The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-01
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The gambling houses OF George and AL.
Hawkins at 12l and ia Clark street. Chi
cago, were raided by the police and lbs in
mates at the time arrested.
Jim Cochran, the Kernville, California,
vigilant, convicted lately of murder in the
second degree for killing Deputy Sheriff
Mitchell, has been sentenced to thirty-six
years in the State prison.
Two prisoners IN Philadelphia Jail,
lately snapped names and cases, enc i'm
posing upon the other, The mistake was
discovered on the first trial, however, and
the ends of justice will be met.
Two three nights since, Mexican named
Chaves went to house of ill-fame in AL
berquerque, n. NJ. where. two Mexican
girls lived, got drunk with them and was
stabbed to death by them. The girls were
jailed.
A l2-year-old son of Doctor T. 7. Russell
a prominent surgeon of Oshkosh, Wiscon-
sin, shot and killed tho 6-year-old son of
A. IL. Turner. The boys were fooling with
gun supposed to be unloaded.
Rev. Charles Wesley Hewes, pastor ofthe
Fifth Baptist Church ofSan Francisco, com
mitted suicide in Oakland on the 10Th, by
cutting his throat. He had recently shown
evidences of mental arrangement.
The preliminary examination of r. n.
Gardner, OF Slater, Missouri, has been con-
cluded, and he has been bound in the sum
of$l 500 to answer to the charge of burning
his business house in that city few nights
since.
A young widow, aged "a, living with her
mother near Madison, Indiana, was as
saulted by tramp on the 2Jth inst, in the
absence of her mother, and brutally out
ragged. The villain escaped, but was fol-
lowed by posse.
Jose de Silva, the young Cuban lately ar
rested at Spring Hill College, Louisiana, on
an alleged charge Of rape in Havana, and
discharged by Judge Pardee on writ of
habras corpus, has been again arrested
He is IA years old.
General Reagan at Washington the other
day in an interview denied there was ever
$1,000 600 in the Confederate Treasury at
the close of the war, and stated General
Johnston had told him the whole story
about his charges was Il lie.
A Miss Zetella Robinson, ofBoomngton,
Illinois, who became the mother of a
bouncing boy few days ago, has charged
that its father is the Rev. Henry o. Holl-
man, one of the first Methodist orators in
Illinois, and her statement has caused in
tense excitement. She was u domestic in
Hoilman's family for year.
Caywood Coats, a brakeman on the Pa
ciiic Railway, running between Parsons,
Kansas, and Muskogec, Indian Territory,
fell from a freight train near White Oak
water tank after dark Thursday night, and
was instantly killed. His body was taken
to Parsons for interment. His home was
at Topeka, Kansas
A rutlian attempted to outrage Mrs.
Steele, who lives in the outskirts of Leavcn-
worth Kansas, last Thursday, but the lady
fought him bravely and foiled him in his
attack. Failing in this he robbed the house
of $3.50 and escaped. The lady was wild
CIV ofrelinement and intelligence, living
alone, and her assailant was supposed to
be a negro.
At Pewee, kentucky, q pistol in the
hands of a fourteen-year-old daughter of
Judge Muir was accidentally discharged,
the bullet striking Miss Blanche Messenger,
in her death in a short time. The
girls we're cousins, and about the same age
The unfortunate girl, the daughter of Harry
Messenger, of Louisville, was spending the
holidays with the family of Judge Muir.
A, 7. Stewart of Proctorsville, Vermont,
III alleged cousin 0i the former New York
instituted suit some time ago
Tor u share in the estate Of the latter. 1t
was compromised by Judge Hilton. The
Vermont Stewart claimed breach of the
agreement and again sued for 500. 900
damages, and on the S0th instant this latter
suit was also settled tavorably for the COM
plainant
A curious marriage took place at Fuller
Ranch, near Tucson, Arizona Territory, last
sunday. Chinese gardener OF that place
was married to dusLy maiden belonging
% the Apache tribe The ceremony was
performed by Rev H. ii. Messenger, of
Tucson. Quite number OF people were
present, and in order to create some sport
he Chinaman was forced TO part with his
queue as part Of the ceremony. lie object.
.d at first but finally submitted. The mo-
her OF the girl opposed the marriage, put
% no avail.
Willis Hockaday, a colered barber, has
been arrested AZ Louisa, Kentucky, for the
murder of the Gibbons children and Miss
Thomas, last Friday night. He was drunk
asst Monday, and talked in such way as
to arouse suspicion and then suddenly dis
appeared Detectives do not believe flock
lday is guilty, and will discourage attempts
II violence when he arrives. They seem to
have settled upon the theory that Gibbons
was the murderer, and that he has drowned
in the Ohio River.
A decided sensation was produced at
Milwaukee two nights since on tho discov-
cry that a prominent young lawyer, Gotlieb
Engel, OF that city, had absconded, and the
are that he is an cmbezxler
and torger to large amount Engel was
by marriage with Jewish iami-
lies there, i'll Chicago, st. Louis and Gin
cnnati. A warrant for his arrest on
charge of forgery has just been issued.
REGULATIONS to the amount of $4,000 are
traced, but the amount is believed to be
several times that sum.
Tuesday morning Alexander Mitchell, n
miner in the Wells mine, on the Lone Elm
land near Joplin, Missouri,
met with serious accident, which resulted
in his death. Mitchell was acting as
hacker, his duties consisting in taking the
wash dirt from the head of the drift to the
shaft, where it is hoisted to the surface.
While passing along the drift vast deal of
earth and stone caved in from the side,
ing four OF his ribs into his lungs and break
ing his collar bone.
John Walker, well-known citizen of
Newport, Kentucky, and proprietor of a
planning mill in James alley in that place,
met with a terrible accident "Wednesday
by which his right leg was torn
from his body and which will doubtless
prove fatal, He and his younger son
tor several weeks have been running a
large planning machine in the mill, and that
morning the driving belt slipped from the
pulley. While in the act of replacing the
belt his overhauls got caught in the pulley