The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-01-20

ego packing and canning man, has eeaclud.
Cd TIE purchase ct lls aesss 1t land adtoin.
Ing West Lincoln, Neh. The agent rsfuees
to give ony Information - to what use viii be
made Of IT, but II 10 generally understood
that . large packing house viii be erected
thereon.
Fire broke out Ia the North :.Oak public
school building at Burlington, To-, Tuesday
morning about 10 O'Clock, creating great ex-
citementtn the school, but the 4l5 pupils
were ill marched out safely. The roof and
upper ceiling were entirely destroyed and
twelve rooms deluged with water. The loss
10 probably $4,000; fully insured.
An attempt was made Tuesday night upon
the life OF Representative George g. Bailey,
labor member, Of East st. Louis, BY some IN.
known person. Mr.. Bailey was returning to
bic boarding house, and Was in the oct Of
etepping upon . porch leading to the door
when he was hred upon bya person who was
concealed behind the corner Of the house.
Six Of the Bald Knobbsrs Who have been
confined at Ozark, charged with being impli.
Gated in the murder Of Eden and Green, have
been released on bail, It being shown that
they were not directly connected with the Kill
ling. Several Of the Bald Knobbers confined
10 the Springfield jail made bold attempt to
tunnel out on Sunday, but were discovered.
Apanic occurred at the Roman Catholic
church on Thirty-eighth street, at Chicago,
nVNNRaAA. 4An~--~- MI -A.--a
with people, and on the steps leading to tho
church wasa crowd Of people. The latter
gave way under the strain, precipitating 200
people . distance Of ten feet. Two men and
two women sustained injuries regarded Is ia
tai, and fully twenty others were quite seri.
ously injured.
In the suit brought by the state Of Call.
fornia against VIM. Banding aud VIM. H.
Knight, ex-harbor commissioners, to recover
money Incorporated by John L. Gray, ex-
secretary Of the harbor commission, aud other
employees, Judge Hunt decided Thursday that
the defendants are liable for the amounts
Incorporated. The defalcation amounts
to over 800, 900.
A freight train on the Norfolk and West.
ern railroad ven through . bridge over the
Otto river, twenty miles from L~ynchburg,
Va, Thursday night. The bridge was in
process of repair, and eight or nine workmen
were killed and several others wounded, none
Of them train hands as far as known. The
engine and several cars crossed the bridge
safely before the structure gave way.
A raid is being made on the crooked Off.
cials Of Cook county at Chicago. Warden
McGarigle, Of the Cook county hospital;
Warden vsrnell, of the county insane asy.
lum; Edward Mcdonald (brother Of Mike
Mcdonald, the noted ex-gambler), engineer
at the county hospital; Richard A. Driscoll,
book-keeper Of the Chicago Pharmaceutical
company, and one James 7. Connolly were
arrested for conspiracy to defraud the county,
and an army Of detectives and deputy sher.
IFS 10 securing the city for others of the
"boodlers" who have within q couple of years
brought Cook county to the verge of bank.
ruptcy.
A Bessemer, Mich, special says: The
CHARGED bodies Of the twelve men who per.
ished by the burning Of the Colby mine
boarding house were buried Thursday. The
coroner's jury exonerated anybody from
blame. Only meagrc accounts of the burn.
ing can be obtained, as the entire building
was in flames before the fire was discovered.
At the inquest 1t was developed that two
drunken men, boarders, came in after mid,
night and occupied the front part Of the
building, where the fire evidently started. 1,
is thought that those who persisted were sui
located in their beds. They could have es
capped through the windows. Nine OF the
twenty-one men who occupied upper room.
saved their lives In this manner.
The trial of Schwartz and Watt for the
murder Of Express Messenger Nichols com
menced Monday afternoon at Norris, III. This
court quashed the seventh count in the in.
dictment, which ie one alleging that the muir.
der WAS committed on a railroad train, with.
out charging that II was committed in Grun.
dy county. This is considered by the defense
as very much in their favor, for they believe
that the evidence will show that the crime
could not have been committed in Grumpy
county. Four jurors have been accepted by
the people, but none passed upon by the de.
Tense. It is supposed that the trial will oc'
cupy from two to three weeks.
Early Wednesday morning twelve mineri
were burned to death In q boarding house al
Besscmer, Mich, and several Others were
seriously injured. The occupants were all
asleep and the fire WIS first discovered by Mr..
and Mrs. Miller, who kept the boarding
house, and when they were awakened the
whole building was in flames. They narrowly
escaped with their lives. and did not have
time to awaken twenty miners who were
sleeping on the sccond floor. When they
awokc the building was one mass of flames.
Several Of che men were not overcome by the
smoke and jumped from the windows, cscap-
ing, but twelve pcrished. Their na,ne are
James Ryan. John Garvey, John Ball, VIM.
Williams, j. B. Rosa, Henry saom, Simon
, Riszo, Max Priride, John Lyons, John Sutton
and an unknown man.
One year ago this month n Of the blood.
lest murders Of . human being ever known
was committed near the town of Erie, Kan.
]. W. Sell, q well-to-do farmer, and his whole
family excepting one son, Willie, . boy six
teen years old, were found murdered, theil
heads being crushed and throats cut. The
boy was arrested, convicted and sentenced tc
be hung. There has been q great diversity Of
opinion q to whether Willie Sell committed
the murders. On the trial there was positiv.
evidence and the state failed to fnd any mo
He.