Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-17

ing up an Old teud, ana was Fatally beaten
with clubs. The assassins Escaped.
The Mississippi River steamer Katie P.
Kountz was burned o,l the list at Arkan.
sas City. Tho Joss on boat and cargo was
$4,000.
In Columbus County, Ark, a few nights
ago Ephraim Bandy visited William Scott's
house, called out it's occupant, and shot him
dead. An old grudge was the cause.
A BRIDGE over the Santa Anna River,
California, broke the other night, throwing
eighteen cars into the river, and killing
two tramps. Two train hands were ill.,
jured.
BURGLARS took $1,000 in stamps and $500
in cash from the post-office at Haverhill,
Mass, a few nights ago.
PETE EMERSON, one of the trio who at
tempted to take $4,000 from a bank cashier
in n r~ailway-car at Hoboken, has been sent
to the New Jersey P~enitentiary for ten
years.
Pixies PEAK has been surveyed for a
narrow-gauge railway from Manitou to
the summit, thirty miles, and work is to
be commenced at once. James H. Kerr,
of Colorado Springs, is President of the
| company organized to build the road. The
maximum grade is to be three hundred
feet to the mile.
Four ~well-known citizens of Erie, Pa
John w. Eyster, Frederick G.. Kelsey, Giles
Russell and Charles Brown-were caught
in a storm a few days ago while duck-shoot-
ing in the bay, and were drowned. Eyster
had his life insured for 10000.
MRS. l.. WoLFsTEIN, a wealthy Cincin-
natl Jewish lady, fell from a fourth-story
window on the Cd, while calling her coach
man, and died soon after.
The annual report of the Paymaster-
General of the Army was made on the I'd
to the Secretary of War. 1t shows the re.
ceipts for the last fiscal year to nave been
$15, 49O, $40; disbursements, $13, 3s2, lG4.
Since the last report five officers of the pay
department have been retired, having at
tanned the age of sixty-four, one died, and
one was dismissed for misrepresentation of
the public funds.
Ten employees in the Comptroller's and
Water Registers offices of New York City
were indicted on the I'd for misappropria.
ting the funds.
IT was announced on the ID that fifty
cases of diphtheria had broken out within
a week among the pupils in the schools at
West Boylston, Mass, and the institutions
had been closed.
DURING the seven days ended on the I'd
the business failures in the United States
and Canada numbered 222, against $50 the
previous week. The distribution was as
follows: Middle States, 50; New England,
10; Southern, 81; Western, GO; Pacific
States and Territories, 81; Canada and the
Provinces, 81.
JOSEPH MCENEANY, cashier of Thomp-
son & Co.'s Steel Works at New York,
was arrested On the Cd for embezzling $780,
900, which he lost Oh betting on the races.
WILLoUGHBY, O., a little town twenty
miles east of Cleveland, was almost totally
destroyed by fire OIL the I'd, entailing aloss
of not less than 100000.
A R of Hungarians, working on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, near Gibralter,
Pa, were paid off and discharged on the
I'd for INSTRUMENTATION, when they became
%riotous, wrecked the laborers' quarters and
tore down the shanties. The Sheriff and a
posse from Reading arrested twenty-one
of the men.
WHILE away from the Milwaukee Sol
diers' Home on leave, Edward Richards,
II of the veterans, a. inmate of the
institution, fell into a trance which on
the I'd had lasted twenty-eight days.
A small quantity of milk had been
fed to the old man, but he continued his
sleep in spite of all attempts to awaken
him.
For passing bogus bonds of the North
ern Pacific Railway, Steve Raymond has
been sentenced at New York to life i'm.
prisonment.
AT a dance at Lamar, Mo-, a few nights
agosa dispute about a young lady arose be-
tween Anthony Bummits and Alexander
Brown, in which the latter killed his rival
with a pocket-knife.
The failure of the Rock River Paper
Company of Chicago for $780, 900 was an.
nounced on the Cd.
STATISTICS of the Universal Postal Union
show that the United States ranks first in
the number of post-offices and of newspa.
pers conveyed, and Great Britain in the
number of letters.
SIMON ~LAGTERBAcH, shirt manufacturer
at New York, made an assignment on the
I'd for $3.50, 900.
A DESPERATE combat took place on the
I'd between the Freshman and Sophomore
classes at the Polytechnic Institute at
Troy, N. Y, the building being damaged
and several of the students seriously in
jured. Both classes were suspended.