Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-04
DOMESTIC.

TWO BOILERS in the Oil refinery OF D. T..
Ringhard, at Pittsburgh, Pa, exploded or
the 18th with such force as to injure six
%workmen, three fatally.
RUDOLPH HEINE was convicted on the
18th at Woodbury., N. j., of manslaughter
for killing his wife by a kick when angry
at her for excelling him in a game of
croquet.
w. j. PIERsoN, postmaster at Batesville,
Ark, who disappeared a few weeks ago a
~defaulter, was found dead in a room on the
18th at a hotel in St. Louis. He had
poisoned himself.
H business portion of Fortville, Ind,
was destroyed by fire on the 18th.
A PRAIRIE fire broke out a few days ago
on the cattle.ranch Of the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe agency, in Indian Territory, and
caused severe loss. A man named Graham
and his son were fatally burned while
fighting the flames.
Four men were drowned a few days ago
in st. Andrews Bay, Maine, by their boat
capsizing.
JAMES WEAVER, sixty years of age, was
caught in the machinery in Hussey, Howe
q Co.'s Steel Works at Pittsburgh the
other morning, and torn limb from limb,
portions of his body being scattered all
over tue room.
A YCLoNE visited Fort Collins, Col, on
the 18th, many persons being dangerously
hurt, and ten houses were blown down.
Two of the injured would die. Much dam
6 was done to farm-houses in the sur
rounding country.
The entire business portion of Medford,
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THE family of Henry Hagedorn, of
Cleveland, o., was found suffocated with
coal gas in their residence on the morning
CT the 18th. Mrs. Hagedorn and a nine
year-old girl were dead, while the father
and two other children were unconscious,
but soon recovered.
f collieries in Northumberland Coun.
ty, Pa, We're on the 18th closed for a week,
rendering twelve thousand persons idle.
AT Brainerd, Mimi, on the morning of
the 18th the mercury fell to t~hirty-six de-
grees below zero.
THE Baltimore Warehouse Company's
three buildings on Union Dock, Baltimore,
Md, were burned Oh the 18th, falling walls
burying three fremen, two of whom were
injured mortally.
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river transportation companies suspend
ing navigation al s.. Louis. All steamers
were ordered into retirement as the ice was
already very heavy.
A PACKING firm at indianapolis on the
18th discharged one hundred men because
of the high price of hogs.
UNUSUAL dullEess prevails in manufact-
uring business III Connecticut. The Pratt
Il Whitney Company, of Hartford, on the
18th reduced its force by two hundred men,
and the Willimantic Thread Company dis
charged a number of hands,
RTwo citizens Of Peterson, Utah, while out
hunting recently, We're caught and killed
by a sncw-slide.
NJ & Won BERMUTH, dress-silk deal
ers of New York City, failed on the 10Th
for $4,000.
In the house of Jim George (colored),
near Clinton, La, the otker night his sew
enteen-year-old daughter and another
woman We're shot and killed. Ed Eli, a
negro, was suspected of the crime.
JAMES DYER, Of Middletown, Owen
County, Ind, was on the 18th indicted for
the crime of burning his own home and
causing the death of his two children.
JOHN WALSH and Hiram Ehreott. two
patients at the ~Lackawanna Hospital,
Scranton, Pa, were found dead in bed on
the 18th, having been sutfocated by gas.
A CONTEST at the polls over the location,
OF q schoolrlouse in a district six miles