Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-09

/ ana hue COulIdStoIS SnOuiu l's' uSl.i e.
sponslble. Such is the doleful tale told b,
the Hastings Nc5roshan.
The Omaha Steel and Nail works
grounds have been levied upon satisf,
an execution for 80, 800 in favor ~: an en-.
p.oye, who receive a ju gncnt for dam
ages to that amount for injuries sustaine
while employed in the works. il appear.
likely that the ground will be sold.
Claims amounting to over 81 1000 have
been filed with the board of supervisors o.
Antelope county for the pursuit and cap
ture of Nick Foley. the murderer who ME
his death at the hands of Il mob. but TIL,
matter has been laid over unit the mex
meeting.
Nebraska has particular interest ii
the admission of South Dakota TO state
hood and in the speedy opening of The
Sioux tanks. inasmuch as y large slice o.
,, the reservation bordering on the Niohra1i
river will be added to the territory of thi.
state
e. T. Smith, of Fremont, vent out t.
look at his corn and found it averaged fo1i,
feet high. On visiting the place again OF
Monday he discovered i. averaged sevc,
feet. having grown three feet in week.
An eastern board of aid for colleges
has offered to endow the Hastings institu.
ton with $4,000, under condition that
it free itself from debt An effort will bc
made to comply with the proposition.
Two BARRIERS of Pawnee City are OF
distinguished ancestry. One is nephew
of John Brown, the Harper's Ferry insur-
rectionist. and the other is a nephew ot
Joseph Cook, the Boston lecturer.
Mr.. Mcdonald. living near Deloit,
will be 1o3 years old in August. He is
hale and hearty and in the last forty years
has not missed a dozen meals. His father
lived to be III years old.
Albert Van Cleye, who resided eight
miles south of Wilsonville, was instantly
killed by lightning. All the other inmates
OF the house were rendered unconscious
by the shock.
The assessors returns from Adams
county show $40, l45 worth of agricultural
implements. while 1858 covers the amount
OF jewelry and diamonds in the entire
county.
The United State fish commission will
stock the waters of Nebraska streams with
some choice fish. Bass aud carp will be
distributed in October and November
AT Stewart woman was attacked by
shunks and driven to the roof of sod
house. On the arrival of two men the
odlferous animals We're eaterminated.
= Mr.. Mccormick. of Blair, is paying
out from 500 to 5000 a day to blackberry
pickers. Some of the pickers in his inn
mense p tch earn 50 day.
The Farmers alliance of Custer
county has organized a purchasing and
selling company, and will do business as
corporation in the fu ure.
&C. w. Dement,. of Crab Orchard,
johnson county, will harvest crop of
1000 bushels of onions from two and a
half acre patch this year.
The G. A. r. state line reunion will
be held at Camp Sheridan, between Har y,
Neb., and Warwick, Kan, August 2Oih
and Odd inclusive.
The remains of mastodon have been
discovered on the Big Blue, seven miles
north Of Crete, and steps are being taken
to exhume them.
Stratton is giving cane and millet see.
free to farmers whose crops have been de-
stroyed by hail.
Miss Marie Epson, the present in
cumlent. is candidate for reelection to
the office of county superintendent of
Gage county.
"A strange disease has attacked calves
at Sterling, the afflicted animals dyin
about fifteen minutes after showing signs
OF sickness.
The Union Pacific offers $4,000 to
any one who will shoot robber on any of
their trains while he is engaged in the act
of rcbbing.
Chase county has no bonded indebted
ness. and the farmers are almost a unit in
opposition to bonding the county for any
purpose.
A Fremont boy named Frahm stubbed
his toe week ago, injuring his foot SO Sc
serely that lock jaw resulte I, from which
be died.
druggists at ST. Paul refuse to pay the
sou occupation tax, and the case will be
appealed to the supreme court for final de-
,ision.
"A live martin is on exhibition at Will
'onville. where it attracts much attention.
being an animal rarely seen in the west.
A young girl at Wymore committed
suicide by shooting herself in the side
hree times and then cutting her throat.
The G. A. r. in Nebraska is growing
'apidly, the membership now being 1863
gain OF about 500 in three months.
j. H. Goodrich. jr., treasurer of Red
Willow county. has resigned. and has been
succeeded by Willis Gossard.
For the third time Hastings has let the |
contract for natural gas we'll. Two con-
tractors have failed to connect.
The fax crop around Sterling is being
Ihreshed and yields from eleven to
fourteen bushels per acre.
Farmers say that the grain laid fiat by
he recent rains is coming out all right, and |
damaged but very little.
Mrs. Julia Richardson, Of Gerine, af-
er passing creditahle examination. has
zen admitted to the bar.
Joshua Melvin, an eccentric citizen of
Nebraska City, claims to have invented !,
OF electricity.
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