Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-17
OF THE week.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

INTERESTING NEWS OOmpAAdt1OH
j; DOMESTIC.
NEAR Brattleboro, VT, a car of a mixed
train left the track on the 23i, dragging
four other cars, including a passenger
coach, down a steep ~embankment. Two or
three persons were fatally and a number
were slightly injured.
AT Hayesville, Tenn, on the 23d Cap
tain E. 4. johnson surprised Major Edwin
Henry and shot him dead. This was the
result of a scandal a year agoa at Indianap.
oils, when Johnson's wife committed sui
eide.
JOHN B. PAGE and j. M. Haven, former.
ly President and Secretary of the Rutland
(vt.) Railroad Company, were indicted on
the 2Sd for embezzling $4,000.
EXPORTS from New York (specie K
cluded) for the seven days ended on the
e3d were $7,o6s, Ill, against $7,442,60o for
the corresponding period in 1889.
JOSEPH SARvER, only eighteen years of
age, who murdered his father, was hanged
on the 23d at Indiana. Pa. At Ebensburg,
in the same State, Michael Murray was ex-
ecu'ed for shooting a weak-minded lad on
the turnpike.
STAFFORD g. Co., who owned four mills
in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, made
an assignment on tue 23d for $330,000.
The gold reserve in the United States
Treasury on the 23d was $780, 900 900, or
about SIS, OoO,O 900 more than it was two
weeks previous.
AT Mill Village, near Erie, Pa, a horse
driven by Mrs. William Quay became
balky while crossing a bridge, and backed
the wagon into the water. Mrs. Quay and
a little child were drowned.
INc1TED by hatred of their six-year-old
half.brother, Carrie and Bessie Waterman,
aged twelve and fourteen years, respect
lively, residing at Ottawa, Kan, tied a
rope about his neck a few days ago and
then beat him to death with sticks. They
were held on the charge of murder.
A FREIGHT train on the Santa Fe Road
was wrecked and burned recently near
Lawrence, Kan, causing a loss of $4,000.
The potato yield in Canada, New En-
gland and New York was on the 9th re.
ported to be less than last year, and rot
II grubs were injuring the crops. The
Western production was also said to be be-
low the average.
MRS. S. H. CLARK, aged forty five, died
the other night at Baltimore. The corpse
s ~ hAAA oAAo ~ ~ ShoAO 4A1AS
before her illness her weight was 623
pounds.
AT Kinzua, N. Y, a few days ago, John
Fore, an Italian barber, who persisted in
paying attentions to Mrs. kavanagh, at
tempted to forcibly enter her house, when
she shot him dead.
HEAVY rain on the oath dispelled the
drought in the Miami Valley, Ohio. There
LII hoo 49, 49,, %1,a.a .;,-, A,-,,
d. N. GARDNER, of Cleveland, O., Police
Clerk for several years, made an attempt
on the oath to kill his wife and himself
with a revolver, but neither We're dead.
The failure is announced of Burdett &
Pond, of New York, who were extensively
engaged in trade with South America.
Their liabilities were 100000.
Two HoRsE-THIEvEs We're hanged on the
banks of the Poplar River, Montana, on
the oath, making thirty-three the total
number hanged by vigilantes this season.
AT Talladega, Ala, Aaron Boswell IL
Charles Boswell, brothers, had for some
time paid attention to the same young
lady. Each was jealous of the other, which
resulted in q quarrel a few,days ago, When
Aaron drew a pistol and shot his brother
through the heart, killing him instantly.
HANK ADAMS, a negro who abducted the
daughter of a wealthy farmer in New Jer-
sey, was, OH the 25th, after narrowly es-
Gaping a band of lynchers, sentenced to
the State Prison for fifteen years.
THE property of the A. I. Stearns Lum-
Der Company, at Neponset, Mass, was
nearly all destroyed by fire on the 25th,
causing a loss of $3.50, 600.
A MOB surrounded the county Jail, at
Meadville, Miss, a few nights ago, took
out four prisoners, and hanged them to
trees in the yard. Two of the victims were
charged with murder and the others with
outrage and arson, respectively.
The recent examination by experts Of
the books of Arnold,tConstable & Co., of
New York, d%ry-goods dealers, showed that
the populations of Henry c. Pedder, con-
fdential clerk, and Herbert Seymour,
cashier, amounted to about So, 200, 000.
THREE horses fell in a race at Mineola,
L. l., on the 25th, the rider of one being
fatally hurt and one of the horses was
killed.
AN association was formed in Oil City,
Pa, on the 25th, with a capital of $1,000,-
600, to purchase oil property belonging to
men who will not join the association for
the purpose of shutting down the territory
and restricting production.
STRIKING miners in the Shawnee (O.)
district were on the 25th killing cattle be-
longing to farmers for food. They slaugh-
tered them in the fields at night, and car
ried off the carcasses.
A FIRE at Pittsburgh on the 25th de.
stroyed the g~lass-works of Abel, Smith &,
Co. and the nachine-shop of Robinson,
Rea & Co, valued at 100000
THE boiler of Willis Halls saw-mill ex-
ploded near Lincoln, Ala, a few days ago,
killing Hall and John Crimp.
THE Chicago offices of the Bankers &
Merchants Telegraph Company were
ordered closed on the 18th by the attach
ing creditors, and all wires were discon-
nected.
GREAT damage to corn and tobacco was
reported at Petersburg, Va, on the 25th,
owing to a protracted drought.
THE excess in value of exports of mer-
chandise over imports for the twelve
months ended August 81, 1884, was ST.
ia, 341. The total value of imports of