Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-12-05
OF THE WEEK..
Interesting News Compilation
1890


DOMESTIC.
BREADsrUFF exports from the United
States for the ten months ended October
81 aggregated in value $3.50, 1908, 047, against
$145, Ia, 1881 for the corresponding period in
1883.
TEN carloads of honey, valued at $780,
900, were recently purchased at Santa
Anna, Cal, for shipment to Liverpool via
New Orleans. The price paid was four
and one-half cents per pound.
FURTHER attempts of the Hooking VAL
lev strikers to intimidate laborers were
made on the 18th at Jacksonville, o. The
militia was in readiness to be called upon.
JOSEPH B1GGERs and Mr.. and Mrs. Bur-
CESS, residing near Columbus, Ga, dice On
the 10Th from drinking coffee in which
arsenic had been placed. Suspicion point
led to an old negro woman, formerly a cook
fn the family, as being guilty of the crime.
THE New Orleans Worlds Exposition
will open December 16 and close June 1.
THERE are in circulation in Boston coun-
terfeit silver dollars SO finely executed as
ito almost defy detection. They are of a
iiwhitish color, dated 1884, and have a fine,
clear and almost perfect ring. The die is
excellent, and the size and thickness cor
respond with the standard silver dollars.
DIPHTHERIA in its worst form prevailed
on the 10Th at Oil City, Pa, and adjoining
towns.
NINE stores and their contents and 200
bales of cotton We're destroyed by fire We'd
nesday morning at Eufaula, Ala, the loss
being $4,000.
WRECKERs opened q switch the other
day on the Ohio & Mississippi Road, near
IVincennes, Ind, causing the death Of Cad
Fairbanks, the Oldest engineer on the line.
NEAR Dayton, Pa, a fourteen-year-old
boy named Houser, during his parents alb
lsence a few days ago stripped his young
lest sister and placed her on q red-hot
stove, burning her fatally.
The Washington monument on the 10Th
reached a greater height than that of any
other structure in the world, being 500 feet
ten inches above the floor of the monument.
The next highest structure is the spire of
lthe Cologne Cathedral, 515 feet high. The
monument will be dedicated February %
next.
PENSIONS to the number of 800, 75G and to
the amount of $50, sos, 597 were paid in this
country during the last year. OF the 927,-
r922 claims filed since 1861, 545, 1870 nave been
SAO LiAoAAAo NiooNA oSN ooA1 AA6
that period being $G7S, 346, 1874.
In Mcpherson County, Kan, a few days
ago August Tuxhorn fired his house, barn
and granary and then blew out his brains.
1t was alleged that he also Intended to kill
his wife and four children. Included in
the ST. 900 loss was $4,000 in cash which was
in the house. No cause was known for the
deed.
" THE charters of 721 National banks, with
IAN aggregate capital of over $3.50, 000, 900,
will expire during the year 1885. Fromin
formation received by the Comptroller Of
the Currency it is expected a large ma.
jority of these banks will continue their ex.
istence.
ARTHUR D. JANUARY, of Sacramento.
Cal, Deputy-Treasure of State and son OF
the Treasurer, was arrested on the 18th for
robbing the county-deposit fund of 500,
900, which he confessed to nave spent at
gaming.
MASKED men a few nights ago robbed
the house of Captain John Morrow, an in
valid, at Mansfield, Pa, of $500 and val
uables. They bound and gagged Mrs. Nor
row and a female friend in a brutal man
ner', and the former might not recover.
JAMES DAcEY, convicted of the murder
of Alderman Gaynor, of Chicago, and SEN
fenced to be hanged November 81, has been
granted a stay of proceedings by the Su-
preme Court.
The ship Andrew johnson, of Thomas
ton, Me-, was sunk recently in West Indian
waters by a collision, seventeen Of the
crew being drowned.
Ten tons of giant powder in Rummel's
magazine, near Toledo, O., were exploded a
few mornings ago by the defamation
of a tub of nitro-glycerine, which had
been placed near q fire to thaw. The ex-
plosi1n was heard at Detroit, sixty miles
nw;.Ss, and i'll the immediate district
smashed windows, leyeled fences and
barns and tore limbs from trees. Several
persons were injured, but none fatally.
GOVERNOR CROSBY, of Montana, in his
tannual report on the 18th to the President
stated that the population of the Territory
was $4,000, the taxable property was val
rued at $50, 900 ZOO, and that an application
would soon be made for admission as a
State. He said many of the Indians were
4 n deplorable condition, and he feared
snnny would die during the coming winter.
fhrown open for settlement.
ANooLh1 DhlN0, du OIO3lueu preach.
e' of the anti-polygamy branch Of the
Mormon Church, and his wife We're on the
1Ah found murdered on their ranch, near
Pine Grove, Col. Standing was u wealthy
pioneer.
REV. HENRY WILLIAMSON, pastor of ST.
Pauls Episcopal Church at Trenton, N. j.,
committed suicide on the 18Th with a re-
yolyer, blowing out his brains.
; a EREIGHr-TRAIN on the New York, Penn
sylvaria g. Ohio Railroad was wrecked
early the other morning near Ashland, O.
Two persons We're killed outright, and the
fireman, who jumped into u creek, was
seriously injured.
TIE Sac and Fox Indians nave leased
two hundred thousand acres of grazing
lands to Kansas parties for ten years, at
$4,000 per annum, the wire fencing to re-
vert to the Indians at the expiration of
the lease.
A SEVERE shock of earthquake was felt
the other night at Concord and otker
towns in New Hampshire.
ABOUT one hundred Mormon converts Left
Chattanooga on the 18th for Utah. In the
party were three negroes-two mea and u