Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-05-29
Minor Mantion.


Cornelius w. Strait, prominent Mason, who
enjoyed the distinction of being one OF five
who have assembled to the ninety-sixth degree
died at Jackson, Mich, on the Gath, aged 40
years.
The farm Eouse of Nicholas Pauley, nesr
Port Huron, Mich, burned on the 23d and
Pau!cy's 1l-year- son and a nephew wears
of age, were burned to death.
dispatch from Edinburgh, Scotland, under
the date of the oath says; "By fire in a coal
pit at Porto Belo, twelve men were suffocated.' y
Two trains met on single track near
Savannah, N. Y. on the 25th. Two coaches
were wrecked and three people killed.
While Matthew Henry, aged 10, and Lulu
Finnegan, aged s. were playing at their home
in New York, on the 25th, the boy picked up aI,
old musket and pointed it at the girl with the
usual result.
Lightning struck tank of the Atlantic Oil
Refining Company at Philadelphia, on the 23d.
Several tanks containing the fluid were burned.
involving loss OF between Sl50,000 and
100000.
BY the capszng of boat at Port Huron on
the 233, Charles Mooney, John Ford and
Thomas McEwan were drowned.
A wealthy Englishman named Balkenridge
was found dead in his bed at Winnipeg on the
morning of the 23d. Foul play is suspected.
The body of John schott, missing from his
home IN Milwaukee for week or more, was
found IN the river on the morning of the 23d.
A bullet hole in the breast indicated suicide or
foul play.
Ex-Judge Welcome R. Beebe, one OF the old.
est legal practitioners in the city, was run over
and killed by the cars at New York on the 22d
inst.
A freight train went through trestle at
Karns City, Pa, on the 22d, fatally injuring
three persons.
Engineers are surveying for railroad from
Coalport, Clearfield County, Pa, to Cresson,
m rIp fIo nj h,n1,
open up large bituminous coal field.
The National Brewers Association held its
annual meeting at Rochester on the 21st.
Hermann Konski, aged about 10 years, was
lun over and killed on the 21si, near Had.
fields quarry, Waukesha, Wis.
The Glendower Iron Works, Ganville, Pa,
could not pay its workmeh on the goth, and
WAS compelled to shut down.
A Afreight train and q mixed trJin on the Pan.
Handle road colided at Wheeling Junction, on
the 2lst inst, killing d. Bartholomew, travel
ing agent Of East Dubuque, H., and ipjuring
five train hands.
Henry Knack, farmer residing near Apple.
ton, had his head fatally crushed, on the Goth,
by q kick from horse.
BY the burning Of q house near Sharbol
Lake, Ont, on the 10Th inst, six persons lost
their lives. The fire was the result of carous.
al. nj
An unknown person ran switch engine onto
| the main track of the Delaware & Hudson
road, at Troy, N. Y, on the 2)th. and opening
the throttle, sent 1t up the track at full speed.
The wild machine collded with a down passen-
ger train, wrecking both engines and the bag
gage car. The engineer Of the passenger was
| seriously hurt.
William Hageman of Oconomowoc, was
run over and fatally injured by the st. Paul
train at Watertown, on the 18th. Both legs
were cut off.
The League of American Wheelmen began its
annual session at Warrington, on the 10Th. A
parade of between $500 and LOO wheelmen
was to be the event of the meeting.