Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1883-10-24
THE NEWS.

Gerald Massey, the English poet, ar,
rived at New York Friday
Stephen NJ. Edgell, leading st. Loui,
business man, died Friday, aged 73
Mrs. William McGeoch. mother of tn,
well-known speculator, Peter McGeoch
died Friday at Tomah, Wis.
Henry Gwinner, President of the Ma
tional Railroad Publication Company, com
mitted suicide Friday evening at New
York.
Sumner osgood and his wife. an-sged
couple, were suffocated by coal gas at Hol-
land Patent. n. y. Thursday night.
The new contrilto, whom Mapl ,son is
credited with asserting is Miss Carey,
successor, is Josephine Yorke, of Cincin.
natl.
Fire at st. George, N. b., Friday, con.
sumed the telegraph and postofflce, the
Baptist Church, and other structures.
Loss, about s25, 900.
At Homer, H., Thursday morning five
manufacturing establishments were de-
stroyed by fire, causing $4,000 loss, with
no insurance.
Since the arrest of Holmes aud Braeken,
the alleged dynamiters, at Halifax, the six
British war ships in the harbor are careful
ly guarded particularly at night, when
boats, wCll manned, are placed around the
ships. ....
Judge McCrary, in the United States
Circuit Court at Des Moines, Saturday,
| rendered decision in the case of Cook vs..
The Estate of b. +. Allen, awarding Cook
$4,000. The case will be carried TO the
United States Supreme Court.
Near Fort Gaines, Ga, Thursday, b. A.
Jester and b. +. Hudspeth. between whom
! there WAS an old feud, met and renewed
their quarrel. resulting in Jester being
shot in the head, and Hudspeth stabbed
twice, dying instantly. .....
Colonel Clark, of the LOUISVILLE Jockey
Club, has called meeting of the Southern
and Western Associations fer Nov. Il next
in Louisville, TO consider the adoption of
uniform weights and rules, and other mat
ters which will tend to promote the inter
ests of the turf.
Edward Hovey, who killed his sister in
law, Fanny Vermilye, WAS executed in
the Tombs Prison. New York, Friday
morning. He was virtually carried to the
scaffold, and presented picture of de-
spair. He was pinioned, the moose adjust
ed, the black cap drawn, and hanged in
few seconds.
Sixteen banks have signed paper grant
ing an extention to d. Morrice & Co., of
Montreal.
w. F. Otis, for forty years prominent in
the grain business Mt Cleveland, Ohio,
died Thursday.
Al Leavenworth, Kan, Thursday the
United States Grand Jury found true
bill against Oklahoma Payne.
The National Carriage Builders Associa-
ton, i'll session at New Haven, voted de-
cisiyely Thursday against free trade.
Mary C. Johnson, wife of the temper
ance lecturer, Eli johnson, was granted a
divorce in Brooklyn, Thursday on the
ground of her husbands adultery.
The schooner Cohen and barge Holland
parted in gale in Lake Erie Wednesday
night, and it is feared the Cohen and her
crew went to the bottom.
Wednesday the lower house of the WASH
ington Territory Legislature, by vote of
IA to Z, passed bill giving women the
right of suffrage on an equality with men.
A committee reported to Shaw & Bros.
creditors at Boston Thursday that the firm
could pay ~ cents on dollar. The as
sets we're reported at S3,S56, 900 and the
liabilities S5,3i4,0 900.
The New Jersey Cloth and Converting
Company, with Offices at No. 194 Church
street, New York, was placed in the hands
Of receiver Thursday. The Liabilities
will exceed 100000.
William II. Vanderbilt has almost fully
recovered Thursday from the effects of his
collision and fall the previous day in Fleet
wood Park. Early Rose, which Mr.. Van
derbilt was driving at the time, was not
injured.
Thursday the Society of the Army of
the Tennessee decided to hold the next
meeting at Lake Minnetonka, near Mime
apolis. General Grant win be the orator
Of the occasion. General Sherman was
elected President.
Burglars entered Edward NcLaughlin's
house, near Joliet, Ill, Wednesday night,
and beat and tortured the proprietor and
his wife until they disclosed where 81 900
in gold was concealed, which the robbers
secured and departed
The trustees of the Garfield national
monument invite international competi-
ton, open to all artists, for designs for the
monument, which shall be on scale Of
about one-twentieth of the proposed size,
and subject to certain conditions
In the town Of Altata, Mexico, yellow
fever deaths have numbered twenty day
for two weeks. In addition to this horror,
hurricane struck the town on the 81 inst,
literally blowing 1t to pieces, the inhabit-
ants seeking shelter in the mountains.
The depot and machine sheds are the only
buildings now standing.
Creditors of the late Archbishop, Pur-
cell assembled in Cincinnati Thursday
night, and passed resolutions denouncing
the recent decision of the District Court,
asserting that the Judges were under cler-
ical influence, and actuated by political
motives. The assignee was requested TO
go to the Supreme Court
Holmes and Bracken, the men errosted
at Halifax Wednesday as being dynamiters,