Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1883-09-26
THE NEWS.

Narengo, ILL.,, had a 500 900 blaze Sun
day morning; iniuranee, $1,000
st. Julien and Jay Eye See will trot for
purse OF 5000 on the Morrisania track
Sept. 90
In the hop district Of Ontario the crop
this year will be considerable short of last
seasons yield.
Fifteen coal miners We're killed near
unna, Westphalia, Thursday, by fire.
damp explosion
seth Barton French gave grand dinner
at Newport, Thursday evening. in honor
Of President Arthur.
At trial before st. Paul und) Justice
Of the Peace Thursday james McCool
mortally shot Silas Favors and escaped.
Nelson Lyons furniture factory at Al.
bany, N. Y, Was consumed Thursday, en-.
failing a loss Of about s65,0OO.
The international and Northern Tele-
graph Company, with a capital of s., ,OOO,-
600, was incorporated Thursday, at Al
bany, n. Y.
Urged only by word Of mouth. Jay Eye
See trotted mile on Mystic Park, Boston.
Thursday, in 2:ll}-the best time ever
made on the track
The colored Foreign Mission Conven-
tion of the United States assembled Thurs
day at Manchester, Va, and appointed
four missionaries for Africa.
The remains Of Junius Brutus Booth
the actor, was inferred Thursday IN Rose
dale Cemetery at Manchester, Mass. The
funeral was largely attended.
A message brought by the Bark Thyra,
from Nordenskjold, the Arctic explorer,
was cabled from Philadelphia Thursday
to Sweden. The explorer left Ivigtut,
July 20. All We'll
President Rockafellar, OF the Standard
Oil Company, stated Thursday that his
corporation had no interest in or intention
of taking up Western lands for grazing
purposes.
The Sovereign Lodge of Odd Fellows,
in session at Providence, refused Thur
day TO eliminate the word white" from
their constitution. The lodge meets next
year in Minneapolis.
After on acrimonious debate Thrrsday,
tho NossonIucat.y prDl,;litinp,g4a l., ,,,-
yention at Boston, refused to indorse the
Republican nominee, and named Charles
Almy, of New Bedford, for Governor.
The new South and Central American
telegraph line to Brazil, via Galveston and
Valparaiso, was opened recently, upon
which occasion President Arthur sent u
fitting greeting to the Emperor Of Brazil.
The annual report of the Northern Pa
cifc Railroad Company shows net earn
ings amounting to S2,5l9, ,529. During the
year the proceeds from the land depart
ment, sales Of bonds and stocks, and loans
for construction reached S37 ,l2S 1879.
Mrs, Emma Fischer was arrested at
Cincinnati Wednesday night for poisoning
her husband who died suddenly Sept. s.
The woman and former employe Of
Fschers, with whom, it is alleged. she
Was infatuated, are in prison. Strychnia
was found in the stomach Of the deceased.
Between and o'clock Thursday after-
noon the boiler in the Hanging department
of the Sligo Iron Works, at Pittsburg, ex-
ploded, shattering the structure, and set
ting fire to block of buildings opposite
and TO the Lake Erie Railway ear shops.
In the debris were found eleven employees,
three of whom were dead, and eight badly
wounded, four fatally. Four children Of
Charles Douglass, residing in a house
across the street, were also seriously in
jured The shock Of the explosion was
felt throughout the city, many buildings
being shaken and windows smashed. The
loss to the mill l-owners is $4,000, and to
the Lake Erie Road and dwellings about
$4,000.