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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-06
DOUBLE FRATRICIDE.
A Member of an Old and Prominent Ken
lucky Family Kills His Two Brothers in
q Quarrel Over u Will.

A m of An Old and Prominent Ken
lucky Family Kills His Two Brothers in
q Quarrel Over u Will.
CARLISLE, Robinson Co., KY, Sept. 3d.
At noon Thursday at the old Rogers man.
sion, on Indian Creek, near Blue Lick
Springs, where a hundred or more years ago
the ancestors of the family fought a bloody
battle with the Indians, one of that old
family shot two of his brothers, one of
whom died last night. and the other, it is
feared can not survive. The three
brothers were Samuel G., William
o. and Thomas Rogers. The father
of these men, dying very old, willed his EN-
tire estate, which is large and consists of
lands, to Samuel G. and Robert Rogers, and
cut off William O. and Thomas Rogers with
out a cent. Samuel G. Rogers was made
administrator of the estate. The two BROTH
ers, who were disinherited, took legal
measures to break the will, and to that
end have been engaged for several
days in taking dispositions, travelling
from house to house, the residences of wit
nesses. At noon Thursday, when seated in
the old residence, where some of the boys
were born, Samuel drew his pistol in a
Wordy encounter, and fired a shot. 1t pen
etrated the clothing of one of the attorneys,
and in a trice everybody except the
contestants , rushed out of the room.
The firing went on till Sans pistol
was emptied. He then stepped out Of the
room and returned to Carlisle, where he has
been arrested. DR.. French, of Cincinnati,
and DR.. Dills, of Carlisle, were called to
the scene. William Rogers lay on the
door, near the front door, the bone
Of his right leg, near the knee, shivered
to splinters, and a bullet hole through his
abdomen, from right to left. He
suffered for ten hours and died.
Tom received a shot in the
right temple, which came out above the left
eye, near the hair; also a shot in the left
arm. His surgeons told him from the first
that he had the best chance to pull through.
He is still conscious and in his right mind.
The chief actor in the tragedy says that his
brothers reached to draw their pistols before
he commenced shooting, but their attorney
denies this and says they made no attempt
to draw. Samuel Rogers was the only man
who shot, and he emptied his pistol.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-06
LATER NEWS

By the explosion of a barrel of gunpow-
Ter in a wine-shop i'll Vierna, Spain, fifteen
persons were killed and six others were in.
jured a few days ago. ..
THE steamer Colorado, ~freight-laden to
Chicago, burst her boiler near Buffalo on
he Goth ult. Two Of the crew were killed
and a number severely scalded.
A STEAMER from Guaymas, Mex, ar
rived at San Francisco on the 10Th ult.
with five cases of yellow fever on board,
.ausing considerable excitement.
JOHN ALLEN, Captain of the schooner
Ida Walker, was knocked overheard on the
10Th ult. by a boom, near Oswego, N. Y,
md his son sprang after him, both being
.rowned.
The powder-works at Stege's Station,
Cal, exploded on the Goth ult., and forty out
If forty-two Cinnamon employed in the
mill were killed.
The Canadian Government on the Goth
ult. issued a ] proclamation prohibiting the
Importation Of cattle from the United
States and the Northwest Territories, in
accordance with the Animal Contagious
Disease act of 1879.
RHODES 81 Co., of Boston, boot and shoe
dealers, failed on the Goth ult. for 5 $4,000.
On the Doth ult. Boston secured the base.
ball championship by winning sixty-three
games. Chicago is second, with fitty-nine,
and Providence third, with titty-etght.
LEOPOLD kINNETH, a gardener, and his
wife were struck by a train at a crossing
while driving into Buffalo, N. Y, a few
days ago, and both were instantly killed.
A FIRE at Milwaukee early on the morn
ing OF the 3Jth ult. totally destroyed the
Conway Manufacturin : Company's Works.
Loss, 100000; insurance $4,000.
DuN's COMMERCIAL AGENCY reports
chat tie business failures for the nine
months ended on the 30th ult. numbered
G,44J, with liabilities Of $11S, 900, 900; while
o tie same period of 1SS2 the failures
a gregatsd 4,s97, and the liabilities
noun e to 500, 900, 900.
ALBERT TAFT, a leading citizens of Bur-
lington, VT, was suffocated in bed by gas
on the 305h ult.
THREE men attacked an Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe passenger train at Coolidge,
Kan, on the 10Th ult., for the purpose of
robbing the express car. Engineer John
Hilton, for refusing to start the train, was
shot dead, and the fireman was severely
wounded. The express messenger, how.
ever, repulsed the bandits after several
shots had been fired, and they made their
escape without securing any booty.
KING ALFONSO, of Spain, arrived at
Paris on the Goth ult., and was met at the
depot by a large concourse, who hooted
and Kissed at him, shouting "Down with
the Uhlan King" The clamor and insult
ing cries were kept up in all the streets
through which the King passed.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-06
TRAIN ROBBERY.
A Party Of Masked Men Compel an EH
press Messenger to Give up the Keys to
His Safe-$1S, 90 Stolen.

A Party OF Masked Men Compel an Ea
press Messenger to Give up the Keys to
His ~Safe-$15.O 900 Stolen.
Fort WAYNE, Ind, Sept. 29.-At 1890
Thursday night, while the south-bonnd ex-
press on the Eel River Division OF the
Wabash, st. Louis & Pacific Railway was
running about thirty miles per hour between
Laketon and Roam Stations, Burt Loomis,
the messenger of the Pacific Express Com
pany, which operates on that line, was made
aware that there were three men in his car,
when he supposed he was alone. They sud-
denly rose up at one end of the car where
they had been concealed behind some boxes,
and confronting him with revolvers de-
handed the keys to the safe. LOOMS
drew his revolver, but was ordered to throw
up his hands. They then took the keys out
of his pocket and hurriedly took all the
money there was in the safe, amounting to
nearly SIS, 600, besides some other valuable
articles. After securing the money they
threw LOOMS IN the floor and tied his
arms and legs and gagged him, and
locked the door on the outside.
When the train commenced to
slow up for Laketon they jumped
off. AS the messenger made no noise or
opened the door at Laketon it was supposed
by the station men that there was no express
matter to leave at that station. After the
conductor saw his passengers off all right
the train proceeded on its way, and the rob-
berry was not discovered until some minutes
after the train reached Peru. BY the time
word could be telegraphed bach to Roam
and Laketon the robbers had fully two hours
the start of pursuit, and no clew has yet
been obtained. A few one and two-dollar
bills were found scattered in the grass about
q mile south of Roam station.
In throwing Loomis down and gagging
him they handled him roughly, and when
he was found at Peru he was insensible
from his suffering, with the gag in his
mouth. He is now at the hotel under the
care of physicians. The railroad and ex-
press companies will each offer large re-
wards, and the people of that section of the
country are very much worked up over the
robbery that was committed in their midst,
for it is in a thickly-settled country. There
is not the slightest clew either to where the
robbers boarded the train or how they got
into the car. They were all masked.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-06
FOREIGN.

YELLOW FEVER was on the 25th said TO
be abating at Guaymas and Mazatlan,
Mex, while at Sonora it still ragged undi-
minished.
SIMEON G. HADLEY, Alderman for Castle
Baynard Ward, has been chosen Lord
Mayor of London, Eng.
The through train from Paris to Con-
s%tantinople ran off the track near Buchar-
est on the 25th, and a large number of peo-
pie were killed and injured.
IscHIA's earthquake, according to the Of
fetal report made on the 18th, killed 1880
and injured 374 persons.
OUTRAGEs in Tipperary. Ireland, on the
Goth led the British Government to pro
claim five townships in that county.
NEWS was received atBoston on the 26th
of the wreck of eighteen vessels at st.
Pierre, Martinique, September s. Sever.
al lives were lost.
A FIRE in ~Constansinople a few nights
ago destroyed three hundred houses.
A FIERCE epidemic resembling yellow
fever was raging near Naples, Italy, on
the 26th.'
A cABLEGRAM of the 9th from Alex
andria, Egypt, reported that Sulieman
Pasha, who was recently appointed Gov
ernor of East Soudan, had been murdered
by Arabs.
JAMES McDERMorr, of Brooklyn, N. Y,
thea alleged "suspect" who was recently
released by the English Government, de-
clined on the 9th to quit his prison with
out a body-guard.
The revenues of the Dominion of Canada
for the past year were $$335 ,sss, 1884, and the
expenses of the Government $2s,s05, 229,
leaving a surplus of 81, 10 ,055.
CHARLES S. PARNELL left London for
Leeds on the 2sth ult. There appeared to
AVE been no foundation for the report
that he had been killed or wounded. as he
had not been in Ireland for some weeks.
TWELVE deaths from yellow fever &C.
Cured on the 18th ult. at Hermosillo, Mex,
and it was estimated that one thousand
persons were PROSTATE. : FN 3S
THREE shocks of earthquake were felt on
the 2Sth ult. at Agram, the Croatian CAPT.
tai.
MRS. DIANA CoLPHUs, aged one hundred
and fifteen, died on the 2Sth ult. at London,
Ont. She was a negress, born in Kentucky
in 176s.
CRoTTY, an Irish landlord, who had beer
wounded several times previously, was
shot dead on the 28th ult. near Ballina,
County Mayo, Ireland.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-06
Frightened 10 Death.

Mt. CARMEL, Pa, Sept. 27.-In a hand
some tenement residence here lives two
Polish families, Zupish and Molinsky. Sat-
urday the former accused the latter of steal
ing from her, and the latter denied the
charge. Mrs. Molinsky and her husband
were both threatened with arrest. They
were totally ignorant of American law, and
firmly believing that a terrible fate awaited
him and his wife within the walls of some
penal institution, Molinsky sat down and
commenced to cry bitterly. His wife and
four children were soon seen in tears. Five
minutes afterward Molinsky was a corpse.
While crying a child had seized him.
and he caught hold of the beapost
to steady himself, his quaking shaking every
movable thing in the room. lie complained
OF a pain in the region of the heart, and
with a loud, piercing cry, fell to the floor
dead. 1t is said he was mquestionably the
victim of a broken heart, caused by fright.
The %neighbors hurried in and found the
widow AMI four children vainly trying to get
the dead man to speak.
The French Government has placed about
ITO Judges on the retired list.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-06
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

H Massachusetts Greenback State Con-
vention was held in Boston on the 25th.
Benjamin +. Butler was nominated for
Governor, and Nathaniel Gushing for Lieu
tenant Governor. The platform demands
the repeal of all class laws; no subsidies
for corporations; equal political rights
for men and women; a graduated
income tax and the taxation of
all other property in equal ratio;
the demonstration of gold and silver as
domestic currency, and the issue instead
of full legal-tender paper currency; the
withdrawal of the power of issue from
National banks; the removal of the tariff
monstrosity; that suffrage shall be free to
all; larger appropriations for common
schools; shorter hours of labor, and the
regulation of Interstate by Con-
gress.
THE cornerstone of the Burnside Me-
mortal Hall at Bristol, r. l., was laid on
the 25th by President Arthur, Judge Colt
delivering the Grafton.
LYMAN BLAIR, one of the oldest members
of the Chicago Chamber of Commerce, and
for many years a leading man in business
circles, met his death at his residence on
the 25th in q manner which indicated sui
eide, although the Coroner's Jury rendered
a verdict Of accidental DEATH.
In the Colored National Convention at
Louisville, KY, on the 25th Fred Douglass
urged the people of his race to move to-
ward the goal of prosperity and education,
and to compel the world to receive them
as equals. He thought it time that out
rageous lynchings be stopped, and that
colleges, the professions and tr~ades-unions
welcome the negro. 1t was resolved that
his address be sent to Congress as the SEN
timent of the convention.
GENERAL SHERMAN has decided to relin.
quish the command of the army to General
Sheridan November 1. HI will be placed
on the retired list February s.
BENJAMIN F. BUTLER was renominated
by reclamation for Governor of Massachu-
setts in the Democratic State Convention
held at Springfield on the Goth, and Fred
erick 0. Prince was nominated for Lieu
tenant-Governor. The platform declares
for equal rights, wi hout limitation, race
OF sex; impartial free lom of the ballot;
honest and economic expenditures in the
State and Nation; thorough reform of the
civil service; a tariff for revenue only,
and favors the introduction of boards of
arbitration for the purpose of reconciling
differences between employers and en-
ployed.
The Nebraska Republican State Conven-
ton met at Lincoln on the Goth and nomi-
mated Hon. NJ. B. Reese, of Saunders Coun-
ty, for Ju 'tice of the Supreme Court. The
resolutions adopted were of Stalwart Re-
publican character.
The death of George Knapp, senior pro-
prietor of the Missouri Republican, of st.
Louis, was announced on the 2Gth. He
had gone to Europe with his eldest son and
was on his return voyage when death over
took him. He was born in 1914, and was
the Oldest journalist in Missouri.
JAMES D.. WARREN, Of Buffalo, has been
chosen to succeed John F. Smyth as Chair
man of the Republican State Committed
of New York.
Mr.. E. MOODY BoYNToN, who took Ell.
cePtions to Buffers nomination for Govern.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-06
DOMESTIC.

The value of exports of breadstuffs from
the Uni ed States for August, 1883, was
$1S,8l6, 1913; same month in 1882, $2S, 1851 1920;
eight months, ended August 81, 1883, $114,-
e37,045; same time in 1882, $11O, 275, 1913.
AT Osakis, Mimi, on the Manitoba
Road, the boiler of a steam thrashing
machine exploded on the Goth, killing four
men and dangerously injuring two others.
WHILE crossing the ferry on the 26th at
Menomonee, Wis, Maggie Cunningham
and Ida Olson were drowned by the up.
setting of the boat.
A BAND of half-breed Chippewa Indians
residing in the Turtle Mountains informed
the Surveyor-General of Dakota on the
10Th that they would not permit a Govern
ment survey of their reservation to be
made.
AT West Grafton, W. Va, a few nights
ago B. G. Mountz, q prominent citizen,
mistook his son for a burglar and shot him
dead.
STEPHEN s.. PRICE, of Philadelphia, was
indicted on the 26th for embezzling ISL, 600
as executor of the estate of Thomas Rich.
ardson.
AT the National Convention of State In
surance Commissioners at Columbus, O.,
OH tne ZOGn IL was decided that four per
cent. interest is the proper basis, and all
States were advised to have their stand
ards conform on that basis within the next
five years.
HENRY HoLLowsBY was shot and killed
on the Goth at Henderson, KY, by Henry
Priutt. The men quarreled because Hol-
lowsby was whipping his wife, a step
sister of Priutt's.
IHE second unsuccessful attempt within
a week was made on the night of the 9th
to wreck a passenger train near Tullahoma,
Tenn, by placing timber across the track.
A PILE of straw at Carey, O., which was
stacked four years ago, was loaded on wag-
ons on the 9th. In the center was found
the skeleton of a man and a vial of %aconite.
WILLIAM WALSH, a Brooklyn IN. W
innatic, enraged because his wife refused
him money, caught his eighteen-months-
old child by the feet on the 9th and
crushed its head against the floor.
The Times, Tribune and World, of New
York City, having reduced the price of
their papers to two cents per copy, the
Herald on the 9th announced a reduction
to one cent per copy. The newsdealers,
however, refused to sell at less than the old
rates.
JOHN BowLEY, a young lawyer of Ches-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-06
A River Disaster.

ALBANY, N. Y, Sept. 29.--Yesterday
morning the boiler of the steamer j.. S.
Robinson exploded, and Captain George S.
Warner, Fireman Cleary and Richard Van
zandt were instantly killed, and Fred Sin
clair, William Durand and Melville Ryan
seriously injured. At the time of the explo-
sion the boat lay at the foot of Waterloo
street. Captain Robinson, of the Hattie M.
Belts, was blown from the pilot-house on
his boat to the wharf, and escaped un-
harmed. Young Van Zandt, who is one of
the killed, was on board of his fathers tug,
the Cora, which lay alongside the doomed
steamer.
The Belts, which lay at the stern of the
Robinson, is damaged one thousand dollars.
The Cora, which lay alongside, is a total
wreck, and the c. p. Circuit, lying ahead of
the Robinson, had her joiner work carried
away and machinery damaged. The Robin
son sank Immediately, carrying with it
the body of Cleary, the fireman.
One section of the boiler, weighing two
or three tons, was hurled four hundred feet,
against the top story OF a three-story build
ing, crushing in a portion of the wall. An
other section, weighing nearly a ton.
crushed in the roof of the coal barge E. NJ.
Downing, and still another section was
hurled to the rear, grazing the cabin of the
coal boat Apollo and tearing away the roof
before it fell into the river. Buildings were
shaken, windows shattered and general con-
sternation prevailed in the vicinity. The
exploded boiler was built by Robert Livings-
ton. of this city. in 1882
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-06

The French Government has placed about
40 Judges OF the retired list.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-06

In the scrub pack OF indian River
Narrows, Fla, are the remains Of a
settler general outfit. wagon, pots,
%crockery, etc. They have been there
many years, and, probably, mark q
tragic spot. Not unlikely they were
owned by persons who went to settle
under the ARMED Occupation act and
were slain by the indians. The oldest
settlers q give no account of Them
Chicago Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-06

1t is claimed that Washington
County, Tenn, was first named in honor
of the hero of Valley Forge, the county
being lad of in Novcmbc.., 1777, by tie
North Carolina Legislature.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-09
Artificial Flowers.

What a wonderful trade this is be-
coming! In New York alone there are
$50 manufactures, in Philadelphia a
large number, while as far west as
Chicago they are making an experiment
in the same direction. One of the lead
ing flower stores relies entirely upon
French goods, which are of course more
carefully prepared and of higher artistic
merit than domestic manufactures as
yet. But there are rapid strides being
made, and n Of the largest houses on
Broadway boasts of not having a single
foreign hand. Now that Dame Fashion
has decreed in the most autocratic man.
ner that an abundance Of artificial
flowers shall be used, not only for bon
nets and corsage bouquets, but as trim
mings for dresses, both dinner and even
ing toilets, the question arises how and
where to get the prettiest, cheapest and
most appropriate flowers. Modieska
was the first to set the fashion in favor
of flower garniture. The white flowers
are all made during the long dark days
of winter, as white is more easily worked
on than any other color. 1t must cheer
the hearts of those steady workers to
feel that in spite of rain and snow and
coh.tAere r brighter days coming, a
week maybe of rest, when they can 20
away and seek the very flowers their
nimble hp"ers fashion. But the water
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-09
One Of the Old Stock.

Colonel Thurmond, of Athens, m
attorney, had al instrument of writing
in court the validity of which needed to
be proven, and which could only be
done by the owner of the signature
found thereon swearing to the same.
The witness was called, and an old
gray-haired man, who had lived over
his three score and ten, took the stand
and Colonel Thurmond handed him the
paper and asked:
as that your signature, sir?"
The old gentleman looked at the
paper closely, and said:
'.Wa'al, I'll tell yer, lie Citing old,
and my eye-sight are not so good us it
wunst was, but if somebody will loan
me a pair of specks, praps l kin cipher
it out"
A pair of glasses were furnished him,
and he scrutinizingly gazed at the docu-
ment again.
"WeIl!''said the lawyer.
The witness continued to peer at the
paper.
Every we'll" Col. Thurmond said
again, waiting for the witness to de-
eide.
"Wa'al,' said the old man, ''that ar
is my fist"
.You can come down, sir" said the
lawyer.
But instead of sscoming down." the
old man turned his eyes on the court,
and after gazing at him for some time.
he said:
"Jedge, is you old man Nath Hutch
ms boy?"
HE was my father" answered the
court. ?
"Wa'al, give me yer hand, Jedge,
kaze l loved yer daddy. and 1 is awful
glad to see his boy followin' in his foot
marks"
The court gave the old man his hand,
and after shaking it heartily, the witness
stepped from the stand and started out
ofthe courtroom. When he had gotten
out of the bar, and was about midway
the hall, he turned abruptly about, and
said in rather a loud tone Of voice:
"Here-here's them ar specks, if any
of youns wants EN-"
The courtroom was in an uproar Of
laughter, but the old man eve smiled,
IS he returned the glasses and left tha
h0use.-El6crt IGa.1 South.