Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-03-24
EPl1OME OF THE WEEK
Interesting News Compilation.
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of his estate that it is feared the lawyers
will get the greater part of it.
EXTRACTS from the correspondence between
Minister Lowell and the State Department
relative to the enactment by the British Par
lament of the law for the prevention Of
crime in Ireland were published on the
morning Of the 18th. In a letter from
Secretary Frelinghuysen regret is expressed
that a nation whose history and traditions
are so linked with the progress of hui
mar liberty as are those Of the United King
dom should have deemed it necessary to re-
enact the provisions of the obnoxious Alien
act, and the fear finds expression that the
enforcement of the law may interfere with
the cordial relations which have hitherto ex-
listed between the British Government and
that of the United States. The letter bears
date September %, 1882.
EMMETT O'NEILL, a broker of Schenectady,
N. Y, has swindled people with whom he had
business relations out of the total sum of
$3.50, 00O, in mounts varying from $1,000 to
$4,000.
IVES, BEEcuER s. Co., liquor dealers, of
New York City, have failed for $500, 900.
ADANGERous counterfeit Of the standard
silver dollar is being circulated in Ohio and
Indiana. 1t has the weight and ring of the
genuine coin, and resists the acid test.
AN earthquake shock was felt in Hartford
County, Nd, a few days ago, which ratified
dishes on supper-tables and excited the peo-
pie greatly.
JOHN JEssRANG, of 81. Paul, Mimi, was
lynched at Glendale, Montana, a few days
ago, for the murder of a fellow-traveler
named Davidson.
The creditors of George H. Taylor & Co.,
paper-dealers, of Chicago, have agreed to set
tie at forty cents on the dollar.
The total values of exports of petroleum
and petroleum products from the United
States during the seven months ended Janu-
airy 81, 1888, were s25, $40, 1924; and for seven
months ended January 81, 1882, S3l, 772,630.
SALM1 MORSE, who was arrested in New
York recently for presenting the passion
Play" without a license, has been discharged
from custody, the Court stating that, while
there was no doubt of the character of the
performance, it appeared to have been a pri-
vate representation, admission being by invi-
tation and not upon payment of money. The
decision had no influence upon the question
of Nh. Morse's right to give public perform
ances of the Passion Play"
The clerical force of the Census Bureau
has been reduced by the dismissal of three
hundred employees, and a further reduction
will be made at the beginning of the next
fiscal year, July !.
The Captain of the steamer Yazoo, recent
ly sunk in the Mississippi River near Bonnet
Carre, involving the loss Of a number of lives,
was acting under an expired license, and will
be prosecuted.
The general passenger agents in session at
New York on the 18th decided that hereafter
a PHYSICIANS certificate must accompany
every corpse carried by rail, to prevent the
spread of contagion.
MAYO JACOB, of Louisville, who has been
on a relief trip among the sufferers in Ken
lucky by the Ohio River floods, stated on the
18th that the greatest suffering was among
farmers, and not in the towns. The farmers
were thoroughly discouraged, and many of
them entirely destitute, particularly in the
neighborhood of Caseyville and Uniontown.
HE firm of Pfirrmann & Pau, whisky
dealers at Cincinnati, has failed for $50, 900.
HENRY s%1EDEHT's will, bequeathing more
than a million dollars to charities, has been
admitted to probate in Philatclp hia.
DURING 1882 the gross revenues of the
ouS CIlOu 1C1CHFdpl COMPANY
amounted to SIS, 39S, 96s, and the net profits
were S77,624,s33.
The contractors for the $50 miles of the
Northern Pacific Railroad remaining to be
constructed promise that the gap will be
closed before the LIST OF September next.
Two MAIDEN ladies, named Judson, per-
tshed in their burning house at Eas st Hartford,
Conn.,, on the morning of the 18th.
On the 14th there were 1855, 7S5, 407 in the
United States Treasury, of which s179, S37, sos
WIS gold and sl05, 2s5, AS was silver.
The acting Secretary of the Treasury
stated on the 18th that the condition of the
Treasury was not such as to justify the an
ticipation of interest on called bonds matur-
ing May 1.
GERMAN resident of Philadelphia, acting
under instructions from Berlin, is said to
he negotiating for the purchase of several
million acres of land in Mexico for settle
ment by German emigrants.
A NEW telegraph company has been formed
in New York, the projectors Of which profess
IAN intention OF building a line from the CITY
OF New York through Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois, to Chicago.
A MINNESOTA lad was recently expelled
from school because he used extracts from the
speeches of Robert j. Ingersoll as his decla-
nation exercise. An appeal was taken to the
State Superintendent. and finally to the At
torney-General, the last of whom has decided
that the expulsion is illegal, because the
teacher did not specify the kind of matter he
desired to be selected.
The railroad bridge over the Schuvlkill
River at Norristown, Pa, was destroyed by
fire the other day, involving a loss of $50. 900.
H.. +. CRocKER, a desperado, who con-
fessed to numbering three men and one
woman, and regretted that he did not have
an opportunity to kill two men more, com
1nitted suicide in the Granbury (Tex.) Jail
a few days ago.
AT Roanoke, Va, a few days ago John
Baldwin, actuated by jealousy, murdered
William Watkins, and then committed
suicide. Both men were colored.
OBSERVATIONS through Northern Ohio,
Southern Michigan and a portion of Indiana
excite anxiety for the winter wheat crop. the
winter and spring having been unfavorablc.
The conditions are thought to be propitious
dor a large yield OF cotton the coming season.
Two of Columbia College, New
York, had arranged to fight a duel, but one of
the principals and a number of his friends
were arrested on the 18th as they were setting
forth for the place set for the meeting.
DURING the seven days ended on the 18th
there Wetc 225 business failures in the United