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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-09-08
COLLISIONS.
Twenty-Five Lives Lost by the Colliding
of Steamers in English Waters.

Twenty-Five Lives Lost by the Colliding
of Steamers in English Waters.
LONDON. Aug. q.
The steamer Woodburn was sunk and
eighteen lives lost near Eddystone light
house Saturday night. The vessel was be-
ing towed into Plymouth OH her return from
a trip to India, and was proceeding slowly,
the night being calm and clear. Sud.
denly the black hull of what proved
the St. German, an ocean steamer
bound from Havre to New York, doomed
up. Before a word could be said or a
signal given the St. GeImain bore down
upon the Woodburn. That vessel was
struck on the starboard quarter and found
cred i'll three minutes. There was no time
to lower her boats, and only eleven Of the
persons on board were saved. Those
drowned were sucked into a vortex caused
by the sinking of the steamer or became ell
tangled in the wreckage.
The st. Germain's bows were completely
stove in and her fore compartment filled
with water. A greater portion of her pas
sengers were transferred to the tug-boat
Recovery. The st. German had four hum
dred and sixty-two passengers on board, i'll
Guiding fifty nuns on their way to Texas
and a crew of one hundred and twenty-five
persons. The captain of the st. German,
finding that water was pouring into the
forehold with fearful rapidity, ordered a
sail to be rugged over the damaged portion
OF the vessel in order to check the rush of
the water and reduce the pressure OH the
bulkhead.
The officers of the St. German say that
they sighted the tug-boat Recovery, which
was towing the WOODBURY., at $3.50 a. H.,
and thinking she was the only vessel to
clear, the St. Germain's helm was ported in
order that she might go under the tug-boat's
stern. They had no idea there was a ship
in tow.
The ST. German will go into the dry
dock for repairs. From marks on her bows
it is apparent that she went right through
the Woodburn, literally cutting that vessel
in two.
At almost the same hour, as far as can be
determined, the steamer Palermo, bound
from Hamburg to Lisbon, collided off
Ushant with the steamer Rivoli, from Bill
boa to marlborough. The fog was dense
and neither vessel could see the others
lights. The Rivoli was cut nearly in two
and sank almost instantly. Five of the
crew are known to have been drowned.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-09-08
PERSONAL N POLITICAL.

The funeral of Judge Black, at York,
Pa, on the 21st was the largest ever wit.
messed in the town, many distinguished
persons participating. The remains were
inferred in Prospect Hill Cemetery, at
Brockie.
KIRKLAND M. FITCH, who embezzled
$4,000 from a Warren (O.) bank, surren.
dered himself to the Boston police on the
21st. He said he lost the o in stock
speculations.
EIGHT suits for libel against the Chicago
Herald brought by E. j. Lehman, of Chi.
cago, were on the 21st dismissed bv stipu.
lation of the parties. The defendant
would pay So, 1000 to the Mayor, who would
distribute that sum to charitable institu-
tions.
The American Bar Association began its
sixth annual session at Saratoga. N. Y.
on the 22d.
AT San Francisco on the 23d the Grand
Commandery, K. T., of the United States,
elected Robert E. Withers, of Virginia.
Grand Commander.
The New York Democratic State Con.
vention will be held at Buffalo September
81.
The Treasury Department at Washing.
ton on the 23d awarded gold medals of
honor to Joseph Cardran and Alfred Car
dram for heroism displayed in having
saved from drowning William Marshall,
Edward Chambers and Edward Lasley,
lighthouse keepers, near Bots Blanc ISL
and. Lake Huron.
H1LARIo BALso, a well-to.do Frenchman
and a noted swimmer, arrived at New
York on the 23d. and declared it his inten.
ton to swim the Niagara whirlpool rapids
or die in the attempt.
The Sir knights gathered at San Fran.
cisco on the oath laid the cornerstone of a
monument to James A. Garfield at Golden
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-09-08
FOREIGN.

A WOMAN at Breslau, Germany, while
temporarily insane on the 2lst, took her
five children to the attic of her house,
placed ropes, which had been suspended
from a beam, around their necks and her
own, and then kicked away a bench upon
which all were standing. The mother and
children were all dead when discovered.
ONE miner was killed and twenty severe
ly burned on the 21st by an explosion In q
Cardiff (Wales) coal mine.
AT Nevada, Mex, recently a woman
killed her child, cooked the corpse, and
gave it to her husband as food. When the
man discovered what he had eaten he be-
came insane.
FooT and mouth disease was on the 22d
spreading among the cattle in Lincoln.
shire, England.
MOUNT VEsUvIUs was in q state of activ.
ity on the 22d, and buildings in it's vicini.
ty, and the railway running to it's summit,
had been damaged by the trembling of the
earth.
The British House of Lords on the ODD
rejected the Irish Registration bill by a
vote of 50 against 80. The success of this
measure would have secured to the Home
Rule party n~ine-tenths of the Irish repre-
sentation in the next Parliament.
A LARGE saw-mill at Rat Portage, near
Winnipeg, Manitoba, was burned by an
incendiary fire on the 22d. Loss, $500, 900.
A HURRICANE in the Ottawa (Ont.) dis
trict the other night blew down barns and
fences and ruined crops.
Four THOUSAND bales of cotton were
consumed by a recent fire in the Liverpool
eng. )Iwarehouses.
PRIME MINISTER FERRY, of France, in
opening the Vorges Council General on the
23d declared that the result of the recent
elections was a National demonstration in
favor of a republic.
THREE thousand Indians, who, upon the
evacuation of the place by the Chilians,
intended to sack Huaneay, in Peru, were
surprised on the 23d by the Gillian troops,
and in the conflict four hundred of the
aborigines were killed, and four hundred
others wounded. The Gillian loss was
small.
S1XTY-S1x deaths from cholera in Egypt
were reported on the 23i, thirty.three of
them occurring in Alexandria.
THE Comte de Chambord, last of the old.
est branch of the large house of Bourbon,
uoseehuaics VI LOUIS A1V., ana secretly
recognized as King by the Legitimist party
of France, died at his castle near Vienna
on the Oath. He was born in Paris Sep.
TENDER %, 1920.
By the fall of a scaffold on the oath at
the palace of the King of Bavaria, at
Lake Cheim, twenty-three workmen were
killed and seventeen others were injured.
In the village of Kossovo, Albania, the
Arnauts were numbering the Christians in
large numbers on the Oath, and the Turk
ish officials connived at the outrages. The
Christians were flying for their lives, and
twenty-three villages had been deserted.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-09-08

The steamers Woodburn and st. Ger.
main collided off Eddystone light, in the
English Channel, OH the Goth. The former
vessel was Junk and eighteen lives were
lost.
N HERTEL and wife, Germans, were
found horribly mutilated in their store at
Savannah, Ga, on the Goth. 1t was SUP.
posed Hertel had a large sum of money in
his possession. There was no clue to the
murderers.
By the burning of a tenement house in
Boston early O n the morning Of the Goth
-FOUR persons were smothered to death and
one fatally injured by jumping from the
building.
Their were 16' deaths from cholera in
Egypt on the 25th, including twenty-five
at Alexandria.
TERRIFYING deaths from yellow fever
occurred in Havana during the week ended
on the 25th.
The French forces in Tonquin on the 25th
bombarded and captured four land batter
les at the mouth of Hue River, killing sew.
EN- hundred Anamites.
The British Parliament was prorogued
on the 25th. The Queens speech recited
the facts that she was at peace with all
foreign powers; that she felt great salts
faction in being able to report an i'm
provement in the condition of Ireland:
that the state of trade inthe British islands
was sound, and that the agricultural de-
preston in some districts had been re.
lieved.
WALTER f., Pool, Congressman.elect
from the First North Carolina District,
died on the 25th, at Elizabeth City, N. c.,
aged thirty-two.
ALICE BucHER, aged twenty, killed her.
self at Van Vert, o., the other night with
s%trychnine because she had been disap
pointed in love.
A NEGRO at Ogden, Utah, who killed the
City Marshal and wounded another
official, was taken from Jail on the 25th, and
lynched, the body then being dragged
through the streets. At Coalville, Utah,
thirty masked men took Jack Murphy from
Jail and hanged him for murder.
ROBERT HOWARD, a Fall River (Mass.)
cotton-spinner, testified before the Senate
subcommittee on Labor, in New York, on
the 25th that among the operatives in Fall
River there had been many strikes, but
their condition had been greatly improved.
The wages of spinners average 5000 per
week. Witness had never heard but of one
instance in which employers had raised
wages when there was a rise in the market
without the direct request of the working.
men. He was a firm believer in high
wages and high prices, and thought if the
tariff was removed from foreign goods
there might occur a slight reduction at
first in the wages of operatives, but the
ltimate result would be to raise them.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-09-08
They Blew Out the Gas.

CHICAGO. Aug. 81.
A man and woman, who registered as NJ.
Crowley and wife, were found at 2:3O
o'clock Sunday, at the West Side CONNER
cial Hotel, Madison street, in an unconscious
condition caused by escaping gas. A physi-
clan pronounced the man dead, and the wo-
man in a dangerous condition. They went
to the hotel Saturday night at nine o'clock,
and were assigned Groom 80, on the second
floor. As they did not appear for breakfast
nor dinner, the proprietor became alarmed
and forced open the door. On retiring the
gas had been blown cut, and as all ventila-
ton was closed the couple were %asphyxia,,
ed. The woman, apparently forty years
old, was taken to the hospital. hut cannot
>eeOver.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-09-08
"A stately and handsome man ,eo;a.

"A stately and handsome man regis
tered at a California watering-place as
an English lord. With him were his
wife and two daughters. They took the
best rooms in the hotel, ordered extra
delicacies in food and the finest wines.
and in every way common to such re-
sorts spent money without stint. It
was soon discovered that their claim to
aristocracy was fraudulent, and thew
departed as soon as the exposure caused
a cessation of social exaltation. But
they paid all their bills, gave the meni-
ais generous fees, and betrayed no other
reason for the deception than a desire
to be lionized.- Chicago Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-09-08

In children's fashions one of the
most effective portions of the dress is
tn collar. Deep collars of embroidery
or lace are universally worn; the hand
soonest OF these are made up of fine in
sertion OF delicate Swiss embroidery and
ru1iles to l1atch.-N. Y. Post.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-09-08

"A young lady in Delaware was
AIKEN suddenly i'll the other day, and a
physician was called in. He gave her
morphia and departed. AS she did not
visibly improve another physician was
called, and, not having been informed
OF the action of the first, repeated the
dose, and the young lady died.-Phila-
deLphi0 Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-09-08
DOMESTIC

Two HUNDRED girls employed in a cloth.
ing factory at Toledo, o., struck on the 22d
for an advance in wages.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-09-08

The Louisville Exposition has within
ehree weeks had 100, coo visitors
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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-09-08

kAssoN, Mimi, Aug. "a.
Ole Anderson's wife was fatally injured
and her mother instantly killed by a cyclone
Tuesday night. Christian Olson and wife
We're killed and their chi]d's leg broken.
Houses and barns are entirely destroyed.
At Canisteo, south of here, the house and
barns of the Balfrsiks are ruined. The
house and barns of Mr.. Helmbrecht are
gone, and Mrs. Helmbrecht can not be
found. Horses and cattle are found deadin
all directions. News of ruin and death is
coming in from all directions.
CINCINNATI, O., Aug. q.
Butler County was visited Wednesday
afternoon by a violent storm, which did
great damage to crops, trees and buildings,
though SO far no loss of life is reported.
The city of Hamilton was directly in its
path and was badly wrecked. The storm
was about one-half mile in width.
The Louisville Exposition has within
shree weeks had loo. 600 visitors
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-09-08
LATER, NEWS

The steamers Woodburn and st. Ger.
main collided off Eddystone light, in the
English Channel, on the 26th. The former
vessel was sunk and eighteen lives were
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-08-02
The Lemonade Mans Story

"Lem'nade! Lem'nadeH The man
that daily shouts this seasonable bever-
age in the down streets gave New
York Morning Journal reporter the rec
ipe for making fortune in one summer
in the business.
q Ten lemons of questionable quality
may be had for three cents, one pound
of white sugar 10 cents, mixed with a
pail of water and sold at l and cents
a glass, average forty glasses to a pail,
ten pals a day, gives profit of SiO.70
many day during the summer" said
the lemonade man. .--- .-.-.-
''What do you do with the money?"
Faith and find plenty to do with it.
The tiniment house what I own down in
Sullivan strate needs great looking af-
ther, with the way Thin bloody tinlnts
riot livery no1ght, and bate me out OF
the rint. Thin there's my wolfe, for
the last twinty years that woman
has niver been two weeks at
time off the Island, but I stick to her,
sur yes, sur. Vance she was as foine
looking woman as niver trod the floor of
q house, but she always loved drink.
and 60 the moment she romes off the
Island she commences drinking, thin
she gives me q sound beating, thin the
Judge sends her up for nointy days and
q furnish her with some Injuries il the
prison,
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-08-02

It is stated that Senator Edmunds re-
fused passes from railroads during his
recent journey to the Pacific coast and
return, via the Northern Pacific. Wheth-
er this statement is absolutely truthful,
no one is authorized to say, but it is GER
tain that on his departure eastward from
st. Paul the ticket agents we're surprised
TO see him pay for his tickets like other
people instead of putting pass on them
for his whole party, as many other dis
tinguished statesmen are in the habit of
doing-and occasionally judges of the
highest state and federal courts. It lis
claimed and in many cases, truthfully,
that the acceptance of passes by such
persons cannot bias their judgments in
the least, but the people would be better
satisfied if they would, in all cases,
"avoid the appearance of evil"
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-08-02

The income of the government for the
last fiscal year was 1896, 1888 $50 or near
ay So q head for every inhabitant of the
United States. The expenditures
amounted to 1865 ,56s, os7, an increase of
SIS, 00o, 900 over the regular expenses OF
1882, making the surplus revenue $780,
770,433, 1t is very clear that the reVe-
nue. ought to be reduced and the expen-
ses curtailed, but there is not much dis
position among politicians to grapple
with the subject with view to radical
reform. There smoothing that inspires a
legislator with more jubilant feelings,
save, perhaps, the success of his own
party, than al overlooking treasury. He
likes to have hand in It's depletion,
whether it be for public or private ben
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-08-02
DYING OF A CAT BITE
The Cat Previously Bitten by Rabi,

The Cat Previously Bitten by Rabid
Dog-Exhausted by Paroxysms.
New York Sun.
A lad named P. J. Byrnes, sixteen
years old, living at Fort Hamilton on the
Shore road was, playing with the
family cat about six weeks ago, when
she viciously scratched him across his
face from his right ear to his lip, inf1ict-
inga wound from which blood flowed. The
cats face was lacerated at the time she
bit the boy by wounds received in
fight With dog. Her subsequent wild
actions caused her to be shot. Nothing
was thought of the boys wound until
Friday last, when he was taken sick.
He complained of pains in the throat
and jaws, which he described as like
toothache. He rapidly grew worse. be-.
came delirious, and, water being offered
to him, his jaws became fixed, and foam
appeared on his lips. Force was neces-
sary to hold him. DR.. Mundy, of New
Utrecht, and Drs. Vollum and Spencer,
the post surgeons at the fort. all pro-
nounced it a case of hydrophobia.
They gave him hypodermic injections
Of morphine, but the patient grew much
worse. going into paroxysms at the sight
able. The wash of the waves on the
-h ore, which reached his ears from time
to time through the open door, irritated
him almost to madness. His hearing
was abnormal. He could detect distant
sounds of the water with great accuracy.
During an interval of rest on Monday
he was removed to the residence of his
brother, Robert Emmonds, in the vii
lage.
On Monday night he was able to talk,
and complained of great thirst, but at
the first sight of water the paroxysms
came on again. Once yesterday he held
glass Of water in his hand for some
time, but he had to set it down. Finally
however, he conquered his aversion to
it, and drank few drops. Immediate
]y the paroxysm returned worse than
ever, and it took the combined strength
of two persons to hold him down in his
bed. At noon he had SO much i'm
proved that he could swallow some beef
tea. After that he passed into an I'M
conscious state. At 4:l5 o'clock he died
from exhaustion. caused by his repeated
paroxysms. The doctors believe that
the dog that bit the cat was rabid.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-08-02

The tendency to exaggeration in re-
ports Of storms, cyclones, and kindred
occurrences, is almost universal, espec.
tally when these reports are written or
conveyed by witnesses to those who did
not see what is described. The &C
counts OF terrifying scenes may be strict
iy true. but when it comes
to actual damages they may be mon
strous exaggerations as was the case in
the cyclone of week ago. Under
clear sky and bright sunshine a careful
enumeration of personal casualties and
loss of property, showed a wonderful
shrinkage from estimates made amidst
the terrors of the scene or Immediately
thereafter. And this is almost univer-
sally the case. Of course the actual loss
Of life, and injuries to person and prop
erty are to be deplored but exaggeration
does nothing but harm to all concerned.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-08-02

1t is amusing to read some of the
snobbish papers which assumes to be
the especial guardians of ''society."
They have nothing but sugared words
for INSCRIPTIONS capitalists; they can
endure stock watering; the contin-
uous extensions of gigantic monopoly,
frequent reductions of the pay, of
men and women who depend upon
labor requiring untiriDg industry for
the support of themselves and fam
lies without murmuring-but when
these people driven desperate by heart
less corporations, threaten to strike,
they are informed, that if they strike
for an advance of pay and reduction
of hours of labor they "must accept
what society at large always gives to
those who defy or rob it." If 'society"
entertains these views and purposes, 60
ciety is peculiarly stupid and selfish.
But "society" is not composed of those
only who have the power and DISPOSE
ton to Cypress others, but of vast num-
bers of good men and women, children
of common Father, who recognize to
some extent the claims of human broth
erhOOd.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-08-02

. Iron is king in Pennsylvania and ev-
erything is made subsidiary to that in
terest. During 1882 Pennsylvania pro-
duced 2,449, 1856 tons Of pig iron, 1,l23,-
1856 tons Of rolled iron and S5O,9O8 tons
of iron and steel rails, which was little
more than half of the product of the en-
tire country. The rise and growth of
the iron business in that state is a mat
ter of general interest. The first iron
works were established in 1716, but at
the outbreak of the revolution there
were only about sixty blast furnaces and
FORCES in that state. After the war for
independence the growth was more rap
id, but water-power was the only motive
agent until about fifty years ago, when
steam-power was introduced into gener-
al use. Not many years after another
great change in the industry was effect
ed by the substitution of anthracite and
bituminous coal for charcoal, the btu
minous being now generally preferred
for blast furnaces. 49,.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-08-02

The reduction in letter postage from
three to two cents will take place Oc-
tober l. The impression p revails to
some extent that three-cent postal stamps
will be without value after that date,
but such is not the TACT. Postmasters
have been instructed that as the two
and three-cent stamps and envelopes of
the present issue will continue to be
valid after that date, they must be &C.
cepted in payment of postage when of
tered in proper amounts; and that the
three. cent stamps can be- used
in combination with other
denominations on letters requiring
more than one rate of postage and on
parcels of third and fourth class matter.
It will be well, however, not to accumu-
late an unnecessary amount Of three
cent stamps and envelopes, as no ar.
rangements have yet been made for the
redemption Of the three-cent stamps and;
envelopes in the hands Of postmasters,
or for the exchange BY postmasters Of
those stamps and envelope in the hands
of private hold ers