Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-03-21

refused to send sks hay until Oliver P9ld q
small debt he was owing MIN t5E g few days
Later Crockett. while passing divers house.
was shot BY Oliver. Several Deputy Mar
shals pursued Oliver and attempted TO ar
rest him He resisted with rife, but hnal-
" after being wounded four times bullet
struck him Ia the mouth, killing him in
stantly-
A mysterious case of poisoning has Oc-
CURED in the family Of Joseph Hall, six
miles south Of St. Paul, Nina Hall and
his wife and three children retired at the
usual hour In good health. He had AZ
ranged 10 ride into town with neighbOr
the next morning. When the latter called
he found Hall unconscious, but the woman
aud one child, aged i've years were dead.
Physicians cannot tell what caused the
troubls. Halls face was terribly swollen
and disoolOred. The doctors think all viii
die.
A magazine containing e,OOO pounds
Of nitrO-ElyCeriHe, exploded at Bradford,
Pa, and W. II. Harrington, one of the pro
prletors, and 81. V. Pratt, an employs were
instantly killed. The factory, twenty i've
feet away, was blown to atoms. Pratts body
was found 200 feet away, with AL the bones
broken, but the skin WEs intact. Mr. Har-
ringtOn weighed $50 pounds. One or two
p eces Of flesh was all that could be found
of him. Trees were torn up by the roots
and great holes made in the earth.
Three negroes, named Ambrose Young,
Charles latham and Frank FREEMAN, were
arrested charged with being implicated in
the murder of Montgomery near the State
line last December, and while under guard
at Union City, Tenn, mob of 300 men
Overpowered the guards and took the pEis-
oners and hanged them, Just outside the
city. Their lteleEs COrpses were found next
morning suspended from 8 tree. Union
City is greatly excited over the matter.
Jas. @. Mackin and VIM. Gallagher, Chi
cagO, who were found guilty in the cele-
brated Eighteenth ward election case, were
denied new trial and sentenced to two
years each in the penitentiary, besides be
ing fined So, 900 each.
A heavy rumbling, supposed to be an
earthquake, was distinctly felt ia Lancas-
ter, Pa, on the 9th, shortly after eight
O'Clock. Buildings were shaken, and in
stoves. Services in the various churches
we're Suspended until the sensation sub
sided.
A Durant, Miss, special says three col
Ored children were burned Saturday. The
parents locked them in the house while
they attended a log rolling. Two white
boys were badly burned in trying TO release
the burned children.
During a thunder storm the saloon Of
Harry Burton, in the village of Rossville,
o., was blown to pieces by a key of powder
exploding beneath it, 1t was the only
saloon in the place, and had been only re
Gently opened.
Thomas KilGan shot and killed Joseph
Bridges, a quiet farmer, on the public high
way near IuEtsViIle No, Saturday after
noon. No cause is assigned for the deed.
While on the roof of the Gibson house at
Cincinnati, Joseph Bohlman caught hold
of an electric-light wire and was Instantly
killed by the shock.
Michael Nom Tree. a young man of q,
jumped in the river at New York with
suicidal intent. He changed his mind and
was rescued.
Idle cOnvicts set fire to the hame shop of
Hayden & Bird, prison contractors at Au-
burn, n. Y. Less $4,000.