Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-18
DOMESTIC.

THE public-debt statement issued on the
LIST makes the following exhibit: Total
debt (including interest of $11, 1922 s5>,
$1,S72, 1892. Cash in Treasury, $402, $751;
210. Debt, less amount in Treasury, ST.
4G9, g., 800. Decrease during March, $14,-
23S,324. Decrease since June 80, 1888, $751;
S2s,S9s.
TIE Indiana Mine Inspector reported on
the LIST 206 collieries in the State, with 5,4O3
men, which produced last year $3.50, 1000
tons of coal. The combined capital was
81, goo, 1000, and the fatal accidents for the
period stated numbered eleven.
TWENTY-FIVE families left Pittsburgh on
the LIST for Seattle, w. T., and others
would soon follow. They claimed to have
been crowded out by foreigners, giving
employers a chance to reduce wages.
The barricades about the courthouse at
Cincinnati were removed on the I'd. The
Seventeenth Regiment still guarded the
Jail, and the Fifth was at Music Hall. It
was reported that forty-fve were killed
ana one hundred and thirty-eight wound.
ed in the riots.
ADv1CEs of the I'd state that besides the
destruction of the village Of Oakville,
Ind, and the loss of six lives by the recent
cyclone, every farm for five miles east and
west, in the path Of the storm, was
wrecked, barns, houses, orchards and for
ests being blown down, and fences leveled
to the ground. -Four persons lost their
lives, and a large number of stock was
killed.
The Mississippi River was again rap.
idly rising at Hannibal, Mo-, on the ID, all
the lower part of the city being Inundated,
and people were moving in skiffs from
their houses, through which water four
feet deep was flowing. All the lumber
yards were submerged, and large quanti-
ties had foated away. The loss would be
heavy.
SEVERE storms in Western Ohio, close
to the Indiana State line, were reported on
the I'd. Farmers suffered severely.
A QUARREL the other day about the own
;ership of a hen caused three women in
tRitchie County, W. Va, to kill Mrs. Eliza
Richardson with knives and clubs.
The British steamer Salermo, which ar
rived on the I'd at Boston, reported pass
ling an iceberg a mile in length.
ALL but two townships of the Turtle
Mountain Indian Reservation in Dakota
have been restored to the public domain
by proclamation of the President.
CLAYTON & Co., book-pub1ishers at
Philadelphia, failed OH the I'd for $4,000,
and Lyman g. Curtis, of New York, toy
merchants, made an assignment for $I72,-
coo.
A DEPUTY-MARsHAL and his posse on the
I'd took to Louisville twelve moonshiners
captured in a raid through Green and
Casey Counties, KY.
A L passed through Dade Coun-
ty, Ga, on the I'd, causing the death of
EIGHT persons and great destruction of
property. In Madison County, Ala, a
]wind-storm blew down the house of a
family named White, and Mrs. White and
her Mother-in-law were killed, and n baby
was carried several miles in the woods,
where it was found alive.
A PREMATURE blast a few days ago at
Port Arthur, on the Canadian Pacific Road,
killed five men.
Four United States prisoners having
died of measles in Jail at Atlanta, Ca, and
twenty.nine cases being in the hospital on
the I'd, the remainder of the prisoners
would be released on suspended sentences.
LnGHTN1NG struck a school-house on the
I'd near Nevada, o., seriously burning
-four pupils.
A REPORT made to Congress on the I'd by
Statistician Dodge, of the Agricultural
department, showed that the stock of
wheat on land was $4,000, 900 bushels, of
which 100000 bushels were in Illinois,
D,5Oo,00 bushels in Iowa, 7,50O,0 600 bushels
in Wisconsin and 13,500,00O bushels in
Minnesota.
PETER VIGNE, confined in the lookup at
,Waterville, Me-, fred the building a few
days ago and persisted in the flames.
THE largest and most influential meeting
Df cotton manufacturers ever held in the ]