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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19
A BY

A Detachment of United States Troo,.
Fired on by Mexicans-The Fusill,mm
Returned-Thc Commanding Officers w
Both Sides Killed-The Mexicans C,at,aa
to Have Mistaken the Americans ta
Hostile Indians.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2s.-A telegram ,.
ceived at Preside yesterday from Fot
Bowie, A. r., signed by General Croos |
gives the contents OF 81 dispatch receivoa |
by the latter from Lieutenant Maus, latoa |
at Nocori, Sonora, Mex, January 21. !. |
states that the troops, under Captain +
| Crawford, surrounded and attacked an In,
dian camp fifty miles southeast OF Nocor |
| on January IL. Fol- two hours a runn;n,
| fight took place, in which a number OF IN
dams were wounded, but all escaped.
The hostiles sent word that they wishea |
to hold a conference, and while the troons |
were in camp, awaiting the time fixed
for the conference, they were attacked bv
one hundred and tiity-fonrM Mexican soldiers |
Efforts were made to let them know that
the troops were Americans and friends
| Captain Crawford and Lieutenant Mans
advanced to talk with them when a volley
was fired. Captain Crawford was shot in
the head and Mr.. Horn, an Interpreter
was slightly wounded in the left arm. The
Mexican fire was returned by the|
scouts of Captain Crawford's com.
mand, but with only sufficient vigor|
to keep the Mexicans at a distance.
The firing lasted half an hour, when
| Lieutenant Maus succeeded in having n
talk with the officer in command of thai
| Mexicans. He was told that the Americana
were mistaken for the hostiles owing to tAs
darkness, and the Mexicans signed u pape1
to that effect.
The loss to the Americans by the unfortu{
nate affair is Captain Crawford, mortal]J
wounded; Mr.. Horn, chief OF scouts, and
two Indians slightly wounded; another I'M
dian severely wounded. The Mexican losl
is four killed and five wounded. Almond
the killed on the Mexican side is the Can1
tain originally in command. Lieutenant
Maus says that he believes the Mexican
expected to drive the Americans off with a
overwhelming force n secure their camd
and effects.
Captain Crawford died on the 18th, dur
ing the march to Nocori, where he wal
buried. He was unconscious till his DEATH
Lieutenant Maus then assumed command
While the troops were en- route to Nocod
two squaws entered camp, through
whom arrangements were made III
Lieutenant Maus for q conference witt
two bucks OF the hostile band. Thi1
ended by Chief Mana ard one buck, TIL
wives of both Geronimo and Natchez and
child of each, ~ sister of Geronimo, on
boy and a woman being given as hostage
to Lieutenant Maus for the observance Z
peace until Geronimo meets General CrooI
with whom he expressed a wish
have a talk. The meeting betwee
General Crook and Geronimo will tall
place in about a month and will undoubN
eddy end in the surrender of the Indian
The band consists of Chiefs Geronimo
Natchez, Chihuahua and Mana, twent
bucks, and some women and childrej
Lieutenant Maus is now heading for Lang
ranch.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19
G IN TEXAS.

Ofacials Undertake to Arrest a CoioFeu
Man Charged with
Desperate Fight Ensues III Which the
r Sought for Criminal Is Killed, and Ihree
4 Other Persons Are Shot.
DALLAS, Tex, Jan. 3O.-Detective JACK
Duncan, ofDallas, and Deputy-sheriff seely'
OF Navarro County, left here in a buggy for
Zimmerman's yesterday to capture an al
legged negro horse-thicf named Jesse Bon
ner. Duncan carried a shotgun and pistols,
and Seely pistols. They entered the front
door OF one OF two cabins that stood
side by side. There were in the cabin
Jesse Bonner and wife, Robert johnson,
Henry johnson, the mother of Henry, and
Margaret Bonner, q tive-year-old child.
Without producing a warrant OF arrest or
otherwise indicating their mission, one OF
the officers yelled "Hi yi!' and began
shooting. So say the negroes. They also
say that there was only one weapon in the
house, a small pistol.
The officers say chat Bonner has been
evading arrest, and has been going armed
for eighteen months. They relate that as
soon as they appeared at the door Bonner
showed fight, and, being urged on by
the other colored men, the little twelve
~! e"SA'> ASoAHS '6HpS ~ pHS
torch burning on the hearth, at
once became the scene OF rapid firing. Dur
ing the iusillade the torch was e~xtinguished
M the shooting was carried on by the
light OF rapidly-tlashing weapons. Accord
ing to the statement OF the officers, as 500
as they entered Bonner seized Duncan's pis-
tol and held it up, at the same time l%eveling
his weapon at his face and firing, but with
out effect. A moment later Bonner had
tripped and thrown the detective to the
floor. Seely, who stood only three feet
from Duncan, shot Bonner in the rightside.
Duncan, before rising, shot one of the I'M
known persons who stood over him. A
woman yelled "My child is shot?" The fir
ing did not cease till the ammunition was
exhausted.
duncan stated that the child was shot by
q negro. The officers claim that not only
shot-guns but pistols were used freely in the
house and from the outside. Sheriff Seely's
coat shows four bullet-holes in it. Robert
johnson carries five buckshot in his leg.
Bonner's child received a balli in herforehead
that tore away a section OF the frontal
skull. A negro boy received several small
shot in his body and Bonner his death
wound in his heart. The sheriff OF Dallas
County has ascertained that after the kill
ing Duncan tooka breech-loading shotgun
to u saloon and requested the bar-keeperto
keep it, remarking: II guess we've made q
bad killing"
Duncan and Seeley are in custody at the
county Jail, and the grand Jury is now in
vestigatiny the ira gedy. The opinion pre-
walls thai Indictments for murder will be
returned against Duncan and Seelcy. Pub
lie opinion, as expressed on the streets and
in public places. is not complimentary to
them IN connection with the tragedy.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19
nEA1h OF MRS. eAYARD.

Worn Out by Years of Suffering an"
Broken-Hearted at the Recent Death OF
Her Daughter, tho Wife OF the secfe-
tary of state Passes Away-tler BE-
reaved Husband Said to Contemplate
Retirement from Public Life.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-Mrs. Louisa Lee
Bayard, the wife OF Secretary Bayard: died
| at her residence at $50 yesterday morn
mo. of congestion OF the brain. This is the
second time within the brief space of two
weeks that death has visited the household
of the Secretary. Mrs. Bayard had
been in feeble health for several
wears, and the death of her daughter
two weeks G completely prostrtted
her, from which prostration she never
rallied. Late Saturday night her physician
said her death was imminent, and SO the
public here were in a measure prepared Tor
the sad news.
AS soon as the President was notified OF
Mrs. Bayard's death he sent Colonel La
mont with a note of coincidence to the Sec
retarv and, later in the day, Miss Cleveland
called at the house. Cabinet officers, Sen
ators, Representatives, %diplomates and
public men generally called at the Bayard
mansion yesterday to express Their
sympathy with the Secretary in his
aftliction. There is great sympathy
in Washington for Secretary Bayard,
Secretary Bayard has been crushed by
this second and so speedy visitation of
death, and it is believed here that he will
retire to private life soon. When his daugh-
ter died q few weeks ago he was almost
Frustrated, and would then have insisted
upon resigning had not friends persuaded
him not to do SO. Mr.. Bayard is Of a very
affectionate disposition, thoroughly in
love with domestic life, and he has loved
his fireside more dearly than all else,
Now that this is broken he will feel more
strongly than ever the desire to pass the
remainder OF his days in quietude and out
of the hurly-burly OF public office. His
office, moreover, is one that carries with it
many social duties, and nom of these can
he now fill. 1t is believed by a few OF his
friends that he may take one OF the first
class missions, but that is not at all likely.
Mrs. Bayard was born in October, 1884. and
was a daughter Of Josiah Lee, a ~well-known
Baltimore banker She was married to Mr..
Rayard in October, 1856, and bore him twelve
children in as many, years, three dying
Lee, who died January M last. The
eight children who survive her are
james A., Secretary OF the Territory of Ari.
IONA; Mabel, wife OF Samuel ID. Warren, of
Francis. Jr.. Louisa Lee, Mary Ellen aud
Philip Francis. Mrs. Bayard was a woman OF
charming manners and most refined char.
acter. In her early life she was very much
her domestic and maternal duties monopo.
lized her entire attention. From choice she
lived ii rather quiet life for II woman whose
opportunity gave her an eminent social posi-
band and children was a marked feature OF
her character
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19
TRIPLE TRAGEDY.
Alfred Smith Foully Murders His Es-
tranged Wife and Her Lady Companion
at Cleveland, O.-The Murderer At.
tennis Suicide, |

Alfred Smith Foully Murders His Es-
tranged Wife and Her Lady Companion
at Cleveland, O.-The Murderer At.
tempts Suicide.
CLEVELAND, O., Feb. lone OF the
bloodiest tragedies ever enacted in Glcve.
land was discovered here yesterday morn.
ing shortly after ten o'clock. The victims
were Mrs. Athaldine Smith, a clairvoyant
well known in the city, and Mrs. Louisa
Jane Wilson, a friend, h has been her
companion OF late. Mrs. Wilson was q wild
brutal treatment had caused hert to bring a
suit for divorce, which he had asked her to
withdraw. and had threatened vengeance
because OF her refusal to do SO. They had
two children, a boy OF twelve and a girl of
sixteen years. Smith called Saturday
night at the rooms occupied by his wife on
Superior street, opposite the City Hall, and
became SO abusive that a policeman was
called who persuaded him to retire.
Yesterday morning the absence of any
signs OF life in the apartments aroused the
suspicious OF the janitress. Mounting 81
step-ladder she looked through the tran
som and saw blood upon the floor. She
called an officer who broke open the door.
A sickening sight was revealed. Across the
bed, which was crimson will blood, lay
the bodies of Smith, his wife, and Mrs.
Wilson. The latter was at the head,
Mrs. Smith at the foot, and Smith
between them. The women were
dead, and blood was flowing freely from an
ugly razor wound across the throat of
Smith, but he was still alive. The multi
ated features OF the women indicated that
a bloody hammer on the floor was the
cruel instrument that had been used to ac-
complish their deaths. Mrs. Smith vas
lying flat upon her back with barely A
fragment OF clothing upon her person.
Her head rested against the wall and
her face was turned upward. Little
shreds OF flesh hung from her cheeks; the
nose was broken, crushed and nattened:
the skull was crushed in and there was not
a hundredth part OF all inch OF space on
her head that did not bear the marks O.
the hammer. Mrs. Wilson'S head, like
that OF Mrs. Smith, was battered
i'll a terrible manner. One eye was
entirely gouged out. The furniture in
the room was in confusion and gave
signs of II l~ife-and-death struggle. The
clothing of the women, which lay upon
chairs, was despatched with blood. There
was blood everywhere. A pool of blood
upon the bed in another room, and the
razor on the floor near by, showed that
Smiths attempt upon his lie was made
there, and that afterward he placed himself
between his victims. Smith was taken to
the Huron street hospital. The hospital
physicians say that his chances for racoy.
cry are excellent.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19
NEWS.

THE wife of Secretary Bayard died at
Washington at eighto'ciock On the morning
of the 31st ult., from congestion of the
brain, at the age of tifty-one years. She
had been i'll poor health for a long time,
and the recent death Of her daughter
wrecked her nervous system.
TIE billiard tournament in New York
ended on the Both ult. in q victory for
Schaefer, Vignaux making 2,S3S points in
six nights and Schacfer 1900.
NELL S. BROWN, who was Governor of
Tennessee in ls4s and Minister to Russia in
1850, expired on the 30th ult. at Nashville,
in his s~eventy-sixth year. e-
NEAR Telluride, Col, a snow-s!1de oc-
CURED a few days ago, which buried
twenty-five men. All were rescued except
four, who persisted in the snow.
IHE cross-levee near Stockton, Cal, gave
way on the Both ult. flooding 3d. 1000 acres of
land, of which 1900 acres was in wheat.
The loss by the inundation was estimated
at S60O,0OO.
SPECIAL Thanksgiving services for the
cessation of the smallpox epidemic were
held III all the churches in Montreal on the
| 3lst ult.
DURING the week ended on the Both ult.
nearly 100000 in coin was shipped to
other countries from New York.
LIE lsthmus Of Panama was on the 3Oth
ult. threatened with another revolution,
and the Secretary of the Navy had ordered
Rear Admiral Jouett to remain at Aspin-
wall with the Tennessee.
SIX buildings i'll London suddenly and
without the slightest warning collapsed on
the 5oth ult., burying a number of Dassers-
py III the rulns Five persons were taken
out dead and several others We're fatally
injured.
Fotl, prominent business firms in Mon
treal failed on the 30th ult. The failures
were attributed to the cmbarrassments
that arose during the smallpox epidemic.
fR~Vlr-Gko"ERs of New HAMPSHIRE re-
ported on the 3lst ult. that the recent sleet-
storms throughout the State had ruined
then orchards. In Nottingham one man
lost one thousand peach trees.
-FOUR brilliant circular rainbows, the arcs
tapping, were visible for half an hour at
Saratoga Springs, N. Y, OH the morning of
the 3lst ult.
CONSIDERABLE damage was done to tho
town OF Velez-Malaga, Spain, by a recent
earthquake.
WHILE crossing the river at Evansville.
Ind, a few afternoons ago a boat contain
ing tour men was upset, and all were
drowned.
AT twenty-sx leading clearinghouse in
the United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the Both ult. aggregated
l,oo6,9l4 $50, against sS71 ,s33, 1903 the pre-
vlous week. AS compared with the cor1e-
spending week OF 1884, the increase amounts
to 3S.2 per cent.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19
ARAILRoAD TRACK DISAPPEAR
Dropping Out of Sight Into q Colliei
just After a Passenger Train Ha
Passed.

Dropping Out of Sight Into q Colliel
Just After a Passenger Train Ha
Passed.
SHENANDOAH, Pa, Jan. 2S.-The Shenaj
doah branch OF the Reading railroad b
tween here and Mahanoy Plain has d
ways been regarded as unsafe b
the travelling public and q source /
great annoyance to the officials OF til
company, owing to the frequent and q
tcnsive cave-ins occurring from time d
time. The other afternoon the surface bj
gan to tremble, and cracked so much tha
not only the railroad was endangered, BID
the public highway from this place i
William Penn colliery was rendered unsaf
About sixty feet of road-bed sank full
two feet while n coal train was pas|
ing over it, and a short time afterward I'd
surface dropped into the workings beloJ
leaving q hole upward of sevcnty.five fed
in diameter. The passenge train, contai1
ing nearly a hundred persons, had passd
over the place but a few minutes befo1
The scene OF this cavc-in is one mile froI
here and two and one-half miles from MOL
Colliery, and is continually under sui
VIGILANCE by the Reading Company's of
Gals, whose timely warning to approach
ing trains avert many accidents, as w4
the case to-day. The area affected is prot
ably two hundred feet long and one hut
dred feet wide, and it is liable to drop cd
OF sight any moment. This is the spd
where, two years ago, while a gang OF 4
pairmen were working on the track
the surface gave way and wed
down one thousand feet, taking with it Of
OF the trackmen. The. man had five hui
dred dollars in his pocket ut the time, ar
both he and the money are still buli4
there. The travelling public therefore hat
a special horror of the place, and rest cal
when they have passed over the treachd
GUS surface.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL,

JOHN KELLY was reelected chief of the
Tammany Society in New York on the goth.
His health is very poor.
TIE Rhode Island Legislature met in an
nual session at Providence on the Goth.
DAVID X. ATCIIsoN died in Clinton Coun-
ty, Mo-, on the 2Gth, aged s~eventy-nine
years. He was United States Senator
from Missouri from 1913 TO 1855, and was
Twice President of that body. He also bore
the singular distinction of having been
President of the United States for one day.
A BILL was introduced in the Virginia
Legislature on the 9th providing that after
May: 1887, no malt liquors or ardent spirits
shall be sold i'll the State.
The House Committee on Military Affairs
at Washington on the 9th decided to report
favorably a bill to erect in New York, at a
cost of $3.50, 900, a monument to General
Grant. one-third of this sum to be contrib
uted by the public.
GOVERNOR MURRAY, of Utah, has vetoed
an act Of the Legislature giving absolute
f1ght OF Dali to all %convicts except murder
ers i'll the first degree.
COLEMAN FIREMAN, born a slave in Viz
gln1a, died at Windsor, Ont, on the 9th.
aged one hundred and twenty years, leay-
ing a few thousand dollars earned as a
cooper.
MRS. U. S. GRANTS sixtieth birthday &C.
Cured on the 9th. She had a quiet family
reunion at her house i'll New York, at which
her three sons and their wives and chill
dren were present. Ex-senator Chafree
says that the amount of returns from the
memoirs which will be paid to Mrs. Grant
will be over $500: 900, and possibly $3.50, 600.
MIR. GREEN, the attorney for the plaintiffs
IN tue Chicago mayoralty contest, appeared
IN Judge Prendergast's court on the 9th
and secured an order Diminishing the case
with costs to the plaintiffs.
III annual report of the Civil-service
Commission of the State of New York saws
'nat tne number OF persons in the service
OF the State who have passed examinations
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19
Death OH the Rail.

IIFFlN, o., Jan. 3O.-At 12;45 O'Clock
yesterday morning, as the w~est-bound ex-
press tram on the Baltimore e. Ohio rail.
road was speeding along at the rate of
about forty miles an hour it ran into the
rear OF "a freight train, also
w~est-oound, about a mile west OF Chicago
Junction. A terrific crash followed. and
the engine of the PASSENGER tro;,
the bagggage-car, two passenger coaches
and about a dozen freight cars rolled into
the ditch, a confused mass OF ruins.
Four persons wert killed and several had,
~ hurt. o@o'
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19
EOREIGN.

THE value of exports from Germany to
America during 1885 was 81 $50, 900 less tian
the value of the exports in 1884.
H winter in Europe has been tue
severest known for a long period. 1t is
fourteen years since London saw so much
THE British Ministry was defeated on the
Goth by a vote of 1923 to $50 on the question
of allotments.
On the 26th Belleville, Can, was flooded
by rising water in the River Moira.
NINETY houses at Radna and two hun
dred at Lippa, in Pennsylvania, were par
italy submerged on the Goth by high water,
and several thousand acres of land were
flooded. Fifty buildings had collapsed at
Lippa.
In reply to a second note from the Eu-
ropean Powers Greece stated on the Goth
that she held to her original position and
refused to disarrn.
The Marquis of Salisbury OH the 9th
sent a special messenger to Osborne House
to inform Queen Victoria of the resigna-
tion of the Cabinet.
THE Lieutennnt-Governor of Ontario in
opening the Legislature IN the 2ssth pro-
nounced it unwisc for the province to slim
ulate the immigration of hbor.
TEMpLEToN's car-factory n Glasgow, val
ued at $50, 900, and employing three hun
dred men, was wiped out by fire on the
2sth.
The recent failure of the Robin firm at
Halifax has rendered destitute the families
of six hundred fishermen on the Gaspe and
B~onaventure coasts.
PRINCE BISMARCK said in the Prussian
Landtag on the 2sth that the prime reason
for the expulsion of the Poles was their dis
loyalty to Germany. The safety of the
State, and not religious prejudice, in
fluencod his course, and he would pursue it,
despite the opposition of the Reichstag.
ANTONIO BLOCK, al old merchant near
Matanoras, Mex, was attacked in his store
on the 2Sth by two men. His head was
chopped to pieces with an axe, and his safe
robbed of four thousand dollars.
The Queen on the Goth accepted the resig-
nation of the Salisbury Cabinet, and at the
same time summoned Gladstone for consul
tation.
FouE members of q Polish revolutionary
organization were executed at Warsaw on
the 29th, and two of their accomplices had
their sentences committed to twenty years.
servitude in Siberia.
In the Prussian Landtag on the goth Bis
marck declared that if spirit monopoly was
refused the Government would be forced
to impose an enormous license on dealers.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19
"A Wedding Postponed.

HOUSTON, Tex, Feb. Jack Hanlon.
proprietor OF a gambling-house, and John
anvil a prominent Houstonian, met
Saturday afternoon and opened fire upon
each o'her. Crawley received five bullets,
ana was killed. Hanlon was shot
twice, and his wounds are fatal. Thew
were sultors OF Miss Emma De-.
'auney, OF this city. Crawley was once en-
gagged to her, but she discarded him be-
cause OF his dissipation. Recently Miss
Deiauney became engaged to Hanlon, and
Ihey were 10 have been married in a few
days. Crawley went to the ladv's house
and met his rival there, and the firing he.
gan in her presence.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19
EPITOME OF THE WEEK,
Interesting News Compilation.
CONGRESSIONAL


T.r +,,,o of +ho sen.,o nm IN. oath woe 40.
LIE .'hie vi .ne Hena'e oH wv III WIS 10
voted exclusively to tributes to the memory
Of Vice-President Hendricks by Messrs. Voor-
hees, Hampton, Sherman, salisbury, Evarts,
Ransom, Spooner, Vest and Harrison. e. IN the
House bills were introduced: BY Mr.. Murphy,
for the relief of railway mail clerks who liave
Bis III INC serves ewe In years' uS mI.
notes at nnv monev-order office: hv Mr..
Rr1IIom' 10 limit The canital Of anv National
hank to s5 an. 0o1: Nv Mr. Caldwell. TO nro.
Wills ''' to rive nreferrenae to American
citizens in EMPLOYING laborers on
nuhiic works: nv MI SSwinb,rnc to 5ec,ay,
the silver dollar n legal render: bv Mr.. Gown.
,shend To limit the iu,.isdjction of United
Sistes co,rts in nata,it casns' and 70 ,rntect
hide marufncturers purchasers. vendors
~. ,,sers n articles for the evcl,aive
use. lnanufactire or sale OF which a
nntent has or NAV hrreafterbe grant
ed; proposing a constitutional amendment
providing that the President and Vice. Presi-
dent shall oc elected by q majority OF the
,people. aboIishing the Electoral Coliere- and
regulating the method Of counting the votes
ny the Two houses OIL eonefess'
".,h ny MT. CAMERON 10 reimburse the sur
SlVors Oh Tue 1ea"ne'te Atcuc eApea'''on'
MI. harrison m"ae speec1i laVofihe the ao'
mission Oh Dakota 10 the Unton.-..In the
House a bill was passed FORGETTING certain
lnnds granted to the States of Missouri, Ala
balma and Louisiana to aid i'll the construc-
ton of railroads. The Senate resolutions
touching the death of Vice-President Hen
bricks were presented.
Mr.. MonR1LL offered q resolution in the
son.to ~, tho oa,,, co.+iro Won't si.o. IN w1..,,
s oaa ~ s''e "ov.i so..ns ' III %"sn'