Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-05-22

| WOTIu ) OenCOnn1aI ana COCCOQ Exposition
at New Orleans was concurred in. Ad-
journed.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Mills Petty, Negro, who outraged Miss
| Vannert was lynched at EIizabethtown
La.
DIR. Clark, aSt. Louis physician, is charged
with sending obscene matter through the
mails.
Fx-Mayor Saunders, of Lawrence, Mass,
has been held for trial on charge of ballot
box stuffng.
Hon. Butler strang of Westfeld, Pa,
shot himself fatally. III health is the rea-
son assigned.
E. B. Wheeler, charged with the murder
of J. P Matthews, has been acquitted at
Hazelhurst, Miss.
Michael Hart and James Moore qua4relled
about Miss Bernhart, near Pittsburg, and
Moore killed Hart.
A little daughter ofC. G. Wing, of South
Bend, Indiana, dropped the baby upon the
floor, crushing its skull.
Daniel c. Ritzen and Alex Burket of
Freeport, Pa, were drowned while crossing
the Allegheny river recently.
There was another murder at Cincinnati.
Jno. Devote shot Thos. McDermott in a
quarrel about payment for drinks.
James Scanlanlan has been arrested at
Carrollton, Texas, as accessory to the MUIR
der of George Moore, which occurred last
month.
The dead body of Thomas Leonard was
found in a deep cut in Nebraska City, Neb.
He had been robbed and his head was beaten
to jelly.
A. A. Shaw, the Treasurer of Clare coun-
! ty, Mich, was bucked and gagged at Harri-
| son, the county seat and robbed Of So, 00O
No clue of the robbers.
Lightning fired the postoffice and three
other buildings at Epping, New Hampshire,
and an aged invalid, named Geo. W. War
den, was burned to death.
Fred Hogan and Simon Rice, employees
in wire factory at Pittsburg, quarreled and
Hogan struck Rice several blows with
hammer, MASKING his skull.
A portion of the roof of the South Penn
sylvania tunnel under the Allegheny
mountains, in Dexter's Gap, fell recently,
killing two men and wounding three others.
DR.. F. Gardner suicided at San
Pablo, Cal, by taking thirty grains
of morphine His wife attempted
suicide but was saved. Cause, domestic in
felicity.
Antoine Hof, of Hancock, Ind, who was
in ate ndance at the Evangelical Lutheran
synod in st. Louis, was run over and killed
near the Work. house by an Iron Mountain
train.
Thefts of coupon passenger tickets on the
Wabash road have been going on for
months. One of the conductors who was
suspected of being implicated got frightened
and skipped.
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drunken Negro at UniontoWn, Ky. He was
cut almost to pieces and when nearly dead
was shot and Instantly killed by the Negro,
Jim Smith.
Within the past week woman and |
child in Pittsburg have lost their lives by
the blunders of drug clerks. One of the
latter has peen held for murder the other
is fatally i'll.
Strikers in Quincy, H., learned that a
number ofnon-union mOulders would arrive
by the Wabash train on May 10th and met it |
on its arrival and assaulted theneW- corners, |
beating one man dangerously.
A Utah murderer named Hope, alias
Welcome, has selected shooting as the |
means of death in his case, his execution |
being set for June Is. His ease has already |
cost the Territory $4,000.
John Thomas, a soldier who had become |
crazed from liquor, attempted four times to !
buIOW u1ulSSl1 III lulu VI IAC 1OD1dI SJIOGB |
cars in st. Louis, but was prevented each |
time, and sent finally to the City hospital.
Fourteen women and half dozen men |
were severely injured by jumping from the |
windows of a burning wooden factory at |
Worcester, Mass, and it is believed that a |
number of bodies will be found in the |
ruins.
e. D. Granger, a commission merchant |
of Kansas City, and 9. Z. Armstrong his |
former partner, qurrreled and Armstrong |
struck Granger, who then drew a revolver |
and shot Armstrong in the arm, inficting a /
slight wound.
A New York chemist named Isaac D. |
Edrehi, sixty years of age, shot his wife, |
from whom he was separated, because she /
refused to live with him, then killed his /
ive-year-old son and afterwards shot and /
killed himself.
Arthur L. Blue, of Indianapolis, was ar
rested at Chicago on a charge of sWindling. /
He advertised a combination barometer
and thermometer for sale which was not as
represented, and the Grand-jury of Indian
apolis indicted him.
Charles Piper and William Ferris have
been arrested for completely in the famous
Mount Pulaski triple killing. The crime
was committed nearly two years ago. Both
of the accused are relatives of Mcmahon,
one of the murdered men.