The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-01
LATEST TELnaRAMs CONDENSED.

Danny Hynes has been arrested at Vicks-
burg as a most dangerous crank.
Mrs. X. V. Mallory, died at,Springlield,
Illinois, Sunday night, OF consumption.
Dayton Sammy, whose right name is ia
cob Strachle, has been caught at last at
Cincinnati. He is notorious crank.
Levi Pay, at Oldtown, Ohio, was fatally
stabbed on the 2Sth ultimo by AL Faster
hng, who was arrested and bound over.
Colonel James r. Powell, charged at
la2oo City, Mississippi, with the murder
ofyoung James Robinson, has been ac-
quilted.
The official vote of Virginia in the late
election. gives the Legislature to the Read
igStets by Il majority Of twenty-five ON
joint ballot.
George Jones, near Meadow Farm, Ohio,
shielded last Saturday by severing his
windpipe with i razor. A case of disap-
pointed love.
At Sedalia, Missouri Saturday night, one
Of the leading Cuiored men of that place,
named Alfred Williams, was found dead in
his bed from heart disease.
Langdon W. Moore, of Boston, has been
sentenced on another count for the breaking
and entering the post-oflice in Charleston,
Massachusetts, two years ago.
At. ST. Joe, Missouri, on the evening OF
the 2Sth ut, Rev. Father James Walsh,
died Mt the parsonage of st. Patrick 5
church. He was 40 years of age.
The notorious horse-thief, A. w. Howell,
has just been captured in Coffteville, Mis-
sissippi. Within the last four years he has
stolen at least one hundred horses.
In Utopia, Ohio, Tuesday evening, Billy
Crabb was MORALLY shot by one John
Schewe, who was captured and taken to
jail. There was woman in the case.
William Redheffer suicided at Savannah,
Missouri, last Sunday by shooting himself
with pistol. Cause, mental trouble. His
brother is prominent merchant at Kansas
City.
At Salem, Illinois, DR.. j. A. Davenport's
fine match team ran away on Sunday after
noon. One of the horses was killed, and the
Doctor received severe though not serious
bruises.
Leonard Simms, at Duckport, Louisiana,
on. last Sunday evening seriously shot, and
perhaps fatally, one David Jones. Both
were colored. ARRAY originated in family
difficulties.
1t has now been disclosed that General
w. T. Tucker, ofOkalona, Mississippi, was
assassinated by a relative and not by the
negro, Houston Parish, who was indicted
for the crime.
An examination ofTax Receiver Hunters
report to the Philadelphia City Council
shows enormous speculations by the clerks
under the administration of ex-Tax Re.
ceiver Smith.
Ed. Maxwell, the desperate who was
hanged by a mob at Durand, Missouri, was
the son of II. A. Maxwell formerly
prominent and much esteemed citizen of
Lexington, Illinois.
Plattsburg, Missouri, is vigorously push
ing the law against illegal liquor selling in
the county, The County Attorney has the
dealer arrested and the drinkers subpunaed
to prove the violation of the law.
Several prisoners at Jerseyville, Illinois,
attempted to break Jail last week, inspired
by the notorious Donnelly, an ex-peniten-
tiary convict. They were foled in the act
and Immediately upon the eve of escape.
A young man named Lahey was fatally
shot in bagnio in Decatur, Illinois, Sun
day night, The proprietress and man
named Carroll were the only occupants of
the room at the time of the shooting and
are both in jail.
A Butter Convention was held in Cedar
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, day before yesterday.
Large numbers OF delegates were present,
and the entries were unusually large, some
classes having as many as one hundred and
ten tubs of butter.
Hon. George Wendsing, at Lebanon, Ill:-
noiS, on the 2sth ultimo, delivered his cele-
to lngersOll, etc, II was delivered in the
NJ. +. Chuch, under the auspices of the
Harmonica Encampment of |. o. o. i.
/ Oh toll
mense number Of delegates to the Misss-
sippi River Improvement Convention as
sembled at the ppera-house. Mayor Piner
delivered the address of welcome. A ban
quet and ball was given at the New World
Hotel, which was thercupon dedicated.
About o'clock Monday morning mob
of fifty men at Dardanelle, Arkansas, over
powered the iailcr and took from the Jail
and hanged j. p. Holland, who was under
Indictment for the murder in company
with two men named llelpncy and Casey,
OF planter named Burgess Jones. This is
the third lynching in that county IN the
last year.
The investigation made into the Gil
christ disaster at Davenport Iowa, was con-
cluded Monday, the inspectors revoking
the licenses of the pilot and master, mate
and engineer for criminal negligence. This
was the boat that was sunk in the latter
part of September by striking the govern
ment bridge near Davenport, and by which
ten persons Were drowned.
At Memphis, Tennessee, on Sunday
evening quite panic occurred at the
Avery Chapel, colored church. There
were 900 persons present and no less than
forty of these were injured in attempting to
escape from the church which was reported
to be falling into the water. Annie FLOYD,
a colored girl, was trampled nearly to death
and Others have received probably fatal in
juries.