Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-01-17

:"
clothes divided among the tramps, the
night being very cold. Nortks was then
I tied hand and foot and placed upon the
/ track. The tramps then amused themselves
i by sticking knives into him until almost
dead. Train hands coming along, scared
them away
ID. r. MAXWELL hung himself ia the coun-
/ ~ jail recently, at Springfield, o.. with 8
! towel. he was found dead when his break
/ last was brought. November 26th last
/ Maxwell murdered his three children BIZ
/ poisoning, and attempted suicide 40 that
! time, but recovered and was lodged 10 iaiI
/ His actions since his arrest have induced
/ the balief that he is insane. Mrs. Max
well is Frustrated by the awful shock.
Robert Roberts was shot and instantly
/ killed about nine miles from Fairfield
Ne5. Two boys named Taylor, thirteen
and htteen years of age, were arrested. One
| OF them was strung up and confessed the
| cri ne. Roberts had been taking brush
from land claimed by the Taylor bows
father, and 1t Is believed that this was the
/ cause of the murder.
! A telegram from Forest City, SalteE coun-
\ ty, ID. T., says: An armed mob from GettVs-
/ burg and vicinity came to Forest City, and
under charge of @. W. Gilchrist, John W.
/ Dyson and man named Doty, took pos
session Of the public records by tearing cut
\ part of the building in which they were
I kept, and removing them by force
John Lippincott, one of the notorious
/ BuZZard gang, was arrested at Columbia,
/ Pa, by a railroad officer while stealing q
/ ride on a train. he had in his possession
| a satche1 containing twenty eight watches,
/ which were stolen from the store of Daniel
! Shutter, at BOWmansville, November %.
! DR.. James 81. Harris, a physician Of
1 Indianapolis Ind, who died, left q viii di-
| recting that no funeral be held over his re-
mSins, and that his body be taken directly
/ from his late residence to a diseCting table.
/ The provisions of the will will be complied
/ with.
! William S. Denny assistant postmaster
/ at hemus, Michigan, was arrested on New
! Years day Tor opening registered letters.
he promptly pleaded guilty, when arraign-
ed at Grand Rapids, and was sentenced TO
one year in the penitentiary.
Detectives at Grafton, West Virginia. as
/ certalned that the recent WreCking of a
! passen ser train was the work of Mrs. M
/ Blake. who sought revenge for the arrest
OF her husband on charge of rObbing cars.
/ She confessed her crime.
The large four-story brick building
! occupied by A. e. Edwards, wholesale con.
! feCtiOner, and r. p. VOight % Co., whole
/ sale groceries at Norfolk, Va. was destroy
/ ed with its contents by fire. Loss, $40 900:
nearly covered by insurance.
Mrs. T. K. Creamer, whose husband is
prominent in political circles in New York
WhlIe visiting at Kankakee, Illinois She
swallowed nearly teaspoOnful of arsenic,
but her life was saved.
Mrs. Funten, residing near Galena, ILL.,.
was stricken with paralysis while button
ing child's shoe. She speedily recovered.
with the exception of her tongue, which
she is unable to use in conversation.
The Hebrew citizens of Louisville have
discovered that the corpse Of Morris Gold
sticker was this week removed from the pot
ter's field, and they threaten to have the
medical colleges searched.
Kate Meyer, a handsome young woman
Of PhosuiE, New York, has been Jailed for
the murder Of her aged husband. A pack
age OF arsenic and two pounds of paris
green were found in her house.
Clinton Smith, eighteen wears old. has
been arrested at Terre Haute. Ind, for the
murder Of his father, I. Smith, a farmer,
living in the southern part of the county,
on New Years evening.
The government veterinary surgeon at
Fort Yates, reports that the horses and
mules IN that region are being destroyed by
the wholesale by Lglanderss which is ia its
most violent form.
Henry N. Guild, late teller of the Gin
clnnau First National Bank, and Major
Charles Is. Brady late subscription clerk
IN the st. Louis Republican Office. both SUE
cided on the eth.
Louis Fodder, night watchman at Ryer's
spoke factory, in Bloomington, Ind. was
found dead near his home. His brains
were beaten out. The murderer is not
known.
A shock Of earthquake, lasting half 3
minute, was felt in LacOnia, New Hamp-
shire recently. 1t passed from north 70
south, and was accompanied by rumbling
sounds.
In q fit Of insane DR.. Rudolph Tauszkv
OF New York wounded seriously both his
wife and himself. He has been an authori-
" IN medical aircies on insanity matters
Rev. Jabez Pitt Campbell (coIorsd).
Bishop OF the Methodist Episcopal church
philadelphia, was arrested and taken be-
lore magistrate on the charge Of perjury.
The body of Captain Andrew Green. Of
the wrecked tug Admiral has been found IN
Chicago river sixty rect distant from the
scene Of the explosion.
An unsuccessful attempt to rob the PAS
sengers aboard a train on the Baltimore
Central railroad was made a few DAYS ago
near Rising Sun, Md.
On January g, fire destroyed Henry
6ogeTs fancy dry goods house in Ns7
YORK and the Neisser d Co. clothing house
IN Sioux City, Iowa.
San Antonio, Tex, is undergoing an eDi-
demic Of murderOus cranks. A sick Mexi-
can got on the War-path and tried 10 Kin
several people.
A Negro named Henry Paul, in trying tes-
escape arrest at Duck creek, Texas, Injured
himself badly by running against 8 barbed
wire fence
James g. Scrugham, teller and assistant
cashier OF the City National Bank, Lezing-
tan, KY IS a defaulter, and has ned -
Earl Granville declines 10 give his con
sent 70 the proposal to hold formal con-
ference on the Egyptian question at Paris
Three men attempted TO rob Baltbazsr
Kraus, a German barber. ~ VVheelfna ~