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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-09-19
NEWS

NOMINATIONS for Congressman werei
made as follows OF the 30th ult.: Repuh-
llcan-l1linois, Third District, George r.
Davis (ren ominated). Virginia, FourthI
District, Colonel Brady. Democratic
Indiana. Seventh District, W. D. Bynum.
Ohio, Twenty-first District, Martin A.;
Foran Qenominated). ...e
ON account Of ILL health, General Millot'
was ON the Both ult. relieved from the
command of the French forces in Tonquin,
and has been succeeded by General de
Lisle.
WALLAcE's Savings Bank, at New Castle,
Ia, has closed it's doors, with liabilities
estimated at 800, 900.
FIVE men belonging to the wrecked
schooner w. w. Brigham were picked up
on Lake Michigan on the Both ult., after
having drifted about on pieces of the wreck
lor tour days and suffering great agony
from hunger.
: THEODORE SCHUMANN has declined the
nomination as State Treasurer of Wiscon-
sin recently made by the G~reenbackers
and Anti Monopolists.
IHE f1%ouring-mill Of j. B. M. Kehlor, at
Waterloo, ILL.,, containing a large amount
OF grain, was burned the other morning,
causing a loss of $175, 900.
1HE Board of Aldermen of New York at
a secret meeting on the Goth ult. passed
the ordinance over the Mayors veto Civ
ing a company the right to lay a surface
railway on Broadway.
J STRIKING miners at Snake Hollow, o.,
commenced a riot at two O'Clock on the
morning of the 31st ult. by firing several
hundred shots at the guards. William
Hare was killed and two others received
serious wounds. A hopper worth 81, 900
was burned, and the telegraph wires had
been cut. The Governor had ordered out
1he militia to aid in suppressing the riots.
EDDIE MASON, the seventeen -year-old
boy who robbed the Peoples Bank of st.
Paul of $4,000, was captured on the Goth
ult., and So, 74S was recovered.
DURING the twenty-four hours ended at
p. III. on the 31st uit. there were nine
deaths from cholera at Marseilles and
twenty-three in the southern departments
of France. In the various provinces of
Italy t~hirty-one deaths occurred.
$ NEAR Hamlin, W. Va, a lad named
Henry Barton was shot dead a few DAYS
ago while taking apples from the richard
of j. Chapman.
The New York National Green5ack La
Dor party met in State Convention in New
York City on the 30th ult. and nominated
Patrick II. Cowan and Isaac L. Rice for
Judges OF the Court of Appeals. A union
with the Anti-Monopoly party was made
on the electoral ticket. The platform
adopted at indianapolis and General But
ler's letter of acceptance were made the
platform of the convention.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-09-19
FOREIGN.

IHE OF n has
been ordered by the home Government to
secure the services of six hundred voy-
ageurs for the relief of General Gordon Mt
Khartoum. They are needed to take flat
bottomed boats up the Nile.
DISPATCHES received at London on the
9th state that the Chinese forts on the Min
River were holding out we'll against the
French bombardment. Seventy-fve thou.
sand Chinese troops were in the vicinity
of Foo-Chow. 1t was reported that eighty
thousand Chinese troops invaded Tonquin
and had an engagement with the French,
i'll which the French were annihilated and
several thousand Chinese were killed.
THE Ministry of Marine of Russia has
issued a plan for a polar expedition. The
idea is to have several large parties start
for Jeanette Island, proceed entirely on
foot across the ice, leaving large depo,s of
provisions i'll the rear.
The artillery barracks at Nusserabad
India, were struck by lightning racently,
and six men were killed.
DEATHS from cholera in FranceIduring
the twenty-four hours ended at nine p. III.
on the 2Sth We're as follows. Marseil1es,
six; Toulon, six: southern departments,
thirty-one. In Italy. there were fifty
deaths and over one hundred new cases
reported.
A STORM in Manitoba a few nights ~
injured fifty buildings in Winnipeg, de-
stloyed a church, a paper.mill and the
Canadian Pacific freight.sheds at Portage
Ia Prairie, and leveled the growing crops
in a large territory.
A TrpD1pr II coano ,roc o~oo+od l., T;p,o
the capital of Peru, on the 2Sth. Caceres,
with his rabble, suddenly entered the city,
and before the Government troops got
the upper hand of the mob $50 people were
killed in the streets.
The French Admiral on the 2Sth bonn
barded and silenced the Mingen forts, be-
low Foo Chow, and the Kinpai defenses at
the mouth Of the Min River.
The United States Government having
abolished the ministries to Se,ria, Rou-
mainland Greece, Minister Schuyler on
the Goth presented the King of Servia with
his letters of recall.
THERE were seven deaths from cholera
at Marseilles during the twenty-four
hours ended at nine p. m. on the Doth, and
five at Toulon. In Italy twenty-S1x deaths
occurred. Quarantine of ten days had
been established at all Spanish ports
against vessels from Algeria.
A MOVEMENT has been ~inaugurated in
Spain in favor of the restoration Of the
temporal power of the Pope. 1t is chiefly
championed by the bishops and clergy.
SEVEN men were killed in a coal-pit near
Paisley, Scotland, a few days ago.
GENERAL M1LLoT, commander of the
French forces in Tonquin, telegraphed on
the Goth that the Chinese were preparing
an invasion of that region. The Viceroy
Of Canton had ordered all Frenchmen to
leave his province.
w. I. SuTcLIFFE, a grain merchant of
Liverpool, Eng, failed recently for $780,
600.
FRAUDS aggregating $500 900, in which
foreign officials of high rank are involved,
were on the Goth developed in the Treasury
department of Egypt.
VIENNA on the Goth reported another
st%upendous failure in the sugar trade, the
liabilities being in excess of H,000,00O
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-09-19
Collision of Trains.

BALTIMORE, Md, Aug. 29.-Aboutn
yesterday a collision occurred Oh tile v
ern Maryland Railroad at Penmar, an
cursion resort, between an excursion t
from Washington and the regular tran,
there at 1910 o'clock. Express Messel
Lee Fry, Of this city, was seriously inu
and the fireman on the Washing
train and a lady passenger, vi
name could not be al
taiued, were also badly hurt. 1t app
that the excursion train was eleven mini
late, and was endeavoring to make up
time. Instructions had been given tot
a siding, but the conductor disobeyel
orders, :nd as q result the regular exp
ran into the rear car of the excursion n
The eXcursionists were badly shaken
and it is a miracle many more were not
jured or killed. 1t is said the lady my
gave birth to a babe while being taken
the wreck.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-09-19
Statistics OF Our Imports and Exports.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-The Chief of
the bureau of National Statistics, in his
statement Of imports and exports of the
United States, says the excess in value of
exports over imports. or imports over ex-
ports OF merchandise, is as follows:
Month ending July 81, 1854, excess of i'm.
1854, excess of exports, $50, a2s3 1S9; Twelve
months ending July 81, 1884, excess of ex-
ports, s16,s3S llG: total value OF imports of
July 81, 1854, s665, $50, OO2; preceding twelvee
months. S7l4, 356, aG6; value or exports of mer-
Shandise Tor the twelve months ending July
81. 1854, S742,2lO, lis; same time time 1851, $500
5,945: for the twelve months ending july 81.
1854; exports of gold and silver. coin and
puiiion. S6s, 70, 1883; imports, s39, 367 400; pre-
Guu'ng '@Glye months' exports, $50, So, ysy:
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-09-19

Eighth, Duff Green. North Carolina, First
District, j. Edwards. Democratic-Indi.
ana, Thirteenth District, George Ford.
Virginia. Tenth District, James Yost.
THE discovery was made at Washington
Oh the 10Th that in 1913 President Polk
decided to the Monument Association the
ground on which the lofty marble column
has been reared by the Government, and
that the title still rests in the corporation.
In celebrating his s~eventy-ifth birthday
on the Goth DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes, of
Boston, received congratulatory kilograms
from numerous friends in Europe and
America.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-09-19
Wheat Production for the Year'

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Aug. 29.-me
lowing figures, based on official rely
made within few days by State agFNu1
raj departments and statistical agents.
a final estimate Of the wheat crop Ill
United States for 1884: Total produc''o1
winter wheat, $50, oOo, 600 bushels ~
wheat, $50, 600, 600; total winter and sp1
wheat, $50, 900, 600 bushels. This l1
the total yield of the country fully ~
600 bushels more than was ever before !
duced. 1870, 600, 600 more than lass u
crop, and so. 600, 600 e,ore than the ave..
crop for the past five years. The G It,El
ments all agree in reporting the qua.:|
superior, and where it has been ime1
they say the yield has more than lm' !
calculations,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-09-19
SLAIN BY THE HIRED Girl.
"A Bloody Tragedy Enacted in the i
Town of O'FaIIop. III

AA
O'FALLoN, ILL.,, Aug. 29.-Personsi
ing the home Of Mrs. Mccormick, al
tive of Hon. j. II. Van Court, mend
the Illinois Legislature, fouud all !
there yesterday afternoon. and, susp
something was wrong, Went out
yard in the rear of the premises, ann
found the dead body of NIs
Cormick. Her clothing had been
from her in shreds, and her brains lad
literally battered out with all ak \
was found lying by her side. 4. furha
vestigation of the premises disclosed
dead body of a Norwegian servant
who, from appearances. had murdered
mistress and then committed suicide b|
soning. Bloody marks were found |
her hands and arms and her dress ws|
stained with blood. 1t is thought that.
two quarreled, and that in a tit of pal
the servant girl picked up the AK whieh
lying near and battered out the brail
her mistress. Mrs. Mccormick BELONG
one OF the oldest and wealthiest fanils
the county.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-09-19
Water Two Dollars Per Barrel

SIERRA MADAGA, Mex, Aug.
terrible drought, which has alfl'e'su J
section for months, rendering 'Ne u
useless and cattle and sheep ranges "'s
bic, has begun to exercise a strong n
on the town itself. In the Drl
village there are only three
to supply the entire population, aAd Ami
have been greatly diminished by llt ie: \
These are owned by private pal.m('
have raised the price of water 10 nav i
lars per barrel. Unless rain col'' Nd
the town will be utterly deserleu a.: Nd
miners, with their families anu ou QUIZ
already gone. and the rest are plep"
90.
, 1884-07-20

Mr.. Robert Smith, editor of the Green
River Gazette, accompanied by his wife
and son, have gone to Scotland to spend
the Summer. Journalism in Green River
must be q remuneratiye occupation
Laramie City has passed an ordinance
compelling physicians to make written re-
ports to the Mayor Of all cases of contagi-
Gus disease under their care.
The total valuation of Albany county,
including poll tax, is SO, 3d. G5. The
value ofland and Improvements is placed
by the Assessor at $243, 624; the value of
cattle at 81, $40, $50 and the value of
sheep s2O2, sos.
There are 1O2, AS head ofcattle assessed
in Albany county and ll5,SOO sheep.
The total valuation of Carbon county
property is placed at So, 1871 ,955, an in
crease of 1899, 930.5O over last year.
When the assessments of railroads and
telegraph lines are added, the Journal
says the grand total will reach S4,O ,299.
y Carbon county now shows ia, 500 head
of cattle assessed, an increase of %, 349
head over last year. There are 50, OG5
sheep on the list, a decrease of G,522.
Tramps are very plentiful in Rawlins.
, 1884-07-20
RRIDGES OR CA
which Shall be Used For Crossing the
Water Ways.

A petition was being circulated among
the business men yesterday calling on the
Council to formulate q new plan of con
struction for water ways, and bridge
those already built, or at least place
them in a condition that they will be
navigable to ordinary sailing Icrafts such
as are to be found on Lake Minnehaha.
The petition was very generally signed.
1t should be remembered that even in
this happy land everybody is not sufic-
iently wealthy to keep his own private
canoe, and for the convenience of poor
peopleSa least, they should be bridged.
OF course the thing would be somewhat
expensive, but even if it should be neces-
sary to make them toll bridges no one
would be found to complain. The con
%venience of the bridges would overcome
any sordid consideration of the paltry
nickel or dime which might be required
to cross the bridges. Between bridges
and canoes the public emphatically pre-
fers bridges.
, 1884-07-20

Mr.. William Sturgis while driving down
Ferguson street last evening, at about 5
o'clock, met with a curious mishap, which
luckily, however, resulted in no serious
damage. When nearly opposite the car
penter shop which stands on the west side
of the street, his horse became frightened
at a small red forge wagon which stood
near the sidewalk, and sprang to the left
and upon the dirt which was being thrown
out of the gas-pipe ditch by the workmen.
The horse lost his balance, fell and rolled
over on his back into the ditch. Mr..
Sturgis jumped out as the horse fell, and
escaped injury. Little damage was done
to the buggy, but the poor horse got the
worst of it, The buggy was quickly de-
tached from the PROSTATE animal, and
after some difficulty the horse, with the
assistance of the large crowd which quickly
gathered there, was extracted from his
p%erilous predicament without having sus-
tanned any perceptible injury.
, 1884-07-20
HOME AGAIN.
Governor William Hale Returns In Good
Spirits and Better Health,

Governor William Hale and his little
son returned on last evenings train from
a three weeks visit at the old home of the
Governor in the State of Iowa. In APP
pearance the Governor is looking better
than at any time heretofore since he has
been the chief executive officer of this ter
ritory. In conversation with The LEADER
reporter he stated hat the trip back to
Iowa at this time of year had done him
an immense amount ofgood He says that
everything is thriving down in Iowa, the
crops are as good, or will be when harvested,
and the people there are ~prospering as
they always do. When the subject of
politics was alluded to the Governor said
that the people there were beginning to
get warmed up a little, but that the warm
work of the campaign had not as yet COM
menced. 1T will probably not get to be
very hot down there at any time dur
ing the campaign" said the Governor;
For you know Iowa generally votes about
all one way"
, 1884-07-20
The Calender minstrel Festivals

The famous original Calender Golored
Minstrels, will appear in three of. their
monster minstrel festivals at the Opera
House, on mex Friday and Saturday
evenings, July % and 26, with a special
children's matinee Saturday afternoon.
The company numbers nearly fifty per
formers, and carries with it a brass band
of over fifteen pieces, headed by two drum
majors. The company includes Billy
Kersands, Tom Mcintosh, Jack Arm
strong, Lewis Brown, Pete Devonair, and
in fact, all of the Calender Minstrel IA
%vorites, There will be an entire change
of programme presented Saturday even
ing. The singing, dancing, and the DIFF
ferent specially acts, including the ''Zou-
ave Drill introduced by this company,
have been highly spoken of everywhere.
During their engagement here, the Cal
lender ) will make several street parades.
, 1884-07-20

The Confidence Operator Stands a
Chance OF Being Convicted.

One of the most expert and successful
confidence men that ever operated along
the line of the Union Pacific road was a
man who was known as ''Rebel George. "
In October 1883, in company with two
partners, Henry Knowlton and John
Gray, he feeced one of the Union Pacific
passengers, named Rufus Ford. ont of
800, and for this at the time he was ar
rested. He was admitted to bail in the
sum of 1000, and Immediately disap-
peared. This money went into the county
treasury, and nothing further was heard
of ''Rebel George until a few weeks ago,
when something concerning him was pub
lished in the city papers. 1t appeared
that George was still pursuing his sinful
ways and had Just been arrested at Sacra-
mento, Cal, on a charge of grand larceny.
Prosecuting Attorney Baird entered into
correspondence at once with the Sacramento
authorities and sending Il description of
Rebel George, - received in return an
assurance from District Attorney Carey
that the man was certainly there, He
was also advised that the prosecution
would probably fail in making its case
and that it would be u good idea to send
on the necessary papers at once. Yester-
day a telegram was received from Sacra-
mento saying that through some tamper-
ing with the principal witnesses Rebel
George had been acquitted. He will be
held until the arrival of a Cheyenne
officer, who will probably start for Sacra-
mento to-day.
, 1884-07-20
ROAD AGENTS AT WORK.
A Coach Held Up BY Robbers
Near Buffalo.
The Driver Fired at and the
Leader Captured.

After giving the country a rest for sew
eral years the road agents, it seems, have
again commenced operations, this time
not, however, on any road leading to a
mining camp but on a highway leading
into what is at present only an agricul-
tIral and stock country, The facts that
have been obtained here in reference to
the affair, which happened on the 10th
instant, are very meagre and are contained
in the following dispatch, which was re-
ceived by United States Attorney Riner
yesterday
BUFFALO, Wyo., July is. The
coach was held up near Buffalo, on the
10th, to compel one of the passengers to
get out, by one Al. Phelps. He fred at
the driver twice and detained the mail
for sometime. The territorial authorities
are proceeding against Phelps. Shall |
make a complaint before Commissioner
Andrews? &
H. w. Bennett, Postmaster.
Although the foregoing dispatch only
mentions one man as having anything to
do with the stopping of the coach, yet TO
those who are familiar with the ways of
these knights of the road, it will be re
membered that the game which is often
resorted to by them is to let one man come
to the front and make the break, while
the others remain concealed from view,
but ready ID lend a helping hand if neces-
sity requires it. When Mr.. Riner re-
ceived the dispatch yesterday, he turned
it over to Deputy United States Marshal
Schnitger who at once telegraphed to But
falo to inquire whether the mail was rob
bed or otherwise interfered with, except
in the matter of having been de-
tanned, but up to a late hour last
evening he had received no reply. 1t is
probable, however, that Phelps will be
prosecuted by the United States authori-
ties to the full extent of the law, but as he
is already in the hands of the County auu-
thorities the United States authorities
will not be in any undue haste in regard
to the captured robber. The coach that
was stopped was going to Buffalo, and
not coming from that place as some have
supposed, and it is quite probable that j.
B. Morrow, MS well as a cattle man named
Williams, who has a range in johnson
county, were passengers at the time.
, 1884-07-20
AN ELEVATED RAILWAY
which Does a Large Business in Cash
Fares.


While several lines of railway COM
munication, in which Cheyenne is inter
ested, have been talked of for some time,
Messrs. Cowhick d Whitcomb have,
during the past week, put up and now
have in practical operation u railway
system, which for completeness and utility
cannot well be excelled.
The system. which is the Lawson Cash
Railway, has been introduced into
many of the large dry goods establish
ments Of the country, and has proved of
signal advantage to merchants. customers
and statesmen.
In detail of construction it may be de
scribed as a series of elevated railways,
suspended from the ceiling and radiating
from the cashiers desk, which is about
the centre of the store, to the different
counters and departments. There are two
tracks on each line, one OF which is inclined
towards the cashiers desk so as to convey
the hollow balls containing the cash and
memorandum from the salesman to the
cashier, and the other, which is inclined
in the opposite direction, returns the balls
to the statesmen. Automatic lifts, "
switches and gates guide the balls
with unerring accuracy to their proper
destinations.
In the Cowhick Il Whitcomb establish
ment over 300 feet of track has been put
up with seven stations, five in the dry
goods department, one in the boot and
shoe department and one in the clothing
and furnishing goods department. The
station farthest from the cashiers desk is
that in the clothing department. 1t is
100 feet away, and Il cash ball can be
sent from this station to the cashier's desk
and returns with the change in one
minute. Instead of having to wait for
the salesman to walk to the cashiers desk
and return with change, the pleased Gus,
toners now anus themselves watching
the ball containing their payment swiftly
rolling down to the desk and as quickly
returning with the change.
The system is so speedy, u and
novel that it is well worth a visit Of in,
SpectiOn.
, 1884-07-20

Charles Cornish, who was sentenced TO
the penitentiary for life for the murder of
Mrs. Rice, near Sun Dance, some two
years ago, and who is now in the Joliet
~penitentimy, has been heard from again,
Sheriff Sharpless having received a letter
from him yesterday. Cornish wants to
know about a few things, and especially
whether Mr.. Sharpless or Deputy Hos
ford had succeeded in capturing Espen-
held, for he thinks in that event the
whole matter would soon be arranged all
right. He would like to have matters ar
ranged as 500 as possible 50 that he can
have a new trial.
, 1884-07-20

Captain s. L. Lawyer, who has for so
many years been the successful business
manager of the firm of Hosack & Co.,
has resigned his position and will start
East on Tuesday or Wednesday for the
purpose of taking a rest and recovering
his health, which has been quite poor for
sometime. Captain Lawyer, by reason of
his many good qualities of head and
heart, his strict honesty and integrity and
upright dealing with all who have had
business relations with him during these
past years, has won the respect, conf
dence and esteem of all who know him
and wherever this honest man and true
philanthrophist may 20 he will carr with
him the good wishes of a host Of friends
in Cheyenne.
, 1884-07-20

j. w. Howard, better known as Doc"
Howard, returned from the East on Fri
day whore he has been on a visit for the
past four months, and brought with him
40 head of fine cattle purchased by him
in Ohio, which are destined for the range.
Among this number are several fine
blooded bulls which he purchased in
Illinois, and which he claims are thorough
breeds if there are any suchin the country.
The story which was circulated in his
absence, hat he had gone East to live,
was not founded on facts at all, for he
only intended to stay long enough to make
a short visit to his folks and hunt up a
bunch of cattle, and intended to have re-
turned to Cheyenne before this. He will
shortly take his cattle North, and intends
to take up a ranch somewhere beyond the
Laramie river and this side of the La
Bonti.
, 1884-07-20

We the undersigned merchants of tn,
city of Cheyenne, do hereby agree to cIost
business houses at 7 O'Clock p. IN.
Saturday evenings excepted, on and attcI
Monday evening, July 81, 1854:
Cowhick & Whitcomb.
Baker & johnson.
jenkins & Ross.
+. Melander,
Zehner, Jackson x Buechner.
B. Hellman.
George A. Draper.
+. Il. Warren Mercantile Company.
Dare & Collins.
Smith 4 Harrington.
Stanley Bros.
d. Miller.
Marks & Myers.
Kelley 4 Mastcr3on.
A. Polack.
S. Bon.
Philip H. Waterman.
Craig, Davis & Co,
\. Underwood & Bro.
V. Baker.
Vreeland & Shields.
A. G. McGregor.
Arp 4 Conway.
Union Mercantile Company,
a. ID. Kelly,
Kellner Bros.
Ohnhaus x DOnovon.
Henry Harrington.