Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-23
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Interesting News Compilation.
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MAR Blakesburg, IA, a band of masked
Easn seized Pleasant Anderson the othet
night, hurried him to- school-house, where
a mock trial was INDUCED in, the sentence
being death. They then hanged HIM TO a
tree. A year ago Anderson was acquitted
of the murder of Chris McA!llster, hue u
feeling prevailed in the community that he
was guilty, and the lynching was the re-
suit.
IT was reported on the 3oth ult. that the
liquor traffic had been resumed at Des
Mloines, Ia, by a leading hotel and the Or
binary number of saloons. while a reWefy
was in full blast.
ETHEL, HUTCHINSON & Co., dealers in
tovs and notions at st. Louis, have failed
for 100000.
Ho~pKlNsvILLE, KY, was recently lald
waste by fire for the second time within
two years. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
CHARLES S. CAMPBELL, Probate Judge,
fed from Wutertown, D. T., the other day,
taking with him $1,000 belonging to the
court and private citizens.
THE Christmas Club, a benevolent and
charitable association of Washington, Miss
Nellie Arthur. President, gave a Christi
mas dinner on the 3Jth ult. to six hundred
poor children in the National Rifles Hall.
After the repast each child was presented
with a gift. President Arthur and several
members of his Cabinet were present.
DURING the year 1884 there were l,465
murders committed in the United States,
against 1,G91 in 1888: hangings, 1913, against
l07 in 1883: suicides, S42, against 12' in
1888: casualties, 1854, against 1896 in
1888. The entire fire losses in the United
States and Canada were placed at $780,
100000.
Ikoy manufacturers in the Mahoning
(O.) Valley have agreed upon a reduction
of ten per cent. in the wages of employees.
\ CIRCULAR Of the Pennsylvania Coal
Company announces an average reduction
of twenty-five per cent. per ton in the
price Of coal.
SIN troops of cavalry and a company a
infantry under command of Colonel Hatch
of the Ninth Cavalry We're on the Seth ult.
ready to start from Leavenwortll, Kan, OIL
an expedition into Indian Territory to re-
move trespassers from the Oklahoma
Reservation.
SEVEN locomotive engineers employed
by the Pennsylvania Company We're dis.
charged a few days ago for a conspiracy
with the time clerk at Erie, by which they
obtained $1,000 of unearned pay.
Il T. NJ. JEWETT'S extensive cooperage es-
Establishment at Buffalo Plains, N. V, with
machinery, stock, supplies, and a board
ing-house, were consumed by fire the other
evening, causing a loss of 100000.
FNp0RTS from the mort pf New Norl, ay.
elusive of specie, for the seven days ended
on the 30tb ult. were 1882, 900, against
S6, 429,000 for the previous seven days.
ANOTHER outbreak by striking miners o.
the Hooking Valley was reported on the
Both ult. Dynamite had been receivechan
attacks on railroad bridges were began. A
Sheriff with a large posse was on the trai
of the mob.
WITHOUT cause, John L. Sullivan. the
pugilist, beat and kicked into insensibility
in a Boston restaurant the other day a watt
er girl named Rose Booth. Sullivan was
intoxicated at the time.
REPORTS made to the Bureau of Agricult-
ure at Washington place the total cotton
production of the United States for the
year at 5,aSo,OW bales.
A'' ShiAit i'tilh VI -NNoSlIJ
Mo. closed its doors on the 30th ult. Liza
.bilities. $50 1000: assets, 81, 900.
To REvEN Il recurrence of h erobberies
which have been recently committed
armed men now patrol Fulton, w. Va.
and even women carry revolvers. Sus.
picious characters have been driven out
and if they return will be shot. The first
thief caught will be hanged Immediately
FRI swept away fourteen buildings at
Pierre, d.. T., a few days ago..
ST. GEORGE BEST, of Cincinnati, after
being sentenced recently to three years
in the penitentiary for disseminating OBJ
Gene literature, swallowed poison in the
courtroom and was only saved by the he
role efforts Of physicians.
NEAR Chehalis, Wy. T., the other night
William Pearson, a wealthy farmer and a
strong spiritualist, imagined that he re-
celved an order from a higher power tC
kill his infant child, and did so with a ham
mer. When he had finished he showed
what he had lone to his wife, who was
also q spiritualist. He then said that il
she would cut her throat he would do the
same. Both were found the next morning
half frozen, with their threats cut. but not
Yet dead. Pearson had revived sufficiently
to state what is above related. He and his
wife would probably die.
II annual report of Bru3strect's, issued
On the 3lst ult., gives the total number of
business failures in the United States dur
ing the year 1884 at 1866. against 9.lSl in
1888. The total liabilities were 500. G43 .427
against Sl12,SI4,112 in 1883. Canada had
52l failures, with liabilities of Sl9,l9l BOG
DURING the year 1854 there were 4.0oC
miles Of railroad track laid in the United
States, making the total railway mileage
10000.
EARLY on the'morning of the 31st ult. a
wedge driven in a frog on the B. & o
track near Grafton, O., wrecked a passeu.
ger train. The engine was hurled to the
bottom of a creek, the driver being killed,
and the fireman was scalded to death bv
escaping steam. Four persons were in.
Jured seriously and a number badly
shaken up. The financial loss was $50. 900
DURING 1854 the Philadelphia Mint
coined 52,270,WO pieces, the value of which
was $16,943, 900.
NEWS was received on the 1st of the
wreck of the German bark Lille near Pc
trolia, Cal. The first officer, the cook and
three seamen were drowned.
WHILE handling a pistol recently SUD-
posed to be unloaded Mrs. Charles Sellers,
OF Dayton, o., fatally shot ker husband.