Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-04-10

Seven persons were reported killed and twen-
ty-fye seriously injured by q railway accident
on the Texas Pacific, in Texas, on the 5tb.
VIM. Proctor, senior mefnber OF the Brm Of
Proctor Gamble, soap manufacturers Of Gin.
cinnati, died ON the 4th. He was IS years Of
age.
An express train WAS thrown from the track
near Wales Station. Can, on the 4th, and tbe
engineer killed. The fireman Was fatally hurt.
Alfred w. Burnett, a well-known humorist
and caricaturist, died at Cincinnati, on the 4th.
aged GO years.
Two colts, valued at 5000, belonging to j. L
Case, Of Racine, Wis, we're killed by the cars
| on the 4th.
Paymaster Brodhead, of the q. s. army, who
| recently became insane because Of q theft OF
money in his charge, died at Boston, on the Sd
| inst.
An unknown man was struck and killed by
the cars on the st. Paul road at tho Town OF
Lake, near Milwaukee, on the 4th inst.
Buffalo gnats are killing stock in the over
flowed districts Of the lower Mississippi Valley.
A. Tsl%oner, Of Chicago, Frank Bosailton,
blasting accident at Port Arthur, on the Cana.
dian Pacific Railroad on the Cd inst.
train on the Louisville 4 Nashville road ran
through an open switch near Belleville H., on
| the Sd inst. One person was killed and twenty
six injured.
A boiler on the marine drydock, New Orleans.
L
Matthews, the engineer. Several workmeu
| were blown into the river and more or less in.
jured.
The residence of William Muirhead at Cart.
| wright, Ont, burned on the Sd. Mrs Muir.
head persisted.
Seven Austro-P Polanders, looking for work
were struck by a backing engine near Scranton
Pa, on the Sd. Five were killed, one lost an
arm and one was unhurt. Dismembered heads
| and limbs were scattered over the road TO,
| many rods around.
William Barnett, aged 80, of Coitsville Town.
and instantly killed on the %. The only mari
on his body was a slight discoloration of the
| skin on the right temple.
A passenger train on the Alabama 4 Grea,
Southern Railway was wrecked thirty miles from
Chattanooga, on the night of the 1st A fire.
man named Brown was killed and an engine
and two cars demolished.
Twenty-nine United States prisoners were
transferred from Ft. Smith, Ark, to the house
of correction at Detroit, Mich, on the I'd inst,
At the Milwaukee election, on the 1st, Emil
Wallber was elected mayor, Ferd. Kuehn comp
troller, VIM: Mayworm city treasurer, Robert
Luscombe city attorney. The common council
| is Republican.
Joseph Luckenbach, was seriously injured at
the Lehigh university, Easton, Pa, in the
| gymnasium, and died on the 1st in great
| agony. ass
An engine jumped the track near Rupert,
VT, on the 31st ult., killing the engineer and
| severely injuring two others.
| Peter Carrigan. a boss brick-layer, fell from
the new Board of Trade building at Chicago on
| the morning of the 31st, and was instantly killed
Edward J. Bennett, the Milwaukee fire bug,
| was sentenced to six years in the state prison
at Waupun, on the 30th.
Michael Tracy and VIM. McGraw, under ar
rest for committing deadly assault upon
James O'Neil and John Haggerty, at Water
town, were held in the circuit court in the sum
| Of $500, on the 31st.