Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-04-18
cRIMEs AID MIsHAPs-

/ A dispatch from San Francisco, April g.
| says: The steamship Oceanic, arrived this
/ afternoon with Yokohama news on March
/ q. The shanghai Mercury says that the
! VicerOy Of the Yuman and Swechong
! Provinces had Issued a decree, command
/ ing to obstruction all of the Roman Catholic
/ Converts. He also ordered all Roman
| Catholic converts and all foreigners killed.
/ Reports had reached Shanghai that several
Roman Catholic settlements had already
/ been destroyed and several hundred converts
[ killed. The village of KiuyOping, two
| days journey from Tall, had been destroy
| ed and four converts and two priests killed.
/ The only reason assigned by the Chinese
/ ViCerOy for the massacre was that the RO-
man Catholics were going to revolt against
! the Chinese Government.
! In Newport, KY, Mr. Mcmillan boarded
a street car in which MI. JnO. L. Cummings,
a clerk in the First National Bank of Gin
| cinnau, was passenger, and saying, 81
have you now" fired three balls from
revolver into his chest, causing instant
death. MCMILLAN Immediately gave him
self up. The story IS he killed Cummings
in revenge for the ruin Of his daughter
Mcmillan Is q cutter in the clothing manu-
/ factory of Israel Herman, No. 129 West
Pearl street, where he is spoken of as an in
dustriOus and peaCeaOle man. He had
never spoken there Of any trouble.
& fOur-story brick building on Monroe
street near Dearborn, Chicago, occupied by
the National Printing Co. and Bredner. Smith
& Co., paper dealers, burned on the 5Oth
The National Printing Co. loses ali Its press
es and nearly all its material, which together
with the damage done to the building makes
its loss fully $4,000; insured for $1I4. 600
Bradner, Smith & Co. lose fully 5000 600 on
stock and building, which it is understood
VIII be fully covered by insurance.
A story comes from Nsmeoki, IL, that
negro calling himself Higgins went to the
house of r 0bert Williams, also colored. g
small farmer living on the Emmert estate.
on Wednesday night and asked for IOdg-
ings- He was PERMITTED to remain and
amused the family by telling funny stories
until about midnight, when he suddenly
rose, and with drawn revolver demanded
money. Williamson produced $50. but
Higgins demanded more, and when Viii
lisms replied that that was all he had
Higgins shot twice, indicting mortal
wounds. He then shot and killed Viii
hams' little boy and fired two shots at Mrs.
Williams, but she escaped by running from
the house. Higgins fed, and at last &C
counts had not been captured.
Mr.. A. J. Snyder, a prominent stockman
Of Kansas City, telegraphed Gov. Marina
duke Offering his credit to the extent of one
tenth Of any sum, without limit, $50. coo if
necessary, 70 buy and destroy all cattle that
have been exposed to the contagious pIeuro
pneumonia now existing ia the vicinity of
FULTON, No. 1t is thought that q sufficient
fund can be raised within q short time to
secure the eradication Of this disease.
A suit has been brought in the Eupreme
Judicial Court of Suffolk county, Mass, BY
the National Soldiers Home for Disabled
volunteer soldiers against Beria amin T.
Butler to recover $4,000, alleged to be
Que Tor failure to account while being