The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-09
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Tom Cabin in Cincinnati Saturday nighta
constable levied on the trick donkey and
dogs for salaries due the supcrnumera ries.
Sundays entire edition of the Toledo
Democrat, together with the forms, were
seized by the sheriff, under process issued in
lipel suit brought against it by Hon. N.
NJ, Howard.
Laura Newton was sentenced to ten years
Imprisonment on Saturday last at Little
Rock for inianticide. The case attracted
general attention and the evidence was
crcumstantial.
AS the Dean Adams arrived at the Mem
phis wharf, Sunday morning, Charles Fra
ller was arrested on a charge of robbing W.
II. Nelson, $5i5. The theft was commit
ted on board the boat while Nelson was
asleep, and the stolen money was found
secreted in Frazier's boots.
Detective Uluxton, of Vandalia, Illinois,
was arrested two days since and committed
TO Jail in default of 400 bail, on a charge
of forging the signatures of the circuit
court clerk and county judge to requistion
documents confirming the arrests and
committal to Jail of several bogus fugitives.
On Sunday night the opera house at Jop-
lin, Missouri was entirely consumed by
tire, and for while the town seemed in
danger, as the building was in the central
portion fthe city, The water,works and
llremen, however, soon did the work and
the opera house alone was lost. 1t had an
insurance on il of nearly $4,000.
George Ambrose, a bar-keeper in Indian
apolis, and man, Sinkes, got into deadly
quarrel Sunday while alone in the Hamlin
| saloon, and in the course of the quarrel
Ambrose used knife on his antagonist
| with probably fatal effect Ambrose was
| arrested, but neither of them will volunteer
any statement as to the origin of the affair.
Walker Peoples who had been confined
| for ten months in jail at Greeneville, Mis-
souri,, ON charge of murder, escaped last
Sunday night BY the aid of tallow can
| die and shavings, whitfield from broom
| stick, he succeeded in burning a piece of
moulding from the side of his cell, and with
that forced the bars apart sufficiently to ad-
NIT Of the passage ofhis body.
A congress of experts has assembled at
| st Petersburg to inquire into the evils
caused by excessive drinking in Russia. BY
an overwhelming majority they have adj
yised dimunition in the number of public
houses, while they also passed resolution
| in favor ofvesting in the communal author
tiles the right of opening liquor shops
under regulations to BIO determined by
subcommittee appointed for this puf-
pose.
| A sensational suicide occurred Mt A Deor-
born avenue boarding house, in Chicago
Sunday evening. Hillbergs, young Ger
man, who had been gloomy and
morose all day. went to his room late in the
evening, and, turning on his gas, took a
razor and cut his throat from ear to ear,
| allowing the blood to flow into basin at
his feet. The cause appears to have been q
quarrel with his mother aud sisters in Mil
waukee.
| couple of days ago the twelve.year-old
little girl OF Mrs, Campbell, who keeps n
boarding house ON Madison street, Mem.
phis, while playing with a pistol discharged
the weapon, the bullet from which struck
the three-year-old child, also little girl, of
Mrs Cars, intlictinE, painful wound in
the head. The children were PLAYING in
Mrs. Campbells bedroom, and the pistol
had been found in one Of the dodgers apart
ments.
John Stokes, farmer living few miles
north of Carlinville, Illinois, while return.
ing TO his home from that place Saturday
night, got into quarrel with All Hogan,
when Hogan struck Stokes over the skull
with large piece Of timber, innicting n
terrible wound which will prove fatal,
Both parties were under the influence of
liquor at the time, and the stories as to the
cause Of the trouble arc conflicting. Ho.
gan Is still at large, and the sheriff has
been unable to effect his arrest. n.1
| A peculiar charge was made against two
prisoners at the Central criminal conf In
London the other day. Some time ago one
had been sentenced to two months impris.
onment and the other TO one. But at the
prison they exchanged names, the conse-
quenoe being that the one that had really
the longest sentence was released first. The
other excused himself by saying he was
hard UP at the time and was willing to
serve a second month for consideration