The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-02-16
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destroyed The greater portion N mo bai
! View Iron works Loss slOWn,
The grand Jury Of Hanover county, yir
olnln, expected ~ investigate The Wise
lllddlebnrger duel which occurred IN that
county last summer.
! Asa Bolts, hotel proprietor nj Oblnn, Ar
kansas, was shot and Killed In an alicrca
ton couple Of days ago, by u wood'pileI
named James.
A drunken yagabond named Fork, living
nj Centralia, Missouri, ON Saturday last
seized his l5year.Old daughter and brntally
outraged her person. He was Immediately
arrested and jailed.
= The report that Mrs. Garfield had rittcn
n letter To- President Arthur, asking him to
commute Guiteau's sentence, Is most emu
phatically denied in telegram from Clcve-
land, Ohio, of the 18th Instant
William Stevens, coal miner, who was
beaten in fracas at Holly, Illinois, week
ago, by another miner named James Eads,
died Sunday morning of his injuries. Eads
is in Jail, and the grand jury, before adj
journing, indicted him for murder.
At Eminence, Kentucky, Saturday, Il
shotgun was accidentally discharged in u
room where two little fellows were fixing to
retire, and the contents of a No. II cartridge
entered the left eye of little Tommy Bry-
ant, bursting his head open and killing him
instantly.
A number of dangerous criminals were
delivered from the Monroe county jail at
Rochester, n. Y, on Sunday; AMong
them is John Weissenberg the accom-
piished burglar, who recently broke from
the same prison and got as far west as Chi
cnpO when caDtureu last week.
! As the eastern-bound mail and passenger
train was approaching the depot at urbana,
| Ohio. Sunday morning, n stranger, who had
secreted himself between the mail and bag
gage cars, in attempting to get off while the
| train was in motion, was instantly killed.
his head and body receiving frightful
| bruises.
John McAltee, switchman for the Union
railway, was instantly killed Saturday even
ing, at Peoria, Illinois, while coupling. His
foot caught in the throw-switch, and, fall
| ing on his head, he was crushed between
| the rails and wheels. He was single man,
| - years of age, and formerly lived at La
| fayette, Indiana.
At Pueblo, Colorado, a shooting scrape
took place Saturday between Chief of Police
Desmond and officer Connor, whom the
| former was reprmandng. Desmond shot
| Conner three times, wounding him danger
ously. lie then jumped the train and left
for Denver. At the same hour in gamb-
ling hell another shooting affair occurred,
but without fatal result.
| Charles Hartman was killed in the l., b. e
W. yards at Danvile, illinois, the other
evening about O'Clock. He was riding on
| top of Il freight train, and missed his footing
| in stepping from one car to another and
| fell. He was about II years old, and re-
sided near the city. He was not connected
with the railroad and his death resulted
| from stealing a ride.
! Two men named Mckenzie and Grogan,
| at Clinton Missouri, Saturday adjourned to
the edge of town to fight it out. Mckenzie
proving too much for Grogan, bystander
named Carpenter intertered, when Mcken-
zie shot at him, killing an old man by the
name of Xeisel. Carpenter returned the
fire, but, as Mckenzie ran away, it is not
known with what effect.
President Garrett, of the Baltimore Il
Ohio railroad has established course of
! free lectures for his employees. ON Friday
night the first lecture was delivered in Bat
timore, Professor II. \. Martin, who told
"'HOw skulls and baCkbones are built,
being introduced by Mr.. Garrett. 1t was
highly appropriate to lecture before rail-
road men on the subject of dead-hends
The Lakevlew (Oregon) Herald says that
| the remnants of the Modoc Indians that
were transferred from the lava-beds to the
| Indian territory are now among the quiet
est most peaceable and industrious i'll the
country. There are only 100 left, but they
cultivate 400 acres of land, have established
| schools, and are thriving generally. Scar
! faced Charley, one of the heroes OF the
Modoc war, is now Il respectable, well-to-do
farmer.
At st. Joe, Missouri, Sunday morning,
lady named Mrs. Daily met with most un-
! fortunate accident. She was returning
/ from the morning service at the cathedral,
and she went to cross street Just III front
of horse and buggy, which she did not
| see She was struck and thrown to tn"
ground with great violence. As she fell sh:
was struck on the cheek by one Of the
horses feet and knocked insensibe. The
point of the shaft of the buggy struck her
| on the hip bone. She was taken up and
conveyed home. Her injuries are very Sc
we're, though not fatal.
There is great excitement in Portland,
Oregon, over the testimony before the
grand jury that John y. Brown, a well-to,,
| do farmer whose body was recently found
| in the river, weighted with stones had been
murdered in the bagnio of Carrie Bradley.
! by one of her tools, in revenge for having
/ caused her arrest on charge of keeping
| house of ill rcpute From testimony gwen
/ by two women, inmates OF Bradley house,
! the guilty parties are supposed TO be on the
The sheriff of New York City i keeping
close watch on William Sindram. who is
sentenced to be hanged Friday next. sin
dram still declares that he has 10 wish TO be
saved from being hanged. He says that he
| would receive at least fifteen years lmprls-
onment if he escaped hanging, and that al
| ter the expiration Of the term OF his I'M
.prisonment ne would be of no use 10 HIM
/ self or the community at large. II does
not, therefore, he says, require much
| philosophy to prefer hanging to such n fu-
| ture rs What.
/ Wednesday night, while making land
/ ing AT a point dow n the river near Memphis,
James Leonard, the second mate of the
James Lee, was showed overheard by a
negro deck passenger, named Jim Dunlap.
| Leonard, after swimming around IN ths
darkness, managed to catch hold Of the
wheel and made his way on deck. When
/ the crew heard OF this attempt 10 drown
Leonard, they rushed upon Dunlap, and,
before the officers Of the boat could rescue
him, he was beaten in such 4 manner that
his life 10 despaired Of
At 1879 O'Clock Monday morning Joseph
! Hurtado at Sacramento. California, shot
and instantly killed Jose Antonio Estuardo.
I Hurtads made an assault on Estuardo Fri.
day last. Tor which he was arretted and
/ cited TO appear in the police court Monday
morning When the case was called II was
/ continued until Tuesday. Hurado imme-
diately LEFT the COURTROOM. proceeded aCruss
the street and secreted himself 20 door
! way. ana when EstuariO came along shot
Inn four times. He tell. and evidently re-
ceivel a mortal wound az the first IRE.
The lines from Portland. Oregon, 90 Asio-
ria have been prOstraied for three days, but
mail advices report q storm 10 uuusual se-
verify along the coast. A warehouse at li-
waco was blown down and the road bet WeeL
I IlwacO anu North Beach was HlorEed WITH
/ fallen timber. No damnge wus uIrg Oh
sftff,t,fnr though Twelve vessels we're rff fuE