The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-18

Judge Elisha B. Cravens, one of the old
settlers of Kansas City, died on the 18th
inst.
Thomas Weber, a historical character
arounds Urbana, Illinois, died on Thursday
last at the age df74 years,
James S. Harris, western manager, at
Chicago, Of the Metropolitan Insurance
Company, died on the 18th inst.
Mr.. Meigo, young farmer, near Shawnee
town, Illinois, while out hunting, n day or
so since, accidentally shot and killed him
self
A burglar attempting to enter the store
of Albert Dunlap, at Savoy, Illinois, few
nights since, was shot and killed by the
Waterman.
A gang of burglars robbed the First Ma
tonal Bank of st. Clair, Michigan, the
other night but with what success is not
known yet,
The dead body of an unknown man was
found on the 10th inst. near Atlanta, Geor-
! gia: There were indications OF struggle
and robbery.
Frank McCreery, a grocer Of Des Moines,
Iowa, shot and MORALLY wounded j. Mar
tell last Thursday. He claims Martcl in
suited his wife,
Three prisoners charged with felonieS cs-
clped from the Hillsboro, Illinois, jill It
daY or TWO since, by means of a rope made
trom their blankets
A hotel keeper, Tony Sefticdy, of Car
NE; ILLINOIS, last Tuesday, made u misstep
ana leli 10 the bottom of long flight Of
stairs, fracturing his skull.
On Thursday morning last John Moln-
| ger, farmer liv ny near Mcpherson, Kan
sas, was found dead in his house: 1t is
| supposed he committed suicide.
Wade Stokes, the Telegraph operator who
| absconded from Vandalia. Illinois, with
| $1,000 of the Illinois Central's money, has
been apprehended in New Mexico.
Mrs Garfield has sent orders to Mentor
Tor the erection of a fireproof building on
the site of the late Presidents Office foT the
sale-keeping of all his papers and letters.
McRitChie e. Nichol, contractors for
building the water works at st. Joe, Mis-
sour, have sued the company Tor $1,000
balance due them
| PalSey Devine, who murdered Aaron
| G0odltIlow, at Bloomington, Illinois, in
IS'J, and was convicted last January, but
given new trial, had his case continued
last Thursday till March.
y Boston dispatch says the Temperance
| Crusade, in st. Adams has reached crisis
| All the hotels are closing up, us they con.
J Tend temperance house cannot be run
I With profit in St. Adams.
| An attempt was made a day or so aro
near Delta, Ohio, TO wreck the passenger
| IRAN going east on the Lake Shore Road by
| placing u cross tie on the track. The shock
deralled the front trucks of the engine.
James Harris, farmer living onear At
lahlc, Iowa, and in good circumstances.
wllllc jaborlng under tit of temporary in.
| sanity, cut his throat the other day In a
| sleeping car ON the Union Pacific.
| an attempt was unsucccsslully made q day
| or Two since TO assassnate Mayor Clum. Of
| tombstone, Arizona. The attempt crew
out OF the killing of the McLowery brothers
some lineage.
| An examination into the cause of the ac-
cidchl ON the Mississippi e Tennessee Rail
road, two or three days since, near Mem
Plus, shows it was caused by rotten rails
| fslhcr than by the work of tramps, as was
| supposed.
The funeral Of Il. i. Mack, the New
| ORR newspaper correspondent, tool, place
ON the morning Of the 10th inst. MANY
representatives OF the press rs well as mem
oGlS VI lLe Lotus ana Press Clubs attended
| MS funeral,
The colored population of Kansas CITY are
stirred up over the charges of adulterv and
general misconduct made against Kersor -.
public school teacher, by CASTOR, a sort of
lecturer. All colorcd,
MISS Matte Moss, young lady of Hanni-
paI, Missouri, eloped with young man
named lom Cave on Thursday last. She
was to have been married 10 another cen
lIeman named Mcfarland at that time
oil Il
inItted suicide at his residence i'm CinCinnnti
| last Thursday by hanging himself TO n rSf.
ter IN the attic, He had been ON n spree
ana Is supposed to have been laboring I'm.
der temporary insanity.
colored man, badly broken ont with
smallpox, passing Pennsylvania Avenue,
washington, last Thursday, created quite n
panic III the crowd of fashionable prone
naders, lie was finally taken to the hos
pital, avs
A night or two since the wife of Ricborl
Steele, editor of the Modern Argo. M On,n'
cy, Illinois, deserted her husband, and ioft
Tor Chicago. Cause, Steele's jealous dispo.
sitlon' 1t is supposed she went TO her
mother. w '''i
Two attempts have been made in San
Jose, California, on the life of vonn"
liougton, son OF Ex-Congressman HourL,
loi'. lnc BOY Is about III and il is SubnoScd
that in the dark ho was mistaken t5r hi.
father. ''i MS
William Reese, young brakeman on
coal train on the Cleveland, Tuscaravos &
Wheeling Road, in jumping Off oftbe
moving cars on the 18th inst. near the
Warrington coal mines, in Ohio, fell under
the wheels and was horribly manrled lie
died soon after the accident.
A number of employees engaged NJ Gov.
ernment Lock No. 8, near Charlestown
West Virginia, started to their wsrk
morning or two since, when their skiff, |
were, carried away by the current and over
the dam and four of them, Moore, Brow
ana Hunter, negroes, and Thornton Frar.
uon' white, we're drowned.
Pat flanagan, a laborer of Hot sprinr,
Arkansas, wandered out on FRIDAY 10 tn,,
farmhouse Of an old man named Semnle
ana ,rn,d requested permission to STAY ali nirbt
me next morning the neighbors fonnd
mrs, Semple some distance from tho housc
where she had crawled during tho njvbt
bleeding and exhausted. The old mars
dead body was found in the house terriblv
hacked With an axe. flanagan wa, apnrs.
hended and It is said he is crazy. W. "Pp''-
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