The Dickinson press., 1883-08-04

cost originally $4,000.
Capt. James Dalton. who spared with
Paddy Ryan at the recent exhibition in st.
Paul, has issued achallenge Offering to fight
Prof. Donaldson of Minneapolis either for
$1,000 a side, according to the London
prize ring rules, or for a hurd glove contest
Tor from $500 to 81, 900, according to the
Marquis of Queensbury rules.
G. A. De Graft of Evansville offers q spe-
cial purse of 500 in cash and a suit of
clothes for any of the get of his celebrated
trotting stallion Alexander showing a mile
in $50 over the Rochester track at the fair
of the Southern Minnesota Fair association,
Sept. 10 to Is.
The winners of the second days races of
the July meeting at Beacon Park, Boston,
were Ella Doe, in the 1:2S class; best time,
2::2334; and Florence Jefferson, in the 2::38
Glass;: best time, 2:283.
Information has been received at the
Vatican from New York that the Catholic
clergy of the United States will follow the
instructions of the pope in regard to Parn-
ell and his followers.
532, an increase of lac, 9904 acres over that
" 1000 4 AuoV yOUA . ACpOAS W0oA
With Q corporals guard of operators, the
Western Union everywhere reports a heavy
business promptly done.
The Duluth opera house will be opened
by the Emma Abbott opera company Sept.
Bradstreet reports 1853 failures in the
United States during the past month.
THE CRIMINAL RECORD.
Mortimer Grogan was killed in 81. Paul
on the 2Sth by George Gundlach, a young
man about twenty years OF age. The MUIR
der occurred at the corner OF G1eenbrier and
Farquier streets, and grew out of a family
quarrel. Gundlach's father was building q
ence between the premises owned by him
and Grogan. The latter assaulte d the old
man with a %pickhandle, when George threw
q Ratchet at him, striking him in the throat.
Both father and son were arrested.
A shocking outrage was perpetrated in
Oberlin, Ohio, by three burly colored men,
the victim being a young girl named Rosa
Dem, also colored, who lives about two
miles west of town. The brutes, James
Stone, William Craig, and James Qninn,
caught the girl, who IS but fourteen years
of age, as she was returning to a livery sta
BILE q horse which she had hired, and drag
gipg her inside the stable frequently VIC.
lated her person.
The Eldridge mansion at Norfolk, Conn.,,
was robbed recently, of upward of "a 600
worth of diamonds, jewelry, gold and green
backs, while the family, consisting OF DR..
Joseph B. Eldridge and his four sisters
were attending a concert at the Congrega-
tional church, situated within a dozen rods
of their home.
E. d. Shatto, alias Ed Shears, who muir
dered a former pal named knight at Oma-
La on the 5th of July, was arrested at Fsfr-
mont, Dakota oounty, Mimi, and taken
back to Omaha for trial. Shatto's discovery
and arrest was made by Officer O'Connor of
the st. Paul force.
Mr.. j. N. Ham of Savannah Ca, was shot
dead OF the Goth by his cousin, Charles
Wright. who is only eighteen years old,
near Savannah. The murder has excited
much indignation and the neighbors are in
search of the assassin for the purpose of
lynching him.
In al affray which occurred between DR..
B. W. Good, of Hot Springs (Ark.) druggist
and his clerk, Reese Blades, the latter
seized a weight, when Good drew a revolver
and fred three times, each shot taking eff
feet. Blades condition is critical. The
quarrel was about a business settlement.
At the preliminary examination OF Mrs.
Edna Hall for the murder of her husband,
Goal Oil Johnny" at Terre Haute Ind,
she was discharged from custody, on the
ground of emotional insanity. She killed
her husband in a bagnio while he was in
bed with an inmate.
The man Conklin in Jail in Brainerd for
robbery, is wanted for robbery in Chip
pewa Falls, Wis. It is also believed That
Conklin was in a heavy robbery at Winni-
peg recently, the haul being So, 800, concern.
ing which Sheriff Mertz has written the au-
thorities.
The United States grand jury at San Fran
cisco has unearthed an opium smuggling
scheme managed by James Harkins.. a man
worth S., 600, and WHO learned how to
smuggle while serving as Storage steward
on a Chinese steamer.
Thomas Mcclure of Chicago, whose trial
for the murder of his mistress, Mrs. Mary
Little, three weeks ago, was to have begun
on the 24th inst, cut his throat with a knife
in his cell on the morning OF that day, and
will likely die.
Rev. James Watson a Presbyterian minis.
ter who recently arrived in Winnipeg, got
hilariously drunk and was quartered at the
police station.
In a street fight between Samuel Rhodes
and Richard Houghton. prominent citizens
of Bloomington, I'LL, Rhodes was fatally
shot.
Physical suffering drove J.. E.. Philbrook
of Minneapolis to insanity and suicide.