Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-30
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The new Produce Exchange building in
New York City, the largest of the kind in
the world, was formally opened on the 9th.
j.. BALLARD & BALLARD, lour.mill proprie-
tors at Louisville, KY, nave failed, with
liabilities of about $4,000.
G. W. NEwLEN, j. H. Thompson and A.
A. Adams, oil spectators at Pittsburgh,
Pa, have failed.
vision of the Wabash Railroad, ten miles
from Decatur, ILL.,, early on the morning
of the 18th. The two rear coaches and q
sleeper were thrown from the track, and
forty people were injured, three thought
to be fatally.
! The Tea Inspector at Chicago recently
condemned 1905 600 pounds of tea siftings
which arrived from Japan.
The American Tract Society held it's if
;ty-ninth annual meeting at New York on
the 18th. The donations and legacies for
the year were $102, 800, and the expendi.
lures $354,082. Sixty-three missionaries
distributed 1885, 63 volumes.
WILLIAM MIssEY, q teller in the Bank of
!Commerce ut Baltimore, was arrested on
the 7th for the embezzlement of $1,000 by
false entries.
JAMES CLARK, confidential clerk of Ru-
.dolph Hochkofer, Austrian Consul at San
Francisco, embezzled 10000 recently, and
lost it in speculation.
PRESIDENT FISH, of the burst Marine
Bank Of New York, was reported to have
said on the 9TH that Ferdinand Ward be-
.trayed his confidence, and that he (Ward)
was a defaulter for $3.50, 0e0.
Ex-SHER1FF HARDIN and James Murray,
both of Crittenden County, Ark, had a
difficulty about a lawsuit the other day,
and were both mortally wounded.
/: WILLIAM 81. VANDERBILT and a party of
friends on the 9Th made the trip from De-
.tFoit to Cincinnati in 5K hours, the dis.
stance being 2G3 miles. Between Dayton
and Lima, "a miles, the run was made in
&C minutes, and from Dayton to Hamilton
the train ran 35 miles in SO minutes.
THE firm Of Grant g. Ward, of New
York, of which General Grant was a mem
her, made an assignment en- the 9Th. 1t
was thought their liabilities would amount
to $780, 900, 900. President Fish, of the
Marine Bank, also mado an assignment.
HENRY SEvA1M, who murdered a woman,
was taken from Jail at Winston, N. c., a
few nights age by a mob and hanged.
FRANKLIN 2. NORRIS, a young attorney
of Concord, N. H., after making an earn
est effort to establish himself in business,
died of starvation in his Office a few days
ago, without divulging his straitened cir.
cumstanoes to his acquaintance.
AN agent Of the Post-ofice Department
recently arrested the postmaster at North
Manchester, Ind, and secured from him a
confession that he took $103 from a regis.
tered letter.
A GALE at Savannah, Ga, the other day
blew down a large building, killing one
man and fatally injuring two others.
The steamer City of Portland, plying be.
tween Portland, Me-, and st. John, N. B.,
struck on a ledge off Owls Head on the
9th and went to pieces. The vessel and
cargo, valued at 1925 900, were lost, but the
passengers were saved.
Many miles of timber ihad been burned
over in Cecil County. Nd, on the sth by
forest fires, and a large number of barns
and other buildings had been destroyed.
The fire was still raging.
The Baptist Union Theological Seminary
of Chicago graduated twenty-five young
men on the 9Th. President Northrup re.
ported that the institution owned prop.
guy WV OA &OoV3VVO dAu OWtu HOUQluR, DuU
was in need of a library building and a
chapel.
The remains of DR.. Samuel E. Gross, of
Philadelphia, were cremated on the Sth.,
AT the annual meeting of the American
Congregational Union on the 9Th at New
the years receipts were shown to be
$105,377, and the expenses Sill, 514.
In a quarrel a few days ago about the
killing of a sheep by a dog at Jefferson
vile, Ind, Josiah Hamilton, aged twenty
two. shot and killed his brother David.
Ar Che sixty-eighth annual directors
meeting of the American Bible Society at
New York IN the 9Th it was shown that
the year 1,357,051 Bibles had been
in this country, and A1, 1854
THERE were 1872 failures in the United
States during tLeyseven days ended on the
9th, against ISL in kle preceding week, and
l49, lis and 81 in the corresponding weeks
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