The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-05-24
DolNGs in THE EAST.

Among the passengers who sailed for
Havre u few days ago on the Frencl,
steamer La Normandie. was Mrs. Levi p,
Morton. wife OF tho vice-prcsident, and her
daughter Edith.
Mrs. Mary E. Dickinson, mother OF
Susan Il. Dickinson. the writer. and Anna
Dickinson. the well-known lecturer. has
just died at her home in West Pittston.
Penn. at the e of 10 years.
Washington Irving Bishop. tho mind
reader. died Unexpectedly in New York a
few days since.
Tho Commercial Bulletin announce the
retirement of the old New York Equitable
Fire Insurance company. OF Wall street.
n OF the Oldest insurance companies in
the country.
Tho adoption OF new rules of faith and
constitution caused a split in the United
Brethren convention ut York. Pa, and tho
seceders. under Bishop Wright. organized
a separate conference.
The neutrality-suspicious. line steamer
Rugta. from New York May 2nd for Ham,
burg. has arrived Mt Plymouth and reports
that tho cotton in her afterhold was spon.
%taneously ienited on the night OF the 9Th
inst. The fire burned %flercely. but was
quenched after five anxious hours. during
which everything had been In readiness to
abandon the steamer. One hundred and
thirty burning cotton bales were jettisoned.
Great fright prevailed among the passen-
gers. who remained on deck for forty.
eight hours. Through the efforts to quench
the fire tho cabins were flooded and two
thirds of tho passengers luggage was
spoiled. Two Of tho crew was injured.
The steamers cargo is greatly damaged.
-Th New Jersey court Of pardons has
Just granteda pardonto Joseph G. Steward.
colored. who has been in state prison for
twenty-nine years. having. when a lad.
murdered a playmate in Gloucester county
"A brief dispatch received at Topeka,
kan.. stated that while Superintendent
Richards was making n payment to the
miners at Carthage. N. NJ. two Mexicans
gained entrance to the office and shot and
killed the superintendent and secured the
money. after which both mounted ono
horse and rode away. A reward has been
offered for the capture of tho robbers.
Richards came from Quincy. Ill.
George NJ. Storrs. son of Emory Storrs.
has boon arrested at New York on a charge
Of blackmail preferred by his wife.
Near Payne. o.. two mon were killed
and four hurt by the explosion of a sawmill
boiler.
Hon. Henry A. Foster has Just died at
Rome. N. Y. In his ninetieth year. He
was senior United st ties senator. having
been appointed in 1874. one year before
Simon Cameron. of Pennsylvania.
AT Springfield. Mass. James Beebe
Smith. local editor Of the Republican. was
shot and instantly killed by his brother-in-
law. Royal B. s%turtevant. who mistook him
for a burglar.
The suit of Sulzbach Bros. against the
estate of John Edgar Thompson. the Phila-
delphia Trust company. and others. for re-
covery Of damages for non-completion Of
the Davenport and ST. Paul railroad. has
been decided in favor Of the co%mplainants.
The litigation has been pending for many
years. Tho court held that Messrs. suiz-
bach are entitled to recover the sum which
this branch road. which was afterward
merged in the Chicago. Milwaukee and ST.
Paul would have been worth II completed
to Cresco. Messrs. Sulzback are to receive
damages amounting to 1921. 600 net.