Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-02-21

THE county Jail at Warsaw, III, burned
and Nike Mcdonald and Ed. Carey, two
desperadoes we're burned to death.
Fire destroyed the Bluff City hotel at
Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Emma Neisn, of
Crowns Point, Iowa, burned to death.
In. Peters, seven years employed in
the pOst-ofice at Marshall, No., has been
arrested on a charge of robbing the mails.
Cadets Maxey, Mclean, Jastranski and
Parker and perhaps other students at An
napolis are to be tried on the charge Of
hazing.
The steamer Mating Bill collided with an
iceberg and went down. She was valued at
| 800, 900 and her cargo at $3.50, 600. Both IN
sured
At Bellefontaine, Ohio, Edward Gordon
accidentally shot his wife in the head while
cleaning a revolver and inflicted a mortal
wound.
Fred Walter, an employee of Conveys
planing-mill, at Milwaukee, became entang-
led in the machinery and was torn limb
from limb.
Andrew J. Mason, of Chicago, who killed
his dissolute brother-in-law, William A.
Paddocks, in self-defense was acquitted in
the superior court.
George Burnett and James Commerford
who acted under the firm named Cornelius
| Comstock q Co., have been arrested for
swindling, in New York City.
An unknown woman shot and seriously
wounded Victor Grafton Andree, on the
elevated railway in New York City, and
then blew her own brains out.
The ship Andrew Jackson, from Cardiff
to Coquinto, is believed to have been lost
with all on board. The captain had his
wife and two children with HIM.
Billy McGlory, a New York saloon-keep-
er known throughout the country, has been
sentenced to the penitentiary for six months
Tor violating the excise law.
Geo. Davidson, Chief Clerk of the Subsist-
ence Department of the United States Army,
stationed at Chicago in 1879-S0, has been ar
rested for embezzling $4,000 during the wears
named.
Jerry Arnold a telegrapher shot and kill
ed Bridget Eagan and then killed himself,
in the street at Milwaukee. The girl had
refused to marry him, being Catholic and
he Protestant.
Skilled cracksmen stole from the Office of
DR.. II. @. Brainerd, in Cleveland, the finest
numismatic collection in Ohio. 1t includ-
ed everv coin issued by the United States,
except seven pieces.
At st. Louis Anna Fort MORALLY wound
ed teamster named Robertson, whom she
had caused to be put out of her house, and
who had returned with knife. Robertson
was trying to remove her furniture.
Mrs Mix stood at the open grave of her
husband at Steamboatrock, Iowa, remarked
that they might as well be buried in one
grave, and pulled out revolver and shot
herself, inf1icting mortal wound.
Eighteen drunken men took possession OF
coal train on the Toledo, Cleveland & st.
| Louis road at Milledgeville. The brakeman
was fatally beaten. The engineer cut loose
his engine and run to Eagleville to save his
life.
Tom Allen, the pugilist, has been arrested
in St. Louis at the instance of w. P. Ferrel,
! of Covington, KY, who went on Aliens
bond eight years ago, when he was arrested
ed on $4,000 bond.
A dispatch from Tombstone, Arizona,
mentions that legal proceedings have been
set on foot to delay the execution of the
convicted Bisbee murderers, but that the
people will have no delay. If the court
does not hang the men mob will.
George Crossman left Lansing, Michigan,
| two years ago, and made investments in a
Mexican mine which are now valued at
$50, 900. In a recent difficulty near Chihua-
hua he killed one man and wounded an
Silas Smith, pastor of the colored Baptist
congregation at Mexico, Mo-, has had his
third trial for burning his church and been
found guilty. The jury disagreed in two
former trials The verdict assesses punish
ment at five years imprisonment.
John Pennington and his wife, who lived
five miles from Frankfort, Kansas, were
found murdered, he shot in the head and
she with her head crushed. A hired man is
suspected, as he and horse and saddle are
missing. Pennington had sold some hogs
the day of the murder.
A mixed train on the Southern Central
dropped into the Seneca river at Weedsport
N. Y. The floods had weakened the bridge
: Burr Ridgeway, engineer, John Straight
fireman, and Timothy Z. DOnahay, brake
man. IN the cab at the time, were drowned
The engine is under water and the passen-
ger car remained on the track.
Two alleged train-robbers and murderers
from Mexico are at Eagle Pass, Texas
and the American extradition agent re-
fuses to surrender them. There is reason to
expect raid from the Mexican side to Sc.
cure the criminals, and Marshal Gosline
has gone from San Antonio with a force Of
armed men, to repeal an invasion.
Near Horton, Mich, Brown, a detecti We
who has been working on the Crouch muir
ders was met on the road by carriage con-
tanning two men, one of whom, after max
ink sure of the identity of the detective
shot him, infiioting a dangerous wound
and leaving him for dead There is great
excitement over the affair, and the assas-
sins are being pursued.
Detective Giles Brown, who was shot neal
Horton, Mich, is positive that Judd Crouch
was the assassin, and Crouch and his hired
man, named McCullum, were taken from
their residence and lodged in Jail at Jack.
son, but were soon released. Crouch claims
that he was not out of his house after dark
on the night of the shooting, The people
of the district are intensely excited.
THE FLOOD.
February 18th, heavy wind added to the
disasters of the food at Lawrenceburg
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