Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-12-19

gold watch were the words: "Frank to
Gertrude" ! In q purse in the pocket of her
gown was $50.
DURING the defamation exercises on the
21st at the Montgomery Bell Academy of
Nashville, Tenn, Robert Eddington, a boy
of seventeen, was r~eciting "Hohenlinden"
when he paused, confused and forgetful Of
the poem. His face withered, and he
started to his seat, when. he fell dead on
the floor. Heart-disease was the cause.
BENJAMIN HEFNER, a wife murder, killed
himself in Jail at Lima, o., the other night.
A s%TREET-cAR dashed down the incline
in Butler street at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the
21st, and, jumping the track, ran on the
sidewalk for a block, when the horses fell,
and the car passed over them, inficting in
juries which necessitated their being
killed. The twenty-three passengers on
board were badly bruised, two of them
seriously.
NOTICES have been posted in the cotton
mills at Peterborough, N. H., Hopedale,
and Fall River, Mass, and in the iron mills
ct Pittsburgh, Pa, of heavy cuts in wages.
THE Matthews House at Duluth, Mimi,
was burned the other evening, the guests
AoSlLS an OllVli CllCSpSs M u =
was suffocated, and two variety actresses
We're lowered from O window by a negro,
who then had to jump for his life.
Two of William Greed were
drowned a few days ago near Mitchell,
D. T.
A FUND of S 1000 was raised in a few
moments at the National Cattlemen's Con-
vention at st. Louis on the Dist for the re-
lief of the Virginia. West Virginia and
Kentucky drought sufferers.
ACUTE typhoid dy%sentery was the medical
name given on the 21st to the fatal scourge
which has recently broken out in the west
ern portions of Virginia. Ono hundred and
fifty deaths had occurred in Wise County
alone.
WHILE being warmed by workmen the
other day at Worcester, Mass, several
powder cartridges exploded, one of the
men being killed, two injured, and all the
windows in the vicinity wrecked.
E. z. JOHNSON, formerly Northern
Pacific express agent, accused of en-
bezzling $4,000, was acquitted on the Dist
at Walla Walla, w. T.
A STATUE, representing The landing of
the Pilgrim Fathers, will be erected in Cen
trail Park, New York, by the New England
Society.
DURING a quarrel which commenced in a
saloon at Sherman, Tex, on the 21st j. w.
Atkins and his son Henry and an officer
We're shot dead and two other persons were
seriously wounded.
OLIVER BATEMAN, who murdered and
outraged the little Mclaughlin girls, was
hanged on the 21st at Savannah, Mo. John
Bush (colored) was executed at Lexington,
KY, for murder committed six years ago.
He had had ten trials.
DURING the twenty-four hours ended at
nine p. III. on the 21st there were twenty
three deaths from cholera at Paris, four
teen at Oran, one at Nantes and eighteen
at Compeigne.
THREE children of John Reader persisted
by fire in his farmhouse, near Vassar,
Mich, a few days ago, while the parents
were at work in the fields.
THE Commercial Hotel, town market and
thirteen other buildings at Wilson, N. c..
were burned the other morning.
AT New York on the DIST Rev. W. H
Ramscar, Superintendent of the Home fol
Children and Seminary for G rls, was con-
victed of sending children out to beg, and
was sentenced to thirty days in the city
prison aud to pay a fine of 500.
In the United States and Canada there
were 2S3 business failures during the sever
days ended on the 21st, against 300 the
previous seven days. The distribution
was as follows: Middle States, Sc; New
England States, 80; Western, 7G; Southern
81; Pacific States ond Territories, 80; Can.
ada, 80.