Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-01-10

THREE of the Southern Pacific train
robbers are in custody. One has confessed.
THE late Archbishop Perche was
buried at New Orleans on the I'd with I'M
posing ceremonies.
The hotel, Courthouse and nine
business buildings at Breckenridge, Mimi,
were DESTROYED by fire on the ID.
WM. MCHUGH, the Cincinnati wife
murderer, has been convicted for the third
time of murder in the first degree.
EVIDENCE accumulates to show that
old man Grifiths, of Salem, O., was shot by
his own son and the body robbed
JAS. WILLIAMS, a desperate con-
fined in jail at Ottumwa, Ia, shot the turn
key dead on the ID and made his escape.
A MAN whose eye was put out by
cinder falling from the Manhattan Eleva-
ted Railway has sued the company for
$4,000 damages.
a RAILWAY disaster with serious loss
of life occurred on the I'd near Toronto,
Ont. More than twenty men were killed
and many wounded.
SEVERAL officers of experience in
Arctic exploration have presented plans
for relief of the Greedy party. Lieutenant
Darlington wants to try again. Lieutenant
Schwatka, Captain George E. Tyson, of the
Hall expedition; Lieutenant Hunt, of the
Rodgers, and Lieutenant Ray, of the Point
Barrow Station, have given the Arctic
Board their views on the subject.
JUDGE KREKEL decided on the I'd in
the United States Court at Kansas City
that the Missouri authorities are entitled
to the custody of Frank James till the
Blue Cut robbery case is disposed of.
THE st. Louis (Mo.,) Court of Appeals
declines to interfere to save Kate Douglas
from hanging. The judgment in the case
of Conrad Rose, however, is reversed and
new trial ordered.
MARQUIS DE RAYS has been sentenced
to four years. imprisonment in Paris for
enticing many persons into a LOCUS coloni-
zation scheme. Four of his associates
were given two years each and one five
years.
The tOw-boats BuntOn and Case, with
a tow from Pittsburgh, we're caught by the
ice at Davis Island, in the Ohio River, on
the ID. Three barges sunk, the Case went
ashore and the Bunton took fire and sunk.
Four lives are reported lost.
The Sullivan combination became
embroiled in a free fight at Denver, Col, on
the ID. Sullivan was run out Ola hotel by
the proprietor, who 1Ourished a revolver.
| One policeman was knocked out and all the
sluggers were finally jailed.
THE Secretary OF the American Iron
and Steel Association reports the shrink
age for the year in prices at four dollars on
No. anthracite pig-iron, three dollars on
gray forge Pig-iron and five dollars on steel
rails. 1t is thought the bottom has been
reached.
The elevator of Smith Bros brewery,
New York, fell on the I'd, seriously injuring
five persons, including the two proprietors,
Donald and Mcpherson Smith. The others
meiser, who were visiting the building, and
| Charles Saver, employe.
IT is reported that the surrender of
the last band of Apaches from Sonora has
had an excellent effect on the mining inter
ests of Arizona and New Mexico. A feel
ing of greater security prevails and capital
is being freely invested.
A wEsT-BOUND express train on the
| Wabash Road, the night of the LIST, struck a
wagon near Napoleon, o., containing five
young men, killing Frank Long and VIM.
Rohers and badly injuring George Apps.
Long leaves a wife; the others were un-
married. A freight train on a side-track
! concealed the approaching train.
The Republic Oil Works at CIeve-
81, the cooper-shOp being in flames, with a
prospect that they would extend to other
buildings.