Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-02
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City, Kan, resulted in the fatal shooting
of Tim O'Connor and one of the Breens on
.the Sth.
ROBERT H. HUNTER, a railroad ticket
agent at Mingo, O., absconded ON the Sth,
leaving a defcit of 81, 1000, which was wholly
schargeable to speculation.
WHILE the children of Edward Moves
were playing hanging recently in their
home at Sullivan, Me-, one of them, a boy
tof sixteen, became SO %entangled in the
handkerchief used for the rope that death
tensued.
AN ~incendiary fire on the sth at Athens,
Tex, destroyed property valued at $4,000.
THIRTY buildings at Hampton, Va, were
burned a few nights ago, causing y loss of
100000.
Two THIEVES drove boldly up an alley in
Wheeling, w. Va, at four O'Clock the other
morning, placed a ladder at a s~econd-story
window of a dry.goods store, and carried
of $4,000 worth of velvets and silks while
a clerk lay asleep beneath them.
ENTRANCE was on the 9th obtained to the
Pocahontas coal-mine in Virginia, and the
bodies of several victims of the recent dis
aster were seen. Thirty.six cofins had
been provided, and the corpses would soon
be removed. f,
BURGLARS on the 9th obtained money
packages containing $1,000 in the Adams
express office at Allegheny City, Pa. They
were frightened of by the Waterman
when about to blow open the safe.
: CITY MARSHAL PIERCE, of Mitchell, D. T.,
was shot dead at that place a few days ago
by a saloon-keeper named HenryN N. Lewis,
whom he tried to arrest for q violation sof
the law.
AsPECIAL Grand Jury, composed wholly
of leading business men, was on the 9th
:%impaneled at Cincinnati, to investigate the
riot and the burning of the courthouse.
The heaviest snow-storm of the winter
prevailed on the 9th in the Pennsylvania
coal region. Railroad travel was retarded
and some collieries had suspended. Heavy
SNOW also fell in Maryland.
MR.. N MRS. FLEETWOOD, an aged
couple, were found dead in bed at their
home in Rardin, ILL.,, on the morning of
the 10th, with their throats cut. A hired
imam named James Winkleback had been
ARRESTED for the crime. The old folks had
nc money, and the motive for the murder
was a mystery.
N. R. PIERsoN and Thomas Vedder,
hrothers-in-law, of Suspension Bridge, N.
", drove to Goat Island a few days ago
and quarreled. Vedder shot Pierson
through the head and then it was supposed
fommitted suicide by jumping into the
Niagara Rapids.
The Elisha Graves house at Northampton,
Mass, which was over two hundred years
old, was burned on the 10th.
ACCORDING to reports made on the 10th
by the Washington Agricultural Depart.
ment there were q, 900, 900 acres in the
United States under winter wheat. This
area was about 100000 acres more thar
last year.
Il Gloucester (Mass.) fishing schooner
Nelson Y. Mcfarland and its crew of six
!anen were lost at sea in q recent gale.
In the Federal Court at Indianapolis on
the 10Th Matilda c. Wingate was awarded
$4,000 damages against the Ohio &c Missis.
sippi Road for the killing of her husband
ON a train by a drunken passenger.
The exposition of the Keely motor was
again postponed on the 10th, as the "work
of perfecting the graduation" was not
finished. =
HENRY S. ~RosENTHAL, a New York cat
tie merchant, failed OH the 10th for $780,
O0O.
IT was announced on the 10th that
twenty-five breaks had occurred in the
devees OF the Arkansas River, in Tensas
land Concordia parishes, and a large area
bf land was overlooked.
The Secretary of the Interior at Wash
1ngton has given notice that the forty.niale
thousand acres of land in the southwestern
part of the omaha (Neb.) Reserve, thirty
five miles southwest of Sioux City, will be
open for actual settlers to file claims on
April 30 next. Filings can be made at
Bancroft, Wisner, or at the United States
Land Office at Neigh, Neb. Terms, one.
third down, n two annual payments at
five per cent. Prices range from five dol
lars to ten dollars per acre.
- THE firm OF Davis & Taylor, the leading
flour and grain house of Boston, Mass,
failed on the 10th for $500, 900.
AN explosion of dynamite a few DAYS
ago at stone quarries near Franklin, N. c.,
killed Dock Robinson and Edwin Strong
and wounded four men, all colored.
JOHN ROE, a farmer near Carrolton, No.,
was shot and instantly killed a few even
.ings ago by Henry Baugh in a quarrel
lover n note.
WILLIE BACK, aged six years, was
BILLED by the kick of a man named D. w.
brett, at Philadelphia, a few days ago.