Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-06-19
Minor Mention.


q saw mill at Oshkosh, on the 14th.
While playing with an electric light wire at
Cincinnati, on the evening of the l4th, u boy
named Emil Schultheiss received shock
from which he died in a short time.
A dispatch of the 18th says the Tichborne
claimant is to be released on ticket-of-l leave.
The National Commercial Travellers AS
sociation held its annual session at Detroit on
the 18th inst. The officers of last year were re-
elected.
An explosion at Loomis' Mill, near Little
Rock, Ark, on the 18th, destroyed the building
and killed two men.
ONE of the mills Of the Miami! Powder Com
pany, at Xenia, O.. exploded on the 18th. One
man was fatally injured.
Heavy rains in the Allegheny Valley, on the
18th. caused disastrous flood.
Hester Clymer. ex-member of Congress from
the Berbs District, Pennsylvania, died on the
18th, aged 81.
James Quiilan, an employe in brewery at
Newburg, N. Y, was killed on the 18th inst,
by the explosion of beer barrel.
James Manning, an old man, was struck by
locomotive and killed near Dayton, O., on the
12th inst. On the same day Michael Miskor-
tai, employed III stone quarry, in the vicinity,
was crushed by fall of rock.
Geo. W. Freeman, G.. Merkle, Marks Cald-
well and Gardner Caldwell were swamped in a
boat while trying to run through the rapids on
Spokane River, on the 1lth inst. Gardner
CalQWell Was uroWueu, Dut tue Otntf tnree were
thrown upon drift by the swift current after
they had been thoroughly chilled and exhaust
ed.
A dispatch of the 18th says: English officers
are resigring from the Egyptian army owing
to the cowardice of the native officers.
Wm. s. Morgan, the defaulting agent Of the
New York banking house of Putnam & Earl
was sent up for three years at Hartford on the
| 18th inst.
Isaac A. Stanley, paying teller Of the Cleve
| land National Bank of Commerce. was arrested
on the 11th, charged with embezzling $780,,
| 900 from the institution.
Hubbard, the defaulting Monmouth ILL.,
bank cashier, has been admitted to bail in the
sum of $40, 600.
Boston dispatch of tho 10th says Tilden G.
Abbott, the desa., ,lhng cashier of the Watertow1
Bank. has been sentenced for term of eigh
I years.
Mrs. Simeon Mills, Madison, Wis.,, pioneer
| died on the 10th, aged SO years.
| A dispatch from st. Johns, N. f., of the 10th
reports that the schooner Six Brothers was loe
at Baccalew. Her captain and thirteen mer
were drowned.
Fifteen kegs of powder exploded in mine a.
| Inman, Tenn, on tho 10th. Two men were
killed and five mortally wounded.
Deeds of Blood.
The skeleton of boy was found in pond a.
Avondale, O., on the l4th, with rope around
the neck and a stone tied to the rope. No clue
to his Identity.
George Hughes, clerk of the Central Hotel
at Bardstown, KY, was fatally shot by desper
ate negro on the 18th.
Alex. Jefferson, who murdered Miss Emms
Jackson and Henry Hicks at New York, wal
sentenced on the 18th to be hanged on the 1st
of August.
B. F. Stone, manufacturer of carriage trim
| mlngs, Baltimore, suicided on the 18th inst
He was so years old.
A colored Cuban named Recio, was hanged
for murder at Key West, Fla, on the 13tt
| inst. His victim was also Cuban.
At Searle, Ala, on the 18th inst, Lewelle1
Robinson, a negro, was hanged for the murder
| Of another negro.
young man named Marshalek, committed
suicide by hanging, at Tisch Mills, Kewaunet
County, Wis, on the 18th inst.
| A desperate named Lloyd Ford was killed
| in political row at New Albany, MISS, on the
| 18th inst.
An expressman named Fred Osdell, aged sc
years, and q young man whose name is unknown
were burned to death il q barn at Chicago, Oh
the 11th inst. The fire was the work Of an in.
cepdiary.
The negro boy who shot lad named Os
rorne, while strawberrying near Castlewood
Va, was taken from jail, on the night of the
10th, and hanged by mob.
pauper in the Erie County (Pa.) Aims.
house became demented, on the 10th, rushed
| to the highest part Of the building and jumped
| off, striking almost 100 feet below. His neck
was broken.
Gen. Abe Buford, of Kentucky, committed
| suicide by shooting on the 10th inst. at Dan
| vile, Ind, where he was visiting his nephew
The crime was brought about by fnancia
| troubles and the unpleasant notoriety caused
by the murder of Judge Elliott by Tom Du
ford, bis brother.
The body of Mrs. Fox, who disappeared mys
teriously from her home at Auburii, Fond dr
Lac County, some time ago, was recovered
from a swamp in that vicinity, on the 9th inst
Her husband is under arrest.