Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-25

in his own body.
A NUMBER of Mexican laborers were
working on a railroad at Seven Rivers,
N. NJ, on the 9th when a crowd of roughs
suddenly made their appearance, and
without a word of warning fired a volley
into the laborers, killing four and wound
ing a number of others. The assassins
then fed, and had not been captured.
The walls of an ice-house at Dayton, o.,
fell the other day, crushing to death
Charles Ryder and a team of horses. At
Gore, O., Joseph Auker was killed by the
cage of an elevator falling upon him.
NJ. WATERMAN & Co., grain-dealers of
San Francisco, failed on the 10th for
81, 800, 900, and Buckley g. Co., dry-goods
merchants at Utica, N. Y, made an assign
ment to secure liabilities of 5000, 900.
EDWARDS Opera-House at Selma, Ala,
was destroyed by fire on the night of the
10th.
THE striking carpet-weavers of New
York resumed work on the 10th. They
had been unemployed nine months, and
the amount of wages thus lost would ag-
gregate $162 ,000.
The Grand Jury at Freehold, N. j., on
the 10Th indicted Charles D. Holmes and
Henry jackson for starting fires at Red
Bank which caused losses of $500, 000.
A MAsKED mob took Charles Dieterli, a
murderer, from the Jail at Weisser, Idaho,
on the 10th and hanged him.
BY her clothes taking fire from a CRATE,
Rose Cherrington, aged twenty.three, was
burned to death at Porter, o., a few days
ago. Her father was seriously burned
while trying to rescue her.
THE Eng lish Dark Elmina was wrecked
in a recent storm near West Greek, N. j.,
and the crew persisted.
Mr.. AND Mrs. TOWNSEND, recently re-
ported as murdered by robbers at Oyster
Bay, L. l., were on the 10th rapidly recov-
ering. Mrs. Townsend accused a man
named Rapelye, who, with two brothers,
are preachers in a colored church, of COM
uniting the crime, alleging that she recog-
nized him before he entered the house.
THE Arctic and Quidneck mills at Can
onchet, r. l., belonging to the Sprague es-
tate, were recently sold to the Union Com
pany for $500, 600.
GEORGE JEFFERY confessed on the 10th
at River Head, R. l., that he killed his
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way and then another until he broke his
neck; that his only motive for the crime
was that he hated it because it was not
his, and that it prevented his wife from
earning money for him.
DURING the seven days ended on the 18th
the business failures throughout the
United States and Canada numbered 3S4,
againt 321 the previous week. The distri-
button was as follows: New England
States, 46; Middle, G7; Western, lO9;
Southern, IS; Pacific States and Terri
tories, 49,: Canada and the Provinces, 80.
NEAR Fayetteville, Ark, jeff FGilliland,
a notorious criminal and murderer, was
killed by a companion in a dispute about
a woman a few days ago.
The following persons were executed on
the it'll for murder: Jerry Alexander, at
Sparta, La; Isaac Anderson (colored), at
Balnwell, S. c.; John Jarvis, at Norfolk,
Va, and Stephen Richards, at Auburn,
Cal.
The Farmers Bank of Wapakoneta, O.,
closed its doors on the 11th in consequence
of the assignment by the proprietor, NJ.
Better.
AT Providence, R. l., on the 18th John
Shea, aged fifty years, while in a drunken
frenzy killed his wife with a razor and then
committed suicide.
DURING a gale at Sandy Neck, Mass, on
the 18th a boat containing HenryO. Holmes
and Mrs. Paul Sherman was upset, and
both occupants were drowned.
AN ice-gorge in the Susquehanna River
at Port Deposit, Md, on the 18th threatened
widespread inundation. The Delaware
River was also gorged in the vicinity of
Trenton, and Pennsylvania farms were
submerged by back water.
AT Beverly, N. Y, on the 18th John
Beard, a farmer, riding a mule, while dis
mounting had his foot caught in a stirrup
md was dragged to death by the frightened
animal.
The wife of Colonel H. Coulter Cabell, of
Richmond, Va, was fatally burned on the
11th by her clothing taking fire at a CRATE.
In attempting recently to slaughter a
flock of prairie chickens near Fort Sill, a
party Of eight hunters grew so careless
that three of their number were fatally
wounded.
A PASsENGER-TRA1N near Pendleton,
Ore, was taken possession of on the 18th
by a mob of two hundred men recently
discharged by the railroad. General Miles
sent two companies of regulars from Fort
Walla Walla, but a crowd of roughs Joined
the rioters an o~verpowered the soldiers.
Serious trouble was feared.