Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-11

ANNIE h1oNS. IL COOk. WIS uTTeSLeu Ill
Boston on the 18th, charged with poisoning
ten persons in the family of Charles W.
Parker.
BLANCHE EDWARDS, of Portland, Me-,
who promulgated the yarn about Joseph
N. Dyer dying and afterward coming to
life, confessed on the 18th that the whole
thing was a fabrication. There never was
such a person as Joseph N. Dyer.
AT n large meeting of the citizens of
Omaha on the 18th a committee of twenty
five was appointed to organize a law and
order league.
TIE long strike of five thousand coal
miners i'll the Monongahela (Pa.) Valley
was compromised on the 18th.
The engine and eighteen cars of a freight
train tumbled into a creek near Indianapo-
lis OF the 18th, and four persons We're
fatally injured. To clear the track it was
found necessary to burn the wreck, freight
and all.
TIE Chief of the Secret-Service Division
at Washington reported on tho 18th that
444 arrests were made during the last year
and 1905, $50 in base money was destroyed.
The counterfeiting of coin, especially of
~niclSels, was said to be on the increase.
TIE annua report of the Chief Post-ofice
Inspector, made ON I 18th, shows that
during the past year $50 arrests were made
and 203 convicted; 459 offices were robbed,
$50 offices and SO postal cars were burned.
The sum Of $685. 52 was recovered from de-
linquent postmasters.
GOVERNOR Ross, of New Mexico, in his
annua report on he 18th places the ropu-
lation of the Territory at 1874, 900, an increase
of $4,000 in five years.
T. NJ. L.. SHEPHERD, who was cashier of
the New York Central Road at Buffalo, and
a defaulter for s25, 900, was arrested at
Waldo, Fla, on the 18th.
TWENTY frame structures Mt Hebron,
Neb., including the post-ottice and Journal
office, were burned on the 10Th.
DENSE clouds of grasshoppcrs passed over
Helena, Ark, on the 10Th, and thousands
were disabled by striking roofs or windows.
By the fall of a burned wall of the En-
pirc mills in New York on the 18th Il wom-
an was killed and SIX men were fatally in
jured.
TIE accidental discharge of a pistol on
the 10Th caused the death of DR., FrotLing-
ham, a prominent New York physician.
p. c. KIRKLAND, cashier of the Farmers
and Merchants Bank, at Oxford, Kan, and
treasurer for several secret societies,
robbed the bank on the 10Th and absconded.
The bank would be compelled TO suspend.
THREE inches of snow and half an inch of
ice We're reported on the 10Th in the Cats
kill Mountains, N. Y.
WILLIAM TlIURsToN, aged eighty years, a
wealthy citizen of cambridge, n. Y, COM
mitted suicide on the 10Th by hanging,
while temporarily insane.
ADvICEs of the 18th state that a vast
tract of land in the vicinity of Red River
Station, Tex, had been burned over by
prairie fires, causing a loss Of owe 500, 600
to cattlemen.
The recent mysterious death of Benjamin
Burton, a noted and wealthy citizen of
Newport, r. l., was followed on the 18th by
the arrest of his daughter and son-in-law
for murder.
MARY G1LcHRIsT, aged eighteen, shot her.
self in q public street at Baltimore on the
10Th. Disappointment i'll love was the
cause.
ABOUT two hundred colored families in
the Choctaw Nation had on the 18th regis
tered as members of the tribe, and would
receive %annuities of 800 each from the
fund of $1,000 900 in the hands of the Fed
eral Government. All negroes who de,
clined OF were not qualified to register,
comprising nearly six hundred families,
would be expelled by the military.
THE Surgeon-General OF the Navy wants
5000 for the support of the Bureau OF
Medicine and Surgery during the next fis.
cal year. Tn hospitals at present, he says
are i'll an unsatisfactory condition.
H%AY-DEALERs in Now York and New En-
gland have lately been swindled to tho
amount of 100000 by means of drafts or
bills of lading falsely pulporting to come
from Don Lefevre & Co., of st. Johns
Quebec.
AT Watts Flats, N. Y, two brother.
named William and James Thomas were
robbed on the 10Th Of $1,000 in cash, which
they kept in a trunk in the house, not be
lieving in banks.
RABBI ISAAC NJ. WISE, D. D., said at Gin
cinnati on the 18th that the object of tht
recent Jewish Conference in Pittsburgh
was to AmericaniZo the Jews, four-fifths o
whom in this country, he said, were i,
favor of the project.
GREAT distress still prevailed at Calves
ton. Tex, on the 18th among the sufferer
by the recent fire. The relief fund to dat,
amounted to SOC, 600, and over two thousant
persons had been aided.