Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-15
DOMESTIC.

FIRE III a New YORK tenement q lew
nights ago caused a panic, the occupants
of the upper floor escaping in their night
clothes by jumping to a roof below, and
three tenants were fatally burned.
In the United States Court at Austin,
Tex, the three Barker brothers were OH
the 80. l. ult. convicted OF robbing the Lam
'pasas stage and were sentenced to the pen
itentiary for life.
A HEAVY run caused the suspension on
the Both ult. of the Merchants g. Me-
,chanics' sank at L%eadville, Col.
HENRY AUGUSTINE, who murdered his
uncle, aunt and cousin near Laport, Ind,
ION New Years Eve, 1850, was arrested at
iCawker City, Kan, on the 30th ult.
A FIRE and explosion a few days ago in
Ia three-story building at Rome, N. V,
caused the death of Samuel and Joseph
ALEXANDER, and he destruction Of the
structure.
The Phoenix Glass-Works at Phillips.
burg, o., We're burned a few nights ago,
lentailing a loss of $125,O0O and throwing
five hundred hands out Of employment.
The strike of window-glass workers
Throughout Pennsylvania, which had
TASTED for seven months, was ended on the
Both ult. by compromise.
A COLLISION of freight trains the other
day near Plainsboro, N. j., piled the road
with wrecked cars and freight and caused
fatal injuries to three employees.
A FATAL disease is said to lave broken
out among the cattle in the region of Dali
has, Tex.
The exports from the United States for
the past year were sos, 071,6s4 greater in
value than tue imports.
HE recent collapse of an engine.house
in process of construction at Eagle Hill
EoLiery, near Pottsville, Pa, killed one
IMAM and injured many others seriously.
AT Batavia, N. Y, on the 31st ult. E.
Newton Rowell was acquitted of the mur.
ider of Johnston l.. Lynch. The people
gave the liberated man an ovation, lighted
ibonfires in the streets, and burned Palmer,
the chief witness for the State, in effigy.
THE bridge over White River at Grand
Ripple, Ind, collapsed on the 3lst ult. un-
der an Airline passenger train, and three
cars plunged into the water, but only part
Eof the wreck was submerged. The over.
turned stoves caused fire to. break out and
six persons We're roasted to death, two
were fatally injured, and seven others, to-
,,gether with a gang of worklnen who were
Preparing the structure, were wounded.
The coaches and bridge were entirely con-
Esumed.
The coinage at the mint in PHILADELPHIA
'during January aggregated 1861, 1923.
AT the Linden steel-works in Pittsburgh,
Pa, a platform containing about seventy
ions of metal gave way a few days ago,
and the mass fell upon John Butler, Thorn
as Liney and John Roach, killing them in
stantly.
! JOHN 7. WARREN & Co., of Cincinnati,
wholesale grocers, failed on the 3lst ult.
for 500, oOo. Fl
COLONEL JOHN G.. KAsEY absconded on
the 3lst ult. from Bedford County, Va, of
switch he was treasurer, leaving $50, 900 in
debtedness for his bondsmen to pay.
PATRICK HARTNET, a laborer in Cincin-
natl, who had long been regarded as in
sane, killed his wife on the 31st ult. with
an ak and e~ndeavored to hide the body
under the floor. When the patrol wagon
arrived he defed the police, and they were
compelled to pin him to the wall with a
scantling before he would surrender his ak.
DURING the temporary absence recently
1pf Mrs. Charles Joyce from her home in
.St Louis, her two-year-old child struck
Sher infant brother, who was lying in u era
die. with a nursing bottle, the wounded
babe dying from the effects of the blow
half an hour later.
( The directors of the Merchants & Me-
fhanics' Bank of Leadville, Col, found on
he 3lst ult. that the cash assets were nine
canine ner cent. Of the liabilities, and the