Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-21

N. Y, the other morning fifteen horses
persisted.
w. N. Mort, one of the oldest postal
employees in the service, was sentenced at
San Antonio, Tex, on the Both ult. to FIVE
years. Imprisonment in the p~enitcntiary
for tampering with the mails. He con-
fessed to having stolen $1,000.
The Oceanic, which sailed a few days
ago from San Francisco for Hong Kong,
took 1000 Chinese and 100000 in coin.
OWING to internal discussions, the Ohio
State Dental Association, which had been
in existence since 1866, disbanded at Colum.
bus recently, after a two-days' session.
FAILING ina love affair, Horace Deland,
eighteen years of age, chained himself re-
Gently to a brush-heap near his fathers
house at Brookfield, n. H, then set fire to
the pyre and was burned to death.
SEVERAL stores and dwellings at Fayctte
City, Pa, were destroyed by fire q few
days ago, the loss a~ggregating $4,000.
AN %incendiary fire early the other morn
ing destroyed tho Moundsville CIV. Va.)
Reporter office and job-room, with presses,
type, etc. An adjoining dwelling was also
burned.
The public school building at Central
City, Neb., was entirely destroyed by fire
q few mornings ago. Loss heavy; no In
surance. H.4,-
ADvICES of the 30tl ult. stated that some
distance West of Georgetown, Col, seven
teen horse-thieves had been captured and
lynched by vigilantes.
. NEAR lIscondida, N. NJ, the other even
ing a band of masked men fired into a train,
n yrpp,op Iai,r cl,o4 Th, Shor;E e ,,,l ,>o,,a
were in pursuit of the men.
BENJAMIN EEFFNER, a wealthy farmer
residing near Lima, O., during a quarrel
with his wife shot and killed her a few
nights ago. He also attempted to kill his
son and daughter, but failed, and was soon
placed in Jail.
A NEW and dangerous counterfeit silver
dollar is in circulation in Georgia.
THE old Schuyler mansion in Albany. N.
y. with the grounds attached, once the
property Of General Schuyler, of Revolu-
tlonary fame, was sold recently in lots to a
number of persons for $$20,S45. 1t had beer
rated as worth $50, 900. Within the mansion
Willard Fillmore was married, and it was
the scene of many exciting episodes prior
to Il during the Revolution.
Mrs. JOSEPH TYSON, wife of a well-to-do
farmer near Norristown, Pa, committed
suicide the other day by throwing herself
in front of a railroad train.
ELIJAH HENDERSON snapped what he
thought to be an empty revolver In his
wife's face in Indian Territory a few even
lngs ago and shot her dead. He surrendered
to the United States Marshal, and wanted
to be hanged.
The following executions for murder
took place on the 31st ult.: Isaac Fain (col-
ored), at Kingston, Tenn: George Hill
(colored), near Atlanta, Ga; William
Bass (coloredl, at Paris, Tex; and Albert
and Charles Goodman (colored), at Terre
Ouboef, La.
A FALL of rock in a mine near Centralia,
Pa, a few days ago killed three Hungari-
ans.
The Criminal Court of Allen County,
Ind, went out of existence on the 3lst
ult., under a Legislative enactment. 1t
had been in existence for seventeen years.
DURING the year ended ON the 3lst ult.
the National banks withdrew from the
Federal Treasury $17,32o,313 deposited to
secure circulation. At the present rate of
redemption the three per cents. would dis
appel' by June, 1856.
ALFRED G. LUDERs & Co., commission
merchants at New York, failed recently
for 100000.
THE schooner Jonathan Knight was
driven upon a reef at Palmetto Point, on
the Gulf of Mexico, a few days, ago, and
the Captain. his son and four of the crew
were drowned. The schooner San Bias
was also wrecked, and her entire crew per-
ished.
J Two MEN were killed at Duluth, Mimi,
the other day by falling from a scaffold on
the side Of an elevator one hundred feet
high.
TIE Presbyterian Synod of Ohio, in ses-
sion at Cincinnati a few days ago, de-
plored the dissertation of the Sabbath, and
favored prohibition of the manufacture and
sale OF intoxicating liquors.
The New York Central Road on the 21st
ult reduced the price of first-class tickets
to Chicago to So. The West Shore and
Erie.quickly followed with a cut to $3.50.
Scalpers at st. Louis were selling tickets
to New York at $l4.
TEE crew and passengers of the steam
ship Maasdam, recently burned at sea,
reached New York on the 31st ult., on the
the Rhein, which picked them up on the
evening of October "a.
In a political fight at Klein's tavern,
Columbia County, Pa, the other night two
men We're fatally stabbed by James D.
Keller, who was lodged in jail.
On the race-course at Sherman, Tex, a
valuable horse fell and broke his neck the
other day, and the rider was also killed
by the fall.
REPORTS TO Bradstreet's for the seven
days ended OH the 31st ult. stated that
trade at nearly all commercial centers lie.
NAMED quiet, with few prospects of gains
before the opening of the new year.
ACLERK in the office Of the Cleveland
Herald was on the 31st ult. called out by n
man in a carriage, While his confederate
tosk $500 in currency from the CASH
drawer.
In the United States and Canada there
We're 2o5 business failures during the seven
days ended on the 3lst ult., against oG2
the previous seven days. The distribution
was as follows: Middle States, 81: New
England States, 90; Western, 10; Southern,
oi: Pacific States and Territories, 10; Cam