Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-01
OF THE WEEK
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

Y 4A-Si -3o-'yS w
e73,415, 1923. Cash in Treasury, SS375, 374, 200.
Debt, less amount in Treasury, s., 49S,o41,-
1923. Decrease during December, ST., 49,
337. Decrease since June 80, 1888, $5S,049,-
AS3.
A WAGON containing five young men was
struck by an express train near Napoleon.
o., on the Cd, and two of the men were
killed and another was fatally injured.
By q collision on the morning of the I'd
in the outskirts of Toronto, Ont, between
a suburban and freight train, twenty-five
persons were killed, four mortally wound
ed and sixteen slightly injured. The con-
ductor of the freight had been arrested for
running his train without orders.
The river boats Colorado and City of
Alton We're burned to the waters edge at
st. Louis on the morning Of the Cd.
A LOSS Of $4,000 was sustained OH the
Cd at Jacksonville, Ore, by the burning of
nine business places, including the post
Office with all it's contents. Two men had
limbs broken by leaping from windows.
AT a point on the river nine miles from
Pittsburgh, the tug-boat I. N. Bunton was
set on fire by a collision with her tow on
the I'd. Most of the crew sprang over
board, and three were drowned.
SOME parts Of Arkansas were on the Cd
flooded with counterfeit nickels, made
from a substance found in the mountains,
and the Federal officials at Fort Smith
were on the lookout.
AT eight o'clock on the evening of the
I'd the jury in the Emma Bond outrage
case at Hillsboro, Ill.,, returned a verdict
of "not guilty." which was received with
ominous silence. A report was current
that a mob had left Litchfield to lynch the
accused, but the weather was too cold for
outdoor operations. Montgomery, Pettis
and Clement remained in the courthouse
all night with the jury, and said when they
returned home they would "lnake it hot"
for some of the witnesses, and that they
were also prepared to defend themselves
against mobs.
OFF Cape Cod, after nine O'Clock the
other evening, a bolt OF fire was seen slow
ly dropping toward the earth, and then
moving rapidly upward. After sailing
the sky for five minutes it exploded into
many-co!ored fires.
WILLIAM MCHUGH was convicted on the
Cd for the third time at Cincinnati of the
murder Of his wife.
I'll State Land Board OF Texas recently
leased 5000 acres for ten years, for graz
ing purposes, at four cents per acre, and
sold 10000 acres at two dollars per acre.
JUDGE RANSEY's house in Cleveland, O.,
was robbed on the night of the I'd of five
hundred dollars worth of jcwelry. Some
of the articles taken were highly priced as
gifts and mementoes.
JAMES ANDREWS, of ST. Louis. after ten
years. litigation, was OH the ID awarded
judgment for Slopes, for building the tun-
mel from the bridge to ii Union Depot.
CHARLES STEVENS, a murderer, was
pardoned from the Missouri Penitentiary
III the ID by Governor Crittenden. Stew
ems while in prison made presents of fam
cy knick-knac1s of his own manufacture
to the Governors little daughter, who died
recently. The child, on her death-bed,
asked her father to pardon Stevens, and
the latter complied with her wishes.
w. IRVING LlNDELL arrived at Licking
ton, Ky, a few days ago, with a brother
twelve years old and only one dollar. He
gave themoney to a clearinghouse to feed
the boy, Went to work as Il brakeman him
self without getting any food, and, after
thirty-six hours labor nrigorous weather,
died of hunger and exposure.
ROBERT MARTIN, aged fifty-three years,
and James B. Graves, aged sixty-live
years, were hanged on the Sd at Newark,
N. j., for murder.
e. II. kABBE, who was the confidential
clerk.of the New York house of Sperry g.
Barnes, and who fed with over ninety
thousand dollars belonging to the firm,
was arrested in Chicago d few days ago
and taken to New York, where on the Sd
he made a confession, and about $4,000 of
the stolen money was recovered from
hiding-places in cisterns and ou.houses.
A F1RE-DAMP explosion in the Oxford
colliery, near Scranton, Pa, Oh the Sd
wrecked the mine and imprisoned fourteen
men for an hour, three of whom were seri-
ously burned, one fatally.
JAMES A. WALLACE, cashier of the Hop
kinsville (ky.) Bank, disappeared on the
Sd, having stolen be ween $4,000 and $50
COO of it's funds.
LOSSES from fire in the United States
during 1888 aggregated S103, DOC, 900. There
were 1916 fires where the loss exceeded
100000. The December fire record showed
an aggregate loss of ST. 900, 900.
PHINEzY & Co.'s cotton warehouse at
Augusta, Ca, was destroyed by fire Oh
the Sd, causing a loss of 100000.
BY the burning of a residence at Mechan.
icstcwn, O., the other night two daughters
of Milton Highland, aged eight and four.
teen years, persisted in the flames.
STANLEY GRIFFITH, who fled from Salem,
O., after fatally shooting his father, was
captured on the Sd and placed in Jail. He
confessed his crime.
NEAR Newcastle, Pa, mail and freight
trains collided a few days ago, two persons
being fatally hurt and a number of others
were badly injured.
ADvICES Of the Sd from Denver, Col,
state that eight more men had lost their
lives by snow-slides in the mountains, and
five others were badly injured.
d. T. WADswoRTH It. Co., bankers at
Ishpeming, Mich, failed on the Sd for
$780, O0.
, ACKNOWLEDGEMENT BREWSTER has de.
cided that in order to be entitled to pay
for issuing and paying money-orders,
postmasters must personally perform the
services required in the business.
GOVERNOR SLOVENIAN presided at a
meeting in San Francisco a few evenings
ago where arrangements We're made to
hold & Worlds Exposition in 1887. 1t was
resolved that a guarantee fund of 81 ,OOO,-