The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-11-01
HERE AND TIIERE.
Foreign and Domestic Haps and
Mishaps Dispatched Over
the Wires.
twenty Chinese TrampIed to Death =
Grant, Sherman, Cameron and Sher.
ltan In Conference Two Hun.
dred and Fifty Houses
Destroyed by a Gale.

Destroyed by a Gale.
An Hundred sioux Enlist In General
Crooks Command,
FORT LARAMIE, October Sl.--A
dispatch says over one hundred Sioux
indians enlisted under General Crook
aud will go with his expedition. Capt.
Eagan returned from scout during
which he found trails but no Indians.
War 90 tho Knife. and Knife 20 the
Hilt.
ST.. LOUIS, October 3l.-John c.
Strathers aud Samuel Wilson, both
colored got into quarrel, during
which Wilson drew large pocket
knife and plunged II into Strather's
left breast, killing him almost instant
y. Wilson Ia said to have killed
man In Chicago about year ago. He
WAS arrested.
Death by Suicide winter Travel for
Florida.
AUGUSTA, GA, October 81. John A.
Lea, native OF Indianapolis, and
for many years resident OF Augusta,
committed suicide this morning, by
shooting himself in the head. Mental
depression.
Winter travel has set In for Florida.
Passengers by Augusta and Tennessee
Railroad, are not CHARTERED on arrival
In Florida.
Fire Panic ina Theatrs--Forty Killed
ana Wounded by rranping, -.
SAN FRANCISCO, October 81. "A false
alarm Of fire createl panic In Chi
nose theatre In Jackson. The building
was crowded. In the rush made by
the audience to escape by the single
means OF exit, number Of persons
We're thrown down and trampled on.
The police dragged out the bodies OF
twenty dead and about the same num-
her of wounded. After tho rush the
actors continued the performance un.
Til stopped ty the police.
Admirers of the Manly Art Indicted
tor the Murder OF walker.
SALEM, n. j., October 3l.--The
Salem court convened this morning,
and at 2 p. m. the State prosecutor
moved that the indictments against
James Weeden, John Clark, Sam
Collyer, Martin Merry and Richard
Goodwin, for the murder of the youth,
Walker, In prize fight, be consoida-
ted, and they are all to be tried to-
gether. Much excitement exists. IL
IL rumored that indictments will also
DO found against several prominent
Philadelphians for having been pres
ent at the affair.
The Islands of ~. Martins, w. Rnrts
and ArguiIia visited by severe Gales
Two Hundred and Fifty Houses De-
stroyed.
New York, October 3l.--Mail ad-
vices from Kingston, Jamaica, says at
the Island of st, Martin st. Barts and
Arguilla, much damage was done by
gales AT the former place several
vessels were stranded One schooner,
the Matt Is. Dell, sunk ut her moorings,
the crew escaping TO shore. Great
havoc is reported, especially in the
French quarters. As many as 2l5
houses have been destroyed. On that
point alone, ut st. Barts and Aguilla,
the destruction OF property was also
great. Much distress prevails among
the poor Of the Islands. At ST. Barts
forty houses were blown down and de.
stroyed, and 100 injured.
Washington Notes--Grant, Cameron,
sherman and sheridan In close Con-
ference.
WASHINGTON, October 3l.-The
President has discontinued the recep.
ton Of Centennial pilgrims.
The races were postponed on account
Of rain.
The State department has advices
that the crew Of the wrecked American
brig Fanstania have been forwarded
from Finchal by the ship Magnita for
Hampton Roads.
Thomas J. Norton, of Wattelle, South
Carolina, was admitted to practice In
the Supreme court.
Grant, Cameron, Sherman and Sher-
idan had lengthy conference at army
headquarters.
Robson, Tyner and Chandler were
absent from the cabinet meeting. The
nature OF the deliberations are I'M
known.
view York city Items---Nine Deaths by
Railroad Accidcnt---Nine Thousand
Dollar Robbery, Etc.
Few NoRK, October 3l.--The
fancy store OF Abram Besthof, No.
003 Broadway, was robbed Sunday
night Of 900 worth Of goods.
Charles Williams, alias Charles Ste
vens, alias Perrin, convicted Of forging
bonds on the New York Central, Buf.
falo, New York, and Erie Railway
Companies, was sentenced to the State
prison for 10 years, to-day.
The police raided number Of lot.
terry places throughout this city going
under the name of the Kentucky Lot.
terry, and arrested the parties in
charge and carried their stock to the
sta ion house.
A dispatch received here reports