Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-12-26

III lO1lOwluS EXECUTIONS tOOk place Oh
the 9Th: Solomon Forres and Jose Manuel
Soto at Salinas, Cal, for numbering a
Chinaman; Cook Teets, Il blind man, at
Owen Sound, Ont, for killing his wife to
secure the insurance on her life; Jee Fos-
ter (colored), ut Nntchitoches, La, for
crimina assault upon u white woman, and
John Nesmith (colored), at Mount Plea SAINT,
S. c., for the murder of j. w. Shiplnan.
G THEFTs from stores at Charleston, w.
Va, led to an investigation and the dis
covery a few days ago that a band of
boys, fully organized, and having grips,
passwords, etc, We're the robbers. Their
headquarters We're in an unfrequented Sec
ton, and their meetings were always held
at night.
JUDGE HOWARD, Of Arizona, recently
fined three convicted p~olygamists $500 each
and sentenced them to three and one-half
years each in the House of Correction at
Detroit. Two Bishops We're fined the same
amount, md ordered to Yuma P~eniten3iary
for six months.
MISS KATE Inn had Leo Heller, her
former lover, in u Justice Court at Cincin-
natl n few days ago for threatening her.
Heller attempted to kill the girl, but the
Justice prevented him, upon which Heller
shot himself dead.
CRAzED with jealousy, John Purscht took
oxalic acid at New York the other night,
then worked at his head awhile with IN
AK, and finally shot hi.nself dead.
AN old feud caused a shooting ARRAY at
Gainesville, Tex, a few days ago, during
which Henry Basham, DIR. L. H. Sauls and
Abraham Sauls were fatally wounded. All
the parties We're well-to-do farmers.
THE banking-house of Raymer, Sea-
grave & CO., of Toledo, was on the 5th
compelled to suspend business, with liabil-
tiles of $500 200.
SECRETARY CHANDLER, of the navy, in
his annual report on the 9TH stated that
the expenditures of the Department for the
fiscal year ended Jun so, 1884, were ST.
292, 601. The estimate for the ordinary
purposes and public work for the next ifs
cal year is ST., S6O,65S, aad the estimates for
the increase of the navy, $15,071,572. OF
this latter sum about one-half will be
needed for the coming fiscal year.
JOE WILLIAMS, the negro who murdered
Minnie Brooks and Gales Hunt in Chicago,
was on the 9TH found guilty and sentenced
to Imprisonment for life.
IN COOpefSuOWn, u. l., tne Ounef DAY
Mrs. H. G. Pickett, wife of a banker, acct
d~entally killed herself while carelessly
handling q revolver.
A r. number of Connecticut clergy
men appeared before the Railroad Commits
sioners in Hartford on the 9th to advocate
restriction of Sunday traffic on railroads.
AN incendiary fire Oh the 9Th in Meyers
dale, Md, destroyed fifteen buildings com :
prising the business portion of the village.
A humble of business men had received
warnings that they would be burned out.
TWENTY business buildings at Brecken-
ridge, Col, were destroyed by fire a few
evenings ago, causing a loss of about $780,
900.
BUSINESS men of Gloucester, Mass, en-
tered u protest on the 9Th against any re-
ciprocity with Canada which would per-
NIT che entry of fish free of duty.
HILL, FoNTAINE & Co., Of Memphis,
Tenn, OF the 9th estimated the cotton crop
of this year ut 1858 900 bales. The frost
OIL October "a resulted in a loss of fully
100000 bales.
In the United States and Canada there
We're $50 business failures during the seven
days ended on the 9TH, against 262 the
previous seven days. The distribution
was as follows: Middle States, 63; New
England States, 90; Western, l0G; Southern,
y; Pacific States and Territories, 2G; Can
ada, "a.