Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-09-29

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ing meal on the 18th by pouring kerosene
lowed, and the girl was probably fatally
burned.
SEVEN large ice-houses at North Chelms-
ford, Mass, were burned on the 18th.
FIRE at Fort Smith, Ark, the other night
destroyed 500, 900 worth of property in
the business section.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has decided to ap.
point a commission to examine all con-
ditions of %hog-raising, to settle the rumors
of disease among American swine.
ADv1cEs of the 18th from Smithfield, N.
c., stated that fifteen vessels were ashore
and three pilot-boats had been sunk by the
recent storm. All along the coast from
Cape Hatteras to Smithfield the storm had
done great damage.
A STATEMENT prepared on the 18th at the
Money Order Office at Washington, based
upon returns for one week from one hun
bred smaller money-order offices, showed
that forty-two per cent. of the money trans
mitted by the money-order service vas in
postal notes.
Six new cases of ~yellow-fever and one
death were reported at the Pensacola
navy-yard on the 18th.
The Pemberton and Everett mills and
others at Lawrence, Mass, were on the
18th temporarily suspended because of the
low stage of water in the Merrimac, and
hundreds of employees were rendered idle.
Mr.. COLLINS, a student in Lehigh Uni
versity, at Bethlehem, Pa, while attempt
ing a few evenings ago to escape from a
hazing party, jumped from his window
eighteen feet 10 the ground, fracturing the
bones of his leg and receiving other severe
injuries.
The total paper circulation outstanding
on the 18th was 1881, 1871 ,069; total coin cir
culation, $743, 347,573; grand total, $1,575,-
1O4, 642.
A FIRE at Olympia, w. T., on the 18th
destroyed the Office of the Surveyor-Gen-
eral, with all its records, the loss being
SEC, 1000.
The value of the exports Of petroleum
and petroleum products during the seven
months ended July 81 was $26,6sS, 345,
against $27, 247 ,416 the same time in 1882.
The twenty-fifth anniversary Of the find
ing of gold in Colorado was celebrated in
Denver on the1 9th.
THE Treasury Department at Washing
ton on the 18th purchased 296, 900 ounces of
fine silver for the minis at Philadelphia,
New Orleans and San Francisco.
PosTMAsTER-GENERAL GRESHAM on the
18th issued an order to all postmasters in
the United States prohibiting them from
paying money orders and delivering reg
istered letters to the managers of lottery
companies.
DURING the seven days ended on the 18th
the business failures throughout the
United States and Canada numbered 152, as
compared with 157 the previous seven days.
The distribution was as follows: New En-
gland States, %; Middle, %; Western, "a;
Southern, 49,; Pacific States and Terrific
ries, 10; New York City, 9; Canada and
Provinces, IA.
The town of Jacksonville, Ala, was de-
stroyed by an incendiary fire the other
morning. Loss, $4,000.
DUN's COMMERCIAL AGENCY on the 18th
reported business throughout the country
generally satisfactory, and the fall trade
was quietly progressing, with a large vol
ume of sales in most all staples.
JONES & Co., leading cotton-brokers of
New Orleans, with agencies throughout the
South, suspended on the 18th.
WILLIAM RuNYAN and his wife, aged
twenty-five and twenty, respectively, were
found in bed at their residencein Millville,
Pa, on the 14th, with their threats cut from
ear to ear. They had been dead about a
week, and it was thought that the husband,
in a fit of temporary insanity, first killed
his wife and then himself.
FIRE at Brooklyn, N. Y, on the 18th de.
stroyed w. A. Boylin & Co.'s hat works,
Charles E.. Everett's novelty straw hat
factory, and two rear frame buildings, in.
volving a loss of $135, OO0.
BARBARA MILLER (colored), who crushed
her husbands head with an ak while he
lay asleep, and with the aid of her para.
mour placed the body on a railroad track,
where it was mangled by several trains,
was hanged on the l4th in the jail-yard at
Richmond, Va. Her accomplice, c. II. Lee,
was executed on the Sd of August.
THE police lofI Kansas City on the
14th forced all the gambling.rooms to
close.
SOME miners who were recently dis
charged at Hazelton, Pa, threatened to
destroy the property of the company.
They fought the c~onstabulary, who were
engaged to protect the property, with
pistols. A woman and girl were killed
and several officers and miners were in.
jured.
IT was reported On the 14th that a rain.
storm and frost had ruined a large portion
of the Vermont hop crop.
FRANK ADLEMAN, book-keeper, and John
Stapean, ex-collector for the Genesee Brew.
ing Company, of Rochester, N. Y, were
| arrested on the 18th for embezzliug 500. 900
of the company's money.
AT Hartford, d. T., while descending a
flight of stairs in his house a few days ago
Herman Divers and a child were killed by
lightning.
A PAPER was fled at the White House on
the 14t!l asking the President to protect
negro settlers in Arkansas, who were be-
ing driven from their homesteads by the
State officers.
THREE miners fell a distance of three
hundred feet in a mine at Butte, M. T., a
few mornings ago, and were dashed to
pieces.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
GENERAL WEAVER has declined the
Greenback nomination for Congress in the
Sixth Iowa District, to fill the vacancy