Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-04
DOMESTIC

adams, a youth who had become insane
pn the subject of religion, butchered his
pnotler and eight-year-old sister OH the
filth. He stated to his captors that the
Lord had told him to offer them up as a
sacrifice, and He would restore them to
life again.
ISAAC STANLEY, paying teller of tho Ma
!tional Bank of Commerce, at Cleveland,
twas on the 18th lodged in Jail for embez.
zling 100000. He made a confession to
the directors and turned over his personal
property.
For the murder of Willie Osborne, a
white boy aged eight years, a colored lad
aged fourteen years was 1ynohed by q
mob at Castlewood, Va, a few days ago..
ADvIcEs of the 18th announced thai re-
cent rains in Minnesota had greatly bene.
fitted the crops in that State. Reports from
various points indicated that the farmers
were we'll satisfied with the outlook.
AT Chicago on the 18th Justice Harlan
confirmed the decision of Judge Blodgett
lin the case of Fred Erby, who was fined
$500 for sending lottery letters through the
mails.
THE explosion Of a barrel Of beer q few
days g in a brewery at Newburgh, N.
Y, killed James Quinlan and made a
lmaniac of his wife.
PERMISSION was on the 18th given to the
National Bank of Commerce, of Minneap-
oils, to begin business; capital stock,
$4,000.
A FREIGHT train was derailed recently
on the Memphis g. Charleston Road near
Paint Rock, Ala, and Wagner and Henry
Patterson were fatally hurt and ten cars
were demolished.
The State Bank of West Virginia, at
Charleston, with liabilities of $119,0 900,
closed it's doors on the 18th.
NEAR Loveland, O., on the night of the
10Th some cars of a Cincinnati, Washing
ton & Baltimore train were wrecked by a
rail having been removed. Anegro named
William Scott had been arrested.
A CLoUD-BURST in the Allegheny Valley
on the 10Th caused the loss of &c. 900 worth
of lumber at ~Brookvilie, Pa, besides three
dams and two bridges.
DURING a quarrel a few days ago near
lIlinto, D. T., Wellington Larkins shot and
KILLED his brother Alfred, and then put a
ball through his own heart. Both men
were well.to.de farmers.
The report that fifteen hundred United
tobouSo l4oOPS "OlC w 10 CUACcltJl dlcu
along the Mexican border to assist Presi-
dent Diazin suppressing any revolutionary
movements led by General Cortinas and
)other rebel Mexican Generals was denied
ION the 18th.
AT New Albany, Miss, Mayor j. K.
.Beeves and Lloyd Ford, a desperate, fred
five times at each other recently, Ford be.
ing fatally shot.
DURING a matinee at a Minneapolis thea
ter on the 10Th lightning struck one corner
of the building, which caused a slight fire.
The audience made for the doors, and in
the rush many were seriously injured.
A F1vE-sToRY building in New York,
occupied principally by Street g. Smith,
publishers of the New York Weekly, was
damaged by fire on the 10Th to the extent
of 500, 600.
WHILE workmen were engaged upon a
gas main at Wheeling, w. Va, recently
the gas, which had been let on to test the
joints, became igaited by a plumbers
lamp and blazed up, severely burning six
men, two fatally.
The publishing house of Gushing, Thom.
as & Co., of Chicago, was closed by the
Sheriff on the 10Th.
A FIRE on the 18th in a building oc.
cupied by two rubber companies, in Bos-
ton, caused a loss of 100000. Sixteen
firemen were injured by an explosion in
the third story.
An insane woman, Maria auckland,
who had refused to eat anything for more
than three weeks, died at the county in
Urinary at Urbana, O., on the 18th, from
starvation.
In a saloon row at Lake Charles, La, a
few evenings ago John Powell stabbed and
killed Otto Berwald and Herman Sigler,
German sailors. He then fed.
A PORTION of Il band of thieves that had
been operating in the Choetaw Nation, In
dian Territory, was captured by the militia
a few days ago.. Two of tho robbers were
killed in the struggle.
Upon examination at Pittsburgh on the
18th it was shown that President Riddle,
Cashier Leiber and Thomas j.. Watson,
an oil broker, were partners in the oil
speculations which wrecked the Penn
Ba:lG and had overdrawn 10000 Tho
assignee thought the bank would DO able
10 pay twenty-five per cent.
Mrs. GEORGE WILSON, whose husband
Killed an officer i'll Detroit recently, died a
few days ago of Il broken heart.
: IT was announced on the 18th that the
Heaviest rains known for thirty years had