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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-02
AN AGED COUPLE BUTCHERED.

AZ. N.hemtah Fleetwood Found
n...a.r.a In Their Bed Near Charleston,
Iu--Au Attempt Made by the Assassin
~ Rurn the House and His Victims
podies - james Winkleback, n Farm.
Hand. Arrested for the Crime.s
NATION, ILL.,, April IA double MUIR
der was committed near the small tow OF
Rardin, seven miles northeast of Charles
ton. Coles County, yesterday morning,
Nehemiah Fleetwood and wife, both aged
about sixty years, lived in a two-story
house upon their farm, and occupied Sleep
ing apartments upon the lower floor. An
unmarried daughter, aged about twenty, a
hired man named James Winkleback, and
a small child were the only other occupants
of the house. The family retired
early Wednesday night, n shortly
afterward the young lady heard Wrinkle
back, as she supposed, get up
and 90 down stairs. She did not think it
an unusual occurrence, and was soon par
TALLY asleep. She was partially aroused a
second time by a noise as if some one was
striking blows down stairs, but soon dozed
again. She became conscious OF a smell of
smoke in the room about ten o'clock, and
called to the young man that the house was
on fire. He answered her Immediately,
and told her to jump out of the
window. The daughter went down
stairs at once and discovered that
the bed in which her father and mother
were lying was OH fire. While Wrinkle
back, at her order, reluctantly departed to
arouse the %neighbors, she extinguished the
fire and found that the old folks Threats
were cut in a horrible manner, their heads
being also crushed. When the %neighbors
arrived Winkleback was suspected, but no
traces could be found of the murderer.
menced to hunt for a clew. Winkleback's
AK was missing, but he said he had left it in
the woods. The we'll was pumped
dry, however, and in the bot
tom was found the ak, covered
with blood and hair. Blood spots
were found upon the pantaloons he wore,
but he had donned a clean white shirt, and
nc trace Of the dirty one could be found,
and he refused to give any explanation. He
made a bold denial of having committed
the murder when questioned before the
Coroner's jury. Sheriff Hamilton placed
him under arrest and started for the Jail at
Charleston. A crowd Of five hundred who
had assembled at the scene of the murder
threatened to lynch him before morning.
The old folks had no money, and the motive
for the murder is a mystery.
CHARLESTON, ILL.,, April 11.-Deputy
Sheriff Dwyer has just arrived in this city
with James Winkleback, to whom circum-
stances point very positively as the murderer
of the Fleetwoods. He succeeded in getting
his man away from the crowd and landed
him safely in Jail. A revolver with which
he is supposed to have shot Mrs. Fleetwood
twice has been found. Two chambers are
empty. Winkleback acknowledges it as his
revolver. He was very much frightened
and glad to get behind the bars.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-02
Woman's Progress.

They were talking about the WOMB.
suffrage convention and the ex-Gon
| crnor of Maryland remarked: city,
have been making progress, no donS.
of it. / think last Friday was the fire..
| time in the history of this country WIN"
q woman sat as a Judge in a trial mo-
| which a mans liberty OF i~mprisonmnnt.
depended. Marilla M. Kicker was ,ha
iud o.. You probably noticed that she
was appointed United States Comm;s
sioper a couple of years ago. She At.
tended the convention right along and
sat on the platform every day, but She
didn't make any speeches. She has
made enough of them in her lifetime
and she d dn't propose to take up thu
time which the newer delegates wanted
They sent for her Friday afternoon n.
goto her Office and try a case. I don,t
know whether she has any other Office.
than a seal, but that's enough and all
the office a United States COMMISSIONS
needs. A pickpocket named Whilina
had been sentenced to six months iee
Jail and fined 800. and it would have
amounted to imprisonment for
lie except for a provision Of
the law which enables him to get
out after serving a month extra
time if he can't pay. He has to prove
this before a United States Commits.
sioner, and that's what they wanted
Marilla M. Kicker for. She sent her war.
rant for the prisoner, and he was brought
out from the Jail. District ATTORNEY
Worthington sent word that he could
not be there to object and asked to have
the case adjourned. 1t appeared that
he had been given the proper notice and
Mrs. Kicker decided that the case
couldn't be ad burned. She heard the
evidence. decided that the man YVES en-
titled to his freedom, and told the Of
ticers to let the mar go. They did so.
and that's all there wss Of it. But it
shows progress when a woman can
bring a MAJ out OF Jail on her warrant
and give him his liberty by her decree.
Mrs. Kicker asked to be appointed No
tary Public some years ago and Attor-
ney-General Devins decided that there
was no law for it and it couldn't be-.
done. Mr.. Devins' successor %overrulet
his decision, however. He decided that
there was no law against it, and If she
was strong enoughto press down the
notarial seal so as to make agood clear
impression on the paper, there was no
reason why a woman should not be a.
notary public. 1t was largely o CUES
ton Of strength, and most women are
strong enoughto press down the SEAL"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-02
The Educational Bill.

WASHINGTON, April o. The Educa.
tlonal bill as amended and passed by
the Senate provides that ST., 600, 600
shall be appropriated in such a way
as to provide for the equalization of school
privileges to all children of school age in all
States and Territories, without regard
10 color OF race, and gives them an
equal opportunity for education. The
expenditure is to extend over eight years.
as follows: First year, 81, 600. 600:
second year, $50, 900, 900; third year, $15.-
ooo,oo0; fourth year, $13, 600, OOn; fifth
year. $1,000, 900; sixth year. SO, 600, 600:
seventh year, $1,000, 600, and eighth year.
20, 1000, 600. The money is to be disbursed
IN monthly lnstallments by the Secretary of
the interior, according to the ratio of Tilt
eracy, to the Governors Of the several
states and Territories OF certain conditions:
ra q; ina none OF it shall go to any State or
leirlIory mat does not have q common
school system for all children. without rarari
TO race Or color.
.. That no State shall receive from this f,,n6
more money than it annually expends for
scnoOl purposes. AA
.. inat none OF the appropriation shall he
SSapenaed 1or the erection or rental of school,
Schont snail be furnished by the State. '"o
I. mat one-tenth of the fund shall bo an
pa;u+ ~ .ae education of teachers ana in
mal2rainln normal and training schools ~
.. mat each year there shall be made 70 tho
e eech st:y OF the Interior by the Governor of
bursemenr OF the school n Win tho .ne ais'
ne1a OF schools, average daily Attendance. the
d dren and nmmber OF white and colored cb iii
The Fun, nhd a ot1eT information us to the use Of
eaucation in his State, and if it shall he sbnW,i
state s .ae iund has been misapplied, such Hh
I'll 6iI It s IaaIi r eot DC TER entitled to further Aid iu I'M:
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-02
b.ted for three hours, and voted upon p.r

capita.
The Woman's Baptist Foreign Mission
airy Society of the West closed it's three.
days. convention on the 18th at Milwaukee,
and selected Toledo, O., as the place Of
meeting in 1885. Mrs. A. j. Howe, Of Chi
cago, was elected President.
JUAN B. PATRON, ex-Speaker of the New
Mexican Legislature, was assassinated a
few nights ago at Las Vegas by a COWBOY.
SECRETARY FREL1NGHUYsEN on the 18th
received a dispatch from General Adam
Badeau rendering his resignation as Con-
sul-General at Havana.
CHARLES READE, the popular English
novelist, died in London on the afternoon
of the 18th, aged seventy years. For
some months he had been in delicate
health.
H. J.. HAML1N was on the 11th nominated
for Congressman by the Republicans of
the Seventeenth Illinois District, L. E.
Payson was r~enominated i'll the Ninth Dis.
trict and Jonathan H. Rowell in the -Four.
teenth District.
THE Nebraska Democratic State Conven.
tion will be held at Lincoln May %.
DR.. NoRvIN GREEN, President of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, made
an argument before the House Committee
on Post-offices and Post-roads in Washing
ton on the 18th in opposition to postal
telegraphy. If, however, he said, the
Government was determined to enter into
the business, he thought it ought to buy
out the existing lines and manage the
work exclusively in its own way.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-02
Curiosity Of japanese Women.

In the country house of a ruined
daimio where we obtained lodging and
entertainment, writes an English lady
travelling in Japan, l was a cause OF
much amusement. A number of ladies
were invited to meet me at afternoon
nice (the name for dinner). They sat
,on their heels around the little table
which l used as a chair. My feet were
stretched out before me. The hostess
with, as l took it, many apologies, be-
osity was keen, l drew them off. All
the ladies'. pounced upon them, and
some of them asked leave to fit them
on. Before doing this, they caused
bowls of hot water to be fetched,
washed their feet carefully and dried
them by tanning them, which made the
wet evaporate quickly: AS they all had
chi.dren's feet, my boots were awks
'wardly big and more ridiculous than l
a say. The ladies next handled my
skirt and corsage, and, to oblige them,
| took them off. The p%etticoats had
their turn, then my stockings. which
they did not laugh at: after them my
buckled elastic carriers, and last my
stays. Japanese politeness here broke
down. Every N shook and
cried with laughter in looking at
the stays. One of the ladies
had picked up some French at Osaka
"a treaty port), and explained to me
that the others wished to know whether
the stays had been invented to serve as
a cuirass to protect fair Europeans from
rude men, or was it worn as a peniten-
tlal garment to eXpiate sins? [ said:
"No. but to beautify the figure" This
answer convulsed them. "A stayed-up
woman affected their imprcssionable
and well educated eyes as something
m%onstrously ugly and absurd. japanese
dress is beautiful, and so easy. There
was yet another question to he answered.
There a G, so far as 1 know. neither
cows nor goats in Japan. Children are
not, therefore, weaned until they are
nearly big enough to go to school. l
had noticed that poor little Miss Mite
was an object of general commisera-
lion. Ibid not know why. The reason
came gu when my stays were being
examined. They were a barrier be-
tween the mother and the child, which
was cut off by them from it's tactical
rights. told them that we delegated
the nursing duties to poor women and
COWS. l am afraid / was imperfectly
translated, for 1 saw that I was for
moment an object of horrors
romans Letter IN London Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-02
SEARCHING FOR THE DEAD.
Terrible Sights Witnessed in the. Poe
hOntas M~ine-Three Bodies Recovered.

Terrible Sights Witnessed in the Poca.
hontas Mine-Three Bodies Recovered.
PoTAHoNTAs, Va, April 1.-THE gang
of workmen engaged in making the last
preparations for entering the mines where
the recent terrible disaster occurred com.
pleted their task yesterday. The miners and
laborers this morning broke down the last
barrier around the entrance, and a rush Of
terribly foul air ensued. When the main
gallery had been partially ventilated the
men moved into the mine and commenced a
systematic exploration of the interior. Near
the entrance three bodies were discovered
half buried in debris md mud. The shat
tered remnants of humanity were conveyed
to the surface. One of them was unrecog-
nizable: having had the head, both legs
and one arm blown off. AS the exploring
party progressed downward the foul air
became so sitting that several were over
come and returned to the surface. On a
lower level there was a general halt be-
cause of the overpo wering stencil. The
spectacle at the upper end OF the chamber
was revolving in the extreme. Huddled to-
gether in ineXtricable confusion were the
mangled bodies of about thirty miners.
Heads, legs, arms and fragments of bodies
were scattered around in every direction,
and evidences of the great force of the ex-
plosion were plainly visible in the
shattered walls of coal surrounding
the scene. The odor was SO strong
that it was impossible for the men
to proceed farther, and they returned to the
surface. The Superintendent at once gave
orders for repairing the immense fan, which
will be used to ventilate the mine. All dav
the available laborers of the village have
been busily engaged digging a series Of
graves for the dead.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-02

The lad accidentally ran against the man.
while playing, and the kicking followed.
A BANK of sand caved in at Pittsburgh,
Pa, the other day, burying two men, who,
when recovered an hour later, were dead,
their bodies being badly crushed.
ADvIcEs of the 18th state that heavy
rains had fallen in California, and the
rivers were swollen, and there had been
many washouts. 1t would take four or
five days to repair the damages done to
railroads by the floods.
A STATEMENT by the First-Assistant
Postmaster-Ge General shows that during the
nine months ended March 81 last the post
office receipts We're $45, 2G2, 446, a falling OFF,
as compared with the previous nine
months, of 50, 24G,246.
AT Fresno, Cal, a cyclane on the 11th
demolished several buildings.
The body of an aged woman, Mrs. Cece-
lila Murphy. was found on the 18th neal
fredericksburg, Md, with the skull crushed
in end throat cut. Her premises had been
robbed, and there were evidences of a ter
rible struggle.
JOSEPH AGATE, q retired New York mill
i~onaire, committed suicide by shooting
himself in a hotel in that city on the 18th.
Dependency over failing health was said
to have been the cause.
AN express train on the Panhandle
Road went through a bridge near Dayton,
O.,.on the 18th, and the engineer, fireman,
baggage-master and express messenger
were killed. The accident was said to nave
been caused by train-wreckers.
AT the Westmoreland and Pennsylvania
coal mines, near Irwin Station, Pa, fit
18th against a reduction Of twenty per
cent. in wages.
SIXTEEN mutilated bodies were on the
18th taken from the reopened Pocahontas
mine, near Lynchburg, Va, but only six
of them could be identified.
In the United States during the seven
days ended on the 18th there were -175
business failures, and in Canada thirty
nine, against a total of 212 the previous
week.
SEVENTEEN firms engaged in the manu-
facture of vapor stoves, with a capital of
ST 800, 900, have formed a combination to
equalize prices.
WHEAT seeding was in progress in South
ern Minnesota and Dakota on the 18th, q
week in advance of last year. There will
be a substantial increase in the acreage.
IT is announced that a meat and ice com.
pany, backed by Eastern capitalists, will
be established at Columbus, Tex, which
will ship dressed beef to New York, via
st. Louis, and will also manufacture cleo,
oil and butterine. 1t was said similar es-
Establishments would be started in Kansas
and Nebraska.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-02
He Came Last,

Captain" sad the reporter as he.
elbowed his way into the circle, chow
large waves did you ever see on the
lakes?"
well. let's see. Do you mean
within the last five years."
~ mean any time since you've been
"Oh-ah! Well, sir, twenty years
ago, when l used to sail the bark John
Is. Skinner, l saw waves on the Sagi-
nav Bay which must have been"
go on"
Say observed the Captain
"please ask some of these gent!emea
their opinion"
There We're six other captains in the
circle. Two Of them said they had seen
waves fifteen feet high two more
agreed on twenty feet, and the other
pair thought they had seen a few waves
running around loose which must have
been all of twenty-five feet high.
Now, then, Captain" said the re-
porter to the first.
We'll. sir" replied the Captain, be.
ing that the other gentlemen have given
IN their agures, l will say that l have
seen waves on Saginaw Bay exactI!L,
hfty-one feet and seven inches high. !
LOOK a ladder and a tape-line ana
measured 'em, and l know l knocked
on at least ten inches of their top IN
rea hing up"
he came last, and the other captain
could only nurse their desperation
Oe1ro1 Free Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-02
FOREIGN.

THIRTY-F1vE persons were badly inbred
in a recent railway collision near Dublin,
Ireland.
PRESIDENT GONZALES had made such
concessions to the Mexican MERCHANTS
agreeing to require a tax on foods sold
only, and to favor unburdenei trades
that on the 9th no further trouble was an
~ticipated, and matters had resumed their
wonted quiet throughout the country.
IT was reported from Madrid on the 9th
that Aguero, the Key West fsibuster, had
a force of two hundred and twenty-five
men in Cuba, of whom forty.taree were ex-
chiefs. -Four plantations lad been de-
stroyed by Agnero. Other filibustering
expeditions had been organized in the Brit
ish West Indies.
The British Government on the 9th sent
positive orders to General Gordon to with
draw from Khartoum with the garrison as
soon as possible.
j. B. A. BE1QUE, an extensive contractor
for water-works in the Canadian towns,
has been compelled to suspend with liza.
bilities of $155,oo0
A.. M. GILLESPIE & Co., of London, Yves
India merchants, failed on the 9th for
$1,250,00O.
ONE-HALF of Mandalay, the Capital Of
the Kingdom of Burmah, a city of $4,000
people, was burned recently.
THE Dominion Government has vetoed
the bill recently passed by the British
Columbia Legislature prohibiting Chinese
immigration which was carried into opera.
| ton on March 81.
THE number of persons killed during the
Hayden revolution was officially declared
on the 10th to lave been seven thousand.
ADvIcEs of the 10th from Havana, Cuba,
say that Colonel Aquero had landed with
out'resistance. Numerous factions Joined
him on his march to the interior. His
forces encountered troops several times,
but obliged them to retreat. Great excite
nent prevailed, especially in Havana,
owing to the concentration of large forces
of. troops, and the Government had tele-
gsaphed to Spain for more troops.
WIDOWS and unmarried women in Nova
Scotia have been empowered to vote ct
municipal elections.
The tribes between Berber and Shendy.
in the Soudan, were on the 18th reported
to be in a state of insurrection. The rebsls
were besieging Shendy ard a portion Of
the Berber garrison had gone to that city's
relief.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-02
NEWS

A CAIRO dispatch of the 18th says that
the British communications with Berner
by land and water had been cut of. The
Arabs had raided environs of the town.
1t was reported that Khartoum had fallen
into the hands of the rebels, M that Cen
eral Gordon was a prisoner.
NINE buildings, forming the principal
business blocks in the city of Tacoma, w.
t., were completely destroyed by fire on
the Is, causing a loss of $4,000.
AGuERo and his foil overs in Cuba were
on the 18th marching toward Bazamo, the
seat Of former instructions, and were
hailed with joy by the villagers on the
route. His band had been largely aug
mented. Some plantations had been
burned, and tax collectors despoiled Of
their funds. A band of forty.two insur-
Egents who were marching to join Aguero
were attacked by the Spanish troops, and
thirty.eight of the former were killed.
G.. B. FINLAYsoN, seventeen years old,
who murdered his grandmother, hung him
self in a corridor of the Portland (Oregon)
Jail a few days ago.
THE Republican Congressional Conven-
tion for the First District Of Illinois on the
10Th renominated r. w. Durham for Con-
gresham.
/ EDWARD M. SMITH, United States Con-
sui at Mannheim, Germany, died of apo
plexy in an English railway car on the
18th while en- route to this country.
In a collision on the Lehigh Valley Road
a few days ago near Allentown, Pa, the
fireman was thrown into the fre.box and
burned to death. Thirty cars were demol-
Lished.
UP to the 18th ffty-four bodies had been
recovered from the mine at Pocahontas,
Va, and all were in a badly mutilated con-
dition.
The train-load of corn contributed by
the people of Butler County, Kansas, to
the Ohio River sufferers, was on the 10Th
sold at auction in Cincinnati, realizing
S 1000.
Two BROTHERS named Spencer were
killed on the 18th at Ford, Ia, by a boiler
explosion.
New ORLEANS advices of the 18th state
that the river was gradually falling. and
planters were in hopes of saving most of
their seed cane.
DURING the week ended on the 18th H.
500 immigrants arrived at New York from
Europe.
The United States Senate was not in
session on the 18th. In the House favor
able reports were made Oh bills to permi it
fruit-growers to manufacture brandy with
out the payment of tax, granting letter.
carriers a months leave of absence each
year, and for the acceptance of the Illinois
& Michigan Canal. Eulogies on the late
Representative Herndon, of Alabama,
were delivered.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-02
Mexican Merchants Close Their
Stores.

CITY OF MEXICO, April s.-Yesterday tho
stamp tax on wines, liquors, canned and
preserved goods, foreign glassware, fancy
goods, jewelry, fine hardware, books and
hats went into effect. The merchants pre-
yiously arranged not to open their stores
this morning, and all business establish
ments except some twenty-five, mostly
small, remained closed. Want of unanimity
dlsconcerts the grocerymen. The majority
of the merchants are firm. A high Govern.
ment otlclal states that the President will
not yield. Governor Fernandez offers pro-
lection to all merchants who open their
stores. The poor classes are not affected
and perfect order prevails,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-02

IDr. w: F. Bruch, an eccentric old
oachelor OF Easton, Pa. who died re-.
Gently lett 5000 for the erection Of q
monument mo- over his grave. He also left
@lo'oOO for a brass band to hea,. bic
name, n the band upon each ami.
versary of his death is to plav nd;r~o a.
his graye.--Pansturgh Post,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-02

Austin Keen has served out ten
f{ vh IN 1he New Jersey State Prison
w, nen ne mao been in five years he sent
,Ua glrl Whom he had wronged and
married her in prison. She and han
-NeW0rk Hegister. We" 4o1easeo'