Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-12-07
EPITOME OF THE WEEK
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

UOMESIlC.
Four persons were drowned a few laws
ago at a ferry in the parish of st. John,
La. They were crossing the Mississippi
in a skiff.
WILLIAM HEMEY, a farmer residing near
Swanton, o., killed his wife with an AK on
the 10Th, fatally cut his daughter, and then
took his own life with a razor.
JAMES NJ. and Terry Hampton, father
and son, and Walter McKaig, residing in
Hickory Township, Butler County, Kan,
renewed an old land quarrel the other
night, and McKaig killed the Hamptons.
He was arrested.
ADDISON G. RICE, a leading lawyer of
Buffalo, N. Y, who died on the 10Th, took
an active part in the Abolition movement,
and equipped two regiments at his own
expense.
PATRICK KANE, an old citizen of Lock
port, N. Y, was on the 10Th arrested for
the murder of his wife while both were in
toxicated.
GEORGE G. MuNRoE,>a prominent citizen
of Newport, r. L., died suddenly on the
18th from the excitement of winning an
important suit which had been pending
for eighteen years.
Four men were killed and one fatally
wounded by the recent explosion of a
boiler in the mill Of N. o. Martin, at Fair.
fax Courthouse, Va.
THE Executive Council of Massachusetts,
has confirmed the nomination of George
L. Ruffin, a colored lawyer, as Justice of
the District Court at Charlestown.
W HUNDRED n TwENTY-oNE persons
have been killed and five hundred and
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railroads during the last year. Only six
teen of the killed and fifty-two of the in.
jured were passengers.
NEAR Cave Spring, Mo-, Oh the 10Th Jim
Cook found his runaway wife at a neigh
boris house, and after a quarrel grasped
her, seated himself i'll a chair, held her
head between his knees, and cut her throat
with a pocket-knife. Cook was in Jail.
G. j. DEWEY, the forger who operated so
extensively in Montreal and Boston, and
was captured at San Francisco on an out
going China steamer, entered a plea of
guilty on the 10Th in a court at Boston.
S. H. WHITE, a civil engineer on the
Denver & South Park Railway, was mul.
dered recently by a tie-cutter at Robinson,
Col.
SECRETARY FoLGER has called 500 900
of the three-per-cent. bonds, numbered as
follows Original numbers), both inclusive:
Ss50's, Nos. S47 to So; $10O's, Nos. 5,47 to
G,040; S$5o0's, Nos. 1884 to 1864: $l,0o0's,
Nos. 1G,451 to 11,401 and 22,64G to y, 1865;
SCOOPS, Nos. "a, 723 to 25,G5S. Total, $1O,-
100000.
E. DAWSON, one of the largest %stockmen
in Clay County, Tex, failed on the Goth
for S22s7,0oo.
ERIC HoEGEL and Victor Tidholm, two
young Swedes, We're drowned on the 2Otil
while skating across Lake Pepin from
Lake City. MINI.
JAMES DOYLE was arrested on the Goth
at Brookville, L.. l., and fully identified as
the murderer of Mrs. Maybee and her
daughter a few days ago. MIR. Mavbee,
who was blind, and who was terribly
beaten, was said to be recovering and also
to be regaining his sight.
In the United States Court at Chicago
on the Goth H. w. Shapley and Fred Erby
were convicted of being agents for South
ern lotteries, and would be fined. These
were the first cases of the kind ever tried
in the United States.
Two MEN made an attempt to rob the
house of j. J. Garrett, at New Providence,
Tenn, on the night of the 10th, but MI. Gar
rett shot one of the burglars and then en-
gagged i'll a hand-to.hand fight with the
other, during which Garrett was probably
fatally wounded.
The railway depot and machines shops at
Ottawa, Kan, were burned on the Goth.
Loss, 500, 900.
G. NJ. D. LITTLE & Co., dealers in canned
goods at New York, failed on the goth for
500, 600.
II was estimated on the Goth that the
total loss of life on Lake Michigan during
the recent gales was fifty-tive, and sixty
vessels were wrecked.
A FIRE at Dixon, Cal, on the night of
the 2oth destroyed the business part of the
town. The losses were reported at $3.50.
coo.
A LOCOMOTIVE on the Toledo Central &,
st. Louis Road, at the latter city, started
off suddenly on the Goth while the engineer
and fireman were out Of the cab. The two
men procured another engine, followed the
runaway, and the engineer, climbing down
the pilot, when near enough, jumped on
the rear of the fugitive machine and
stopped it in time to prevent a collision
with a well-iilled passenger train.
The amount and value of the grain crop
of Kansas for 1888 was given as follows
on the 10Th: Corn, POO, 00o, 200 bushels; val
ne, $780, oo, 0oo. Wheat, 10000, 900 bushels;
value, S24, 900, 900. Oats, $4,000, 900 bushels;
value, 100000 oo Rye, 10000 0 bushels:
value. 100000. Flax, 100000 bushels;
value, S1,4+o,0oo. Total value, 500, 100000.
WILLIAM G. PHELAN, a noted criminal,
who established a bogus %bank-note detec-
tive agency i'll Boston, secured large num-
bers OF them from banks, and passed at
least $1,000 in counterfeit bills, was SEN
fenced on the Goth in that city to five years
in the penitentiary.
CREEKs in Fredericktown and Piedmont
in Southeastern Missouri, swelled by heavy
rains, overlooked OH the 21st and swept
away many dwellings. Two women and
three children were drowned.
RICHARD SIMMONS, of Talladega, Ala.
was .ssassinated by unknown parties
while eating breakfast with his family on
the 21st.
EDWARD PAYNE, a bank cashier at Rush
vile, Ind, while descending a back stair.
way in his residence, at an early hour on
the morning of the 2lst, was halted and fla.