The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1878-01-05
HERE AND THERE.

a Weddiax ana Its Con.t qu~ace.---A.
Editor In War Paint---A Lawyer and
Clerk - Embeszier----A Late, But
Hard Ere, ze--f first InstaIInrept OF
Cosns.
NEW YORK, December 20.-Henry
Ward Beeeher has been sued for $40 600
damages. Ii appears that one Mr..
Wright, bought at auction, for 81 900,
the right and title of Beecheris work.
"fhe Life of Christ" This also In.
ciuded the contract of Beeeher TO write
the work, upon which contract lie had
received $1,000. Wright now sues
Beecher for the 0,00O, and for SIC. 900
damages claimed for the breach OF
contract by Bsecher in not finishing
the same. Judge Fullerton is attorney
for Wright.
Boston, Decemb Der ga letter from
Buenos Ayres reported mutiDy on
the bark Fred w. Carleton, of Sears
port, Maine. The mate shot the ring.
leader dead, when the remainder sub
mitted aud We're ironed.
Troy, n. V, December pa fire
caught in the Mansion hotel from a
heater, at two o'clock this morning
The hotel was filled with a dense
smoke and the guests, unable TO go
down stairs, were rescued with lad.
ders.
BosToN, Mass, December 29-Dr.
j. s. Jones, surgeon and play writer,
il dead. He WAS manager of the Tre>
mont theatre for several years.
SHENANDOAH, Pa, December ca
IL is just aseeItalned that strike
among the engineers on the Delaware,
Lsckawanna and Western railroad,
New Jersey Central, Lehigh Valley
aud Reading railroad Is in contempla.
ton, and will probably take place on
the first day Of January. The alleged
movement IL the result of = recent
order issued by the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western railroad company
to the effect that they will not retain
in their employ any engineers after
the first of the year who may belong
to the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers.
ST. PETERSBURG. December O.
Official intelligence has been received
announcing the success of the Chinese
troops in kssbgar. They have forth
Louchlopgaron aud Asia, two strong
strategieal points. The inhabitants
are fleeing In terror into the Russian
territory.
PITTsBURG. Decent Der GA special
from Philadeiphis, says 1t lie rumored
there will he general suspension of
coal production of the Schuylkiil col
iieries, beginning on the fifth of Janua-
~, and last two weeks, taken as a
means Of lessening the over supply,
and is the result of consultation among
individual operators. The report or
iginates from trustworthy sources and
Ii probably true.
New YORK, December GA fire
early this morning In the dry goods
store Of n J. Simpson, ei9 Eighth av-
enue, damaged the stock TO the amount
of $4,000. The building IL owned by
the Haggarty estate. Loss 5000; in
sured. James NJ. Richerson, employed
rs n Waterman in the store, vas badly
burned, and died soon sfter his re-
movaI to the hospital.
CINCINNATI, December 3I.-Phillip
Martice, OF Monroeville, Alien county.
Indiana, married on Thursday, and
gave wedding reception Friday night.
A number of unlimited guests gave
the couple "belling.p whereupon the
friends OF Martiee fired into the crowd.
wounding nine, three seriously.
The schooner Josephine, OF Long II.
land City. for the Orient, 10 supposed
to be Lost, With al on bosrd-some five
persons. She has not been heard from
since early In Decemher.
BOsToS, December 3l.-GeorRe II.
Bigelow, . pfominet lawyer, has been
held In eighty thousaud dollars bsfl
fox eInbezziine dry thousand Dollar
of trust funds.
BANGOR, Ma, December 3I.-Nayi-
cation Is cIosed. TbIs port has beeu
open longer this year than since 1914.
LOUISVILLE, December 81. Mr.. Wat
ters0n dsnou1oes Chandlsrss aliusion
70 him e wantoH, malicious and faIss-
NEW YORK, December 81 Iii u Re-
ported that Arthur Blltx, son OF Sivnor
Hltfz, h missing. There IL 4 dierrev,.
ancy OF between 3. 600 end Sl.OOO a.
covered In hls ncouunts With ~
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