The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-07
LATEST TELEGRA,Is CONDENSED.

The Omaha Evening Telegram, after an
existence of eight months, suspended on
Wednesday evening last.
Bids we're opened for the 100000 loan
on Wednesday last at Harrisburg, Penn
sylvanis, authorised by the last Legislature
Patrick Powers, employed at a distillery
ut Peoria, Illinois, fell into a wash-tub last
Wednesday, and was probably scalded TO
death
A man was found dead near Fond Du Lac,
Mississippi, ON the lth inst. and the cor
ener's Jury rendered a verdict of death from
exposure.
The suspension OF the" Riley County
Bank, of Manhattan, Kansas, formerly
National bank, caused many Vermont and
Eastern people to lose heavily. Liabilities,
about 100000.
Six negro men, of Sturgeon, Missouri,
who have been working on Wabash tie
train, were arrested few nights since on
charges OF hurgarizing stores at Warrenton
and New Florence.
The clothing store of A. Abrams at
Greencville, Illinois, was burglarized last
Wednesday night and 1880 worth of
clothing, piece goods and other articles were
successfully carried away by the thieves.
The aeronaut Professor Hurd, who ran
illinois the other day, is now in Jail at
Decatur, Illinois, on charge of perjury, he
having sworn the girl was Is years old.
Two police officers, while walking on the
wharfin San Francisco the other night,
discovered and captured two men who were
attempting TO land with a boat in which
were 100 packages of opium on which the
duty had not been paid.
George German, of Cuyhosa Falls, Ohio
Il widely known sewer-pipe manufacturer,
shot himself in bed Wednesday morning
through the right breast and was found
dead two hours later. Last summer he
underwent severe surgical operation, and
had been feeble and Respondent since.
A man named John Toohey, who lives
in St. Paul, Minnesota, and is in good cir
cumstances but who has been drinking
deeply for some time past, shot and in
stantly killed his wife last Wednesday be-
cause she would not let one of the children
so after whisky for him. He was locked
up.
A cowboy in Dakota, the other day
whose name is Graham, shot and killed
good natured companion, named King, he
cause the latter demonstrated with him for
abusing his horse. He shot King thrcs
times in the stomach and afterwards re-
turned and shot him through the head.
Graham escaped.
A farmer named Peaks was run oyer and
killed, together with his two horses, at the
Alum Greek crossing, between Ncwsrk,
Ohio, and Columbus, by passenger train
on the Baltimore 4 Ohio Railroad, at noon
Wednesday. The binding snow-storm pre-
vented the engineer from seeing Peaks in
time TO stop the train.
John orion, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
commenced action on the 4th inst. against
Henry NJ Finch, in the Circuit Court of
Milwaukee, for Islander and libel. and lays
his damages at 100000. There are a num-
Der of counts, all based on Finch's utter
ances touching the honesty Of Orton.
+. G. Walker, p rominent citizen in the
employ of General Garrett, near Pine Bluff,
Arkansas, was arrested Wednesday on a
charge of forgery. 1t seems he is accused
Of attempting to have draft cashed by
Mallory, Crawford & Co., of Memphis for
$4,000. His arrest creates a sensation and
his fall is greatly regretted.
The Grand Jury of Cape Girardeau, Mis-
sour, brought INTO court on Wednesday,
an indictment of murder in the first de
gree against AlOnzo Gibbs rs principal, and
David Cronchon as accessory, for the MUIR
der of Robert McCheyne Stead at that place
on the 18th of December last. The trial was
set for Friday, and will occupy several days,
but the evidence is very conclusive.
In August last young man named Pear
son mysteriously disappeared from Santa
Fe, New Mexico, having in his pos
session at that time $500 or 81 900. A day
woods five miles from that city which was
recognized as that of Pearson. 1t is now
supposed he was enticed into a dance hall
and robbed murdered and dragged to
where the body was found.
Two young men, Andrew Guuderson, q
Scandinavian, and Fred Notter, a German,
Il and p years old respectively, while skat-
ing across the head of Lake Pcpin, Min
nesota, on the 4th inst, skated into an air.
hole and were drowned. Two small boys
who saw them state that they had hold Of
each others hands while passing through
the ice. They were found at a depth OF
twenty feet about forty yards from the
shore. Their home is in Isabella, Pierce
county, Wisconsin.
Stuon G. Taggart, Of Groceville, Mimi
csota, charged with swindling the Mime
apOlis Millers' Association, has been held
in $1,000 bonds. Taggart was in the em-
ploy Of the elevator at Camp
bell, and visited Minneapolis q
few DAYS since disguised with
goggles and with his coat bu;toned around
his neck, and evidently thought that his
mask would not be penetrated. In this
way he presented wheat checks to the
amount Of 1910 to Mrs. Andrews, and re-
ceiying the money on them started for
home, but the swindlc was soon discovered
and he was pursued and arrested,
The particulars of terrible accident,
which resulted in the death of a lady by
the name of Rude, has just reached Lin
coin, Nebraska, from one of the frontier
counties The Rude family, consisting OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Rude and two children, occll-
pied one of the frontier palaces of the west
crn counties, namely, dug-out 1t was
like all other habitutions OF this kind
being simply an excavation in the
side of hill, with matched ROOT
and elrthen noer. The head of the family,
il seems, had left home ON business, and
during his absence, while the wife aud lit
tie ones were asleep, the roof the house,and
portion of the house itself, cayed in, com
plc,eiy bUrying the inmates, and causing
the almost instant death of the mother Of
the family, Tho children were rescued
without having received any great injury
a Business Nuns Experience.
lie could not tell what allied him. liz