The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-13
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Snow fell heavily at ST. Joseph, Missouri,
last Saturday.
The South Brooklyn Oh Works, loss
| S25, 900 we're burned on the 10Th inst.
half dozen business houses were de-
stroved nv fire at Sullivan, Illinois, SRtur-
! day night last.
The stables of the Atlanta Street Railway
were DESTROYED by fire night or Two since
and a number. of mules were burned.
The announcement was made in the
Spanish Cortes a few days since, tnat
slavery had ceased to exist Ill the spanish
dominions. -. 80 --------.
A man named Jones, of Crittenden, Ken
lucky in Cincinnati, the other day, was
robbed by nymph du pave OF his gold
watch and chain, valued at Sloo'
+. If. Riel, contractor of street improve
meuts of Fort Smith, Arkansas, received
| from the town treasurer $500 on the 10th
inst, and left for parts unknown, leaving
teamsters and laborcrs unpaid
A thief or thieves broke into the lIcba-
non school-house day or two ago and stole
a copy of Webster's Unabridged belonging
to the teacher and barometer ana some
other articles.
Piner nm insurance sNindler, was
arrested and imprisoned in Quincy, Hi
nois, by Chief of Police hcirow, on Satur-,
day He had an insurance on his lie oil
$4,000 and ieigned drowning
Three companies of United States In
iantry passed through Lincoln, Nebraska,
Saturday, for the Otoe Reservation, for the
purpose of removing mtruders and squat
ters
Two men, Thos. Martin and G. Murdoch,
working OH the railroad ten miles west of
Boulder, Colorado, day or so ago were
thrown into the air by the premature eI-
plosion of blast and received severe in
iurics.
A Young man named c. c, Armstrong,
aged % or q years. recently from GIN
cinnati, committed suicide With a shotgun
near Peola, Kansas last Friday No cause
assigned for the act.
Johnny Cole, an employee on the Lake
Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad COM
psny, wa, killed while coupling cars at FL
more, Ohio, Friday night He was a pop
ular and estimable young man.
Coroner Lynch, of Leavenworth, was
summoned late,a few nights since, to hold an
inquest on the body OF wood-chopper AZ
Kickapoo Island, several miles above the
city, who died in . sudden and mysterious
manner that day.
William Sindram was convicted in New
| York Saturday after a trial of seven days,
| for the murder of Mrs. Catherine Crave.
| Sindram is a young man ofabout 30 years
! of age, and seemed perfectly uncOnccrned
at the verdict of the jury.
The experimental boring by the Illinois
| Central Railroad ut Cairo, with i Wow of
| finding foundation for n railroad bridge,
was discontinued day or so ago, having
gone down 2U3 feet without finding soil for
| q foundation.
| II. T. Weicher, n grocery keeper in Gin
cinnat, while opening his store early Satur-
| day morning. was set upon by five men,
who knocked him down and robbed him OF
his pocket book, containing about 500,
The robbers escaped.
The officials at Washington are flooded
with letters and applications for office, and
the press has been SO great on Keller, as to
committee appointments, that he had TO
leave Washington Saturday, returning yes
terday. 1t is understood the committees
will be announced to-day.
A day or so ago near Cincinnati, on the
Columbia & Mount Lookout line, acollision
occurred between two dummies. -Four
ladies and three gentlemen and the con-
uuctor and engineer ofone of the dummies
were badly bruised and cut, but none seri-
ousy ii is thought.
| Saturday afternoon, while William Tur.
ner, of Atlanta, was taking q free ride on u
Midland railroad engine that had gone 10
sugar Creek, three miles, for water, he got
his foot badly crushed between the engine
and tender, the engine having jumped the
track two miles from town
At Memphis, Saturday, the deoomposod
remains of young man supposed TO hC
George Apps we're found in the third story
of building. Apps left his parents home
in that city some six weeks ago, bat beinl
eccentric and morose his parents imagined
he had gone to some other city.
| Near Carlisle, Indiana, Friday, occurred
n terrible accident, Mrs, Anna Pierce, q
widow, was retaining from q visit in
buggy, with her three chilren. The horst
ran away, fracturing her skull in tw,
placer and killing the baby instantly. Tn,
other two children had bones broken,
A social dance al the residence of W
Klingman, Of Newton Township, Ohio
came to q sudden and melancholy endnl
Saturday night by tho instant death o
= Annie Hall, Is years old. The young lad,
was engaged III n uanCe, AS sue reuCnCt
out her hand to grasp that of her partner
In the midst Of figure, she fell over back
{ ward and expired, Heart disease was III,
cause.
The Jury Of business men sitting in III,
Criminal Court at Chicago on the 10th inst.
imposed sentence Of fourteen years IN thu
penitentiary upon Capt, Ben. Eyester fol
killing q hackman, and one Of twenty year
: on Jack Stanncrs for killing hi
mistress. This verdict struck terror into
: the other prisoners awaiting trial. This Il
, the first experiment with other than q pro
fessional Jury.
At Bedford Indiana, last Saturday, VIII
liam Gaines and William Head were boil
1 In town drinking together and left abou
b. dark, going TO Gaines house, south Of tn
II river. About 10 o'clock, when the psrtie
|. were proposing TO retire, Gaines sudderl,
|. and Unexpectedly shot Head with q re
' volver. the ball entering near the navel. Tn
I act was supposed TO be the result OF an oil
srudge. Gaines fed, and Head at last &C
, counts was dying.
}. Jack Leo, brakeman on the Danyille
= Olney 4 Ohio River Railway, had thrill
i ing experience on Friday night near 81
y Mary's, Illinois, He was In the act of pas.
In inr from, tho tnnder Of Tho an 81 N 10 A..