Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-06-26

Hiram Weir shot and killed S. Mcdonald
for stoning bis residence.
George Dawson stabbed owen Nichols in
the abdomen, and killed him at Louisville,
Ky.
New Albany, Ind. Domestic trouble is as
cribed as the cause.
A Negro boy, who shot and killed lad
named Osborn, at Lynchb1rg, Va, was
hanged by citizens.
After suffering for many years from a
wound received in battle, General William
! McCandless died in Philadelphia, in his IF
tieth year.
| NJ. L. Ayers, residing in Walworth coun-
| ", Wis, who was recently chosen an elect
or at large by the Democratic State Conven-
ton, has lately died.
Peter G. Small, noted horse thief who
escaped from jail at Easton, Pa, writes To-
cal paper that he has desire to steal Gen.
| Grants Arabian horses. There is a reward
for SmalPs arrest.
Chas H. Campbell, of Whithan, Mich,
beat his wife with chair and shot her
twice, indictng wounds which will prob
| ably prove fatal. He then shot himself
through the heart. jealousy was the
cause.
VIM. Sloom, worthless Negro, while
| drunk at BardstoWn, KY, cut out the bow
! els of Geo. Hughes, hotel clerk, for order
ing him away from the premises. Hughes
| will die, and it is thought the Negro will
be lynched.
One hundred and fifty Irish and English
miners employed at n. G. Trick & AGO. IS
Coke Works, at McCOnnellsville, Pa, threw
down their picks and refused to work be-
cause the firm had engaged seven Hun
| garian miners.
| An attachment has been granted against
the property of John @. Emo, the abscond-
! ing President of the Second National bank
| of New York City, in a suit brought by the
bank to recover So, 185, 900, which is alleged
Emo misappropriated.
Three deputy sherifs at Salt Lake, armed
! with Winchester rifles, executed Fred HOyt
who had been tried three times for murder
He sat upon his coffin, blindfolded, anC
the officers fired from point ten PAGES dis
tant.
While under the influence of opium, a
| Baltimore, and semi-unconscious, Mrs. @
N. Porter was seized by two men, carried
into saloon and outraged. She'was theI
taken to the street, where she was found
insensible by the police, and only re
suscitated after arduous operations by ply
sicians.
An excursion given by the Presbyterian
church of Camden, Pa, resulted rather dis
astrously. The train which was carrying
the excursion party colhded with the reg
ular express train, and six persons were
killed and many injured.
The body of Mrs. Thomas S. Kelton wa!
found in her residence at Princetown with
two wounds in the back of her head. The
suppositiOn is that she had been killed with
an axe. The WOman's husband had lief
her ten days before, after quarrel. No ar
rests.
"a boy recklessly threw a light into
suppOsed-tO-be empty powder magazine a
Akron, Ohio, causing an explosion of Wha1
powder was left, by which Perry Peck, ageC
15, was instantly killed, nothing being
found but his SCARED trunk and skull
Several other lads passing near were hurt
but none seriously.
An Indian fight has been reported in
Northern Texas. D. w. Staples and w. w
| Hartzell started from Dallas for Washing
ton Territory on horseback, and when neal
the northern boundary of the Panhandle
country were attacked by seven hostile
Indians, and after making a heroic re-
sistance both were MORALLY wounded. Five
of the seven Indiands we're killed.
The United States Grand Jury has hand
in Indictment against J. D. Fish, of the
Marine Bank, of New York, J. G. Emo, Of
the Second National, also of New York
charging them with misappropriating Ma
tional bank funds; also an Indictment
against Ferdinand Ward charging him with
aiding and abetting the officers of the Ma
tionol Bank in illegally applying the funds.
An express train on the Cincinnati,
Washington and Baltimore railroad was
wrecked near LoYeland, Ohio, the engineer
! and fireman being seriously burned and
bruised. It was found that the spikes had
| been drawn from sixteen ties and that one
rail was taken up. a Negro named William
| Scott, who was supected of the crime, mar
rOWly escaped lynching.
The First Comptroller of the Treasury, in
settling the accounts of G. Morgan. de-
ceased, formerly a disbursing clerk in the
| Department of State, and chief of the Bu-
reau of Accounts, has discovered deficit OF
$112, 900. His bondsmen have been called
on to make good the amount. Morgan was
a disbursing clerk in the State Department
for many years, and was held in high es-
TEEN. He died about two months ago.
The failure of the banking firm of Mid
dIeton & Co., of Washington, d. c., is said
not only to be the most disgraCeful but also
the most disastrous one on record. Prop
erty left for safe keeping, good margins on
stock, the charity fund, all Of the deposits.
and, in fact, everything has been swept
taWay and used by this firm until it is
I-doubtful if it pays a cent or even a mill on
the dollar. It has been shown that they
have been given funds to make a purchase,
but simply passed them to their own credit
and spent the same.
POLITICAL AND PERSONAL.