The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-09
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Three BOYS were killed a day or two ago
by the falling of the floor OF st. Mary
Church Sun ay-school building, st. John,
New Brunswick.
Paramore, of the Texas & st. Louis Road,
has consummated the lease # the Cairo
st. Louis, and it will form the link between
st. Louis and Cairo
The violence and fury of the storms that
have prevailed on the North Atlantic
ocean for the past four or five weeks sur
pass the record Of the oldest navigatorS.
The son of the late Supreme Judge Wool
war1, of Pennsylvania committed suicite al
his home in Reading, on the 9th instant
He was of more than ordinary ability, and
was in i'll health, which was supposed have
been the cause.
At noon on Tuesday, the sewer under
the Miami canal in Cincinnati, completed
the day before, caved in as soon as the
water of the canal was turned on. The
water had been turned oil temporarily
while the sewer was being built,
In Sangamon county, Illinois, on Tues
day, in the injunction case brought by the
mine Inspection against the Junction coal
mines to prevent the mines from closing up
the communication way, the Judge of the
Circuit Court rendered a decision contin-
uing the injunction.
1t seems the dining car conductor on the
Wabash Railway, arrested-a few days
ago for selling liquor without license, was
in the habit OF throwing open his car when
ever it reached the depot at Taylorsville
and making regular saloon OF it, selling to
whoever would buy.
On Tuesday last at Pleasant Plains twelve
miles from Springfield, Illinois, Miss Ste
yens, an estimable young lady, committed
suicide because her lover, young man
who had been absent for some time. and
had returned day or so before, had not
called on her.
The rumors respecting the intended pur-
chase of the Little Rock & Fort Smith Rail
way by Jay Gould are given credence at
Little Rock, but it Is now said Gould will
not only buy the road but all others center
ing in that city and make II the hcadquar-
tiers for his railway operations in Arkansas
and Louisiana.
AT the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the International Ocean Tec-
graph Company, controlled by the Western
Union, the following directors were chosen:
Norvin Green, Augustus Schel', Harrison
Durkee, h. 5. Sanford Moses Tay Tor, j, o.
Green, II, II, Rochester, Il. &. Livingston
and Jay Gould.
The anxiously awaited annual meeting of
stockholders of the Keokuk e st. Louis
Line was held day or two since, at Keo-
kuk, Iowa, and the lease to the Chicago
burlington d Quincy was ratified, and Chi
cago Burlington q Quincy men were
elected to fill the offices, with one exeep-
ton, that of Secretary, to which position
Colonel Blood, Superintendent of the for
mer line, was elected.
A horrible accident occurred at Atalissa
on the 9th instant, thlrty-iive miles west of
Davenport, Iowa, the result of the careless
. handling of n shotgun. Two brothers,
Grant and Sherman Lange, aged fifteen and
twelve years, were fooling with the deadly
weapon, when by its discharge the elder
brother was killed. The top of his head
was blown off and his right eye out. The
gun had been loaded over year.
About 1870 o'clock Tuesday afternoon
brakeman on the Chicago IL Alton named
Charles Glenn, while switching cars in the
yards, at Alton, Illinois, fell from a moving
car and had his right leg crushed below the
knee, also received other injuries. The cx-
tent of the wound is not yet ascertancd,
but they are serious. After the brakeman
fell the car ran some distance down the
grade, but stopped near the passenger
depot, The unfortunate man is
quite young, and favorite with his asso-
clates.
A petition is now being circulated, and
has received the signatures of some of those
accustomed to travel on the New York e
New Haven Railroad, requesting the Dircc-
tors of that road to set apart rear car ON
each of the morning trains to New York
Tor the use of those who desire to held re-
ligious services on the train. Services are
to be held between Mount Vernon and New
York City, and will consist of Scripture
reading, singing and prayer One hundred
signatures to the petition are required by
the Superintendent before granting the re-
quest.
On the 9th inst. in ,thc United States
Court ut Little Rock, in the case of the
Credit Company VS., the Arkansas Central
Railway Company, the defendants, by their
attorneys, Tappan u lIorner and Judge c.
G. Waters, filed an answer The suit Is a
very interesting one, as it contains several
important points, and brings ex-senator
Dorsey rather prominently before the
public. The road in question was
incorporated, but made no pro-
gress in the matter of con-
struction until 1865, when ex-senator
Dorsey became President. A large amount
OF bonds were issued, secured by loan on
the road. These roads were sold at fifty per
cent. on the dollar and were bought largely
by Grienar a banker at Amsterdam, Hoi.
land, and by bankers in London and
throughout Europe generally Aiterward,
the first mortgage was foreclosed and the
road sold under it for $4,000 to s. II. Hor-
ner, of Helena. The sale occurred in July
last The suit Is brought in the interest of
certain bondholdcrs to set aside the sale on
the ground ofan alleged fraud.