Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-20
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THE commission appointed by Chief
Mayes, of the Cherokee nation, to CONFER
with the United States Indian commits
sion, sent communication to the latter
informing them that they were ready to
treat with the government for the sale of
the Cherokee outlet. Three dollars an
acre is the Cherokees price for the land
The bookkeeper of the Farmers and
Mechanics bank. at Fort Worth, Texas,
forgot to lock the safe, and Waterman
Charles Wallace sent for his friend Lee
Reilly. Reilly responded with bag, and
$4,000 in silver was carried off, The men
were arrested and part of the plumber re-
covered,
WILLIAM JACKSON, chopper in tie
camp near Bolton, No., had a fight with
John Ryder, the lcamp cook. Each man
was armed with an axe, and the fight con-
tinued until both were fatally wounded.
AN English syndicate has purchased for
$2,OOo,0Oo all the coal mines, nine in num-
Der, on the line of the Hannibal and St.
Joseph road in Macon county, Mo.
PALACE conspiracy has been discov-
cred at Tangiers, and the sultan's brother
has been put in prison.
AN Englishman was arrested at Sebas-
topol, Russia, while engaged in making
sketches of the batteries and forts at that
place. Compromising documents were
found in his possession.
DUEL with swords was fought near
Buda-Pesth, Hungary, by Count Karolyi
and Count Lazar, and the latter was Sc
varely wounded. The trouble arose over
quarrel in the diet.
II has just been learned that on Novem-
Der End the plant of the Globe Oil COM
pany was sold to the Standard Oil COM
pany, the consideration being s., 1000, 900.
WHILE the congregation of the Fulton
Avenue Methodist church in Baltimore
was praying for the recovery of Rev.
George j. Zimmerman, the pastor, word
was received of his death.
CAPT. RUST, a member of DR.. Peters
expedition. has returned to Zamu. Sanzi-
bar. He believes that DR.. Peters and
Lieut.. Tiedeman are dead.
HEAVY rains prevailed throughout Cali
fornia for two weeks past. Though dam
age has been done in some localities, the
general effect has been highly beneficial to
grain and other crops.
JOHN MADLER and his wife and child
Were burned to death at Kingston, Ont.
heir home took fire and while they were
trying to extinguish the flames their means
of escape was cut off.
A SUGAR mill in the village of Swollen
loves, Austria, in which 1850 tons Of
sugar were stored, collapsed. Eight per.
son were killed and many others injured.
Mrs. OLIVER KNUDsoN, of Chicago,
and Miss Mary Lee, of Milwaukee, we're
asphyxiated in Chicago by coal gas escap-
ing from heating stove.
II is reported that the Jesuits will be
| expelled from Brazil and that their ex-
pulsion will be followed by the sale Of
their houses and lands.
TIE strike among the brass and iron
bedstead makers of Birmingham, Eng,
has spread to the workmen in that indus
try at Dudley and Bilston.
LEWIS Cox, of Philadelphia, is fnan-
cia!ly embarrassed. Liabilities, $500, 900,
with small assets
An epidemic of fever prevails amorg the
employees in the Louvre, France. Four
hundred of them are ill.
JANE DoBsoN, colored, of Providence.
r. l., died at tho reported age of 1O3 years.
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