Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-08-08
r & sharpe's Bank at indianapolis on

or & Sharpe's Bank at indianapolis on
the basis that the principal creditors Jake
stock for their claims, the smaller deposit.
ors to receive fifty per cent. cash and the
balance in six and twelve months.
VALENTINE FR1Tz, of Baltimore, was re-
Gently Frustrated by heat. His idiotic son
slipped into the room where he lay and
drove a long nail into his head, a fact
which was only discovered by accident
two days afterward.
The private banking-house OF A. & j. c.
S. Harrison, at indianapolis, suspended
on the 18th, and by order of the local court
was placed in the lands Of tho Sheriff.
The liabilities were estimated at 100000.
JOHN WELDON, n convict in the peniten.
tiary of New Jersey, for three weeks had
been trying to starve. The physicians on
the 18th administered liquid food with a
stomach-pump, despite his struggles.
THOMAS JOHNSON was about to whip his
step-son at Clifton Forge, Va, the other
day, and had tied the boys hands behind
his back preparatory TO the ~castigation.
The boy loosed himself and rushed to a
river close by, into which he plunged.
His step-father followed, and both were
drowned.
Four men have in the past few years
been sent from New York to the peniten-
tiary for robbing the dsy-goods house of
Arnold, Constable s. Co. And now Henry
G.. Pedder, the manager, has transferred
to the firm a costly residence at Orange, N.
j., and Herbert Seymour, the confidential
book-keeper, was on the 18Th said to be a
dcfaulter for ) 5000.
A COMPANY has been organized at Pitts
burgh, Pa, to erect and operate a
crematory on the outskirts of that city.
The furnace will be heated by natural
gas.
The boiler in Wilson's sew-mill, near
Ellenboro, W. Va, exploded the other
morning, killing a boy, and fatally
wounding a young man and woman. TIN
engine was thrown forty feet and the
mill structure destroyed by fire.
HENRY BLOOM, the Baltimore & Ohio
express messenger at Pittsburgh, Pa, was
arrested on the 18th for stealing a money
package containing $4,000.
A SESSION of the Cabinet was held at
Washington on the 1ssh to consider the
best method Of preventing the introduce
ton OF cholera into the United States.
COUNTERFEIT Treasury ten-dollar notes
were in circulation on the 18th at Rocka-
way, n. Y.
The following executions for murder
took place on the 18th: Robert Hunt and
Daniel Parker, both colored, at G%reenville,
Miss; c. Nelson, at Mouma, La, and
Samuel Williams (colored) at Waynes-
boro, Ga.
ALLEGED cases of cholera in a New York
tenement proved on the 18th to be simply
summer complaint.
THE completion Of the Canton, Aberdeen
& Nashville Road from the Illinois Cen
trail was celebrated at Aberdeen, Miss, on
the 18th, q gold spike being driven, with a
banquet, speech making and q military
parade.
The Treasury Department at Washing.
ton on the 1Ssh purchased $50, 900 ounces of
silver for delivery at the Philadelphia,
New Orleans and San Francisco mints.
In the United States and Canada there
were 232 business failures during the sew
Oh days ended on tho 18th, against 900 the
previous seven days. The distribution
was as follows: Middle States, "a; New
England States, 90; Western, So; South
ern, %; Pacific States and Territories, IA;
Canada, 81.
CARHART, WHIrroRD & Co., of New
York, wholesale clothiers, failed on the
18th for 81, 1876, 497.