Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-11-22

ter. at Corrouton, Missouri, burned re
Gently. Loss, about $4,000 insurance. ~
A Negro woman named Wilson, confined
in the calabOOse at Temple, Texas was
murdered by an unknown man VINO Is
capped.
Seventy five men charged with being re-
peaters were arrested at Trenton, n :. on
the day before election, and locked up Ior
five days.
An MISUNDERSTANDING man named
Henry Moore gave himself up, saying ne
had killed a man out in his township near
Cleveland, o.
Hon. Silas BeasOn, formerly Of Lincoln,
H., met with an accidental death near Au-
dubOn, 10. His remains will be inferred at
his old home.
James W. Wright, of Babylon, Long
Island, locked his father, who is over o.
years old, in a room Of his house on election
day so he could not vote.
J.C. Bigger, deputy o. S. marshal and
late Republican candidate for congress IN
the Sixth Texas district, has been indicted
for carrying concealed weapons.
Several men, colored and white, Repub-
hcans and Democrats, were shot IN riot at
a political meeting in Louisiana, few
days before election.
A freight train on the Virginia Midland
road cOllided with a passenger train at Ac--
cOtink bridge. A brakeman was killed and
i've other persons injured.
JnO c. Compton, an apprentice, while
working on the cOrnice and roof OF build
ing in st. Joseph, Mo-, slipped and fell to
the ground. He died in twenty minutes.
At Cincinnati On election day Philip
Hennessey was shot, and recently died
from the wound. His wife then shot
herself through the heart, dying instant
ly.
Mrs. W. S. Howard, aged so, resident Of
MilbrOOE, Mich, poured oil on herself and
ignited it. She died few days ago. 1t
was said that she was mentally unbal-
anced.
At New York a few days ago John L.
Sullivan, Of Boston, and John NJ. Latin, of
New York city, had their much talked Of
mill. Lafhin was knocked out in the sec
Ond round.
DR.. J. II. Allison, of Longview, Texas,
prominent citizen, was assassinated by
hard character named Jim FitterIee, who
shot the doctor three times through the
heart, and escaped.
Fire was discovered in the Knoxville,
Pa, coal mine after it had made great
progress anu zone S2O,OOU uhLlb3S5. Inc
wall of the mine had been saturated with
petroleum and then fired.
Senator DOlph, of Oregon, proposes to
ask the grand jury at Annapolis to find in
dictments for murder against the hazers
who caused the death Of Cadet Strong by
rolling him dOWn-hill in a barrel.
Robert standring and wife were discov-
cred dead in their house on q ranch seven
miles from Pine Grove, Col, a small station
on the South Park road. Circumstances
indicated they were murdered for money.
An explosion of dynamite at Gloucester
Mass, was OccasiOned by a spark from the
pipe Of a workman at the water works fall
ing on and exploding a package OF cart
ridges. Three men were injured and con
siderable glass IN the vicinity was broken.
The prosecuting attorney at Trenton New
Jersey caused the arrest OF Elijah Mount
ford, prominent Republican, proprietor
OF the Eagle pottery, for bribing wOrkmen
at the polls, and he gave 81, 600 bail. Fred
erlck Walker, a member Of the Board OF
FreehOIders, Democrat, was arrested on a
similar charge.
At Huntington, Pa, q dwelling house
occupied by two families was consumed D.
ire. Holt, one of the men threw a chaff
bed from the second story window and then
threw his wife and children out upon it.
Mrs. Rogers attempted to escape by the way
of ladder. Her clothing and hair was burn
ed from her. The children were fatally in
jured.
Alfred Chapman, aged 30 years, disap-
peared at Schenectady, New York, on De-
tOber 10Th. JOcOb MOhr, farmer, is sup
posed to have been drowned at Hoffman
Ferry, November 9TH. In the search for
MOhr's body in the Mohawk river, Chap
mans body was found. The case is mys-
FERROUS. Chapman had $500. Thirty-nine
dollars was found on his body, but nothing
can De discovered of the balance. MOhr's
case is mysterious. The explosion of a
dynamite cartridge brought the body OF
/ Chapman 20 the surface.
The dynamite works of A w. Stump &
Co., three-quarters OF mile from StOuts-
burg, a village of 800 inhabitants, blew up,
shaking the country for miles around. All
the men in the building were torn TO atoms.
A church and several houses were IN
rooted. At Robinson, ten miles from
! StOutsburg, fifteen masOns were working al
the bottom of Ferguson q Co.'s furnace
shaft, refining it with friedrich. The stack
/ was probably 100 feet high and the work
was nearly completed. As the shock of the
/ explosion was felt, the stack quiVered and
/ there was a noise, followed Immediately by
a great deluge of bricks, completely bury
/ ing six men at the bottom of the stack. II
/ they were not instantly killed, they were
| burned to death.