Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-08-07


Col. Morton, Assistant Postmaster at
PrOoklyH, Is missing. and there is a slight
discrepancy in the pay rolls
An Snively was killed by lightning at
AahOmet, III. He was prominent farmer
near there.
A black bear at Nestor, Michigan, killed
and carried OF woman engaged in picking
berries.
It is thought that the man who drowned
himself in the bay at Erie, Pa, was Ed
ySperry, the 800, 900 defaulter Of Chatauqua,
n. Y.
Mrs. Adam J. Miller was mOrtally wound
ed near York, Pa, and an eccentric brother
in-laW is thought to be the one who did
the deed.
Thos. Hurst shot and killed Mr.. Godfrey
near Lebanon, No, Godfrey, discovered him
in company with Mrs Godfrey, the parties
being surprised.
FL. Moses, formerly Governor of South
Carolina, was arrested IN Chicago on a re-
QUESTION from Boston, for embeZzlement,
and was placed In jail.
The wall of a rolling mill at Lexington,
KY, was forced out by load Of wheat in
the building, and one man was killed and
| another fatally injured.
Carl Kessler and Albert Kellogg, two
newsbOys at Lafayette, Ind, fought, and
| the former stabbed the latter four tunes. 1t
| is thought that Kellogg will die.
Miss Mary S. Aulter. the betrOthed of DR..
| Osman Terburgh, who committed suicide at
Pittsburg few days ago by prussic acid,
shot herself through the breast. She will die.
/ Colonel Phelps, a venerable citizen of
Fairfield, Michigan, was driven to suicide
| by the appearance of his wife on the
! streets in a condition of gross intoxica-
/ ton.
John Dolan shot and killed Fritz Brock
man at the Soldiers Home, Dayton, Ohio.
/ The murderer was of unsOund mind and
/ that was the cause of the commission ofthe
| deed.
R. B. Covey, of Greenport. Long Island,
was killed by the explosion OF dynamite
which he was using on the wreck of the
snip Ohio, huge bolt of iron passing
/ through his skull.
! In a drunken squabble at Upperville, Va,
! John Rawlings was shot dead by Herbert
/ Lester, his cousin. Both were rich farmers.
| The murderer lost his feet in one of Stone
wall JacksOn's battles.
| A passenger train on the Bedford Narrow
| Guage road went through a bridge at
| Bloomfield, Ind, into the river, the engin-
| eer being killed and number OF persons
| seriously injured.
A boy named Upmeyer obtained dis
charged rocket and bringing it home pro.
ceeded to fire it of. Alter several unsuc-
cessful attempts his mother dealt it a pow
erful blow when 1t exploded with fearful
noise, fatally injurIng the mother and
younger sister.
A fourteen year-o1d daughter of Stephen
/ Kimball, a wealthy farmer near Lyons
/ IOnia county, Mich, while strOlling neaI
| her fathers honse yesterday, was outraged
by a couple of tramps. Kimball offers $500
reward for the arrest of the Williams. One
hundred men were in pursuit at last &C
| counts.
There is much excitement in Barry coun
ty, Michigan. welve miles north of Battle
Greek, over the discovery of the alleged
cremation OF a new born child by its mother
an unmarried girl, belonging to a respecta
BILE family. 1t is supposed the child wa
dead, when the mother deliberately made
a funeral pile and burned 1t, but whether
| born alive or not is at present unknown
The affair creates much excitement in tn,
neighbOrhhOOd.