The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-09
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Collector Greene, at Kansas Citv Ma.
souri,, whose accounts have been in con,,s..
OF investigation for several davs past I'm.
resigned, to the surprise Of everybody.
Walter Upton, wagon-maker at Ficl,,.
ng, struck man named Dutch Pete'' or,
the head in his shop with Il hammer, Mon.
day iracturlng his skull. lie was arrested.
A brakeman named Henry Brown rus,-
nlng on the freight due in Rock Island tht
other evening, on the Chicago, BurlingtsI,
" quincy railroad, was run over and killer
near Monmouth Monday.
Lutte Craig, farmer living near Chutu,,,
Illinois, while working with a corn.shellor
met with serious accident the other aftg.r.
noon, by which he had his arm run 4 rourti
the cog wheels and mashed almost 10 !,
Jelly.
In attempting to jump on moving tr,au
IN the Wabash yards ut Danylle, lllin0is
Monday morning, John W. Roberts fell he
tween the cars and was instantly killed, his
head being cut entirely oil. He was "a
years Old, and leaves wife and one chill,
lie moved there only u short time ago Cor
Donovan. Illinois
AT Thorntown, Indiana, the other, even
lng, the dead body ofa young man namcA
Millken was found. Wounds indicated
that he had been stabbed to death, and
another man named Nixon, with whom The
deceased had had u difficulty, was ARRESTED
and locked up as the party whe did thp
stabbingi Nixon admitted the charge. hui
insisted that his act was In self-deiense.
George Holiday, who was shot In n ban
ber.sbop in Eilingham, Illinois, on Friday
night last, to the surprise of every one, X
sun awe, and hopes are entertained thai
he may yet recover, although Il Is doubtful,
| lie Row claims that he was shot by James
carney, the foreman OF the shop where il
occurred. This, however, IL doubted Inv
many aud the matter is still cnshrouded In
great mystery.
Considerable stock has been killed and
driven OH within ihc past week from tim
vicinity OF French Bottom, a few miles
north of 81 Joe, Missouri. John Lowe
letto and Eugene Boauprcst have each lost
liNc horses by some brute shooting thcm.
anu George Beatlie several fine head of cat.
Tie. Fully dozen head Of stock have heer
shot in that vicinity during the past ton
days, No reason other than pure mean
ness is assigned.
The Canadian commissioner of ousto,,.
with two secretaries Of the Department
dave begun u hearing in Montreal for rs
purpose OF inqniring into charges preferred
against the Pullman palace car oomnnpy
OF violating customs laws by the imnort,.
ton into Canada from the States, withoUt
payment OF duty, Of large quantities a
valuable goods, IN the shape OF repairs and
inrniShings.put into their cars.
The other morning a miner named 1Jobn
Shire received injuries in a mine on thu
Paxton land near Joplin, Missouri. which
may prove fatal. He was In q drift, and
while M the act Of moving car of wash
Al If IiN ltun ala ts.a..
earth aud stones fell from the top, strikinr
him on the back, inluring his spine and
lungs, also inilictinga large scalp wound'
nr Price was called, and succeeded In
allevlatlhg the poor fellows misery 20
great extent.
had shooting scrapc occurred IN Mon.
rocvillc, four miles west Of Norwalk, Ohio
"Wednesday night. Hudson sheldon nnd
George Letchet, both half drunk, got into
dispute over game Of pool. Sheldon drew
revolver and shot Letchct in the head.
inc pau, irom 32-calibre cartridge, passed
INTO The skull Just below the car, and ~
lodged out Of reach. Lctchct still lives but
the wound Is probably fatal. sheldon i'm.
mediatcly absconded, bu, was caught ths
next morning. He waived examination ane
was released ON bail.
Robert Ross, who last August Killed
Henry Bunch, was couple Of DAYS ago nj
Memphis, Tennessee, sentenced BY .iudrs
Horrigan TO be hung April eth When
asked why the sentence Of death should nol
be pronounced, Ross rose up In his scnf
and, holding up his right hand, appealed
TO heaven, saying that he was innocent si
the murder. lie said there was n general
free fight in progress at Bunch's saloon
when the killing occurred, but that he did
not do Il, nor does he know who did.
The other morning news came from Hons
ton, Iowa, q village on the Lexinrtpr
Branch railroad, that G. +. Davis, a w.l
known farmer, had been found dead In his
bed on Srnday morning. Davis started era
ON big spree last Monday morning. Hs.
staid In his room during the entire wees
and drank whisky all the time. ON Saiur-
day night he told his wife he was going 50,
take small dose OF laudanum 20 aid him,
in getting over the effects OF his long d.
bauch. At o'clock on Sunday mornira
his wife went into his room 10 see how 10
was getting along and found Davis cold ami
dead, with an empty bottle OF laudanuu, Nv
his side. II is supposed that he took an
overdose OF thedrug, though he has of,prs.