Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-25

CoHoNEL ROBERT n, GOODWIN, fmpris-
oned in the Jacksonville (Ind.) State
Prison for killing his brother, DR.. John
Goodwin, committed suicide on the I'd by
taking poison.
RICHARD HELLER, q widower, was mar
ried at Fonda, N. Y, on the I'd, thereby
FORGETTING $685. 900 left by his first spouse
on condition that he should not remarry.
THE Plymouth Savings Bank of Plym.
outh, Pa, and the Savings Bank at Glouces-
ter City, N. j., closed their doors on the
End.
THERE were nine cases of sun-stroke in
New York City on the Cd.
WHILE laborers were digging a we'll on
the Cd lear Silox, Lincoln County, No.,
they struck oil, the gushing fluid COM
polling them to quit work.
Two BOYS named Wood and Dempsey
were killed by lightning a few days ago
while standing under a tree at Latonia, o.
The oldest daughter of Hope Wheat
stone, a prominent colored planter, was
waylaid near Bastrop, La, on the evening
of the I'd, and shot dead.
In an Albany IN. " bank a thief on the
Cd took from a ~teller's window n book con-
tanning $4,000 and mysteriously disap.
peared.
HODGES, HERsEY & Co., of New York,
manufacturers of straw goods, have failed
for 100000.
In the United States and Canada there
were 1G5 business failures during the sew
en- days ended on the. Sd, against 173 the
was as follows: Middle States, 40; New
England States, IS; Western, Al; South
ern, %; Pacific States and Territories, -;
Canada, 10.
A w1ND-sroRM at Sioux City, To-, and
it's suburbs on the afternoon Of the 4th
wrecked the Episcopal Mission School, the
pillow factory II Booge & Co.'S packing
house. Glass fronts and weak walls were
demolished, structures unroofed, and trees
leveled.
WHILE flling..a torpedo-shell with nitro
glycerine at Clarendon, Pa, the other even
ing Patrick Connolly was blown to pieces
by its accidental explosion.
LE1B, Treasurer of Washington County,
Tex, was arrested on the Sd for a $27, 900
defalcation.
The Silver & Deming Manufacturing
Company's buildings were burned the
OCuCI NuI III oIlSluS W. UlC lOSS DellE 81.
timated at 500, 600.
THE thirteen-year locusts have made
their appearance in st. Helena Parish, La.
SPONTANEOUS combustion on the Sd re.
suited in a fire which destroyed the Revere
(Mass.) Rubber Works, occupying three
acres,% entailing a loss of $500 200.
THE. President issued a proclamation on
the 81 warning people who contemplated
settling in the Oklahoma district, in Indian
Territory, that they would be elected by
the military.
THIRTEEN business buildings at Pember
vile, o., were burned on the Sd, causing a
loss of $775, 900.
BY an explosion of gas and oil recently
at South Olive, o., three men lost their
lives.
number of killed and drowned by the re-
cent railroad disaster near Sumner, Mo-,
was fifteen, and as many more were
wounded.
r. NJ. CHERR1E g. Co., of Chicago, pig.
iron manufacturers, failed Oh the 3D.. The
liabilities were placed at $3.50, 900 the as
sets at $500 900.
DURING a heavy wind-storm Oh the Sd in
Nebraska two soldiers named Gardner and
Wanestoff were killed by a falling tree
while en- route to Fort Omaha. At FIRE.
mont wind unroofed the Enos Hotel and
the courthouse, demolished several build
ings, and blew down many trees. Sam
uel Anderson dropped dead from fright.
The school-house and several other build
ings were destroyed at Stewart.
AT the works of the Calumet Iron q
Steel Company, near Chicago, four men
were suffocated by the escaping gas while
cleaning q chimney a few days ago.
Two desperadoes of Garrard County,
KY, named Best, killed a negro on the
roadway recently because he refused to
cease tanning himself.