Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-12-14
OF the week,
Interesting News Compilation.1
DOMESTIC.

breast Of his eight-year-old SON, and then
called his four-year.old boy to pull the
trigger and shoot his brother. The gun
was loaded and the boy was killed.
THREE cars of an express train on the
Grand Trunk Road jumped the track at
Elsdon, nine miles from Chicago, on tho
9th, and a brakeman was killed, the con-
ductor fatally injured, and several others
were badly bruised.
G. B. HENDRIcK and wife, of Jonesburg,
Kan, visited Thomas Maguire's house q
few nights ago, and Mrs. Hendricks shot
Mcguire dead for calumny. Tho Hem
bricks were arrested, and later an un-
known person fired through the prison
window, %wounding Hendricks fatally.
EXCAVATIONS in Coles Hill at Plymouth,
Mass, recently opened tho graves of two
pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower,
and who We're buried during the first Win
ter in America. They are the only graves
of first settlers positively identified.
THE President and thirty-cight students
of the National College of Pharmacy at
Washington left on the 9th because q col
ored man was admitted.
So SERIOUS was the strike of the freight
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protection by tie Mayor was asked by the
Illinois Central and Louisville Roads.
ALoss of 100000 was incurred at Min.
neapolis, Mimi, on the 9th by the burning
of a store owned by Lyman Brothers, and
occupied as a wholesale drug store.
DIR. w. D. FLOWERS, of Wellsburg, Pa,
whose bride died two weeks ago, killed
himself on the 9th with poison.
NEARLY the entire business portion of
Albany, Green County, Wis, including
the post-ofice and both newspaper offices,
was destroyed by fire at an early hour on
the morning of the 9th, causing a loss of
over $4,000. Edward Dodge, q young
man, was killed by falling walls, and five
other men We're fatally injured. Several
persons We're also badly wounded.
EDGAR GROVER and Robert Leh, aged
eight and ten years respectively, were run
down by a train on the Lehigh e. Susque-
hanna Railroad at Catasauqua. Pa, on the
eth, while on their way to school, and in
etantly killed.
Four HUNDRED miners at Pittsburgh, Pa.
struck on the 9th against a reduction of
>One-fourth cent in the mining rate.
= The Mississippi River Improvement
Committee has issued a call for a conven-
tion to be held at Washington, D. c., Feb
ruary 5, 1884. Each State and Territory is
requested to send delegates according to o
plan proposed by the committee.
AS A result of the recent gas-well riot at
M%urraysville, Pa, Milton Weston, Brow.
ser, DIR. Crawford and two others were on
the 9th held on a charge of murder by the
Coroner's Jury at Greensburg, Pa, and
n<l,or p,o,,,Io~, - Iro,%o~3, hood ,ro,o
charged with assault with intent to kill.
TEN business houses at Waverly, Tenn,
were destroyed by fire on the 9th, causing
a loss of $4,000.
A FIRE in New York City on the Goth
ult. destroyed the Windsor Theater and
several other buildings, causing a loss of
$780, 900.
The Saxonville (Mass.) carpet mills were
burned on the Goth ult., causing a loss of
about 100000.
The greater portion of Ocala, Fla, was
destroyed by fire on tho Goth ult. Loss,
$780, 900. Two persons were killed by ex-
plosions.
AT Lancaster, Ky, on the esth ult. Judge
George Denny shot and killed James H..
Anderson in self-defense.
JACOB S. COHEN & Co., fur dealers of
New York, have failed for $11S,00o.
NATHANIEL LEE, an aged farmer of Mad
fson, Ind, was swindled q few days ago
by three.card-nonte men to the amount of
$500.
A CONSTABLE and a deputy in Marion
County, Ala, attempted recently to arrest
William Stamford for insulting q Mrs.
King, when Stamford shot the constable
dead and ran. The deputy pursued, and
The and Stamford both shot at once, when
both men fell dead. The three men were
all killed in ten minutes.
GREEN NJ. CUMBY, a wealthy planter of
Cumbyville, Ark, was a~ssassinated a few
days ago by two brothers named Bissell,
who stole up behind him and shot him
dead.
A FIRE at Paris O., on the 2sth ult. de-
stroyed thirty-ive business houses, valued
with their contents ut $4,000.
NEAR North Worcester Station, Mass,
on the 2Sth ult. a car of a Boston, Barre &
Gardner passenger train rolled down an
embankment, turning over twice in its de-
scent. About fifty persons were in the
coach, and all were injured, a dozen seri.
ously.
AN explosion in Mayer Bros.' %drug-house
at Kansas City, Mo-, Oh the 2Sth ult. set the
building on fire, causing its destruction,
with a loss of $50, 900.
A HAND-cAR on the Ohio Southern Road,
containing five men, was struck by an en-.
gine on the 10Th ult. near Bethesda, o.,
and three men on the car were killed.
FRITZ RUMMEL, a butcher employed at
the Chicago stock-yards, on the 2S5h ult.
murdered Emma Lareba, who had refused
to become his wife, and then killed himself.
In a railroad collision near Ashland, O.,
a few days ago Conductor Pierce was killed
and several brakemen were severely in
jlred. Eight cars We're burned.
THE Georgia Supreme Court has decided
thas a note given in a cotton future deal is
void, and that cotton futures and faro
were kindred games.
A skIFF containing nine workmen cap
sized near the mouth OF w off River, below
Memphis, on the 20th ult., and two were
drowned.
IT was reported on the Goth ult. that six
Gloucester (Mass.) fishing schooners,
carrying s~eyenty-five men, We're lost in the
recent severe storms.
p. F. DOVE Co., of Peru, Ind, manu-
facturers of agricultural machinery, have