Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-12
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SWEENEY, who was arrested as the
supposed murderer of Flood at Rapid
City, has been released, the testimony
him with the crime being too
vague to hold him.
SAMUEL CUsHMAN. a prominent citizen
of Deadwood at present filling the office
of auditor of Lawrence county, has
been rendered the position of dean Of
the Dakota school of mines.
Mrs. HENRY JAssMAN, of Scotland,
died from the effects of a fall from a
chair that caused premature birth. A
husband six children, the eldest IL years
DID, are left to mourn her death.
JOHN 3. Mass, of Deadwood, was
going home about o'clock in the morn
ing, when he fell into the clutches of two
footpads, who, approaching from behind,
threw him on his back, gagged him and
went through his pockets to the tune OF
$27.5O
The young sons OF John Reich and
Jacob Resner, of Scotland, We're playing
in the yard of the latter when the former
had the end of his thumb cut clean off
just above the first joint Reich's boy
was holding stick on block While
Resner's boy was doing the choppng
with Ratchet, and a miss lick cut the
little fellows thumb off. The boys were
only 2 years old.
| JACOB SEER and two young ladies were
out walking in Scotland when Gottlieb
Pomarenska walked up to them and
grossly insulted the girls. Seer escorted
them home and returned and gave POM
arenska a well-deserved pounding. Both
parties were arrested, and Seer was
fined ST and costs for fighting, and Pom
arenski IS and costs, amounting to
| $11.45, for using indecent language.
PROBABLY the largest blast ever put
off in the Black Hills was recently dis
charged on the Burlington & Missouri
grade near the northern limit OF Custer
City by Contractors Cable & Chute
Fifty-fve kegs of black powder and $50
pounds of giant powder were used, pro-
ducing an explosion which fairly made
the mountains tremble, and displaced
many thousand tons of rock. The resi-
dence of Peter Mckinney, located near
by, was literally buried under the debris,
and would have been utterly demolished
had he not taken the precaution to pro-
tect it with heavy timbers
Mrs. Jane ]. Hanback,, of Custer City,
had long been afflicted with bronchocele,
tumor on the fore part of the neck,
causing spasms of the CLOTHS, which
lately had become more frequent and Sc
we're, producing intense suffocation
which was liable to cause her death at
any time. AS a last resort the tumor
was removed by the physicians, and the
success of the operation, in a surgical
view, is amply attested by the fact of
the patient having sustained a loss OF
less than one pint of blood; but, as feared
by the operating surgeons, the shock
was too great for the patient to bear
The deceased rallied after the operation
had been performed, but very soon sue
cumbed to spasm coming on just before
the completion of the operation, passing
away in less than four hours afterward.
LAVENDER 6 SPANNAGEL, of Scotland,
have submitted to their creditors a
proposition by which, if accepted, they
hope to pay 80 cents ON the dollar on all
claims except that of T. O. Bogert,
which is an execution on the entire stock
and must be paid in full. They pro-
pose that man. mutually agreed upon,
be put in charge of the store and sell the
stock in the regular course of trade, col
lect the accounts due the firm, and the
amount received above the claim OF i.
o. Bogert to be divided pro rata among
the creditors they to accept the same in
full payment of their claims. The ap-
praised value of the stock is $40, 550.51,
accounts and notes 4,905.55, and it put
up at forced sale would not more than
satisfy the execution. The liabilities OF
the firm are $4,000. The farmers
around Scotland hold notes of the firm
to the amount of nearly $4,000 for cattle
sold them and money loaned. The bal
ance of their liabilities are with eastern
wholesale houses.
An extremely difficult case of trache.
otomy was performed recently upon
little boy 2 years old, living with his
parents near Lennox. He had swallowed
a large pebble, a twenty-grain stone
and it had managed to lodge in his wind
pipe. When cut out it was near to the
bronchial passages leading to the lungs
1t is a wonder that the child's life wa:
saved.
THE man who was run over q few
weeks since by a squad of cavalrymen
of d troop, was sent to his home in thu
east one day last week by the count!
paying the greater part of the railroad
fare. The citizens of Sturgis made up
purse Of $25 to pay the mans boar
while he was laid up.
A FIRE broke out Friday in A. E
Dixon's residence in Millbank, destroy
ing the entire structure. The fire wa
caused Oy IN eAplosloh Oh S"soin
stove. Mrs. Dixon was severely an
probably fatally burned by the accident
MIKE MCDONALD was recently arreste
in Deadwood charged with larceny. q
is accused of stealing time check cal
ing for $2O.35 from friend. Both tn
men had been working for Wade & Jone
IL on railroad work.
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