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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11
AT THE SOUTH.

The immense story brick building
OF the Richardson drug company. st. Louis,
covering an area of nearly six acres OF
land. burned at an early hour New Years
morning. entailing loss of nearly 81, OOO,-
OOO
AT Texarkana. Ark. on the night of the
2Sth ult. A. B. mccarthy and another white
man. together with Charles Williams. col
ored. and two negro women Of bad charac-
ter. were confined in the West Side Gala
boose on q charge of disturbing the peace
and drunkenness. The night was one Of
the coolest Of the season. There were only
three blankets in the Jail, two of which Nc
Carly appropriated. The two women COM.
manded the "kivering" for themselves. but
McCarty ungallantly refused. and they
pounced on him for a fight. Williams held
McCarty while the women beat him with
sticks and bottles in a horrible manner. in,
fiicting injuries from which the wounded
man cannot possibly recover.
"A. j. saltwater, one of the wealthiest
and most prominent citizens of Hannibal.
Mo-. was murdered early Tunday morning.
Mr.. Stillwell and his wife returned homo,
H.
party and retired soon afterward. At
O'Clock Mrs. Stllwell was aroused by her
husbands voice calling Fanny! help!"
This was succeeded by the sound of some-
thing being whirled through the air and
the footsteps of some one running away.
Lighting the gas Mrs. StllweIl discovered
her husband lying on his bed in q pool Of
blood with CHASTITY wound in his head.
The neighbors were hastily notified. but on
arrival Mr.. Stillwell was dead. Matches
were found strewn about the room and the
door at the rear of the house was ;.jar. In
the alley were found Mr.. Stllwells pocket
book, S35 in money. and the bloody OK
with which the murderer ha accomplished
the deed. 1t is believed tina he murderer,
was burglar. who ente, ed the house dur
ing Mr. and Mrs Stillwell's absence aud
secreted himself until @ tn 1eht they were
asleep, and. upon being Interrupted by
Mr. Stillwell. killed him TO aioid capture.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

Collections Of internal revenue during
the first five months of the fiscal year. end
ing June 30. 1889. amount to $50. O91 1856, be-
ing an increase Of 81 1881 1876 over collections
during the corresponding period of last
year. The receipts from spirits were &c.,
BOG, 1854. an increase Of 81, 575s54: from fer
mented liquors $1O465. 5s3. an increase of
S54.3l6; from oleomargarlne $313.653 an
increase of $2O.Sl7. The receipts for Nov
ember last were $107 All greater than those
for November 1887.
The minors employed by the Delaware.
LacAawanna Il Western company and the
Pennsylvania coal company met at Scran-
ton to demand the reduction from So to 81
per key in the price charged them for min
ing powder at the companys stores. A
committee waited upon the general coal
agent Of the Delaware. Lackawanna &
Western company. who informed them
that the price could not be reduced at
present. He was then asked il the miners
would be permitted to buy powder where
they could secure it cheaper. He objected
to this on the ground that the powder fur
nished by outside parties was of an inferior
quality and was condemned by the mine
inspectors. The meeting took no further
action. but adjourned to meet ut the call of
the chairman. Tho miners assert that the
companies buy powder for S1.25 key. 1t
is feared that the dissatisfaction concern
ing this matter will lead to strike.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

PHILADELPHIA can boast of a modern
Hercules in the person of George Sept
man, giant in muscle and stature.
He stands six feet four and half
inches in his stockings, measures fifty
inches around the chest, and weighs
273 pounds, scarcely'an ounce OF which
is superfuous flesh. His proportions,
says Philadelphia exchange, are adj
mirable, and he has amazed many an
athletic expert by his displays of
strength. Soptman recently paid
short visit to gymnasium on Arch
street, and gave an exhibition of what
he could do. The pupils eyed him
curiously when he picked up the one
hundred-pound dumb-bell and twirled
it between his fingers as dude might
do with q bamboo cane. When he
stretched out his arms and asked all
who possibly could do so to Jump on
his back, arms, shoulders, and head to
take ride, eight sturdy and strong
men complied with the request, and,
holding on to his ears, hair, and collar
button, they bore their weight upon
him. He carried them without much
difficulty, and the gymnasts who saw
the performance were almost inclined
to think contemptuously of their own
comparatively puny physiques Not
satisfied with this, the young giant
went to the strengthening scales and
pulled up the 2,OoO-pound weight
with ease. He then wrapped two
straps around his shoulder and back.
and fastening the ends to 8, 300 pounds
OF iron, he calmly raised the weight
and took promenade around the hall
with his load. AS last act, instead
of wrestling with Nemean lion, as
Hercules of NEUROLOGICAL fame did, he
caught hold of a bear, which friend
had expressly brought, and Rugged the
animal so hard that it grunted for
mercy. Spotman has yet to perform
seven more difficult tasks, and then he
will pose himself as modern Hercules
and the hero of twelve unparalleled
feats of strength.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11
WASHINGTON BRIEFS.

The treasury officials are greatly wor
ried by the appearance of another re.ieem-
ed and cancelled ten dollar bill for redomp-
ton. The two previous bills which
appeared were for $50 dollars each. The
treasury department hold certificates that
the bills now presented were destroyed by
maceration. The question of who stole
the bills. how it was done. and how many
were stolen. is greatly puzzling the off,
cials. An investigation is in progress.
The wife Of Maj.-Gen. John NJ. Scho-
field. iii command OF III. army OF the United
States. died Sunday morning at the Rich
mond flats in Washin4to Mrs. Schoficld
has not been in good health since her ar
rival in Washington some months ago.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11
now being made of various furs in
combination with stout canvas with a
view of replacing it.

WITHIN eight years the population of
Dakota has increased from 1850 to
over 100000, and this population is
made up of people three-fourths of
whom are natives of the United States,
and of the foreign population ma
jority are the rugged Scandinavians,
who make good citizens. During the
last fiscal year there have been entered
1888, 142 acres of public land, and
title was acquired otherwise to 1876
$50 acres more. The assessment roll
aggregates s1G1, 42O,974 for 1888, not
including railroad property with
valuation of $40, 100000, as it is taxed
upon gross earnings. The actual
wealth of the Territory is placed at
1920, 100000 as moderate estimate.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

THE winter has no terror for the reg
Mar army even in the far Northwest.
Uncle Sam is so openhanded with
nothing to his soldiers as with stoves.
They are always to be had for the ask
ing. and sometimes without. Some
wears ago, when the Fifteenth Infantry
was ordered to take possession OF a
deserted fort in New Mexico IN the
heat of summer, not a key OF nails
could be procured from the depart
ment headquarters to help repair the
barracks, but 100 stoves, at all times
useless in that climate, came promptly
IN hand. The one difficulty the Gov
eminent is meeting in providing winter
SUPPLIES for its troops in DAKOTA ana
Montana is to find some SUBSTITUTE lor
tho buffalo robe. which has now dlsap-
pearea from the market Tests are
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

NINE. JOSEPHINE SuFFEzNsK1 IA
RocKA, the grandniece of Count CAST
mir Pulaski, the Polish patriot who
lost his life fighting for the cause of
American independence, is now living
in Brooklyn with absolutely no means
of support. For years she had q CHIN
before Congress for the recovery of
money advanced by Count Pulaski
during the revolutionary war and never
repaid, but finally abandoned the effort
in despair. Now she makes an appeal
for money sufficient to enable her to
return to her native land.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

Four times Henry Blackman, con-
victed of the murder of Stonewall
Fondee, in Schley County, Georgia,
has been prepared for execution, the
date each time being put off by new
trials. He was to have been hanged
lately, but on account of new evidence
the Governor respited him until next
March.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

CONGRESSMAN ROBINSON. of Louisi-
ana, is said to be the greatest bear
hunter in the South. He is also an ex-
pert deer-hunter, and has followed
more than one panther into the jungle.
he keeps a pack of hounds and bear
dogs, and his kennels are famous all
through the South.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

The daily life of Robert Garrett has
not varied for many weeks. He occu-
pies suite of three rooms, at Paterson,
N. j., the windows of which are barred
with iron. Three nurses are with him
day and night, and these, with the
docto41, are the only persons allowed
to see him. When the weather is mild
he is taken out for drive, and upon
these occasions he is allowed a few
minutes conversation with his wife.
When shut up for days he asks to see
her, but he is told that she has gone
away. He then has paper and envel-
opes brought to him, and for hours he
writes letters and kilograms to her
and friends in Baltimore and New
York. Those to his wife are handed
her, and she reads them in her room
and she replies by mail; the others are
destroyed. Mr.. Garrett dresses with
faultless care and spends hours over
his toilet. He talks continually, prin-
cipally on business matters, at times
nationally and then again in ~ ram
bling. senseless manner. When out
driving he halls every one along the
road. Whenever these people stop
they are motioned away by the attend
ants, and this has led Mr.. Garrett to
believe that all the people in Ring
wood are deaf and dumb. The estab-
lishment requires twenty-one servants,
and costs on an average SIS, 600 month.
All supplies are sent daily from New
York by express. There are very few
visitors now, it being the wish of the
family to be alone.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

The European investments in South
America have been to q great extent
for the purpose of charging harbors
SO that ocean vessels can reach the
docks at the sites Of the great dressed
meat establishments in process of con-
struction; and railroads are being built
to bring the cattle from the interior to
the seaports. Thus far these immense
works, the largest of which are at
Buenos Ayres, have paid no dividends,
and the work of construction has re-
quired so great an outlay as to cause q
drain of gold from the European money
centers, which in turn have drawn gold
from the United States to supply the
vacuum created. From this can be
estimated the extent of the tremendous
competition which cattlemen and
dressed-meat producers in the United
States will meet from South America
when the enterprises projected and par
TALLY completed there shall be in full
operation.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

LADY HERBERT, of Lea, is said to
have encountered the other day in
New York, in the garb of Little Sis
ter of the Poor, q young. lady who
was, few years ago, one Of the
wealthiest and most sought-after bellies
OF London, relinquishing that station
to accept the humber one in which
she now moves.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

THERE are probably very few people
who know the name of the inventor of
the wheelbarrow. The sculptor,
painter, architect, engineer-in fact
many-sided genius and universal schol-
az, Leonardo da Vinci, Of Italy-the
man who painted the original picture
of "The Last supper"-is the inventor
of the wheelbarrow. His fertile brain
conceived the idea about the time CO.
lumbus discovered America. 1t is
hardly possible to think of man who
was touched with the highest order OF
the divine artof painting bringing him
self down to the Numerically opposite
study of simple mechanical invention,
but such is the case, says history.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

CARL ScHuRz is once more an easily
recognizable figure on the street in New
York. His beard has turned from the
dark red which formerly characterized
it to what might be called muddy
gray. His general appearance is that
of a man whose health is not robust.
All the brusqueness has departed from
his manner. He is more courteous
and suave than when he was an office
holder, and he has the air of studied
amiability which is a necessary adjunct
to public life in Europe.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

WHISTLER, the eccentric artist, is
painting horribly realistic picture of
the body of one of the Whitechapel
victims.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11
PRADO EXECUTED.
THE FRENCH MURDRRER .ur1rn
TINED IN PLACE DE LARONQUE7TE

HIS Execution HitAessel by a Great Number
Of Peopte-Ussttc ] States War Vessels Pre-
pairing to Go to Samoa 235O,oOO Fire
at Csncinnati-i'rep repairing for tie Inou0.
nratios, Etc.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

The Mary J. Drexel Home and
Mother-House of Deaconesses, a me-
mortal to the daughter of the late
Francis NJ. Drexel, sister of the late
Francis A. Drexel, and wife of J. d.
Lankerau, has been dedicated at Phil
alelnhia.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

BARON HUDDLEsToN, the famous En-
glish vudge, recently observed that
such was the intricacy of the lunacy
laws that they had a tendency to re-
duce persons who gave an abstruse
study to them into persons for whose
benefit they were intended.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

GEORGE w. CH1LDs of Philadelphia
possesses the original manuscript of
Dickens "Our Mutual Friend" It is
the only manuscript Of Dickens, with
the exception of few short stories,
outside Of the South Kensington Mu-
scum. Mr.. Childs has refused $4,000
for it.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

mother, too, that the Princess inherits
her gift of perennial youth, for the
Queen, though now we'll stricken in
years, looks at least ten or fifteen years
younger than she is.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

The Fiftieth Congress will expire
March 3 at midnight by limitation.
The first regular session of the Fifty
first Congress will not convene till De-
cember of 1889.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

NINE. MUNEM1rsU MUTsU, wife of the
Japanese Minister at Washington, en-
tertalns her intimate friends with mu-
SIC on the "koto," the japanese piano.
1t Is six feet long by about eight inches
wide, and the silk strings are drawn
lengthwise on the rounded top. Nine.
Mutsu is a clever performer on the
koto," and she is specially acceptable
when she renders the music of the
"Mikado." s
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

WALTER CONVEY, Vice President
Morton's private secretary, is an
Englishman, who has been in this
country about ten years. Like Presi-
dent Harrison's secretary, he is also a
newspaper man.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

S1LAs T1LToN, father of Theodore
Tilton, died recently at Keyport, N. j.,
aged "a. He was the Oldest resident
Of the place.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

WHEN Chicago anarchist under
stands that he can't fool with the law,
he knocks under just as humbly as
any one else.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

A COMPANY has been formed in
Georgia to scrape the entire bed of the
Chestattee River with dredges. 1t has
always been known that the bed OF
this river is wonderfully rich in loose
gold, and the company proposes to get
the gold. just after the war another
company attempted to accomplish the
same purpose by fuming the river,
but it cost so much that the enter
prise was abandoned. The present
company will build an expensive dredg-
ing boat, capable of removing 500 tons
q dav.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

IHE Princess of Wales inherits her
unfortunate deafness from her mother
Ano not from her father, says the Pail
1""v Gazette. But the Queen of Den
marx makes up. like her daughter, for
"'ahness IT her ears by exceptional
0fA'''anee TX her eyes. 1t is from her
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

JAMES EvE1YTH, the veteran clerk
of the War Department, has been in
the service since 1929.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

WILLIAM BLAKE says "unhurried
muscular exercise" will put the body in
such condition that disease can not get
a start
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

ROSE 4EL1zABErH CLEVELAND, the
Presidents sister, will make three
months visit at the White House.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

FRANCIS MURPHY says that of the
$4,000, 900 people who have signed the
pledge for him, IS per cent. have
kept it,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL has arrival
home from England, and will pass the
winter in Boston.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

The Duke of Sutherland owns onlv
1858, 545 acres of land in England and
425,ooo in this country.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

CHARLES MITCHELL, of Indiana, has
gone crazy trying to find peach-tree
that would bear fruit in winter.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

IeNAT1Us DoNNELLY announces that
he is out of politics.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

ISAAC BARRETT, who was appointed
a page in the United States Senate,
upon the motion Of Daniel Webster,
tifty-seven years ago, is still connected
with that body, acting as assistant
door-keeper. He is writing his remi-
niscences ofpublic men. A number of
members fthe present Congress were
once pages, Senator German being
among them. There are no better
schools in the country for sharpening
the wits of a bright boy than the two
houses of Congress-, excepting news
paper Offices, where boys are likely to
receive better moral training.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11
DoINGs in THE EAST.

The public debt statement issued Janu-
airy is as follows:
Interest bearing debt
Principal. .......................S 341, O41 652
Interest. Observation-Disclosures. 1850 343
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

A CRANK has come forward in Keys
vile, Va, Who claims to have discov-
cred meteorological omen proving
that Benjamin Harrison will not sur
vive his Presidential term. It showed
on the 10Th Of November in the year
when Benjamin Harrison's grandfather
was elected to the Presidency. It
showed on Nov. 10 in the years when
Taylor and Garfield were respectively
elected to the highest Office in the land.
None of these men lived to fulfill his
administration. AS it showed on Nov.
10 this year the Keysville sage deduces
the conclusion that Benjamin Harrison
has not four years lease of life. All
of which is nonsense.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

ago. The movement Of hogs the past week
has hardly been up to expectations. A few
houses have closed temporarily. expecting
to start again after the 1st of January.
Packing, Nov, to Dec. 96: 1888 1897
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

GEN. BOOTH, head of the Salvation
Army, has been devoting himself to
the effort of popularizing the methods
of his followers in California. He has
not met with great success. The hood
lums of San Francisco have proved
too vigorous for the Salvationists
Booth has had to place himself at the
head Of charging column number
of times, but even his heroism has not
been equal to the task of overcoming
the California mobs. "Say. Booth,
where's Barrett:" is favorite pleas
antry among the street urchins when
ever the Salvation commander shows
himself in public.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

The population of Japan is 3d.
O69,OO7.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-11

LIVE STock--- Hogs. ....... $50; g9s2l
Cattle. LIS @ IA