Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-31

with October i, 1888, of $50, 100000. The
gold and silver bullion in the mints and
ASSAY offices amounts to sos, 900, oOo.
HALF the town of Alma, Neb., was de.
stroyed by fire the other night.
Up to the 9th the total transactions of
the New York Clearing House since its or.
ganization, thirty-one years ago, amounted
to the immense sum of $3.50, S,51S, G69.0l.
THE faculty of Cornell University and
the authorities of the town of Ithaca, n.
Y, nave determined to suppress "cane
rushes," and have read the riot act to the
pa]rticipators in the recent crush"
No. 9 MILL of the Ohio Powder Company,
near Youngstown, was demolished on the
9th by an explosion, but no lives were lost.
People for miles around thought an earth.
quake had occurred.
FROST, with hail, snow and sleet, fell in
sections of Kansas on the 9th, and cattle
men believing that the Texas fever germ
had been destroyed were preparing to
ship beef cattle.
OLIVER Bros. & PHILLIPS, iron men of
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 9th withdrew their
notice of a 1917 per cent. reduction, and
work in their mills would be at once re-
sumed.
w. w. CorERAL, the missing ex.Audi-
tor of Henry County, Ind, has written
that he was en- route to Dakota to procure
funds to settle his shortage of $4,000.
SMALLPOX, supposed to have been
brought by emigrants, was spreading rap.
idly on the 9th in the vicinity of Brook
ings, d. T. Four deaths had already &C.
Cured.
Dr.. w. II. link, Trial Justice at Bran
ford, Conn.,, was murdered while asleep
early the other morning, the assassin RI
fling his clothing of a watch and a large
sum of money.
CHARLES w. BUTLER was hanged on the
10th at Columbia City, Ind, for wife-mur.
der.
ACoMPARIsoN on the 10th of the vol
ume of business among the iron mills of
Pittsburgh with a statement of two
months ago showed an increase in the out
put of over two hundred tons a day, and
the outlook for the future was not in the
least discouraging.
The tobacco factory of Wilson & Nc
Gill, in Petersburg, Va, employing three
hundred operatives, has shut down, ow-
ing to the scarcity Of tobacco.
NEAR Troy, Ind, a fewevenings ago the
nude and headless body Of Mrs. Stilwell
Henderson, was found in a ~cistern, and
suspicion resting on the family, the hus~
band and his two sons, F. Fl. and William
Henderson,, We're arrested. At the in
vestigation OH the 10th f. H. Henderson,
acknowledged killing his mother, and the
old man also eliminated himself, and both
were held, while William was released.
The murdered woman held a deed to the
farm, and was killed because she would
not %relinquish it.
THE house of a farmer named Joseph
Gates, near Johnstown, Pa, was invaded
the other night by five masked men, we'll
armed, who forced the family to surrender
$1,100 in cash.
Kansas City on the 10th for ST. 10, and to
Omaha for SLIGO.
NEAR New Haven, Conn.,, underground
tunnels leading to q vault were discovered
recently, and also counterfeit silver
pieces and a broken die. 1t was a coun-
terfeiters' den, in which murders and
other crimes were believed to have been
committed.
DURING the seven days ended on the 10th
there were 213 business failures in the
United States, against 1sS the previous
seven days, and 1G6 in the corresponding
period of 1888.
THE Third Presbyterian Church, at the
corner of Ashland and Ogden
Chicago, was destroyed by fire on the
10th. Loss, 100000; insurance, $91, 900.
A FALL of rock in the Red Ash mine,
near Wilkesbarre, Pa, a few days ago,
killed two men.
AT Allegheny City, Pa, the other morn.
ing Leo Brigel, aged thirteen, destroyed
the eyesight of BERTHE Black, a four year.
old girl, by throwing mortar in her eyes,
besides seriously burning two other
children.
ACCORDING to the agricultural reports
for October the condition of the corn crop
throughout sthe United States is better
than it has been for five years.
JOSIAH KRETcHMAN persisted by fire in
his residence at New Ccnterville, Pa, a
few mornings ago, two other members of
the family being fatally burned.
An incendiary fire at Mount Jackson,
Va, a few mornings ago destroyed nine
business houses and the LutheranC Church
DURING the year ended July 80, 1854, the
sales, entries and selections of public
lands aggregated 2G,551,l70 acres, an in
crease over the previous year of s,1O1, 1877
| acres. The total receipts from the disposal
OF the public and Indian lands last year
were So, 779,13o, an increase of 81 So, 100
as compared with 1SS2-S3.
ROBBERS wrecked the safe in the Caron.
delet (Mo.) post-ottice on the night of the
10th, securing $3.50 and a lot of postage
stamps and registered letters.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
THE following Congressional nomina.
tious were made on the 7th: Republican
New York, Thirtieth District, Charles S.
Baker; Arkansas, Fourth District, j. N.
Sarber; Wisconsin, Fourth District, I. w.
Van Schaick. Observation-Disclosures,
First District, William W.. Eaton (renon1-
inated); New York, Thirty first District,
Robert S. Stevens (renominated). Pro-
hibitionist-1linois, Eighteenth District,
Henry NJ. Moore.
The straight Republicans of Missouri
met at Macon on the 7th and nominated a
full State ticket, headed ky Adon Guitar
for Governor.