Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-04
OF the week.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

ing intended to murder his father. sell the
plantation and organize a bard Of stage
robbers.
THE National Butter, Cheese and Egg Az
ISOLATION commenced it's annua session in
Chicago on the 10th.
DURING the last fiscal year 1921 post
Offices We're established, $50 discontinued,
and II, 203 postmasters appointed.
THE post-oflice at Plymouth Box, Utah,
has been discontinued for the reason that
the inhabitants OF Plymouth have all moved
away except the postmaster, his four wives
and fifteen daughters.
GEORGE ScnAEFER, a banker and dealer
in cotton at Hampton, GA, failed On the
l0th for Sl30,000.
THE exposition at New Orleans was form
ally opened on the 10th. Complete eX-
hibits from twenty-five States and Terri
tories had arrived, and fine displays from q
dozon countries to the southwark We're in
position.
THE Methodist Episcopal Missionary Con-
ference at its recent session in New York
appropriated SAG, 700 for missionary work
during IRE coming year, an increase of 3d.
200, over last year.
AT a meeting held on the 10th in Seattle,
W. T., by the mercantile and professional
classes, Il committee of three hundred was
formed to preserve peace after the with
drawol of the troops.
THE t.tsrttL annual American Fat Stock
and Dairy Show opened in Chicago on the
10th.
TIE November crop report of the Depart
ment of Agriculture says that the corn
yield for 1850 is above the average of the
last ten years.
GEORGE j. FRYER, express agent and
postmaster at Glencoe. Can. absconded on
the 10Th, taking $1,000 left with him by
banks to be expressed. He also took q
woman with him, leaving his wife in desti-
Lutoa,ircumstances.
Az incendiary fire on the 10th destroyed
the courthouse and County Treasurer's
office of Leon County, Tex, many valuable
records, which could not be duplicated, be-
ing destroyed.
DISCIPLES of the mind-cure in Boston de-
cided on the 10th to erect for Mrs. Eddy a
church on the back bay costing from $60,-
600 to 100000.
WILLIAM NJ. CARPENTER, a capitalist of
Detroit, was thrown from his carriage on
the 10th by G runaway horse, dying shortly
afterwaTd.
INNOCENT postage resulted in q deficiency
of Sc, 156,3i5 for the year ended June 80.
Illinois is the only Western State showinga
profit in postal operations, her surplus be-
ing 1901, !!5S. Indiana fell behind s497, 900,
Iowa S4A5.2 $50 and Wisconsin 1929, 1877.
NINE students of the Ohio Wesleyan Uni
versity. at Delaware, were suspended on
the 18th and ordered to leave town for wit
Messing a performance of "Richard I'LL in
violation Of the college rules.
THIRTEEN of the anti-Chinese agitators
at Seattle, W. T., were indicted on the 18th
and four Others were arrested.
N. w. O'BElEN, a Chicago policeman, was
shot dead on the evening of the 18th by a
drunken shoemakernamed Max Rittenberg,
who afterward blew out his own brains.
CHARLES Fl. BARRIER, aged twenty-eight
years, of Newburyport, Mass, was notified
on the 18th that he had fallen heir to $780,
900 by the death OF az aunt in England.
GEORGE BARBEE and his son James cut
down a tree near Cleveland, O., Oh the 18th
to hunt out some wild animal. The tree
fell upon them and fatally injured both.
WHILE hunting a few days ago in the
Tennessee River, near Co~ulterville, a boat
containing Captain NJ. A. Mcguire, whole
sale trunk dealer at Cincinnati, and a col
ored boy, was capSiZed, and in attempting
to save the boy Captain Mcguire was also
drowned.
THE corn crop of Nebraska is estimated at
$50, 000.0 600 bushels.
j. K. PlERSAL, the assignee of a banking
house at New Brighton. Pa. was on the 18th
said to be a d%efaulter for $4,000 which lie
lost in wheat speculutions.
G.. &. SHAW & Co.'s lumber4 ards and a
livery stable at C~herryvale, Kan, were de-
stroyed by fire the other evening, and
~thirty-tive horses persisted in the flames.
IN the hurdle event for gentleman riders
at the Country Clubs races at Brookline,
Mass, on the 11th Francis Goldman was
thrown and killed instantly by his horse
falling upon him. The other six riders also
fell, sustaining slight bruises.
FRED TOWNSEND, aged thirteen, killed
Willie McCallister, aged five, at Troy, N.
Y, a few days ago by burying him up to
the neck in a bank of soft white clay. where
the child fingered twenty hours before
death relieved him..
TIE entire police force of Springfield, O.,
struck on the 18th because of an unpopular
appointment of chief by the Mayor.
The nnual report of the Commissioner
of Customs shows that during the fiscal
year ended June so, 1885, there was paid
into the Treasury from various sources the
sum OF SlS3, POI sos. The amount paid out
was S27,l25.973.
MICHAEL KEHoE and wife, residing in
Pittston, Pa, were found lying dead in their
house a few mornings ago, %sutfocared by
coal gas from a stove.
DURING the past fiscal year the postal
note business increased fourteen and one
half per cent, and 7.355 money-order offices
issued orders amounting to $40, 900, 900.
THREE boys started from Louisville re-
Gently with a stolen team, intending. to go
West and rob stage-coaches. During their
travels they fired a house and several
barns, and kept the pursuing farmers at
bay with cooked revolvcrs. They were fol-
lowed. however, and arrested on the 18th.
Il. L. WOODBRIDGE. the Omaha street-car
driver who recently killed a robber named
Ruckle. has been driven from that city by
threats against his life.
Mrs. SUSAN Prescott, of Groton, Mass,
elghty-nine years of age, was murdered in
her bed Oh the 18th by unknown persons.
A MISPLACED switch caused the wrecking
of a Baltimore & Ohio passenger train on
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