Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-03-28
DOMESTIC.

A PATIENT at the Insane Hospital in In
dianapolis, Ind, which had over one thou
sand inmates, was on the 18th found to be
suffering from smallpox, and was trans
ferred to the ~pest-house.
A CIRCULAR to all United States Attor-
neys and Marshals has been sent out by
Acknowledgement Brewster, calling atten-
ton to the statutes regulating hes shipment
of explosives, and urging vigilance to pre-
vent the preparation of heinous crimes at
foreign ports.
NEAR Lafayette, Ind, on the 18th Mi
'chael Rorick, a wealthy farmer, was killed
by lightning.
A TERRIBLE cyclone swept over Saline
County, Mo-, on the 18th, doing great dam
age to farm-houses and stock. No one was
killed, but several sustained serious in
jury.
AN extensive prairie fire was raging in
the vicinity of Garnet, Anderson County,
Kan, on the 10Th, and several farln-houses
and q large amount Of grain had been de-
stroyed.
Two WOMEN were killed by the recent
cyclone which wrecked %Starkville, Miss.
The total loss in the county was about
500 900.
oE.N 1i1oa1ESoN, Il WS11ehi1O"u OcSpcIduO,
got into trouble with the equally notorious
Deputy-Sheritf King Fisher, in the Vaude-
Vile Theatcr at San Antonio, Tex. on the
18th. and both were hot dead.
ADvIcEs of the 18th from various points
in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Iowa and Kan
sas indicated that the winter wheat crop
was in good average condition.
FIVE laborers were injured and one was
killed by a fall Of coal in the Avondale
shaft, near Wilkesbarre, Pa, q few days
ago.
w. W. ScoTT, indicted for stealing $780,
600 worth of the city bonds of st. Joseph,
No., was acquitted at that place the other
day.
The Red Cross relief steamer Josh v.
,Throop arrived at Paducah, KY, on the
18th, after distributing clothing, bedding,
coal and cash all the way from Evansville
down.
FLAMES at Detroit on the 10Th, originat-
ing in Stradou's wooler- mills, destroyed
six manufacturing establishments, valued
at 100000.
AFTER an idleness of several months
work has been resumed in the locomotive
works at Schenectady, N. Y, which en-
lploy one thousand men.
JOHN BOYLE, City Treasurer of Erie, Pa,
recently defeated for a third term, 9isap-
ipeared on the 10Th, and q cursory investi.
igation developed a shortage in his accounts
of $1,000.
1T was stated or the 18th that two Scotch
men, recently arrived in this country, car
tried the germs of the foot and mouth dis
lease in their clothing, as they had been
'herding infected cattle in Scotland.
NEARLY all the business places in Allie
gan, Mich, including the Journal and
Tribune and the Gazette and Democrat,
losses aggregating $500, 900. 1t was sup
posed the fire originated from a defective
flue. A fire on the same day at Grand
Rapids did damage to the extent of $780,
900.
A DESTRUCTIVE cyclone passed near Gun
Sersville, Ala, on the 18th. II. S. Hess
and Mrs. John Tidmore were killed, and
John Tidmore and Mrs. Frank Farmer were
seriously injured. About thirty houses
were blown to atoms. The storm left the
earth after devastating six miles.
GEORGE TIFFANY, a son Of tho abscond-
ing postmaster of Bennington, VT, con-
fessed on the 18Th to having stolen Gov
funds.
TWENTY-oNE students were graduated a
few days ago by the Woman's Medical
College of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia.
CHICAGO packers reported on the 18th
having slaughtered during the past year
8,S52,65s hogs and 1,osO, 900 head of cattle.
AT the anniversary meeting of the
Women's Foreign Missionary Society at
Philadelphia on the 18th it was shown
chat the auxiliary societies had increased
1872 during the year, and 1861 persons had
been added to the membership. The re-
ceipts for the fiscal year were 1924 1928.
PRENT1ss TILLER, who robbed the Pacific
Express at st. Louis, was arrested on the
18th at Milwaukee and $So, 900 of the money
recovered. McFadden, his accomplice,
was captured at Sherman, Tex, by means
of IN Intercepted telegraph from Tiller.
AN explosion in the Flat.top mine at
Va, early on the morning of
the 18th, killed one hundred and fifty men