Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-12-07
continuously, and gas-light was necessary

continuously, and gas.light was necessary
in stores and dwellings.
MELBOURNE. Ark, was wrecked by a cy-
clone early on the morning of the 21st. The
courthouse, stores, churches and resi-
dences were blown to pieces, and four per-
sons We're killed and many injured. A
number of structures at Coal Hill were also
demolished. At Fort Smith several houses
We're wrecked, one man was killed aud sew
eral others were wounded.
THE main BODYBUILDING of the WOODEN
and cotton mill at New Albany, Ind, in
which one hundred and twenty-five men
were at work, was destroyed by fire on the
Dist. Loss, $4,000.
f. FRIEDLANDER & Co., wholesale deal
ers i'll furnishing goods at San Francisco,
made an assignment on the Dist. The liza
bilities were placed at 100000.
HEAVY rains at Indianapolis flooded the
northwestern quarter of that city on the
21st, the damage a~ggregating 5000 900.
Water was three feet deep in Dickson's
Undergrad, the railway tracks east of
the Union depot Were submerged, and
nearly all travel by rail was suspended.
The residence of James Savery, of Green
Township, Pa, took fire on the 21st. He
rushed in to save his children and sue
ceeded, but he was hurned to a crisp.
SURGEON VAN ZANDr, of the United
States Marine Hospital at San Francisco,
Oh the 21st reported two cases of yellow
fever at that institution.
ONE Indiana people killed
themselves during the year ended October
81, six hundred and seven were killed by ac-
cident, two were officially hanged, and two
were executed by mobs.
IT was announced on the 21st that the
total number of cases at Brewton, Ala,
during the yellow-fever epidemic was
s~eventy-five. with twenty-eight deaths.
JOE ANzEL PERcA and his four daugh-
ticed a boy into their house a few days ago,
and beat out his brains with a club. The
Mexicans threatened l%ynching.
CHARLES R. CHuBBucK, confidential
clerk for John 1. Robin, a New York
custom-house broker, absconded with S14,-
600 on the 21st.
In q farmhouse in the township Of
Spring Arbor, jackson County, Mich, ia.
cob Crouch, aged seventy-four years; his
daughter, Mrs. Eunice White, aged thirty
three: his s%on-in-law, Henry p. White,
aged thirty eight, and Moses Policy, a Wis
itor, were murdered in their beds on the
night of the 21st. The latter had shown
considerable money, and stated that he
Should purchase cattle, and it was thought
Mr.. Crouch had $4,000 in his possession,
said sum having recently been received by
him from claims he held in a Texas cattle
ranch. Mr.. Crouch was worth S 2,0OO, 900.
A CYCLONE in Texas on the 22d blew
down houses at Ogden and Woodville, and
several persons were badly injured.
HORACE A. BILLINGS, a Chicago lumber
dealer, failed on the 22d for 500, 900.
JOHN CHISHOLM, a wife-murderer, was
hanged on the 22d at Newark, N. J..
In portions Of Iowa md Wisconsin snow
to the depth of two inches fell on the 22d.
THE National Bank of Railway, N. j.,
suspended payment OF the ODD. The au-
thorized capital was 100000, but only
100000 had been paid in.'
PATRICK DoDD and wife, of Attica, N.
Y, blew out the gas in their hotel-room in
New York IN the night of the ed, and
We're suffocated.
The Secretary Of the Treasury at Wash
ington on the odd authorized the payment
without rebate of the three per cents en-
braced i'll the one hundred and twenty-sec-
ond call maturing December l. The amount
outstanding was about Sl4. 1'o,0o0.
HEAVY rains a. Belleville. ILL.,, on the ODD
flooded ten coal mines. inhicting damage
estimated at $4,000.
EXTENSIVE rain and wind-storms on the
ODD in Southern Illinois and portions of
Indiana and Missouri did great damage to
buildings and railroads, and several lives
We're lost.
REVENUE officers captured an illicit still
and three Burdick brothers at Erie, Pa, on
the 22d.
j. o. REED, a %well-known business man
of Toledo, o., was robbed on the night of
the ODD in a Wabash s~leeping-car of a val
liable diamond pin and S12O in money.
AT Ashland, Pa, on the 22i John Stein
hiber shot dead Thomas Kerns, aged sew
enteen, alleging that he mistook him for
a desperate. Kerns narrowly escaped
lynching.