Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-18
DOMESTIC.

AT twenty-seven leading clearing houses
in the United States the exchanges during
the week ended on the 22d amounted tic
81 900, -, 773, against 81 ,045, las, $50 the pre-
vious week. Thu exhibit was accounted
a favorable one, and indicated an improve
ment in general trade.
In a fight between whites and blacks or
the 25th at Yazoo City, Miss, three of the
were wounded. A turkey-shoot near
Paris, KY, ended in the killing of two
negroes.
A TRAIN on the Louisville, New Albany
& Chicago Road was ditched near Salem,
Ind, the other evening, by the giving way
of the bridge over Blue River. Six per-
sons We're killed and ten injured.
ADvIcEs of the 18th state that a band of
desperadoes were terrorizing the northern
section of Grayson County, Texas. They
recently killed two persons and burned a
church and school house.
A HUGE snow-drift near Milford, Conn,
a few days ago caught a New York g. New
Haven train, extinguishing the fire in the
locomotive. An explosion followed, in
which the engineer and fireman were
killed.
Two FIRES in st. Louis early on the
morning OF the 25vh destroyed property
valued at $4,000. Three fremen were
killed by falling walls, and three others
were badly injured.
AN assignment has been made by the
banking firm of Lamborn q Gray, Of AL
lance, O., for 500, 900.
CHARLES HARVEY, who killed Henry l..
Custin, at Petersburg, Ind, was taken from
Jail the other morning, by seventy-tive
masked men, and hanged to a tree on the
very spot where the murder occurred.
AT Chatham Church, near Moncure, n.
c., a few nights ago Mrs. Olive Gunter,
aged eighty, and her daughter and grand
daughter were murdered with an ak by an
unknown person.
JOHN AMsTULz and two daughters, of
Lima, O., attempted to drive across the
Lake Erie & Western track a few DAYS
ago, and were fatally injured by an engine.
WHILE a party was returning a few days
ago to Ouray, Col, bringing the bodies of
the men killed by the avalanche at the
Virginia mine, another snow-slide struck
the sleds containing the corpses, carrying
them w thousand feet down the mount
ain, whence they plunged five hundred
feet over a precipice, where they must re-
main until spring. The party reached
Ouray half dead from exhaustion.
RICHARD Won STERNBERaER, the son of
a German Baron, committed suicide at
New York Oh the 25th. In a duel some
time ago he killed his rival in a love affair
and made his escape to America. The WON.
an wrote him recently that, under the
pressure of parental authority, she had
decided to marry another man. Upon the
receipt of this news he killed himself.
FIFTY armed men took three persons of
bad reputation from a saloon at McDade,
Tex, the other night, carried them to the
outskirts, and hanged them. Friends of
the lynched men came to McDade after.
ward, and picked a quarrel, when a fight
with shot-guns and revolvers ensued, in
which three men were killed, and one badly
wounded.
CAPTAIN Balm and five men of the Re.
gina, from Philadelphia, wrecked December
4, were recently rescued from a raft on
which they had been five days without
food or water, and had been landed at
Cork.
A WILD engine collided with a freight
train near Minneapolis, Mimi, a few days
age, causing a great wreck. Three men in
the caboose were badly injured, one fatally.
A SYNDICATE of stockmen is engaged in
fencing into ranges a tract of 5000, 600
acres, leased from the Cherokees. for five
years at an annual rental of 500, 900. 1t is
believed that l,O00,0 900 head of cattle will
be placed on the inclosed grounds by
April l.
A.. D. SMITH & Co., of Providence, R. L.
operating five cotton mills, failed OH the
18th for 81, 100000. The crash was a highly
disastrous one, carrying with it the sus
pension of three great companies, besides
the five mills run by the ruined firm. Ter
thousand persons were thrown out of EN-
ployment.
In a free fight on the Goth at Allendale,
5. c., three persons We're killed and seyera]
others were wounded.
DURING a recent freshet in Hardis Creek
Ky, q house on the shore was swept away
and lis inmates, Mr.. Ross and his wife and
seven children, were drowned.
AN association, to be known as the "Em.
igrant Organizations" has been formed
among the colored residents of Washing.
ton for the purpose of helping colored peo.
pie i'll the Southern States to emigrate and
locate.
A. j. CoURsEY, a farmer of Allenville,
Mo-, was deliberately shot and killed bv
his son, Red Coursey, a few days 20
A sH oE- FACTORY belonging to C. M. Lee,
ut Athol, Mass, WAS burned the Other
morning, rendering $50 hands idle, and
causing a loss of $70,OOo.
The bark Mohawk, having a Japanese
lev, anchored off New Haven the other
SAY with all hands f]rost.bitten. Two men
would lose their feet.
THIRTY cars were demolished and sew.
eral cars OF stock We're killed by a recent
collision Of freight trains en- the Nickel
Plate, near Lorraine, @.
H food in the Ohio at Cincinnati had
on the 26th invaded many cellars. and
business men were removing their goods
to places of safety.
A POOR woman and two children were re.
Gently murdered on the eastern slope of
Rich Mountain, near Beverly, w. Va, and
their house was burned.
Az avalanche, dashing down the Mar
shall Basin, in Southwestern Colorado, a
few days ago buried the Mendoza Mine
Sha-t-house, in which were fourteen men.