Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-10-04
Minor Mention.

The Bay State Cattle Company has purchased
the Creighton herd and ranch in Nebraska for
100000.
The elopement Of 17-year-old lad with a
young lady creates quite stir in Newark, N.
j., society circles.
meeting of a branch Of the salvation Army
at New Brunswick, N. J., on the 29th, broke up
10 row, in which the lights were put out and
some revolver practice indulged in. No one
was hurt.
An oil tank, the property of the Kings Coun-
ty Oil Company, at New York, exploded on the
30th. The tank had capacity OF 81, 900 bar
rels, but was not full at the time. Loss $780,
600.
Albert Taft, prominent citizen of Burlng-
ton, Va, was suffocated by escaping gas at that
place on the night of the 29th. while asleep.
Gen. Hancock il reported seriously i'll at his
quarters on Governor's Island, New York har-
Dor.
Three men were killed by railroad collision
near shakopee, Mimi, on the 2sth.
freight train ou the Pittsburg and West
| ern Railrond went through trestle near Ship
pensville. Pa, on the 2Sth, killing brakeman
| and lniuring three other men.
In the burning Of the house of one Britton,
| at bloomington, ILL.,, on the 2Stb, Brittop's
| mother, an old lady, was burned to DEATH
She was lame. and SO heavy she could not be
rescued.
l.. Degine, manager of Degine's Opera
stlgation of W. D. Moore, colored, who was
elected from the house for persisting in sitting
| with white people.
commission dealer named C. FL, Dewey
who has been doing business in Montreal for
| the past six months, after raising some S1OO
600 on forged bills of lading, slipped ont on
the. 9th, leaving the banks to whistle for
| their money.
On the morning of the 9th the mangled
remains OF James McGoff, an engineer of the
Nashville and Decatur Road, were found on
the track at Nashville.
| dispatch of the 2irh saws the steamer Rot
| terdam has been wrecked on the coast of Zea-
| land Her passengers aud crew are saved,
Chalmers Ingersoll, Of the Belot Free Press,
has been appointed postmaster of that city.
At the New York Museum on the 26th a
marriage ceremony was performed, the con-
weighing 80 pounds, and the fat girl, whose
fairy-like figure tips the beam al SIS ayerdu-
pois.
During fire at Heustis & Co.'s collar manu-
factory, New York, on the Goth, one fireman
was Killed and several others injured.
Maggie Cunningham and Ida Olson, two
young ladies, were drowned at Downsville,
WIS.,. on the evening of the 2Sth. They we're
crossing the river by rope ferry, and the
ferryman not understanding the arrangement
Of the apparatus, the boat swamped in mid
river.
John and Nicholas stoal and 14.vear-old
boy were killed by Michigan Central engine
at Detroit on the 25th. =
James t. Kay was killed by an elevator in the
store of Lehman d Kinsman, Chicago, on the
Oath.
Albert Richards, aged 4years, son of Dane
County, Wis, farmer, tumbled from rail
fence on the morning OF the 25th and was killed
by a loose rail which fell across his throat
collision of the Toledo, Cincinnati and st.
Louis Narrow Gauge line near Stewardson, H.,
on the 25th threw caboose Off a trustle dis
tance Of sixty feet, killing Brock Jamison and
Sam Stone, sons of prominent farmers in Oco-
nee. Ill.
Tho Brazilian Company's submarine cable
in the South Atlantic has suddenly become
useless.
1t is reported that amicable relations have
been restored between France and the Vatican.