Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-01-10


Three New York Cinnamon assaulted
Hong Chung, laundryman Of their own
race, In Newark, robbed him, cut him with
hatchets, carved him with knives. and be-
heving him dead, Strung him up to q rafter
and LETT him hanging. His landlord
found him, and prompt aid saved his life
From the description given by him the DO
lice got on the track Of the leader of the
murderOus gang and made him a prisoner.
The house of Hon. W. H. Norris. of Ozark
county. No, was burned. Norris persisted
in the flames. The family had escaped
! from the house, when Norris re-entered to
save an old family relic, but was cut of by
the flames. He fell suffOcated BY smoke
and was burned before his wife and children.
Norris had represented Ozark county four
terms IN the State Legislature and was a
highly respected and very popular man.
Edward Prentice, a well known veter-
mary surgeon, of Chicago, attempted to en-
ter the First National Bank building. and
the night Waterman, thinking he was fac
ing a bank rObber, fired at hun. The bullet
struck watch in Prentice's vest pocket,
and he escaped mi ury. The regular police
arriving, he was arrested with some diff
Guilty. He is believed to be insane.
A warrant was issued for the arrest of
Miss Brader, q school teacher at Nanticoke,
Pa. 1t is alleged by Patrick Shea that his
son died from injuries received at her hands
confined to her bed ever since the boy died
Her physician fOrbids the serving Of the
warrant until she is better.
Last Monday train was wrecked in Mis-
sissippi, on the II. D. and N E. railroad
Saturday a negro was Iynched for the crime,
having, as was reported made a confession
The report comes now of the arrest of three
white men, against whom circumstantial
evidence is very strong. There is a chance
that the lyncber made terrible mistake.
The charge against W. J. Gallagher for
alleged participation in the Eighteenth
Ward election Frauds was dismissed be-
fore the United States Commissioner on
motion Of the District Attorney. He was
Immediately reaTrested on a bench warrant
and taken before the court, giving bail for
his appearance.
The North, Orrison & Co. furniture store,
Kansas City, was destroyed by Ere, and the
adjoining building, occupied by Wolf Bros,
dealers IN gents furnishing goods, was badly
scorched and damaged by water. Both
buildings were owned by W. @. LObenstein,
and insured for $50, 900; insurance on stock
$72, 600.
One of the 80, OOO-barreI oil tanks at West
Junction, five miles from Elmira n. Y, eX-
plOded recently. The shock was felt in
Elmira, in many cases knocking dishes
from shelves and breaking mirrors. No
one was hurt seriously, although the
houses near the ranlLs were badly damaged.
The loss will reach 100000.
@. E. Hawkin and a man named Rein
hardt, while buying Christmas goods at the
store of EhOs. Little, in the Western part
OF Boone county, No, Christmas eve, got
into a quarrel, and Hawkins stabbed Rein
hardt, killing him instantly. The latter
came from Chicago a year ago. Hawkins
was arrested.
A dispatch from Birdsnest, Va, says the
bark Lena, from South America for Phila-
delphia, with sugar, stranded December q,
on Hog Island bar, during thick weather.
The vessel broke Up before assistance could
be rendered. Eight lives were lost and two
saved. The cargo was a total loss.
Mrs. Mary E. Cody, step-daughter Of Sol.
White, a prominent Canadian politician
and member of rliament, was arrested
at Detroit, Mich, for forging her mothers
name to q note for $3.50, and getting the
money thereon from the First National
Bank Of that city.
Jas. A. Coons or Kune, cashier of the
MOser Hotel, at st. Louis disappeared
from the hotel carrying away upwards of a
thousands dollars belonging to the house
and guests, and sew raj hundred dollars be-
longing to his wife. Ii is aid he mas run
of with another woman.
At Dayton, Fred Barenbrok, a German,
dBG4 AOILy years. tLltcI 4ylLiE III DCu III udy
brOOding over financial troubles, shot him
self in the forehead dead at 5 o'clock in the
morning, leaving wife and seven chilsren.
A man supposed to be J. Greenwood, of
Chippewa, while crossing the Niagara river,
from Chippewa to Port Day, about a mile
above the falls, lost control of his boat, was
carried over the falls ana drowned.
The Flint & Pierre Marquette railroad
steamer No. went ashore IN a gale, near
Duddington. One man was killed and an
other fatally hurt while the crew and pas
sengers were getting to land.
AdVices from extreme thwestern
Texas state that the recent weather has
been very destructive to live stock, large
numbers of poor cattle and sheep having
persisted in that section.
A train on the B. & 0. Railroad was de-
rallied at Grafton, West Virginia. The en-
gineer was Instantly killed, and the fireman
was so badly crushed and scalded that he
died.
The tug Frederick Ives lost eleven loaded
cOal-barges while endeavOr ng to enter the
harbOr of New Haven, and two other tugs
with similar tOWs have not been heard from.
Rainwater 6 Starn's large elevator at
Dallas, Tex, was burned, causing a heavy
loss. Two men were burned to death, and
boy is also missing.
Jim Murray, a cOlOred man Of Mexico,
No, and said to have reached the advanced
age of 1O4 years, drank too much and was
frozen to death.
Mrs. James Williams Of Dahlgren, IL,
threw her two children into a well and
jumped in. Al three drowned.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glover of the Beggar Stu
dent Opera company were burned to death
in the hotel IRE at Racine, Wis.
A we'll defined case of glanders in a hu-
man being has been reported to the Hi
nois State Board Of health.
Alex. Black (colored), residing near
Dover, n. O., shot and killed the wife of
Marx McCleas.
Geo. CIark. 9 notorious burglar. co.arnft-