Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-22

from Bloomington, Ind, on the night of
the 10Th ult. by a solitary train-robber,
who, after shooting the express messenger
and baggageman, secured a large sum of
money from the safe and escaped.
The coinage executed at the United
| States Mint in Philadelphia during the
month of April aggregated ,66l,4O pieces,
valued at 81, s36,Wo. Twenty-Five employees
were dismiss d on the goth ult. on orders
from Washington owing to the suspension
| Of coinage of all pieces of money less than
a dime.
THE execution of Ruperto Lara, for the
murder of George Nesmith and his wife
and daughter in August, 1882, took place
at Las Cruces, N. NJ, on the Both ult.
A LARGE number of Illinois cattlemen
gathered at Springfield on the 3Oth ult.
and passed a resolution asking the Legis-
lature to appropriate 100000 to stamp out
pleuro- pneumonia in the State.
AT the Scott Haven (Pa.) coal mines fif-
teen hundred miners resumed work ON the
goth ult. at reduced pay, after a strike of
nine weeks.
THE business of the Pension Office at
Washington during the month of April
exceeded that of any previous month. The
total number of pensions issued was $3.50.
THREE masked men broke into the resi-
dencc of Samuel Kramer, near Bowmans-
vile, Pa, q few nights ago and after tor
turing the entire family secured their
money and other valuables and fled.
REPORTS of the 1st to Bradstreet's indi-
Gated no general Improvement in the bust
ness situation throughout the country.
The public-debt statement (old form)
issued on the 1st makes the following e.
hibit: Total debt Cneluding interest of
S$9,47s,225), S, $50, 90, 571; cash in Treasury,
$4s3,932, 500; debt, less amount in Treasury,
81, 1893, $780, 05. Decrease during March,
S5,464, 500. Decrease since June 80, 1884,
$o0,O ,e29.
W. Fl. JONES, a locomotive engineer,
mortality shot his wife at Macon, Ga, on
the 1st and then killed himself. Domestic
u%nhappiness was the cause.
A TRUNK which arrived in Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the 1st from Chicago was found to
contain the remains Of q laboring man,
about thirty years of age. tied with u
strong cord. The only clew was an inter-
national money-order drawn at Chicago
last February in favor of Filippo Caruse,
for $ss5.04.
THE plague at Plymouth, Pa, was on
the 1st said to be increasing in horror
daily. Fourteen funerals were held on that
day. Seventeen hundred persons were
under medical treatment, and the physi-
clans were exhausted with their labors.
The water was believed to be inpregnated
with the germs of typhoid fever.
In the United States andlkCanada there
were 1877 business failures during the seven
days ended on the LIST, against 219 the pre-
vious seven days. The distribution was as
follows: Middle States, Al; New England
States, 16; Western, 40; Southern, 40; Pa
cific States and Territories, IS; Canada, 80.
THE total imports of dry-goods at New
York during the seven days ended on the
LIST were valued at 81 1888, 4G3 and the
amount thrown on the market at 81 ,943S,
929.
TEE trial OF Richard Short for the at
tempted assassination of Captain Phelan
in O'Donovan Rossa's Office at New York
commenced on the 1st.
ADvICEs of the LIST from the spring
wheat belts of the West and Northwest
showed the area sown to the cereal to be-
considerably less than that reported last
year. In Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and
Wisconsin unreasonable weather had re-
JaTQeQ farm WORK., ana Ulo acreage OF
spring wheat in these States would suffer a
decrease of fully fifteen per cent.
ABOUT one hundred clerks were engaged
on the LIST in counting the moneys and Sc
c~urities in the United States Treasury at
Washington, and it was not expected that
they would complete the work before the
18th inst.
AT the Brooklyn Navy-Yard on the LIST
the entire force of the construction de-
partment was discharged.
EDWARD BUsHMAN, aged seventy years,
who was ruined by speculation, hanged
himself at New York the other morning
because his son-in-law informed him that
he had better leave his house and go to one
Of his sons in Chicago.
IT was estimated on the LIST that from
seven to eight thousand coal miners were
either idle or on strike in the State of Ili-
nois.
GEORGE MACK, a colored murderer, was
taken from tho officers near South Bend,
Kan, the other night, and with a rope
about his neck, was dragged by a gallop-
ing horse into town, where he was sus-
pended to an awning in front of a billiard
saloon.