Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-12-26
DOMESTIC

The General Managers of the Missouri
River railroad lines agreed on the 3D. to fix
the rate between Chicago and st. Louis at
$50, and that between Chicago and Kan
sas City at $3.50, to go into effect at once.
WHILE a Salvation Army meeting was
in progress Il few evenings ago at Saco,
Me-, ar incendiury fired the hall, but
prompt action in dismissing the audience
averted a panic.
CHARLES HALE was carried home at
Lafayette, Ind, on the Sd with a broken
leg, which so frightened his wife that she
fell i'll a swoon, and died in u short time.
A LARGE number of counterfeit ten-cent
pieces have recently been put in %circula-
ton at Lawrence, Kan. They are brighter
than the genuine ones, having a glazed
appearance as if coated with quicksilver.
The wreath is clumsily executed, and the
counterfeits thus far seen are dated 1879.
+ SUIT for crinlinal negligence has been
entered against the James Cole Mining
Company, at Uniontown, Pa, in whose
works fourteen persons were killed recent
1y by an explosion.
IT was announced OH the Sd that Car.
negie Bros. & Co. would soon be obliged,
unless trade improved, to close their mills
tGAu III O1c HudIIlcS III IlUUSDuTEQ, "a,
which would throw G,0O0 men out of EN-
ployment.
FIVE boys of Worcester, Mass, built a
shed in the woods and supplied it with i'm
plements of war, being determined to hard
en- themselves by exposure this winter for
u campaign against the Indians next sum-
mer. Two of the band were arrested a
few days ago for burglary and larceny.
DURING November the fire losses in the
United States amounted to $1,000, OO0. and
for eleven months of 1884 the loss is placed
at SOL, 900 900.
NEAR Knoxville, O., a few days ago
William Reynolds wagon, containing his
three children, left its f~astenings on u hill
side and dashed down the incline, coming
IN collision with u great rock. Two of the
children We're killed, but the third escaped
with slight injuries.
THREE boys fell through the ice at Rom
dout, n. y, on the 4th, and were drowned.
SEVEN men We're arrested Oh the 4th,
charged with being members of the band
regulators, who, Il few days ago, killed
J.H. Hughes in Rowan County, Ky. Two
mad confessed, duplicating ten OF twelve.
"A FEARFUL explosion Of dynamite and
gunpowder occurred at Stanford, N. H.,
The other evening, destroying a house and
It's contents and badly %injuring eight per-
sons, four of them fatally.
FIVE HUNDRED pounds of canon powder
III the magazine of the Virginia Military
Institute at Lexington, Va. exploded the
other night, shaking houses a mile Off and
SCATTERING glass to a great extent.
A FIRE in the Hall Spring Railway sta
bles at Baltimore Oh the morning of the 4tb
destroyed ten cars and caused the burning
to death of fifty-one horses.
THE Sheriff Of Noun Sterling, XIV, on
the 4th arrested sever men of a band of
regulators who recently killed j. G. Hughes
in w County. Two of the number
made full confessions.
FE1GNEsPAUGH's brewery at Newark, N.
D., was burned the other day, the loss
reaching 500, 900.
CHARLES NEVILLE, the alleged Baro-
net, who ran away with and married Miss
Whitney, of Detroit, and was recently tried
and convicted of bigamy, was on the 4th
sentenced to Imprisonment for seven years
III the p~enitentisry.