The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-04-15
MURDER IN NEW YOU

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MURDER IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, April l4.-Mrs. Mary Me-
DermOit, wife Of John NJ. McDermOtt, an
Iris h lahorer, who, in fit of jealousy
dealt her two blows. on tie head
with a sledge hammer. The deed
was committed in the presence Of
their three small children. MeDearmott,
after his arrest, attempted to knock his
brains out against the cell walls, and sue.
cceded in fnhicting serious wounds which
are likely to prove fatal
KEY WEST, April lathe steamer City
of Dallas was brought into the harbor.
She is not leaking, and departed for
New Orleans.
PRINTING OFFICE BURNED.
DETROIT, April l5.--The Tribune build
ing was burned. Loss heavy. Four cyl.
indsr presses in the fire proof room es-
capped. The Tribune will be printed at
tho Free Press office.
ST. Louis, April l4.-Mssouri planning
mill burned to-day. Loss $4,000.
SAVANNAH, April l4-Arri,ed steamer
Seminole nom Boston. Cleared, schooner
5. p. Hail. York, for Norfolk.
IMPORTANT BANKRUPTCY CASE.
MONTGOMERY, Alabama, April A.-A
case was before the United States
District Judge Busted to-day, of a petit
ton to force a party into bankruptcy.
The party pleaded that the illegal consid.
GRAFTON the contract being for cotton, and
founded on what is called futures" The
judge instructed the jury that if they be-
lieved from the evidence there was to be
no actual delivery Of cotton, the defen-
dant had committed no act of bankruptcy,
The jury brought in a verdict for defend
ant. The plaintiff will appeal to higher
courts. This involves case of liability for
losses ON futures.
RIcHMoNs, April l4-The Supreme
Lodge of the Knights of Pythias conv enes
here tomorrow. The session will last a
week.
GREENSBORO, N. c., April l4,--In the
U. s. Circuit Court the case of Henry
Clewes versus North Carolina Railroad,
Judg, Dick appointed Maj. VIM. A. Smith;
Maj. Smith is President of the North Car.
olina Railroad Company, and member of
Congress elect from the 4th Con gressional
District. The above suit has gone on ap-
peal to the Supreme court of the United
States.
New YORK, April l4.-Michael Dono-
van was sentenced to 20 years imprison-
ment for highway robbery
Escher s. Co., Heavy silk importers
failed.
New York, April l4.-Stocks steady;
gold firm llS!; money firm; quarter ( per
cent; exchange, long "a short, 81; gov
ernments dull and steady; state bonds
lull and heavy; cotton dull sales 2,0l2
bales; uplands l9s; Orleans 205; -four
quiet and unchauged; wheat firm and
quiet: pork very firm; light western steam
81 to 8; turpentine 65k Rosin firm; So
for strained; freights firm. Arrived, Old
Dominion.
New YORK, April li.-Cotton, net re-
,eipts, 952 bales; gross 1892 sales for
export to dny none; sales for futures
$780, April Is BIG; May Is 1916 to
l9b June 10 BIG July l9S to 10 Lie; up
ands l9s; Orleans 20! flour quiet and
steady; Whisky steady,
?. New ORLEANS, April l4,-Flour, dull
Xxx, $3.50; family, $3.50. Corn, oats
md bran all in good supply but rain pre-
rents activity. Pork ~ hams 8 bacon
lull, "a to 10; Hams, lOt to l4t. Lard,
'efned tierce 8, keg, 10. Sugar, quiet
to !; prime, 8 to I molasses,
common reboied 35; prime reboiled, IS.
Nhiskey, dull and lower, 80 to 90. Coffee,
I to 1913, Sterling, 2S5. Sight /; pre-
mum, gold l7s Cotton, quiet; sales,
$500; good ordinary, I6 to 4; low mid
'lings, l7s to Z; midIlings, lS4 to 1 mid
ling Orleans, lSs to 80; receipts, 5,19j
xports Liverpool, 3,74S; Havre, 6 ,644.
sevel, l,475; stocks, IFS, 1875.
Foreign,
MADRID, April l4.-There was great ex-
tement in Barcelona yesterday, in con.
equence of a report that the Carlists
orce was approaching the city. Voluu-
GERS were called out, but soon discovered
he report untrue, and,the excitement sub
ided.
LIVERPOOL, April IA mysterioss
iagedy at Cape Raglan light house, whero
lrs johnson, wife of the keeper, was
ound dead, with her throat cut from ear
o ear by razor, and revolver lying by
Ter side. A large sum of money, which
he deceased had lately drawn from the
ank, is missing. II is not known wheth.
r she was murdered or committed sui
ide.
HE BANK OF ENGLAND FoRGER EscpAED.
HAVANA, April l4.-Bidwell, the al
eyed English forger escaped from prison
alf clad.
He BANK OF ENGLAND FoRGER RETAKEN.
HAVANA, April IA Bidwell was cap
urcl about twenty miles above thi city.
% had q map of the city and country.
lie refuses 10 say WHO aided him to es-
ape.
PARIS, April 14.-Dispatches report
hat the Carlists who retrested from Put
ardo are in q critical condition.