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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-03-12
FOREIGN.

A REVOLT of nine hundred convictS in
the central prison at Thouars, France, was
suppressed on the 22d by q regiment of reg
ulars.
THE Greek Ministers of War and Marine
threatened on the 22d to resign unless var
against Turkey was declared. The people
were clamoring for way.
AT a fair on the 23d in Aulnay, France, n
heard of bullocks broke loose and charged
into a crowd of spectators, killing three
persons and injuring one hundred and
forty others.
A FIR on the 23d in the Parliament
buildings at Ottawa, Ont, destroyed valu-
able marine and patent records. The finan-
cial loss was heavy.
In u letter published on the 23d in Paris
Prince Jerome Napoleon declared that tho
expulsion of the French Princes would tend
toward the destruction of the republic. He
recommended that the people elect the
chief magistrate.
TWENTY acres of land on which there
were several houses sank suddenly on tho
9th at Zoschen, n village of Saxony, leav-
ing q largo lake. Three men were
drowned.
TIE Bank of Australia, at Melbourne,
with twenty branches in the principal
Australian cities, failed on the 224th for
$500, 900.
ADvICEs of the 9th state that a financial
panic. prevails in Stockholm, which has no
parallel since the great panic of 1851.
A PROTESTANT school-teacher killed his
wife, his three children and himself at
MeZo Tur, Hungary, on tho'24th.
TIL cable on the 9th announced the
death of Rev. Hugh Stowell Brown, the
famous Baptist preacher Of Liverpool.
A BILL was introduced in the Canadian
Parliament, which convened at Ottawa on
the25th, making it a misdemeanor for any
person not a member of the landlords
family to enter a bar-room on Sundays,
and increasing the penalties for illegal sell
ing of liquor.
A FARMERS team wrecked an express
train near Thornhill, Ont, on the Goth, and
one man was killed and three others
wounded.
\ HEAVY snow-storm was prevailing on
the 18th throughout Canada, and the
weather was very cold. Twenty-Five inches
of snow had fallen at Father Point, Que
bee, and the snow was ten feet deep.
N. c. Ford & Co., distillers and general
merchants at Simcoe, Ont, have failed for
500, 900.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-03-12
SANITARY.
Report on the Prevention of tho Intro
duction of Cholera and Other Contagi
Gus Diseases.

Report on the Prevention of the Intro
duction of Cholera and Other Contagi-
GUS Diseases.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.,, Feb. GA thorough
ly comprehensive treatment OF coast de-
lenses against Asiat.e cholera is given in
the 'eply made yesterday by DR.. Rauch,
secretary OF the Board OF Health,
OF his inspection OF the Atlantic
and Gulf quarantincs between the St.
Lawrence river and the Gulf OF Mex
ico. This subject he considers OF para
noun Importance to the people, of Illinois,
because fully half OF the immigrants to this
country pass through or come into this
State. He thinks the present season OF
quiet should be taken advantage OF to
make precautions certain against theintro-
duction of contagious diseases from foreign
shores, which he thinks can be lone il
proper plans are undertaken and thor
ouglly executed. Imported contagious
have cost the country in loss OF
life almost as much during the past TWEEN
ty years as the civil war, and the cost OF
preventing theiI recurrence would he
tritling, as compared with the millions
spent and contemplated for protection
against the contingent invasion OF armed
foreign foes. The service, he says, at New
York, the most important port in the
country, is halnpercd by Il vicious financial
system, which robs it of much OF it's cf-
%ficiency.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-03-12

James L. Mitchell, aged fifty years, of Ne
braska, dropped dead from apoplexy.
THE National House Committee on Terri
tories on the 18th directed an adverse re-
port to be made on the bill to organize the
entire Indian Territory into the Territory
of Oklahoma.
The Iowa Senate on the 25th passed u
bill restricting counsel as to the length of
speeches in civil and criminal law cases.
THE National Editorial Association in
session at Cincinnati on the 25th elected c..
II. Jones, of Florida, president for the en-
suing year, and decided to hold the next
convention at Denver in June next.
GENERAL HAzEN, of the Signal Service,
on the 25th sued the New York Times for
S100, 600 damages for libel.
THE Indiana Republican State Central
Committee met at indianapolis on the 25th
and organized by electing State Senator
Huston, of Fayette County, as chairman.
Born houses of the Virginia Legislature
on the 25th passed a l~ocal-optien law.
THE fund for the benefit of Mrs. General
Hancock had on the 18th reached the sum
Of s35, 000.
AT u conference of labor leaders at Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the 25th it was decided to
send q representative committee of work.
ing-men to Washington to advocate the in
terests of tariff before Congress.
THE New York State Senate on the Goth
passed the bill ceding to the United States
| the Drexel cottage at Mount MacGregor,
where General Grant died.
ANDREW HESS, q soldier under the first
Napoleon, died at Erie, Pa, on the Goth,
aged ninety-two years.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-03-12
An International Labor Movement.

PARIS, Feb. 26.-The Socialist members
OF the Chamber Of Deputies joined in send
ing a telegram to the British worklnen in
the House Of Commons proposing a Joint
international movement in the interest
OF laboring men," Tho main objects OF
the proposed movement are to be the
securing OF a reduction in the hours
OF labor, improvement in the sanitary
condition OF workshops, proper limits to
the work obtained OF women and minors,
and an absolute prohibition against allow
ing children OF either sex under fourteen
years OF age to york at all in shops or fac
tories. The telegram suggests hat the
british workmcn join those OF France in
inviting the workmen of America and
Europe TO send delegates to a congress to
be held next September in some place to
be hereafter designated, for the purpose of
discussing means to manipulate the work.
men OF all countries"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-03-12
LATER NEWS.

CREpKESENTAT1vE WoLFoRD, of Kentucky,
who was q Colonel in the Union army,
made Il speech i'll the National House of
Representatives on the 9th ult., giving
credit to the Southern members for voting
for all the pensions asked. He then gave
notice that he would introduce u bill TO
give to every Confederate soldier in need
of it an artificial leg or arm.
REV. SAM JOKES commenced revival
services in Chicago on the 2Sth ult.
AT twenty-six leading clearinghouse in
the United States the exchanges during
the week ended on the 9th u!t. aggregated
SS1o,5SO,43S against $685., 80, 1872 the pre-
vious week. AS compared with the CORE
spending week Of 1885, the increase mounts
to 21.6 per cent.
MANY of the most ilustrious citizens Of
France celebrated in q Paris theater on the
9th ult. the eighty-fourth anniversary of
the birth of Victor Hugo, in presence of his
grandchildren.
Mrs GRANT on the 9th ult. received a
cheek for 100000, i'll part payment of her
snare III the dead Generals autobiography.
Tie gale reported along the Northern At
lantic coast continued on the 9th ulte with
but little abatement in violence. New York
City suffered severely.
SECRETARY LAMAR has asked Attorney
General Garland to bring suit against tim
Der thieves trespassing on school lands in
Washington Territory.
AT st. Paul, Mimi, Theodore P. Rich, of
Coblcskill, n. Y. shot and killed his wife a
few days ago. He had tracked his wife to
st. Paul, whittier she had eloped with DR..
ii. S. Gale, of Cobleskill.
ADvlCEs of the 2Sth nit. say that q snow
storm had been raging for three daysi in
Eastern Maine. Streets were piled with
snow from two to ton feet high in drifts
and country roads twenty to thirty. Some
~farm-houses We're entirely buried and much
suffering ensued.
A BOAT which left the wrecked steamer
ldlewild, off Stamford, Conn, with eleven
men, was on the 2Sth ult. reported lost with
all on board.
MAN about forty yearsof age went over
the American falls ut Niagara on the, 18th
ult. and was dashed to pieces.
On a wager Maxine Boyler drank six
teen glasses of whisky in q saloon at Bos-
ton, Mass, on the 9th uk., but died soon
afterward.
The charge made before Congress- by
Senior Moreno, of New York. that thousands
OF Italians are held in bondage in the
united States, is pronounced false by Con-
suls in New York and Chicago.
A TERRIFIC snow-stolm, with high wind
prevailed at Quebec, Can, on the 9th ult.,
and all railway travel was suspended.
IHE United States Senate was not in ses-
sion on the 9th ult. In the House discus
sion OF the Silver Coinage and Mexican
Pension bills occupied the session
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-03-12
Destitute In His Old Age.

DETROIT, Mich, Feb. 2G.-Donald Nc
Lellan, aged one hundred and twenty, is
living in destitute circumstances in this
city. Fifty years ago, being then an old
man, he came to this country from Scot
land, where his grandfather had been IL
compatriot OF the famous Rob Roy. What
support he gets is from a son-in-law, Will
lam Alien, aged seventy-six. Allen is Il vet.
eran OF the Seminole war and the war of
the rebellion, but being without wounds
can not draw Il pension. Mcclellan has
never been able to learn English, bat CON
verses only in Gaelic.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-03-12
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Interesting News Compilation.
CONGRESSIONAL.

Mr.. CALL introduced a bill in the Senate on
the 23d providing that in all cases of homestead
entry where the homesteadcr or his widow or
his children resided upon and cultivated the
land for five years, patents therefor shall be
granted, although final proof was not made
proof may be made at any time and the
bill appropriating. $4,000 for u monu-
of General Grant was passed., and a
favorable report was made on a bill to confirm
the entries made under the public land laws.
The Educational bill was further considered.
In the House a bill to forfeit the uncurned
land grant of the Atlantic 4 Pacific road was
passed. A resolution was reported directing
that the surplus in the treasury be paid out
Committee of the Whole. A bill was also re.
ported granting pensions to all invalid SOL
dicrs or their widows or children who'nre de-
pendent on their daily labor for a living.
BILLS were passed in the Senate on the gath
to permit National banks to change their To-
cation within thirty miles and take new
names by Il vote OF two-thirds of their share
holders, and nppropriating S210,000 for the re-
lief of settlers in Nebraska and Kansas who
have been deprived OF their lands by Il prior
grant to the Northern Kansas rail
road. The Educational bill was further
discussed. A bill was introduced by Mr..
Miller IN. W, to establish a postal savings de-
posttory rs n branch Of the Post-Onice De
purtmcnt, In the House the Senate bill to
quiet the titles of settlers on. the Des Moines
river lands in o and the bill anneXing the
northern part of Idaho Territory to Washing
ton Territory were passed. A resolution was
adopted calling on the Secretary Of the Navy
FOR a complete list of the officers now on the
retired list, together with the reasons for
which they were placed thereon.
A BILL was passed In the Senate on the 25tll
to provide allotments of land in severulty TO
the Indians. Bills were introduccd: BY Mt
Edmunds. providing for tho inspection Of
meats for expectation and prohibiting the i'm
portation of adnltcrated articles Of food and
drink; by Mr.. Logan. to regulate commerce
sllnong the several States....ln the House
kS207, sos, and the Post-o1lice Appropriation
was presented from one hundred and twenty
two savings banks in New York asking for
the repeal of the Bland Silver law. y lengthy
debate took place over the Pension Appro.
printion bill. The Speaker appointed Mr..
Wilkins o., as Il member of the on
Education, in place OF Mr.. Curtin (Pa), cX-
cused.
THE time of the Senate on the Goth was de-
voted to discussing the Educational and anti
Chinese bills. %. In the Houses resolution was
adopted that Il select committee of nine mem
bcrs be appointed to inquire into the Pan
Electric telephone matter and report whether
amy officer of the Government had been I'M
properly influenced. The Immediate De-
ticicncy bill was reported. AT the evening
session iwenty-eight pension bills were passed.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-03-12
A Hcart-Fenhing Accident-Twin Sisters
Caught by IL Revolving Shaft.

READING, Pa, Feb. GA man named
Lille owns a mill at Shamokin Hill, Pa.
His twin daughters, Kat, and Susie, aged
SIX years, strayed to an upstairs room
yesterday where IL shaft was revo wing.
The little ones renturcd too neal the ma
cl1inery and their clothing caught in the
shaft. After having been thrown around
for an hour th"y were found by an older
sister. When the machinery was stopped
their bodies were found to be terribly lace
rated. Katie was dead and Susie has but
little chance OF re;S very.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-03-12
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

TIE second IL concluding volume of
MI. Blaine's ''Twenty Years of Congress-
was published on the 23d. 1t embraces the
period between Johnson's installation as
President and Garield's election.
THE Tennessee State Temperance Al
lance met at Nashville on the os3d, dele
gates from tw~enty-nine counties being
present. Reports showed that prohibition
was rapidly gaining ground in the State.
The National Law and Order League at
its annual session at Cincinnati on the 23d
adopted a resolution requesting all minis
ters throughout the United States to preach
a sermon on the duties of Christian citizen
ship on the second Sunday o. February
next.
The Haley Eight-Hour Labor bill, which
includes mechanics. manufactures and
mining, passed the Ohio House on the 223d.
JOHN S. LAVENDER, one of the original
free-State leaders in Missouri, who rose to
the rank of Brigadier-General in the Union
rmie of the Southwest, died in st. Louis
on the 223d, aged sixty-two years.
FREDERICK WHITE, a prominent banker
in Wall street, New York, died in his car
riage on Staten Island on the 2s3d, as he
was starting for his office.
Tie lowe Legislature on the 23d passed
the Mccoy bill exenpting from taxation
the homesteads of the widows of soldiers
who fell i'll the war OF died of injuries re-
ceived therein.
THoMAs r. HrDD Dem.) was on the 23d
elected in the Fifth Wisconsin district to
succeed the late Joseph Rankin in Con
gress.
The National House Committee on Post
Offices and Post Roads completed it's repu-
lar appropriation bill on the 9th for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1887. 1t appro-
PIRATES s54,326, SIS, which is an increase of
S625,5 sos over the fiscal year of 1856.
I THOMAS A. EDISON, the electrician. was
married ut Akron, O., on the 9th to Miss
Mini Miller.
LIE funeral services over the remains of
the Late John B.. Cough took place at Bowl
ston, Mass, on the 24th.
The Virginia Legislature on the 9th
passed a bill which provides that a major
lty OF voters, not a majority of those voting
at previous elections, shall determine
whether liquor shall be sold in hes State OF.
not.
The Iowa House on the oath passed a bill
providing for a penalty for the use of OBJ
scene language in the presence of others.
The Maryland State Senate Oh the 9th
passed Il bill reducing the fee for marriage
licenses from four dollars and fifty cents to
one dollar.
HEN N. WALKER, q w%ell-known citizen
OF Detroit, who was the first president of the
Western Associated Press, died on the 4th,
aged s~eyenty-three years.
A LIQUOR Independently the same as
the old Scott aw-was passed by the Ohio
house on the 9th.
THE pioneer legislators of Iowa, nearly
two hundred i'll number, held a reunion at
Des Moines on the oath.
WHILE addressing the convention of the
ex-members of the Iowa Legislature at Des
Moines on the afternoon of the 18th Judge
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-03-12
Arrested for tile Aldridge Outrage

WINDSOR, Ill.,, March 1.-William !
a %nelShbor of the Aldridge '"A
and suspected OF being the "'
OF the Georgia Aldridgc hanging
rage was arrested at Shelby'lle'
on Saturday. 1t is said that Their
been Ill feeling for some time between ;
and AIdridgc, and that the former
ms dastardly method OF getting 1
The preliminary examination Occur
Gay. Miss Georgia Aldridge is SUI
iiilcd to her room, and is in SO weah"l
cltlon that it is deemed best nat to ~
ier to attend the examination. Sn'
able to walk alone and site up but D"1
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-03-12
Clara Louise KELLOGG rcccn11vu,2

CLARA Louise Kellogg recently Made
her ilrst concert tour through the South.
She had always wanted to visit the land
OF the cotton plant and the vine because
she was born there, and vet there is
not a drop of Southern blood in her
veins. She is really a Yankee, but dur.
ing the carly years OF their married
lie her parents went to the South and
spent TWO or three years at Sumter.
:. e., where Clara Louisa was born
and lived until she had attained tbs
mature age of nine months. Miss kel.
lo2g, by the way, vas named afte,
Clara Novello, for whom both as :
singer and a oma her mother Mad
the highest admiration.-N. Y. Herald
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1886-05-22
DarExesYille.

Plenty Of rain. Farmers grum-
bling. Boys happy wasting powder.
A terrible storm visited the North
ern section Of Frederick and the
Southern section Of this county, last
Saturday evening. Hetrick's church
at Welltown was unroofed and Hen
ry B. Pitzer's fine orchard was COM
pletely demolished. In the vicinity
Of Middleway hail was very destruc-
tive. One farmer is reported to
have suffered a loss of five thousand
dollars. II. N. Stewart and son
Claud had q narrow escape from a
tree falling on their team in Mr..
Strong's woods. As for the blow
ing down of the shanty ask Geo.
Markle. We can't report it in his
language.
The old M Il. Church in this
place, d. A. Ford, Pastor, has been
pulled down, and new one is to be
erected on the old site. The Mite
Society of this church serve ice
cream every Saturday evening, and
will continue it throughout the sea-
son. Come ont, We SHERMAN In
vincibles,' and try your anolncible
courage, armed with some of Johns
anuinctble Treasury notes, and by
your prowess, delight the hearts of
the ladies OF the society.
Glen Lyle is busily engaged in
organizing q circus, to compete with
Barnum. He has already sent a
complimentary to Colston.
CASUAL.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1886-05-22
MARTINsBURG. w VA. SATURDAY MAY g. 1886

Washington, when quite number of
them were arrested and brought to
Winchester, Va. and confined in Fort
Loudon, which then was fortress
near the latter town, being erected
for the defense of the inhabitants
against the incursions of the n. A /.
savages. After the war was ended
and peace declared, the broad acres
of Apple-pie Ridge, the country near
by, attracted the attention of these
people, who settled upon it forming
colony of respectable people num-
erically strong, composing a very
considerable portion of the settlers
at that period of time. They erected
a church or Friends meeting house
with q cemetery for the dead, called
"Hopewell," which at that time was
largely attended by many members,
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1886-05-22
Hedgesvilie.

Among recent arrivals are Mrs.
Myers and sister, of Keyser,W. Va,
L. M. Shaffer, of Martinsburg, Mr..
Bowen and wife, Val. Wilson,
Gerardstown.
Mrs. S. Payne and family, accom-
panied by Mrs Dr. Harris, made q
flying visit to Hagerstown on Tues
day last.
1t is rumored that z. 2. Beall,
will have his residence, recently pur-
chased from the heirs Of the late DR..
T. j. Harley, weather boarded and
otherwise improved.
Mr.. Eugene Miller and Joseph
Cairo visited Bunker Hill on Satur-
day last.
Mr.. j. S. Vermilyea, so report de-
clares, will erect store room at
Cherry Run for general merchan-
dising.
Mr.. Timothy Nihon and G. NJ.
Cornelious, when not otherwise en-
gagged, practice the horticultural art
within the village limits,
A man residing near Petersburg
in the Beaver Greek valley, lost two
children during the past week from
Diptheria, they were both inferred
in Snyders's Church cemetery on
! the same day.
Mrs. Kate Sommers, who has been
visiting her mother for some time
returned taa.llasHsaotse In slowaRllrlssi
on the 18th inst.
Lewis Woolford, is rapidly com.
pleting his wagon making shops,
and will then be in readiness for
manufacture of every thing in that
line.
b. w. oyer still conducts live
ny stable at this point and is pre-
pared to furnish residents and travel
ers with all sorts of conveyances.
William Miller, of Bunker Hill,
was in our midst on Monday last,
posting bills for sale of machinery,
carried by the firm of j. II. Miller
& Son.
Messrs. Crawford and Gunnells,
drummers, visited the merchants at
this point on Tuesday. REPORTERS.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1886-05-22
Vanclevesville.

1t was our privilege to spend last
Sabbath in the vicinity of Jones'
Spring. In the U. B. Church of that
place quarterly meeting was held,
Rev. j. ID. Freed, pastor. The relig-
ious services during the day were
very interesting. At 10 o'clock on
Sabbath morning, after preaching,
sacrament was administered. At 8
o'clock, p. m. children's meeting.
The church was well filed. Revs.
Maycelles and Freed delivered spicy
and interesting addresses. There
was preaching again at z o'clock.
We were permitted to meet Rev. Mr..
Pardew Of the M. Il. Church, who as
sisted in the administration of the
Holy Eucharist. Rev. Pardew is an
affable, genial gentleman, and is ac-
complishing much good on his charge.
Rev. DIR. Freed is much esteemed by
the people, and we predict for him,
on his new charge, successful fu-
ture. And last, but not least, we
were permitted to meet at their
homes some frst-class families, as for
instance Mr.. Jos. Kitchen, Mr.. KEGS,
and others, We venture the asser-
ton that more generous and hospita-
BILE people are not to be found any
where. In the sitting-rooms of these
iatalhg0lss and happy laomesswe found
the Independent, your excellent pa.
per, on this wise it should be in eve
ry home in the county. But for the
lack of railroad facilities, Jones'
Spring would be grand summer
resort
Specimens of penmanship of the
pupils in our school were sent off By
their teacherfor examination and have
been returned with the following re
suits: First grade, j. Nepton Evers
second grade, Miss Mile Miller.
Last Saturday afternoon q terrific
storm passed over this section. The
rain fell in torrents, doing some dam
age
With our farmers, hundreds Of
acres of ground remain implanted,
the detention caused by continuous
heavy rains.
Mr.. Charles Hosier, in consequence
of continued illness, has been put on
the retired railroad list. Ho has oui
sympathy.
Mr.. Daniel Getzendanner has pur-
chased O new traction engine and
threshing machine.
Mr.. Bogart lost fine two year old
colt last week.
The Dayton Hedge Fence Co. are
engaged in planting hedge for some
of our farmers
There will be preaching at Friend
ship q. b. Church next Sabbath
evening.
Rev. Yordy, of Maryland, preached
last Sunday evening in the bunker
Church, at Winebrenner's X-roads.
ANON