The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-12-15
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Snow fell heavily at st. Joseph, Missouri
last Saturday.


Snow fell heavily at st. Joseph, Missouri,
last Saturday.
The South Brooklyn Oil Works, loss
$4,000, were burned on the 10th inst.
Lake navigation practically closed at
Sandusky, Ohio ON the 10Th inst.
]. Il. Adams, the iather-in-law of Secre-
tary Hunt, died at Boston Sunday.
A half dozen business houses were de-
stroyed by fire at Sullivan, Illinois, Satur-
day night last.
The stables of the Atlanta Street Railway
were destroyed by fire night or two since
and number. of mules were burned.
The announcement was made in the
Spanish Cortes q few days slnce, hal
slavery had ceased to exist in the Spanish
dominions
maffuamed Jones, of Crittenden, Ken
lucky, in Cincinnati, the other day, was
robbed by nymph du pave OF his gold
watch and chain, valued at $3.50.
p. IL. Riel. contractor of street improve
ments of Fort Smith, Arkansas, received
from the town treasurer $500 on the 10th
inst, and left for parts unknown, leaving
teansto1s and laborcIs unpaid.
A thief or thieves broke into the Leba-
non school-house day or two ago ana stole
n copy of Webster's Unabridged belonging
to the teacher and a barometer and some
other articles.
Piper, an insurance swindler, was
arrested and inprisoned in Quincy, llli-
nois. py Chief of Police McGrow. on Satur-
day He had an insurance on his lie OF
S4,o00 and ieigned drowning.
Three companies Of United Stntes In
fantry passed through Lincoln, Nebraska,
Saturday, for the OtOe Reservation, for the
purpose of removing intruders and squat
iers.
Two men, Thos. Martin and C. Murdoch,
working on the railroad ten miles west OF
Boulder, Colorado, a day or so ago were
thrown into the air BY the premature ex-
plosion OF blast and received severe in
juries,
A Young man named q. c. Armstrong,
aged q or p years, recently from Gin
cinnati. committed suicide with shotgun
near PeOla, Kansas last Friday. No cause
assigned for the act.
Johnny Cole, an employe on the Lake
Shore q Michigan Southern Railroad com
pany, was 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, 70 hold an
Inquest on the body Of a wood-chopper al
KickapOO Island, several miles above the
city. who died in a sudden and mystenous
manner that day.
William sindram was convicted in New
York Saturday after a trial Of seven days
for the murder Of Mrs. Catherine Crave
Sindrnm u . young man Of about 30 years
Of ace. and seemed peiiectlY uDcOncerned
at The verdict of ihe jury.
The experincnfnf boring by the Illinois
Centrnl ksilfosd 70 Cairo. with a view Of
finding D iouncliiJa lor a railrOad bridge,
vns discontinued day or 30 AGO. having
gone doEu ~ leet without finding soil for
z fotuicniion.
II. 7. Weichcr, o grocery keeper IN Gin
ciunaf. while opening BE tore early safur-
day morning. vas 81 uror by hTe men,
who knecke1 him dOnn ard robbed him %
lis p1ckef book. coiltailine about 500.
Tie robbers cscclgel.
Tie ofi1ials ~ Washington are flooded
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