St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-17
Minor MiShana.

Robert NJ. Gourdin. young son of the late
DR.. Peter q. Gourdin of Charleston, 5. c.,
was killed while hunting i'm Santee swamp
yesterday. When found he was lying on his
back with bullet hole in his forehead and
died in two hours. He is supposed to have
been shot accidentally by some hunter. al
though none could be found in the vicinity.
DR.. S. A. Richmond, proprietor of tho
"Rchmond Samaritan Nervine," st. Joseph,
Mo-, has mysteriously disappeared. He left
home last Tuesday for Chicago and returned
Friday night He left the train at the Francis
street depot and sent his valise by an express
man ana has not been seen or heard from
since. lie is believed to have been deranged.
James George, an old cOlored citizen of
Vicksburg, died Friday night from an over
dose of morphine administered by DR.. J. p.
Carroll, a colored practitioner. George was
formerly slave of Senator George of Missis-
sippi. The senator, on hearing Of his death
yesterday, telegraphed his regrets to the ne
gro's friends.
Henry Jones' Thomas Johnson and Richard
Brown, living in Dinwiddie county, Virginia,
attended dance Thursday night, which was
kept up until a late hour, when they started
on their return home. Benumbed with cold
the three sought shelter in a stable, where
they were yesterday found frozen TO death.
The rescuing party at work on the slope of
one of the Nanticoke mines of the Susque-
hanna Coal company had, up to an early
hour this morning, worked their way through
over three thousand feet of sand. culm and
rocks, and are now hourly expecting to reach
the fatal chamber.
An unusual disturbance OF the water was
noticed yesterday morning in the vicinity of
the foundered steamer Hylton Castle. of Fire
island, and it was supposed to have been
caused by the bursting Of the vessel, owing
TO the swelling of her cargo of grain by the
long immersion in the water.
Mrs. Hausmeyer of Tarentum, Pa, yester-
day died from the effects of eating raw pork,
producing trichinosis. This makes four
deaths in the family from this cause. The
only remaining son, John, IS lying very low
and the three daughters arc growing worse
daily
The four-story building Nos %, 25 and 81
South Fourth street, St. Louis, occupied by
Cofferata Sons s. Co., fruit dealers, and ths
Texas l. ST. Louis NarrOw-Gauge Railway
company, was burned at O'Clock yesterday
morning. The loss is $4,000, covered by In
surance.
An explosion of ESQ pounds of dynamite
near Yonkers, n. Y, yesterday morning
gave the inhabitants of New York, Suffern
Spring Valley, Piermont, Sparkhill. Haver-
straw, Rockland and other cities on the Hud-
son that they were being shaken by an earth
quake.
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Bennett of Horse
heads, n. Y, while crossing a railroad track
two miles from Elmira yesterday, we're struck
by train. Mr.. Bennett was instantly killed
and Mrs. Bennett will probably die.
A freight train on the Louisville. New Or
leans s. Texas railroad struck a COW Friday
night near Vicksburg and was ditched. Ru-
dolph Hoefi, the engineer, was killed.
The Louisiana state engineers have been
notified of a serious cave-in of the levee at
Kennaville, twenty miles above New Orleans.