The Dickinson press., 1883-09-15

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streets.
At Philadelphia, Henry Franks for con.
sp;rating with George W. Banking and
George Wesenser to obtain fraudulent pen.
sions was sentenced to three years and six
months in prison to pay a fine of $500 and
cost OF prosecution. Wesenser and Banking
was sentenced to two years in prison and
pay the cost of the trial. Moses HAMBURG
& Co, pawnbrokers, was held to bail ia
answer a charge of receiving pension cert,fi.
surrendered eighty-three certificates since
his arrest.
The body of Capt. J. n. Robertson wa
recently found in a thicket on Deer Greek
in Sharkey county, Miss, horribly mutila-
ted and half eaten by buzzards. Some
years ago he KILLED Judge E. W. Clarke OF
of Sharkey comfy. In 1871 he shot and
killed a notorious character named Hugh
Carson, and it is understood, had othe,
shooting ARRAYS growing out of his action
as sheriff of Sharkey county in his efforts
o M AXE arrests.
Will E. Halen, a we'll known young bust.
ness mar of Omaha, has been arrested on q
charge of setting fire 10 his bookstore. The
fire wa discovered at the start and early ex.
tinguished, Several short-lighed candles
were found burning near the starting place
of the fire, and piled around them were pa.
per boxes, shavings, etc., saturated with
coal oil.
Gov. Knott of Kentucky has designated
Oct. IL as the day for the execution of Graft
twice found guilty of the horrible outrage
and murder otthe Gibbons children at Ash.
land. The court OF appsals refused to
grant a new trial, and Craft will have to
follow Bill Ellis, his companion in crime,
who confessed and was hung by a mob.
William Neal, a third party, awaits trial.
George Meigs and Jason Kidder of Fri
berg INDUCED in a shooting match at the
beaver dam al Wolflake. The result was a
sprinklipg of the face and neck of Kidder
with small shot. Cause of shooting un-
known. Both parties are yet quite
youthful and said to be hard cit.
liens.
A colored mob at Usage City attacked
Constable Krantz and his deputy recently,
who had charge of a colored man named
Mingo, who stabbed q man named Whittier,
and, getting Mingo away from them, stab
Mingo was taken to Jefferson City.
The divorced wife of Humphrey Eustis OF
Moorhead, after q separation of several
years, has returned and now clsims to be
the wife of DIR. John Kurtz, one ofthe lead
ing physicians of that place. The doc or is
a trip 10 Montana, but 1t is believed the
woman is a party - matchmaking scheme
Considerable excitement was caused in
Duluth, MIMI, recently, by the arrest by
Deputy United States Marshall Bracket of
Charles Chambers n Francis Walters,
both quite well known, for passing counter
felt $40 and $40 silver certificates.
At Caldwell, Ohio, a tew.days ago. Joseph
Pero, an Italian railroad boss, killed Will
liam Brown. a railroad laborcr who at
tackled him while drunk. Pero used a PTS.
toll.
Constantine Mundi, confined in the Stan
ford, KY, Jail for wife murder, hanged him
self on the Sth inst. The murder was a hor-
rible one, the woman's throat being cut
from ear to car with a Ratchet.
Ben Gerry, shot at a camp on the Iron
Range railway by Teddy Austin, died at
the hospital, at Dubuque.
At Nantucket Beech, near Boston, ten
ladies and gentlemen in a stage coach were
Waylaid n robbed.
The Casualties of the Week.
NJ. B. Lees steam saw mill, located three
miles :rest of Rush City, caught fire and
burned down. Loss, $4,000; insurance ST.
500, on mill and machinery with Marine
OF st. Paul. 1t is not known how the fire
Just outside of the village the
farm house of Dan McCloud, with contents,
was burned to the ground. It caught IN
the roof. The loss is total, with $500 insur-
ance in the st. Paul Fire & Marine.
A alan was killed at Frontenac on the
4ih. He was running on top otthe box
cars when he slipped, falling between two
cars, and was terribly maagled. From pa.
pers on his person it appears that his name
is George Close, and his parents live in
Kansas. He bad been working in Wnona
county during harvest, ent his valise by
express to st. Paul, and was enjoying a free
ride in a coal car.
A boiler used by contractors building a
bridge at Heirs island. a short distance
from Allegheny City, Pa, recently exploded
with terrific force. scattering debris and
hot water in all directions. Five men, three
OF them Hungarians and two Irish, who
were at work at the time, were all more or
less injured by being scalded or hit with
flying debris.
The pork house of F. A. Smith al Mum
louisville, KY, was burned on the 10Th
together with a freight depot, W. d. Logs
don's saloon and W. III. Williams black
smith shop. Loss, $1,000; insurance $l5,-
800.
Two servant girls of the Sunnyside hotel
at jamestown went out in a rowboat on
Long Island Souno, recently, and were car
ried out of sight of lard, sni were tossed
about by the waves all night.
By explosion of gas at the Fair Lawn
mine, near Scranton, Pa, recently, Daniel
SURVIVE, secretary and treasurer of the Fair
Lawn Coal company, and d. G. Blackwood
were fatally injured.
Mrs. Julia ]. P. Smith, a novelist. was
killed at her summer residence, New Hart.
ford, Conn.,, recently. She was driving
with her husband, when the horse ran away.
.R. M. Du Rell & Co.'s grocery store in
Butte, Mont, has been burned. The loss is
So, AGO, covered by insurance. The stock
was under assignment.
Alleged accidental shooting by a room
mate laid up a Minneapolis, Mimi, young
man with a bullet iu his bowels.
The recent storm on the Atlantic has
caused q fish famine in Boston and New
YORK.
Personal News Paragraphs.
There is now good ground for believing
thai the reason Lord Chief Justice Coler
edge decided to abandon his visit to Canada
is because of the fear that he would be as
%sassinated by Fenians. 1t is known at To
ronto that the British government has sus
pected this and acted accordingly. Thi