The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-03
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llllnolS, nave 10 Duy corn rom inc harts
of northern counties Of that State in .onSe-
quence of the total failure of that crop in
that county,
The Missouri River Convention is still in
session at st. Joe. reelection OF perma-
nent officers was held, and series of resolu-
tons adopted looking TO the improvement
of the Missouri river.
Charles Heukee, a German AGED seventy
four, died day or so ago in the Charity
Hospital in New York city, of leprOsy
There is young man still in the hospital
with the same disease.
Malignant diptheria is raging at Culo,
Iowa, with terrible results. Twelve per
sons died within the past four DAYS, four
| from one family. The doctors seem power
less, and great alarm exists.
Five trampS were arrested and locked up
IN Litchiield, Illinois, day or two since.
| Before morning they broke out Of the Gala
boose, burglarized dry goods store, dressed
themselves up and left the town.
The machine shop of the Burlington Mill
Butte at Helena, NJ. r., was totally de-
stroyed by Il dynamite explosion ON the
3Oth ult Pieces of the explosive had been
LETT near the furnace to thaw out.
Thomas Reid, an of. bearer at Addison's
saw-mill, at Parkers Station, Scott county,
| Missouri, was accidentally killed ON Tues.
day, about 3;lj p, m, by u silver thrown by
the saw. His neck was broken and the back
part of his skull crushed in.
Wiley WEIGH who was serving seventeen
year sentence IN the Kansas State peniten-
tiary, at Leavenworth, for grand larceny,
while out with other prisoners in the stone
quarry, jumped down bank thirty feet
high and made good his escape.
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adopting new plan of winding up the af-
fairs OF broken bank. A committee of
citizens on Wednesday determined to have
the life of Danford, the defaulter or their
money within twenty-four hours.
A freight train bound west on the Indi-
| annapolis e st. Louis road was wrecked near
Carbon, Indiana, night or so ago by Il
broken axle. One of the brakemen was
killed and thirteen cars demolished. The
track was cleared of the debris the next
morning.
suit has been instituted against the
Judge Of Clark comfy, Missouri, by j. l..
Whitlord, Illinois, for $4,000 on detached
coupons not included in the recent COM
promise of NJ. e. NJ bonds. The copy of
the petition contains 500 counts and 800 or
600 pages.
Information was received in Nicksburg,
on the Both ultimo, that white man named
Edward Gray, in crossing the Mississippi
river at Duckport, short distance above
there, in dug-out, was capSi2ed and
drowned No effort thus far has been made
to recover the body.
A morning or two since miners train |
on the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad |
returning from Locust Gap, ran into an |
empty coal train standing on the main |
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badly wrecked, and coal cars piled up. No |
one was seriously injured.
A few days ago George Allen was arrested
in st. Joe, Missouri, charged with false
representations in securing a pension of
$500. He was released on bond but failed
to appear on Wednesday, the day set for
the trial. He was one of the best known
travelling men from that city.
A shipment of colorcd men for work on
the Atlantic e Pacific Railroad, in New
Mexico, was made Wednesday from Lin
coin, Nebraska. About all the idle negroes
in that part of Nebraska have been sent
or are going to New Mexico. II is said the
negroes cannot stand the cold of Nebraska.
On Wednesday last the attendance at the
Atlanta Exposition was the largest of any
day previous, ii being Drummers' Day.
The drummers were out IN full force, and at
their meeting songs and speeches were in
dulged They were entertained at night by
the Wlliamantic Company, General James
and Governor Colquitt.
The Queen City Mining Company of
Quincy, Illinois, composed almost entirely
of postotlice clerks and employees, who own
mining property in Colorado, received ad-
vices day or SO since that all points in
law suit relating to the Harris mine had
been decided in favor Of the company. The
mine is said to be very valuable.
A German lad, IA or 10 years of age, living
near Wagon-Tongue Creek, about fourteen
miles west of Lincoln, Nebraska, was found
dead Tuesday evening" crushed between a
wagon and haystaCk, He was subject to
fits, and IL is supposed was taken with one,
and falling hcadloremoSt between the
wagon and the hay, was Smothcred to
death.
Mrs. Annie Duncan, an old lady keeping
house for VIM. Newman, at Dubuaue,
Iowa, left the house early Wednesday
morning before daylight, to take the train
Tor Galcna. That was the last seen of her
till the afternoon, when her lileless body
was found floating in the slough near the
railroad depot, 1t is supposed she walked
Oh the road into the slough, and was UNI
able to cxtricate herself
Inc examination Ill the case OlCOrlnnc the
child actress, who was committed to the
custody of the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children, has,bcen discontinued
from the fact of the abduction of Corinnc
Her foster mother obtained permission 10
take her in company with an officer to her
home in order to make some changes i'm her
dress while at the house the girl was spir-
tied away and has not been found.
The town of Peoria, Illinois, boasts of
boss somnambulist of the world He is
drummer, and left on the Wabash train
Monday night, Ten miles from Forrest he
LETT his berth and walked in state of UNI
dress to the rear of the coach. That was
the last seen of him until Wednesday when
he turned up at home. His only injuries
were q few scratches, although it is sup.
posed he jumped from the train.
Wednesday evening, on Water street,
kona, Illinois, near notorious dive, Asa
Potter, an old man from Hallock town
ship, was "held up" by an unknown man
who approached him fiom behind gagged
him with u handkerchief and then went
through his pockets, obtaining S25 in
money and silver watch At that time Of
the evening the street is quite well FRI,
lucnted, but affairs fthiS kind have been
in that vicinity oflate
Thomas Herring, express messenger ON
the Iron Mountain Road mystcrlously dis
appeared on Monday last, on the south run
from Cairo Immediately after leaving
Charleston, Missouri, His failure to appear
ut the express Office in Cairo created sus.
plClon of something wrong The safe
IN his charge was opened and sack con.
tanning LOCO in gold coin was missing