Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-18

I'D. A Cotton Association was formed,
and it was unanimously resolved that the
interests of the trade demanded a ~curtail.
| ment of production.
In the vicinity of ~Lynchburg, Va, a ter.
rife wind-storm on the Sd blew down
houses, uprooted trees, and did considera-
bic other damage.
TWENTY-FIVE persons We're seriously in.
jured by a railway accident at Belleville,
Ill.,, on the Sd, caused by a train being
thrown down an embankment by an open
switch. 1t was said the switch was left
open by an employee, who was in a neigh.
boring saloon drinking.
A TEN.YEAR-oLD boy, who killed a farm
Ell by hitting him with a stone, pleaded
guilty to manslaughtcr at Washington, D.
c., a few days ago, and was sentenced to
the Reform School for eleven years.
The United States Marshal at Salt Lake
closed the London Bank of Utah on the Sd
on an attachment for $50, 900.
FINANCIAL embarrassment caused the
suicide a few days ago of Major c. G.
Thurmond, a leading cotton operator at
Shreveport, La.
THE Chicago, st. Louis & Pacific and
Chicago & Indiana Central Railroads have
filed articles of consolidation, the joint
capital being $40, 900, OOo. The combina-
ton will be known as the Chicago, st.
| Louis g. Pacific.
DURING March SIS, $780, 900 worth of prop
erty was destroyed by fire; and for the
first quarter of 1884 the loss was $27,250,OO0,
S. 5000, 900 i'll excess of the record for the
corresponding period of 1889.
BUFFALO gnats were on the Sd killing
mules i'll Western Mississippi. Deer were
fleeing to the high lands of Arkansas to
escape the pests.
The Mississippi River was falling slow
ly on the Sd from Vicksburg to the gulf,
but was still very high. Planters in the
inundated parishes were hopeful that the
overflow water would run off in time to
permit the planting of a full crop. In some
sections of Northern Louisiana land was
beginning to be seen in spots.
The steamer Rebecca Everingham was
burned TO the waters edge in the Chatta.
hoochee River at F~itzgerald's Landing,
Co., early on the morning of the Sd.
Thirteen persons lost their lives, and OF
the passengers who escaped in their night
clothes, many were severely burned. The
boat was loaded with cotton, and was
valued at $4,000.
TIE mining bosses in the neighborhood
of Shenandoah, Pa, have discharged all
the Hungarians in their employ.
FIVE Polanders who arrived at Scranton,
Pa, on the Sd, looking for work, were
struck by an engine and instantly killed.
TR1cHIN1As1s caused the death of Mrs.
Gale and daughter at Loyal Hanna, Pa,
on the Sd, and Mr.. Gale and another
daughter were not expected to recover.
The murderers executed on the Sd were
George Jones, a negro lad of Pittsburgh,
Pa, and John and George Stephenson, of
Regina, Northwest Territory.
THERE were 17S failures in the United
States and thirty-four in Canada during
the seven days ended on the 4th, against u
total of 2o4 for the two countries during
the previous week.
ADvIcEs of the 4th state that many
small craft had been wrecked by a gale
which swept Chesapeake Bay the previous
three days.
WILLIAM A. HALL, ex-Chief Clerk of the
Comptroller's office in New York City,
was ON the 4th sentenced to twelve years.
Imprisonment for forgery and embezzle-
ment.
H Government relief steamer General
Barnard left several thousand rations at
Tiptonville, Tenn, on the 4th, aud would
distribute supplies at all points between
Vicksburg and the mouth of the Red River.
THREE persons were executed on the 4th
for murder-Henry Rose at Osceola, Ark;
Joe MCGEE at Conshatta, La, and Andy
Roland, at Spring Place, Ga.
AT Northeast, N. Y, Edward House,
while firing at a mark recently, shot his
wife dead.
IT was announced on the 4th that for
three days forest fires had ragged lin sew
eral counties Of Southern North Carolina,
destroying turpentine orchards, vast for.
ests of pine, residences and turpentine dis
tlllerles. The fire swept a section of about
one hundred and fifty spare miles, leaving
the countrya blackened wilderness. No
lives were reported lost.
A REVENUE cutter and two American
ships sailed from Key West on the 4th. to
assist the Dix in searching for the Cuban
flibusters.
H first sentences since the riots were
imposed on the 4th at Cincinnati, a colored
woman who shot with intent to kill getting
seven years, and a man who killed another
with a blow Of his fist, and pleaded guilty
W AAS u i've yCdIS~
sentence,
REV. WIS. MAHAN, postmaster of Mound
City, Mo-, was found dead in bed a few
mornings ago. He was sixty years of age.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
ORR1N A. CARPENTER, recently acquitted
of the charge of numbering Fora Burns, re.
turned to Lincoln, Ill, on the 1st in the
company of his wife. There was no man
Hesitation of feeling against him. 1t was
said hat he intended to remove to Massa-
chusetts.
A CLEVELAND journal was hoaxed into
publishing q statement on the LIST that S.
j. Tilden and other Democrats were in
that city for a consultation with Senator
Payne, and would hold a reception at a
hotel. Hundreds of persons were April.
fooled.
THE Supreme Court of Massachusetts