Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-10
OF THE week.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

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persons We're reported as burned to death.
AT Tlacotepee, Tex, a few days ago a
party of bandits seized Ignacia Garcia
Veyran, an old capitalist, and tried to
carry him off. His servants came to his
assistance and killed two Of the bandits
and wounded several others. The latter
fled, first killing Veyran.
AT Chanute, Kan, the other night r. j.
Barley, who maligned a young lady be-
cause he was not permitted to visit her,
was shot and mortally wounded by her
brother, RAM Waters.
A STEAM circular saw at Muncie, Ind,
burst a few days ago while running at a
highrate of speed, splitting open the head
of Jacob RAIDER and cutting an arm from a
man named Ellis.
AT the National Horse-showin New York
on the 23d an engine company harnessed
its team and made ready for a fire in So
seconds.
o. j. HALLER, a Denver (Col.) barber, in
n fit of jealousy on the 23d upon discover
ing his wife in company with another
barber, named S. H. Morris, drew a re.
volver and shot his wife through the heart,
killing her instantly. Then he turned
upon VlOIllS anu uieu Twice., SQOOUluH MN
through the body and fatally wounding
him.
On the farm in Kansas once occupied by
the murderous Bender family, near Cher
ryvale, j. c. Murphy plowed up assealed
tin can containing $4,000 in Greenbacks
and coin a few days ago. Other parties
were digging up the ground in the hope of
similar discoveries.
The annual report Of the Second Assist
ant Postmaster-General issued on the oath,
showed the total cost of transportation by
all methods to be $19,234,S 800, an increase
over the preceding year of $S353,s47. In
crease in railway service, $l,034,6 GIG; in
steamboat service, 500, 602; decrease in the
cost of the star-route service, $S14 ,S371; es-
timated cost of latter service next year,
S5,GO0,0O0; estimate for railroad service
next year, $13, 1856 PIG.
AN aged couple named Crawford, living
ON a farm near Clinton Falls, Ind, were
fatally dubbed on the Oath by strangers
for whom supper was being prepared.
The villains secured only fifteen dollars.
ABOUT forty East st. Louis strikers were
OH the oath indicted by the Grand Jury for
interfering with railroads and i~ntimidating
employees during the recent strike.
PosTMASTER-GENERAL GRESHAM has put
new energy into his war against the lotter-
les, and on the oath announced it to be his
policy to proceed against the patrons Of
lotteries as well as against the lotteries
themselves. Those who buy lottery tick
cts probably are unaware of the fact that
they are not at liberty to use the mails for
that purpose.
Snow fell steadily on the oath throughout
Vermont and New Hampshire.
NEAR New Comerstown, O., Albert Fintzer
killed his wife and three children and end
ed his own existence on the 23d. His health
having failed, his physician advised him to
quit work. He then brooded over his con.
dition until he lost his mind.
The wholesale clothing house of Stern,
Irautman e. Co., of Philadelphia, failed
on the Oath for $500 BOO.
In the billiard game at Chicago on the
evening of the Oath for the cushion carrom
championship of America, Slosson de-
feated Sexton by 500 to 4S6 points.
BURGLARS blew open the safe Of the
Texas Central Railroad office at Terrell a
few days ago, and secured $15S in money.
This was the third raid on the same treas
ure-box in three months.
IT was estimated at Washington on the
oath that 1000, 900 postal notes, represent
ing a money value of $780, DOC, 900. would be
used during the year.
The fiercest northeast gale for years
ragged on the Oath on the Massachusetts
coast, and there were great fears for the
safety of several craft seen east of Cape
Cod.
AT the breakfast-table' recently of a
clearinghouse in Leadville, Col, Frank
Gallagher killed James B. Garvin for max
ing insulting remarks about the formers
bride.
JOSEPH D. WEEKS, Secretary of the
Western kon Association, who returned
from Europe on the oath, gave a
gloomy account of the condition of the
laborer and mechanic. One-third of the
pudding furnaces n Northern England.
he said, were idle, and mills were working
but part of the time. Arbitration, he
stated, was becoming a factor in the settle
ment of labor questions.
A RANcHMAN reported at Tombstone, A.
T., on the 25th that Mexican troops had
routed the Apaches at the Swisshelm
Mountains with great slaughter. A large
body OF the defeated Indians were making
for the San Carlos reservation.
WILLIAM H. JENKINS & Co., door manu-
facturers at New York, failed on the e5th
for SITS, 700.
AN investigation into the affairs of Post
office Inspector P. Foster, of Austin, Tex,
showed on the 25th that he had been falsi-
flying vouchers for large SUMS, and had
been guilty Of other criminal practices.
The wholesale fur house of Eddy, Harvey
& Co., of Chicago, failed on the 25th for
$780, 900.
CITIZENS of Gardner, Col, on the 25th
tied a Mexican murderer to the horn of a
saddle and frightened the horse into a run,
the culprit being dragged to death over
the rocks.
AN insane man named Keeny, who was
locked in a room in the courthouse at War
%renton, Mo-, Rugged a red-hot stove a few
days ago until dragged away from it, and
died soon afterward.
NEARLY three hundred children in
Guilford County, N. c., died from diph-
liberia during the two weeks ended on the
25th.
The large fishing schooner F. B. Tower,
of Boston, went ashore at Princeton on the
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