Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-10-02
OB1MEs And CASUALTIES

tersOn at Butler, Pa.
Councilman Barney ALcAtee. of Louis
vile, was kicked to death by a horse.
While feeding hogs, Gid. Henderson, a
farmer near HopkinsVille5 KY, was assas-
sinated.
Geo. Wagner, employed by the Frisco
line at North Springfield, No, committed
suicide by hanging.
Overwork is believed to be the cause of
the suicide of L. ]. Brown, a leading dry
goods merchant Of Fitchburg, Mass.
At NeWburn, Tennessee, an unknown
man deliberately laid mis- head on the
track and allowed train to cut it OF.
Chicago roughs visited the town of Niles
a suburb, and enjoyed themselves in a riot
GUS manner, winding up by killing Joe
ChisseI.
At Portland Station, No, a drunken
man threw a coal oil lamp at G: V. Weston
a salOOn-keeper. His clothes took fire and
he was fatally burned.
B. D. Skinner committed suicide in New
York City, by taking an over dose of NOR
phine Bad health is ascribsd as the cause
for the commission Of the act.
Peter Clark, a marshal at Albany, n. Y.
went to the house OF John A. Hearn to
serve papers, when Mrs. Hearn threw him
Henry N. Dunlap, formerly of Sangamon
county, Ills, and a man CT considerable
property, was assassinated near his home at
BIaver Point, Ark, by an unknown person.
Ten families were made homeless bv q
fire at AsbUry Park, n. j. During the
fire a panic occurred at a Salvation Army
meeting, and great many women were IN
jured.
Isaac Newton engine sr of the New York
City CrOtOn Water Department. commit
ted suicide by cutting his throat. 1t is
said that he had been drinking heavily
lately.
The NEiddIesex dye-works at Somerville,
Mass, valued at $25O,OO0 were burned.
Twenty-One buildings at Bronson, Mich,
and twelve stores at Sand Lake, were also
destroyed by fire.
Jackson, a box manufacturer at Atlanta,
told his wife he was going out of town.
Then salOOn-keeper was notified to call.
Jackson called later with a gun and wound
ed both the parties.
Rosara Feretta fatally shot his wife IN
New York City. Feretta claims that he had
a row with another Italian and was about
to shoot him when his wife rushed in and
received her wound.
Five men escaped from the jail at Water
town, New York, by binding and gagging
the sheriff. One Of the number voluntarily
returned, pleading that he was forced TO
iOin the movement.
Henry Clay, grandson of the great Ken
lucky statesman of that name, was shot
and killed at Louisville by a member of the
City Council of that place named Wempley.
Great indignation exists over the affair.
The Observation-Disclosures company of
Louisville, the largest whisky house in the
South, made an assignment after attempt
er
of 81, 500, 600 on which it then secured an
extension.
Priddy, 8 Pittsburg Oarsman, who en-
gagged in contest recently, has since devel-
Oped paralysis in both arms which can not
be removed by a galvanic battery, and il is
alleged that he was poisoned in the interest
of his rival.
A dry-gOOds firm in New York recently
suspected a salesWOman named Agnes b.
Francois, of stealing from the stock. She
was soon caught in the act, and suTen
cred property valued at 81, $50, when she
was sent to jail.
Detectives claim that they have discov-
cred molly Mcguire associations in the
coal and iron districts of Pennsylvania. A
Hungarian miner was horribly murdered
and hung 10. The feeling against the Hun
garians is intense.
The Esmond hotel and the remainder OF
Il q.
Oregon, were burned, the loss being $780,
00O The Parker House and nine other
structures at Eureka, New, valued at $7O,-
600, fell prey to flames.
A German named UIman, aged seventy
five, living near WhitestOWns, Pa, fatally
shot his wife, aged siZ-y-five. The two
had q quarrel over some domestic affair
and the old man In his anger picked up q
gun and fired the fatal shot.
The Italian Consul, E. DeMeroua, who
left Baltimore about two weeks ago, has not
since been heard from. He was prOmi-
nent merchant, and stood high socially.
Financial troubles supposed to be the cause.
DeMerOla owes $4,000 borrowed money.
Two freight trains on the Hannibal road
cOllided near New Cambria, No, 40 miles
east of Kansas City. The trains were
wrecked. Three men, including the engin-
e8r OF the WeSG-bOunQ train, were killed.
The conductor of the west bOund train was
also killed. The names of those killed
Were not learned. 1t is reported that the
West-bOund train was running contrary to
orders.
The yards of the Stearns Lumber cOmpa-
ny, at NepOset, Mass. were nearly all de-
strOyed by fire. The property burned in
cludes three-fOurths of the stock, 100000
feet of finished hard pine and cypress lum-
Der, on which there Will De a loss Of $780,
600, four buildings valued at about $40, O00
several WharVes valued at $50, 600 and ma
chinery worth $4,000, making q total loss
of $4,000. There is some insurance.
Samuel Friedman, bankrupt jeweler of
Chicago, confessed judgment TO the amount
Of SS8, 600, but the deputy sheriff found the
stock had been seized under a chattel NOR
gage. One of the creditors, who happened
to be the attorney for the other victims;
made his appearance at Minneapolis, where
Friedman carried on an extensive clothing
business After chartering a special train
on the Rock Island road, the attorney load
ed up the entire stock about midnight and
brought 1t to Chicago in sixteen hours,
when an officer levied upon the outfit for
81, 600.