Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-03
OF THE WEEK,
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

bell had killed one white man n wounded
another.
CHARLES ~ScHwocHow, of Castalia, O.,
was driving home, very drunk, on the
night of the 10th, with Henry Carson and
Martin Kroch in the wagon with him. He
drove on the railway track just in time for
a locomotive to strike the wagon and in
stantly kill the three men. A young lad
in the wagon escaped death, but was seri-
ously injured.
The ssignees,of the Augustinian Society
of Lawrence, Mass, have presented their
final account at the Insolvency Court,
showing that the balance for creditors is
only 1864.
MUCH excitement prevailed at Minneap-
oils on the 18th over the report that over
one-third of the wheat crop of Minnesota
had been destroyed by recent frosts.
j. W. MACKEY, the California bonanza
king, and James Gordon Bennett, of the
New York Herald, signed a contract on
the 18th with Siemens Bros, of London,
for two transatlantic cables, to be laid by
June 1, 1884.
Four new cases of yellow fever were re-
ported at Brewton, Ala, on the 18th, and
two deaths occurred.
A GRAND JURY at Baltimore has investi-
gated the circumstances attending the loss
of sixty-ive lives at a rotten wharf near
hat city several months ago, and on the
18th indicted the owner and the lessee Of
the premises for manslaughter.
HIRAM ExsTEIN, of Buffalo, N. Y, whole
sale furnishing-goods dealer, failed On the
18th for $4,000.
The report made on the 18th of the free
delivery service of the Post-Ofice Depart
:ment for the fiscal year ended June 80
shows that during the year forty-two
offices were added to tho list of free
delivery" cities, making a total of 154 at
the close of the year. These offices en-
iploy $3.50 men, and cost the Government
during the year $S,173,3 3G. The system
was said to be in an extremely satisfac.
tory condition.
Mrs. THEODORE DAVIS, Flora Noblett
and a boy named Dave Norton were
drowned by the upsetting of a buggy in a
creek at Joplin, Mo-, a few days ago.
MARTIN DEMPSEY, the last of the Illicit
distillers in Eastern Arkansas, was on the
18th med $4,000 and sentenced to %confne.
ment in the Detroit Penitentiary for
eighteen months.
Nor less than fifty thousand people gath
cred OH the 18th at Newburg, N. Y, to cell
cbrate the centennial of the disbanding of
Washington's victorious Continental army.
Troops were paraded, cannon fired, bells
Tung, and patriotic addresses delivered in
c~ommemoration of the day.
A DISPATCH of the 18th from Washing
ton states the values of the exports of do
nestle provisions, tallow and dairy prod
ucts during September, 1883, were IS, $780,
43l; for the same month in 1882, $7,453, 1874.
For the nine months ended September 80,
1888, the value was $685. u.s. GAS, against $751;
$40 1863 for the same time in 1882. The value
,of the dairy products exported during the
five months ended September 80, 1883, was
$50, 2232, 697, against SS,47S,5l1 for the same
period in 1882.
COMPTROLLER KNOX stated on the 18th
that the reduction in national bank circu-
~.lation the current year would be between
$50, 900, 900 and $25 10000 with the GER
ltainty Of much more rapid decrease next
year.
CHARLES HYRoN1MUs, who was buriedin
"a well at Dayton, O., was rescued from
what appeared to every one to be his hor-
trible fate, at noon on the 18th. He was
4IJu1Cu ny DclllS pulltu up
through the sticks and dirt by a windlass,
but was able to walk home.
The following executions took place on
the 10Th: Edward Hovey, at New York
City, for killing his sister-in-law, Fanny
iVermilye; Margaret Harrison (colored),
at Calhoun, Ga, for poisoninga white girl;
Taylor Bryant (colored), at Monroe, Ca,
for criminal assault upon a white woman,
and James Stanley (colored), at Columbus,
Tex, for the murder of a white boy.
BEFORE the United States Senate Com
lnittee OH Labor on the 10Th, at Boston,
Charles T. Chance testified that he had seen
the tanned skins of several and
that the business had been carried on for
at least eighteen years, but lately had been
increasing. He designated the tanneries
where the human "hides" had been per-
facted, and stated that the proprietors
themselves did most of the work on them.
MRS. WADE and her daughter died at
Mount Cory; o. few days ago from using
water from a well in which a poisoned rat
had been drowned.
DURING the sevendays ended On the 10Th
the business failures throughout the United
States and Canada numbered oil, against
1872 the previous seven days. The distribu-
ton was as follows: New England States,
%; Middle, "A; Western, Il; Southern, "a;
Pacific States and Territories, 1G; Canada
and the Provinces. 81.
SUMNER OsGooD and his wife, an aged
couple, were suffocated by coal-gas at
Holland Patent, N. Y, q few nights ago.
MRS ALISON ALLEN, a wealthy widow
of Mansfield, o., who inherited insanity
from her father, hanged herself a few
days age.
NEAR Fort Gaines, Ca, B. A. Jester and
B. F. Hudspetl1, between whom there was
an old feud, met a few days ago and re-
newed their quarrel, resulting in Jester be-
ing shot in the head and Hudspeth stabbed
twice, dying instantly.
THREE counterfeiters were captured at
Mobile, Ala, on the 10Th, and STA in dollar
pieces and all the molds, metal and battery
for doing an extensive business were Sc
cured.
IRVING C. MILLER, a son of one of the
wealthiest citizens of Baltimore, was found
dead in bed a few mornings ago, from ex-
cessive indulgence. in liquor.
WASHINGTON advices of the 10Th say that