Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1884-04-16

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former place both engines and a great !
number Of cars we're wrecked, and at the
latter point the wreck blockaded the |
tracks for quarter af mile.
Albert Weed, the we'll known shirt man.
ufacturer of Baltimore is wanted for biga-
my, his legal wife having entered suit for
divorce ON this ground. A week ago Weed
married Miss Eva Newkirk, and now
has disappeared, having disposed Of all
her property.
Edward Smith, U. S. Consul at Mann
helm, Germany, died of apoplexy in an
English railway car Saturday.
Lawrence Barrett made his first appear
ance before London audience Saturday
in "Yorick's Love-" and achieved a de-
cided success.
The east bound freight shipments out
of Chicago during the past week amounted
to 81, ,653 tons, the largest weeks ship
ments on record.
blast in the Calumet and Hecla cop
per mine Friday morning killed one man
and blinded another.
By the collapse of the log jam in the
Penobscot, near Bangor, Me-, 100000
feet of logs broke loose.
The Missouri delegates to the Chicago
convention stand: For Blaine, H. Arthur,
8; Logan, 7; and Edmunds. 5.
Juan B. Patron, ex-Speaker of the New
Mexican Legislature, was assassinated
Thursday night at Las Vegas by cow
boy.
The Chicago Riding Club, whose pur-
pose is to conduct riding school, was in
corporsted Friday with capital Of $780,
900.
Governor Hamilton Friday appointed
the Rev. c. II. Truesdell, of Chicago, q
member of the State Board of Public Chari-
ties.
d. W. Pratt, agent of the Mccormick
Reaper Company at st. Louis, was indict-
ed Friday for embezzlement, and war
rant was issued.
Secretary Frelinghuysen Friday received
a dispatch from General Adam Badeau
rendering his resignation as Consul Cen
eEaI q: Havana.
| The Mexican Government having agreed
that only goods actually sold shall be
stamped, the stamp-act excitement is vir-
tually ended.
| The safes in tho Postoffice and United
States express office at Wauksgan, Ill, e,
were exploded by burglars Thursday night,
who secured about $500.
The Missouri Department c. A. R., be-
gan its annual session Friday afternoon at
st. Louis. The order was reported as in a
hourishing condition.
An Export and Guarantee Association
was formed Thursday by large meeting
of distillers at Cynthiana, KY, the capital
being fixed at 100000.
Within two months the vapor stove
man ufacturers have formed combination
with the object Of equalizing and sustain
ing prices. Seventeen companies are in
terested representing capital Of 81 $780,
600.
The Fourteenth Pennsylvania District
elected delegates to Chicago Friday who
were required.to sign pledge to vote for
Blaine as long as he was a candidate.
In riot between number of Italian
and Irish laborers at st. Thomas, Ont.
Friday several were severely wounded on
both sides. Police and citizens stopped
the fight
DR. Cross, who offered to divulge the
Chicago Fenians' plot TO the Canadian
Premier. was formerly resident of Joliet,
H., where he bore the reputation of q
chairman and crank.
The ninth, fourteenth and seventeenth
Illinois districts held their convention Fri
day, and instructed the delegates to Chi
cago for Logan. General John I. Rinakel
is one Of the National delegates from the
4 nineteenth district
Heavy rains continue throughout Cali.
fornia. The Southern Pacific Railway i.
q damaged by washouts in different places
, and persons that left for the East by thai
route Tuesday and Wednesday last wer,
obliged to return TO San Francisco.
Ellen Cole, resident Of Crete Town
ship. Win County, ILL.,, recently gave brit
to an iliegitimate child, and destroyed /
by putting it in stove, where the bod,
. was partially consumed. The unnatun
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