Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-01

IT was announced on the Sd that the re-
cent riot in Yazoo County, Miss, had re-
suited as follows: Whites, killed, five;
wounded, one. Colored, lynched, five.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is
making arrangements to construct its w
s~leeping-carS, as the twenty-year contract
with the Pullman Company is about to ex-
pire.
The yearly record of shipwreck and loss
of life in the Gloucester fisheries was made
up at Boston on the Sd, showing that sew
enteen vessels and 300 lives have been lost
during the year. Forty of the men are
known to have left widows, and the num-
Der of fatherless children of which there
is a record is sixty-eight.
The Treasury at Washington on the Sd
purchased 445 5000 ounces of silver for the
Philadelphia and New Orleans mints. The
coinage of the mints for December was
$5,4S0,041 of which 50 ,354 40 was standard
dollars.
The dwelling of j. V. Carver, near Duke
Center, Pa, was consumed by fire on the
4th, during the absence of himself and
wife, and four children, aged from one to
six years, who We're left in the house, per-
ished in the flames.
AT four O'Clock on the morning of the
9th the mercury indicated twenty-siN de-
grees below zero in Chicago, thirty-five be-
low at Bismarck, twenty-seven below at
| Omaha, forty.two below at Fargo, seven
| above at Denver and two above at Buffalo,
n. Y. In Iowa and Wisconsin the mer-
curry ranged from ten to thirty degrees be.
low.
HENNER & MOORE, bankers at Morris,
Mimi, on the 4th failed for 100000. The
assets were considerably less.
A FoUR-sToRY building in st. Louis was
burned OH the 4th, causing a loss of $780,
600.
IT was announced on the 4th that the
Pittsburgh iron mills had plenty of orders
on hand, and the outlook for the trade
was very encouraging.
A HIGH gale prevailed at Newport, r. l.,
a few nights e, blowing many boats
ashore. A drag with thirty men was over
turned, many of them being injured.
The disappearance of Cronson, a'drum-
mer, with $4,000 worth of jewels, caused
the failure on the 4th of Goldsmith & Kahn,
diamond merchants at New York.
-Four railway conductors, running be-
tween New York and Washington, were
arrested at Philadelphia Oh the 4th for en-
bezzling money and tickets.
THERE were 2S2 business failures in the
United States reported to BfadStreet's dur
ing the seven days ended on the 4th,
twenty-five more than the preceding seven
days, and $50 more than the corresponding
time of 1889. About seventy-nine per cent.
We're those of small traders whose capital
was less than 5000. Canada had seven
teen-a decrease of seven.
VALMAR RECTOR (colored) was hanged
at Baton Rouge, La, on the 4th for the
murder of Duncan Williams, and James
C%rummidy (colored) was executed at
Eastman, Ga, for the murder of James
, Mitchell.
AT Denver, Col, the other night a four
teen-year-old white girl was married to q
negro of the darkest hue, d white minister
officiating. There were rumors that the
girl was forced into the alliance, and much
excitement prevailed in the neighborhood.
COMMISSIONER DUDLEY on the 4th dis
| charged from the Pension Office at WASH
ington three high-salaried clerks, on charge
of frequenting gambling-houses.
THE office of the Kansas Prohibihonist,
at ~Leavenworth, was entered by unknown
persons the other night, and one Of the
forms pied and half of the type thrown
| into the stove and melted.
DURING the quarter ended September so,
1883, S10.011, $50 worth of stamps were sold
in the United States. These returns were
for the quarter preceding the reduction in
postage.
~S1xTY-THREE million bushels of grain
We're exported from New York last year,
and specie imports exceeded the exports
by S13, 900, 00o.
NOTWITHSTANDING the prohibition Of
American pork in several countries of Eu-
rope, the exports of hog product during
the year 1883 increased thirty per cent.
ROBERT A. MURRAY, who was engaged
in loaning money in Boston, fed on the 4th
with $4,000 OF more belonging to men who
misplaced their confidence in him. He
long since s%quandered a fortune Of 500, 900
left him by his father.