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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-13
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
Rev. James Kemlo Kills His Wife, and
Then Takes His Own Life.

linen VAke0 x1l6 Own III
New YORK, Sept. 19.-Shortly after noon
yesterday a man with blood gushing out OF
a terrible cash in his throat was seen to
jump from the fourth story of the Atlantic
Bank building, 40 Fulton street, Brooklyn.
He fell on the sidewalk, sixty feet below,
with terrible force, and the crowded thor
oughfare at once became the scene of the
greatest excitement. 1t was soon seen that
the man was fatally injured, and, while
preparations were III progress to remove him
to a hospital, several persons rushed up
stairs to sec il they could learn something
about him.
AS they opened the door leading to the
front room on the fourth floor a horrible
sight met their gaze. The body of a woman
still warm and breathing was lying on the
floor just within the door so as to prevent
it from opening more than half way, her
feet being toward it. She had a ter
rible stab in the left side OF the
throat. She was at once recognized as
Mrs. frankie Kemlo, wife of Rev. James
Kemlo, late pastor of the Reformed Presby-
terrain Church at Boonville, N. j., and
residing in Newark. Very soon afterward
the man who had thrown himself from the
window was recognized as Rev. Mr.. Kemlo
himself. From what had occurred it now
became evident that murder and suicided
had been committed. The room presented
a horrible and sickening appearance, the
place being saturated with blood.
There was blood spattered over the wall
near tho entrance, blood on TIE clean plates
laid ready for dinner, and blood on the bed,
which stood near the open window from
which Kemlo had taken his terrible leap.
The sill of the window on which he had
placed his hands before taking the leap was
broadly stained with blood. In the sink
was found the bloody carving-knife which
Kemlo had left after him. The body of
Kemlo was taken to the Long Island College
Hospital, where he died this morning.
The theory of the case is that Kemlo, act
ing under some insane impulse, first stabbed
his wife and then cut his w throat while
they were alone. That she had resisted him
is shown by the screams that were heard
and by the fact that the ball of her left
thumb is deeply gashed, as if she had caught
the knife in her hand. 1t appears that the
Rev. Mr.. Kemlo has for some time been dis
turbed In his mind, partly from malarial
fever and partly from concern caused by
his having been laid off by his church,
after vacation. He and his wife had
come on a visit to old Mrs. Kemlo, who for
several years has occupied apartments on
the fourth story of the bank building. They
had only been half an hour in the house,
and old Mrs. Kemlo was getting dinner
ready for them, the cooking utensils being
already on the range. The old lady had
just gone out to purchase some meat, and
during her absence the tragedy occurred.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-13
LATER. NEWS

WHILEs six men were timberingt the Wood
ward shaft at Kingston, Pa, on the pod
n heavy block of timber fell on the plat.
form supporting them, and four Of the
men tumhled sixty feet to the bottom and
were drowned. The other two saved their
lives by hanging to a beam until rescued.
A. FAST express on the New York, Penn
sylvania e. Ohio Road dashed into q sta
tionary freight at Talmadge, O., on the
e2d, killing the engineer and seriously in.
lurlng many train men.
TWO SEVERE shocks of earthquake were
felt at Casamicceola, Italy, on the 23d.
One house was wrecked, but nc lives were
lost.
NINE deaths from yellow fever occurred
at Guaymas, Mex, during the t~wenty-four
hours ended on the 23d. Del Vale, a mil
lioHaire, recently fled to the country and
died there. The scourge was said to be
spreading rapidly.
ABOUT $1,000 worth of goods were stolen
from Ralshoven's jewelry store, at Detroit,
on the night of the 22d.
EIGHT colored and six white men were
whipped at the post at Newcastle, Del,
on the 22d, for larceny.
The engine at the Red River bridge at
Shreveport, La., exploded on the 22d, kill.
ing five workmen and injuring five others,
one fatally.
THERE were twelve deaths from yellow
fever at Havana. Cuba, during the week
ended ON the 22d.
AUNT SALLY SToCKwELL, one hundred
and four years of age, died at Brattleboro,
VITA few days ago.
AN officer in the English army made a
dynamite belt, fastened it to his body, and
blew himself to atoms the other day.
AN infant child Of Theron Goodwin, Jr..
of Castleton. VT, was killed a few DAYS
ago in the arms of its mother, by q shot
fired through the window by some unknown
person.
THEnew Brooks comet is now shown to be
the long-expected visitor of 1912. 1t will be
visible to the naked eye before Christmas,
VIENNA advices of the 23d state that ex.
%tensive military preparations are being
made by Russia along the Austrian and
German frontiers.
Miss SALIIE JOHNSON, a handsome Bal.
timore girl, hanged herself a few days ago
on the staircase with a rope, from grief at
the insanity of a companion.
FOLLOWING a gas-explosion on the 22d
near Birmingham, Ala, the Oxmoor IRON
furnaces were destroyed by fire, involving
a loss of $500, 900.
w. S. KENwoRTHY is the Greenback can.
didate for Congress from the Sixth Iowa
District.
BY an explosion of fireworks on the 23d
in an out.building of the Pittsburgh Elk
position, Thomas Rogers, a jockey, and
three valuable ~race-horses lost their lives.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-13
Frozen Facts.

AS a west-bound train passed Cane
Horn a large party of strangers crowd.
ed out on the platform and loudly ex.
pressed their dissatisfaction at the seen.
cry.
AS they returned to their seats to en-
JOY a Jolly good grumble, entirely OBJ.
livious of the indignant glances of the
native passengers, a meek-looking, GEN
tle-voiced journalist from Frisco ap.
preached from the other end Of the car
and volunteered to give the tourists
some valuable facts concerning the
country.
The next morning the journalist was
informed by the porter that acommittee
of gentlemen wished to see him in the
baggage-car. AS he entered the latter
he found a dozen travellers, all native,
and to the manner born, waiting to re.
ceive him, hat in hand. The spokes.
man advanced and said
"You are the party who was giving
those globe trotters in the real sleeper
some pointers about the coast, 1 be.
lieve ?"
II am, SIR" said the q%uilldriver,
modestly.
"You told them, I understand" con-
tinued the chairman, 'that Mount
Shasta was 10000 feet high?
"The same"
You divulged the well-known fact
that trains on this road were often de-
tanned four days by herds of buffalo, and
that they frequently have to use q Cat
ling g IN on the c~ow-catcher to prevent
the locomotive being pushed off the
track by the grizzly bears ?"
ayes, sir"
"You further acquainted them with
the circumstance that the Digger In,
dians live to the average OF 204, and
that the rarefication of the air on the
plains is such that an ordinary pin looks
like a telegraph pole at the distance OF
forty-two miles ?"
II think l wedged that in," respond
ed the newspaper man.
"And we are informed they made
memorandum of your statement thai at
the Palace Hotel an average OF two
walters per day were shot by the guests
for bringing cold soup-eh ?"
"They did"
"And, finally, we believe that you are
the originator of that beautiful-thae
beautiful = er-fact regarding that
fallen redwood tree up at MariposaLl
mean the hollow one into which the
six-horse stage drives, and comes out OF
a knot-hole l65 feet further along"
II told them all about .i."
"Just SO! just sol" said the com,
mittee man, grasping the patriots hana
and producing a well-tilled bucksklh
bag. 'and l am instructed by this CON,
mittee of your fellow countrymen ~
present you with this slight token OF our
ppreciation of the noble manner IL
!hich you have indicated the honor"
our native land" i.
And as he left the car they gave hllt
a cheer that nearly shook the train o.
the rails.-Sdn Francisco Post.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-13
MILDLY CENsURED.
Synopsis of the Report of the Committee
of investigation Into the Affairs of
Supervising Architect Hill.

Synopsis of the Report of the Committee
of investigation Into the Affairs of
Supervising Architect Hill.
WASHINGTON, Sept 1e.--The report of
the Hill Investigating Committee is looked
upon as very unsatisfactory. 1t is a mild
kind of document, and halts between a feel.
ing of duty and a fear of Offend
ing the building ring. Hill is dis
appointed, however, in not receiving a COM
plete vindication Of his management Of the
Supervising Architects office, He SAYS tho
committee never visited his office once DUR
ing the entire investigation, and KIN CIV moth
ing whatever of the manner in which it is
conducted. He points out in connection
with the criticism of his action in giving
without competition a contract for safes and
vaults to George l.. Damon, Of Boston, that
since the investigation began contracts of
this character have been advertised for
and awards made. Damon has received a
contract, and gets fifteen per cent. more for
his work than he ever did before. Upon the
point where the committee hold that the
lowest bidders for shutters should have been
awarded the work, Mr.. Hill says he would
not have given a bidder in that case any
OF a contract, so poor were the sam
pies furnished for his inspection. In regard
to showing favoritism in the award for
steam-heatirg apparatus, Mr.. Hill says
that he took the best work that he
could get. He would as soon think of adj
vertising for legal services as for plans for
s~team-heating. He is also criticised for Sc
Letting the Otis elevator. Upon this Mr..
Hill says that he had too much regard for
the lives of the public to select IN inferior
elevator because he could get it cheaper. 1t
is believed that Secretary Folger will recon-
mend legislation to place the office under
the control of a board, with powers similar
to those vested in the Light. House Board.
The resignation of Hill is regarded as GER
tain.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-13

the 18th unable to supply the demand, al.
though they manufactured 10000 daily.
The Northern Pacific Road on the Goth
reported gross earnings of $77,s55,4o9 for
the year and expenses of S 1886, 929.
TAs International and Northern Tcle.
graph Company, with q capital of $1,000,
900, was Incorporated on the Goth, at Al.
bapy, N. Y.
The Kentucky Methodist Conference in
annual session at Cynthiana IN the Goth
Endorsed the withdrawal of Sunday trains
by the Louisville Road, and resolved that
camp-meetings should be abolished unless
unnecessary traffic on the grounds was
stopped during the Sabbath.
THE great drought in New Hampshire
had on the 21st compelled the closing of
the saw and grist mills, and cattle were
being driven long distances to water.
THROUGHOUT the United States and Can
ada tho business failures for the seven
days ended on the 21st numbered III,
against 1876 for the previous seven
days. The distribution was as follows:
Now England States, 81; Middle, IS: West
ern, 80; Southern, 81; Pacific States and
Territories, 30; New York City, 9; Canada
and Provinces, "a.
TICKETS over the Panhandle Road from
Chicago to Louisville, KY, were selling
for one dollar on the 21st, owing to a war
in passenger rates by several competing
lines.
In Sumter County, S. c., a few nights
& citizens took a negro who had assault
ed a twelve-year-old girl, tied him to a
tree, shot him, and then beat the corpse in
to a jelly.
The Dun Commercial Agency reported
on the 21st that trade generally through
out the country was in a healthy condi-
ton. Speculation was not so rampant as
at this time last year, but legitimate bust
ness was fully as large and more satisfac-
tory. Country collections were good,
none was abundant, and rates to borrow
ers were low.
THE Philadelphia female baseball clubs
played a game at Sea View Park, Staten
Island, on the 21st. One nine was com
posed of blondes and the other of bru.
n%ettes, the former winning by a score of
thirty-six to twenty-seven.
A EVE shock of earthquake alarmed
citizens of Greensboro, N. c., on the 21st.
IL hOuSCS ouooh dS IL C1clo udu DCou al
explosion near by. No damage was done.
In a dispute over cards in a L~ockland
CO., saloon the other night Philip Kuhn
struck Ezekiel Lee (colored) with his fist,
knocking him against the counter and kill.
ing him instantly.
ANoTE of the Irish Republic for five dol
lars, a fair imitation of the Greenback,
has been obtained in Boston by a secret,
service officer.
ONE convicts in the Connecti
cut State Prison were on the 21st accident
ally but not fatally poisoned at Wethers
field, Conn.,, by eating canned meat.
DIRECT telegraphic communication be-
tween New York and Brazil was opened or
the 21st. President Arthur "wired" his
congratulations.
DURING a quarrel over the location of 6
fence a few days ago Martin Cutler, a
farmer residing near Uniontown, Mo.
fatally shot William C.. Deck, a neighbor
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-13
Florida Ship Canal.

NEW YORK, Sept. 19.-At a meeting of
the stockholders of the Florida Ship Canal
and Transit Company, the Board of Direct
ors was authorized to make a contract for
the construction of the canal, the work to
oe started at the earliest possible day. The
eastern termlnus OF the canal will be in the
y,clnlty OF the mouth of the St. Johns
tlvel, ano the canal, which will run across
be 1856 miles long, $50 feet wide and thirty
feet deep ~
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-13
DOMESTIC.

The Interstate Educational Convention
met in annual session on the 10th, at Louis.
vile, KY, twenty-three States being rep
resented.
L Vo1GHT fell into a vat of steam.
ing liquid in his fathers brewery at Erie,
Pa, o few days ago, and was boiled to
death.
ABOUT six hundred bicyclists paraded
the streets of Springfield, Mass, on the
18th, their evolutions being witnessed by
fifty thousand persons.
AN excursion train was thrown from the
track near Cincinnati on the 10th, and two
persons were killed and fifteen others were
more or less injured.
AT the Big Four cattle ranch, near So.
zorro, N. NJ, four cattle men, Fowler, For
rest, Childs and McGee, got into a promis-
cuous shooting a few days ago, and were
all killed except Fowler, and buried in the
same grave.
The three days. Christian Convention in
Chicago, under the management of Messrs.
Moody and Sankey, closed on the evening
of the goth. The attendance throughout was
very large.
A BOILER in the Sligo Iron Works, ia
Pittsburgh, exploded on the afternoon of
the Goth, killing five men and wounding
ten others, six fatally. The shock of the
explosion was felt throughout the city,
many buildings being shaken and windows
smashed.
The colored Foreign Mission Convention
of the United States assembled on the Goth
at Manchester, Va, and appointed four
missionaries for Africa.
ON bet Of $1,000, on Cayuga Lake,
Charles E.. Courtney on the Goth made three
miles in 90 sos, beating the best record by
nine econds.
BENJAMIN BURGESS G. Sons, of Boston,
sugar dealers, failed on the Goth for 81 ,4OO,-
600.
In the bicycle tournament at Springfield,
Mass, on the Goth Higham made twenty
miles in G6 minutes 2x seconds, beating the
record by Tx seconds, taking a purse of
S 1000 and the championship Of the world.
PosTMAsTERs have drawn SO heavily up
on the Department at Washington for two
cen stamps that the contractors were on
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-13
-RelatlVe To the .Javo ;oo ..,r

relative to the Java ice story Mr..
J.: d. Bonnar says in the Rnffaio
courier: "lhe tremendous evaporation
oi water from the surface of some sub
terranean lake near the volcano, and
communicating with it by a channel
aostracted heat SO quickly and in such
enormous quantities from the body Of
water that it was frozen to a GREAT
depth before the eruptive power Of the
volcano reached it, and consequently
tnere We're belched forth immense tielis
Of ice" Aelus
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-13
Close Of the Christian Convention ir
Chicago.

CHICAGO, Sept. 21.-The attendance each
day upon the Christian Convention has been
something remarkable. At each days ses-
sion many hundreds of people have been
turned away, the hall being insufficient to
accommodate them.
Yesterday morning, at the conclusion of
the usual devotional exercises, Rev. Herrick
johnson discussed at length the topic:
elbow Can the Personal and Social Study of
the Bible Be Increased?"
Then followed a discussion by Revs.
Emerich and Heilman and Prof. S. J. Cur
tbs of the question: elbow May Our For
eign Population Be Evangelized:"
In the afternoon the topic: elbow
Shall We Interest Our Children in the Cos
pel?' was argued by Rev. E. c. Ray, and
at the conclusion Of his remarks Messrs.
Sankey and McGranahan followed on the
question: SHOW May Music Be Best Used
and Controlled in Promoting Worship and
Spreading the Gospel?"
The evening service was more than ordi-
narily interesting. 1t was the closing ses-
sion of the convention, and hundreds of
people who had not satisfied their curiosity
with reference to the great evangelist's
turned out to see them. Long before the
meeting began every seat was taken, and
"" A'o o'ci oIaiiulIiS-loOLn lclI, 50
that it become necessary to close the doors
and turn the crowd away. Hundreds went
to the overflow meeting in the First Metho-
dist Church. MI. Moody led the Farwell
Hall meeting, and Mr.. Sankey the other.
After prayer and singing in the principal
gathering, Mr.. Moody announced that there
was no set programme for the closing ses-
sion, but that the object of the meeting
would be to discover how to put to practical
use the ideas which had been developed
during the convention; in other words, how
to carry on the work, Five-minute speeches
were made by Revs. Hatfield, G%oodspeed,
Larimorea and Reynolds, and Mrs. Smithson,
of England. Mr.. Moody followed the latter
gentleman, and in turn was followed by
Bishop Cheney and Rev. P. S. Henson. The
convention closed with the doxology and q
benediction by Roy. DIR. Scudder.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-13

Some excursionists from Northeln
New York unfurled an American llu i
while marching in the streets OF 1aln,
ton, Ont. the other day. A pollcen;
at once ordered the colors furled, saylnS
that it was against the law.-c"''"9'
Herald
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-13
A mar employed on the West Shore

A mar employed on the West Shore
Railway was struck by a locomotive
near Schenectady, N. T., the other day
and was thrown from the track. 1t was
learned afterward that the engine had
struck him ~squarely on the back of the
head, on a spot where he had been
struck years before by a large stone.
The fellow yet lives to puzzle the doc
tors by his abnormally tough skull.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-13

Mrs. Cowden, of Forest Hill. Cal
conducts a banking business in her own
name. "'A o"h
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-13

The Hoosac Tunnel has begun to
pay expenses, and the prediction is
entered that on the completion of the
double track, the great bore will net
the State of Massachusetts, $4,000 per
~ ,nth.-Boston Herald.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-06-09

Captain James Lee, jr., Supsrln.
tendent Of the Lee Line mail packets.
returned home yesterday after taking
q look at a number OF theaters of the
upper country. The foundation of his
theateri to be erected on Main street
is laid and will be finished BY fall
Like his boats, it will be made Of the
best material, with every convenience
Of comfort. The river boys" will
doubtless attend in full force on the
opening night.
When the Golden Grown passed
Choutard landing yesterday she met
the X. K. Springer coming up rather
slowly on one wheel, the latter having
on the night before hit an obstruc.
ton, when about six miles above
Vicksburg, which carried away her
starboard wheel, shaft and outer
guards entirely. The Springer will
probably 90 on through to Cincinnati
and repair there.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-06-09

ikirtlng leather, sea4oc per ID; hamlock
sole, zIaS0c; French calf, S40ae0 per doE;
domestic S24a40 per dc
M ACKEREL-New in hf bbls, IS 40
for No. ]; IS 90 for No. 2; "a IS for No.
Urge and 81 so for medium. In kits 95,
80 and I5c for Mes. l, and 3.
SUNDRIES-Salt 81 35 per Dbl. Soap.
31{a6c per ID. Cider, 81 so for bbls and
"a 0oa4 IS for hf do; rice, 59la7Kc
per ID.
BUILDING MATRRIAL.-Nails,
IS 20 per keg. Lime, 95caSl Der Dbl
Cement 81 Goal 70 per Dbl for Louisville;
~ on for Rosedale, and "a 6Oa5 for Port
land. Plaster, $3.50. Lumber, yellow
pine flooring, Us; rough framing Sl4;
dressed, t80 per "; lathing, 81 T5a2 per n;
shingles, $3a4 so per M.
COTTON SEED, OIL, ETC.-Cotton
seed at river landing SIC per ton; seed
meal, $l1 6Oal6 50 per ton; oil cake,
81; oil, S6a3Sc tor crude 62a6Oc for re-
fined and 4Ie per gal for cooking oil.
LIVE STOCK-Choice beef cattle &c;
90 medium 41Sa51fc per ID gross; other
classes l 11a45<c, as per quality; yearlines,
$6aS each; mich cows $20a40; per head:
sheep 4a6c per ID, for good mutton quail
tiles, and Slal 80 perhead for poor;
lambs SSa3 30 per head tor medium and
laI1fc per pound for choice. Mules at
S00 to SllO each; horses at $65 to $50
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-06-09
Yicksburg; Harbor.
Herald, 8.

The dredgeboat Herndon is remoy-
ing the mud rapidly in the harbor.
The total amount Of mud removed up
to date is 10000 cubic yards, cost
SIC, 450, which leaves an unexpected
balance of $83, 900, ample to complete
the dredging Of the basin, which ex
tends south to . point q ehort distance
below the elevator, also complete the
canal from deep water above Glass
Bayou. From soundings made at the
entrance Of the upper end of the lake,
II il found that the foot Of the bar
running dgFR from Kings Point has
filled eight feet. Mbsp the river was
at the lowest stage last season thege
was scant four feet of water in the
neck or upper entrance to the lake, SO
that when corresponding stage Of
the river d reached this season the
entrance will be closed with a bar four
feet ont Of the water. Captain Mar
shall states that . channel Of sufficient
width and depth to admit Of the PAS
sage of all classes Of steamers win be
dredged out, there being sufficient
funds for that purpose. The dredge'
boat is now making the last cut on
the shore or east side Of the basin, snt
" BeF elose into the elevator An.
other gut viii be Haae 70 dsspsn tht
basin Of an average Of FIVE feet. Thil
will complete it. There does no
nov seem TO be reasonable doubt o
the plap proving a success, and o
Yicksburg again having b0atsin from
of the city all the year round,