Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-02-07

The general Offices of the Indiana, Illi-
nois & Kankakee railroad burned at Kanka-
kee, with all the Company's papers.
Fred Stranger, a tramp, has been arrested
at Chrisman, Ill. on suspicion of being the
murderer Of Ross Mahon at Mt. Carmel.
The three Barker brothers charged with
robbing the Lamp asses stage. were found gull
y at Austin Texas, and sen up Tor life.
Roger Ames having been imprisoned at
Boston for murder, his two sisters and a
brother have become insane from grief.
Engineer NJ. Tabor and Fireman F. a.
Robinson were killed in an accident on the
st. Louis and San Francisco road, at Dixon,
Mo.
A house near Norwich, n. Y, occupied
by an old couple named Clinton, has burned.
The bodies of the occupants were found in
the ruins.
Men have been arrested in both Chamois,
No, and Kimmswick whom the officers
suspect of having hand in the Jefferson
county murders.
J. J. Douglas. lottery manager, was ar
rested at Louisville by the chief inspector of
the postal service for sending circulars
through the mails.
The Phoenix glass works at Phillipsburg,
Ohio, have burned. Loss $125,O00; insur-
ance S74, 800. Five hundred men are
thrown out of employment.
Fire destroyed st. Pauls Episcopal church
at Fon du Lac, Wisconsin, valued at $2O.-
600, and the Chicago stove-wOrks at South
Minneapolis, worth $4,000.
Emil Trumpeter, having been granted a
new trial after a second conviction for muir
der in Cincinnati, has pleaded guilty and
thrown himselfon the mercy of the court.
The citizens of Howard county, Ark,
hanged in effigy two judges of the Supreme
Court for granting an appeal in the cases of
three Negroes sentenced to hang on account
of the late riots
John Leasing, who was confined in the
Jail at Chicago for murderous assault upon
Mrs. Konzack, followed the example of Her
man Koerstein and killed himself with cy-
anide of potassium.
The Brigham Young academy at Provo,
Utah, valued at 10000, was burned Sunday
| evening, January 9th. There were 400
students in the building, some of whom
narrowly escaped death.
It now transpires that the report that
James Turner of ArnO, Mo-, had shielded is
untrue. His wife, a stepsOn and grand
daughter of Turner have been arrested
charged with his murder.
Frank S. Heath, of Cory, Pennsylvania,
| leader of the Greenback party in that state,
has been held in 900 bail for sending
through the mails indecent matter in the
guise of instructions to parents.
. The wife of ieweler in Pittsburg discov-
cred a c0lOred man at work at the safe, and
was driven back to her room at the point of
| a revolver. The rObber secured goods valued
at 81, 200 or more and made his escape.
The grand jury at New Philadelphia,
Ohio, has indicted John Figert, clerk of the
court of common pleas, for forging the
names ofwitnesses to receipts for fees. His
friends claim that a conspiracy has been
formed against him.
The students of the University of Phila-
delphia, in celebrating their annual bowl
breaking, had row in the street in a Skin
mish with the police. Two students were
arrested. Four shots were fired, and one
man shot in the hand.
John M. Letterle, a politician and CAPT
talist of Louisville, went to hotel in that
city with a young woman and secured q
room from the night clerk. The indignant
proprietor caused the couple to be arTaigneC
in the police court and fined $50 each.
Berthold Falkenbumer, of the railway
mail service. was sentenced in the United
States court at St. Louis to two years impris
onment with hard labor in the Chester pen
itentiary. He gave bond and appealed the
case. He was convicted of stealing letters.
Suit has been begun at New Orleans
against the Captain and owner of the steam
er Printz Georg, which arrived Jan. oath, by
104 Italian immigrants, who claim that they
were starved and otherwise ill-treated OF
the passage The Captain has been held TO
trial.
Eight prominent citizens of Reading, Pa.
who were horse racing with sleighs on tn
public road, were arrested and held for tria
under the Blue Laws which provide, also
that upon conviction, the horses shall b.
sold and the proceeds placed in the count.
treasury.
Col. Frank Williams and John Gray, VIII
shot and killed Orion Curtey in a saloon
row at ROsita, Col. were taken from Jail a
Pollock next morning by a masked mob an
t hanged to the rafters ola log shanty nea
by GRAY died game. Williams plead 70
mercy, claiming that he shot in self defense
In a foundry in South Twelfth street, 81
Louis, two machinists were found wit
stabs which allowed their lungs to protrudt
Their names are Charles Meyer and Ale
Berger, and after receiving medical attentiO
they stated that their wounds were inf1icte
by the engineer, Charles KOebel. The latte
escaped.
Andrew Mango, of Cleveland, four veal
old, was poking shaVings into the stove {
nome when he SET IRE TO MS ClOGDluS, du
died after an hour of horrible suffering. II
t was the last of five children, the others ha'
ing died within short time of diphtherii
The mother became raving maniac whe
i the little one died. The father was abseI
: from home.
Samuel H. Post, superintendent of th
st. Louis Sunday school, confidential cler
L for D. w. Pratt, and agent of the McCo
mick Machine Co., attempted suicide at h
Y residence in st. Louis; Jan. 25th. He ha
]. taken two doses of laudanum, and then CT
his throat in bungling manner. He WI
short in his accounts with Pratt $500, an
: it is supposed that he spent the money O
/ other women than is wife, who was in Ne
York.
g The dispatches announce that James
q Silkman, OfNew York city; has commence
a suit against his brother-in-law DariJ