The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-20
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- About 0 O'Clock Wednesday morning
i,anlel y Bricn, while under the influence
OF liquor, entered the Quincy House, at
Quincy Illinois, and began disturbance.
me clerk ordered him out, and ON his re-
lusing to 20, he called upon the colored
porter, George Cooper, to eject him.
Assisted by colored hack-dryer named
1llicy, Cooper put him out on the street.
hight cnsued, when Cooper cut OiBrien
severa! gashes the length of the face. The
wounds are serious, but not necessarily IA
tal unless Inflammation sets in. Cooper
was arrested, acknowledged the cutting and
bound over for assault with intent to kill.
a rather curious case, suggestive of the
middle ages, has come tn light In Shawano,
Wisconsin. A man from the adjacent
county was put under bonds TO keep the
peace on account of an attempt TO mutilate
an old lady, whom he believed witch.
lie offered IN defense the fact that she had
newltched his cattle, and had at sundry
umes entered his domicilc through the
chimney and the keyhole contrary to his
Wlsh, and to his great terror and distress.
William Olstcn, section boss of the Vicks-
burg, Shreveport IL Pacific Railroad, was
shot Monday night at Tallulah. Louisiana.
by John Nayburg clerk in the commissa,
ry. department Of the road The difficulty
originated IN dispute ns to the ownership
Ola bottle of bitters. Mayburg fired three
times at Olsten the first shot taking effect
III The neck, the second in the right arm
and the third gruzed the forehead. Tho
wound in the neck is considered fatal.
ON December 18th ult., the store of p. II.
Larkin,. at White Hall, Illinois was
bnrgarized and several hundred dollars
ot goods taken out On Tuesday last
man named Crosby, in the northern
bart ol calhoun county, in same
State, was robbed of about 800, man
py the name OF sherman has been arrested,
also one Cox, at White Hall, as the guilty
parties. The latter has confessed the crime.
The body of Emmett Thomas at ST. Fran.
cisville, Illinois, was exhumed, AT The 70.
guest of relatives, the other day. and three
bullets were taken from the corpse. Two
men present, Barnett and Paths, were ar
rested rs his murdcrcrs. The murder oc.
Cured about Christmas last.
A young man at Sedalia, Missouri, who
picked up apocket-boob he had observed
another TO drop, but said nothing TO the
loser, and spent n portion of the money,
was on the 18th inst, convicted of theft md
hned 500 and sentenced to six months im-
prisonment. His name was Conroy,
west-bound freight ON the Sheboygan
~ western Hallway, twenty miles from
broken rail and dumped the caboose which
was demolished Nine persons were aboard
most Of whom were injured, hut none
seriously. '
August Fischer, the West Side, Milwau.
kce maciinis,, whore skull was split with
nn axe several days before Christmas by his
insane WIFE died from the effects of his in.
lurles wednesday, at his home on Tenth
street, between Nsrth and Lee streets.
In the District Court of Albcr Lea, Min
nesota, Tuesday, Theodore Tyrcr, against
whom the Grand Jury recently found ton
indictments pleaded guilty to all of said in
ulctments' when he, was remandsd to Jail TO
await sentence by the Judge.
Five prisoners escaped from the county
jail IN Carthage Missouri, last Tuesday
night. Three Of them were recapturcd by
The officers IN pursuit. The delivery was
effected by saving oil one bar In each cell
where the prisoners were confined
A man named Welsh fell under n Fioh
street cur Tuesday night, nj SPRINGFIELD
Illinois. and had one Of his legs crushed In
terrible manner, nccessitaiing ampua.
tion.
word was received at Fall River. Massa.
chusetts, The other day, that Mr.. Arthur
haI refused to pardon James W. wilus, dc.
faulting teller Of the Pocasset Bank,
Marshal Shaw. who killed his brother on
January |, near 0lney. Missouri, was ac.
Quilted, q couple OF days since, on the
ground OF selfdofense.
James Cooper and Bert Hnkle were sen.
fenced TO two years each IN the penitentiary
grand larceny.
Mclean, charged with violations Of the
prohibition law In Fredonia, Kansas, has
succeeded In getting two hung juries