Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-10-30
CRIMEs I'D CAsUALTTEs.

At New Haven, Benton, Nicholas & Co. IS
Patent Folding Box Mandatory burned.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, 1900.
At Edgefeld, Ca, twelve stores burned.
Last year a like COnhagTatiOn occurred in
the same part Cf the town. Loss 100000,
with very little insurance.
A Louisville, KY, Times special says
Harry Altman shot and killed his father,
at St. Charles. Family trouble was the
cause.
At Hunters Point, L. L, the jury. in tie
case of Patrick Herman, on trial for the
murder of Peter Mccormick, returned a,
verdict of murder in the first degree.
At Easton, Pa, fire destroyed W. N
Stocker s. Co.'s saw mill. Bernard COyle &
Sons ice house and stable, and Taylor q
Co.'s store, saw mill and ice house. Stock
er's loss, $4,000; insurance, s., 900. COyle
& Sons loss, So, 600.
The Chicago Journals Viroqua, Wis,
special says John Huschka, German sixty
years old, recently released from the insane
asylum, shot and killed his wife and then
took to the woods. A party Of forty
armed men secured the country for him.
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch special from
Austin, Texas, says: ACJutant General
Kinley. commander of the State forces, has
left for Fort Worth to enforce the order of
Governor Ireland to have jim CartEght,
the desperate, turned over to the New
Mexico authorities.
The body of Mrs Annie Madison was
found at her home III COvingtOn, KY, on
the floor. She had been chOked with a rope
and her throat was cut. Her husband was
absent when the discovery was made. He
was sent for and has arrived, but denies all
knowledge of the deed. A boy says an old
man with gray Whiskers committed the
deed.
at Dallas, Tex, a negro named Anthony
Walker, under conviction at Marshall of
the murder of VIM. Henry, white, in the
first degree, confessed and implicated Mrs.
Henry, widow of the murdered man. The
negro was criminally intimate with the
woman. Mrs. Henry was arrested at her
home in Harrison county, ana lodged in
jail at Marshall.
At Springfield, Mass, Ex-Assistant Mar
shall +. =. Pettis received word that his son
Edgar was shot and killed at Fort Robin
son, Neb. A letter came nom former en-
plOyer of young Pettis, who said, that in his
opinion, the shooting was a cold-blOOded
murder. The young man went West in
June, 1873, and expected TO return home
this Fall.
At Boston, VIM. n. Dempsey, of Wash
ington, d. c., has been indicted by the
United States Grand Jury Of this circuit,
on the charge Of defraudlng the Navy De-
partment. He was statiOner and supplied
most Of the stationery used IN the different
Departments at the Capitol. His plan, as
alleged, was to secure orders from the De-
partments and receive payment for the
goods without delivering them.
At Baltimore, the trial of Gilbert W. Ha
zeltine for the murder of Mamie Thorpe in
a siserputable house in this city J uly IS, last,
was begun in Criminal Court. The prison
er, who has been in the city Jail since the
murder, is from jamestown, n. Y. He is
defended by Ex-Governor William Pink
ney White and other counsel. When
brought into court the prisoner was accom-
panied by his mother, a middle-aged lady
Of progressing appearance.
A Louisville Courier-JournaI Shelby
vile, KY, special says: Reports have been
received OF the killing of Elijah Kirk by
Robert Clark, near Shslbyville. Kirk aC-
cused Clark Of circulating evil reports about
his daughter, and got a shotgun and rode
out to Clark's house. After threatening to
kill CLARK, he was riding up and down the
road awaiting Clark's appearance, when
the latter opened the front door and fired
Two shots with gun, Kidding Kirk with
buckshOt and shooting his head almost on.
At Reading, Pa, Detective Lyons sWore
out warrants for the arrest of Martin Luth-
er Fritcb, well known Reformed Church
minister ana chaplain at the county aims
house, and s. j. Wenrick, q wealthy cattle
dealer, who have been furnishing the aims
house with large cOnsignments Of cattle.
They are charged with bribery and con-
spiracy in connection with the almshouse
frauds now being investigated, and other
arrests viii follow.
Samuel r. Boone, Governor Clevsland's
assailant was discharged on his arraign-
ment at the Police Court, the Governor re-
commenting lenienCy. Boone said he had
greatly worried over his brothers case, and