Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-27

| comparative darkness. 1t is estimated
that ut least one hundred miles of wire has
already been taken down and the work will
be continued. An autopsy was held on
the body of Patrick Sullivan, the fireman
who was found dead in the basement Of
the Manhattan Electric Light company.
The examination showed that death was
due to an electric shock.
Clan-na- Gael Mon Bounced.
Detectives John Stiff and NJ. J. Grove
and Patrolman Redmond Mcdonald, who
testified in favor of Daniel Coughlin IN
the recent Cronin trial at Chicago, have
received notice of dismissal from the force,
"for conduct unbecoming an officer and
for neglect of duty" This is only the be-
! ginning of the removals." said an official,
and from this time on you can look out
for the removal of the Clan ma Gael men
and their sympathizers daily"
That Northwestern Combine.
The senators and representatives of the
northwestern states have perfected their
organization for the protectection of local
interests, and meeting will soon be held
for permanent organization. California,
Oregon, Washington, Idaho. Montana,
the Dakotas, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota
and Wisconsin are in the combine and will
work together.
De.thly Electric Ligh. Wires.
Robert Dalton, painter at Toledo, O.,
while at work, lost his footing and fell
ACROSS two electric light wires and was in
stantly killed by the current. The body
lay for an hour or SO across the wires,
which burned deep into the flesh, from
which a smoke and sickening stencil arose.
An Iowa Successor to silcots.
Sergeant-at-Arms Holmes, of the house
of representatives at Washington, has ap-
pointed E. j. Hartshorn, of Emmetsbure,
to be cashier of his Office in place of de-
faulter, Silcott. Hartshorn has given a
bond of $4,000.
Indicted for Setting Fire to a Hotel.
The coroner's jury at Kansas City has
returned a verdict against Charles Mer.
chant, charged with having set fire to the
Oklahoma house. The crime is CAPITAL
one.
Collected for Qulcx Digestion.
The Swiss council has insisted that the
St. Gothard Tunnel company shall build
the railroad between Goldau and Tug,
which the council claims formed part of
theIoriginal tunnel concession and contract.
Two freight trains were badly smashed
by collision on the Santa Fe railroad
twenty miles east of Newton, Kan. silss
Dean, brakeman, died q few hours after
of his injuries. The engineers and fire.
men were badly bruised
THREE magazines containing ten tons Of
nitro glycerine exploded near North Clar-
endon, Pa, setting fire to $4,000 barrels of
oil, destroying three oil derricks. No
cause for the explosion is assigned. The
loss will probably reach $4,000.
FREIGHT train went through bridge
at Hackensack, N. j., and William Nixon,
engineer; Patrick Harrigan, fireman, and
William Seeley, brakeman, we're drowned.
DURING the almost unprecedented fog
which hung over London the other day
eleven persons were drowned in various
parts of the city and the metropolis by un-
consciously walking into the river, canals
or docks.
| HE seat of Representative Foreman, of
Illinois, who defeated William R. Morri-
son in 1886, will be contested by Jehu
Baker, who was defeated by Foreman by
| twenty six votes.
TRE trial of the seven men on the
charge of robbing Paymaster Wham, of
the United States army, of 5000 last
May, has been concluded at Tucson. Arx..
and the jury rendered verdict of acquit-
\ tal.
SEVEN men, ringleaders of White Caps
and fence cutters in Mexico, have been
arrested. Ninetv-six residents of San
Miguel county will be arrested for COM
plicity in the recent land troubles. The
fight is against cattle syndicates.
JOSE MARIA BELMoNTE was killed in a
duel on ranch near San Antonio. Tex.
by Juan Recendes. The pair were in love
with the same senorita, and agreed to fight
it out with knives. Belmonte was stabbed
near the heart and died instantly.
HATTIE SANG and Minnie Snyder, two
young girls of 16, were sentenced at
Wooster, o., to two years in the peniten-
tiary. Recently they burglanzed store,
and being asked fo- an explanation, said
they wanted to do something devilish."
A. F. MACK, late secretary of the Ar
canum Build, Loan and Homestead asso-
citation, of Chicago, is missing, with about
$4,000 of the associations money.
FAMINE is prevalent throughout Galicia,
owing to short crops and terrific storms.
The present congress will be asked to
provide for an increase in the compensa-
ton of railway mail clerks.