Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1884-05-07
BRIEFS.

amount IOr snIptnent ever known there.
At Gouverneur, n. Y, Saturday morn /
ing, boiler explosion in Whitneys mar.
bic works killed FIVE men and fatally in
jured two Others. !
Last week the special exports from New
York amounted to $3,143, ,G63, and since |
Jan. l, $4l, 100, 800 in specie has been sent !
out.
Nsss Independence, Iowa, Friday night !
John Duffy's l3- year old daughter perished |
by fire, and his wife and infant child were !
fatally burned.
A man, woman, and two children per- |
ished by the burning of five buildings Of |
the Chateauzay Iron Company at Bradley's |
Pond, N. Y, Saturday morning.
Bowie'' bay gelding Crickmore broke
! down few days since while exercising on
the Washington track, and his owner says
he will never run again.
Fire at Detroit 'arly Saturday morning
entirely destroyed the Steam Supply
Company's structure and damaged adja-
cent buildings. The total loss is about
SlOO. .O00.
Judge Thayer, in Common Pleas Court
No. 4, at Philadelphia Saturday. admitted
Mrs. Carrie B. Kilgore to practice, not
withstandIng that the othe Common Pleas
Courts had refused to admit her.
A gale at Burlington, VT, Friday, ere
ated mountainous waves which swept
away 700 feet of the breakwater, wrecked
all the piers at the north end of the har-
Dor, and created damage amounting to
! $780, 900.
! Henry Van Week, the well known marks
man, was indicted at East Dubuque Satur-
day for stealing a gun from one Dent, an
! Epglishman, who recrosscd the Atlantic
for the sole purpose of prosecuting Van
Week.
Commissioner Fink gave notice Satur-
! day that commencing Monday next, a re-
duction OF 10 cents per 100 pounds from
Chicago to New York, and a corresponding
reduction from other points, will be made
in the tariff on i've STOCK, ana proper
tionate reduction also will be made in the
dressed-beef rate.
The walking match at New York closed
at 8 o'clock Saturday evening, Fitzgerald
having covered 6l0 miles, beating all pre-
vious records, while Rowell had Coz miles
TO his credit. Panchot was third, with 5G6
Riles laps, and Noremac fourth, with 545
miles laps. Fitzgerald was presented
x.,ti N 81, IL. fr,S In
dered to Rowcll, and with two floral en-
blenls.
The Blue Mountains, bordering Berks
county, Pa, on the north, are burning in
all directions, and in the neighborhood of
Shenandoah the flames are spreading.
The towns of Gilmans Depot, n. j., and
Brisbin, Pa, were entirely destroyed Fri
day, the inhabitants being compelled to
fee for their lives. About fifty square
miles of timber lands were burned ever
near Ashland, Pa, and the town of ThOmp-
son, in Tiogo county Pa. was also con-
sumed
The Empress Anna, widow of the En-
peror Ferdinand ", of Austria, and Aunt
of the present Emperor, died Sunday at
Prague, aged 81.
A London despatch says it is no lon! er
doubted the ship which signaled the City
Of Rome saved some, if not all, on board
the steamship State of Florida.
1t is reported that the Maine delegation
is not SO solid for Blaine as it might be,
and that nothing but State pride compels
them to vote for him. 1t is well known
that Senator's and Represen tatiyss from
Maine are not friendly to the Ex Secretary
and not one of them are doing anything
in his interest.
April 9th the steamer Devon picked up
two lifeboats belonging to the State Line
steamship State of Florida, and April 23rd
a sailing craft sgnalled the City of Rome
that she had a shipwrecked crew on board.
From these facts it is believed that the
State of Florida was wrecked, but the pre-
sumption is strong that all the passengers
were saved, The State Line manager
, thinks that an explosion of dynamite caused
the dynamiters on board.
r By the forest Hres in Cecil county, Md
| the area burned over is seven miles in
length and nearly two miles in breadth.
} In bare -knuckle prize fight near Pitts.
: burg, Pa, Sunday morning, between Ter
rance Dillon and Jacob Daily, the former
was the victor.
At Milwaukee, Sunday morning, bar
tender named Anton Lang was SO umerci'
, fully pounded and knocked by a gang OF
: roughs that his life is despaired OF.
: Scott E. Smith, under indictment fol
the murder Of James Reynolds, which was
, committed at Des No ines, about a yea
ago, committed suicide Sunday, by shoot
D ing himself through the head.
The north bound train which left New
Orleans over the Illinois Central Railroad
Saturday evening was thrown from the
!. the track near Grenada, Miss. by mis-
, placed switch. Engineer Henry Whit.
was scalded to death and Baggagemastcl
Harris had an arm broken.
, The Republican and Greenback- Labol
i. parties at Wheeling, w. Va, have com
bined SO as to present solid front to tho
Democracy. The fusion gives the anal
!, gamated parties ar even chance Of carry
ing the State.
e Washington dispatch to the New Yorl
I World gives. under the date of Mny 2, the
!; fell text of secret and unsigned circula
s which has been sent ont to the delegate
5, TO the Natl Republican Convention
n This anonymous document, is an assault
re upon Robert I. Lincoln, or, to be NOR
re accurate, a sneer and snarl, for nothip
y is really alleged against him.