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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-20
e Frightful Explosion.

PITTSBURGH, January 2s.-Mattlew
Lawson, a coal miner living at Hayes
Station, near this city, Monday night placed
three pounds OF blasting powder on y table
above which stood a lamp OH a shelf. Yes
terday morning while the family were at
breakfast, the plastering fell from the cell
ing Immediately above the lighted lamp,
knocking it to the table, and the escaping
oil ignited setting fire to the package of
powder. Mrs. Lawson was blown the full
length Of the room, her head striking with
terrific force against the wall, rendering her
unconscious. The two boys were knocked
down and badly injured internally. The
daughter was the worse injured, her cloth
ing taking fire. She was was badly burned
about the lower eXtremities, and was only
saved from a frightful death by the timely
arrival of the neighbors. The house is
almost q total wreck.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-20
GENERAl.

A "paint mine" has been discov-
cred at Corinth, Me.
"A New York doctor saws tobacco
chewing is the cause of bald headed
ness.
Only about forty per cent. of the
land in Indiana is under cultivation
Chicago Herald.
The st. Nicholas Society in New
York talks of erecting a public statue to
Washington Irving.
There are in the whole country
4.o0S. So7 farms, the value of which is
slo,l97,o 96, TO Chicago Times.
1t is now estimated that %one-ffth
OF Il American people live in cities
Where only onc-twentieth lived in 1860.
Tobacco is the best crop in North
Carolina. There are numerous in
stances OF it yielding $500 or 5000 an
acre.
AS an evidence of the absolute free
dom OF suffrage in Washington Terri
tory it is stated that five squaws voted
II: Chehalis County at the last election.
The beginning of the Christian era
IS not so very remote, after all. Theo-
uofe farker oncc said that eighteen old
NOR touching each others hands car
ricd us back to Christ.
1t is now claimed that the wood Of
Usage orange furnishes the best timber
1or making wagons that has ever been
employed: 1t is also excellent tor max
ing pillow beams and the frames of mar
rows.-Glcayo Times.
"A conductor in Massachusetts, put
a tramp off his train and threw him a
bundle which he supposed was his bag.
gage. The tramp threw it back. and
IT was atterward found to be a package
Of bills containing 81, 5oe.-Boston
Journal.
Warren County, Kentucky, deve!~
ores the most liberal man heard from.
me Bowling Green Gazette says: ..Mr.
Milton Francis requests us to inform
NOSE IN the city who are in want of fue'
That he has upward of q thousand cords
OF WOOD Oh his farm, five miles out on
the Green Hell road. and that whoever
VIII come ana cut and haul the wood ob
: welcome to it"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-20
SUICIDE OF A BANK PRESIDENT.
q. Wells, President of the Island City
Savings Bank, Galveston. Texas. Sui"

G. q. Wells, President of the Island City
Savings Bank, Galveston. Texas, Sui"
cides-Bank q Total Wreck.
GALVESTON, January est has beer
known for months to friends That the
firm of Welston, Wells & Wider, cotton tac-
tors, were heavy borrowers, but the true
condition of affairs was suspected by no
one. Mr.. Wells went to his Office Sunday
morning and remained at his desk about
two hours. The exact time at which he
swallowed the fatal dose of morphine is not
known. About one o'clock Mrs. wells
noticed that her husband was passing into a
comatose condition and she hastily sum
moned physicians. About eleven o'clock in
the evening the doctors succeeded in restOr'
ing him sufficiently to enable him to con
verse. He then told them he had taken
twenty grains of morphine. He soon re.
lapsed into a heavy sleep from which he
never awakened.
Mr.. Wells was a member OF the firm
named and President of the Cotton Elk.
change. He was the very embodiment OF
honor and to this fact is attributed his self.
destruction.
An intimate friend of the dead President
said: &C. G. Wells was an honorable man.
You must not think that the name of his
death indicates the least stain upon his
honor and integrity. He never did anything
in his life that any man need be ashamed
of, but he killed himself simply because he
was too sensitive to fall because of financial
disaster brought about by the ordinary mis-
fortune and vicissitudes of commerce"
No one imputes a single dishonest act to
the unfortunate man. AS President of the
Island City Savings Bank, and with the
knowledge of the members of the board of
directors, lie loaned his own firm S15O,OO0.
He also befriended j. II. Blake, a cotton
speculator, advancing him $4,000 from
the bank funds. These loans caused ms
death. The firm of Weston, Wells Il Wider
lost heavily by last years short cotton crop,
and Blake lost everything in specializing
Both failures are complete. Weston. Wells
& Vider's assets will scarcely reach $4,000
Their liabilities exceed $500, 600. Blake's
liabilities are placed at $1,000 00. His
assets are almost nothing.
The broken bank is in the hands of the
Sheriff under attachments from the District
Court for Sl4, 600. The liabilities of the
bank, including deposits, exceed $4,000
Half of the depositors are colored people
The bank offered four per cent. OF deposits
Among the directors are Julius Kunge, o.
Kaufman & Kunge; Salvano Blum, of S
Rum q Co.; Morris Taylor, OF Almar
Lewis & Co., and Sampson, H~endenheimel
& Co.
These gentlemen are each worth from
500, 600 to 81, 900, 1000. 1t is evident there
fore that the depositors will be paid in full
But at a meeting of the directors Monda,
night it was determined to offer the de
positors seventy cents on the dollar.
The commercial stability Of the city j:
shaken by these failures, which are the mos
disastrous known here for years, but it i:
not believed any more suspensions will oc
cur. All other banks are prepared for
a heavy run.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-20
Shot Her Father.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, January 2s.-A re-
port comes from Sevierville, the county seat
of Sewer County, that on Sunday last
Willis Graham, a well-to.do farmer, was
shot and instantly killed by his daughter
Polly, aged sixteen years, whom he had for.
hidden to receive the attentions of a voting
man named Elan Campbell. Her father
had been away from home but came in m
expectedly and found Campbell and his
daughter eating supper together. Graham
forcibly elected the young man, when his
daughter seized Il rifle and shot her father
through the heart. She then, accompanied
by Campbell disappeared and neither of
them have since been seen.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-20

elected permauen, speaker Of the Illinois
Rouse Of Representatives by the Dem
ocrats.
A BILL was introduced in the Michigan
Legislature on the 10Th securing to women
the right to vote in school, city, town and
other municipal elections.
UPON occupying the executive cham
bers in the capitol of Iowa an the evening
of the Goth Governor Sherman gave a re-
ception, aided by six former Governors
and several ex-Lieutenant- Governors.
GOVERNOR OGLEsBY and the other new
State officers were installed in office on the
Both ult. in the presence of both houses of
the General Assembly at Springfield, Ill.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-20
NEWS.

AN earthquake shock, preceded by rum
bling sounds, was felt early OH the morn
ing of the 3lst ult. in the northern portion
OF Westchester County, N. Y, throwing
household utensils from shelves and tables.
JAMES K. JONES DENY was elected
United States Senator from Arkansas on
the 31st ult. the deadlock being broken on
the Ghirty-frsG ballot after q p~rotracted
struggle of eleven days.
LUCY PEEK, aged one hundred and fifteen
years, was burned to death at Crawfords-
|vllle, Ca, on the 31st ult.
IHE latest news IN the LIST concerning
General Stewards army at Gubat on the
Nile was to the effect that the Mehdi had
determined to make a stubborn stand at
Metemneh. The rebels were so strongly
~mtrenched in the town that it was deemed
advisable to await the arrival of reinforce
Ements before attacking the place.
The First National Bank building at Mar
quette, Mich, the finest building in the
Eclty, was burned Oh 1.-THE LIST. Loss over
$4,000. Occupants of the building also
lost property valued at 100000.
THREE explosions Of natural gas on the
3lst ult. at Pittsburgh, Pa. wrecked three
houses, damaged others and broke all the
windows in the vicinity. Eighteen per-
sons We're wounded, seven of tie victims
not being expected to recover. and one
woman was missing.
/ men ave been sentenced to be
hanged April II at Fort Smith, Ark, for
murders committed in Indian Territory.
1T was reported on the 31st ult. that over
100000 head Of cattle had persisted in In
dian Territory through starvation and se-
we're cold weather. :.
GENERAL AuGUR was instructed on tho
S1st ult. by the Secretary of War to turn
over the leaders of the Oklahoma boomers
to the civil authorities for prosecution.
A SLEIGH containing nine persons, who
were returning from a ball, was struck bv
a train near Port Clinton, o., early the
other morning. Three were killed and
three others were fatally injured.
H. NEGREss and her two children per.
ished by fire i'll their house at Altoona, Pa,
the other morning.
= The recent strike in the dry-goods store
OF Garry Brothers, in New York, was fol-
lowed by an explosion of dynamite on the
LIST, causing damage to the amount of
S $500. Four men had been arrested for
the crime.
IMPORTS at the port of New York for the
week ended Oh the 31st ult., exclusive of
specie, were $I1,4l9,000.
DIR. j. b. ANARCHIST, who was in the army
of the first Napoleon, died on the 1st at
Utica, N. Y, aged n~inety-six years.
The United States Senate was not in
session OIL the 31st ult.. In the House con.
sideration of the River and Harbor bill oc.
! cupied the entire session.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-20
An Insane Mothers Deed,

NEWPORT, KY, January 2s.-The testi-
mony at the inquest upon Mrs. Winslow,
who committed suicide Sunday after killing
her little boy, has been concluded. Little
Daisy Winslow described how her mother.
after choking Willie to death, struck her
down with a club and then bent over her
and kissed her, saying: Goodbye, Daisy"
The child replied: Goodbye. Mamma" The
inhuman mother finding from this that
Daisy was still alive, took a razor and cut
the child's throat. Daisy says she then fell
over and pretended to be dead, whereupon
the mother kissed her again and then cut
her W throat Daisy then jumped up and
tried to get out but could not until a police
man came and kicked the door in. A
physician testired that Mrs. Winslow's in
sanity was suffering from p%uerperal mania.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-20
OF THE WEEK
Interesting News Compilation
CONGRESSIONAL.

Second Session.
TUESDAY, Jan. 21.-In the Senate Mr..
Morrill, made a favorable report on the
House bill for the retirement and recoinage
of the trade dollar. Mr.. Cameron made a
favorable report on a bill to create a re-
tired list for non-commissioned officers
and p~rivates who have served thirty years
in the army. The conference report on the
temporary Naval Appropriation bill vas
adopted. In the House the Army Appro-
priation bill was passed with some unim-
Portant amendments.
WEDNESDAY, Jan. GA message was
received by the Senate from President
Arthur maintaining that under existing
treaties the lands of Oklahoma could not be
opened for settlement. In the House Mr..
Clay introduced a resolution providing
that the two houses shall assemble in the
hall of the House at moor on the 18th of
February, 1855, pursuant to the require
ments of the Constitution, to count aud de-
clare the Presidential vote. Action upon
the Mexican treaty and the Michigan land
grant forfeiture bills was refused, and
tilibustering continued until the hour of
adjournment.
+ THURSDAY, Jan. 29.-In the Senate
memorials were presented to establish in
California a Soldiers Home; to pension
Union soldiers confined in Confederate
prisons during the war, and urging legisla-
ton to make the trade dollar legal tender.
An adverse report was made on the bill for
the voluntary retirement of army
officers who served during the re-
bellion. The Nicaragua treaty was
defeated, owing to the lack of a two
thirds vote. In the House a Joint r%esolu-
ton was reported for the free admission of
foreign goods for the colored mems EXPOSE
ton at Chicago. Bills We're introduced to
establish a Soldiers Home in California
and to prevent and punish the prosecution
of fraudulent claims against foreign Gov
ernments. The River and Harbor hill was
considered.
FRIDAY, Jan. Authorizations were
adopted in the Senate providing that
the two Houses of Congress shall as
semble in the hall of the House Wednes-
day, February IL, to count the Electoral
vote. The Pacific Railway and Interstate
Commerce bills were discussed at some
length. In the House the Post-ofice APP
preparation bill, which provides a total APP
preparation of So, 2253, 200, was reported. At
the evening session thirty pension bills
We're paSsed.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-20
PERSONAL ANp PolITIcAl.

The approaching marriage of Mrs. Tom
Thumb to Count Rosebud, q gentleman of
diminutive stature, was announced on the
9th.
MRS. GRIFFITH, q sister of General
Grants mother, died at Batavia, o., on the
9th, at the age of ninety-two years.
COLONEL JOHN C. SPooNER was elected
United States Senator by the Republicans
in the Wisconsin Legislature on the 9th,
and j. j. Ingalls, was reelected to the Same
office by the Kansas Republicans.
Ex-Governor MOSES, of South Carolina,
9th at Detroit, was rearrested on the
charge of swindling Colonel T. w. Hig-
gerson and other Bostonians.
A BILL was introduced in the Massa.
chusetts Senate on the 9th to punish per-
sons making or keeping explosive co1n-
pounds with the intention to destroy life
or property. A similar measure was also
introduced in the Connecticut Senate.
SPEAKER CARLIsLE:expresses the opinion
that the form of an oath will n ally ba
done away with in the courts. Es drinks
that eth mans evidence should have
weight according to his credibility Al a
witness.
Ex-Governor STANFORD, of California,
was elected United States Senator by the
Republicans on the 2sth.
IT was announced on the 2Sth that s. 8.
Conant, managing editor of Harper's
Weekly and executive editor of all Har.
per's publications since 1870, had mysteri-
ously disappeared over a week before.
THANKFUL TANNER, of Cleveland, on the
18th brought suit against Mrs. James A.
Garfield for $4,000, for injuries sustained
by being run over by her carriage.
JOHN FRANCIS QUARLEs, the first col.
ored lawyer ever admitted to the bar, who
had been United States Consul at Port Ma.
hon and Malaga, died on the 2Sth at Flush.
ing, L. 1.
ELIJAH NJ. HA1NEs was on the o9th
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-20
EoRElGN.

A SHOCK of earthquake at Albania,
Spain, on the 2Sth threw down several
houses, killing one person and injuring two
others.
ADv1cEs received at London on the 2Sth
stated that General Stewards forces were
entrenched near Metemneh. They had
several fights with the Arab rebels before
reaching Metenneh, Stewart himself be-
ing so badly wounded that he would be
disabled for the remainder of the CAM
paign. The total British loss was 104
killed and 116 wounded. The enemy's
loss was 5000 killed and wounded.
ADv1cEs of the 2Sth state that the snow
fall on the Italian Alps is the heaviest
within the memory of Terrible ac-
counts were arriving in Rome from viii
lagos destroyed. 1t was calculated So fer
as known that three hundred lives were
lost. The troops displayed much heroisnl
in effecting rescues.
A WOMAN vas arrested in London on tile
2Sth in the act of entering the Royal Ex.
change building. She was found TO have
q quantity of dynamite concealed about
her person. Three men, supposed accom-
plices of the woman, were also arrested.
A NUMBER of fishing craft were caught
in a blizzard on the west coast of New
f%oundland on the 2Sth. Many were badly
frost-bitten, and several boats containing
fifty-nine men were missing.
THE Canadian Parliament was opened
on the 29th.'
D~YNAMITERs recently blew up the en-
g%ine-house of the Canal Works at Bever-
ridge Bay, Ontario. Two persons were fa-
tally injured and another was seriously
hurt.
THE recent dynamite outrages in London
are denounced by the United Ireland, of
Dublin, as the work of men who believe
they can serve Ireland by carrying on a
campaign against stone walls and stained
glass.
The American schooner Arcana was
lost on the Goth in the Bay of Fundy, with
Captain Holmes and eight mca. OF four
sailors who reached the shore, three died
from exposure.
Two ICE mail-boats en- route for Prince
Edwards Island with twenty persons on
board had been missing for three days on
the 30th ult., and fears were expressed that
all had persisted.
AT Buenos Ayres, more than q score of
deaths from great heat occurred during
the past few days.
AN express train between Sydney, New
South Wales, and Wagga-Wagga broke
through q bridge over a creek a few days
ago and, forty passengers were killed.
A NEGRO vas reported to lave been
burned at the stake on the Goth ult, at
Santa Cruz, Mex.
ADv1cEs of the a0th ult. say there is no
truth in the report that the Grand Trunk
Road had removed all Irish employees q.
the Victoria Bridge at Montreal.
The United States Consul at Malaga on
the 30th ult. reported to the Secretary of
State at Washington some particulars con-
corning the recent earthquakes in Spain.
He said that fifty villages were destroyed
and 1000 lives lost; that thirty thousand
! people had left Malaga, and thos. who re-
manned were sleeping i, the open air. In
one village a river disappeared: in another
churches, converts and occupants were
swallowed up.j -
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-20
The word Upouen

<" The word "news" was not. &c
many supposed, derived from the ad.
]ectlvc new, but from the fact th,t
many years ago it was customary to
put at the head of the periodical publ.
cation OF the day the initial letters of
the compass, thus:
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-20

S'gnlfying that the matter contained
therc,n was from the four quarters Of
inc globe. From the latter came tho
WORD news. - Chicago HerulQ. WIZ
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-10-30

by George w. Childs, of Phils-
delphia, TO the effect that General
Grant told Childs that 1ilden was
elected and should have been inaugu-
rated instead of Hayes. He says
during the summer OF 1877 he had
numerous interviews with General
Grant and among other things dis
cussed was the Hayes-Tilden contro-
versy, and Grant gave me TO under
stand he had reason TO believe that
Ti.den proposed coming down TO
Washington and be sworn In rs pres
idcnt. Speaking of this Grant said
in his quiet way, but with an express
sion of seriousness In his face which
Indicated that he meant every word
he said: AT Tilden had undertaken
ID do that l would have hanged him."
Captain Lee says General Grant
tald him this on more than one 0ccas-
sion and at one time told him he
would like to have Mr.. Hayes know
II. During the controversy and In
all his subsequent acts and talks, the
fact that President Grant had made
thorough preparations to thwart any
attempt to inaagurato Tilden Illegal
ly, he thinks conclusively discredits
the Childs story. Lee asserts that
l.. +. Noyes, late minister to France is
In the possession of similar informa-
ton to that OF his.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-10-30
n,sMAnCK OIL MExIco.
something For Uncle sam 10 watch.

Something For Uncle Sam 90 watch.
New YORK. October GA WASH
ington special to the Post says that
President Diaz, of Mexico, acting
upon the assumption that the recip.
rocity treaty with the United States
will not be ratified, is negotiating
with Germany for loan TO help Mex
,ico out of her financial difficulty.
His hope was that the treaty
would lead to such large in
vestments in Mexico, that 1t wcnld
not be difficult for him to place
loan In the United States. He first
tried to negotiate with England and
IL is said, was prepared to make large
commercial and other concessions,
but England declined to assume any
new responsibilities. Tho dispatch
continues: "Now, the story goes that
Diaz has applied to the German gov
eminent, as last resort, with prop
osition similar to that which was
made earlier in the year to the gov
eminent of Great Britain, and ne
gotiations upon this subjects are said
TO be now pending. Germans
here who ought to be well informed,
express the opinion that Bismarck
will grant Mexico's requests il she
will grant to Germany certain colon
ization privileges, and that the Mexi-
can government Is disposed to accede
to this demand. Ii Mexico shall
make concessions to Bismarck the
| United States will be greatly inter-
ested to know the nature of these
concessions, and whether or not the
treaty which may be entered into
would be in violation of the Monroe
doctrine. Uniess some ef-the -diplo-
mats are very much mistaken, the
United States will soon have an OPP
portunity to decide that question.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-10-30
FROM SOUTH AMERICA.


LIMA. October 90 Dispatches
from Piurra state that Admiral Grau's
monument was unveiled yesterday in
the presence of 5000 spectators. The
greatest enthusiasm prevailed during
the ceremony, which was followed by
u banquet at which toasts for the
president and government were
drank. Honors have also been paid
in that city to the memory of General
Lorenzo Yglesias.
A dispatch from Canta reports that
the government troops were surprised
during the night of the oath inst. by
the rebels. They were. obliged to re-
tire to the heights, whittier the Mon
toneros followed them, resulting in
the defeat of the latter with a loss OF
their entire baggage and animals.
News from Arequipa announce,
the arrival at Cuzco of the so-called
minister Ibarra, with two infantry
battallions and a cavalry picket. lbar'
ra has since resigned the command
The troops will continue the march
to rejoiu Caceres, under another chief
A fearful explosion occurred in thu
mines at Colquescha, by which sew
eral persons were killed.
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PROM WASHINGTON.


WASHINGTON, October 29.--The
annual report of the chief signal Off
Ger is made public by the secretary Of
war to-day. The report states that
the course of the instruction at Fit.
Myers has been improved aud en-
larged and now provides for the full
education of the officers. and the
signal corps in the dnties required of
them in time of war. The report ex-
presses regret at the fact that it has
been impossible to drill the men in
handling field telegraph trains, owing
to a lack of horses. A desire is eX-
pressed that provisions be made for
a supply of horses SO the corps may
be put in condition to handle trains
in time of war. The report states
that II is proposed to erect two sta
lions about fifteen miles part TO be
used for the purpose of perfecting
the men in the art of visual military
signals. The work of the signal of.
flee during the past year is fully re.
viewed and number of suggestions
made as to its further improvement