Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-28

18th. Thu streets We're filled with crowds
of excited, homeless people. Several lives
were lost. One body had been recovered.
The loss would reach 500, 900. Silver
Plume is a small mining camp of a few
hundred inhabitants three miles west of
Georgetown.
WHILE in a drunken state at Jersey City
a few mornings ago Bartholomew Haas, a
real-estate agent, shot his wife fatally and
then shot himself dead.
ABEL D.. BREED. a New York merchant,
has made an assignment, his preferences
amounting to 100000.
The New York Central and West Shore
Roads We're on the 9TH selling tickets to
Chicago for SD, and 10 ST. Louis for SD.
AN explosion in II dynamite mill near
Stouchburg, Pa, OF the afternoon of the
9th blew three men to fragments and de-
molished the mill. The defamation caused
the collapse of a chimney stack at Robeso-
MIA, ten miles away, upon which a number
of masons We're working, six of whom
were killed.
HOMER PERRY (colored), aged fifteen
years, was hanged at Covington, Ga, on
the 9TH, for criminal assault upon "a little
girl.
DURING the twentv-four hours ended at
nine p. m. on the 9TH there We're twenty
seven new cases of cholera and eightdeaths
in France. The tourists We're again leav-
ing the country.
THERE We're 206 failures in the United
States and Canada during the seven days
ended on the It'll, against 2G7 failures the
previous seven days.
MosT of the mills at Fall River, Mass,
agreed on the eth to close tor one week.
HENRY WOLFE, a liquor-dealer at Louis
vile, KY, whose liabilities were $l6O, 900,
has made an assignment. The insolvency
is also announced of Gottlieb, Strauss g.
Co., bat-dealers of Cincinnati, o., who
owed nearly 100000.
TIL President of the Hooking Valley
Road on the It'll called on the Governor of
Ohio for troops to prevent the burning of
bridges. He alleged that Murray City was
attacked by three hundred miners carrying
giant powder, fuses and dynamite,
by a recent collision of West Shore trains
at Rochester, \. Y, a conductor aud brake
man We're fatally injured and u passenger
lad five ribs broken.
HI wholesale clothing house of Theo-
LiSoSl u w.. III ~ liCiSe, N, -, Nul-
ued at $4,000, was burned on the eth, and
one thousand workmen were thrown out of
employment.
ANOTHER person was on the 18th convict
ed of %polygarly in the United States Court
at Salt Lake City.
TlcKETs from New York to Chicago
We're on the eth selling at $3.50 by the
West Shore Road and $l1 over the New
York Central.
a A of the Fish Commission left
Washington on the 1th with carp to sup
ply all applicants in Ohio, Indiana and
Michigan.
The imports of dry goods at the port of
New York for the seven days ended on the
18th We're S1.411, 900, and the amount mar
keted, 81 ,3S3,000.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has appointed Thurs
day, November u, as Thanksgiving Day.
His proclamation reads as follows:
1.-The season is nigh when it is the yearly
wont of the people to observe a day appointed
for this purpose by the President as an cs-
pecial occasion for thanksgiving unto God.
l9we1 cus!2m. ]: Chester 4, 4r!hlr presiaent
as such Gay of Thanksgiving Thursday, the
-'th OF this present November; and do
recommend that throughout the land the pco-
pie, ceasin@ from their accustomed occlipa-
places OF worship. and with heart and voice
pay reycrcnt acknowledgment to the Oliver of
all good for tie countless blessings wLerewith
He has visited this Nation"