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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-13
A Good Piece of Detective Work.

The various local papers of Chicago have
published the details of M extensive piece
of detective work which has lust been
brought to a elimination there and at other
cities throughout the country by special
agents of the King of Sweden. In the
spring of 1885 the Swedish Government
made discoveries of corruption and fraud
in its revenue service running back three
years, and reaching an aggregate Of 49,
OOO, 1000. When the exposure came most of
the distilleries' hands having knowledge of
the frauds were heavily bribed and quickly
shipped to America by their employers and
the officials implicated. AS a result. at the
first trial the crown was unable to procure
convicting evidence. After much delibera-
ton it was determined by the Swedish Gov
eminent to institute a quest for the missing
witnesses. Two persons were charged with
the responsibility of the undertaking, j.. E.
Klund, Police Commissioner of Sweden,
and j.. G. H. Tengblad, one of his assist
ants. The two have since the 18th of july
made Chicago their headquarters. They
had no extradition papers, and were, by
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-13
Death was instantaneous.
A Marshal Shot by His Posse

A terrible accident occurred at Clare
mont, Dodge County, Mimi, which will no
doubt result in the death of one of the most
esteemed and worthy citizens Of the county,
James Edmonds, Village Marshal of Clare
mont. A few days ago four suspicious
looking characters appeared there. They
were watched all day by the Marshal and
his posse. About 1870 in the evening two
Of them were discovered in a rather out of
the way place. The Marshal, accompanied
by his brother and two others, came upon
them and ordered them to throw up their
hands. At this they drew their revolvers
and commenced firing, which was returned
by the officer and party. Some fifteen or
more shots were exchanged. They then
broke and ran through a clump of trees,
Marshal Edmonds following. He suddenly
turned back, as if to give some order to his
men, when they discovered and mistook
him for one of the burglars and fred at him
with a 32-calibre revolver, the bullet pene-
trating the breast just below the heart. The
ball is believed to be lodged in the spine.
Doctors claim he cannot recover.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-13

dian problem. 1t has been the desire OF
the President, if possible, to adopt some
Indian policy which would result in a per-
monent settlement of this perpetual Indian
question" Some members OF the admin
i~stration are inclined toward the commits
sion plan, which was advocated by MT.
Holman, the chairman of the House Com
mission, which visited many OF the Indian
reservations last summer, but no definite
policy was agreed upon. The Information
which Secretary Lamar will obtain from his
visit to the leading agencies will nndoubt-
edly prove of great value to the administra-
ton in deciding upon some plan, the de-
tails of which will probably be first COM
municated to the public through the next
annual report of the Secretary of the In
terror and the message OF the President to
CoOpracS.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-13
Locked Out.

The troubles of the cigarmakers in New
York has increased so that over $500 of
the Progressive Union members are on a
strike against the attempt of their employ
ers to force them to Join the Knights of
Labor. The employees of S. Jacoby Il Son,
George p. Lees, Brown e. Earl, and Kauf-
man Bros. and Body, 1900 in all, were
the ones who went out. About $500 are
still at work, but are expected to strike or
be locked out. The denial made that any
money had been paid to the District As
sembly Of the Knights of Labor for the per-
mission to put the Schultz punching ma
chimes into Progressive Union shops, was
met. by the production Of check No. 967.
dated New York, July l, 1856, drawn on
the German Exchange Bank by Lewyn &
Martin, who made the denial, for the sum
of $56.25 in favor of Jacob Wolf and John
Sanders. Wolf and Sanders We're members
of the Arbitration Committee of Knights
that is alleged to have made the blood
money contract with Lewyn e. Martin to
allow the use of the machines whereby $50
people were thrown out of work. The
check is Endorsed by Wolf. and Sanders. It
was produced by Secretary Joblinowski, of
the Progressive Union, who said that he
gotit from the District Treasurer of the
Knights, who was also a member of the
union, and who had preserved the check as
evidence. He alleges that the cbsck was
the first payment in the "blood-money"
contract. Its small size he accounted for
by the fact that, although the contract al
lowed the use of $50 machines the first
year, only fifty or sixty had yet been put in
use, and the royalty was co1respondingly
small.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-13
Miss Mary as a scientific Corpse.

A story of Miss Mary Anderson
reaches us. While she was rehearsing
the part of Juliet an eminent physician,
an intimate friend, was present. The
performance delighted him till towards
the conclusion of the play, when his
c~ountenance wore a trouble expression.
When it was owe he went up to the
actress. "My dear young lady," he
said, "you are wrong in one of your
effects. Don't you know that a corpse
doesn't stifsen for at leasts six hours after
death" my dear DOCTOR" responded
Mary, slowly, speaking in deep, rich
tones, and adopting a strong American
twang, "do you think I'm going to keep
my audience waiting for six hours while
I stitfen ?"--PdU Mall Gazette.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-13
Another Alpine Fatality.

News has been received in London of
another fatal Alpine accident in the same
neighborhood where, barely a month ago,
the Marquis de Pallavicini and NJ. Crom-
mein, of the Dutch legation, met with a
tragic end. This time the victim was n
lady, Fraulein Pauline Won Sonklor, IF
Innsbruck, who, in the company of four
gentleman and another lady. had set out
from Heidgenblut, in the Gloss Checker
district, on the mountain ascent, MS if in
tending to view from a distance the scene
of the present catastrophe, and to reach the
point at which the Gross Checker might be
seen, it would be necessary for the excur-
sionists TO climb a rugged mountain path
for about two hours, and they would then
descend into q wild ravine through which
flows a torrent. Emerging from this part
of the road, they would follow a narrow,
dangerous mountain track, bordered upon
one side by a deep precipice, and upon
which experienced mountaineers alone
should venture. 1t was at the most peril
Gus part of this track that the fraulein un-
fortunately stumbled over a stone, and los
ing her footing, was, before assistance
could be afforded, precipitated from the
dizzy height and dashed on the rocks be-
low. Death was instantaneous.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-13
Arsenic in the Dough.

A special from Fetterman, w. Va, states
that great excitement exists in that village
over the fiendish attempt made to poison
the family Of Benjamin Abingdon. Mrs.
Arlington mixed n quantity of dough, which
was placed in a cool place before baking. A
few hours later the bread was cooked and a
portion Of it eaten by the family for supper.
Shortly after the meal Abingdon and wife
and two children were taken violently i'll,
but were saved by the prompt measures
taken by an attending physician. The lat
ter found on analyzing the bread that it
contained a large quantity of arsenic. AS
none of the drug was ever in the house, it
is believed that the poison was placed there
by the enemies who wished TO murder Mr..
Arlington and family. Suspicion points to-
ward a worthless negro who has a long
standing grudge against Mr.. Abingdon.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-13
Stage Gossip.

SARAH BERNHARDT's first weeks re-
ceipts in South America We're $50, 900,
or an average Of $1,000 a performance.
ALICE OATES is suing the Baltimore
and Ohio Road because her thumb was
jammed in a sleeping-car door by q
careless conductor. Philadelphia is
the scene of the legal battle.
Louis HARRISON says: "The system
Of plagiarism reigning at present among
American comedians is very discour-
aging to a man Of creative ability. I
had the pneumonia in Chicago and the
very next week Mr.. Crane was taken
with it."
HERE is a list of the t~ragedians for
next season: Edwin Booth, Lawrence
Barrett, Tom Keene, Fred. Warde,
Wilson Barrett, Charles Pope, Robert
l.. Downing, Louis James, e. X. Col
lier, Frank Bangs, Robert E. Mantell,
and Joseph Haworth.
WE see that Sarah Bernhardt has
been playing Fedora" in Rio Janeiro
and has taken the South Americans by
storm. Don Pedro told her that her
mouth was capable Of more gosh than
anything he ever struck in his domin-
ions, except, probably, the mouth Of the
| Amazon.-Yonkers Gazette.
EDWIN BooTH is not going to work
any harder than he can help, hereafter.
1t has been so arranged that he will
not be hampered hereafter by unneces-
sary work when on the road. Mr..
Doud, his stage manager, is being in
structed in all Mr.. Booths stage bust.
ness SO that at rehearsals he Will im-
personate the tragedia1A
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-13
A CoWardly Murder.

A cowardly murder occurred at South
Halstead and O'Neill streets, Chicago.
Daniel McMullen, an ice peddler. was
stabbed and almost instantly killed by John
Burke, q hog driver at the Underwood
packing-house. Burke, who had been
waiting around the ice house nearly all day
for McMullen, stepped up to the latter
when he came out Of the yard after work,
and with a remark to the effect that McMul-
len had thrashed him once, but that he
would be revenged, drew a pocket knife and
plunged it into the right side of McMullen's
neck, severing the jugular. Burke then
ran away. The wounded man died in ten
minutes. The deceased was % years old
and leaves a wife and one child. He bore
an excellent reputation.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-13
Playing to a Ho,rling Mob,

Sometimes the circumstances by
which we are surrounded are so abomin-
able that the only way to preserve ones
sanity is by letting down the bars" and
interpreting a little judicious fun.
Once I played earnestly all through
the evening to a bowling mob, much to
my disgust, and in the last scene OF
Hamlet" in a spirit of mischief, I
stood over the king. and with all the
power l could command exclaimed as I
a him through: "Down, down to
hell, and say I sent thee there!" This
conglomeration of Orchard I'LL" and
Hamlet" finished the job. Hats were
thrown up, and the crowd yelled like a
Chicago conyention.-George C. Min,
IN Chicago Ne1rs.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-13
versally known as the actors friend and
on terms of the best good-fellowship
with all the theatrical craft.
Losses from, Fires III 77eatcrs.

A curious return has been laid before
the Paris Statistical Society by DIR.
Choquet with regard to the number of
theaters which have been burned since
1850. He gives the total rs G32, of
which 81 were burned iii the last half
of the eighteenth century, 81 in the
first quarter of this century, 100 from
1926 to 1850, rs from 1850 to 1860, 10S
from 1860 to 1870, 1859 from 1870 to
1880, and ia from 1880 to the end of
last year; while 3 theaters, at Detroit,
Madrid, and Orleans, have been burned
this year. The number Of persons who
have persisted in the flames varies very
much; for while 1,O1O we're burned to
death between 1890 and 1900, and 2, 141
between 1910 and 1850, the total was
only 241 for the ten years from 1850
to 1860. This is due to the fact that
now and again some theater is burned
while full of people. as was the case in
1894, when 1000 persons persisted in
the theater of Capo dIstria; in 1886,
when 800 persons were burned at st.
Petersburg, and in 1915, when 1,670
persons persisted in a Canton theater.
The worst fires of the last few years
have been at Vienna, where $50 per-
sons persisted in the Ring Theater in
1881, and at Nice, where 20 persons
were burned to death in the same year.
Altogether 6,573 people have persisted
in the last 1876 years, or 81 persons in
every year, this being q very small per-
centage Of the whole theater-going
population -PhUadelphia Insurance
h1telEqenceT.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-13
Death Caused nv Friehs.

Mrs. Scott, the wife of a prominent
farmer of Montgomery County, Alabama,
was scared to death a few days ago by a
party OF armed negroes. Mr.. Scott was
riding along the road when he came upon a
party OF negroes. He asked them if thew
wanted employment. They replied in the
negative. He told them that the grass was
growing and every man ought to be at work.
They left the road with the remark that
they would see him later. A few hours
later a party of armed negroes surrounded
his residence, when Mrs. Scott went into
commissions and died a few hours LATER,
The negroes did no shooting. Vigorous
punished. e''J onee
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-13
an Expensive Ballet,

The corps de ballet of the Paris
Opera comprises 1,027 women, ex-
elusive Of the hundred odd employed
in the five workshops where the cos
tunes r prepared. The humblest
priestesses of terpsichore-the rats, as
they are professionally termed-receive
40 cents per performance; the women
Of the quadrille have $40 a month; the
coryphees from $50 to $50; the sujets
from $50 to 500; the premieres sujets
from s12o to $500; and finally, the stars
have annual salaries of from S., ZOO to
$4,000 a year. Altogether the Govern
ment has to foot a little bill of 5000. 600
q year..
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-13
The Panama Caual Craze

A violent anonymous attack has been
made in Paris on the Panama Canal enter
prise. The attack is made in a pamphlet,
strongly written, and containing seventy
pages. The title is Engineers Letters on
the Panama Canal" The cover bears the
imprint of a s%arcophagus, and the work is
dedicated to "the victims of the Panama
craze" The pamphlet describes the NOR
tally among the workmen employed i n
making the canal, describes in anecdotal
for the state of things on the isthmus, tells
of the needless s%quandering of the French
public's money, and in conclusion states
that of the twenty-one sections of the canal
only five are yet in anything like an adj
vanced stage of construction
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-13
A Counterfeiter's Arrest

Special Bailitf stringer arrived in Louis
Sille' n.y., with a notorious counterfeiter
named Pleas Clark, alias Edward Buett.
etrinser got Buett at Livingston, Ky,.
where some citizens had him nnder guard.
ne was taken to London and tried before
commissioner G. B. Faris, who found him
guilty, and held HIM under 81, 900 bond. in
oelaoit OF which he was brought here as
stated. Buett is a very desperate man: he
II was who held up the United States mai
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-13

agent near B~eattyville, and uos
to rob him when interrupted. h'0 01
his was found containing g bag Of q ", "
terfeit silver dollars. He has n,l 10Y
at Jellico, Pittsburg, and w rusSs'
The money found in his valise VIA an
him from Jellico to Livingston s =, !
was found about two weeks a,o W
an attempt to get it, failing in whit.
a friend try to get it for him, ~
arrested before for c~ounterfeitins y =
released as the proof was NOT sns a. y
is said to be a very dangerous nav
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-13
The Indian Problem,

Secretary Lamar, within about two weeks,
starts upon an extended official trip through
the Indian country. The details of the
journey have not yet been arranged. The
object of the Secretary is to study the In
dian question with a view to determining
whether some plan cannot be devised for
the final settlement of the manifold per-
picking questions which constitute the In
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-13

royal command, denied the right TO offer
large monetary inducements. Chief OF Po-
lice Ebersold, of Chicago, was taken into
their confidence, and at their request de-
tailed Patrolman John Nelson, n Swede, to
assist i'll the hunt. The first fugitive found
was Gustaf Horlin, employed at a malt
house and living at No. 291 Oak street.
He had been a laborer at Torps 4 Sjolby's
disti'lery, near Vexio. Acting on hints from
Horlin, traces of other witnesses wanted
were secured, including August Anderson,
alias Carlson, of Pittsburg; Carl Froberg.
of Manistee. Mich. and Carl Engstrom, of
Chicago. The men named are among those
who consented to the propositions of the
detectives. Peter Anderson, of Lake City,
Mich, is said to have fed at their approach.
Mangus Svenson, of Minneapolis, is said to
have gone likewise. The two detectives, it
is reported, left Chicago for New York, ac-
companied by nearly a score Of Swedes, the
exact number being, however, unknown.
They will, it is said, leave New York on the
first Cunarder and stop in England, where
other witnesses have been located. All of
those taken from America are given guar
an.ee of immunity from prosecution, and
promised expenses back and forth, with
$3.50 reward each. They will be absent
SIX weeks, an earnest of $50 being left with
each family for temporary support.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-13
ach family for temporary support.
The rostomcc Department.

The Postoffice Department has prepared
a comprehensive statement showing the
financial operations for the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1856, as compared with the pre-
lvious year. The amount of expenditures
for stamps, wrappers, postal cards, mail
bags and other supplies furnished for the
huse of the Postofice Department and the
postal service was S706. $50; four-year con-
tracts made within the year aggregate S5,-
B97, 429. The expense Of running the de-
bar:ment, including salaries, was SS7S7, 512;
%nnexpended balance of the appropriation,
E66.459. For the previous year the expen-
iiture was $SO8, 66S, and the un%expended
balance $15, $50. The. net reduction in the
cost of star, steamboat and rail mail mes
senger service is shown to have been $780,
7S5. 1t appears that in that part of the
country lying west of the Mississippi and
Missouri Rivers, including Dakota and
Louisiana, contracts We're made for four
years, to begin July 1. 1886, for 1886, 900
yearly less than the previous contracts for
the same service. The results of three
quarters of the year show that the deficiency
will be less than anticipated. The original
estimates Of the department for the years
cost were about $50, 900, 600. These esti-
mates were reduced last year to Sss553, DOC, 900.
The auditors returns for ~three-quarters of
the fiscal year just closed indicate that the
total expenditures for postal service will in
fact fall below $51, 00O, 900, and notwith-
standing the reduction Of one-half in the
rates Of newspaper postage and that the
unit of weight of letter postage was doubled,
the net increase in the revenue will be about
$1,000, 900, making the total revenues for
the year just closed S44 ,000, 900, which was
the amount estimated, and leaving the de-
ficiency on the whole somewhat less thar
the preceding year.
The Daily telegraph. (Monroe, La.) 1870-1886, 1886-02-13
HancOck's re m aims. 4.

YOUNGSTOWN, Pa, Feb. 3.-The
local committe of arrangements hes
not announced any programme for
the obsequies for the late Msju.Gen-
eral Hancock, and probably WI not.
The remains will be taken from the
cars at the De. Kalb station of the
Pennsylvania and SchuylkiIl Valley
railway, where hearse and sixteen
carrisges will be in waiting. The
train will proceed with all the visitors
who prefer remaining on board to the
station at the cemetery. There will
be a large procession of citizens bu,
probably no organizations as such in
the .liae. The visitors escorting the
remains will be entertained by Prof.
Lowe at his residence, near the .em-
etery. The town council will hold a
special meeting tonight to make any
further arrangements necessary
The Daily telegraph. (Monroe, La.) 1870-1886, 1886-02-13

BUFFALO, Feb. 13-Garles Her.
mann, a butcher by trade, was hanged
here for a murder quiteIin keeping
with his pzofession. Herbann lived
with his wife on the uppel floor of
cottage on Blossom alley On Sum-
day evening November while the
landlady was away at church, Mrs.
Hermann prepared to 60 o I. 81 told
her." said Hermann "that did not
want her to 90 out and asked her
where she was going. She aid it was
none of my business. Thugs have
been wrong for the last coulle of years
and Christ ZsigIer is to blaze. 1 did
not strike her. j followed her into
the bedroom. threw her onhthe floor
and cut her throat. She did not
struggle, and was dead 500 AFTER"
He afterwards said that he Gnceale d
the razor early in the morniEg for the
purpose of killing his wife, WON he
suspected of infidelity withlNsigIer,
although there was no founde.-n for
1t except that Zeigler had gwen the
woman employment with Which tC
support herself while her huskpd was
spreeing. Three days elapsed before
the discovery of the crime All mean
while Hermann says he slep 10 bed
with the corpse.
The Daily telegraph. (Monroe, La.) 1870-1886, 1886-02-13
noratio seymore.

ROME, N. Y, Feb. 12.-Dr. Ford,
the physician attending Horato Sey.
naour In dispatch to a newspaper
here says: "There is no improvement
In the governors condition TO day. He
Is not as strong as he was yesterday,
and the symptoms are not so favor.
able because of increasing weakness.
Ills condition is one of uncertainty.
lie takes so little nourishment, only
the smallest sips Of milk, and there is
such failure of his digestion that I
feel less easy about him than I did
yesterday. His mind is clear, though
lie is partially delirious now. His
emOtioni are somewhat disturbed but
not his intellect"
UTICA, N. Y, Feb. u, A pm
Ex-Governor Shymour is thought to be
dying. Members of his family have
been hastily summoned to his bedside,
4:l0 p.m.-Ex Governor Seymour
Is dying He cannot survive more
that an hour, ana may die at any
moment.
Utica, N. Y, Feb. Ex-Governor
Seymour died at 10 o'clock yesterday
The Daily telegraph. (Monroe, La.) 1870-1886, 1886-02-13
DAILY TELEGRAPH.
CIV. McCRANIE, Editor.
V. M. TELLES, Publisher and
Business Manager.
Latest News.
BY TELEGRAPH
Respect to Hancock.

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 13.-At gen.
eral meeting of the produce exchange
yesterday N. ID. Wallace presiding the
following was unanimously adopted:
"The members of the New Orleans
produce exchange learn with great
sorrow of the death of General Win.
Held Scott Hancock. During the dark
days OF the attempted despotism the
great soldier cast aside the garb of war
and assuming the mantle of states
man manifested the fealty to the con :
stitution and thereby enshrined him
self in the hearts of the people of
Louisiana. His:exploits in war famous
rs his services in peace, have placed
bis name ia the history of his country
With brightness and freshness that no
Time can impair, and We mor-n his
loss IS national bereavement. Be il
Resolved, That the rooms of the
exchange BIO closed on the day of the
ipterment of the illustrious dead, and
that this building be draped in mourn
Ing for period of ten days. Be il
further
Resolved, That an expression oil
heartfelt sympathy OF members of this
exchange be extended to his widow
and that. a copy Of these resolutions
be forwarded to her. sis