Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-10-23
80 80 oAsUALTIHs.

At New York, Schriever Bros, manutac-
turers of artificial flowers, assigned giving
preferences OF $4,000.
At Astoria, Long Island, diphtheria has
become an epidemic. There were over nifty
cases and i've deaths in one week.
AT Norfolk, Va, a fire broke out in row
of buildings on Roanoke square, iDjuring
the buildings and stock to the am ount OF
! $45, 900; insured.
/ At Louisville the Union Tobacco works,
Frederick Jansen proprietor, burned. Loss,
/ $4,000 insured. Ninety people are thrown
out Of employment.
A fire at Duluth, Mimi, destroyed the dry
/ house, planning mill and lumber shed be
/ longing to the O'Neal Lumber company.
Loss about $50, 900; insurance $4,000.
At Joliet, Ill, the blast furnace No. /, at
| the rolling mills north of the city burst,
/ setting IRE to the stock house and consum-
ing it, with several cars and other property.
Loss heavy.
The Snow Paper mill at Waohusett,
Massachusetts, owned by Crock
er & Burbank, has been dam
aged to the extent of $4,000 by fire. Insur-
ance $50, goo.
While Oiling machinery at the Republic
Iron Works, at Pittsburg, William Andrich,
aged tOrty-hVe, fell between the cog wheels,
and before he could be extricated his body
Ms Literally BLOuL4Q " p4CCC5s
DR.. W. H link, a trial justice at Bran
ford, Connecticut, was killed in his bed with
a hammer. AS Robert Dougherty had re-
Gently been fined by the justice, it is be-
heved that he committed the murder out Of
revenge.
At Harrodsburg, KY, DR.. Dillon, a prom
inent doctor, and VIM. Curry, in sport, be-
gan throwing water on each other. They
soon became angry and Curry struck
Dillon on the head with a glass, killing
him,
At Peoria, Ill, Rev. J. N Robinson, of
Indianapolis, was found dead in a berth on
a Wabash sleeper. He got on the train at
Shenandoah, Ia, and the last seen Of him
alive was at HumestOn. The cause Of his
death is unknown. About $25 in notes and
money were found.
Lawrence L. Canley, of Philadelphia,
aged eighteen, shot Mamie Benson, aged
fourteen, and then killed himself The
girl will recover. Canley was in love with
her, but she did not return his affection.
Meeting her on the street he fred the shots
which proved fatal to him.
The crew of the whaling bark Seine that
was wrecked of Cape Fro, has arrived at
New Bedford, Mass. Two of the men were
drowned, both Portuguese. The steward de-
serted the camp on the beach and wander
ed into the desert and has not been heard
I
from. All of the others arrived safe at the
| 49stlement.
Five masked men, with reVOlVers -four
ishing, battered down door in the house
| of Farmer Joseph Gates, in White township,
near Johnston, Pa, and compelled Gates at
the point of pistols to give them 81, LOO,
which he had seCreted. The robbers then
hastily departed, firing reVOlvers as they
emerged from the house.
There was a fight between the Brooklyn
dog, Irish, and the New York dog Tug, at
Blissviue, n. Y, recently, for two hundred
dollars and the gate money. The dogs
fought an hour and twenty minutes. Irish
won, and died twenty minutes later. Tugs
| leg was broken. 1t was hard battle. James
Smith, of Brooklyn, and Patsy CrOnin, of
New York, handled the dogs.
At Cincinnati, O., W. T. Thorn as an at
tendant at the Cincinnati hospital, while
drawing a truck containing Chris Turd-
horst a patient, upon the elevator to take
/ him to the amphitheatre for a clinical lee
ture, fell through the hatchWay, pulling
! the truck after him. Both were killed.
| The elevator had been taken up without
his knowledge.
! John Noel who was tried in the common
| pleas court of MOberly, No, some weeks
| ago on a charge of being accessory to the
murder Of Lee Nichols, who was so cruelty
/ beaten here and subseq uently died of his in
/ juries in Mexico, No, and was rearrested
! for burglary in Fayette but escaped from
! the officer, was arrested in DenisOn, Tex,
and will be brought back to answer the
/ charged.
The body OF John Clark, who broke jail
/ a few days ago at CastrOVille Texas, in COM
pany with another man named Simon, was
] found near that place. Strong suspicion
/ points to Simon as the slayer Of his com
/ panlon. Simon is now IN jail at CastrOYille
! having been captured in this city the day
] foIlnuvir1er his HfUhN oft Er-E-A
/ with the officers. At that time CLARK could
not be found, hence the suspicion.
! The Federation of Trades and Labor IN
/ ions adopted the following preamble and
resolutions: WHEREAS, Many of the evils
| complained of by the wage workers cannot
/ be remedied unless by legislative enact
l ment, therefore, Resolved, That We deem 1t
/ the duty of every trade uniOnist and wage
worker in North America to work for can
/ didates for Legislative hOnors who have
! proved themselves true friends of organ
| lied labor.
In a saloon at Brighton, st. Louis county,
/ No, a desperate named Bob Mings shot a
young man named Bill Tansil who died an
] hour afterWard. Tansil, who is the son of
a local Squire, had served a peace warrant
/ on Ming few days ago, who sWOre to get
| even and seized the opportunity of meeting
him last night to carry the threat into exc
cutiOn. The murderer escaped Immediately
after the shooting and is being hunted by
the county officers and the police.
Word comes to Salt Lake from Osceola,
New, that Doc Clay, an old resident of east
ern Nevada, was Waylaid and shot dead
while going from the Shoshone district 20
the Patterson district by a GOshoot Indian.
After the killing, the Indian drove OF the
road, caught the load Clay was driving,
drove 100 yards further, Embarrassed the
horses, and tying them to trees shot them
both, and then went on to the next mining
camp, got drunk and told what he had
| done.
At Little Rock, Ark, Charles Watson died
in the hospital from the effects of seven