Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-12-12

DR.. JOHN MAXWELL, of Springfield,
o., rendered miserable by poverty,
poisoned his four children and himself.
The effect was fatal on the little ones, but
he recovered sufficiently to permit of his
being lodged in Jail on the Goth.
The shoe-shop of the penitentiury at
Brooklyn, N. Y, was entered by thieves a
few nights ago, who forced the safe and
took - 5000 in currency without arousing
the guards.
HORTON, CRARy & Co.'s five tanneries
in Pennsylvania shut down on the Goth,
throwing n large number of men out of en-
ployment.
CHARLES WATSON (cclored) was hanged
for murder on the Goth, at Little Rock,
Ark.
BECAUSE of the game being brutal, de-
moralizing and dangerous the Athletic
Committee of the Harvard University fac
ulty propose to recommend that football
be prohibited.
The Middletown IN. w National Bank
closed it's doors on the 2Sth, on account of
President King accepting large drafts
without security from B. d. Brown, a
grain-dealer, who had failed.
A TRAIN on the Louisville g. Nashville
Road was consumed by fire at Freddie,
Ala, the other day, and among the valua-
bles lost were two pouches of registered
letters, one for New York and the other for
Boston.
ROBERT T. LINCOLN, Secretary of War,
in his annual report issued on the 2Sth, says
the total expenditures for the fiscal year
ended June 80, 1884, were 81, 332 S76.21,
the appropriations, $45, 57O,551.53. The
estimates for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1886, are $50, $50 ,500.5S, being less than
the estimates for 1885.
THE reported recent killing of a saloon
keeper at Bladensburg, O., by Prohibition
lists was on the 2sth said to be false. The
man met his death while expelling drunken
%rufiians from his place, the crowd, who
were celebrating over the election, after
ward cutting the saloon.
WILLIAM BARss, of Chester, N. Y, an
swered a call at his door the other night,
when he was seized by two men and robbed
of a gold watch and $1,000 in money.
BELIEFS We're expressed on the 2Sth that
the "long strike" in the Hooking Valley
would soon end. Some twenty of the per-
sons indicted for outrages had been arrest
ed and would be tried for conspiracy. The
railway brid ges burned had been replaced.
A WARRANT was issued on the 2sth for
the arrest of j. G. Pussy, chief clerk of the
Kansas penitentiary, who was charged
with the embezzlement of $1,000.
The number of hogs packed at the prin-
cipal Western points from March l to No
vember % was 4 ,050,0 0 against 3,7S1 900 for
the corresponding time of last year.
MATTHEW McCARRoN, of New York, a
laborer, while intoxicated the other night
stabbed his sick wife in the eyes with a
shoemaker's awl, destroying her sight.
Coal sheds OH the New York & New En-
gland Railroad, near Boston, fell a few
days ago, crushing three men to death.
AT San Rafael, Cal, the other night a
buggy containing six persons was struck
by a locomotive at a crossing, two being
killed, one fatally injured md the fourth
having an arm broken. The others es-
capped.
GEORGE BR1scoE (colored), accused of
robbery, was taken from officers a few
nights ago at New Bridge, Md, and
hanged by masked men.
THE Federal Grand Jury at Omaha on
the 18th indicted fifteen persons for fraud
in connection with the sale of Otoe Indian
reservation lands, by which the red men
We're d~efraudedto the amount Of $40, 900.
THREE hundred persons were on tho 2Sth
thrown out of employment by the Tempo
rary shutdown Of the Home Sewing Ma
chine Company's works at Bridgeport,
Conn.
sTHE annual report of United States
Treasurer Wyman, issued on the 2sth,
shows that the net revenue of the Govern-
ment for the fiscal year ended June 90,
1884, was less than that of 1883 by $49,767,-
712, having been $34S,519 1863, while
in 1888 it amounted to $39S, 22s7, ISL.
The net expenditures aggregated
S244, 12G,244, a decrease from the amount in
1883 of sd, 2s1 1893. The Treasury reserve
for the year ended November l, 1884, de-
creased S12, 1852, 2255, Or from $1G0, So, 545 in
1883 to Sl4S,0 70, 22O November 1, 1854. The
amount of standard silver dollars coined to
September so, 1884, was $1s2, $50, 500.
TICKETS from Chicago to st. Louis were
Oh the 2Sth on sale at 81, and the return trip
cost but $1.50.
In the United States and Canada there
were 262 business failures during the seven
days ended on the 2Sth, against 2s3 the
previous seven days. The distribution
was as follows: Middle States, %; New
England States, 90; Western, 81; Southern,
80; Pacific States and Territories, %: Cam
ada, %.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The official canvass of the Electoral vote