Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-02-21

On the 10th the storm and severe cold
I weather continued all over the Northwest.
A dispatch from Chicago Of that date says:
The mercury fell rapidly after midnight,
/ and reports from all Western points indi-
cate clear and cold weather. In Chicago at
8 o'clock the Signal Service reported a tenn
| perature of 40 below zero; Omaha, 10 be-
/ low; Kansas City, 140 below; st. Paul, 230
| below; Dubuque, go below; keOkuk, 15o
! below; Fargo, 800 below; Winnipeg, so
/ below. The worst effect Of the storm ap-
peared TO be Southeast of Chicago. Trains
/ between here, Louisville and Cincinnati
are completely blockaded. The morning
passenger trains Eas5 are abandoned, eZ-
cept on one line. The roads all expect to
send out afternoon trains. All incoming
trains from the West are six to eighteen
hours late. Trains are leaving for the West
on time. Freight business on all roads is
practically suspended.
A collision on the Pennsylvania Central
railroad on the bridge at New Brunswick,
n. J., on the 9TH, caused oil tank cars in
the train to explode and sent their burning
contents running over the bridge on to the
buildings below anddOwn the cutters Of the
streets. The loss by fire is estimated at ST, =
OOO,O 900. Several lives were lost.
At the gate of a farm in Worth county,
Georgia, Sheriff Shivers and Frank Boat
right, who had been warm personal friends
grasping. They fell dead locked IN each
others arms.
The corpse of a beautiful young woman
was shipped from Baltimore to King Will
liam county, Virginia, with no eXplana-
ton. There is mystery connected with
the affair that eZcites interest.
Reports from all quarters where snow
storms have been raging indicate that they
are the heaviest and most severe in many
years. Trains are abandoned and even
country roads are blocked.
Burglars entered the house of George LiV-
ingstOne, a wealthy citizen Of Reading, Pa,
chlOrOfOTmed the inmates and decamped
with nearly 81, 200 in cash and notes. No
clew to the burglars.
The engine house and machine shops OF
the B. g. n. W., and A. 81 W., Narrow
Guage railroads at Burlington, Ia, were
burned on the morning OF the 9Th. Loss
$4,000.
An explosion occurred at Brazil, Ind, in
the Central Iron and Steel Works, Mayor
Collins owner. Four men were killed, eight,
dangerously wounded, and large number
slightly.
A man named VIM. Hickey went to Wa
bash, Ind, to ''dO up Editor Linn, OF the
Courier, and was fatally wounded by the
latter.
High water in the Brandywine river at
Wilmington, Del, damaged the new B. q
P. railroad bridge to the extent OF 500 600.
Mrs. Burnham, widow, and her son
and daughter were all murdered near Radi-
cal City, Independence county, Mo.
At Cuba, No, Howard Martin, while
drunk, attacked Ed Green, a drug clerk,
and was shot dead by the latter.
A negro ravisher named Tom Morris was
taken from the calabOOse at Schulenburg,
Tex, on the 9TH, and hanged.
Frank BOnhan has been arrested charged
with the murder of his mother, sister and
brother at Radical City, Mo.
At a wedding party at Plato, Illinois, the
floor gave way and the guests were tumbled
together into the cellar.
Advices from Chester, Pa, on the morn
ing of the 10th tell of heavy and damaging
rains in that vicinity.
Eleven horses lost their lives by fire in
the livery stable Of A. H. Bates, at Utica
New York.
A dormitory of the Agricultural College
Mass, valued at $4,000, was
burned.
Ben Hawkins, who murdered a peddler,
was lynched by a mob in Robertson county,
Texas.
The saw mills of Jonn K. Coolidge &
Sons, Helena, Ark, burned. Loss, 825, 00O
In a freight train collision at Bald Knob,
Ark, q number of mules were killed.