The Dickinson press., 1884-02-23
end railway bridge over tho Mississippi from

ond railway bridge over the Mississippi from
Rock Island to Davenport
The Green Bay, Winona l. St Paul has or
dered a q per cent reduction of wages on al
employees in the locomotive department of thu
road The reduction takes effect the LIST prox.
limo.
The official report of the Omaha for 1885
shows gross earnings of 80, o04, 05O, 90, and tax
cific, with headquarters at Portland, arrived in
st. Paul He will go west with Mr.. Muir and
party.
On the 18th inst. the party of commissioner
appointed by the Winona, Alma & North Wis
consin railway will start out from East Du-
bupue to condemn land for right of way,
where the owners have refused to soil on reas-
enable terms. All the land heretofore pur-
chased has been promptly paid for at ~satisfac-
tory prices.
A mixed train on the Southern Central drop
ped into the Seneca river at W~eedsport Floods
engineer; John Straight, fireman, and Timothy
K. Danahay, brakeman, were in the cab of the
engine ut the time and were drowned. The
engine went under water. The passenger car
rcmained on the track.
The Criminal Calendar.
Portland, Greg, is infested by IN organized
band of river pirates.
Mrs. Uhler, whose brother killed her para
mour, Haverstick, at New York, is dead.
Leander Anderson, charged with selling
liquor to Indians, was fined $25 by Judge Nell
son in the United States district court
Skilled cracksmen stole from the Office of DR..
tic collection in Ohio, embracing every coin is
sued by the United States except seven pieces.
The coroner's jury in the shooting Of gam
blers at Hot Springs, Ark, returned o verdict
that John Flynn came to his death at the hands
of Doran, the two Pruitts, Alison Howell. Lu-
cius flaming and Tom Dale.
A teamster named Robert Robertson entered
the room of Anna Ford, iii st. Louis, and COM
menced moving her furniture. Mrs. Ford,
with the aid of o colored man, elected Robert
son. The lattor got a knife and re-entered the
house. when the woman shot him twice, NOR
tally wounding him.
The Jury in the case of David o. Keller, pilot
Of the steamer Sciota, sunk by collision with
the JohnLomasJuly 4, 1882, at Wings junction,
the 18th returned q verdict in the United
States court at Petersburg, w. Va, of guilty
of voluntary maGslaughter, with a recommend
to mercy. Fifty-four lives were lost by this
famous collision.
miles from Matamoras, Mexico, between Gus
toms officers and guards and q gang of snug
glers, in which Maj. Palacias and one of his
men were badly wounded, two smugglers kill
ed, and several wounded. The rest of tho
%smugglers fled, leaving behind 5000 in dry
SSNS 0AA ~ hAAAc " L AoloSo u1o u
The Miles City Journal gives particulars of
the a%bsconding Of Sam Camp, leaving a large
number of creditors to mourn, among them the
laborers employed by him on the Tongue river
ditch, and Miles & Strevell, $12S.30; Leighton,
Jordan & Co., Si63,4 J. W. Watson, $3.50;
A w. Sleeper, $3.50, 81, making q total Of 81, OU2.
81 for merchandise.
Hon. James B. Davis, member of the Texas
legislature, in a wild frenzy supposed to have
been caused by excessive drink, escaped from
his rooin at the junction hotel, Whitesboro,
Tex, late Monday night, the 18th, with nothing
on his person but un~dergarments. Every ex-
ertion to find hin was without avail till Tues
day morning, when his body was discovereds stiff
in death, lying face down in the road a mile
south of town.
Jasper Shearen was shot and killed by his
cousin and brother-in-law, George w. Rawley,
in Boyle county, Ky. The killing originated in
q family fued, and was done in self-de-
a year ago, and recently met An ARRAY en-
sued in which Shearin was killed. The Rawley
family for the past thirty years have figured in
bloody affairs, in which no less than ten men
have been killed.
Recently the associated press sent out q re-
yigilants committee at Bassett was not Kid
Wade, the leader of the Nebraska horse thieves.
On the 18th the coroner's jury at Long Pine,
the county seat, declared it was Kid Wade.
The remains of the Kid were also identified by
the sheriff and others. The reign of terror
continues in the Niobrara country. Several
prominent citizens have been implicated by the
death confession of the Kid and have been no.
tilted by the yigilant committe to clear their
skirts Immediately or leave the country.
Sheriff Carter of Cherry county, Neb., was
recently notified by the vigilance committee to
claim he is in collision with the Nebraska
horse thieves beyond a doubt. Sheriff Carter
announces a fixed determination to stay, denies
the charges made against him and has sworn
in a posse of thirty men for his protection.
teeth awaiting the hostilities. The leader Of
the vigilantes has posted up a notice that no
man living can escape their vengeance, least of
all Sheriff Carter. Further developments are
anxiously awaited.