Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-06-05
the 14th charged with making false entries
to conceal q d%efalcation amounting to $15,-

the 14th charged with making false entries
to conceal q d%efalcation amounting to $15,-
200.
THE s%ixty-ninth annual meeting of the
American Bible Society was held ut New
York on the 18th. During the year the is
sues of Bibles, Testaments and portions of
the same were LBS 75; receipts, 1857 ,914;
expenditures, $619,SS2. Hon. Frederick T.
FrelinghuyseA was chosen President.
Two GAMBLERS, Larry O'Brlen and
George T. Truman, shot each other fatally
in New York on the 18th in a quarrel over
a woman
THE estate of the late Wendell Phillips
is found to be worth but $500, the ap-
praisers returning a number of securities
as of no value.
SEVENTY persons belonging to IN excur-
sion party were poisoned at Tallullah
Falls, Ca, on the 14th by eating ice-cream,
and it was feared many would die.
THE fatal epidemic at Plymouth, Pa,
was believed to be suLsiding on the 14th.
Over 100 families were receiving hid, and
money was still badly needed, as there
were many hundreds of widows and Or
phans who must be provided for.
The monthly statistical publication of
the Agricultural Department at Washing
ton for May, issued on the 14th, gives the
following monthly wages for farm labor
S23.19; Southern States, $14.27; Western
States, S222.26; California, $3.50. The
amount of labor seeking employment in
agriculture ut the present time was said to
be unusually large.
BEFORE the Military Service Institute
which met on the 18th on Governors ISL
and, New York harbor, Lieutenant Eugene
Griffin, of the Engineer Corps. read a
paper showing that our coasts were unpro-
tected, and urging the necessity of prompt
action.
THE total imports of dry goods at New
York during the seven days ended on the
18th were valued at $1,155, 995, and the
amount thrown on the market at 81, 225,-
434.
The failure of the Louisville (Ky.) Ag-
ricultural Works is announced.
SHEFFIELD's elevator at Utica, Mimi,
together with all the buildings in the
place save one, were destroyed by fire on
the 18th.
AT Bloomington, Ind, Chesley Cham
bers, a young man, was identified on the
18th as the person who robbed the express
car on the night of April 81, and shot
Baggagemaster Weber and Express Agent
Davis. Wright, the man held on sus-
picion, was released.
JOHN LANCASTER (colored) was hanged
at Washington, D. c., on the 18th for the
murder of Police Officer Fowler.
CHARLES HENRY RuGG, the negro who
murdered old Mrs. Lydia Maybee and her
daughter Mary at Oyster Bay, l.. l., near
ly two years ago, was executed at Hun
ter's point, L. l., on the 18th.
A NOE from Wilmot went to Traverse,
D. T., on the 18th and demolished the
courthouse, no resistance being offered.
This was the opening of another county
seat q
A FIRE in n structure at Cleveland, O.,
on the 10th caused the burning to death
of an aged woman and a child, seven other
persons being injured by jumping from
the windows, one of them fatally.
ADvlcEs of the 18th state that twenty
five per cent. of the cattle and sheep in the
upper counties of Virginia had died from
q mysterious disease.
A CALL has been issued for a reunion of
the representative organizations of the
soldiers of the United;States, to be held in
Philadelphia from III % to July 2G.
SPENCER CHAMBERLAIN was killed and
his wife and little son fatally injured on
the 18th by their team running away at
Chagrin Falls, near Cleveland, o.
CHARLES HoULDEN was hanged at
Petersburg, ILL.,, on the 18th for the murder
of his wife March 90, 1884.
NEAR Owatonna, Mimi, early on the
morning of the 18th the house of a Neg
wegian farmer named Henry Lewiston
was destroyed by fire, and five of his chill
dren persisted in the flames. The father
was severely burned in attempting to save
the children.
In the United States and Canada there
were 1S6 business failures during the seven
days ended on the 18th, against $50 the pre-
vious seven days. The distribution was as
follows: Middle States, so; New England
States, Ii; Western, 65; Southern, IS; Pa
cific States and Territories, "a; Canada, %.