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

At Las Vegas, N. NJ, on the 18th the
Grand Montizuma Hotel was burned to the
ground in hall an hour, the guests losing
everything, and narrowly escaping death.
The loss was 100000.
JOHN DAVIDSON and his wife, aged
eighty and eighty-s.x, We're found frozen
lead in bed on the 18th near Newport,
Tenn. Being out of fuel they went to bed
to keep warm.
ALARGE portion of the business section
of Canastota, n. Y, was destroyed by fire
on the 18th.
On a railroad bridge at Allegheny City,
Pa, the other night Prof. Peter VOTE, a
prominent musician, vas murdered by u n
known men, who took his watch and mon.
ey.
NINE powder-mills at Scranton, Pa, ex-
ploded on tho evening of the 18th. One
man was known to have been killed, 9TH
ers were missing, and the pecuniary loss
was very heavy.
In n row at Dallas, Miss, a few days ago
one man was killed, two were mortally
hurt, and several others were seriously in
jured.
A FIRE on the 18th in a building in Ex-
change Court, New York, occupied by sew
eral Stockholders, caused a loss of $780,
600.
C. F. DEWEY, the Montreal swindler and
forger, who pleaded guilty at Boston, on
the 18th made restitution Of 5000 DOC of the
$4,000 f%raudulently obtained.
THREE Philadelphia photographers, who
pleaded guilty to making and selling OBJ
40, ,,;o+,,roc 1-aro a fo,,, II owe oro saw
fenced each to one years Imprisonment
and five hundred dollars fine.
AT Bellefontaine, O., Wallace Mowning
while digging a grave a few days ago was
stricken with heart-disease, and died in
the excavation.
A WHITE child tied to the railway track
was a few day ago discovered by an en-
gineer on the Knoxville & Augusta Road
in South Carolina. The brakes were APP
piled with such vigor that the locomotive
stopped three feet from the intended
victim.
DURING the seven days ended on the 18th
the business failures throughout the
United States and Canada numbered 3G3,
against 5S4 the previous week. The distri-
button was as follows: New England
StouCS, ~. 4Alutt1o, tOs ncSeGIu, IVY
Southern, 81; Pacific States and Terri
tories, 10; Canada and the Provinces, 10.
THE steamer City of Columbus, from
Boston for Savannah, Ga, was wrecked in
a gale off Gay Head, on the Massachusetts,
coast, about three O'Clock on the morning
of the 18th, and of ono hundred and forty
seven persons on board only t~wenty-tlree
were saved. The Columbus was a first
class iron ship of two thousand tons, and
the victims We're mainly people from va
rious parts of New England who were
going to Florida to pass the cold months.
AN explosion on the 18Th in the mixing
house of the Vulcan Dynamite Company,
at Allentown, Pa. instantly killed Jacob
Hetfner, Isaac Kramer and John NJ. Buck
enbone, and injured three other men.
SIX ribbon-weavers of Patcr-
son n. j., went on a strike on the 18th, and
paraded the streets with a band of music.
The boiler in Brink g. Elkins' saw and
grist mill, some distance from Columbia
Nc, exploded on the 18th, scalding and
manning eight men, who were not expect
ed to recover.
AT Las Vegas, N. NJ, a few days ago
William Kelley, formerly of Covington,
Ky, shot and killed a woman named Rose
Morton, and then killed himself. jealousy
was the cause.
A BOILER in the kitchen of Frank T..
Sherwood, at Hunters Point, L. l., burst
on the 18th, killing Mr.. Sherwood's little
10y, fatally injuring his brother, and
binding and burning Mrs. Sherwood.
TIE Patchogue and Suffolk County Bank,
1a..4al -. ...- T-1...l ~ ~ ~,
for $50, 0G0.
A BOILER explosion on the 18th in z. Y.
& e. Wallace'ss shoe mandatory and tan
merry at Rochester, n. H., killed four men
and wounded seven others, two fatally.
SHARP shocks of earthquake were felt
early on the morning of the 18th at Conto-
cook, N. H., and at Wilmington and Beau
fort, N. c..
EDWARD TAPPAS, in prison at Hunters
Point, L. l., for the Townsend outrage,
confessed on the 18th that his brother,
John B.. Tappan, on the evening of No
yember II last killed Mrs. and Anna May
bee by strangling them to death on the
barn floor, and then assaulted Mr.. Maybee
and robbed the premises.
LEROY DONOVAN, supposed to be a son Of
the Mormon Bishop John D. Lee, was
har ged at Rawlins, Wy. r., on the 18th for
killing q barber of Rock Springs, named
W lillian Leighton.
The farmers in the vicinity of Parnell's
estate i'll Ireland plowed fifty acres of his
land a few days ago as a tribute of esteem.
The value of exports of provisions, tai
lowa and dairy products during December,
1889, was Sl0,s 44, 952; sam time in 1882,
S12,0I1 ,422; for the twelve months ended
December 81, 1889, Sill, 22s,a5G; same pc
Rod in 1882, 500, 934, 423: value of dairy
products exported for the eight months
ended December31, 1888. S13, $50, 40, against
S19,439, 70l for the same time in 1882.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Hon. PHILIP PHILLIPS, who represented
the Mobile District in Congress in 1858,
died i'll Washington q few days ago.