Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-10-28
IOWA BANK ROBBED.
Masked Robbers Dynamite the
State Bank Of harrisburg.
A SHERIFF IN FEAR OF ASSASSINS
No Trace OF the Missing $4,000 In n Reg
istered Package Yet Found-Wronged
Husbands Deed-Insane Farmer
Kills His wife.

WEBSTER CITY, Ia, Oct 25.-Three
masked burglars robbed the state
bank of Blairsburg yesterday morning
at three o'clock. They used dynamite
and the explosion shattered the large
plate glass window and badly wrecked
the bank building. They secured
$4,000 worth of securities and small
amount of cash. When the first explo-
sion occurred it awoke half the town.
James Connors' yells frightened the
burglars and, although they had pre-
pared the dynamite for the second eX-
plosion, they leaped from the back
window In passing the corner they
saw Edward Gillicoin, who was one of
their pals, advancing toward them. 1t
was dark and in the excitement they
mistook him for an officer and shot
him twice. One bullet entered his
chest and another his abdomen. He
was captured and is not expected to
live. The other two escaped,
SHERIFF IN FEAR OF AssAssINs.
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, Oct. 25.-An AL
legged conspiracy to murder Sheriff
Martin, who led the deputies who fired
upon and killed score of strikers at
Lattimer on September 10, has been
discovered by the arrest of John Sc
plack, who was wounded in the riot.
The complainant was the sheriff's son,
William, who says he overheard Sc
plack threaten to kill his father. On
Seplack was found razor wrapped in
printed circular describing the shoot
ing aud calling for vengeance. From
a talk overheard, it is said that the
prisoner is one of gang of Is detailed
by the foreigners to murder the sheriff.
MYSTERY OF A MISSING POUCH.
CHICAGO, Oct. 25.-The postal depart
ment cannot find the missing regis
tered package of $4,000 sent Septem-
Der 20 by the National Bank of the Re-
public to bank in Butte, Mont. Six
inspectors from the Chicago, st. Louis
and Denver offices have been looking
for itever since it disappeared at Coun-
Gil Bluffs the next night. eve have
clews in plenty" said Inspector Chris
tian, who returned to Chicago Friday,
after two weeks of hard work, "but
none of them throws any light on the
mystery. The package has been traced
from the Chicago post Office to the de-
pot at Council Bluffs. After it was
checked out of the Burlington postal
car on this bank of the Missouri river
all trace of it is lost. There is no trail
on the other bankn
A wRoNGED HUSBANDS DEED.
GREENFIELD, Mo-, Oct. 25.-Jacob M.
Masters waylaid and shot John G.
Huston dead in the road at Huston
yesterday morning. The trouble grew
out of the alleged intimacy between
Huston and Masters wife, upon which
a damage suit for $40, 900, now pending,
is based. John c. Huston was the
owner of Huston mill, on Sac river
seven miles northeast of this place.
Masters is postmaster at Huston.
Masters gave himself up to the author
tiles, and is now in jail.
INSANE FARMER KILLS HIS WIFE.
OIL CITY, Pa, Oct. 25.-Trade Far
ran, aged go years, well known
farmer, residing IL miles south of here,
shot and killed his wife last night and
then shot himself He will probably
recover. 1t is supposed that he was
insane.