Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-01-31
CRIMES AND MisHaps.

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A. ". Hammer, aged IS years, who keeps
q small grocery store four miles north OF
COIlierVille, Tenn, was shot and killed By
unknown parties. Suspicion pointed TO
two Negroes named Jessie Jones alias Jessie
James, alias Jessie DupEy, and Pen Drum
right. They were arrested and lodged in
Hammers store for safe keeping. Yester-
day morning At 5 O'Clock, some persons
broke open the store door and fired at the
prisoners DrumFight Was struck by three
buckshOt, and Jones by nine. Both were
seriously hurt They were afterward tax.
en- to GOlliervi4e, lodged in Jail and given
medical attention. Excitement runs HIGH at
Colheryllle, and the probabilities are that
they viii be lynched. 1t has been proven
that Pen DrGmright did the killing.
A special from Rockford, III. Jan. %
says: g. III. Fox young man Of rather
hard character and who Just returned from
the West, was arrested to-day for the muir
der Of John Holiday at Chening, recently.
Holiday was the husband of FOx's aunt
Fox went to Chening to visit her 8 few
evenings ago. She told him that Holiday
had beaten and abused her and was the
father Of his sUep-daughter's child. Fox
then fell upon Holiday, beating him ter
ribly with chairs, and then lay down and
sleptthe night through in the same room
with the corpse.
g Embezzlements caused the arrest of
cashier Of the Merchants bank at Norwich,
Connecticut, who were held in 50, 600 each,
and OF Robert AIdeECe. eX-teller of a bank
at Windsor, Ontario. Mr.. Chadwick, cash
Ter of the Pacific National bank at Nan
tuCket, Massachusetts, escaped arrest by
turning over considerable property He
had been issuing certificates of stock as col
Lateral for loans.
About six armed men entered Woods
gambling establishment, at San Antonio,
and robbed the safe of over s. 900 in green
backs and gold coin. Tie burglars secured,
bound and gagged three employees in their
sleeping room, and then moved a tWO-ton
safe to the back room, where they opened
it with chisels. The thieves succeeded in
escaping. The gagged employees were ar
rested for alleged completely in the rob
berry.
At Green Bay, Wis, the wholesale and
retail dry goods and grocery store of julius
Parmenter, and the harness shop of L.
Hills we've destroyed by fire. The loss to
Parmenter on stock was $4,000; insurance,
517 600. HIPS loss on stock was S., 900; in
surance, 81, 500. The building was a three
story brick, owned by the Northwestern
Mutual Life Insurance Company. Loss on
building. $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
Thomas II. Graham, cashier of the Bal
GmOre and Ohio road, who also held the
Office of school commissioner IN Baltimore,
disappeared q week ago ana Is now known
to be a defauiter Tor $4,000. HIS wife was
an army nurse, who saved his life after he
had been dangerously wounded at Rich
mOnd. He left her So note.
A Magnolia. Miss, special of Jan. o says:
a few days ago Pat Woods, cOlored, killed
Constable Mike Bauer, of McCOmb City, and
escaped to the woods. He was arrested
Tuesday and lodged in jail, and between
and 2 o'clock this morning mob Of masked
men broke open the jail and took Woods
out and hanged him.
A special from Vicksburg reports the
killing of jules A. Gilley, at ROyvilIe, on
Sunday, by Vim. ArbrO, during a quarrel
about business matters. Gilley was to have
been married on the day following his
death. Both men were merchants.
Fire destroyed the store of F. W. Thorn
ton, at Fayetteville, n. c., valued at $115,
OOO; the residence Of W. 4. DoWdall, at
Peoria, Ill, and the large houring-miil of
Schrandenbach & Co., near OcOnOmOWOc,
Wisconsin.
The lard rendering tank in the pork
packing house at Sioux City, Iowa, explOd-
ed, tearing down a portion Of the building
and killing three men instantly besides in
juring others. Loss $4,000.
Negroes in Cumberland county, Tennes-
see, formed a band for the purpose of rob-
bling and numbering white people. Two of
the dusky rascals were caught, and will be
severely punished.
Otto Fink was arrested in Chicago for
stealing books from the public library. In
the box that contained the books was found
six or eight internal machines containg
dynamite.
The Northern Illinois Asylum for the In
sane at Kankakee, Ill, was destroyed by
fire, and seventeen people burned to death.
The institution contained nearly 1900
people.
The discovery has just been made that
William Druse, Of Warren, New York, was
last month murdered by his wife, who
burned his flesh and buried his bones.
Three highly respected young ladies were
poisoned at Charlestown, W. Va, by using
water that had been poisoned with arsenic.
No cleW.
A trapper, near Metropolitan, Mich, was
devOUred by wolves, after he had shot and
killed thirteen of them with his Winches-
ter rifle.
A mail robber from Winnipeg, named
Campbell, who was arrested in Chicago, es-
capped from q Manitoba train near Enc
son.
Ten men have been arrested in the Yicin-
ity Of Lexington and st. Louis for plumber
ing freight cars on the Q. & A. Railroad.
The clothing of Mrs. Price Buck, of fancy
county, Missouri, took IRE, and she was
horribly burned.
Maude Raynor, the female Desperate Of
Texas. beat a woman almost TO death at
Abilene.
John Lenahan, a prisoner In jail a
Providence, R. l., committed suicide.
An. & Daniel Morrison, dry goods, En- /
mis-, Texas, were burned out.
Priest & Gordon's mill and elevator at
Mount Pulaski, IL, burned.
Harrison Tweed dropped dead in church
at Taunton, Mass.