Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-06
..-town. Nd, who led his class at Prince.

t.-town, Nd, who led his class at Prince
ton College, was found dead in bed a few
laws ago. He left for the Coroner a note
asking him to solve the question whether
he died of laudanum, love or whisky.
AT Lexington, KY, the other night a
fre-engine went to put out a fire in the
premises of Wilmington Payne. Mrs.
Payne, aged seventy, saw the engine, and
dropped dead from fright.
JOHN B. CARROLL, formerly a clerk in
the City Hall at New York, who was dis
charged on suspicion, was on the 9th
shown to nave embezzled $4,000 by means
of false entries in his books.
The postal authorities at Washington
have applied to the Post Office Department
of Canada for details in connection with
the Postal Savings'Bank system. The de-
posts by the laboring classes of Canada
lave grown to S12, 00O,o 900 per annum.
DURING the seven days ended on the 2Sth
ult. the business failures throughout the
United States and Canada numbered 40,
as compared with III the previous seven
days. The distribution was as follows:
New England States, "a; Middle, 81; West
ern, 40; Southern, 1S; Pacific States and
Territories, "a; New York City, 9; Canada
and Provinces, 81.
UP to the 2Sth ult. 102, 653, 900 two-cent
stamps had besn issued to postmasters
throughout the country to meet the reduc-
ton in postage.
NEARLY an inch of snow fell on the 2Sth
ult. at O%watonna, MINI.
THREE masked men entered an express
car on the Wabash Road, near Peru, Ind,
oo,1xr ~, <l,o ~,ocSpr Of tho OQt1, ,,1t
bound and gagged the messenger, robbed
locked in the car.
ISAAC EVANS, Reuben King and Sawney
Younger, negroes, were executed on the
2Sth ult., at Chatham, Va, for murder.
For a similar crime, George Wallace, also
colored, was hanged at Savannah, Ga.
A STEAMBOAT boiler exploded at Albany,
N. Y, a few days ago, instantly killing
three men and injuring several others.
NEAR Shakopee, Mimi, two freight
trains collided a few days ago, killing En-
gineer Snow, Fireman Mccain, Brakeman
Maloney and a drover named F. H. Nc
Auliff. Nine cars and an engine were to-
tally wrecked, and seventeen head of cat
tie we're killed.
DURING the taking of dispositions OF the
9th ult. in a contested will case at Blue
Lick, KY, Samuel G.. Rogers, President of
the Farmers Bank Of Carlisle, killed his
brothers, William O.. and Thomas Rogers.
William wasI a St. Louis lawyer, and
Thomas was a farmer. The fratricide
claimed that he thought his brothers were
about to fire at him.
DUN's COMMERCIAL AGENCY on the 2Sth
ult. reported business throughout the coun-
try generally healthy and remarked that
the recent heavy failures in the dry-goods
trade were the result more of speculation
than any stagnation in the trade.
HosMER beat the fastest three-mile time
on record OH the 2Sth ult. at the Hutton
(Pa.) regatta, going over the course in
twenty minutes and three seconds, with
Ten Eyck only two seconds behind.
BLAIR BROTHERS, proprietors ofthe Hunt
ingdon (Pa.) Car and Car Wheel Works,
failed on the 2Sth ult. for 5000, 900. The
four hundred employees who were thrown
out of work had not been paid for two
months.
A HEAVY judgment was rendered in New
York the other day against the Western
Union Telegraph Company, which was
called upon to pay the State $626,00O in