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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-03
citv Iowa, Correspondence. !

-, Dakota.
by en- ne loss of life is shown to have been
II n al The largest in Dakota. The follow
hoo summary shows the names of
A. III, VINO persisted, thus far reported:
G. Geo hitchcock, Emil Gilbeltson; Mitchell,
Jaw jam, Alien e. ~, Joseph Anderson; Minot,
W,n 'I NJ smith and two sons; Raymond,
l,n r Df, ~ and two sons, Charles Heath;
l ar. \; !; .. Gilkeson, Robert Cham
Nc,s , Ehll Gilman, Thomas and William
WI ill;'a, and an unknown man; Aberdeen,
Mr. ''i phi Love, Judson Westgate; Bowdle,
III il ra "lle; Eoscoe, Peter Terhume; Vir
Wilson, A Nlrison, William Nirison, JOS.
S]r sS'h i. lroquois, J. W. Goslee.
Ton py VI Adam Gerner; Parks
Kiss w. @o B. Headley; Delamare,
know Cora Curtis; Brookings, I'M
St .U"n Young man; Claremonf, Miss
three srss' o'hsn,, of Amherst, dead, and
farmoruo 'ners missing; Watertown, four
Vile ~ dead 'and three missing; Lester
not lno Mo men and two children, names
Alt;,m Mno%n; Gary, Chas. Staltzenberg. Of
his d nad =. started to procure a coffin for
Two cbi,s son and has not been heard from.
west est e on ,1 of Joseph Hutchinson, living
from scn mere, persisted while going home
>A'0l; Sioux Falls, lady teacher
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-03

the drink problem can be solved by law in
that District it will be accepted as full
solution without further trouble. l think
bill to abolish the traffic IN the District
will be urged upon Congress at this ses-
sion. 1t has already leen introduced in
tho Senate by MIR. Plat. and you may
make note that it was not introduced for
buncombe nor for fun"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-03

The chairman of the Tennessee Stats
Temperance Executive Committee is ra-
ported bya Tennessee contributor to the
New York b,dependemt as saying that Of
tho 10000 negro votes cast, at least 10000
We're cast against the amendments" ia the
bate campaign in that Stat. If this is
not an over statement, it brings out in a
striking light 9 very great need of tenn
perence educational work among the col,
ored people. !
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-03

amputat'on necessary. Frank Weisner,
two miles from Lesterville, went to
strawstack 100 feet from the house and
became SO bewildered that he wandered
ten or twelve miles before the storm, and
was found dead seven miles from Yankton.
In the same part of Yankton county, Frank
Miller lost twenty-five head of cattle;
Gottlle6 Mentchinhamer, ninety head Of
sheep; Joseph Pasek, fifteen head of cattle,
and Al Thomas Stills, q span of horses.
Two boys of John Teblius have
north of Olivet. Two girls named
schoefelt We're found ut Wakonda; Nels
Halllbartson, five miles west of Springfield;
JACOB krutz, three or four miles southeast
OF o., Lesterville; three children Of Christian
Klaus; one child of Matthias Wiser; five
children of Geo. Gishert. two children at
labor; two boys of Henry Bumbach,
near Wittenburg; Frank Bruce living five
miles east of Scotland. started to water his
ponies, and neither he nor his ponies have
been heard of since. Winters and Robin
son We're working to get out of drift be-
fore the storm, and were afterwards dis
covered dead i'll the same drift. The team
was in the drift frozen.
Wilson'S account of his experience with
the Rlerson brothers, near Huron, during
the IN, storm is that he was over to thei, place
thursday doctoring sick horse, when the
storm came up. The boys, fearing the
storm, started back with Wilson, to 90 to
his place two miles east of the Rierscn
place: Each of the boys leading horse
ana Wilson on foot, travelled two miles east,
missing Wilson's place less than forty rods.
They Travelled around over the prairie in
search of shelter, the boys part of the time
rldlng the horses and part of the time lead
ing them. Wilson did all in his power to
assist the boys on and off of the horses,
continually encouraging them with hope
OF reaching shelter. After wandering some
hours Frank fell exhausted and expired in
few minutes. Wilson and Willie Rierson
then wandered on in hope of reaching shell
ter, and after some time William also sue
cumbed. One horse, being exhausted, re-
fused t1lsa to proceed after William persisted.
wills, Wilson still proceeded, leading the other
horse, which soon got down in a
deep drift and persisted. This was
near daybreak. Wilson proceeded alone
until about exhausted, when he took
shelter in deep drift in corn
field. When he got chilly again he
proceeded and continued along, walk
ing and resting i'll snowdrifts. He pro-
ceeded until from exhaustion his knees
gave way. About 10 o'clock Friday morn
ing he crawled on his hands and feet to
the house of John Brenerman, having
gone ten miles from the starting point
Five children were found frozen to death
near Freeman, three belonged to John
Kaufman, one to John Albrecht and one
to Peter GRADER. The wife of John Gums
was found on the prairie frozen to death.
Several parties are missing. There is
great loss of stock.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-03

THE Christian Statesman, philadelphia,
commenting On the Supreme Court decis-
ioaa says:
"Tiis is justly regarded by the friends
Of temperance everywhere as a glorious
victory. 1t settles the question probably
for all time III this country as to, the con-
stitutionalitN of prohibition, and will carry
more encouragement to the hearts of the
liquor men, and bring more cheer to the
hearts of tsasr opponents than would the
passage Oh prohibstory laws in half dozen
States. Z"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-03
Other Points.

An old man named Erick Olsen, q
Swede living mean Beaver Creek, Mimi,
started after load of straw with large
handsled, and the blizzard struck him.
He wandered mile and a half, just miss
ing stack of hay. He was found frozen,
his feet sticking out of the deep snow.
His head and shoulders were buried. A
large number of cattle have persisted.
Farmers driving stock to water in several
cases had to abandon trying to get them
into shelter and save themselves. 1t is
hard to describe the misery sustained on
that dreadful night.
John 10y, an employe on the farm of
Senator A. M. Crosby, near Llverne,
Mimi, was frozen to death in the great
blizzard. 10y had taken the cattle to
water, about half mile from the house,
and was overtaken by the blizzard and lost
his way in the binding storm.
Specials from various portions
of Wisconsin indicate that the
night of the 18th was the coolest for years.
The thermometer at Washburne observa-
tory at Madison registered 30 below zero.
Eau Claire reports 48 below; Richland
Center, So; Sparta, So, and Chippewa
Falls, 60. The only fatality reported in
the state thus far was at Ellis Junction,
Marinette county, where lumberman
named Peter b. Peterson was frozen to
death. At Helena, Mont, the temperature
was IS below zero.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-07-06
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

GENERAL-DIAz was reelected President
of Mexico on the 9th.
NINE Corea Government officials were re-
| Gently beheaded in the streets of Seoul by
the populace. The outbreak was attributed
to Chinese instigation.
EMPEROR WILLIAM declared in his speech
at the opening of the Prussian Landtag at
Berlin on the 9th that he would preserve
the prerogatives of the monarchy and care
fully guard the rights of his subjects
HEAVY gales on the 2Sth did great dam
age to the lobster and salmon fisheries in
the neighborhood of Cape Breton, N. S.
HAVANA advices Of the 29th ult state
that murder and pillage were running riot
throughout Cuba.
In London thirty-one open air meetings
were held on the Both ult to protest against
the rigid enforcement of the coercion laws.
QUEEN VICTORIA has given go, 600, the
balance of the women's jubilee Offering, to
st. GATHERINGS training hospital for nurses
for the London poor.
ADvIoEs of the Both ult. from Sweden
stated that the value of property destroyed
in the recent fires at Lundsvail and Unmea
was estimated at 100000 kroner, and
twelve thousand persons were rendered
homeless by the flames.
DURING the twelve months ended on the
30th ult., the expense Of coercion in Ireland
for the constabulary alone amounted to
| 81 500, 000
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-07-06

Compiled From Late Dispatches
FrFTIETH CONGRESS.


WEDNESDAY, June n. = In the Senate
the time was occupied in considering the
River and Harbor Appropriation bill. In
the House the Public Land bill was passed
and the debate on the Mills Tariff bill was
resumed
THURSDAY, June 2S.-In the Senate DIR.
Davis, from the Pension Committee, re-
ported back eight vetoed pension bills,
with recommendation that they be passed
and they were placed on the calendar. The
Army Appropriation bill was reported, and
the River and Harbor bill was further con-
sidered In the House the time was occu-
pied in discussing the Tariff bill. A pro-
test against the passage of the Tariff bill
was sent to the desk of the clerk, signed
by over 800 Philadelphia manufacturers
who employ 10000 men
FRIDAY, June 20. The session of the
Senate was devoted to discussing the
Army Appropriation bill. In the House
the Tariff bill was further considered and
the free list was finished and the dutiable
list taken up. At the evening session
forty-seven private pension bills were
passed.
SATURDAY, June 30.-In the Senate the
River and Harbor bill was further consid.
cred. Thirty five House private pension
bills were passed. In the House the Mills
Tariff bill was discussed and the Fourth OF
July claims bill was passed.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-07-06
FROM WASHINGTON,

The business failures during the three
months ended on the Goth ult. numbered
2,241 in the United States, against 1906 for
the same quarter last year; and in Canada
343, against 3l5. In amount Of liabilities
there was also an increase in the United
Srates-$29, 229, $50 against S22, 976, $50 last
year, but a decrease in Canada-$2, 781 674,
against So, 207, 1856 last year.
On the Both ult, General Sheridan was
placed on board the United States steamer
Swatara at Washington aud sailed for
Nonquit, Mass.
THE internal revenue collections during
the first eleven months of the fiscal year
ended on the Both ult. amounted to S114,-
094, 1853, being S., SS7 more than the col
lection during the corresponding period of
the last fiscal year
1.-THE exchanges at twenty-six leading
clearing houses in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the 30th ult. aggre-
gated SS26,414, OFT, against 1851, 315,553 the
previous week. AS compared with the cor
responding week of 1887 the decrease
amounted to 81. per cent
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-07-06
WEST AND SOUTH.

MICHIGAN Prohibitionists met in State
convention at Detroit on the 9th and NOM
mated the following ticket: For Governor,
A. B, Cheney; Lieutenant Governor, Stew
art B. Williams; Secretary of State, Peter
M, Hagel; Treasurer, Alfred Wise; At
torney General, Lemuel Clute; Auditor
General, d. A. Waterman. The resolutions
adopted indorse the platform and the can
didates placed in nomination by the Indian
apolis convention.
On the 2Sth the new hSme for .Confeder-
ate soldiers at Baltimore was opened.
ON the 2Sth Thomas B. Lincoln, the only
man tried for treason during the rebellion,
died at Elkton, Md, aged seventy five years.
AT Columbus, O., on the 2Sth Allen G..
Thurman was officially notified of his nom
nation for the Office of Vice President by
the Democratic party.
A sCAFFoLDING fell on the 2Sth on a new
building at Kansas City, Mo-, killing three
bFicklayers.
IN the town of Freedom, H., Louisa
Gamback, aged eighteen years, and Louisa
Diemer, aged sixteen years, were drowned
on the 2Sth while attempting to ford a
swollen stream.
THE official canvass of the vote of Oregon
at the recent election was completed on
the 2Sth, and gives the official vote on Con-
gresham as follows Hermann (Rep) J, 3D.
$50; John NJ Gearin Dem J, %, 413; George
NJ Miller (Pro.), 1874 Hermann's plu-
| rality, 7,407
MICHIGAN Republicans will meet in State
convention at Detroit August and9.
On the 2Sth Chubb Mccarthy, the muir
derer of Michael Dorsey, was taken from
Jail by mob at Minneapolis, Kan, and
hanged. This made four lynchings in Kan
sas in twenty-four hours.
THERE were four Indictments returned
on the 2Sth at Frankfort, KY, against
James W. Tate, late State Treasurer, fol-
embezzlement, the total amount set out
being S4O4, 0S5S5.
Two MEN killed and six others seriously
| injured was the result of riot on the 2Sth
between members of the Mormon congrega
| ton at Bowman Ridge, w. Va.
IN the San Pedro On. NJ region miners
were jubilant on the 2Sth over the discov.
cry of ore which ran s115to the Ton in clear
silver.
The explosion of a boiler on the 2Sth in q
| mill near Vandalia, ILL.,, killed Samuel
| King and Daniel Logue.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were made
| as follows on the 2Sth: Minnesota, Third
district, D. S. Hall (Rep.); Indiana, Elev.
| enth district, A. n Martin Dem.) J, Thir
| teenth, b. F. Shively Dem.); Kansas
Second district, John Burri (Dem.) Ar
] kansas, First district, w. II. Cate Dem }
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-07-06
TIE EAST.

On the 9th the sailing-ship Farragut,
from Calcutta to New York, was reported
lost. She was commanded by Captain
Richard Hardwick, of Boston, and had on
board his wife, daughter and crew of
twenty-five men,
On the 27th w. w. Grout representing
the Second Vermont district in Congress,
was renominated.
On the 27th the New York Prohibitions
lists held their STATE convention at SYRIA
cuse and nominated a ticket, with W.
Martin jones' of Rochester, for Governor,
selected electors for the National ticket,
and adopted platform indorsing the In
dianapolis platform.
THE Vermont Republican convention, in
session on the 9th at Montpelier, nomi-
mated State ticket, with w. p billing
ham at the head for Governor, and adopted
a platform which indorses that passed by
the Chicago convention.
The steam yacht Enid, containing a
pleasure party of eight was struck on the
9th by the steamer James W. Baldwin
near Newburg, N. Y, and Miss Anna Mil
Ter and Mrs. Benjamin B. Odell, Jr, prom
inent society people, were drowned
GEORGE WILSON was hanged in the AL
bion IN W jail on the 9th for killing his
wife on the night of January II, 1887
On the 2Sth Mrs. Robinson, the cele-
brated poisoner of Somerville, Mass, was
sentenced to be hanged in the Cambridge
Jail November 16.
WHILE playing with rife Willie
Eichells, a ten-year-old boy of Rockville
Center, L. l., accidentally shot and killed
his baby sister on the Goth ult.
Mrs. DR.. WALKER and Mrs. JJ Griffith
and her little girl, of Jennertown, Pa,
were fatally injured on the Goth ult. by the
horse they were driving running away.
In four-mile-s straight away boat-race
on the goth ult. at New London, Conn,
Yale defeated Harvard by twenty -four
boat lengths in 20:10 8
The strike commenced at Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the Goth ult, of members of the
Amalgamated Association Of Iron and
Steal Workers, the representatives of the
mill owners refusing to sign the scale.
Fully one hundred thousand men were af-
fected.
A YOUNG woman dressed in white COM
mitted suicide on the Goth ult by jumping
into the whirlpool rapids and being car
ried over Niagara Falls.
TEN Port Chester IN. Y.,) young men
lost their lives in Long Island Sound on the
Both ult during a gale which wrecked their
boat -3
DURING June over fifty thousand immi-
grants landed in New York
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-07-06
LATER.

The public-debt statement issue1 on the
ID showed the total debt to be 81, 7G5, 992 800;
cash in treasury, $3.50, 49, debt less
cash in treasury, 81, 165, 5o4,65S Decrease
during June, S14, 429, SOB. Decrease since
June 30, 1887, S113 S44, $50.
THREE men were fatally scalded on the
I'd in a boiler explosing at Port Huron,
Mich.
SELIGMAN, MAY & Co., wholesale dealers
in boys clothing at New York, failed on
the Cd for $500,O00, with large assets.
GREEN'S Brigade, Sickness Brigade and
the Irish Brigade dedicated monuments
at Gettysburg, Pa, on the I'd. Many reg
iments also dedicated monuments, and the
cornerstone of the Memorial Church of
the Prince of Peace was laid with solemn
services.
TWENTY-FIVE business houses and resi-
dences in Paragould, Ark were burned on
the I'd.
c. G. NELSON, a banker of Atlanta, Ca,
disappeared on the I'd, taking with him the
funds of the North Side Savings Bank.
MASKED men stopped stage coach be-
tween Madeira and Hildreth CAL, on tile
I'd, and secured $4,000 in silver bullion.
THE ten men recently reported to have
been drowned in Long Island Sound near
Port. Chester, n. Y, turned up safe on
the I'd.
| TWENTY-FIVE people were injured in a
smash-up on the Northern Pacific road,
near Helena, M IT, on the I'd
FLAGSTAFF, the principle town on the At
lantic & Pacific road between Albuquerque
and Los Angeles, was almost totally de-
stroyed by freon the Cd
In battle on the I'd between officials and
n E,1fo nd -
the former and two of the latter were
killed.
SMITHsoN's lumber and single mills at
Petoskey, Mich, were destroyed by fire on
the 3D. Seven dwelling houses and all the
camps were also burned.
THERE fell due in New York City on the
ID 81. 00o, 900 in interest and dividends of
corporate and other securities.
DOMINION DAY, being the twenty third
anniversary of the confederation Of the
Provinces was celebrated throughout Can
ada on the I'd with music, excursions and
picnics.
EDWARD COUSINS, a colored man in Lock-
land, O., cut his own throat and that of his
baby and nearly killed his wife on the ID.
THE plant of the Reading Pa hardware
works, one of the largest of its kind in the
country, was destroyed by fire on the 3D.
Loss, $3.50, 900.
| WHILE bathing on the ID near Eagle River,
Wis, Frank s. Smart, Jesse Hull and the
| latter's son, aged seven, were drowned.
THE River and Harbor bill, which APP.
propriates S22, 474, 7S3, was passed in the
| United States Senate on the 3D. The NOM
| nation of M. W. Fuller to be Chief Justice
was reported, without recommendation,
and it was placed on the calendar. Ad-
| journed to the 5th. In the House the en-
| tire session was occupied in discussing the
:! Pacific Railroad Funding bill.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-07-06

PRESIDENT SEELYE, of Amherst Col
lege, is gifted with q remarkable mem
DRY. He is able to greet by name ev-
cry living graduate of the college whom
he has ever met, and freshmen who
have not been in college week are
surprised to hear the president address
them by their first names.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-07-06
THURMAN ACCEPTS.

The sold Roman" Formally Notified of
His Nomination-His Reply to the Com
mittee-He Accepts the Honor More as
Duty Than the Qualification of an
Ambition.
COLUMBUS, O., June 29-The Democratic
committee appointed to notify ex-senator
Allen G. Thurman of his nomination to the
Office of Vfce-President arrived in this city
yesterday morning on special train, but
it was afternoon before any thing was
done. The committee was received
by committees of local Democratic
clubs and was grandly entertained
All Of the notification committee were
present except the representatives from
Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Kansas,
Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri,
Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, Ari-
IONA and New Mexico
At l O'Clock the committee started for
fudge Thurman's home The party was
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-07-06

A sHoE-MAKER of Atlanta, Ca, has
finished the largest pair of shoes ever
made for actual use. 1t took piece of
leather containing 1,040 square inches
to make the uppers, and 1850 to make
the soles. That is 5000 square inches
altogether, If that leather were cut
into strips an eighth of an inch wide
and made into one string it would be
$4,000 inches long. The shoes weigh
eight and one quarter pounds. The
soles are IA inches long, 81 wide and 81
inches deep. That doesn't count the
heel, which would add another inch to
the depth.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-07-06

IT is said that a burglar in Chicago
read in newspaper that he had over
looked eighty dollars in a bureau
drawer. He returned the next night
and not only secured it, but suit of
clothes besides. Here I'VE have an
other illustration Of the value of the
press as q dissemination of useful in
formation. Now is the time to subscribe.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-07-06

A COMMITTEE of the faculty of Har-
ward College has submitted to that body
Il report on tine subject of athletics and
athletic sports in college, which is in
the main favorable to their encourage
mont, Certain objections brought
against them are fully considered by
the committee. With regard to the
allegation that they are not favorable
to the health of the students, the COM
mittee concludes emphatically to the
contrary. 1t says, also, that ath-
leticsports "do not seriously in
terfere" with attendance on college
courses
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-07-06

FOUGHT THE MOONSHINERS.
An Arkansas Marshal Killed in Figh
with Illicit DiStiIlers.

with Illicit DistiIIers.
ST LOUIS, June pa special from Lit,
tie Rock, Ark, to the Post-Dtspatch says:
"a desperate encounter occurred be-
tween revenue officers and moonshiners
near Black Springs, Montgomery County,
Wednesday. Internal Revenue Collector
Fry and posse raided the moonshiners'
camp in the vicinity, destroying three dis
tilleries. Shortly afterward the posse was
attacked from ambush by an armed band
of moonshiners A regular battle ensued,
in which Deputy United States Marshal
Trammel was killed. Collector Fry has
telegraphed to Fort Smith for reinforce
mentsn