Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-08
DOMESTIC.

EIGHT large business houses AMI Offices
at Neosho, Mo-, were destroyed by fire the
other afternoon.
A SMALL comet was visible at Key West,
Fla, on the night Of the 18th.
NEAR Henryville, Ind, William Norris,
a farmer, fell into the fireplace i'll an cpl
leptic fit a few days ago and his head was
burned off.
1T is announced that there is a steady de-
crease in the rumbe of whaling vessels
sailing from Atlantic ports. The last year
proved an Improbable season.
The su gar-planters of the Souta met in
New Orleans on the 10th and passed reso.
lutionS protesting against the reduction of
the duty on sugar.
AT Fall River, Mass, & fire on the 1G
i'll the residence of Charles 2. S.ickney, the
forser, who was recently paraoned from
the Massachusetts P~enitentiary, caused
the death of his wife and the probable ia
tai burning Of himself.
AMELIA OLSON, a Chicago ewing. girl,
was murdered within sight OF her home
while returning from work on tho evening
OF the 10th. Her body was found on the
open prairie the hex morning. No clew
to the murderers.
AT S:3O on the morning of the 10Th the
thermometer at Andover, Victoria County,
N. B., registered if,y-two below zero, and
at Woodstock fifty below.
TIL annual report of the Agricultural
Department at Washington, issued ON the
10th, gives the corn crop of Illinois as 2o3,-
ISG,5oo bushels, both the average and Weld
being the largest of any STATE. Kansas
stands second i'll crop, but Iowa las the
second Creates acreage.
d. p. HILL, Il business man of High
Bridge, n. j., was called to his door early
on the morning of the 10th by three men,
WHO shot him fatally.
In a carload OF wheat which left st.
Louis November 10 last, and was handled
on the 1854 at the Niagara elevator in Buf.
taio, n. v, was found the body Of a man
frozen stiff.
BURGLARS invaded Goldsmith s. Co.'s
jewelly house in Maiden Lane, New York,
a few nights ago. broke open two safes,
and carried off diamonds and jeweiry val
ued at 10000.
AT tie annual meeting of the Woman's
Boarl of Foreign Missions at Boston on
the 1854 the Treasurer's report for the wear
''N i'S<itso VI SiOc.fJ. Luz DOuTQ
has ninety seven missionaries, eiyhty-one
Bible women and twenty-five boarding
schools and homes.
FANNIE G. WALKER, of Someryille,
Mass, was arrested on the 10Th for firinp
the Forster Grammar School recently, en-.
dangering the lives of several hundred pu.
pills. She is only fourteen years of age.
and was once nearly burned to death, since
which time she has had q mania for incen-
diary work.
A LARGE hotel at Suwannee Sulphur
Springs, Fla, valued at $4,000, was de.
stroyed by fire on the 18th, the guests los
ing all their baggage.
SECRETARY FoLGER reported to the
House on the 18th that within the past
eighteen months the issue of gold certif.
cafes was $10I 600, 900, and during three
years the value of silver certificates put
out was S119, 74o, 900.
The new capitol at Iowa was dedicated
at Des Moines on the 18th, Hon. john A.
Kasson delivering an eloquent Grafton.
II value of the exports Of domestic
breadstuifs for December, 1881, was $12,-
941 ,G95, against SIT, OS7, 100 the same month
in 1852. For the year the decrease was