davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-13
AN AWFUL CONFESSION.
James Nadine Tells How He Set Fire to the
Blakely Alms-IIOuse.

hSsc NduIne Tells f1OW he set Flr0 Co tho
Blakely Alms-IIouse.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 21.-At the Coro-
,ncr's inquest yesterday afternoon in regard
to the death of twenty victims of the recent
fire at the Blakely Alms-house a sensation
was developed by the confession of James
Nadine, a young negro, that he set
fire to the building, and was instigated
to the act by Peter ]. Schroeder, one of the
chief attendants. Nadine is about twenty
three years old, and he was committed to
the institution as an imbecile, but it is stated
by the physicians of the institution that he
is now morally responsible, and that he was
frequently permitted 10 so home unattended.
AS a result of Madness confession Schroeder
was arrested.
Nadine said SchroedGS had given him a
match. on the night of tllHe calamity and told
him to set the place ON fire. Nadine went
to the ~drylng-room and, lighting the l.atch,
applled it to some rubbish on the floor.
Nadine says that when Schroeder gave him
The match he said he was tired of the place
and was going to leave; also that he dis
liked Dr. Richardson because he had re-
FUSED to give him a railroad pass. Nadine
lntlmates that Mullin also knew of his lav-
ing set fire to the building, but thinks he
did not know OF it until the next day.
Nadine told OF many c~ruelties inflicted on
the patients by Schroeder when the latter
was III a violent temper. Schroeder, after
arrest. admitted he had intended leaving the
institution, but denied the truth of Madness
story. He never said he was down on
DIR. Richardson.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-13

nounced recovered from the throat ana
tongue liberation which at one time it VA
feared would lead to q fatal result.
The wife of James Russell Lowell.
American Minister to England, died on Ne
10Th in London.
The Dakota Council has passed a bill fcs
a Constitutional Convention for the
southern portion of the Territory, to be
held next September at Sioux Falls.
O'DoNovAN Rosa on the 18th left st.
Vincent's Hospital and is now at his house
in Brooklyn. He has entirely recovered
from the effects of his wound.
THREE ballots were taken by the Illinois
Legislature on the 10Th for United States
Senator, all resulting alike, Logan receive
ing 100 votes, Morrison "a, the remainder
scattering.
THREE ballots for United States Senator
were taken on the Goth in the Illinois
Legislature, every member being present.
Logan twice received 100 votes, and then
1O1. Morrison had 95, 81 and 50.
The bill requiring thels securing Of
licenses to marry has been killed in the
Michigan House.
WILLIAM c. KINGSLEY, famous as the
builder of the Brooklyn bridge, died at his
home in Brooklyn on the Goth, aged fifty
two years.
The Oregon Legislature adjourned tine
die on the Goth. The Senatorial deadlock
continued until the end of the session, AID
no United States Senator was chosen.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-13

pants in the proceedings Of the day sought
their carriages, aqd the procession. undN
the Marshslship of Lieutenant General
Sheridan. proceeded to the Capitol, where
the review by the President was to take
place.
1t was about half-past twelve o'clock
when the head of the procession turned the
corner of Fifth street and Pennsylvania
e and entered on the magnificent,
broad and straight course of a mile
to the western boundary of the Capitol
grounds. First in order came Lieuten-
ant : General Sheridan, United States
army. Marshal of the Day, accompanied
by his military and honorary staff. Next
in order come tile military, including the
Philadelphia City Cavalry, organized in
1774; the Ancient and Honorable Artillery
Company, of Massachusetts,, organized IN
1888, and a detachment of the Governor
Foot Guards of Connecticut, organized IN
1771. This company claims the honor of
being the only military organization that
has preserved an active existence ia years.
The German Fusileers, of Charleston, s.
c., mustered about thirty-five men, and
bore a magnificent banner with a Palm
Tree device. This company was organized
in 1875. Another ancient organization was
the Richmond Light infantry Blues, which
claims 1793..as the date of its birth.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-13
LATER NEWS.

THE completion of the Washington
monument was celebrated on the DIST at
he National Capital with great rejoice
ngs. The ceremonies opened with an adj
lress by Senator Sherman at the monu-
nent. Hon. w. w. Corcoran formally
presented the obelisk to the United States,
and President Arthur accepted it with an
appropriate response. Masonic rites fol-
owed. In the House of Representatives,
where both branches of Congress were as
sembled, Mr.. Edmunds' brief speech was
followed by the address of the day, WRIT
ten by Hon. Robert G. Winthrop, and read
by Representative John D. Long.
Ara fire in New York on the 21st six
members of the family of Policeman James
Murray were burned to death. .
AT twenty-s III leading clearinghouse
in the United States the exchanges during
the week ended on the 21st aggregated
$500, 7S1, 030, against $71G,G7s,11 the previ-
GUS week. AS compared with the corre-
spending period of 1854, the FILLING of
amounts to 20.1 per cent.
Ten business buildings in New Britain,
Conn, valued with contents at $1,000 0
were burned the other morning. One
man lost his life.
MAIL-RoBBERS at New Braunfels, Tex,
on the 2lst killed Hal Costing, United
States Marshal and Mr.. Manning, his
deputy. The two robbers were pursued
and shot dead.
SIX persons were killed by an explosion
of natural gas at Wellsburg, w. Va, on
the 21st, and a considerable amount Of
moperty was destroyed.
GENERAL LOGAN received one hundred
votes for United States Senator in the Illi-
nois Legislature on the 21st. The Demo-
Gratis refused to vote, and broke the
quorum.
In the District Court at Chicago, after a
trial lasting fifteen days, the jury on the
21st convicted j. C. Mackin, w. ]. Gal.
lagher and Arthur Gleason of perpetrating
election frauds, and acquitted Henry
Blehl. Motions were entered for a new
trial. MacSin and Gallagher were held in
$4,000 bail each, and Gleason in $4,000.
The Indians about Fort Reno were on
the 22d exhibiting symptoms of hostility
on accoun Of the recent invasion of he
Oklahoma boomers. The troops at Camp
Russell had taken refuge in the fort.
CONSIDERATION of the Post-ofice bill
was esuned in the United States Senate
OH the 21st, and it was decided to retain in
the bill the House paragraph reducing the
postage Oh newspapers sent from publica-
ton offices to subscribers to one cent per
pound. In the House the Committee on
Appropriations decided to insert in the
Sundry Civil Appropriation bill a clause
authorizing the President to suspend for
one year from July next the coinage of
silver dollars.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-13
"A Drive to Death.

MuScY VALLEY, Pa, Feb. 21.-Joseph
Habereckar, his wife and three children,
the oldest being fifteen, went out in a large
two-horse sleigh Thursday evening to visit
some %nelghbors. On the way home, about
ten o'clock, the horses took fright and ran
away. The sleigh was turned over, drag
gtng the occupants nearly five hundred
1eet When the horses fell and
were unable to go any farther. The faith
ers neck was broken and he was picked
up dead. One of the children had both legs
cut OIL and died before medical aid arrived.
Mrs. Haberecker died yesterday afternoon
after suffering intense agony. The other
children were badly hurt and their recovery
IS extremely doubtful. Yesterday morning
the dead and wounded were taken to their
house, followed by hundreds of people.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-13
FOREIGN.

1T was announced on the 18th that Gen.
eral Wolseley had decided to remain at
Korti with the present force of 1900 troops
until General Evelyn Wood reported as to
the situation at Metemneh. The Arabs
were said to be DESERVING from Metemneh
in large numbers, and entering the British
camp at Gubat.
In the neighborhood of Montreal the
heaviest snow-storm for years ragged on
the 18th, and railroad traffic was at a
standstill, immense quantities of snow
having drifted on the tracks. A similar
state of affairs prevailed ut Quebec.
CHARLES NJ. WEED, the absconding book.
keeper of Milmine, Bodman g. Co., of Chi
cago, was held up by detectives in Toronto,
Can, on the 18th and forced to disgorge
so, 900 which he had embezzled.
THE Canadian voyageurs who took Cen
eral Wolseley's boats up the Nile were on
the 18th preparing to sail froma Queens
town for home. Ten of the command
were drowned, two died from fever and
two were killed on the railway in Egypt.
IT is reported that the Governor OF
Sonora, Mex, has given the Mormons the
right to settle in Yaqui County. The
county IL IepicSeAvcu v Uo Ouo VI tuO I1Cus
est sections in the world.
AT Blackburn, Eng, the other day the
Kingdom Cotton Mills were burned. The
loss was estimated at 100000. Two con-
stables were killed by falling walls.
In n storm q few days ago the steamer
Newcastle City lost one hundred head OF
cattle overheard near Halifax, boats be.
ing also destroyed and matches wrecked.
IT was announced on the 10Th that the
plans of the Soudan campaign had been
changed, the main body of the British
army having been ordered to concentrate
at korti. 1t was believed that General
Wolseley would be recalled to Cairo or
London.
PARLIAMENT opened in London on tn.
evening of the 18th. No person not duly
authorized was allowed to pass the gates.
ADvIcEs on the 10th from Irkutsk, il
Eastern Siberia, reported a revolt anon.
the Russian exiles, which was quelled will
great difficulty. Nine soldiers and thirty
exiles were killed. =
ADvICES of the Goth announce the death
of General Sir Herbert Stewart, who. wa
wounded at the battle of Abu-Klea Wells.
The British Government had called out the
militia and suspended transfers of officer:
from the regular army to the reserves.
The English arsenals were preparing more
wal material for Egypt than was sent t
the Crimea.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-13
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

A BILL prohibiting the sale of tobacco to
minors has passed both houses of the Ne
braska Legislature.
A CONCURRENT resolution was adopted
by the New Jersey Senate on the 18th to
submit to the people a prohibition amend
e to the State Constitution.
A BILL f%orbidding eny one to sell or give
tobacco to minors has been adopted by the
Iowa Legislature, and on the 18th awaited
the Governors signature.
GEoRG MCTHEWs, son of the founder of
the soda-water business inNew York City,
died recently from pneumonia, and his
widow died from the same disease twenty
four hours later.
In the United States District Court at
Chicago, in the Eighteenth ward election
fraud cases, the first witness on the 18th
was Jeremiah j. Sullivan, Il printer, who
admitted that all his testimony of a few
days before was false; that it was dictated
to him by Joseph c. Mackin, who paid him
therefor a total of $3.50 in four different
interviews and promised him a situation
in Washington.
H resolution for submitting a prohib-
tive amendment to the people has passed
both houses of the Michigan Legislature.
JOHN n. MAc1vER, Secretary of the De-
troit Board of Trade, was stricken in the
street on the 18th with .he%art-disease, from
which he expired.
H resolution to submit to the people
the question of licensing the liquor traffic
was defeated on the 18th in the Ohio
House.
ADvIcEs of the 18th from Washington
state that members of the diplomatic corps
were resigning daily. Taft of Austria,
Astor of Italy, and Young of China, had
already rendered their designations, and
had been received ut the State
that the designations of most
of the Others had already been forwarded.
A BALLOT for United States Senator was
reached in the Illinois Legislature on the
18th, there being but two absentees. John
..Logan received l01 votes, w. r. Nor
"a, E. NJ. Haines 4, James H. Ward
[, Frank Lawler 1 and John Smith 1.
GENERAL GRANT was on the 18th pxa- I
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-13
success for Wisconsin

MADISON, Feb. a1.-In September, 1888,
t'e State Land COMMISSIONS sold at public
auction many thousands of acres of State
ialias. A pool was formed by the rich
lumbermen to keep the bidding down.
Inc commissioners annulled the sale
OF $4,000 acres in Chippewa, Price,
sawyer, Taylor and Washburne Counties.
\ esterday tile commissioners revoked their
action. The lumbermen were about to get
a lmandamus from the Supreme Court COM
l%llliig the commissioners to issue patents.
Inc alialr created great. scandal, as several
piolil'nent politicians were reported to have
!oiihea the pool to keep prices down and
thus defraud the State.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-13
EPITOME OF THE Week.
Interesting News Compilation
CONGRESSIONAL.
Second Session,

Second Session.
r TUESDAY, Feb. 17.-In the Senate the
bill authorizing the sale of part of the
lands of the Winnebago Indians in Ne
braska was passed. The nti-Foreign
Contract Labor bill was considered. In
the House the Appropriation Committee
reported the Naval bill, calling for $13,515,-
SIS. Mr.. Dorsheimer introduced a bill to
regulate the coinage and promote the
equal circulation of gold and silver. The
Legislative bill was passed.
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 1S.-The Senate
passed the Anti-Foreign Contract Labor
bill by a vote of so to 8. The bill forbids
the importation of aliens into the United
States to perform labor. Exceptions are
made in favor of artists, actors, lecturers,
singers and domestic servants. A bill was
reported to enable the President to negoti-
ate for the opening of Oklahoma, provid-
ing a penalty of fine or imprisonment for
entering Upon the lands without authority
of law. In the House the time was occu.
pied in discussing the River and Harbor
bill.
THURSDAY, Feb. 19.-In the Senate
the Texas Pacific Land Grant Forfeiture
bill vas passed, us was also a resolution
appropriating $1,000 for inauguration ex-
penses The Post-Ofice Appropriation
bill was reported. In the House further
consideration of the River and Harbor bill
occupied the greater part of the session.
FRIDAY, Feb. 2O.-The Senate passed
the Agricultural Appropriation bill and
discussed the Post-ottice Appropriation bill
at considerable length. In the House near
ly the entire day was occupied in further
consideration of the River and Harbor
bill. AT tho evening session fifty pension
bills were passed.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-13
Death of a Wealthy Illinois DOCTOR.

BLOOMINGTON, ILL.,, Feb. 21.-Dr. eyre
h"us Wakefield died here last night Of
p,euro-pheuhonia, aged seventy. He was
M less man one week. His estate is esti-
a'a.eu at from $500, 900 to 81, O0O. 900. De-
fe q was a great philanthropist and bene-
100 .".a VI .ne poor He leaves two sons and
Wv" ""a uaugnters. DR.. Wakefield had attained
f~acturer, "'"i"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-13
The Wheat Crop Badly lam. 90,

hp"ARIsvILLE, ILL.,, Feb. 21.-Farmers
~ sllls section report the winter wheat
WY oadly damaged by the cold weather.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-13
PILE.
Dedication of the Monument to
George Washington.

Addresses by Senator Sherman, Hon. w.
w. Corcoran and Colonel C~asey-Presi-
dent Arthur's Remarks on Behalf
of the Nation-Historical.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-07-07
business Men In Ola Age
lBn, oklyn Eagle. ]

"A hale and hearty business man OF
advanced years is more of rarely than
is generally believed, said a physician
not long ago. There is an impression
that no man is so healthy, hale and sc
comfortable as the business man who
has amassed fortune and reached u
green old age. The popular idea OF a
brisk, hearty, square shouldered old
man, gray side whiskers, clear eyes,
resolute mouth ami so on, is deep
rooted. There may have been time
when oily old merchants and good
natured old shopkeepers were common,
but they are not now.
THE most difficult patients have to
deal with are business men. have a
great many OF them Of advanced years,
and they are the most teSty, dOmineer-
ing and inpatient of subjects. The
hale and hearty part Of it is all non
sense, for the life Of the average bust
ness man who sticks at his desk or in
Il close and Overheated flee, from $ in
the morning till at night, is just the
one in the course of forty years who
will have shattered constitution.
Paralysis and appoplexy are the two
evils that stare business men in the face,
and when they fall victims they are
difficult TO treat on account Of the tenac-
ity with which they cling to their old
habits. -
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-07-07
hhe Celebration.
Continued from First Psse)

NohiihutN AOu lIrA AebNl
The following gentlemen acted as
judges Of the races, namely: Hon. w.
H. Cotant, Col. G. p. Comstock, JOS.
A. Humphreys, Col. G. III. Gould,
John Curley and Col. George Sheetz.
They gave the word to prepare for the
stock growers purse" 600 yards run
and after several attempts at starting
the horses got away and came under
the wire with McGurk's Bay Billy a
length aud half ahead, Ringers Eva
second, Gallagher's COuundrum third,
Morley's Chance fourth, aud FACETS
Black Bess fifth. The latter had a
very unfavorable start. In the COW
boys chase, 300 yards dash, dozen
starts were made before they got down
to business and the horses came under
the wire in the following order: j.
McGurk's Bay Billy, L. ]. Williams
Little Bill, Sidney Pagets Black
Bess, z. II. Gallagher's Conundrum,
Bob Breeding's Dempsey and Dan
McMillan's Gray Joe. The rider of
Bay Billy, Johnny Cosgriff, had
ridden to victory in the two races and
the COW boys took him from the horse
and proudly held him up to the gaze
of the crowd which gave him strong
proof of admiration.
Next the foot race was called and
five runners responded. They went
down the 100 yards and under the
wire In the following order. William
Wilson, Curly f. b. Van Nalken-
burg, Ed Banan, Thomas Deekert and
Charles Goettlich. Curly led Van
Volkenburg about four feet and Van
V. led the others about the same
distance.
1t was late when the Montana dash
of half mile was run. Wild Bill, Of
Fort Keogh, aud Tommy, owned
here, contested il and Wild Bill
proved to be the winning horse, going
under the wire fully length ahead.
On returning from the race track to
the city it was almost time for fire
works and when the display of pyro-
technics under the charge of the COM
mittee, was made many praises were
bestowed upon those who got it up.
1t was brilliant and fitting close TO
the programme of lively day. The
several balloons that were sent up
ward from the park, where the fire
works were exhibited, were watched
by many and, as the star-like radiance
of the last one gradually faded away,
the sightseers babe adieu to the park
and now anxiously await the coming
of another Fourth aud its attendant
celebration.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-07-07
sIie beg .Ars of Paris.


Warehouses do not exist. Paupers
are obliged 10 choose between crime,
starvation, the hospital, or the depot de
mendicito, The few charitable night
refugees existing in Paris are utterly in.
AIDE .uate TO the calls made upon them.
Moreover, in none can beggars hope for
more than three nights sleep and a
crust of bread in the morning The
rench law can hardly be said TO recog-
nj e beggars. The police are instructed
to treat them as criminals. They lock
them up and let them loose again, and
If, after that, the paupers persist in e.
ing pennileSs they eXpiate their oisti-
macy by reimprisonment There are
$1,000 poor Wretches in laris who at
night have not bed to creep into
After Icing locked up three or four
times they get desperate, and when
star ing men get desperate they become
dangerous.
An ingenious clause has. therefore,
been inserted IN the habitual criminals
bill voted recently, which it is hoped
may rid rench society of paupers alto.
gether. All persons found begging four
times are 10 lie assimilated with thieves
and murderers. In the delicate phrase.
oiogy of the bill, they will be rclegated
to ayenne, where, doubtless, the pc.
culiar climate will soon settle them.
rimlnals twice convicted and sentenced
TO hard laEor viii be relegated 10 the
same place instead of Icing, as hereto.
fore, transported to New Caledonia.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-07-07
Tuesday, July 7. 1885.

The appointment of Mr.. Samuel T.
Hauser to the governorship of Mon
tana puts an end to a factional fight in
the Democratic party Of the territory
for the time being at least. That it
will leave ragged wound that will
heal but slowly and imperfectly can
not be doubted. Both.candidates had
unusually good claims upon the party,
which from the very fact of their iden-
tity oflnterests for so many years and
until so recently left little choice be-
tween them; either would have been
acceptable to the people and have
done honor to the Office. 1t remains
TO- Montanians to congratulate them
selves that the administration has
teen true to the pledge of the party at
Chicago, that carpet-bag reign in the
territories should cease.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-07-07
A Convenient scrap-I'ooIS.
Exchange.


Many literary man and politician
keeps his brains in his scrap-book.
Charles Reade was systematic scrap
book keeper George Augustus Sala has
the largest and eompletest lot of scrap
books in the world. Many people, how
ever, have not the patience TO clip,
paste and index every good thing they
lind in the papers, A very convenient
scrap.book is pasteboard box, nine
inches long, six aud one-half broad, and
four deep. When you take the lid of
you see twenty-six compartments, each
lettered. Keep several of these boxes.
Label one biography, another poll
tics, another Literature, " and so on.
You cut out an article on Grant" You
fold it up and slip it in the 81" depart.
ment of your biogrdphy-box, and it il
all right. No FASTING, no trouble. Whcu
you want to throw away clipping al
you have to do is to draw out the slip
For busy people this is capital ar
rangement. Rubber bands should be
kept on the boxes, and the boxes should
be kept in desk or case
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-07-07
IaI ting the babies,

New No"7 Tor Chicago TIihnu"
A year or more ago a lovely little
child, little girl OF perhaps =. ap.
preached me in large brio IA lr'r shop,
and while her mother was engaged in
distant part OF The building | IN leav.
ored to entertain the little creature by
showing her some marbles of little
children. low white they are, ~ she
said; what makes them so white Z"
because they are Of MARBLE" / an.
swered marble children don't
have pretty pink cheeks and
golden hair as you have. you
know My cheeks are painted
and my hair is goldeued: il Is truly
ruby, said this precocious Young
maiden, and, sure enough. as we came
into the strong light could see the
color in her little face was as artificial
as was the sunshiny hue in the curls.
What are we coming 10. | should like TO
know, II out of the mouths OF babes and
sucklings the folly Of their tOo.friyolous
mothers is 20 be made manifest.