Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-04-07
EPIT0ME Of THE Week,
Interesting News Compilation
DOMESTIC.

N AAHA AASsA 0&Na IA Fl 10
for thirty years, was brought to a conclr
sion on the 9th, Il decree Of foreclosure be
ing entered by agreement between the bond
holders and the company.
A TRAIN o. the Bound Brook Railroad
drawn by alocomotive burning "coal-dirt,'
arrived at Philadelphia on the 9th, after
i20-mile trip, on time. The "coal-dirt'
consumed cost T1.O5, one-sevpnth the usua
expense.
RUSSELL BROWN and Patrick McGlew
accused at st. Louis of the murder of Mrs
General Doris, Browns grandmother
have entered Il plea "f guilty of man
slaughter i'll the first degree, and hav,
been sentenced to ten years imprisonment
in the ~penitentiary.
MRS. RELLE M. BURcH1IL.. postmistres.
at Fort Worth, Tex, has been arrested
upon the charge OF unnecessarily OBTAINING
anal matter, IL Of other irregularities il
the conduct Of the Office.
IT was stated on the 2Sth that, despnir
Eng OF being able to recover the sixty-eight
,,orpses i'll the Diamond coal mine at Braid
wood, ILL.,, before decomposition should
tave rendered their Identification impossi'
Die, the owners OF the mine were considers
ing u proposition to close the pit perlna.
tently and to erect over tho entrance to it
= monument to the memory Of the miners
Hntomhed therein. The suggestion was
opposed by the friends of the dead men.
No progress was made on that day in the
work of clearing away the distractions in
the pit.
AT Allegheny City a few mornings ago
the twin children (boys, aged fifteen
.uonths) OF David Faulkner were burned to
death by the building in which they lived
taking fire.
A CLEVELAND family of four persons
who ate "suine" on bread were on the :sth
lying at the point Of death. 1t was sup
posed they were afflicted with trichina,
though none of the bacteria were found in
Il portion Of the compound analysed.
HERMAN NEuMAS, a Pottsville (Pa.l
merchant, committed suicide the other day
because his daughter was opposed to his
marrying again.
HERBERT w. EATON, who recently shot
his brother and Samuel Kelly ut Calais,
Me-, shot himself on the 18th in a train
near Truro, N. S.
SEVERAL miners at Querida, Colo, having
been sent to prison for stealing ore, their
friends organized a reign of terror there.
On the 18th they ordered about fifty per-
sons to leave town, and were parading the
streets threatening the lives of more peace
abba citizens. The Governor had been ap-
a,ealed to for troops to restore order.
A HI sensational scene occurred at
Gilard, Pa, u few days ago on the occasion
OF the burial of Captain A. c.. Wurzbach.
1t seems that the ceremonies We're being
conducted by the Masons, without the as
sistance of a clergyman. While the Ma
preparations were in progress there
appeared on the scene a Boston lady, a
daughter Of the deceased by his first wife,
alleging priority Of right. She claimed the
body Of her father, and, in spite Of the re,
aboard Of a Lake Shore train, and started
it for Boston.
IHE annual report of the Cincinnati
Price Current, published on the 18th, shows
Lhe Western pork packing for the past win
Ter to have been 6,132,212 hogs, against
','41,160 last year, an increase Of 374 ,452.
Average net weight, 213 62-1O pounds, an
increase of 8 46-l0D pounds. The yield on
"oCSACuSc VI ! L-ivu pOuuUS Der
log. The pork product shows an increase
u ll1,OW barrels. The stocks of product
IN the West in March showed an increaseof
S5,5W barrels of pork, 34,0O0,00O pounds of
neat and u decrease of 21,70O tierces of
ard, compared with the same date last
Iear. Concerning the prospect for sum
ner packing the reports received show an
OF two per cent. increase, but the
tT1ce Current thinks this an under-esti- |
hate. and That ten per cent. increase may
Dc expected, and possibly twenty-five per
cent. The total packing for twelve months
II the West is 9,3:s42 1893 hogs, against
o,a'1 ,449 the preceding year.
a o Of Reading Railroad men demol-
shed a. new bridge of the Pennsylvania
railroad Company, i'll Philadelphia, on the
light of the 2Sth.
AN unknown person sent poisoned con-
ectionery to the family Of Mrs. Deschler,
indianapolis, on the night OF the 2Sth.
nd the six persons who partook of it be-
anne seriously i'll. 1t was feared on the
9TH hat they might not recover.
Supreme Courto of Illinois has affirmed
he decision of Judge Gardner, of the Su-
'erior Court Of Cook County, in what are
ho"n as the July wheat-corner cases.
certain members Of the Board Of Trade who
'ere short of the market claimed that the
ettllng price fixed by the Arbitration Com.
nttee OF the Board Of Trade was too high.
no obtained an injunction to restrain the
lrectors from signing down the margin
aecks or suspending the DIRECTORS for re-.
'slns to abide by the finding of the arbi-
'ators. The injunction was dissolved by
ndge Gardner, and in this he is sustained
the higher tribunal. The decision does
ot deal whit e legality of corners. About
',ooo,OW is released by this decision of the
,urt.
testified before a Massachu-
tits Legislative Committee on the Doth that
lewksbury Aims House authorities sold
'dles to the Harvard Medical School; that
me corpses were picked and sent to
in pork barrels, and that funeral =
rvlces had been held over cofins filled
It'll wood. Thu investigation was caused =
Governor Buffers charges, and he was :
'esent IN the role of prosecutor. /,
EIGHTEEN miles north of Lordsburg. New (
e2lco, on the Goth, Judge H. c. McComas, :,
wife and child, formerly of st. Louis. =
ere overtaken by Apaches and all but the =
Id Killed. The child was supposed to :
been carried into captivity. The
arauding Indians were said to be mich
IRE numerous than earlier reports indi-