The Springdale news., 1888-10-05

Tena1y. V. J., mr. Blaine returned to the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, on the 1st, and in the evening took his departure for Detroit.
 CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. A CONFEDERATION occurred at Canton, Dak, on the night of the 18th. One of the principal blocks Of the town was de- stroyed.
 Two AUSTRIAN officers, while ascend ing Mangart mountain, lost their path in the fog and fell over a precipiee. One of them escaped with slight injuries, but the other was killed. PORTIONS of Dakota have recently been devastated by prairie fires, many farmers losing all their perishable possessions. MRS. BECKER, 6 counter in the registry division Of the treasury, has been found to be S944 short in her cash and dismissed from the service. There are rumors of other irregularities, and a strict investi- gation will be made.
 ON the 27th the British ship Resperida- gera, coal-laden, from Newcastle, N. S. w., for San Francisco, went ashore off Point Fermin, Cal, and would, it was thought, be total wreck.
 NEAR Hamilton, la, on the 26th, car load of live hogs were burned in the fire following a serious wreck on the Chicago & Northwestern railroad.
 On the 2sth three men were burned to death in a fire at Nos. Is and IT Lake street, Chicago, occupied by s. C.. Will kins &s Co.,. manufacturers of fine furni- ture.
 GOVERNOR JACKSON os Maryland, on the 27th, respited Henry J. Spencer, who was to have been hanged at Cumberl and on the 18th, for the murder of Scott Dawson. The execution is suspended until October 26.
 THE Ashtabula (O) Milling Company's fouring mill was destroyed by fire on the 2Sth, with large stock of four and grain.
 A STRIP Of territory fifty miles wide, between Jamestown and Lamourne Dak., was burned over by the recent prairie fires.
 THE schooner Wm. D. Cargil1 sprung a leak and bilged at sea, on the 9th. The crew was rescued by the steamer novelty and safely landed at Vineyard Haven, Mass, on the 2Sth.
 WHILE searching with lighted lamp for a leak in the pipes in his fathers house. on the 2Sth, Frank Bertru nd, of Rockford, Ill.,, was badly injured by the explosion which followed the discovery of the leak.
 THE Ohio Falls Oak Leather Company $ annery ct Louisville, Ky, was destroyed by fire on the morning of the 2Sth. Loss, S105 900; insurance, S13), 0)0.
 THE little town of Romeo, Wis, was, on the 2Sth, for the second time in two years, destroyed by fire, by conf agration Of incendiary origin.
 .IT Is reported that a man named Jones rode into the camp Of the Apache Chief Patchula. on the San Pedro river. fifty miles east of Florence, Ariz.. on the 26sh, and while talking with Patchula was rid died with bullets by five Indians who rode ID for the purpose and afterwards es- caped, going toward the San Carlos Res- eryation.
 IN a fight Ut Dover Depot, \. IT., on the 30th, between Irish and Italian workmen on the waterworks, several men were badly cut, and one was supposed to be fatally wounded.
 OS the morning of the 29th two more of those mysterious and brutal murders which have startled and mystif d the denizens of Whitechapel, London, oc- cured. As yet the police have discoy- cred no clew to the identity of the pcrpe- trator.
 THE dedication of Cashier Chapin of the National Union Bank and Fall River (Mass.) Savings Bank, according to. lat est developments, reaches S1lS0o0 of which S3},oo0 is in irregular loans to the B cattle Zjnc Company, SS 0J1 in other ir- regular loans, and SII1,0)9 in oyerdvafts Of accounts.
 WHILE fishing, at Dubuque, Ia, on the 39th, John Vath and Charles Blake fell into the river and were drowned.
 J. H. GOODMAN, g lawyer at No. 291 Broadway, New York, was reported, on the 1st, 10 have absconded, aud that his accounts as trustee of various estates are s40 990 short.
 ZANZIBAR advices say that the German $ recently mur lered at Kilwa died while nobly defending themselves. A German gum boat was present, but was unable to give assistance in the face of the thou- sands of armed natives lining the leach. The corpses Of the murdered Germans were horribly mutitated