Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-01
EPIT0ME OF week.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC,

T2i,oUV,uuU. Inc average IRE waste lor
March in the past ten years has been less
than ST. 900, 900.
REERsoN g. Brown, livery-stable keep
ers, failed On the 7th in New York, with
liabilities estimated at 100000.
Two YOUNG men named Gilbert Parker
and Ferdinand Y. Rogers were drowned
at Davenport, Ia, on the eth.
HEAVY and destructive rains foil the
other night in Mississippi, doing great
damage to railroad property.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, Judge Ewing re-
Gently decided that a store order, given by
any company to an employee, was illegal.
The practice had been carried on exten
sively by the coal operators.
AUGUSTUS HoExTER, manufacturer of
linen collars and cuffs at New York,
failed on the It'll for $3.50, 900.
A PRISONER in the Kent County (Del.)
Jail assaulted the turnkey with an iron bar
on the 9TH and six prisoners made their cs-
cape.
THE wheat plant has greatly improved
in the Wabash Valley within the past few
days, and the prospects on the 7th indi-
Gated a bountiful harvest.
MATHEW OL1NGER, a Farmland, while
blowing recently near Lafayette, Ind, fell
dead in a fit of apoplexy.
EARLY on the morning of the 18th an ex-
press train on the Louisville, New Albany
& Chicago Road was ditched ten miles
north Of Indianapolis. The engineer was
the only person hurt, but the loss i'll rolling
stock was heavy.
l.. X. ELDR1DGE, a patient inthe Tennes-
see Insane Asylum, killed two men on the
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mop, and was assaulting a third person
when seized.
NELSON EDWARDS, a New York dentist,
who was found on the sth, spent two days
in killing himself with a razor. His throat
and body were horribly gashed.
THE Exchange National Bank of Nor
folk. Va, owes its depositors over $3,000,-
600. The examiner on the Sth made a
gloomy report of it's condition.
THE Columbus (O.) Coal Company has
posted notices at all it's mines in the Hook
ing Valley that it will issue no more orders
for merchandise, but will pay it's employees
in cash every Tuesday.
A A dog recently killed and partly
'devoured the infant child of Mrs. Carroll,
living in Washington County, Md. The
father of the child died a few days before
from h~ydrophobia, caused from a bite of
the same animal.
In the past two years the population of
Kansas has increased 1864, aud 1000, 900
additional acres have been placed under
cultivation.
FIFTEEN HUNDRED Oklahoma colonists
were still in camp at Arkansas City on
the Sth.
ro,EIy Nr~Cr,,-~~, r. CI.z-
Jostled by three men on a train at Allie
gheny City the other night, and robbed of
5000 in cash and notes.
LOUIS DERRY and his wife quarreled the
other evening at Poplar Bluff, Mo. The
woman drew a pistol, but before she could
fire her husband shot her dead and then
blew out his own brains.
S1EBERT & Co.'s large furniture manu-
factory at Pittsburgh, Pa, was totally de-
stroyed by fire on the 9th, 500, 900 worth
of property being destroyed.
: LOUIS DERRY, formerly City Marshal at
Poplar Bluff Mo-, killed his wife on the
9th, and then blew his own brains out.
Jealousy was the cause.
S. K. Russ, once a prominent New Or
leans merchant, poisoned himself on the
9th; Mamie Fisher drowned herself at Ire
mont, O., and George w. Ohr hanged him
self at indianapolis, Ind.
AT Wellsboro, Pa, on the 9th sentences
of about ten years each were imposed upon
five burglars, who recently robbed a bank
at Osceola.
The Cathedral of the Incarnation, erect
ed by Mrs. A. I. Stewart at Garden City,
Long Island, in memory of her husband,
was dedicated on the 9th.
WOLVES and eagles were on the 9th re-
ported to be killing and carrying off the
stock that remained in the destitute Sec
tions of Central West Virginia.
ENRAGED because the Legislature failed
to reimburse him for time and money ex-
pended, D. S: Grimes on the 9th totally
destroyed the Colorado exhibit at the New
Orleans show. This was accounted to. be
one of the most attractive displays of the
exhibition.
1T is reported that Miss Ehie Irons, of
Salem Church. near Jarvis, O., who had
been bedridden for three years, began
praying recently, and kept up her sup
plications for relief for fourteen hours,
when she suddenly arose from her bed,
cured, and attended a revival meeting the
same night.
IHE FARMERS bank at NOrtOIk, Va,
failed on the 9th, with liabilities. Of $780,
900.
The Washington monument was struck
three times by lightning on the 9th, but
received 40 damage.
MARY and James Jones persisted in a fire
which destroyed several frame buildings
the other day in Berkeley, Va.
DANIEL KELLY and Patrick Sullivan
were killed by a recent premature explo-
sion in the Eureka Mine at Silver City,
Utah.
The markets all over the country were
on the 9th favorably affected by the war
news from Asia, and wheat, corn, oats,
-four and meats went upward with a rush.
KATE S%MuLsEY, aged twenty five years,
the Fort Plain IN. W faster, died on the
9th. Over u year ago Miss Smulsey con-
tracted a mysterious disease, and from a
few months after that time to the day of
her death she partook of scarcely any
food. Physicians said that from March II
to November % she did not eat ANYTHING,
and they expressed themselves as having
never seen any case like hers.
AMONG the suicides on the 10th were the
following: c.. Van V%alkenburg, a wealthy