The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-17
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A receiver has been appointed for the
Worlds Mutual Relief Association oil Lee
banon, Pennsylvania.
Three boys were instan tly killed in Brook
lyn, the other evening, by the falling of an
unoccupied building, in which they were
PLAYING.
Hank Pruett, Lake Erie & Western
switchman, Just recently married, was
killed, at Lafayette, Indiana, last Friday
night, while stepping in to pull pin.
The bridge of the Chicago & Alton Road
over Salt river, at Mexico, Missouri, went
down with freight train Saturday morn
ing. Nobody, fortunately, was hurt.
A negro named White pawned an over
coat in St. Louis Saturday night, and was
arrested soon thereafter for stealing the
same. He was locked up and the coat iden-
titled.
Eph Song, the young man who had leg
run over by train the other day, just
south of Winchester, Illinois, and whose
leg was amputated, died Saturday from the
effects of it.
Thomas Dolan, n section hand working
on the indianapolis Il st. Louis road, just
east of Pana, Illinois, was struck by the
cars Saturday and seriously injured. He
died soon after.
A Mrs. Dlggins, whose relatives arc
among the ultra-iashionable in San Fran
sisco, has Just been discovered in criminal
intimacy with her husbands friend, named
Chase. A divorce, is pending.
General Logerot seized several notables
at Stax as hostages for the payment of the
war indemnity exacted by France. He
threatens severe measures if the money is
not forthcoming by the end of January,
Jim Titus, colorcd convict; who escaped
from Eusey's farm near Memphis, about
six weeks ago, was shot and killed by PO-
lice Sergeant James Scott, couple Of days
since. His whereabouts were discovered,
but he refused TO surrender to the officers,
who thcreupon shot him.
Two failures were chronicled on Saturday
in Memphis, Tennessee. One of them was
Il. Lehman, retail cothier who failed for
$4,000, with assets about 5000, and the
other was Joseph Mulcahy, retail grocer,
whose liabilities were $1,000; assets not
known.
Three suspicious characters were arrested
at Pana, Illinois, n few days since with lot
of shoes in their possession. They were de-
tanned by Marshal Rosenberg till Satur-
day, when officers from Madison county
Wcht uiiti tutil, tutN DuNlllS ODlullltu inc
plumber by breaking into freight car
on the Chicago & Alton Road near Alton.
A man who passed under the name of
William Wilcox made the acquaintance q
few months ago of girl named Mary Gre
gel. who was working at the Franklin
House in Memphis, and succeeded IN en-
tlcing her into mock marriage. Two or
three days since the whole thing was dis
covered, and the girl is almost crazy De-
tectives are looking for Wilcox.
About 10 o'clock Saturday morning n
young man named High Deman fell from
the tower of the Union Depot at st. joe
Missouri, which he was covering, to the
ground below. He fell fully thirty feet
His skull was fractured one arm broken, "A
rib broken and other injuries sustained
He was taken up in an insensble condition
and taken to the Lindell Hotel and medical
aid summoned.
An attempt to spread smal.-pox through
the mails unsupported to the postal author
tiles Saturday, An undated and unsigned
letter, postmarked Cincinnati, was received
by q farmer at Lynn, an office fifty miles
north of Richmond Indiana, in which two
smallpox scales were enclosed The letter
read u have sent you the smallpox; go
home and die" The letter was i'm
mcdiately burned, and the only clue TO the
perpetrator was thus destroyed, but the
best detectives in the country will be set TO
work on the case.
Sedala, Missouri, was a couple of davs aro
the scene ct another tragedy. A humber
OF workmen were engaged in erecting n
large center-pole for stone derrick, to be
used IN removing stone from railroad cars
The pole is about thirty-iive feet long, two
ieet in diameter, and being green oak was
very heavy. The workmcn had lust got
The lower end of into deep hole and had
the pole standing erect One of the ropes
which held 1t straight broke in two and'let
inc log fall. II crushed Benjamin Ellis to
the earth, and crushed him so bad that he
died two hours later Ellis leaves a wife
ana hve children in destitute circumstances.
fatal accident occurred Saturday after.
noon ut ! o'clock on the Missouri Pacific
Railroad: near Rose Hill, the first station
west OF kirkwood, Missouri. A stranger
supposed to be a stone mason. had heen
looking for work on the st. Louis & San
Francisco construction, and failing TO get
suitable employment, determined to return
TO ST. Louis. The Train was lust passing
when he got to Rose Hill. In
attempting TO get on board
one Of the cars he fell across the rail,
A dozen or fifteen cars passed over
him, cutting oil both legs close up to the
trunk. The sight was horrible one. One
leg was crushed out of all shape. The other
was found some sixteen feet distant with.
out a scratch upon 1t excepting where il
had been severed from the mans body.
Close by, between the rails, was The trunk,
The unknown brcathcd his las, as soon as
the train men reached him, lie was about
10 years o, age, and the only paper found
upon his body that might pnssibly lcnl IA
Dennis O'Conol, Bartod Valley +. o.,
ST. Louis Co., No.