Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-12-21

PLUNKETT & WRIGHT, leading merchants
at Lavoca, Ark, sold all their stock at
whatever it would bring, nj departed on
the 9th for places unknown, owing $4,000.
The creditors would get nothing.
AN earthquake lasting forty-eight Sec
onds was experienced on the 9th at Rouen-
den Springs, Ark. It broke stoves and
crockery, and loosened rocks in the rail-
way cuts.
A sNow-sToRM on the 9th at Denver,
Col, BLOCKED railway communication for
twenty-four hours, and carried down three
hundred telegraph poles laden with wires.
ApvICEs of the 9th from Gloucester,
Mass, report the loss. of thirty-eight men
by the sinking of three fishing schooners,
which makes the total number thus far lost
in the late gale sixty-eight.
The Dover Silk Company, of Paterson,
N. j., suspended payment on the 9th, with
liabilities of S1O2, 0Oo.
AN engine with several people crossed
the new bridge over the Niagara River on
the 9Th. TIL structure was said to have
felt as firm as solid ground.
A HUGE land fraud, by which some two
thousand persons in the vicinity of Wheel
ing, w. Va, lave been swindled out of
amounts ranging from fifty dollars to five
hundred dollars, was discovered on the 9th.
AIRED robbers held up q mail-rider OF
the 9th four miles from Dardanelle, Ark,
and took his letter-pouch.
AT q fire in a tenement in New York
City on the 9th two persons were fatally
burned, one was overcome by smoke, and
a fourth leaped from a third.story VIM
dow.
DURING the seven days ended on the 18th
the business failures throughout the
United States and Canada numbered 279,
tribution was as follows: New England
States, %; Middle, SO; Western, 81; South
ern, So; Pacific States and Territories,
Is; Canada and the Provinces, SO.
LEVY Bros. g. Co., of New York City,
%clothiers. failed on tbs It'll for $2,470, G39.
In the United States District Court at
Chicago on the 7th John Flemming and
Frank l.. Loring, the grain swindlers, were
convicted of using the mails to defraud.
A motion for a new trial was made, and an
additional bond of $4,000 was required.
THE entire business section of William
ston, N. c., was burned on the 18th, includ-
ing the post-office and telegraph office.
TIL steamer Commerce, with two hundred
bales of cotton and other freight, was also
consumed.
Four Mexicans, charged with murder
ing Domingo Plingo near Fort Davis, we're
taken from the authorities on the eth and
lynched.
A sLEEP1NG-oAR of the Chicago express,
on the New York Central Road, was de-
stroyed by fire near Castleton, N. Y, on
the It'll. One occupant was fatally burned
II another was taken out unconscious.
F.. A. DEERING, postmaster at Morgan
town, w. Va, undertook IN the night of
the 18th to carry to his house a tin box con-
tanning $40, but a thief grabbed it on a
dark street and disappeared.
JAMES NJ. UNDERWOOD was hanged on
the 18th at Dardanelle, Ark, for numbering
Robert j. Pendergrast, a wealthy planter.
ADvICEs of the 7th from Illinois, Iowa,
Indiana, Kansas and Nebraska state that
the corn crop was in a very discouraging
condition, much of it having become heat
ed and swelled in the cribs. The range of
prices averaged from thirty to forty cents
per bushel. Many farmers, it was said,
were, to.a great extent, feeding the crop to
their stock.