Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-17
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| AT Kaska William colliery, near Mid.
| dleport, Penn, a cage containing ten min
ers was ascending the shaft and had
reached height Of about fifteen feet from
the bottom when an empty car was pushed
over the top of the shaft by two Hungarian
nborers The car struck the ascending
sage with awful momentum. shattering it
10 splinters and instantly killing every one
pf its occupants. The mine is operated by
The Alliance Coal company. 1t is an old
working and the shaft is 500 feet deep.
james D. Fish. ex- president of the de-
.unct Marine bank. of New York city, who
was convicted nearly four years ago of
administration of the banks finances.
and sentenced for ten years in the states
prison. is again free man. The commu-
:ation Of the sentence of the ex-banker was
one of the last executive acts of ex-Presi-
lent Cleveland. Fish's sojourn in prison
has certainly heightened his years. When
he entered he was broken down physically
and feeling keenly the disgrace of his posi-
lion. Instead of soon breaking down COM
improving in health. Fish has never
ceased to assert his innocence of all actua
criminality. He maintains constantly tina
he was the dupe Of Ferdinand Ward ant
that there are dozen or more mon promi
nent in financial and social life in the me
tropolis to-day who were mixed up in tn,
great Grant e. Ward fasco every whit a;
guilty as himself If he was guilty
John Jeski is Polish Hebrew. - year.
years old, at Manchester. N. H. He hes
just been sentenced to four years in tbe
state industrial school for bloodthirsy
cruelty. fully equal to that of Jesse Pom
eroy. the boy fend of Boston. The yong
f1end enticed small boy to the bank ofa
brook and then pushed him into the watr
and tried to drown him. After the little
fellow had become insensible he was res
cued by chance arrival. On another o.
casion young Jeski was found guilty,f
stabbing boys with a pocket knife. inflic-
ing severe and painful wounds. The p,y
seems to take delight in the most flendih
acts of cruelty.
The Commercial Bulletin announce tie
retirement of the old New York Equitable
Fire Insurance company. of Wall street.
one Of the Oldest insurance companies n
the country.
There seems to Il growing impression
at Otta that the Weldon act for surrender.
ing fugitives from justice is retroactive
The deputy minister of justice is inclined
to give it that construction. II is now {
law.
AT the Samoan conference the details
Of the coming changes in Samoa are being
debated at length. but no differences as to
the principle now exist. All the delegates
desire the neutrality of the islands. The
Americans have achieved a marked sue
cess. and have impressed Bismarck with
their tlrmness and diplomacy.
The Johns Hopkins hospital has been
formally opened in Baltimore. 1t is one OF
the finest and most complete institutions in
the world. embracing seventeen buildings,
which cover four acres of ground. and are
surrounded by ten acres OF beautiful parks.
Its construction vas begun more than ten
years ago, and the total cost was 50 ,O5O, 600.
The INDECENT sick of the city and cnvirons,
without regard to sex or color. who may
require surgical or medical treatment will
be received at the hospital. Addresses
at the opening were delivered by Francis
T. King. president of the hospital, and
others.
The lower house Of the Illinois legisla-
ture has refused to strike out the enactine
clause OF the bill creating statutory prohi-
bition. The bill will probably pass.