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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
Saved Her

A mother showed remarkable presence of
mind i'll preserving the lives of her children
at Sea Island City, N. j., when her house
was blown down in the recent storm. The
lady sad that She felt the house rocking
and was about to leave and go to a neigh
bors, when she felt the braces give way
n the house being raised. She thought
fully threw herself upon the floor and drew
her three children to her, which action. no
doubt, saved the lives of all, for had thew
been standing all would have been crushed.
After the fall of the house, by the aid of
the constant lightning, n of the boys was
enabled to make his way between two
trunks, bat Carl refused to leave his mother
until the baby, which was in a cot, had
been found. He had CROPPED about and at
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
New Zealand,s Volcanoes.

The steamer Mariposa, which has arrived
in San Francisco from Australia, brings
further details of great volcanic disturb
ances which lately occurred in New Zea-
land. Heavy earthquakes continue in
Tarawera and the Sulphur Springs dis
tricts. Severe earthquakes continue to be
felt in the Rotodi district. A relief party
sent out reported that Lake Tarawera had
fallen considerably. The oil bath at
Whakarewareda was throwing up stones
and mud to a height of twenty feet, and the
great boiling lagoon Papatangi would sud-
denly rise as much as two feet and then as
quickly fall. Similar phenomena were OBJ
served at Kuirraua Cauldron, which would
rise two feet in half an hour, then as sud-
denly return to it's norma. level. Mr.. Din
sey, the telegraph officer in charge of Roto-
rue Station, near where the eruptions and
earthquakes were heaviest, reported June
rs hat volcano No. l was dead, and Nos. .
and 3 We're steaming. No. 4 was still
throwing up mud. Lake Rotomahana was
comparatively quiet; only one geyser in the
center was playing. The Park Terrace
geysers were still blowing up clouds of
steam, but were less active than thev had
been. The immense crevasse created be-
tween White Terrace and Tarawera con-
tinued TO steam, and the cone on top of
Tarawera Mountain was throwing out vol
nmes of black smoke and steam. 1t is re-
ported that every human being has ADAM
doned the entire portion of the country
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
The oleomargarine Bin.

L
/ Senator Miller says the notion that the
N~eomargarine bill was emasculated in the
Senate, or materially weakened in any way,
iswithout foundation. While the farmers
hal fixed a 5 per cent. tax, and while he
wo}ked to secure it, still the rate of tax was
not The important feature of the bill. The
evil bought to be cured was the practice of
putting on the market, under the guise and
in tho name Of butter, a variety of fraudu-
lent limitations. The machinery devised to
prevent this, Senator Miller says, is re-
tanned in all its vigor in the bill as it became
a law. Oleomargarine and all limitations Of
butter must henceforth be put up in stamped
and branded packages, and must stand on
their own merits. The penalties for viola
ton are severe, and the machinery for the
detection of evasion and for the enforce
ment of the law is as near perfection rs the
experience of the Internal Revenue Dapart-
mems could invent. One incidental but
very important result of the passage of the
act, he says, will be the aid it will furnish
10 Safe authorities to carry out their own
laws on the subject. Heretofore, however
stringent the State law may have been, it
has been extremely dif1icult-almost impos-
sible-to execute it by reason of the fact
that limitations of butter made in neighbor-
ing States could come across the border I'M
changed, and there was no way except by
chemical analysis-both expensive and
slow-to detect fraud.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
Another Belfast Riot.

A riot took place at Belfast, Ireland, be-
tween Orangemen employed in the Queens
Island ship yard and Catholic navies en-
ployed by the Harbor Commissioners. The
fighting was very severe for a time, and a
number Of men on both sides were SO badly
injured that they had to be removed to the
hospital. The conflict was resumed in the
evening. The fighting was the most des-
perate that has taken place since the recent
troubles. The mob was infatuated and
fought with savage energy. Fifty parsons
were injured, some of them, it is thought,
fatally. Terrible struggles occurred on the
Shankhill road. The police quartered in
Mckenna's Tavern, on the old Lodge road,
were attacked by q mob with stones and re-
volvers and were compelled to fire from the
windows of the ~beleasuered house. During
this attack eighteen persons were injured
and We're subsequently taken to the hospi-
tails. A youth named jackson is said to be
dying from injuries. -Four police were
badly wounded. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach,
Chief Secretary for Ireland, has written to
Mayor Harland, of Belfast, saying that the
lord justices are seriously concerned about
the condition of affairs in Belfast, and con-
slder it important that the most energetic
measures be taken to terminate the dis
orders which are bringing discredit and
disgrace upon the town." The Inspector
General of the Irish constabulary has been
ordered to proceed to Belfast as promptly
rs Dossih1a.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
Cattle Placue in M;sso,r;

The farmers of Cook County NI;sso,,;
aye experiencing a scare on account of the
appearance of a malady among their cattle
that is generally attended with fatal results.
1t thought TO be the disease known rs
Texas fever, and to have been introduced
among cattle in that vicinity by the import
alton OF a lot of young Texas cattle that
were shipped into the town recently by a
stock firm near Wayland. One farmer is
reported to have lost fifteen head, while
others have suffered smaller losses. That
section suffered severely from a similar
scourge abont five years ago, and the farm
ing community is terribly alarmed at the
temperance of the malady.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
subtcrranean Water Supply.


Interest in the deep subterranean water
supply underlying Dakota continues great
i'll the southeastern part of the Territory
where ~artesian wells already struck continue
to produce prodigious amounts of water.
That at Yankton flows 1,000,0 900 barrels
of water per day, and is to be converted
into a water power; this is a considerable
river squirting out of the ground. Miller
has one that flows 400, 900, Huron one that
throws out soc, 900 barrels per day. and Alb
erdeen another that flows 400, 900 barrels
per day; Plankinton one of like dimensions
and Diana has ten wells of enormous ca
pacity. Thus it may be estimated that
10000, 900 barrels of water are every day
pumped from the great ocean underlying
Dakota. Twenty million barrels of water
represent 1890, 600, 900 gallons or 78,200,-
OO0,000 cubic inches, sufficient to make a
lake each day covering upwards Of two Sec
tions of land a foot deep.
In most parts of the Black Hills there is
not the same need for an artificial supply,
SO well watered are the Hills and foothills;
but there are portions of our rancho and
grazing lands that would be greatly bene-
fitted by the flow of such wells. Indeed, a
supply Of such magnitude as that at Yank-
ton would be of great value anywhere
There is every reason, geological and me-
chanical, that as great or greater subterran-
can reservoirs exist around the Black
Hills. The mountains are full of springs,
and probably not one tenth Of their output
passes off i'll the creeks and rivers. The
sinking and disappearance of streams is one
Of the commonest of Black Hills phenom-
IA. These must follow underground the
nv ,,1 s,>o1:,,o ~ $1~~o F~,,~,%,,,,, ,.l:.1,
slope away in every direction f.om the
granite peaks.
Knowing these general facts one might
reasonably expect to intercept those streams
at more frequent intervals and even less
depth than do the ~artesian wells farther
east. 1t may be possible; is indeed quite
likely, that the great subterranean lakes
or reservoirs underneath Eastern Dakota
are fed by Black Hills springs. If SO, the
drill ought to intercept the supply at al
most any point between.-Rapid City Re
publican.
An Ancient Landmark Obliterated.
One Of Dakota's ancient landmarks is to
be obliterated. The War Department has
decided to abandon Fort Abraham Lincoln
as a military post and remove the garrison
to other points. This fort lies west of the
Missouri River, two miles from Bismark.
The country around Bismarck has become
we'll settled, and there are few Indians, SO
that the necessity of the post has disap-
peared. This post was established in 1871,
and was for a number of years the head
quarters of the Seventh Cavalry and Gen.
Custer. From Fort Lincoln that ll-starrad
officer started on his expedition into the
Big Horn country and terminated his Gu
reer in the memorable massacre of ten
years ago. Lincoln was for many years
the base Of active operations against the
hostile Sioux. 1t has outlived its useful
ness.--Yankton Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
Wanted n Heavy Man.

Through the coating of coal dust that
covered his face as he leaned against a cart
in a prominent coal yard could be seen an
expression of woe.
why SO sad?" a wayfarer asked of the
disconsolate coal cart driver.
They've got a new man in my place."
What was the matter, and how did it
happen?"
We'll, it was this way: I was sitting in
my cart yesterday while the load was being
my Services would be no Ion longer n'' required q d."
But there must have been some reason
for your discharge"
There was, he mournfully replied; the
new man weighs seventy-five pounds more
than / dc. "-Cincinnati Commercial Co.
sette.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
Bloody Riots Again Take Place
at Belfast, with Fatal
Results.
Continuance of Volcanicl Dis.
turbances and Earthquakes
in New Zealand.
Foreign Affairs, Criminal Happenings,
and Miscellaneous TelegraphlcI
Intelligence.
CONVERSATIONAL Proceedinesl

THE Senate took up during the progress OF the
secret session of the 5th inst. the resolutiR pro-
viding for final adjournment, and having
amended it fixed the time at 4 o'clock in tn af-
ternoon. In open session Of the Senate Mr.. Alli-
son moved to take up the final adjournment rec.
olution. Mr.. Harris tthe chair being occupied
by MI. Hswley) offered a resolution OF thanks to
impartiality with which he had presided over
the Senate during the present session, The
question was put and the chair declared the res
olution unanimously adopted. Adjournment was
then announced. Mr.. Morrison, of Illinois,
offered a resolution i'll the House Of Representa-
tives granting tho committee appointed to in
vestigate the labor troubles in the West, permits
sion to sit during the recess, with all the powers
granted to it i'll the original resolution providing
for it's appointment, and the resolution was
adopted. On motion of Mi. Springer the ad-
journment resolution was taken up and tho
amendment of the Senate fixing the hour OF nd
journment at 4 o'clock was concurred in. After
the discussion of several unimportant bills, etc.,
the Speaker declared the House adjourned sine
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
The Lovers Quarrel.

"Then you will not waltz with me?" and
his face suddenly took on a dark look.
Il can not, Clarence, she said in a half
whisper. She was probably running short
on whispers, and didn't care to waste any
whole ones where halves would do lust as
we'll.
And I tell you, proud gyrul, that ere the
electric light man shall turn the stop-cock
which shall leave this gay ball room in ut
ter. dismal darkness, you shall waltz with
me-"
A quarter of an hour later found him
striding restlessly to and fro on the balcony.
He had been a Splinter in his earlier days,
and was therefore thoroughly competent as
a strider.
$50, So" he muttered. $50, SO! 1 have
a rival" He suddenly paused. He thought
he had heard some one say chestnut, " but
it was only the fantasy Of an over-heatel
brain. Clarence was becoming very care
less about over-heating his brain. Rash
and impetuous that he was, he never
stopped to think that he might want to use
it. yet, l was hasty," he unused. II will
go back and recall my harsh words"
She wat sitting motionless where he had
left her.
Clarence" she said between her sobs-a
kind of sob-sandwich, as it were-"why did
you not let me explain?"
Tel me, then, why you blufed me
thus?' and he became suddenly severe us
the memory of his cruel wrong was revived.
Il could not waltz with you"
Why not?"
Il have a 2x3 bunion."
Darling, forgive me. l will make every
PREPARATION in my power. Which would YOU
rather have, ice cream OF lemonade?"-
Merchant Iraueler.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20

Maroellus Daugherty is a NJ.
breed and one of the most eA'can
the State. For the last vear 00S U
has been shooting up the conn.a a b
calendar of his rows in that ,;n'y'
a book. He started with q dasS Sou
ton row in Cotulla eighteen pefa1e
and since then has had twenty or ,sl'
trays, a good many Of them f..a a i
other men. The Cotulla peon,s
trouble when he appeared in e1p|
time. If they could nave cancs soS1
would have been lynched. A' y
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
CONDENSED DlspArcu,

The annual convention of tho "
Association of American Bankers ~
Boston with a full attendance of ds,s1
President Gage delivered the onen;S
dress, in which he treated of the W.
greater safeguards against foroe,s
dwelt upon the disastrous resn1t
wouldlfollow the unlimited COINAGE :
yer. He also spoke of the great W.
men who would be able to bring into '
lar view the true relations of labor All
ital. The Secretary reported the ~
membership of the association at lls
increase of about 100 during ths
Good work is reported done durin,
year in punishment of criminals who's,
fenses have been committed against
ing institutions. ..
Four conyicts made an attemm,
cape from the State Penitentiary nj
mosa, Iowa. Paddy Ryan, in for six '
was shot through the left shoulde,
down through the heart, dying inst,
Mitchell, the man who murdered Tim
the railroad bridge near Cedar R.,
about one year ago, and who was seDI
life, was shot in the leg, which will be
putated. 1t is thought he will die. n
ms, sent from Maquoketa for ten year
murder, was the only one that ESCAPED
%juries. About Il week ago the west
was knocked down by a railroad en-,
had been boarded up, and it was third
this they made the break. Only one
got through. The guard did good Vi
and the warden and citizens express ID
selves as greatly pleased with the
craftsmanship.
UNITED STATES MINISTER PEND1r,
at Berlin, has received q furlough from
Government. He will go to Switzetl
His daughter has recovered from her
ness and prostration ensuing from
mothers tragic death in Central Park,
York. Chapman Coleman, First Lieu
adj of the American Legation. will con
the business of the Office during PEI
toms absence.
The President has appointed VIM
Langford to be Associate Justice of thu
preme Court of Washington Territory,
S. G. Wingard, suspended, and G..
Hoorebeke, to be United States Att
for the Southern District of Illinois,
J.. G. Connolly, suspended. These
among the nominations left over.
AT Conneaut, Ohio, Mrs. Slough,
of a laborer, went to the river to wash,
ing her three children with her. OF
the little ones fell into the water, 81
the effort to rescue it the mother d
three children were drowned. The h
were found close together in six ft
water.
DANIEL HAGGARTY. of Baltimore,
been appointed Assistant Superintends
the Railway Mail Service, and will be
signed to duty in the Office Of Second
sistant Postmaster General Knott.
COMMISSIONER SPARKS, of the Ge
Land Office, left Washington for Edwa
vile, ILL.,, in obedience to a telegram
nouncing the death Of his wife's sister.
HE Acting Comptroller of the Cur
has authorized the First National Ban
Franklin, Neb., to begin business, wi
capital Of $60, O00.
The Postmaster General has issue,
order directing that hereafter all mails
Mexico be sent by rail, crossing the be
at Ell Paso, Tex.
THREE daughters of Henry Wynn
fisherman of Far Rockaway, New !
were drowned off Breeze Point, whilet
ing. The girls were aged from $
wears.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
A NIurderous Mexican

AZ ootulla' Tex, Marcellus Daugherty
got INTO a row with a man named Ho,-
WOOD Aarwood fired at D~augherty. The
shot missed and struck Deputy Marshal
mcNe'l IN the neck, the bullet going
through he is very seriously injured. The
e'.'zens tried to lynch Daugherty, but the
latter fed. He was pursued, but escanaa
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20

last found the infant nearly dead. TIE
mother md children then made their es-il
cane. A second after they left the back
mart of the house fell over upon the spot
from which they had just escaped. Mrs.
MCLAUGHLIN and the children were taken in
by the ~neighbors and cared for. The mother
then became very weak and swooned. :
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-09-30
New Men in Congress.

The great proportion of Lew men
that have been nominated for Con-
gress this year is exciting comment.
One newspaper states that one-half
of the Democratic nominations in
Democratic districts are new men,
and the probability is that the same
proportion of new men have been
named by Republicans in districts in
which that party has the majority,
While there is in one sense a good
deal of comfort in this fact, it is not
an unmixed good. There are some
members of Congress who ought to
be rotated out of Office as speedily as
possible, but there are others that
ought to be kept in. The trouble is
that sometimes the bad ones get back
and the good ones are defeated.
Resides that new men however able
and well adapted to the duties are not
as efficient on the floor as experienced
members. One of the evils of Con
gressional service is the hardness
with which Legislation is passed
New members and the large body are
responsible for this. The next Con-
gress may not be as efficient as it
ought to be, though it may be an
honest and well intentioned body.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-09-30
For Congress-, 4th District,
HON. n. c. BLANCHARD,
Of Caddo.
RESOLUTIONS
adopted BY Fourth Congressional Distrie
Nominating Coasentiom, Auyust3.

Be it resolved by the Democracy of the 4th
Conversational District Of Louisiana, in con-
vention assembled, That We heartily indorse
and commend the course of our present dis
tipcuished member of Congress, the Hon.
Newton G Blanchard, throughout his three
Resolved, That we thoroughly appreciate
his close and jealous attention to the wants of
his constituents and his devotion to the i'm me-
date needs of the Fourth District, at the same
fine noting with pride and pleasure his steady
growth and rise in the general Congress into
the front rank Of representative Southern
men, one whose views are treated with great
respect, who occupies the careful attention of
the Speaker and members of the House Of
Representatives, and whose comprehensive
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-09-30
News Notes.

An immigration company has been
organized at Birmingham, Ala.
Slight earthquake shocks were felt
at Charleston at 2 and 4 o'clock Tues
day morning.
Wonderful copper mines are said
to have been discovered near Sud-
bury, Ontario.
There were four preachers on the
grand jury of Calhoun county, Miss,
at its recent sitting.
Forty-fve persons were killed and
sixteen wounded Friday in a coal pit
near Schalke, Rhenish Prussia.
Geo. M. Bartholomew, President
of the Charter Oak Life Insurance
Company is short $127, 900 in his &C.
counts, and a reseiver has been asked
for. $3.50
Advices from New Zealand say that
White Island volcano is in state of
active eruption, and that a column OF
fame and smoke 100 feet in diameter
issues from the crater.
Twenty weli-to-do Illinois farmers
arrived at West Point, Mississippi,
seeking homes recently. They ex-
pressed themselves as delighted with
the country and people. o
Cornelius Vanderbilt is to have a
100000 club house and library built
for tie free use of the employees of
the Vanderbilt roads. In the build
ing will be baths, a gymnasium, a
cafe and a reading room. aa
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-09-30

controversy over the battle of Get
tysbnrg. especially the position taken
by one of the corps of the Federal
army, is an instance in point where
the testimony of Gen. Long, who
himself was an eyewitness and car
ried the order from the command OF
the Confederate forces directing the
movements of the troops, will be OF
great weight and service in arriving
at the truth of the whole question.
The book is sold by subscription only.
A descriptive circular giving full
dstails of the book will be sent on
application.
m cfnddarf q Ha puhIiehare
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-09-30

Referring to the September crop
report, the New York Herald says
"While American farmers have not
fully realized their expectations this
autumn they have done as well as
those of other countries
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-09-30

Savannah News: sLet timid peo-
pic remember that neither Virgins
nor De Voc predicted the great earth
quake Of August 81 until after that
date"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-09-30

b is to be hoped that Col. D. B.
Penn, independent candidate for
Congress IN the Second COMPRESSION
81 District o.. this State, hasn't put
his furs away in camphor. There is
going to be fearfully cold wave
strike him on November I'd.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-09-30

The Capitolian-Advocate says:
'There are enough idle lands of the
finest quality IN East Baton Rouge
to give homes to q thriving popula
ton Of 100000. Can not something
he done to draw the attention of the
world to these advantagesf"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-09-30

In the Democratic Convention for
the Third Congressional District,
held Saturday at Franklin, Hon. Ed
j. Gay was renominated by acclama-
ton to represent his District in the
Fiftieth Congress. Nh, Gays success
is due entirely to his personal popu-
larity and fitness. s. ett hE
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-09-30

The people of Charleston have
gone bravely to work to rebuild their
wasteplaces-, They heve the prayers
and sympathies of the civilized world.
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Col VIM. Preston Johnston, Pres
ident of Tulane University, says:
" Before another census is taken there
will be grand educational revolu-
ton in Louisiana. Among the most
potent agencies which is to effect
this changeis Tulane University
Less than four years ago Paul Tulane
began his benefactions, and to-day he
sees the university bearing his name
with nearly 600rstudents; museum
evoked as if by magic from the col.
lections of the two great exposltions
in the city; course Of study en-
bracing all departments from the
high school to the university, and a
manual school, not aseparate depart
ment of the university, but it's me-
chanical workshop or laboratory" Ii