Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-24
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.


hurst, Miss, E. B. Wheeler killed Pierce
Mathews.
ACCORDING to the United States Surgeon
Generals report, 1909 soldiers were on
the sick list during the last fiscal year,
while the deaths amounted to pa. The ad-
missions to the hospital for alcoholism
were eighty out of each 1000.
The Executive Committee of the Wom-
ans Foreign Missionary Society of the
m. L. Church voted at st. Louis on the 9th
to raise S25 5000 for the establishment of a
woman's periodical in India.
AT Forth Worth, Tex, J. w. Fleming,
formerly editor of Age and Progress, was
shot and killed on the 9th by E. l.. Cum
bingham, a rival in business.
MOSES, the husband of the fat girl who
died recently in Baltimore, sold her body
Oh the 9th to Dr.. Hill for 500. The doctor
would Immediately disinter the corpse and
nave it dissected.
NINE. ADELINA PATTI, the famous singer,
arrived i'll New York on the 9th.
A BLow-P1PE burst a few days ago on an
engine at Dallas, Tex, and an engineer and
firemen were fatally scalded.
In the examination of o. A. Carpenter at
Lincoln, Ill, charged with numbering Fora
Burns, the prosecution closed OF the 18th,
adding nothing to what was developed at
the Coroner's inquest.
JOHN L.. MARTIN, of Luling, Tex, who
confessed having murdered his wife, was
taken out of the hands Of his guard o. the
night of the 9th by one hundred masked
men, and hanged to a tree.
ROBERT KING and Dennis Coyle were ia.
tally injured at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th
by the fall of a derrick.
AT Logansport, Ind, on the evening of
the 18th George West fatally shot Mr.. Will
liams, editor of the Advertiser. The trouble
originated in a domestic matter.
K. N. FITCH, formerly cashier Of the
Second National Bank of Warren, O.,
pleaded guilty on the 7th to embezzling
$4,000, Inc was sentenced to five years
imprisonment.
DAv1D HANKIN, of st. Louis, a colored
Baptist preacher, was shot dead by some
Eone unknown on the evening of the 18th
while seated at the supper-table.
A COLLISION on the Pan Handle Road on
the 1th at R%ockport, O., caused the death
of Engineer Matthews and his fireman, and
two other persons were fatally wounded.
The Cincinnati Board of Trade has
branded the trade dollar as a nuisance, and
recommends that Congress provide for its
redemption.
WILLIAM DRAKE, employed by a mill at
Arlington, o., was cut in pieces a few days
ago by a circular saw
NATHAN SZKOLNY was arrested on the 7th
on the steamer Marathon at Boston for for
geries amounting to $4,000 at Bromberg,
Prussia.
The steamer Wisconsin landed at New
York on the It'll 1858 Mormon converts from
Great Britain and Scandinavia.
HARRY LIVINGSTON surrendered on the
9TH to the United States authorities at st.
Joseph, Mo-. confessing to being one
of a gang of counterfeiters working
that section of the country. He said he
had been in the business eighteen years.
The new wing of the Capitol at Madison,
Wis, suddenly gave way on the afternoon
of the sth, the iron columns being broken
like glass. OF forty mon at work in the
building five were killed and t%wenty-one
were injured, some fatally.
THE Danville Steel Company Of Dan
vile, Pa, failed on the Sth for $112, 900.
H. G. MCGEE, a farmer living ten miles
from Kansas City, Mo-, on the Sth killed
his wife and a daughter, aged twenty,
with a shotgun, and then took a fatal dose
of morphine. The three corpses were dis
covered by McGee's younger children
when they returned from school. Family
troubles were supposed to have been the
cause of the crime.
Four more persons died ON the 9Th from
injuries received during the recent cyclone
jat Springfield, Mo-, making eleven deaths
lin all, and two others were not expected to
live.
The engine of a thrashing machine in
operation on the farm of Catherine Gait.
ger, at Canal Dover, o., exploded on the
sth, fatally injuring John Smith, Peter
lLintner and Mrs. Galtger. Five others
were slightly injured.
SENATOR BLAIR, Chairman of the Com
.mittee on Labor and Education, stated on
the sth that the recent investigation had re-
suited in obtaining much valuable informa-
lion upon the subjects inquired into.
About two hundred witnesses had been ex-
Rmined. The committee would next go to
the South.
JUDGE HOFFMAN, of the United States
District Court, decided at San Francisco
a few days ago that Cinnamon who wentto
China prior to the passage of the Restric.
tion act were entitled to return.
The Missionary Board of the III. E,
Church, in session at New York on the Sth
appropriated 1910 1898 for missions.
The Acknowledgement of Illinois gave
an opinion on the Sth that certain criminal
illustrated papers Of New York were pro-
scribed in the State by law, and that the
sellers could be fined or imprisoned.
HENRY MCGEE, Sheriff, made an attempt
to arrest a drunken man named Edmiston
Parker, at Nohimingo, 1. T., a few DAYS
ago., when Parker drew a revolver and
killed him.. Kneeling beside the dead man
Parker blew his own brains out.
BEADLE g. KELLY's agricultural imple-
ment factory at Troy, O., was destroyed by
fire on the Sth. Loss, $4,000.
GOVERNOR ~CR1rTENDEN, of Missouri, has
issued a proclamation recommending that
corporations and citizens adopt the new
standard of time to go into effect on the
railroads on the 18th.
A SHOCK of earthquake was felt at Cove
Creek, Utah, a few days ago. No damage
was lone.
A NEGRO who assaulted lsley Hill,s
daughter near Greenwood, KY, was capt