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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11
Thieves at Louisville.

Thieves and robbers have been at work
since the very night after tie tornado
swept the city. Numerous bodies have
been robbed, although but few have been
reported to the police. On Saturday
morning two ladies of Mr.. Barnwell's
church went to the parsonage to see if the
silverware could not be found. The ladies
oun that the chest in which the silver
was kept was unchanged, but the silver
was gone. When the body of Mr.. Barn
we'll was recovered, it was found that his
watch and chain had been taken and that a
large ring had been taken from the little
finger of his left hand. The body
Of John Hamilton was another
that was robbed. When found the pockets
had been turned inside out and watch and
chain had been taken. Mrs. Hamilton
says her husband had S25 in gold when he
left the house. One attempt to rob a
body was frustrated by the prompt action
of John Buckley. The body of a beauti-
fui young woman was taken into Buckley's
saloon to await Identification. The rem
Lants OF what had once been a handsome
dress hung in tatters about her burned and
mangled body. At her throat was still
fastened a beautiful diamond cross. A
thief suddenly stopped and wrenched the
pin loose and started for the door. Buck
ley, who had witnessed his act, met him at
the door. and promptly knocked him
down. The robber leaped to his feet.
dropped the pin and made good his es-
capa
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11
Bismarck's Movements.

Prince Bismarck has left Berlin for
Friedrichsruhe, his country seat. Before
he left he visited the imperial mausoleum
and placed a wreath upon the coffin of
William I.
thousands OF persons gathered in Will
helm strasse and along the route to the
railway station to witness the final scene
III the Blsmarck drama. AS be appeared,
wearing the uniform of the cuirrasers. Bis
marck was greeted with stormy enthusi-
asm. The windows of the houses in the
vicinity were crowded with spectators. The
entire route was q sea of waving handker-
chiefs. Horses were compelled to walk
the entire distance from the palace to the
station. A number of other carriages filled
with friends and admirers closed the
procession. When the party arrived at the
station all the ministers, the diplomatic
corps and the court and state officials were
waiting to bid farewell to the prince and
there was a great mass of people outside.
Mountains OF bouquets for the prince and
princess were piled in the waiting rooms.
bismarck, in a hearty voice, bid all fare
well. Phelps, the American minister. and
Won Caprivl were among the last to shake
his hand. Many tears were shed aud it
was altogether an effecting seence. At sac
the train started amid renewed singing.
and cheering.
IN connection with the regard evinced
by Bismarck for United States Minister
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11

Phelps it is wor by of noe that on Tues
day last be dened himself to all others and
received MIR. Phelps at a private audience.
The object of the discussion excited much
curiosity. Rumor says't the prince made q
careful statement of recent events with l
view to the future real history of the crisis
s:l!l wrapped in mystery.
The appointment Of Baron Biebenstein
as foreign secretary is regarded as definite.
Biebenstein was born in 1912. He is a
hard worker. Tie baron was formerly
public prosecutor and has never been i'll
the military service, though he has had !
long career in the reichstag. He is a good
debator and has represented Baden in the
bundesrath since 1883. He is an atfabls
man and a popular f%avorite at court. He
has a strong tendency toward state social
ism. The Cologne Gdsette says that he is
intimately acquainted with Prince Bis
marck and his policy. His appointment
the paper says is q guarantee of continued
peace. He will make no change in the
diplomatic service. 1t is stated that the
emperor accepted Count Bismarck's resig-
nation with the greatest reluctance be-
cause Prince Bismarck trained nobody but
his son thoroughly in his policy and ideas.
This reason in many quarters is held to
justify the emperor's action as an antici-
patton of the fast approaching inevitable
retirement or death of Prince Bismarck
INC the necessary release Of the ministers
from the Bismarcklan bondage and the
jealousy of Count Herbert.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11
SOUTH DAKOTA slTTINGs.
A BH, for the neneti, of the Sioux.

n DIX 1oT VIC ei.c u tiS Sio.->'
4 hill has been introduced in the United
States senate which makes a fairly heavy
call on the national treasury to carry OK:
al the agreements that have been made
between the government and the Indians
in South Dakota. 1t proposes giving the
redskins about everything they asbe when
they we're here and which they said they
had been promised by the commission he
fore they signed the agreement giving UP
their reservation. The bill came from Sem
ator DAVIS. chairman Of the committee Oh
Indian affairs. but was introduced by Sem
ator Ingalls, in the absence of the
Massachusetts man. The bill! asks for the
followingamounts. -Four hundred thousand
dollars to purchase 10000 COWS for the
Sioux: $3.50, 600 for horses. oxen and agri-
cultural machinery; SI50,0G0 to support
schools: $4,000 to build thirty school
houses on the reservation; Sl5G,0O0 to pay
interest on Indian funds held by the United
States: 5000, 0G0 to reimburse the tribes at
Standing Rock and Cheyenne agencies for
ponies taken from peaceable Indians at the
time all were ~disnounted by Gen. Crook;
SIS .039 to pay the Indians on the Grow
Greek reservation for lands taken from
them by reason of inaccurate surveys;
500. 600 for beef and other rations. and
s32.o00 to purchase lands for the Santee
tribes who are short tie regular allowance.
These amounts are to settle with the In
dlans all claims which arose under the for
mer treaties aud for the agreements made
last summer, aggregating S1,629,o39.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11
They Pullcd Down Her Honse.

Lieutenant Beard and a squad of police
officers pulled down and utterly destroyed
the house at 12s Washington boulevard
Saturday night, and, SO far as it's owner
has been able to learn, without any au-
thority whatever. The house once be-
forged to the husband of Mrs. Mary F.
Miller, who at her husbands death was
given the right to occupy it and draw rent
from it by Judge Knickerbocker. Some
time ago she rented the house to a tenant
who was slow in paving the rent and she
sued him for possession. He then turned
against her, and, as Mrs. Miller claims, as
sisted her brother-in-law in prosecuting
her. The brother-in-law, Thomas II.
Miller, is the executor of his brothers will
and ii is said that he has caused all the
trouble which eliminated in the fall of the
house Saturday night. Mrs. Miller will
Immediately institute legal proceedings to
secure damages.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11
A CANADIAN nair

II the Ontario legislature MIR. Graham,
member for East Lambton. moved that in
the opini Il OF the house it is desirable
that closer trade relations should be es-
tablished between the United States of
America and the Dominion of Canada and
that the legislature of the Dominion Of
Canada should take such steps as they may
deem espedient to bring about unrestricted
reciprocity between the United States of
America and the Dominion of Canada.
There was nc use IN conceal
ing the fact that the farmers were
handicapped by the prohibitory
tariff which the Americans had put
upon their products, and if something was
not done to relieve the farmers they would
soon become bankrupt. The United States
was their natural market, he said, and it
was in the interest of the whole country
that closer trade relations should prevail.
The farmers were as loyal as any other
men, but they had a right to ask that JUS
tice be done them. If Canada failed to get
unrestricted reciprocity with the United
States. he believed annexation to be her
inevitable destiny. Mr.. Frazer, commits
sioner of public works, said that as the at
tendance was small, it would be unfair to
discuss this important subject and accord
ingly moved an adjournment of the debate,
which was carried.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11
CableSranlS.

The disorders among the stads1
the Russian military academy and III
stitute Of mines and forestry ccIti-E'
further arrests have been made.
II is understood that the betlotAa'
soon be announced of Princess VIZ
sister CT Emperor William, to PF,A;'
bert OF Saxe-Altenburg. Prince A''
a widower.
THE strike Of the coal miners at "
roi is spreading. The labor lra5a'
presented its ultimatum to the :l.iIF.
ers. demanding an advance Of l2fS'
in wages.
In consequence of a hostile oel0-
ton outside of the Bulgarian as5A.
Belgrade the government at Sofa ~.
dered its agent to Withdraw temp,
from the Servian capital. Aceo!a'u''
will spend a fortnight in Vienna.
The Fremden6lGH says that ano'.s,
ference having Tor its object the E@s'D,
ton OF the differences between vs.
mans, old Czechs, and young ~ =,
Bohemia will meet on April - ~"
Count Won Taase will preside.
ARRANGEMENTS have been MAJ II
exchange of visits between EmEe!"
lam ard Kin Humbeit.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11
LEI CITY OF PARIS.
The Second Engineer Saves he Ship mt
the Peril OF His Life-Other Steamship

The Second Engineer Saves the Ship ut
the Peril of His Life-Other Steamship
News.
The Inman line steamer City of Paris,
towed by the steamer Aldergate, arrived at
Queenstown at 4 o'clock Sunday morning.
An accident occurred on Tuesday. caused
by the b~reakage of the low pressure
cylinder port engine, the flying to pieces of
the metal forcing the bulkhead and max
ing a hole in the double bottom and dis
abling the starooard engine. The pas
sengers became panic stricken when they
found the ship was leaking aud that there
was a possibility of the vessel laundering.
The water which flooded the engine COM
partment was forced through injection
tubes, which, it is alleged, the engineers
during the excitement had neglected to
shut The starboard engine was shattered
almost to pieces, the port engine rooms
filled with upwards of 2 1000 tons Of water
and the port engine was rendered entirely
useless. Terrible consequences would
have ensued but for the bravery of the
second engineer, who at the peril of his
life managed to shut off the steam. thus
saving the machinery from total demoli-
ton. The life boats were c!eared and the
pumps kept working. The weather was fine
and there was no wind. The steamerd rifted
hopelessly until the 26tb, when the captain
sent the chief officer and sig men in Il life
boat TO get into the track of the other line
steamers in the hope of intercepting the
City of Chester, or the Adriatic. The boat
met the Adriatic, which declined to take
tow, but sent the steamer Aldersgate. The
.tldersgate is a small steamer, unable to
tow over four or five knots an hour, and
progress was slow until Saturday, when
the Ohio was sighted. Two tugs were sent
later. The water kept increasing in spite
of the work of the pumps.
The examination being made shows the
conduct of the officers and crew to have
been admirable.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11
Can Keen Her Land.

Secretary Noble has affirmed a land
Office decision dismissing the contest of
John r. Allison against Hannah Tisdale's
entry IN section II, township los, range
81. in the Mitchell, S. D., district. Mrs.
Iisdale was completing her homestead in
good faith when she became insane and
was placed in an insane asylum. Allison
held that she thereby failed to comply with
the law and lost her residence. Secretary
Noble agrees with a former ruling that her
absence is her misfortune and the govern
1nent ought not to take from her the rights
she had in part acquired. He cites a de-
cision that in cases like this absence is
excusable and the period she was con-
fined in the asylum will be estimated as a
part of the five years residence on the
homestead required to perfect title.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11
HIS Bank Was a Trunk.

About a week ago w. w. Hanworth, a
Baltimore II Ohio track-walker at Paw
Paw. was robbed of about 81, 800, the ac-
cumulations of almost a lifetime of labor.
which he kept in a trunk in his cabin. A
reward of $500 led to the arrest of a young
man, but he was shown to be limo.
cent and the matter remained a mystery,
To-day Mrs. Hanworth confessed to tax.
ing the money and turned over Social
she had left. 1t was her intention to have
eloped with a young railroad man, and 1t is
supposed he has the remainder of the
money. The young man cannot be found.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11
Preferred Love to Lucre.

Edward Bruton. a wealthy young man,
was Tilted at the altar at Paris, Tex, by
Miss Annie Bayless, who an hour later was
married to James r. Bradbury, a poor
blacksmith. 1t was a combat between love
andlucre, and after a hard struggle love
conquered. Miss Bayless is the daughter
of a wealthy citizen and was engaged to
marry Mr.. Bruton. She was also engaged
to Mr.. Bradbury, but her parents opposed
the match and favored Bruton's suit. At
the last minute Miss Bayless refused to
marry Brutou. and an hour afterward was
united to Bradbury at the home of a neigh
hor
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11
VIII Attempt to Remove Them.

Joe Scott and T. c.. Robertson, Of Gus
ter county, Mont. are in Washington.
They want the Cheyenne Indians removed
from Tongue river and Rosebud to the
Pine Ridge agency in South Dakota.
These Indians We're once located in the
Indian territory, but became dissatisfied,
and about ten years ago they got together.
bucks, squaws, ponies and papooses. and
made the march across country to Rose
bnd and Tongue river. Some Of them
went to South Dakota a. that time.
The march was the most remarkable
Indian march on recori. Troops We're
ordered OUT and attempted to inter
cept them. bat failed. They mur-
dered many settlers ana We're still
on the warpath when captured by Gen.
Miles and located where they now are.
Some OF them went to South Dakota at the
time. Many homesteaaers had settled
upon the lands and have been trying to get
the indians removed ever since, without
success. Senator Pettigrew objects in the
strongest terms to the removal of the Mou-
tana Cheyennes to South Dakota. I'VE
have $4,000 Indians in our state now, >
said the senator, and we do not want my
more. We will try and take care Of what
we now have, but we will not let any more
come III if we can help it," Senator Pet
tigrew says that the people of every state
try to get rid of the Indians they have got
and then they turn philanthropLists.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11
GUARDING THE PARK.
PRECAUTIONS FOR THE PEilsERVA-
TION OF YELLOWSTONE.
Its Friends Do Not Want 1t to Ee ii Play
Ground for RaiIroads-Snine suggestions
Regarding It-Ncws of Other Sort.

Ground for Railroads-Snine suggestions
Regarding It-Ncws of Other Sort.
Representative Carter and Capt. Bou-
telle of Montana: Gen. Benjamin H. Bris-
tow and Archibald Rogers, of New York;
Hon. Theodore Roosevelt aud Arthur
Hague, of the United States geological sur
vey, appeared before the public lands corn-
mittee of the house in favor of the senate
bill for thu maintenance and better pro-
lection Of the Yellowstone National Park.
Mr.. Hague protested against granting any
right of way OR franchise for railway
purposes through the park, aud While re-
GREETING the necessity of cutting Off any Ct
the northern territory admitted the neces-
sity of some means for reaching Cooke
City by rail. An amendment proposed de-
fines the northern boundary as follows:
Making it coincide with the boundary Of
Wyoming and Montana to its point of
intersection with the north bank
of the Yellowstone river; thence
along said north bank to its junction with
the Lamar river, sometimes called the east
fork of the Yellowstone; thence along the
north bank of said river to its intersection
with the parallel OF "A deg. 5O mln.; thence
due east along said parallel to the meridian
Of 100 deg. 80 min. west longitude; thence
due south along said meridian" This
would allow q right-of-way for railway
purposes from Cinnebar to Cooke City.
and would at the same time permit the con-
struction of any railway up the Clarh's
Fork of the Yellowstone river from the
nocf Thn oroo ant oET SC op1r n cn,a11 nov
ner in the northeast of the park. The
northern boundary east of the Lamar
river would run along the ridge be-
tween Soda butte and Cache creeks.
leaving Soda butte canon entirely outside
the jurisdiction of the park. The commit
tee. with the possible exception of Mr..
Holman, is favorably inclined toward the
amendment.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11
SPARKS FROM TIE WIRES.

The Russian government proposes to
African ports.
A 1,400-BARREL oil well has been struck
five miles east of Lima. o., developing new
territory.
Gov. HILL has appointed Ma. -Gen.
Daniel L. Sicbles sheriff OF the city and
county of New YORK., i'll the place Of James
Flack, resigned.
BEN HOGAN. the ex.prize fighter and
evangelist, lost 81, 900 worth of stere-
opticon views and paraphernalia in a fire
in Newcastle, Pa.
A DECREE has been issued in Brazil Or
dering that persons guilty of publishing or
telegraphing false alarmist rumors shall
be tried by court martial.
FRANK KRoNG, a Swede, has been ar
rested at Pittsburg on the charge of muir.
dering Lizzie Johns, an inmate of a house
Of ill-fame, who was mysteriously killed
last week.
JAS. 2. DAVIS, alias VIM. S. Shackle-
ford, was hanged at Pittsboro, N. C.. for
the murder of John Horton. He con-
fessed that he murdered his own children
several years ago.
JOHN A. DAVIS, the defaulting city
treasurer of Rochester, n. Y. who embez.
zled 100000 of the city's money, pleaded
guilty to the charge of grand larceny in
the first degree and was sentenced to five
years In prison.
Two thousand miners at Hon. VIM. i.
SCOTS mines, in the vicinity of Mount
Carmel, Pa, have been idle three months.
MIR. Scott has sent his check for s.. 900 for
Their benefit and promised q speedy re.
sumption of work.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11
To Survey the Reservations.

The contract for the survey of the new
~ opened reservatiyn has been let to H.
E. Austin, of Vesmillion, aud NJ. T.
Wooley, of Yankton, and the work will
commence on the LIST of April. Parallel
and meridian lines will be run, commence
ing at the Black Hills, and to run these
lines will take until about the 18th of MAY.
When these lines are completed work will
be commenced on the east side of the res
ervation, running township and section
lines. The portions of the reservation
which will be taken up by settlers first will
be surveyed. It is estimated that not
more thar one-half of the II, 1000, 600 acres
can be surveyed the coming year.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11
BEDLOE SINKING.
A Hepor. that Liber;y's Island Is n,
Settling.

A. Isepor: tina Liber;y's Island Is s,e,,
Settling.
1t is reported that Bedloe's isla.,3
slowly sinking INTO the waters of New y
bay. A suspicion that such was the
has existed in the minds OF those co,]
SAINT with the locality for the pas, i
An examination by a few practical a
neers during the past few days conf
this belief, and leaves no doubt. it is J
that the statue of Liberty is eight
lower than when erected. Bed;oe's isl
is a rock, and was supposed 10 he as end
ing as the world itself. and would lie
it not for the fact that it is
extreme Of on enormous shelf upd
meath which IS q bed of ou!c;J
which extends across this section east,
west. The Central railroad Of New
sey crosses it al L point, ard it has \
the aus of an immense amount oftto1
to that corporation to keep its Il
above ground. 1t is thought that The
of the shelf of rock which forms the ID
has broken Off, and the rock foundatid
the statue is slowly, but surely, sld
out Of SIGHT into the waters of New !
bay. OF course the cause of the brel]
of the rock shelf is not hard to tell:
calamity was undoubtedly caused BY
immense weight Of the stone pedestal
which the statue is placed.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11
NAMES DUPI.ICATFD
The Latest Returns Indicate o,,
enty-Five Killed at LouiS,a,,'

The Latest Returns Indicate a.,
ensy-E1ve Killed at Louis.iiie. =
The state Legislature has app,or,
$40. eco for the relief of the sutfa, p'4a'
the cyclone. The latest returns
that the number of dead will No. e'
over seventy-tive. Many of the ya ''
names we're reported to the coroper ,S'
and several dead were reported unso. wy
names. One man was given three 81.
names in the list Of killed, while an s
family of four persons was listed o.4"1'
the dead under two names. Man !
were supposed to have psrishe] \
we're reckoned among the dead q
since the excitement has a4.''
been discovered to be safe The wy,
relief is now proceeding systematic
The clearing of the streets eptir,Y'
wreckage has also begun. A tenn.
mechanism has been constructed ny wy
it is hoped the water reservoir can h. y
piled. Meantime six fire engines Win
put to work to pump water into the ~,
voir from a small lake near bv. H.
Officer Gait said he feared q great ,lc,.
of disease as a result of a lack OF ro..
flash out The sewer connections IN :.
there should be q water famine. Tho ).
of the killed in Webster county is II,
aud of wounded eighty. Seventeen 4
in all are said to have been lost in 81
county. but their names cannot be ,ea,,
as above given. Dwellings, barns. tmI
and fences were destroyed and the mn,
loss will be heavy.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11
WHIPPED INSTEAD OF Welded.
A Dashing Buffalo Widow Thrashes til.
Man WHO Deceived Her.

A Dashing Buffalo Widow Thrashes the
Man who Deceived Her.
Mrs. Kate Waldrutf, a fascinating young
widow Of East Buffalo, was widowed a
year ago. Her husband left her some
property, and as soon as it became proper
she became an object Of alteration for all
the marriageable young men of Peckham
street. Frederick Williams, painter, was
the most arduous Of Mrs. Waldruf's ad
mirers and finally captured her heart. They
were engaged to be married the week afte:
Easter. All went vel! until yesterday.
when the widow found that her atfiance.l
husband had ii wife and six small children,
vino were actually starving. She TOOK
Mrs. Williams with her. bought twp
pounds Of red pepper and a COW
hide and reached the place on Peck
ham street, where Williams was working,
Just as he was getting ready TO quit for tia
night. You contemplate whelp." was the
first salutation he had, and with it the
widow threw a handful of pepper at him,
and wien the faithless painter was pretty
well blinded the widow drew the cowhidl
from under her sealskin sacque and began
to use it with vigor. Williams yelled with
all his might and strove in vain to avoil
he cutting blows, but the cowhide kissed
him viciously despite the efforts to ward Of
theb blows. The woman did not stop until
she was thoroughly exhausted. A doctor
was called AMI he found that Williams in.
jurles were serious.