Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-11

Pa, was prevented recently, met her lover
after she had escaped from the officer, and
both went to q minister's house and were
married. She was discovered on the Goth
in the house of a negro and wasimprisoned
by her friends.
A DEEALcATIoN of So, 900 by William G..
Morgan caused the dissolution of his
banking firm in Hartford, Conn.,, on the
Goth.
The foot-and-mouth disease was on the
10Th alleged to have made its appearance
in three herds in Maries County, Mo:
WHILE insane at Oakland, Cal, q few
evenings ago Mrs. John Schaefer cut her
own and her baby's throat. When the
husband saw the corpses he also attempted
suicide, II a lady was SO shocked at the
gory scene that she became a raving mt.
MAC.
THE collision Of two sections of a freight
train near Angola, n. Y, on the 21st ex-
ploded an %oil-car, which took fire, the
flames spreading to other cars. Four em-
ployes were fatally burned, and twenty.
n cars were consumed.
Mrs. A. H. FooTE, of Lawrence, Kan,
died on the 21st of blood poisoning caused
by wearing Il green vail which rubbed
against n sore on her face.
THERE were ten great crevasses in the
Mississippi levees near New Orleans on
the 2lst, all pouring great volumes of water
into the country.
THERE were 116 business failures in the
United States during the week ended OH
the 21st, and thirty-seven in Canada. This
was a decrease of eleven as compared with
the previous week.
AT Mt Carmel, Pa, on the 21st Michael
Toney, a youth of sixteen, was arrested in
the act of changing a switch with the pur-
pose of wrecking a train.
AN announcement was made recently
that McFadden, an accomplice of Prentiss
Tiller's in the st. Louis express robbery,
had attempted to commit suicide in the st.
Louis Prison by swallowing fragments Of
broken glass. On the Goth the report was
said. ito be %unfounded, McFadden being de-
sirous of being placed in the hospital,
whence escape would be easy.
BACK water was on the 2lst flooding the
houses in Front street at Vicksburg, and
the country between the Mississippi and
through breaks in the levees.
THE boiler in Ratman's saw.mill, at
Newport, Ark, burst a few days ago, kill.
ing the fireman and three children.
Two BROTHERS named Fitzpatrick were
on the 21st executed at Columbia, KY, for
the murder of Miller Brewster.
A SULPHUR explosion the other Gay in
the Enterprise colliery, near Mt. Carmel,
Pa, killed three men and badly damaged
the woodwork of the mine.
By the closing of the Dobson wooden
mills at Schuylkill, Pa, on the 21st twelve
hundred employees were thrown out of
work.
THE total number of post-ofices i'll the
United States on March 20, 1884, was As, 1893,
against 47,S5S on July 1, 1883, an increase
in nine months Of 1876. At the present
rate of increase the number of post-ofices
at the end of the present fiscal year would
reach $4,000.
ADv1cEs of the Dist from Dodge City,
Kan, were to the effect that the cattle
drive to the North this year would be from
5000 to 375. 900 head.
THE New York Senate Committee on Pub
lie Health, which has been investigating
deliberations of food, reported on the 21st
that half the butter placed on the market
in chat State was mixed with tallow, lard
or zone oil. Only ten samples out of thirty
proved to be genuine. Four-tifths of the
milk sold in New York City was previously
Wstered or SKINNED.