Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-11-02
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Thomas Axworthy was city treasurer OIL
Cleveland, and very prominent as a bust
ness man and as a democratic politician. 1t
is the common remark that whatever he
touches turns to gold. He has vessels. real
estate. coal mines. iron ranges and other
valuable investments. He has been absent
for some time and rumor has been busy
with his name. Saturday the mayor clerk.
Briggs, submitted to the city board OF re-
vision a partial report of his Investigations
into the business methods of municipal Oh
ficials. Still Axworthy was out of town.
Monday morning the inquiry was Where Is
the city treasurery" His business and Of
fetal associates declared he was in New
York and was stopping at the Windsor no.
tel. A telegram of inquiry was sent to that
hotel and an answer returned that Axwor-
thy had arrived there September 80 in the
morning. and had departed in the evening
for Montreal. There all traces of him were
lost. Meanwhile his bondamen began to
investigate. They are United States Senator
Payne and J. H. Wade, ir.. and arc pledged
for S5Oo.Oo0. They. together with leading
city officials and attorneys, were in consultn-
tion all night. Each rcfusedfto say word
about the meeting. The finance committee
of the common council. after Il liasty en-
animation of the books. state that they be-
lieve the loss 10 the city by reason OF An
worthy's disappearance is S500.OO0. Sen
ator Payne and ]. H. Wade. jr.. his bonds
men. early TUESDAY morning filed petitions
and afffdavits in the common pleas court
praying for az attachment against An
worthy's vessels, real estate and other
property. The schooner Republic and a
three-fourths interest in the schooner
Page were attached and his money and
stocks in tho local banks garnisheed. The
sheriff is now attaching the real property
ofthe missing treasurer. including his farm
outside of the city limits and his summer
residence on Lake avenue. The National
Bank of Commerce has also begun suit for
S25.0cU to recover OH u promissory note it
had discounted. 1t is said that AXworthy
had S20O.00o with him. II has been decided
to declare the Office Of treasurer vacant.
and that will be done us soon as the proper
resolutions can be passed when a tempor-
airy treasurer will be appointed to fill out
AXworthys term.
A wholesale system Of freight robbery
has been discovered on the Mexican Cen
trail railway which has been carried on for
the past two years. The total loss to the
company is in the neighborhood of S5O00O
Three conductors. IL brakeman and Il
former agent of the road are in Jail at Eagle
Pass, Texas, and twenty or thirty more
employees of the road are likely to be az
rested.
Mrs. Julia Therkless, aged Sc, and her
daughter, aged IA. were burned to death ut
Lexington. Mo-. while trying TO save their
personal effects from frame shanty
While they were in the house the roof fell
in and both persisted. When found the
mothers body was minus the limbs and the
girls body was headless.
An east-bound freight train on the
Pennsylvania railway jumped the track
near Tyrone and thirty five ears Of grain
were almost totally wrecked Two boys
from Altoona named John Eplin and Ed
ward Fawcett. who were stealing !. ride,
were caught in the jam and crushed to
death. The loss to the company was very
! heavy.