Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-10
ing glass, and was cremated.

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committed the deed was unknown.
The Treasury Department at Washing
ton on the 25th purchased 425. 1000 ounces of
silver for delivery at the Philadelphia,
New Orleans and San Francisco minis.
By the capsizing of a schooner on the
25th off Vineyard Haven, Mass, the Cap.
tain and three seamen were drowned.
A R number of sheep having died
in a mysterious name in the vicinity of
Dayton, o., an investigation made on the
25th showed the cause of death to be a
worm about an inch long and one-third of
an inch thick. The insect inserts itself at
the base of the sleeps nose and works its
way to a vital point in the head.
CAPTAIN CRIBBENs, stroke oarsman of
the life-saving crew at Erie, Pa, attempt
ed to cross the bay there on the night of
the Oath, but his boat ~f--"aernA and he
was drowned.
The Supreme Council of the Patriarchal
Circle of the United States, in session on
the Goth at Milwaukee, unanimously adopt
ed a resolution removing the Odd-Fellows'
qualification and declaring the Patriarchal
Circle henceforth to be an independent or
ganiZation. TIL members still retain their
identity with the Odd-Fellows, but here.
after all persons are eligible to membership
in the circle.
A of seventy-five hostile Apaches
on the Goth surrendered to Lieutenant
Hunter near Bowie, A. T.
DUN's MERCANTILE AGENCY on the goth
reported business improved, with a marked
increase in clearings. Profits were not
large, but money was being made, and
most all traders felt satisfied with the
seasons business.
AT Galveston, Tex, Senate Ogle was on
the Goth sentenced to n%inety-nine years in
the penitentiary for completely in the muir
der of Allen and William Sanes.
LEWIS BROTHERS, of New York City,
liquor dealers, failed on the 2Gth for $11S,-
600.
IT was discovered on the Goth neal Wau-
seon, o., that George W. Williams. a farm
er, had been killed in his barn, his wife
murdered in the house, and their babe left
to starve, but it was subsequently, rescued
by the neighbors. The arrest of q suspi-
cious character named johnson had been
| made, and Williams watch was found on
his person.
JUDGE NooNAN, of st. Louis, has decided
S~S POAASA AZ - 6oitAS VI S40lSV ul4u Julius
under the Johnson law making gambling a
felony.
DURING the seven days ended on the Goth
the business failures in the United States
and Canada numbered $50, against 21O the
previous week. The distribution was as
follows: Middle States, IS; New England,
"a; Southern, 80; Western, So; Pacific
States and Territories, SO; Canada and the
Provinces, 80.
HIRAM PRICE, Commissioner of Indian
Affairs, submitted his annual report ON the
Goth to the Secretary of the Interior at
Washington. He called attention to the
fact that the condition of the Indians in
1888 was in advance of the Indians
OF 1852; asked for an appropriation to
survey the boundaries of Indian reser-
%vations; for a law to punish persons who
furnish arms to the red men, and for an
appropriation to prosecute those who sell
them liquor, Nearly all the tribes were
ready to send their children to school. A
law to imprison intruders upon Indian
lands he deemed a necessity.
DR.. MCDONALD, Chief of the money-or-
der system of the Post-ofice Department
at Washington made his report OH the Goth
for the fiscal year ended June 80, which
shows the total number of money orders
of all kinds issued to be 9,273, So, aggre-
eating in value $685. 47, 23S; total number
paid, SOLICIT; value, $120,4o7,4 GS; amount
of fees received, 81, 272, O60. The increased
value of domestic orders issued over those
of the preceding year was 1885,, $3.50, CT
3.46 per cent. The increased fees received
were $4s,111, or 4.57 per cent. The ratio of
improper payments to total number of OF.
ders paid was as ] is to 273,471.
DIR. LE1TcH, of Mineral Ridge, O., dropped
a lighted newspaper into a gas we'll at that
place a few days ago. There was an explo-
sion, and the doctor was fatally injured
and several others were severely hurt.
THE Naval Advisory Board at Washing
ton has recommended the immediate con-
struction of seven naval vessels, the whole
to cost s., 2sa,ooo.
For violating the neutrality of the
United States by furnishing arms and am
munition to the Haytian insurgents the
Captain n first officer of the steamer
Tropic were sentenced at Philadelphia on
the Goth to one years imprisonment and to
pay a fine of $500 and costs.
Two MURDERS were discovered in Todd
County, Mimi, on the Goth. David Stein
bach, of Germania, was found dead in a
swamp with his skull broken, and Orson
Gould, of Stowe Prairie, was found on the
highway, his body being s%hockingly mutt
lated.