Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-20
OF THE WEEK
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

tive in the Bermudas.
The Governor of Arkansas, growing
weary of having prisoners cremated by
mobs in Pike County, on the 9th offered
rewards for the capture of the persons
who nave twice burned the wooden Jail.
MHENRY NJ. DIcKERsoN, of Moravia, N.
Y, shot and killed his wife on the 9th
and then shot himself. jealousy was the
cause.
JOHN THOMPSON, a murderer, was taken
from Jail at Kingston, Tenn, the other
night and hanged.
AFTER a quarrel on the 9th at Shelby
Vile, Mo-, John Buford shot and killed his
aged father.
THE Treasury Department at Washing
ton on the 9th purchased 100000 ounces
of silver for delivery ut the New orleans
aud Philadelphia mints for coinage into
standard dollars
JOHN RoAcH's ship-yard in New York
City was sold at a%ssignee's sale on the
9th for 10000
WILLIAM j. BEST, a we'll known lawyer,
was arrested in New York on the 9th for
the ENLIGHTENMENT of $4,000 left in his
charge.
In a foundry at st. Louis a raolder
UulC bcSouU AAOl1oo u1uC COoh ou Viz
9th to pour five tons of molten iron into a
pit fourteen feet deep, and met a horrible
death by falling into the pit.
THE meteor which recently fell near
Owatonna, Mimi, has been blasted with
dynamite, and half a ton of fragments was
being sent to various parts of the country.
1T has been ordered that the postal
cards, bearing u special delivery stamp,
shall be delivered the same as letters with
the extra stamp.
II was announced on the 9th tina the
"boomers" at Wellington, Kan, were pre-
pairing for another raid into the Oklahoma
country.
EIGHTY lodges, representing several
States, celebrated at Cleveland, O., OH the
9th the seventeenth anniversary of tie
organization of the A. o. U. w.
Mrs. j. FRINK GILMORE, of Providence,
r.. LION the 2Sth gave birth to four chill
dren who died within four hours. The
mother was doing well. Five hundred
people visited the house during the day
and were charged by the father ten cents
apiece to see the infants.
BY the breaking of u bridge sidewalk on
the evening of the 2Sth over the river at
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persons We're precipitated into the water,
and it was feared that thirteen lives We're
lost.
UP to the 2Sth the total number of hogs
packed this season in the West was 265,
600, against 1000 for a corresponding
period last year..
The wholesale and retail grocery busi-
--+~A"~"et 81" h--;.r -haan monon.
olized by Cinnamon, the citizens were on
the eSth petitioning the council to devise
means to stop the yellow tide of immigra-
ton.
+: P~osTMAsTERs have been instructed to
include sealed packages in the matter en-
titled to special delivery, if properly
stamped.
MONUMENTS erected by six Indiana regi-
meuts were dedicated on the battle field
OF Gettysburg on the 2Sth and delivered to
the keeping of the Memorial Association.
= Boston BUCK and six members of his
gang of counterfeiters who had been oper-
ating in Western Pennsylvania, were sem
fenced on the 2Sth to hard labor in the
Pittsburgh Penitentiary for various peri
DDS. Buck is nearly seventy years of age.
In investigating the accounts Of the
lately retired officers at Bozeman, M. T.,
discoveries Of large discrepancies were
made on the 2Sth. The Sheriff was short
$1,000; the Treasurer about $40, 1000, while
the Commissioners were behind $525, 600 in
ancertitied bills.
1CHARD BORING, a needy German of
Harrisburg, Pa, was on the 18th allowed
q pension of A,434 at Washington, and on
the same day received $17,4O0 by the death
of a sister in Europe.
DURING a dense fog whieh hung over
the Hudson River at New York on the
2Sth great damage was done to vessels by
collision and several lives were lost.
H total number of immigrants to this
country for the nine months ended Sep
TENDER 30, 1885, was 26s, S36, against 336,449
during the corresponding period of 1884.
ON the 18th of September, 1853, an at
Tempt was made to rob an express car
near Coolidge, Kan, the engineer being
killed. No clue was obtained to the per-
petrators of the deed until recently, when
Henry kellon, in Jail ut jefferson, No.,
confessed that he and Abe Walter and
Fred Bunk committed the crime. All of
the gang were arrested and placed IL
prison at Topeka, Kan, on the 2Sth.
A PACKAGE of $4,000 in currency was
shipped by a st. Louis bank to Frederick
town, Mo-, where the consignee on the
2Sth found it to contain only waste paper.
A.. j. BURRUs, who was discharged from
the commercial agency of r. G. Dun G.
Co., in Chicago, for insulting Mrs. Rey
Good, On employee, waited at the entrance
OF the agency on the evening of the 2Sth,
and, when Mrs. Good and her sister, Miss
Lillian Walter, appeared, shot them both
fatally.
ROBERT J. Cook, formerly noted as the
Captain and trainer of the Yale College
rev, but of late in the employ Of a
Philadelphia newspaper, was assaulted
on the 2Sth by a negro, who struck him
a blow on the head with a Ratchet, frac-
turing his skull.
GANG of gypsy counterfeiters were
caught in the Cherokee Nation near Fort
Smith, Ark, on the 2sth. They had large
quantities of spurious money in their
possession.
The total values of imports of merchan-
disc during the twelve months ended Sep
ember 80 were 500, 551, 26O, against $685.
110,0G5 the preceding twelve months, a de-
crease Of $s7,55s,sO5. The values of ex-
ports of merchandise during the same
period were $7l5, 500, GIL, against $735, IT.