Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-01-03

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/ The prisoner tainted, and became a corpse
! soon after leaving the jail
+ Ever since the election of Cleveland.
1 Dunk Groves a prosperous farmer of Rush
/ county, Ind, has had an insane idea that
/ the country would go to ruin and he
/ would lose his property He hanged him
+ sefafeW days ago.
+ Three Italians at Canton, O., built a IRE
I IN a charcoal peanut rooster in the room in
| which they slept. The gas generated, kill
/ ed one of them, and the others were al
most suHOcated when found.
A fire at Martins Ferry. Pa. DESTROYED
the buildings and shops of the HUyle &
I Jones Manufacturing Company. Loss
$4,000. 1t Is believed that the IRE was the
work of an inCendlary.
Thirteen tramps who slept on top Of the
boilers at the coal shaft at Lincoln, ILL.,
we're terribly scalded by one of them acct
dentally turning the blowout value. Three
viii probably die.
An old lady named BartIe was beaten
nearly to death with q poker by her son, at
Allegheny City Pa. She cannot recover.
The villain was arrested after desperate
struggle
William Fletes g New Orleans prisoner
threatened the lives of all Who aided in his
arrest, when a party of fifteen men took
possession Of the jail and shot Fletes to
death.
The tow-boaU Raymond Homer ran into
the ferry boat Champion, at Galipolis
Ohio, nearly destroying ohe latter. George
Henry, passenger, was instantly killed.
A great sensation was caused in Pittsburg
by the suicide Of the widow of General
Henry Markle, by laudanum, on the first
anniversary OF his death from paralysis.
District Attorney W. +. Macarthur, of
Milwaukee, was shot by Paul Heinel,
client, who claims that Macarthur sWindled
him in managing his case.
Joseph Herzog, a grocer, of Lancaster, Pa,
who failed recently, has been arrested
charged with forgery. The fOrgeries are on
banks in that city.
a fire at Baltimore destroyed the oyster
packing establishment of II. J. AIcGrath &
Co, and damaged that Of T. B. SchOI & Co.
Total less, $4,000.
Louis Lucas, a sheriff from one OF the
counties in the ChoctaW Nation, shot and
killed Squirrel HOgt, at Ft. Smith, without
any proVOcatiOn.
a conductor, engineer and fireman on the
Knoxville & Ohio railroad were terribly in
jured by a collision, caused by the breaking
Of their train.
William HeckIer Michael NIaIIoy and
Harry Heinz were killed at klein's quarry,
Catawissa, Pa, by the premature explosion
Of blast.
Henry Strong and William Irvine, who
were driving in sleigh, near Mount Car
mel, Pa, were hurled over an embankment
and killed.
The Academy of Music building in Min
neapO6s, Mimi, occupied as q store and of
fee building was Quilted by fire. Gross loss
100000.
Trainer, a young man OfAemPhis, Tenn,
who mysteriOusly, disappeared, was found
dead in the woods, having been robbed and
murdered.
The boiler of the Bell Street Compress, of
the Atlanta Cotton Compress, exploded
killing one Negro and severely WOunding
another.
Policeman Nachowski, of Chicago killed
himself because of his wife's extreme ill
ness. His wife died few moments later.
The steamer Fred a. Banks, valued at
100000, was sunk at New Orleans by col
lsiOn with the British steamer Victoria.
A condemned murderer at Marshall, Tex,
passed his hat around the Court room for
the benefit Of his wife and six children.
a wreck on the N. o. & N. W. R. R., near
Purvis, Miss, killed the engineer and ire
man, and injured many passengers.
Lieutenant of police Michael Fuller of
Cincinnati plead guilty to an Indictment
for violating the election laws.
The mail hack between Fort Smith and
ChOcOVille was attacked by robbers and
the mail bag stolen.
At Oklahoma. Simon Turk, cut open the
head of Cooper Zeratt, a ChOctaW, with an
axe, killing him.
Watt & Calls agricultural and impIe
ment works at Richmond, Va, were de-
stroyed by IRE.
Peter E. Culpepper, under arrest at Neo-
shO, No, is wanted in Kansas on charge
Of murder.
Benjamin Greer, of Bowling Green, KY,
was found dead in a hotel bed at San AntO-
Mo, Texas.
Mrs. Lizzie Weber, a Dayton, o., woman,
drank quart of whisky, causing her
death.
At New York the Weston & Fisk oil
house was damaged $2OOOO by fire.
Seven thousand barrels Of oil were de-
sroyed by fire at Phillips City, Pa.
Postal note counterfeiting has been go
ing in the vicinity Of Cincinnati.
Joe. Heoeing, an old man, was kicked to
death by q horse at Quincy, III.
Joseph SHELTON, g well known planter,
cut his throat at Plano, Texas.
Many cattle have frozen to death in
Saratoga county, n. Y.
Hisey's large elevator at LaddOnia, Mo.
was burned.
The Catholic parsonage at WapellO, Ills.
was burned.
The Mason House at Long Branch
burned.
CONGRESSIONAL.
In the Senate, December 10, the Chair in
Lrc5ncad memorial from the Eroduce EE-