Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-29
DOMESTIC,

ACCORDING to advlceS received on the
18Th from the Lower Mississippi Valley, the
peach crop in Illinois ana Alabama haG
been killed by the cold weather, while in
Kentucky it was severely blighted, and in
Arkansas somewhat injured. Blackberries
and raspberries in Illinois were killed to
the snow-line, but strawberries promised
well.
The extensive furniture factory of
Crossman & Kluenter, at Allentown, Pa,
was destroyed by fire on the 9Th, and five
persons were reported as killed and seven
Others were injured by falling walls.
NEAR the Howard furnace at Ports.
mouth, O., on the 9th a gallon of powder
ignited in the lap of Mrs. William Wollom,
and q terrible explosion occurred. The
woman and her child We're killed, two 9th
er children were injured, and the house
was blown to atoms.
The seven hundred weavers in the Po-
casset Mill at Fall River, Mass, struck on
the 9th, and the mill was closed.
w. A. SMITH, a diamond-dealer of Bos-
ton, has failed for $2C0,000.
A CONSTRUCTION TRAIN was overturned
the other day near Port Gibson, Miss, and
fourteen men were injured, one fatally and
three dangerously.
The Indian inhabitants of Ommittan,
near Oaxeca, Tex, on the 9th rebelled
against the whites and burned the business
houses and murdered seven chief mer-
chants. They dragged the bodies through
the streets, %plundered stores and spread
terror throughout the place.
The recent consolidation in Texas of the
Millican and Continental Cattle Com
panies, with property valued at S., 000,.
600, makes the largest livestock corpora
ton in the world. A Scotch syndicate has
purchased the ranch property of six Tex
ans for 50 800, 900.
The National Agricultural Convention
met in nnual session in New York City
on the 9Th. A paper Oh the injustice done
the farmer by the sale of oleomargarine
was read by Joseph H. Reall, Secretary of
the convention.
The flood in the Ohio River was causing
terrible destruction on the It'll. Allegheny
City, Pa, was inundated, mills and fac.
tories had suspended operations, and all
the railroads but one had stopped running
trains. Thousands of persons were home
less, and several lives We're lost. One
third of the city of Wheeling, W.
Va, was submerged, s. 100000 worth
of property destroyed, and seven thou
sand people driven from their homes.
Within a radius of fifteen miles twenty
thousand people were homeless. At Gin
cinnati the river marked sixty-two feet
above low water mark, and business was
completely suspended in the lower part of
the city. At numerous other points on
the river reports Of great damage were
prevalent.
ADENTIsT in Scranton, Pa, named W.
H. Heist, gave Mrs. James Stevenson three
doses of chloroform onthe It'll and extract.
ed fifteen teeth. On completing his task
he found his patient a corpse.
WHILE crossing the river at LAFAYETTE,
O., on the 7th Frank and James Henderson
were drowned by their boat being crushed
by floating logs.
AN entire square in the center of Halle
ton, Pa, a town of eight thousand inhab-
iJants, suddenly sank three feet on the 7th.
-Four buildings were wrecked, but no one
YVES nurt. The town had been undermined
by the coal-diggers.
Two BROTHERS named Nelson and two
other young men were drowned in Tusca-
rawas River at Evansburg, o., on the It'll by
the upsetting of their boat.
A BAND of boys at Minneapolis, Mimi,
on the 7th hanged a lad named Johnny
Nolan in a barn, and when found and cut
down life was nearly extinct.