Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-12-14

ult., and q general feeling of alarm per-
vaded the city, arising from the incen-
diary attempts.
Four burglars refused on tho 30th ult. to
surrender to Marshal Sulter at Shelby, o.,
and fired at him, wounding him severely.
He shot one of the robbers dead, however.
Then the other three started off, pursued
by many citizens. One fugitive turned and
shot a pursuer dead, but the murderer was
captured and taken to Shelby. Another
member Of the gang, after making a des-
perate attempt to escape, was overtallen
and riddled with the bullets of his pursu-
ers, and the fourth robber was captured at
Plymouth.
EARLY on the morning Of the 3oth ult.,
in a dispute in a Cincinnati street car,
Harry Shaffer shot the conductor, William
latter dying in a few hours, but Swift
might recover. Shaffer claimed self-de-
tense.
In the belief that the annual warfare be-
tween the Indians and tho whites can be
ended by judicious measures, Secretary
Teller, in his annual report on the goth ult.
recommended permanent reservations
commensurate with the number of tribes,
thu discontinuance of cash annuities, and
the establishment of manual labor schools
for the young. He urged that white ad-
venturers be imprisoned for attempts to
invade Indian Territory.
RICHMOND STUART (colored) was hanged
on the goth ult. at Shreveport, La, for the
murder Of his wife; Joseph Jewell was
executed at San Jose, Cal, for the murder
of M. P. Renowden, and Ambrose West
(colored) was hanged at Macon, Ca, for
the murder of James Monroe.
EDWARD d. SHERMAN, an employe of the
Texas Pacific Railroad at Sherman, Tex,
disappeared on the 30th, being q defaulter
for $4,000.
Mrs. RAIL, of Baltimore, Nd, whose re-
~lations with her husband were unpleas-
ant, killed her two young children n ia
tally wounded herself with a razor on the
30th ult.
FOURTEEN delegates from various trade
unions Of Paris arrived in New York on
the Both ult., having come to study Ameri-
can institutions and note the condition of
organized labor hero.
NEAR Butler, Pa, the other evening a
vehicle containing Henry Costello and his
aged mother tumbled down an embark
ment, both being killed.
DURING November $1,972 40 was coined
at the Philadelphia Mint.
Mrs, MARY A. GREN, an aged woman,
was burned to death at Louisville, KY, a
few nights ago, her clothing having ignited
by a candle.
MORE discoveries of fabulous richness
have been found in the Caur d'Alene
Mountains in Montana. From twenty-five
to one hundred dollars each day per man
gulches.
A MEXICAN neal Pueblo discovered a few
days ago that his child had while playing
burned up two hundred dollars in paper
money. In his rage he killed the child,
and then out of remorse throw himself in
front of a locomotive, which ran over and
killed him. His wife had become insane.
The local pension list recently published
at Watertown, N. Y, showed that several
pensioners had been dead for o year or
more, and that q woman drew money in
the name of her dead mother.
ARTHUR G. CoLICUT, q telegraph opera
or imported from England during the re-
cent strike, fell from a stairway in a Bos-
ton hotel the other day, and was killed on
tho marble floor.
THREE large cartridge companies in New
England have formed q syndicate which
will control that interest throughout the
United States.
The report of the Federal Commissioner
of Railroads issued on the 30th ult. showed
that four subsidized Pacific companies
owed the Government $102, SIC, 1912.
LIZZIE B1NKLEY, IN eight-year-old girl,
accidentally set fire to her clothing while
playing about a street bonfire at Dayton,
O., a few evenings ago and was burned to
death.
AT Rushville, Ind, or the evening Of the
30th ult. Eli Frank and Jacob Block, rival
Hebrew clothiers, disputed, when a son of
the former fa~tallyashot Frank, who rushed
into a barber-shop, procured a razor, and
returning, cut Block in q fearful manner
Frank died in an hour; Block could not
recover, and his son was in Jail.