Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-12-19
OF THE week.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

DOOkeI.
KEROSENE lamp exploded recently in
the apartments of Mrs. Rosa Murtha, in
Williamsburg, N. Y, and the burning oil
was scattered over Mrs. Murtla and her
daughter, aged twenty-four. Before the
flames could be extinguished they We're
fatally burned.
A ~SuGAR-HoUsE on the Armant planta-
ton in st. James Parish, La, owned by
Oliver Brine, together with 150, 1000 pounds
of sugar, was burned on the 10Th. Loss,
$l50,0O0.
BY the wrecking Of a freight train the
other morning near Rayville, La, four
tramps were killed.
In Baltimore on the evening of the 10Th
Charles Leopold was accepted by Miss Bet
tie Winterbauer, a handsome brunette. A
few minutes alterward he drew a revolver
in Il careless manner, accidentally shooting
his betrothed in the side with fatal results.
AT New York on the 10Th Louis Gueld
shot his brother fatally and killed himself.
They had come from Canton, o., were re-
turning to France, and had been drinking
heavily for two or three days.
DAKoTA's new capitol, at Bismarck, hav-
ing been completed, Governor Pierce OF
the 19th issued a proclamation, under the
Removal act, requiring all Territorial Off
GERS to be at Bismarck within thirty days.
THE American Humane Association met
in eighth annual convention on the 10Th at
Pittsburgh, Pa.
AN unknown disease was on the 10Th
decimating households in Buchanan, Wise
and Dickinson Counties, Va, where in
some instances four corpses had been
found under one roof. Wells and springs
had been absorbed by the drought, and the
little water that remained was supposed
to be tainted with mineral poisons, which
were causing the mortality.
FORTY coal-miners, when arraigned the
otherday at Washington, Pa, for interior
ing with non-Union workmen, made no
defense, and We're each tined one cent and
costs.
In Marshall County, Ala, the other
night, Robert Howard, a leading farmer,
went to James Peake's hous to settle an
old grudge. Peake OWNED his purpose and
shot Howard through the abdomen, but the
latter, raising himself with an effort, shot
Peake dead. Mrs. Pealle then rushed upon
Howard, but met the same fate melted out
to her husband. When neighbors arrived
all three We're found to be dead.
The sixteenth annual convention of the
American Woman's Suffrage Association
began in Hershey Music Hall, Chicago, on
the 10Th. Addresses were made by Mrs.
Lucy Stone, Mrs. Mary A. Livermore and
others.
SIX lives were lost by the recent explo-
sion of the boiler of the steamer Captain
Sam, plying between Selma and Montgom-
cry, Ala.
OVER eight inches of snow fell at Bel
lows Falls, VT, on the 10Th.
A GRAND jury at New York on the 18th
fndicted Sullivan and Greenfield for in
dulging in a prize-fight.
THE wages of five thousand employees in
the twenty-eight ingram carpet mills in
Philadelphia were on the Goth reduced
from sixteen to twenty per cent.
EXTENSIVE forest fires We're raging on
the Goth in Mitchell County, N. c., beyond
the Blue Ridge. Immense quantities OF
timber and fencing had been destroyed,
II a number of houses were swept away.
~ AT New York on the Goth the suit'of the
Lamar estate against the Secretary of the
Treasury to recover $4,000 for cotton
taken during the war was dismissed in the
United States District Court.
CARR & HoBSoN, agricultural implement
manufacturers at Bergen Point, N. j., have
failed. In January last the concern owed
S110,o00, with assets Of 1851 900. 7.
GEORGE Il. ADEE, an aged capitalist OF
New York, dropped dead in the Bank OF
Commerce a few days ago from heart
disease.
A CONFEDERATION, caused by torches
and fireworks used by Democrats, de-
stroyed a large portion of the business sec
ton of Hickman, KY, the other night, the
loss reaching $125, 900.
AT the convention of the American HUI
name Association in Pittsburgh on the 20tt
John G. shortall, Of Chicago, was elected
President for the ensuing year.
The strange disease recently reported as
prevailing in Virginia also exists in Ken
lucky and West Virginia, where whole
families have been swept away, and thirty
or more new grave are seen j. a small
cemetery. The people call it cholera for
want of a better name, and the malady
upholds it's dreadful title, victims, upon
being seized, seldom living longer than
t~wenty-four hours.
CARRIAGE hardware manufacturers rep
r%esenting 81, 900, 900 capital Termed a Ma
tional Association on the Goth at Meriden,
Conn, and decided upon a pooling combi-
nation for the restriction of goods placed
supon the market.
THE annual report of the COMMISSIONS
OF Agriculture shows that during the past
year the value Of farm products has in the
aggregate more thar doubled, increasing
from 81 900, 600, 900 to S $500, 0oO, 900 in round
numbers.
AM',s A. SoUTHwECK, late cashier of the
defunct Ashtabula (O.) Loan Association
was arrested on the Goth on a warrant
charging him with the embezzlelnent of
$4,000 Of the funds Of the bank.
CLERGYMEN of various sects held a meet
ing recently at New Haven, Conn, and
agreed to hold a congress of American
churches in that city next May.
ARTHUR CLARK, a sailor, was found
dying on the Goth in a New York boarding.
house of yellow fever. No other persons in
the building were i'll.
ADAMS & LEONARD, private bankers at
Dallas, Tex, lave failed, the liabilities be-
ing estimated at 500, O00.
A FIR at Baverhill, Mass, recently de-
stroyed a hotel and several stores, involv-
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