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EDITORIAL NOTES.

There have been some astonishing "faith cures'' at Providence, Rhode Island, where the people have been drinking from a won- derful spring in Roger Williams park. A professional analysis has just determined that the water contains small an amount of mineral matter as to have no remedial effect whatever, and the analyst recommends that the spring be cleaned out if the water is to be drunk. People are now wondering what cured them.
 Prohibition is now in force in one hundred counties in Georgia, but not in the counties which include the cities of Atlanta, Macon, Savannah, Augusta and Columbus. An elec- tion under the new local option law is soon to occur in Atlanta and the people are be- coming much excited over it. Some proni- nent business men are working hard to carry the day, and the negroes, it is said, will vote fer prohibition. It looks very much as if Atlanta would shut up the rum shops. Romantic persons who fancy that they would like to live in Swiss chalet can now, it is said, gratify their esthetic desires at a small expense. A company at Intsrlaken
  geniously fashioned wooden houses for sale and export. The parts are fitted together, numbered and packed in small compass, ready for setting up wherever the purchaser l may wish. This method of manufacture is peculiarly adapted to the Swiss houses. The whole principle of their construction is that of fitting together by skillful mortising and | dovetailing together without the use of nails, | which, even to this day, have very little to | do with chalet building.
 ! The allopathic medical societies through ! out the country are agitated by the question ! whether homeopaths shall be admitted to the international congress to be held in 1 Washington in 1S87 The first plan was to I let in all legal practitioners, but committee I on organization not only reversed this, but I excluded from the presidencies of the differ ent sections all allopaths known to favor consultations wiIh homoopaths. That &C., ton has made an extensive row; resignations are numerous, regretful letters are received from European savants, and settlement of the difficulty seems impossible, judging by the violence of the sentiments
 The dread of being buried alive disturbs great many people. A Belgian has done his best to allay that dread by death insuring coffin he has constructed, for which he was so unfortunate as not to be allowed space at the Antwerp exhibition. This automatic cercueil perfectionne, as the ingenious invent
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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-16
Nearly 1000 Lives Lost.

MADRID, Dec. 29.-The official reports
show That 26G persons were killed in Malaga
and Granada by the recent earthquake.
The population of Granada is still encamped
in the square, the richer classes lodging in
carriages along the promenade. The facade
of the cathedral is seriously damaged.
Many houses were destroyed in Jimena and
a whole family killed in the village of Cajar
by a falling chimney. Over half the in
habitalts of Albmuchas We're killed. Al
hama iStmoStly in ruins. Commerce is par
alyZed. Two hundred houses at A~lfarnetejO
We're damaged. The panic is subsiding.
The shock was not felt in the northern and
northwestern Provinces. The Government
has granted SIS, 900 from the National
Calamity fund for the relief of the sufferers
in the Province of Granada.
Later advices state that 500 lives We're
lost 1T Albania: $50 houses and the church
We're destroyed and thirty persons killed at
Periana; the town hall and many houses
were damaged at Torrox, the inhabitants Of
which fled panic-stricken. 1t is now esti-
mated that 600 persons were killed in the
province of Malaga, including those killed
at Albania.
Fresh shocks more violent than tie first
have occurred at TorroX and Albania. The
panic i'll those places has revived.
The latest adviceS from the province of
Granada state that 500 persons were killed
by the earthquake there, ana in Malaga 100.
In Albania over $50 bodies have already
been recovered. In Beriana sixty bodies
have been recovered. Many persons died
from fright. The c%onvicts in Seville Prison
attempted to escape.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-16
EORElGN.

ADv1cEs of the 23d from Pictou, Can,
say there is no truth whatever in the re-
port that John Lowder, the father Of
George Lowder, who was hanged there last
June, had made a death-bed confession Of
the murder Of Peter Lazier. John Lowder
has not been sick, is not dead, and has not
confessed.
ADvIcEs of the 23d from Spain state that
a great storm was raging on the peninsula.
Several ships and railway trains had been
wrecked. There had been no Geographic
communication with Europe by land wires
for three days.
EXTRA guards were on the oath placed
around the prisons in London, as a precau-
ton against the operations of the dyna-
miters.
BURGLARS recently entered the residence
of Nine. Albani, the singer, at Vile
d'Avray, q Partisan suburb, and stole q
| quantity of valued souvenirs of her career.
Two SEVERE earthquake shocks were
experienced in the Southern Provinces of
Spain on the Goth. The convent at Seville
was partly destroyed. Many people were
injured by falling walls.
The farmhouse of Benjamin Dufresne,a at
ST. Martins, Can, was destroyed by fire
early on themorning Of the Goth, and Mrs.
Dufresne, a boy aged three years inc u
lady aged eighty persisted in tho flames.
The remainder of the household we're badly
frozen while seeking shelter two niles dis.
11t- one girl dying soon after.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-16
About the New Treaties.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-Secretary FIRE.
~linghuysen, in abiding to the report that
the Spanish treaty is to be withdrawn, said
that in fact there is no foundation for it.
lie said furt.er that this rumor has doubt
less grown out Of the fact that the Spanish
Minister had been authorized by his Gov
eminent to accept certain notifications,
providing that they will make the treaty
more acceptable to this Government. These
notifications are intended to NeutraliZe the
opposition of the cigar and tobacco interests
OF the South. Tn Spanish Minister in an
Interview said: THE Spanish Government
is willing to accept such modification in re-
gard to sugar and tobacco as the American
Senate may adopt or recommend"
The Nicaragua treaty is growing in pop
ularity every day. and particularly among
Representatives from the South. who say its
confirmation will afford a splendid opportu-
nifty for the assertion of an American policy
on his continent. The comments of the
European press have had a good deal to do
III lntensifying this feeling.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-16
General Grants Financial Troubles

NEW YORK, Dec. eft was learned
Saturday that executions had been issued
under the Judgment rendered against Cen
eral Grant in favor of William II. Wander.
bilt for $50, 600 which the General Dor
rowed the Sunday before the failure Of
Grant & Ward, Which the General used
to help them. The execution COW
ers houses i'll Washington and Philadel-
phia, farms near st. Louis and Chicago, and
all the Generals relics of the war, swords.
medals, gifts from friends at home and for
eign rulers, his pictures and bric-a-brac, and
even the engraved card of thanks awarded
him by Congress. Mrs. Grant has consented
to waive her interest in the real estate SO
that Mr.. Vanderbilt may be fully Sc
cure. The st. Louis farm is valued
at S65. 600 and the Chicago farm at
So, 900. But the Generals friends are
fearful that all the property may
be sold. General w. T. Sherman while
here last week became acquainted with this
action, and has quietly set about relieving
his Old comrade in arms. Mr.. Vanderbilt
has consented to release his debt for $780,
600. Cyrus w. Field has undertaken to
raise a part of this, and General Sherman
has gone Oh to Philadelphia and Washing
ton 10 interest gentlemen there to raise the
balance,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-16
A STORY.
While Walking on the Street Mary
Carney Is Robbed and Has Her Throat

While Walking on the Street Mary
Carney Is Robbed and Has Her Throat
Cut.
SPRINGFIELD, O., Dec. 27.-Last night
Mary Carney, a young Irish girl but few
months in this country, appeared
at the door of her uncle's house with
gashes i'll her throat, cut in the
shape of a cross, S~cvcring the wind
pipe and just missing the %jugular
vein. Medical aid was hastily summoned
and the girls wounds We're dressed. She
tells Il strange story. Il was going up Lin
den avenue, she said. when I noticed two
young men walking behind. They followed
me some distance. finally caught up with
me, and attempted to force a conversation.
Ono Of them then said: You have some
money. Give it to US They then caught
hold Of me, and While one of them
held his hand over my mouth the other
pulled a ring Off my finger. ! felt some
thing sharp pass across my throat, and
begged them not TO kill Inc. At that they
both left ana walked rapidly away. l knew
l had been hurt and hurried here. l could
not cry out, MY throat hurt lie So" The
girl tells her story in a straightforward
manner. The police have been unable
to discover the young mel or any trace Of
them,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-16
An Internal Machine.

New York, Dec. 27.-A paper box con-
tanning an internal machine was brought by
Il boy to the office of the American Tract
Society yesterday afternoon, and one of the
clerks sent for Anthony Comsteck, whose
office is in the building. Mr.. Comstock
broke open the box from the bottom and
found that it contained half a pound
of powder, a bottle OF nitric acid and some
broken glass. The working spring, which
the removal of the top would have freed,
was Il rubber band attached to a piece of
~sand-papcr. The boy messenger said a
man had given him the box and directed
him to the Tract Company. 1t was evident
~ intended for the murder of Anthony
COlEStock. No arrests have been made.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-16
a DOOM.

Masked Men Surround a jail at Raleigns
n. G., and Take Charge of Two Negro
Criminals-They Are Taken to n River
Loaded with Chains, and Thrown Into
tho Dark Waters.
RALEIGH, n. c., Dec. 27.-On Saturday
last Charles Smith and Henry Davis, botn
colored, were arrested in this city
under charges of burglary and assault
and battery. Smith confessed that he and
Davis and twenty other men were guilty.
On Monday Smith and Davis were
taken to Clayton under escort OF
fifteen men. They We're examined
Tuesday on the charge of burglary, and
were committed to jail in Smithfield with
out bail. 1t was late in the night when the
examination was concluded, and the pris-
oncrs were lodged in the lookup, guarded
by two men. About three o'clock a. III.
a few of the citizens were aroused
bv the tread of horses in the
streets, and expected a parade of boys
in fantastic dress, it being near Christmas.
No attention was paid to the crowd OF one
hundred horscmen, all disguised as ku-
kluX, as they rode through the streets to
the place where the prisoners We're confined.
Arriving there the door was quickly
forced open and cooked pistols We're
presented at the heads of the guards,
who fled. The prisoners begged piteorsly
for their lives. Davis declared his inno-
falsely against him and that he was not
guilty. Not a word was said by the
masked men. Smith and Davis were quick.
ly placed on horseback, each with a man
behind him.
The procession then formed with the ne
groes in the center, and rode away in the di'
rection of the Neuse River, which runs
within a few miles of the town. The ne
groes knew they were nearing their doom,
and continued to plead for their lives.
About w miles from the town the
cavalcade reached the bridge across
the river. The water here is twenty
feet deep. and the current is sluggish.
Here halt was made, and all dismounted.
The handouts and the chains We're still on
Smith and Davis. Quickly their legs were
tied together and the chains were wrapped
around their bodies and securely tied. AT
a sign from their commander four of the
maskers seized Smith and four seized
Davis and hurried to the bridge. Smith
end Davis now realized the mode of
death. and made the woods ring with
horrid yells. The masked men said moth
ing, out held their victims suspended for a
moment forty feet above the water, and
then withdrew their support. There were
two deathly cries, a sudden splash, and all
was over. The banks of the river had been
manned to prevent failure. The bodies did
not rise, and soon the avenger rode away
and dispersed, and We're all at home betore
daylight.
The prison guards told next morning
what had happened. and some msuspect-
ing persons thought Smith and Davis had
been released, but before night it was gem
orally reported that they had been lynched.
There are grave doubts as to the guilt Of
I)ayiS
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-16
Torture by Chinese Robbers.

NEWARK, y. j., Dee. 21.-Threc China
men in American dress entered Hung
Chung's laundry. 555 Market street. last
night, and demanded the key to his
money box. On his refusing to give
it up they strung him up to a rafter
and with IL Ratchet and knife hacked him
all over the body until, wild With pain. lie
revealed the hh!ing-place Of the key. They
took all the money lie had and left without
releasing him.. His means attracted atten-
ton, and the neighbors finally cut him
down and attended to his wounds. He can
hardly recover. He says he can not identity
his ASSISTANTS.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-16
LATER NEWS,

OFFICIAL returns on the 2Sth from the
Province of Grenada, Spain, state that
b2G persons We're killed by the recent EARTH
quake there, and in Malaga 100. At AL
hama 800 lives We're lost and $50 houses
We're destroyed. Over half the inhabitants
of Albunchas We're killed, and many houses
were wrecked at Jimena, Cajar, Torrox and
Alfarnetejo. The people We're panic strick-
en-, and business was paralyzad. 1t was
estimated that the total loss OF lives would
reach over 900.
ABOUT a hundred saloon-keepers were
arrested in New York on the 18th for vio-
lating the Excise law.
DURING the twenty-four hours ended on
the 18th a heavy rain prevailed throughout
the West and Southwest, and at various
points great damage had been done by
turbulent streams. Dens, fogs prevailed
III New York aud Baltimore, entirely sus-
pending navigation.
: TWENTY-oNE victims of the Brooklyn
Orphan Asylum fire were inferred on the
18th, the charred remains being placed il
three collins.
GENERAL SHERMAN and others inaugura.
ted a plan in New York on the 9th to re-
lieve General Grant of the debt of $15O,OO(
due to William H. Vanderbilt. Friends in
New York, Philadelphia and Washington
propose to pay 800, 00o, and Vanderbilt will
donate the other $4,000.
The Street-car drivers at New Orleans
struck on the 9th, and all cars were
stopped. save on one or two routes. The
men claimed that an agreement made in
November had not been carried out, and
besides demanded increased wages.
The Union National Bank of Chicago has
been authorized to begin business, the cap
ltal being 81 900, 900.
IONQUlN advices of the 9th reported
daily encounters between the Chinese and
French at the out-posts. The Chinese con-
tlnued pouring troops into Tonquin and
Formosa.
MORE robberies of the mails were re-
ported on the 9th along the Rocky Mount
ain Division of the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way.
The great seal of Dakota has been trans,
TERED from Nankton to Bismarck. where
the Territorial Legislature is to meet jan
nary Is.
AMONG the fires on the 9th were the fol.
lowing: North, Orrison e. Co.'s furniture
house at Kansas City; loss, $l00.0O0. Thu
W arm Springs IN. CO Hotel: loss. Sl:O. 900
Eleven stores at Laurenburgi>, \. G.. A
cotton factory at indianapolis; loss. S175,.
600. Elbel, Gillian g. Co.'s hardware works
at Canton, o.: loss, 100000. The onera-
house at Racine. Wis: loss. $4,000: Mr.
and Mrs. Russell Glover, of New York. and
Mrs. Patrick, Il servant, persisted in the
flames. Egbert's knitting mill at Coboes,
n. y; loss, 10000.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-16
PREs1pEsr ARTHUR on the ed Nominated

PRESIDENT ARTHUR on the ed nominated
Commander Winfield Scott Schley, of the
Greedy expedition, for the post of Chief of
the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting,
with the rank of Commodore.
BERNARD CobERIDGE, the son of Lord
| Coleridge, Chief Justice of England, ar
rived in New York on the 23d by the
| steamship City of Chicago. He said be
had come to travel and see the country.
Mr.. WE. THOMPSON, of Michigan, nom
mated to be Second Assistant Postmaster
General, was confirmed on the 23d by the
United States Senate.
DIR. JOHN A. SwoPE (Democrat) was on
the sd elected to Congress from the Nine
teenth Pennsylvania District.
ApvIcEs of the oath from Washington
say that a comparison of the list of names
in the next House with the revised list of
the present membership shows that about
1870 out of the 325 members of the present
| House are returned. Three States-Cali-
fornia, Colorado and Oregon-change the
entire personnel of their delegations, while
| four States-Arkansas, Delaware, Maine
and West Virginia-make no changes in
their membership.
lHE OlllClhA VOVe ia DuhooU az VIE IcGeIiU
election for Delegate to Congress stands:
Clifford (Rep.), 71,57G; Wilson (Dem.) 49,
1874.
JUDGE SULLIVAN, of San Francisco, has
decided that unde the laws of California
Sarah A. Hill is the wife of ex-senator
Sharon, and is entitled to a divorce for de-
sertion and a division of common proper
ty. The estate involved is estimated at
$4,000, 900.
MR.. McGREGoR, Of West Virginia, the
Prohibitionist who laid claim to the Gov
ernorship of that State on a technicality,
has abandoned the contest. e
JUDGE ]. II. BROWN, formerly of the
Supreme Court of West Virginia, received
fatal injuries the other day by a fall in @
store at Charleston.
CORNELIUS AULTMAN, of Canton, O., well
known throughout the country as a manu-
facturer of agricultural implements, died
on Christmas evening, after entertaining q
large party of friends.
BALrzER GEHR died in Crawford Coun-
ty, Pa, on the Doth, aged N3 years and six
months, and Thomas Van Valin died al
Syracuse, N. Y, aged 104 years and eleven
months.
DIR. WILLIAM DARLING, the distinguished
New York physician, died the other morn
ing. In the delirium which preceded his
dissolut on he delivered a complete and CO.
herent lecture on anatomy.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-16
A Horrible Fate.

PLYMOUTH, Wis, Dec. 29.-Jacob Avery,
owner of a small Touring mill near the vii
lage of Greenbush, eight miles west of here,
while oiling the machinery of nix
mill Saturday had his clothing caught
on Il 1ist-revolving horizontal Shaft. lie
was rapidly whirled round and pounded
against the floor with such violence that
the body, when found, for he was alone at
the time. was Il sllapeless mass. The limbs
were broken and splintered, bones in many
instances protruding from the mutilated
bodI. The head was pounded into pulp.
All his clothing except one boot was torn
1ro'l his body. The deceased was fifty
years OF age and quite wealthy.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-16
T FLAMES,
Three Lives Lost by the Burning OF q
Hotel and Opera-IIouse in Racine,

Three Lives Lost by the Burning OF .
Hotel and Opera-IIouse in Racine,
Wis.
RACINE, Wis, Dec. 29.-About one
o'clock yesterday morning the loud report
of an explosion startled the guests in the
Blake Hotel here. Almost Immediately
the cry of fire was heard. There were
about sixty guests in the hotel, among
them being the members of the Thomp-
son "Beg.ar Student" Opera Company,
which had been appearing i'll the Blake
Opera-House. adjoining the hotel. When
the cry of fire was raised the guests, most
of whom were asleep, hurried out OF the
burning building, amid great confusion and
excitement. Nearly all were in their night
clothes. BY the time the fire department
arrived the beautiful hotel and opera-house
were burning fiercely, and the tiremen. Civ
ing up the attempt to save them. confined
themselves to an cndcavOr to save the adj
joining property.
1t was at tirstthought that all the inmates
of the hotel had escaped. but investigation
disclosed the fact that MI. and Mrs. Russell
Glover, of the opera company, and Mrs.
Patrick, a chambcrmaid, were missing.
They have not since been seen, and there
is no doubt they persisted in the flames.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glover belonged to New
York City. The members of the opera
company lost their personal effects, in
Guiding nearly all their clothes, of
the total value Of about Sc. 900. Mis-.
X. r. Doud, wife of eS-Mayor Doud,
who occupied apartments i'll the hotel,
lost S. 900 worth Of jewels, pictures, books,
etc. among the latter being a magnificent
collection of Dante's works. Mrs. Doud es-
capped in her night-clothes. Among the
other losers by the fire are Villas. druggist;
Wood Bros, hardware; Lena Johnson,
cafe; Montgomery Il Long, BARRIERS:
Rausch, variety store, and Duffy, saloon.
The total loss is about $50, 600; insurance
about $50. 900.
The Opera House, which was an exceed
ingly handsome structure six stories high
and measuEing ninety by one hundred feet,
wasbuilt in 1881 by a stock company at a
costof S1O2, 600. 1t was fitted throughout
in fife style, and was said to be one of the
hant6omest places of amusement in the
West
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-16
Roughs at a Wedding Reception,

LEXINGTON, Ky, Dec. 81 Thursda
night at a wedding reception given by a
man named White to his son, nine miles
from here, the festivities We're interrupted
by a gang OF five rouglls, who came in and
committed various %indignities. Dan Hayes.
a farm hand employed by White, began
shooting at the roughs, and killed one of
them, named Charles Blackwell. and seri-
ously wounded another, named Bliss. Tie
others escaped and are at large.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-16
One Of tho firrt 1u+;oc

One of the first duties to be per-
formed by the New York Legislature is
to provide for taking the State census.
winch the Constitution requires shall be
oone once in ten years. Under this
provision the census was taken in 1864
ana again in 1915. thus alternating at
intervals of five Years with the National
census. The population of the State in
loIo was 1882, 759, and in 1880 was
o,oS2's'l, an increase for the ten wears
Of about 700, 600.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-16
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

MRS EMMA BRlTToN, of New York, the
wealthy widow Of the late Abram Brittou.
a daughter of.aD aristocratic family. and a
relative by marriage Of the Vauderbilts.
recently married to Thomas McIaugh-
lin, her tN-cnty-one-year-old coachman.
Mrs. Britton is worth 81, 0o0, 900 aud is forty
years old.