Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1883-07-18

Moses Marston, professor Of English
literature In the university Of Minnesota.
died from blood poisoning. caused by
crushing his thumb with weight attached
to a hitching strap.
Two hundred assisted emigrants reached
Boston dy the steamer Austrian. None OF
them are OF the pauper class, most OF
them haveinng money to reach points in
the western states.
| Bodwin college has reluctantly accept
cd the resignation Of president Chamber
lain, and will probably call TO the vacant
post Rev. DIR. E. C, Smyth, of Andover
Theological seminary.
President Soto. Of Honduras, is expect
ed in Chicago, with several members OF
his cabinet. He will be invited to visit
the board of trade and viii be enteria'ngd
by the produce exchange.
The Minneapolis lady who abducted her
grown daughter at Syracuse is Mrs. A. &.
Williams, and her only intention was to
prevent marriage which she opposed.
The girl owns considerable property in
La Crosse.
Two young men Of Woodstock, Ga,
were such desperate rivals for the hand of
lady that n duel bacame the only means
of settling their trouble. Bowie knives were
selected as the weapons, and Mount Car
mel graveyard us the place. Principals and
second We're on time. but soon became in
volved in fist-6ght and broke up in dis
order.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
has adopted rule that a days work is nine
hours actual service, without Sunday Ia
Dor, or seven hours labor at night, Sun
days included. all service in excess TO be
paid for as extra.
DR.. Paaren the state veterinary surgeon
Of Illinois, finds numerous cases of CLAN
ders in Whiteside county, but the owners
Of horses question his right to have them
killed, and he has gone to Spr ingtieid TO
consult the attorney general.
Gladstone informed the members of
the house of commons that the government
awaited apologies from France for the ban
ishment of the invalid Britt sh consul from
Tamatave, which resulted in his speedy
death; for stopping communication be-
tween the man-of-war Dryad and the
shore, and for the continued imprisonment
of an English missionary named Shaw.
An excursion train filed with Free Ma
sons from Titasville Pa. colided with a
train near jamestown, New York. Con-
ductor Gates and Breakman Colby, Of the
latter train were killed. Gates had orders
in his pocket to wait for the excursion.
Fiyearchbishops and one hundred priests
participated in the obsequis Of archbishop
| Purcell at Cincinnati. The face of the
dead was visible Mt the assembhge. Bish,
| op Gilmour delivered the euiogy. The
remains were taken to st. Martins for in,
termont.
The provision firm of Stiles, Goldy &
McMahan, of Chicago, suspended. The
junior partner attached the packing house
Sabaia, Iowa, which contains / 900, COG lbs
of meat, in behalf of the First National
bank of Lyons, Iowa. The firm made an
assignment 20 William Jones, and it's lia-
bihties are believed to be about $l50,000.
Cholera developed Monday at Palma
Majonica, France, and many families are
fleeing thence to Spain. Corodons around
the infected districts Of Paris have all been
abandoned and the disease seems beyond
control. At Alexandria, the much dreaded
cholera is rapidly spreading. Alexandria
is to be isolated and every effort made to
prevent infection from entering the city.
Mondays deaths were twenty eight at
Damietta, thirty eight at Mansrlrah aud
twenty five at Samanoad, a total os ninety
one deaths in those three places.
z. n. Sackett, a leading lawyer Of Erie,
Pa, was on the train bound for New York,
when he was ordered by tive detectives to
surrender or be killed. They Were in
search of California bank defaulter, and
he partially answered the description. He
took them for wags, and struck them, when
he was handcuffed and taken to station
house, where he remained several hours be-
fore he could prove his identity.
The telegraphers strike, threatened
yesterday, has at last come TO focus, and
general strike at New York has been in
stituted. The officers of the Western
Union telegraph company will consider
the operators memorials tomorrow. In
the meantime much trouble in getting
news reports, is anticipated. All the met
ropolitan newspapers are giving consider.
able space to the discussion Of the situa
ton. Their general tenor is mildly con.
demning the action of the operators. Tel
egraphers' Commercial Advertiser sayi
that the Last development is that ,spec
ulators are offering money to operators tC
strike