Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-04-17
DOMESTIC.

cifc were a few days ago declared open
for entry at Tucson, A. T., and hundreds
of people were rushing to the land office to
make entries.
IT was said on the oath that the opening
of navigation on the lakes would be much
later than usual this spring. There was
more ice than had been known for over
forty years.
AN ~incendiary fire the other morning
destroyed a stable and two other buildings
at Urbana, O., thirty-seven horses, some
of them Kentucky tho%roughbreds, perish
ing in the flames.
EIGHT business houses at Covington,
KY, and nine at Lewisburg, Tenn, were
:. destroyed by fire a few days ago.
MOSES PORTER, a well-known resident
of Lafayette, Ind, was swindled out of
$1,000 u few days ago by a confidence
man.
The residence of George Green (colored),
at Columbia, S. c., was destroyed by fire
q few nights ago, and his wife and three
children persisted in the flames. Mr.. Green
and one child escaped.
1T was discovered on the oath that John
Benson, a prominent attorney at Lebanon,
Pa, had suddenly disappeared, taking
with him $3.50 0 belonging to many prom
inent citizens. The alleged defaulter
leaves a wife and four children.
4. Til Indians on the Winnebago Reserva-
ton, in Dakota, were in a state of rebellion
on the oath, buildings were being burned
all along Chappelle Greek and the lives of
the settlers were threatened.
On the ground that the Gospel is free,
the Superior Court of Georgia threw out a
suit brought by Rev. j. A. Smith against
the Marietta Railway recently for preach
ing to the convict gang in its employ.
SHARPERs the other day prevailed upon
Moses Porter, a rich farmer living at La
fayette, Ind, to bet 81, 1000 that he could pick
out the right card. He lost the money.
A TROOP of cavalry was on the 25th or
dered to destroy the permanent improve
ments on the ranches of two cattle firms
in Oklahoma, which was taken to mean
that all unauthorized %stockmen would be
driven out.
WHILE playing with a revolver a few
days g supposed to be unloaded at New
Corner, Ind, Richard Brown, eleven years
old, fatally shot his brother aged seven.
Mrs. JOHN GRAY lost her speech last
year by a fall from a car platform in Chi
cago A few days ago she fully recovered
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stairs at Hannibal, Mo.
ADvIcEs of the 25th from the Whine.
tbago Indian Reservation in Dakota re-
port that the Indians had decided to make
no further resistance to the settlement of
'tke lands.
THE New York Assembly has passed
Niagara Falls.
Nv, Sta,.G ~ w. -
issued a notice that one hundred and fifty
saloons in that city must be closed by
May 1.
PETER DUTLY, Of Locust Gap, Pa, a
Woodworking man of miserly habits, was
on the 25th robbed Of $l5, 900, the savings
of his lifetime, while absent from his hut.
He was nearly crazed with grief.
PROF. OTTo SCHUYLER, musician and
composer died tho other night of blood
poisoning at Louisville, caused by cutting
q corn.
GRANN1s & Co., bankers, of Utica, N. Y,
have failed for 100000.
Mrs. FREDERICK BALL was burned to
death near Chambersburg, o., on the 18th
by her clothes taking fire from a stove.
AT Sewichley, Pa, the other day two
well-diggers, Andrew Pearce and S.
Saunders, were suffocated by gas.
EIGHT members of the "Sara Sata As
sassination Society," were on the 18th in
dicted for murder at Pine Level, Fla.
AN old feud was settled on the 25th at
Stewartsville, Ind, by a farmer named
Fleichman breaking the skull Of John
Scharndial with a pillow point, the latter
then cutting his adversary to pieces with a
paring-knife.
A FIRE in Buffalo, N. Y, on the evening
of the 25th destroyed Music Hall, the finest
building in the city, valued at 5000, 900, and
st. Louis German Church, a spacious
structure, worth an equal amount. John
Grimm was caught in the steeple of the
church, and lost his life by falling to the
pavement.
AL CHAPMAN, a well-known sporting
man, committed suicide on the 25th at Hot
Springs, Ark, and Charles Lorne, a prom
inent and wealthy citizen of Lincoln
County, No., shot himself.
A FIRE a few days ago destroyed the
stables of James K. Ware, at Cincinnati,
in which six valuable horses persisted.