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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-10
Burial Of Mrs. Blanche Moses, the
Weighty Museum Attraction.

BALTIMORE, Nd, Oct. 29.-Hundreds of
people gathered in front Of the "Freaks"
clearinghouse here Saturday morning to
see the funeral of Mrs. Blanche Moses, the
five UNDERGROUND bride who died Friday.
Only the attaches of the Museum and re-
porters were admitted to the house. The
coffin was a big square box of black walnut
covered with black cloth and lined with
white silk. AS the coffin could not be taken
up an old-fashioned cooling board was used
to carry the mammoth corpse downstairs.
The body was strapped on to the board, and
ten men were required to help in getting it
to the doorway and putting it in the coffin.
The huge mass OF flesh was wrapped in a
sheet. AS there was no hearse large enough
i'll the city, the ponderous coffin was taken
to Mt. Olivet Cemetery in an u~ndertaker's
wagon. In carriages followed Miss Max
well, the white Moor, the Aztec
children and their %chaperon, Miss
Nellie Corbitt, Jordan and Edwards, the
glass-blowers, and Others of the Freaks and
variety performers Of the Dime Museum.
Sprague, the skeleton, and others went to
the house and took a last look at the re-
mains, but didn't attend the funeral. The
coffin was covered with floral pillows and
crosses. The grave was like a huge pit,
seven feet long, eight feet deep, and four
feet wide. 1t was a singular-looking group
OF mourners which gathered around the
grave. Moses, the young widower, seemed
terribly distressed. Rev. l.. H. Pearce, of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, conducted
the funeral services. Four stout ropes and
eight strong men were required to lower the
huge body into its last resting-place.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-10
FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
Three People Killed and Twenty-One In.
jured in u Railroad Accident Near Fort
Edward, n. Y.

Three People Killed and Twenty-One In.
jured in u Railroad Accident Near Fort
Edward, n. Y.
Caldwell, Glens Falls and Fort Edwal
train to connect with the Albany and Troy
train bound north left Glens Falls at three
o'clock yesterday afternoon for Fort Ed.
ward. 1t consisted of the locomotive, a
b%aggage-car and II passenger coach.
Over the canal feeder, a few rod:
from the Fort Edward Depot, was a
wood bridge, the bottom of which
was about twenty feet above water about six
feet deep. The engine slowed up when
nearing Fort Edward, but in going over the
bridge the Engineer, Edward Deal, felt the
structure totter. He threw the throttle wide
open and passed over in safety. When the
tender struck the other side of the bridge
Deal felt a sudden lurch, and looking back.
ward he saw the bridge, baggage-car and
passenger coach go down into the water.
Immediately there vas intense excite
ment. Fire bells were rung, and hundreds
soon arrived at the scene and assisted IRE.
moving the dead and wounded from the
wreck. The passenger coach lay upon its
right side, the bottoms Of the windows being
on a level with the water. John jenkins,
the conductor, was in the middle of the
car when it went down. He was serious
ly disabled, but did not lose his presence
of mind. Binding his cap on his hand be
broke through the windows of the left side
and crawled to the roof. Some Of the
bridge timbers had crushed through the
roof, and these were removed and the occu'
pants of the car We're removed through tue
aperture.
The list of the killed and wounded is as
follows:
Killed-Dallas Crippen, Glens Falls; NJ.
Mlncop, Gloversville; Mrs. Michael Mononln'
W%ounded-B. Theiz, fatally injured; Thorn;
as E. Connors. Glcns Falls, legs broken ana
shoulder sprained: Patrick Howard, fireman.
badly injured internally; T.Brady; brake,nadn.
J. Jenkins, conductor, face and head baay
cut; Edward DealiEger, cut about the heaa;
Mrs; =: Iheiz, Fort Edward, arm broken Ta,t I'D "a.
ward pha eaa G ani SIDE Mls' i II: mr. r n Mrs.. Anna RS.
dale, Whitehall, injured slightly about ane
chest; Thomas LOOMS, b~aggageman, snou,aul
sprained; Charles Schetfers,, express19a an.
Sandy Hill, bruised and cut; james
G. Mcintyre, .~Ticonderoga, N. " ,h as
Wing, Fort Edward, head and neck cut, MIA MIA
G. w. Carr, Fort Edward. cut about head h aII
body bruised; N. Goldstein. Glens falIs, st pau.
slightly injured; John H, Lsssick, proppl 1easr
OF the Albion Hotel, Saratoga. head and cn I'd.
injured; Mrs. Florence Stoddard, For. cd.
ward, injured about the limbs ana " the
John Cashion, G.ens Falls, conclusion Oh NV
spine.
A large force of men is engaged in clear.
ing away the wreck, and there is arepo,
which lacks confirmation that there are wv
bodies under the wreck. The accident wa
caused by the weakness of the suppol'o'
the bridge.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-10
A DAY OF THANKSGIVING.
President Arthur In a Proclamation Names
November 90 for q Festival of Praise.

NONeIllDCT ~ ~ VI "Ao
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.-The President
has issued the following thanksgiving proc
lamation:
"By the President of the United States of
America:
"ln furtherance of the custom of this peo-
pie at the closing of each year to engage,
upon a day set apart for that purpose, in Il
Good, /, Chester A. Arthur, President of the
United States, do hereby designate Thursday,
the 18th day OF November mex, as a day of
National thanksgiving.
''The year which is drawing to an end has
been replete with evidences of divine good
ness. The prevalence of health, the fullness
of harvests, the stability of peace and ORDER,
the growth of fraternal feeling, the spread of
intelligence and learning, the continued en-
these, and countless other blessings, are cause
for reverent rejoicing.
IL do, therefore, that, on the
day above appointed, the people rest from
their accustomed laborS, md, meeting in their
several places of worship, express their de-
vout gratitude to God, that he hath dealt so
bOuntifully with this Nation. and pray that
His grace and favor abide with it forever
more.
"In witness whereof 1 rave h%ereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed. Done at the city Of
Washington this Goth day of October, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hum
dred and eighty-three, and of the indepcn-
dence of the United States the one hundred
and eighth.
"[By the President.l
"CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
"~FREDER1CK I. FRELINGHUYsEN, Secretary
Of SfotnD
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-10
Fatal Railroad Accident.

CHICAGO, Oct. 29.-The incoming pas
senger train on the Panhandle Road col
lided with a Michigan Central freight en-
CINE Sunday morning at $40 O'Clock. The
accident occurred at the crossing of the
roads, near S%helbyville, Ind, about thirty
five miles from this city.
The freight engine was standing di-
rectly upon the crossing at the time of the
collision. The dense fog prevailing at that
hour made it possible to see but a short dis
ta:ce, and this is said to be the chief
cause of the terrible disaster. Through
some misunderstanding OH the part of the
engineers, the passenger engine came to-
ward the crossing at a high rate Of speed,
and before the freight engine became visible
through the fog the engines were in close
proximity and a terrific collision occurred.
The force was such that both engines were
carried along some forty feet and totally
wrecked. The baggage-car of the passenger
train was driven into one of the freight cars,
and both demolished.
The crossing tlagman, who wa standing
near, saw the danger and rushed into his
box alongside the tracks, for protection.
One OF the engines, capsizing, fell over on
the little structure and set it on fire. The
llaSnlan was killed., anu his body when
found was burned to a crisp. A boy near
by barely escaped.
Norris, the engineer of the Panhandle
train, was killed. The head brakeman on
the Michigan Central also lost his life.
The engineer of the freight-train was seen
to leap just before the engines came to-
gether. 1t was at first supposed that he
was under the debris, but he was tracked
by his blood and found nearly three miles
from the scene of the accident, dying and
out Of his head. His fireman, who escaped
unhurt, says he struck a fence when he
jumped, and it must have been so, for he
was partly disembowled and knocked crazy;
yet he ran an immense distance from the
scene of the catastrophe before he sue
cumbed to his wounds.
The passengers were badly shaken up,
but so far as could be learned none of them
were fatally injured.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-10
A Fatal Gas Explosion.

MINERAL RIDGE, o., Oct. GA terrific
gas explosion, which fatally injured DR.. A.
). Lcitch, a prominent physician and Presi.
dent of the School Board, and seriously in.
jured severa | others, occurred Friday.
Workmen struck a rich vein of gas, and
many spectators came to see it. DR.. Leitch
very foolishly, and against the remonstrance
OF the bystanders, rolledo a newspaper
around a stone. lighted the paper, and
threw it down TIE well, a distance of fifty
feet. A tremendous explosion occurred,
Which shook the earth and blew the bricks
and trappings to splinters. Dr.. Leitch, who
s,oou at the mouth of the well, was hurled
about fifteen feet in the air with terrific
force, and was horribly mangled. Both
eyes We're blown out, and his hair and near
~ all his whiskers were scorchcd off. 1t is
feared his lungs are affected. He lies in a
critical condition. with little hopes of his
recovery. Several Others were seriously
burned and injured by pieces of timber.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-10
PERSONAL N POLITICAL.

The told line" Democrats of Massachu-
sets on the 23d issued an address repudiat-
ing General Butler and invoking Demo.
cratic support for the Republican candi-
date for Governor.
AT Portland, Me-, on the o3d a yorng
man alleged that he was Charley Ross,
claiming to have been kept in a dark room
four years and then taken to Brazil.
UPON the recommendation of the Com.
missioner of Pensions, the Secretary of the
Interior on the 23d ordered the suspension
OF the following-named pension attorneys
for illegalities: j. r. Cilley, of Rockland,
Me-; Francis REGISTER and William H.
Druen, of Philadelphia; Milo B. Stevens
u Co., of Cleveland, Washington, Detroit
and Chicago; William II. Wells g. Co., of
Washington, D. c., and James r. Russell
& Co., of Trenton, N. J..
Mr.. ABBOTT, of Boston, wrote a letter
on the Oath declining the Democratic nomi-
nation for Lieutenant-Governo of Massa.
chusetts.
A LARGE number of the officers and SOL
diers of the Army of the Cumberland gath
cred at Cincinnati on the oath, the occasion
being the annual meeting of the society.
FULL returns received on the 24th from
all the counties in Iowa at the recent cleo.
ton give the following: For Governor,
Sherman, Republican, 1874, 1s2; Kline,
Democrat, 139,093; Weaver, Greenback,
23,OS9; Sherman's majority over all, 1900.
For Supreme Judge, Reed. Republican,
1885,; Hayes, Democrat, 141 ,049; Church.,
G~reenback, 21,439; Reed over all, 900.
GENERAL SHERIDAN was on the 25th re-
elected President of the Army of the Cum
berland.
AMONG the cases recently. docketed in the
United States Supreme Court at Washing
ton was the City of New Orleans VS.. Myra
Clark Gaines. The record in the case is the
largest ever submitted to the Supreme
Court or probably any other court. 1t is
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-10

bound in one immense volume, which
weighs over 200 pounds and contains goo,
900 words. 1t takes two men to open and
shut the book.
REV. I. W. PEMBROKE, the oldest Con.
gregational minister in New Hampshire,
died ON the 25th at Concord.
Mrs. DAVID MOSES, aged seventeen
years, and weighing 517 pounds, who was
recently married in a New York museum,
died in Baltimore on the Goth of fatty de.
generation of the heart.
JAMES S. GRINNELL, for many wears
Chief Clerk in the Department of Agri.
culture at Washington, was on the goth
nominated by the Democrats for Lieuten.
ant-Governor of Massachusetts.
JUDGE e. G. Pool, Customs Collector at
Elizabeth City, N. c., has been nominated
for Congress by the Republicans of the
First District. The Judge is a brother of
the deceased Congressman, WalterF F. Pool.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-10
LATER NEWS,

TWELVE deaths from cholera occurred
on the 9th in Alexandria, Egypt, and al
Cairo the plague had also reappeared
Great alarm prevailed.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has designated
Thursday, November 80, as a day of Ma.
tional thanksgiving.
FEARS were expressed on the 9th for the
safety of the Marquis of L~ansdowne, in
Canada, because Of his close association
lately in Ireland with Lord Rossmore and
the Duke of Abercorn, who stirred up Or.
ange animosity to the National pro.
gramme.
1T was reported on the esth that a man
had been arrested at Hampton, Ia, who
had confessed that he was hired to murder
Fora Burns. The prisoner would be taken
to Lincoln, ILL.,, the place of the tragedy,
for examination.
AT Lovelady, Tex. on the 2Sth STANDBY
and Turner, drunken roughs, cut Mr.,
Montzinger to pieces with knives in the
presence of his wife. A mob were in pur-
suit.
JAMES &. SMITH, a murderer, was on the
9th sentenced to seventy-five years in the
penitentiary at Hillsboro, Tex.
THE safe in the jewelry store of L. S.
Stowe & Co., in Springfield, Mass, was on
the 2Sth- broken open and robbed Of goods
valued at from $12, 900 to $15, 1000.
AT Joliet Crossing, Ind, a freight and
passenger train collided on the 2Sth, and
an engineer, a brakeman md u fagman
werekilled, and three other train-men were
seriously injured.
~
BELvA A. LoCKwooD,a female LAWYER at
Washington, was suspended on the 9th
from practice before the Interior Depart.
ment for receiving illegal fees and with.
holding pension money.
MABEL STONE, a young daughter of a re.
tired banker of West Newton, Mass. oh.
tanned a revolver on the 2Sth and killed
herself in a fit of insanity.
MRS. DAVID MOSES, the fat woman. wa
buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery. at Balti.
more, Oh the 9th. and at night two ot.
tempts were made to steal the BODY. hut
they were unsuccessful.
The country residence of Edwin n. Rem.
son, at Germantown, Pa, was burned on
the 18th, involving a loss of 100000.
NEAR oxboro, Ont, on the 9th a passen.
ger and freight train on the Grand ,Junc.
ton Road collided. injuring three persons
fatally and many others slightly. Proper.
ty worth 10000 was destroyed.
LORD CoLERIDGE sailed from New York
for England on the 9th.
PERE HYAcINTHE arrived in New York
on the sth by the steamship Alaska.
! SEVERE earthquake shocks were felt in
the vicinity of Smyrna, in Asia Minor. ON
the 2Sth. At a place called Vourla 1850 ner.
sons were seriously and sixty one slightly
injured.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-10
FOREIGN.

The Marquis of Lansdowne landed at
Quebec at ten a. m. on the Esd, and was
Immediately sworn in as Governor. Gen.
eral of Canada. The populace exhibited
much enthusiasm.
ORDER had been restored on the 23d at
Port-au-Prince, where 1880 lives were lost
and $4,000 900 worth of property destroyed
during the recent massacre.
THREE children named Ingus, the oldest
a girl of twelve years, were drowned in a
pond at Elkhorn, Manitoba, on the I'D. The
girl was on the pond skating, whenthe ice
broke and she fell into the water. The
younger brothers tried to save her, and all
three persisted in the presence Of their
mother on the bank.
IT was announced or the 23d that the
Egyptians had completely defeated Ell
Mahdi, the False Prophet.
A BLACKLIST circular, containing the
names of the jurors in the Phelix Park
murder trials, was mailed to thousands of
Dublin's citizens on the 23d.
CoNsTANTINoPLE advices of the 24th
state that many deaths from fever and ex-
posure were threatened in the districts re.
Gently wrecked by earthquakesu unless help
was given. Clothing, medicine and build
ing materials were mostly neeeed.
The Poor-Law Guardians # Limerick,
Ireland, announce that they will erect one
thousand cottages for laborins men.
ADvICEs of the oath state thlt a swindler
had secured five dollars or tel dollars each
from eighty men and women in Montreal
by selling appointments as private de.
tective in connection with a bureau in Chi
cago.
ADv1cEs of the 25th from Mazatlan,
Mex, reported that since ths outbreak of
yellow fever in that city five thousand per.
sons had died from the disease. It was
believed that the plague was at an end.
CHOLERA was reported on the 25th as
again epidemic in Egypt, nire deaths hav.
ing occurred at Alexandria. The inhabi-
tants were greatly alarmed.
Four foundrymen were killed on the
25th in an accident at LIE Creuzot, a large
town two-thirds of the way between Paris
and Geneva.
The robbed and mutilated remains of two
unknown Americans were recently found
in Mexico, twenty-five miles from Ell Paso,
Tex. #
A LARGE number of Socialists who had
been industriously propagating their doc
trines in the region of the Ural Mountains,
in Russia, were arrested on the 25th.
In San Andres, Rio del chihuahua
Maria Guadalupe Arilla, to punish hel
niece, aged six years, burned the child's
hand off a few days ago.
ADvIcEs of the goth from Alexandria
Egypt, state that the cholera had reap.
peared in Fayroom, on the west side of the
Nile, inc at Zifteh.
THE trial at Olmutz, Moravia, of seven.
teen Socialists charged with high treason
resulted on the Goth in all the prisoners be.
ing acquitted.
The number of Americans who regis.
tered in Europe during the season closed
on the Goth was 10000.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-10
A Singular Accident.

DAYTON, o., Oct. a7.-Friday evening at
half past five o'clock Mrs. DR.. p. n.
Adams a lady highly connected, While
passing a two-story building on which the
workmen were laying brick, was struck ON
the mead by a brick which fell from the ton,
a distance of probably forty feet. 1t in
ilcted a terrible wound OH the top of the
lady's head. She fell into the gutter and
was picked up and taken home unconscious
AZ ten O'Clock she for a short while regained
consciousness, but soon died.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-10
Preparing His Message.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.-The Presloe'S
will prepare his message to Congress III NV
Soldiers Home, and it is probable tf"' Nv
will remain in his present quarters thlousA
November. He is better pleased WIN and ND
location than in the Executive Mansion shIa
has made himself perfectly com1olI" aess
with all the latest household convenle Nv to.
His mornings are devoted prlnclpan. la
work on his message, and conseque.iil ~ ill
is usually delayed coming to MS oll''
afternoon.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-10
lmpaled by a Red.Hot Rail.

SCRANTON, "a, Oct. 27.-Michael Dur
aged forty, was oiling the rolls at the
stcel-rail mill of the Lackawanna Iron 4,
o'eel Company. A red-hot rail from the
rolls struck him in the back lust above the
instantly. "ANl
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-10

1t requires GIL men to manage anu ~
the Signal-Service DureaN.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-10

eo1 Ll'Tty wells in the Allegheny Pa.) oil
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-10
Pension Frauds.

WASHINGTON, Oct. ga local paper
publishes an interview with United States
District Attorney Corkhill in regard to the i'll
vestigation now being made by
that officer into the fraudulent operations of
pension attorneys. The District Attorney
says a large number of attorneys have en-
gagged in fraudulent practices, and that he
has received hundreds of letters since the
publication Of his communications to
Secretary Teller containing specific COM
plants OF attempted frauds on the
part of firms in the pension business in this
city. lie estimates that soldiers and their
relatives have beendefrauded out OF 81, O0O,-
600 through the fraudulent practices of these
attorneys, and expresses the intention of
bringing the matter to the attention of the
Grand jury. Colonel Corkhill renews his
request that all soldiers or others having
copies OF deceptive circulars from agents in
thisc city or knowledge of any fraudulent
transactions on their part will mail him
full information upon the subject, in order
that he may bring the guilty party to JUS
tice.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-10

"A horrible case of self-mut;lation
recently TRANSFERRED neal Macon, Ga.
Edward Moore, an old clergyman, oi
Tat:nail County, while under a tempo
rary arrangement OF mind, became I'M
pressed with the idea that he must OBJ
tain relief by cutting off his hand, and.
after eating breakfas+, went to q shop,
procured an AK and deliberately chopped
Oft his hand. He walked some two hun
dred feet after he had completed the
act and fell over in = ditch, where he
was subsequently found exhausted from
the loss Of blood. He was taken to the
house, and after a little trouble the
physicians succeeded in improving his
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-03-06

between the cars of freight train at
the Louisville and Nashville depot, in
this city, this morning, fell and was
run over and killed instantly. His
body was terribly mangled.
Major Pratt was about to inspect
the Alice furnace when a freight train
backed across the street in front of
him. Being unable 10 pass he started
to crawl under car. The train sud
denly started, and in an instant had
passed over his body, cutting it in
twain. A large crowd was standing
near and witnessed the accident, but
were powerless to render any help to
the unfortunate man, and they stood
mutely looking at his mangled body till
the entire train Of "a cars had passed
over it. When the pieces Of his bsdy
were gathered up. they scarcely filed
an ordinary bucket.