Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-30
mother groomsman received a mortal

rel at Norta Petersburg, N. y.
AT Prospect Park, New York City, on
the 10TH Freak, with j. 0. Nay as running
mate, defeated H. B. Winship, with Hiram
Bruce as MAZE, in the best one.mile time on
r~ecord-2:0Sr.
H value Of the exports of breadstufs
for October, 1888, was S14, 651 ,53l, against
Sl5, 3G2, 6S2 during the same time in 1882.
For the ten months ended October 81, 1889,
the value was $145, 0S2 ,034, against $780,
800, 5S1 during the same period of 1882.
Four robbers entered Peter Olsen's house
at Petersburg Grove, near Denver, Col, a
few nights ago and, upon the old man re-
fusing to tell where his money was con-
cealed, put his feet in a fire and literally
roasted them. A scuf1e then ensued, in
which the stove was overturned and a box
containing six hundred dollars was re-
vealed. With this the robbers decamped.
PETER SMULL, the horse-thief who tasted
for thirty-eight days in the Jail at Belvi-
dere, n. j., escaped on the night of the 18th.
JOHN WAFFEN, a German laborer on the
docks at Cleveland, with a wife and five
children to support, won one dollar recent
ly by drinking fifteen glasses of whisky in
fifteen minutes He survived the feat only
two days.
TWELVE tramps c~ongregated at Sour
Lake, Tex, the other night, and when a
train came along rushed for the express
car, but halted at the sight of twenty Win
chester rifles held by determined men,
warning having been wired that the tramps
intended robbery.
TRINITY CATHEDRAL, at Omaha, Neb.,
which cost over 100000, was consecrated
on the 10th by Bishop Clarkson.
The State-House at Boston, Mass, was
on the 18th found to be infested to an
alarming degree with white ants, which
are capable of leveling buildings by hon
eycombing timbcrs. A few years ago they
ruined a railroad bridge at Cambridge.
L S~PRECKELS, the sugar-kine of the
Pacific coast, has ordered two steamers
built for the China trade, in opposition to
the Pacific Mail Company.
The Unitarians throughout the United
States have subscribed $15e, 900 to establish
headquarters at Boston, and steps will
at once be taken toward the erection of q
building.
The iron ore receipts at Cleveland this
season We're G65,S0T tons, against 500, 04S
tons last year; and the shipments aggre-
gated GA 3331 tons, while in 1882 they were
G7S,7 35 tons.
THE track of the West Shore Railroad
has been completed from New York to
Buffalo, but through trains would not be
run until the western end was thoroughly
ballasted.
In regard to pensions, Secretary Teller
rendered a decision on the 10Th to the effect
that if the son We're a minor the father was
entitled to his services, and if the latter
were dead the mother was so entitled, and
therefore a dependent father or mother
should be allowed a pension.
DURING the seven days ended on the 10th
the business failures throughout the United
States and Canada numbered 223, against
2o1 the previous week. The distribution
was as follows: New England States, %;
Middle, 81; Western, Ga; Southern, Sc; Pa
cifc States and Territories, &C.; Canada
and the Provinces, 10.
The Treasury Department at Washing
ton reported on the 10th that the receipts
from customs for the first four months of
1885 We're $74,036.5S9. against S3,517, 1862
for the same period of 1882.
THE grain barge Milwaukee, with her
Captain and five men. was wrecked a few
nights ago on Lake Ontario. off the Gallop
Islands, and the schooner E. Fitzgerald, of
Buffalo, went ashore at Long Point, Ont,
her crew of six men being drowned in at
tempting to reach shore in a yawl.
A BREAK in the oil market on the 18th
at Bradford, Pa, led to sales of 14,41S,O 900
barrels.
THREE men were killed and five others
were wounded by the explosion of the boil
er in Maxwell's saw-mill in jackson Town
ship, Pa, on the 10th.
GEORGE BARLOW and James Whitbord
were married at Erie, Pa, a few DAYS
since, sailed IN the schooner Annie the
same day, which was wrecked, and both
persisted in the wreck.
Texas convicts employed as laborers on
the Houston Road, near Choctaw, mis-.
placed the track in such a manner on the
10th as to wreck a train and injure all the
employees.
On the Alabama Great Southern Road,
near Co~llinsville, a broken rail threw three
cars of a rapidly-moving passenger-train
down a steep embankment on the night of
the 18th. Twenty-Five passengers were
hurt, one fatally.
L. H. TURNER & Sons warehouse at
Columbus, Miss, with two thousand bales
of cotton, was burned on the 10th. Loss.
500, 900.
1T was announced on the 10Th that the
municipal and commercial authorities of
Cincinnati would not conform to the new
standard of time, and the
would give only local time on the railroad
tables.
1T was believed OH the 10Th that the re.
cent storm in Maine inflicted upon the
State a loss of ST 900, 1000. The destruction
OF valuable timber was very great.
HARRISON CREWS, a negro baker, when
arrested on the 16th at Lynchburg, Va, on
a charge Of incendiarism, confessed that in
the past three months he had set fire to
twelve structures.
The first frost and ice of the season made
its appearance at Dallas, Tex, on the 10Th,
and cotton and all other vegetation was re.
ported as killed.
A coLoRED man named John Smith was
executed at Oakland, Nd, on the 10th for
the murder of Josiah Hard N, and Perry
Jeter, one of a gang of seven negroes who
fired the plantation house of their former
master in South Carolina, was hanged at
Union.
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