The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-17
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Two notorious hotel thieves and burglars.
named Ellis and Mcguire, have been ar,
rested IN Davenport, Iowa, aud will be
taken back to Kansas, whore they have
been operating.
Thomas Larkin, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
car-repairer of the Chicago & Northwcstern
railway, was run over by freight train
Tuesday evening while repairing a brake
beam, and received injuries which physi-
clans pronounce fatal.
Chase, the man wLo struck Policeman
Hoohner at Mattoon, Illinois, over The
head with a lantern last Saturday night
and made u bad wound, was bound over TO
appear at the circuit court in bond Of
$500. He is yet in the lookup.
A prominent farmer named John Harden
living few miles NORTH of Newcomers
town, Ohio, was chopping trees in the
woods the other day, when one Of than
fell on him, crushing him to death in
stantly., His body was found horribly
mangled.
William DAILY and James Riley wore
taken TO Salem from Centralia, Illinois. and
lodged in the county Jail. the other day.
They are charged with burglary and lar.
ceny, having broken into an Illinois Gem
tral freight car. They are tramps, and will
have to lie in Jail until next August.
News from Barry county, Kansas, saws
that ex-Sheriff A. Hopkins was shot and
Killed by man named Rowley last week.
The affair developed from an old grudee or
family iend, In which Hopkins had killed a
arrest some years ago. A report saws Row
ley has been arrested since the shooting.
Intelligence, from Taney county, Mis-
gplri that a ma, -
was shot ard instantly killed on Big
Creek, few days ago by lad of ID years
whose name is-glven as Webster. They
had developed an alteration, at which the
man began maltreating thvlad to such an
extent that the latter, scouting revolver,
shot his antagonist, killing him almost In.
stantly. No reports as to arrests have been
made.
A little son of Peter Hanson, 3 years of
age, at Omaha, Nebraska. was acciden-
tally shot through the head ana
instantly killed Wednesday afternoon
by one Anderson a Dane
who was cleaning his revolver next door
The child was outside the house, and when
the revolver went of the bullet went
through q window'pane and hit him. as
above The mother is fairly crazed with
Another gang oicounterfeterswas nonncsd
upon Tuesday at Elkport, Iowa. by n % nosse
Of officers. Three succeeded In makinr
Their escape. but two Of them, William
Stevens and W. Furguson, were captured.
anu VIII be taken to Dnbuoue
for hearing before the United States com
missioner. Close pursuit Is being made of
the Others, and tits expected they will Sc
taken. Dies and considerable 1nnniitv
of bogus money were found ON theprem.
lscs. These operations were carried on in n
shanty hid In the woods.
In Gwinnctt county, Georgia. recentlv
Deputy United States Marshal hob Boiton
ana three men tried to captnrc Jackson
Martin and son, moonshiners, by entering
Their still.house. Martin and so,
showed fight, and by hurting huge
stones ut the, officers of the law
kept them back, and at length cs-
Ing. Bolton and his men followed. and
upon reaching the house ordered the moon.
sinners to surrender. They refused, where
upon the men fired upon them, sending n
bullet through Jackson Martin. The son
then gave himself up, and the body of hin
iather was turned over TO relatives for
burial. '''
A desperate attempt to wreck n passsn.
ger train on the Illinois Central rond vss
discovered at Savoy, Illinois, about II II
o'clock Tuesday night. 10. Kline. watch.
man In Dunlap's store, coming in ifsm he
country at that hour, discovered
that the switch at the north end M
the side track had been. thrown wide open'
the lock broken and heavy timbers thrown
on the track. He aroused J. II. DUNLAP.
station agent, and together they repsircd
the damages before passenger train No. 3
passed south. This train generally
s,, gos, through at full speed, and would
doubtless have been horribly wrecked
put put Ior the timely discovery. The
kept out oi sight, and Il a not known
whether or not fobbery YVES intended.
Kline nr s.. + the :, WstshTan yho shot ana klsd