Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-03-07

IT was decided orhhe 18th to Immediately
resume work in seventy.two coal-pits in
Pennsylvania, thus giving employment to
eight thousand: idle men.
The loss Ola stage.coach, filled with pas
sengers, in the mountains of Colorado, was
reported ON the 14th. The snow was ten
feet deep on the level.
DAVID C. KELLER, pilot of the Scioto,
sunk in collision near Mingo Junction,
July 4, 1882, ffty-four lives being lost, was
found guilty at Parkersburg, w. Va, on
the 14th of voluntary manslaughter, but
recommended to mercy.
EXPORTS of b%readstuffs during January,
1884, were valued at $12,2S4,7 S1, against
$l5, S35,577 for the same time in 1888; for
the seven months ended Jan. 81, 1884, $780,
256, 2O7; for the same time last year, $780,
$50, 1888.
AT the Hoosier Flouring-Mills in Indian
apolis George Emery, the engineer, was
caught by the shaft of the ay-wheel a few
mornings ago and whipped to a frightfnl
death.
Two MEN who, under different aliases,
secured sixty-seven complete suits of
clothes and seventeen pairs of shoes from
the Relief Committee at Wheeling, w.
Va, were arrested III the 18th for fraud.
L. D. MowRY & Son, cotton factors at
Charleston, S. c., suspended payment on
the 14th, with liabilities of $4,000.
Ten Mormon proselytes, five of whom
were girls, from Cleveland County, N. c.,
passed through Atlanta, Ga, on the 14th,
en- route for Utah.
ONE of the most comprehensive coin col
l%ections in the United States was stolen a
few nights G by burglars from the Office
of Dr.. H. G. Brainard, of Cleveland, O.
The Central Bank of Upper Sandusky,
O., failed on the 18th, with liabilities of
100000. Speculations by John S. Rape,
President, caused the failure.
DURING the seven days ended on the 18th
the business failures throughout the United
States and Canada numbered 800, against
2G0 the previous week. The distribution
was as follows: New England States, "a;
Middle, 81; Western, Sc; Southern, 45; Pa
cific States and Territories, 81; Canada
and the Provinces. &C.
WHILE John Beatty was attempting on
the 18th to convey his wife and three chill
dren and two young ladies named Weather
lulu oS1oSS uo puSh"dGtl ISoA 4No" Jul &
Tenn, on the Tennessee River, the skiff
was dashed against a log by the current
and upset. Mrs. Beatty and all the chill.
dren and one of the young ladies were
drowned.
The rear wall of two adjoining buildings
In Pearl street, Cincinnati, used as board
ing-houses, and occupied by t%hirty-five
persons, collapsed early on the morning OF
the 18th, resulting in the drowning and
crushing to death of ten persons. The
search for other bodies would be continued
when the water lowers.
IT was announced on the 18th that the
Indians were starving at the Poplar Creek
and Wolf Point agencies, in Dakota.
AN ice gorge. on the 10Th causedth food.
ing Of the lumber district at Albany, N.
Y, and many streets in the lower section
Of the city were submerged.
THE Employment Bureau of the Young
Mems Christian Association of Chicago re.
ported on the 10Th thirty thousand to forty
thousand men and boys unable to procure
work, which was twenty per cent. more thar
usual. The applicants came from every
walk in life.
1T was reported on the 10Th that Treas
urer Mason, Of Jay County, Ind, was q
defaulter to the amount of SAG, 900, and
suit had been commenced against his
bondsmen.
NEAR Rogersville Junction, Tenn, on
the evening of the 18th Mrs. Carrie Hun
ter, the young and beautiful wife of James
NJ. Hunter, a wealthy stock-raiser, was
shot and instantly killed while sitting neal
q 1ripJor, Who ooo,,,,;ftaI {l,o o,.;,,o oal
for what cause, was unknown.
The wife of Bivens Percefield, living
near Bloomington, Ind, left her little
daughter alone in a room with an open fire.
place a few days ago, and when she re.
turned the child was lying on the floor
burned to death.
AT the hanging of Thomas Benton, in
Plaquemines, La, on the 10Th, some of the
women in the assemblage shrieked and
many tainted.
Miss EMMA ROGERS, a beautiful young
lady of Chattanooga, Tenn, was fatally
burned the other night by her clothe.
nursing a sick brother for a week, and be
ing overcome with sleep sat down near thu
fire.
NEARLY one-half Of a flock of six thou
sand sheep on the Dakota bad lands, owned
by Marquis Demores, having died this win
ter, the belief was expressed on the 18th
that they were poisoned by his enemies.
A FIRE a few days ago destroyed thu
O'Neil wagon-shops at Cortland, N. Y.
valued at $780, 9O.
w. R. MILLER was found murdered O,
the 18th near Marietta, O., and his wife anc
brother were arrested for the crime. L
was said the woman threatened to kill he:
husband because she loved his brother,
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
THE Illinois Republican State Contra
Committee met in Chicago on the 10Th ane
issued a call for e State Convention a
Peoria, April 16.
A CONGRESSIONAL Apportionnent bill
was recently passed by a strict party vot
by the Virginia Legislature, giving eigh
districts to the Democrats and two to tn,
Coalitionists.
THE Mayor of Sandwich, Eng, followed
his clipping daughter to Austin, Tex,
few days ago and persuaded her to return
to Europe with him.
GENERAL SHERIDAN arrived in New
York On the 18th to nave a conference