Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-03-07
CRIMES AND MIsHAPs.

A 81. refers MO, special says:
age, unknown here, but identified by
papers on his person as John Green,
either of st. Paul, Mimi, or Sedalia, No,
got of the train at this place yesterda =
walked a mile west, and was seen to de-
iberately place pistol to his mouth and
fire, the ball passing through his head kill
ing him instantly. He had $500 in cash
and checks on his person.
A FIRE broke out in the National Theatre
at Washington, on the 26th, and within an
hour the building was destroyed. Ohly the
crumbling walls are left intact. The build
ing was valued at 100000; the furniture,
ETC., at $4,000; insurance, $4,000. The
Wallack Theatre Company loses all its ef-
fects. Miller & Jones, saloon, loss $4,000.
The Harris Hotel was badly sc0rChed, and
the guests hastily turned cat to seek safer
quarters.
On Feb. a suicides seemed to be the
thing. In Philadelphia there were four,
at Bloomington, Ills, two, at Bloomington,
Ind, one and at Kansas City, one. The
latter was a German, sick in bed with
typhoid fever. He sprang from his bed and
jumped out of four story window, dying
almost instantly.
A Youngstown, O., special says: Mrs.
William Clark, of Leech's Corners, Pa,
gave birth to a child last night, and this
morning, during the absence OF n5E nus
band, she cut its throat from ear to ear, and
clad only in night clothes, secreted the body
in a lumber pile. 1t is thought that she
will die from exposure.
Fire, on the Goth inst, destroyed the
Union depot and surrounding buildings at
Mendoza; the ST. Michael's Orphan Asylum
and St Joseph Convent at Pittsburg; the
Mansion House at Boston, and the Marvin
Safe Co. s factory in New York.
At the railroad accident at -Four Mile,
$3.50, 900 in money was burned. About
bushel of silver dollars were taken out Of
the wreck, and many more were melted
into a solid chunk. A heavy loss Of mail
matter is reported.
On Feb. q three dwellings in Philadel-
phia were burned. One woman threw her
babe from n second-stOry window and then
jumped. The child was killed but the lazy
will recover. -Four were killed in all.
A Texas Pacific passenger train struck
tree lying across the track near st. Louis
and the train was wrecked. The engineer
was killed and several passengers seriously
injured.
A collision between two passenger trains
on the Illinois Central road, occurred near
Chicago recently. Seven men were killed
and eight or ten wounded, one Of them Sc
riOusly.
FIVE men were aBpnyXlaUeu IN q CllcagO
sewer on the 18th. Nine had gone down
the manhOle to clean out the sewer, but
only four were taken out alive.
Charles Cornell, an engineer on the Pan
handle road, was killed by jumping from
his engine on account of the breaking of
the connecting rod.
The loss of the express company in the
recent terrible accident on the Virginia
Midland railroad is placed at $25OOOO,
mostly in money.
Bold burglars entered a bank at CISCO, N.
Y, and stole 81, 800. Two of the four were
captured before they had got 2Omiles away.
The treasurer of Chippewa county, Wis
cOnsin, is missing and his accounts are
short between $40, 900 and $4,000.
Clara Armstrong, the white wife of q
colored barber at NATION, Ill, was arrest
ed on charge Of arson.
Frank Warner, who escaped from Jail
at ZlnesYille, o., was found frozen to death.
Fire in a business block at Danville, Va,
caused a total loss of SIS, 900.
An incendiary fire at Anderson, Ind,
caused a loss OF $4,000
A boiler explosion at New Keuntz, Tex,
killed twelve persons.