Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-23
DOMESTIC

was spent in discussing the Tariff bill.
DOMESTIC.
AN explosion of dynamite a few morn
,ings ago in a house at El~lettsville, Ind,
killed William Williams and wounded thir-
teen other men.
The insane wife of Hon. Robert B.
Carnahan, of Pittsburgh, Pa, escaped
from the house the other night, and wan
dering about on the bluff she stepped over
the edge of a rocky embankment one hum
dred feet high and was instantly killed.
SHERIFF ADKINS, of Boone County,
West Virginia, was recently waylaid and
as~sassinated by a band known as the
"James gang"
IT is announced that over one-half the
cattle in Southern Utah nave died from
starvation and exposure during the past
winter.
THE United States training.ship Ports
mouth, from st. Thomas, arrived at New
port, r. L., on the Goth ult. with three light
cases of yellow-fever on board.
A~DULTERATED tea to the amount of four
hundred and fifty chests was seized on the
goth ult. at New York, On a steamer which
arrived from London.
TRICHINosIS caused the death of Mr..
Friess on the Both ult., at Baltimore, and
three of his daughters were i'll a .,recarious
condition.
SCOTT n Brownlow Hill, two of the
men concerned in the murder Of Albert
Woods near st. Adams, W. Va, were
taken from Jail at that place on the 3Oth
ult. by a mob and hanged.
TANr,,c d Hp,>,- +l,o ..Aa1 N.Y. VII
Spectator, failed on the Goth, and his liza
bilities were placed at 100000. 1t was
the opinion of leading men that Keene
would be able to meet all his contracts,
and that his suspension was only tempo
rary.
ALBERT WIrHELME's fourteen-year old
daughter died at Canton, o., a few days
ago from the effects of jumping a skip
ping.rope 357 consecutive times.
The Greedy flagship Thetis sailed from
New York on the 1st for the Arctic regions.
The four men who recently attempted tc
rob a ban at Medicine Lodge, Kan, and
who killed the President and cashier Of
the bank, were lodged in Jail on the LIST
but a moi forced the doors, shot one rob
Der in his cell and hanged the others to
tree outside.
BIcycL1srs named Woodside and Nor.
gan left New York on the 1st for an over
and trip to San Francisco.
ABOUT half of the 100000 cotton spin.
dies in New England lave agreed to re.
duce production. The Lowell companies
will shut down Saturdays.
IT was reported on the LIST that the
wheat crop of Dakota would probably
yield from 35,000,0 900 to ~, 00O, 900 bushels
this year-about double last, years pro
duce.
A L at Presque Isle, Me-, a few days
ago destroyed twenty-four buildings, in.
Guiding the post-ofice, the losses aggregat
ing $125,O00.
THE public-debt statement issued or
the 1st makes the following exhibit: Total
debt %(including interest of $s,s45, 1851, 81,
s63, 1889. Cash in Treasury, $399, 753, POS
Debt, less amount in Treasury, 81, 464,
C3o, 1913. Decrease during April, S. 1882,
O75. Decrease since June 30, 1883, $4,000,
473.
AT the close Of a baseball game at Gin,
cinnati ION the I'd the pavilion gave way,
and one person wa killed and many 9th.
ers were seriously injured.
A wIND-sToRM on the I'd in the region of
Logansport, Ind. unroofed several houses
and blew cars from the track. Two new
steamers on Lake Maxinkuckee were de.
mc!ished.
EXTENSIVE forest fires were raging in
the vicinity of the Catskill Mountains and
on the highlands near New York City on
the I'd, and the damage would be heavy.
Near Wilkesbarre, Pa, the mountains were
all ablaze, and at California eleven houses
were burned. Two bridges on the Bear
Creek branch Of the Lehigh Valley
Railroad were destroyed; also the stables
persisted. The Blue Mountains neal Wash.
ington, N. j., were also on fire, and the
destruction of timber would be very great.
At Sterling Run, Pa, several buildings
were destroyed, two families were report.
ed lost, and it was feared that many lives
would be- lost. Many towns were befogged
.oy smoke, and the air was almost sufo-
eating.
THERE were 151 failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on the
I'd, against 1874 the previous seven days. In
Canada the failures numbered twenty
All increase of four.
Dr.. EDGAR FOWLER dropped dead while
dancing at a leap-year party at Danvers,
Mass, the other night. He was thirty
years old.
WILLIAM MCHUGH was hanged at Gin
cinnati on the I'd for the murder of his
wife, and Enoch Brown, oolored, was ex-
ecuted at Halifax Courthouse, N. c., for
@ like ofense.