Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-04


west Of Winchester, Ill, was reopcned at
u dance on the evening Of the Goth, given
by a farmer, sne result being the killing of
Adam E.ll and George Snyder by the SUIT
ton brothers.
AMONG thef failures on the Goth were the
following: Willett Bronson, of New York
City, real-estate dealer, for $4,000: Dan.
iel Gordon, dry-goods dealer at Rochester,
N. Y, for $500, 900, and j. Voolfolk, a cot
ton factor at Columbus, Ca, for 5000
G%u1LFoRD Soon (colorcd) was hanged on
the Goth at Kingston, N. c., for u criminal
assault on a woman.
Ten THOUSAND persons witnessed OH the
Goth the opening of the new cantilever
bridge across Niagara River. Tn bridge
was tested by sustaining the weight of
twenty locomotives and twenty-four cars
loaded with gravel without apparent de.
Elections.
CHARLES A. WILLIAMS, forty-two years
old, a railway postal clerk, was arrested
at Cleveland, o., OIL the Goth for robbing
the mails, and was imprisoned i'll default
of S., 900.
j. L. CLARK. q jeweler drummer, was OH
the Goth robbed of a tray of goods valued
ct $4,000 in a Waterbury (Conn.) store.
CAPITALISTS from Virginia nave pur-
chased $4,000 acres of land near Great
Bend, Kan, with tire intention of estab-
fishing a colony of Dunkards.
NATHAN MAssENGALE, of White River,
Stone County, Mo-, proposed to Hiram
LOOMS Il few days g that they exchange
wives, Massengale Offering his ~eight-months
baby as boot. The trade was accomplished,
and the new arrangement was said to
please all parties concerned.
GENERAL GRANT has been advised by
statue of Liberty, at Paris, to be placed i'll
the harbor of New York.
G. H. ANDREWS, President of the Pitts
burgll, Cleveland g. Toledo Railway, drove
the last spike in the track Oh the goth at
Youngstown, 0.
Mis-. A. Z. THURBER, who some time
ago at Springfield, Mass, attempted to
kAl her husband, was on the Goth sentenced
to ten years. imprisonment, and Edward
G.. Rough, the discharged stage carpenter
who attempted to fire the Casino Theater,
in New York, has been sent to States
Prison for seven years.
In the Bond case at Hillsboro, ILL.,, on the
Goth Sheriff Haynes testified that the toe
nail pairing found in the school-house loft
was thicker than Montgomery's t~oe-nail;
it fitted one coner, but the other side did
not fit at all: he examined the clothing of
all the defendants, but found no blood
stains; witness was positive that while in
Jail the defendants had no means of COM
Masters, nine years old, who was in the
school-house with Emma Bond, and left
just before she was assaulted, gave his evil
dence, in the course of which he made
many statements which differed from those
made at the preliminary trial. Emanuel
Clement told his story on the witness
stand, giving an account Of his assisting
in carrying Miss Bond home from Mr..
Pettis' house; witness had said to Mrs.
Pettis that he was afraid Mr.. Bond would
blame them (himself and Lee Pettis) if
they took her home: Emma gave her father
a description oftwo men and Mr.. Bond gave
witness the following descriptions: Two
large men dressed in dark clothes, wore
white shirts; one had whiskers; witness
detailed the circumstances of his help in
searching for the perpetrators of the out
rage, and of his arrest for tho affair; on
the cross-examination Clement in some
material points ~contradicted the Jail Off
Gals, who were placed on the stand to deny
the statements of the convicts brought hy
the State.