., mob attacked four United
States prisoners, who were being transferred
from Cincinnati, IN charge of deputy mar
shals the impression having spread thai
they were murderers from the beleaguereC
jail
One of the jurers in the Kirk murder case
at Cincinnati has been driven from hi
home for giving verdict of manslaughtel
AGAINST a murderer who confessed his crime
Another Juror was severely beaten by hi
acquaintance.