Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-18
eight of whom were killed instantly and

The New Orleans INES democrat exPe.
dition to the Everglades of Florida has
returned to New Orleans all safe and we'll,
and reports a wonderful country full of
game and Indians.
WEST SrEvER, a Louisiana attorney,
called upon Postmaster-G General Gresham
at Washington on the 2Gth and asked that
the New Orleans Cotton Exposition, i'll
dorsed by the last Congress-, be placed
upon the list of frauds and denied the use
Of the mails. Mr.. Stever charges that the
Directors of the Exposition occupy SINH
lar positions in the Louisiana Lottery, and
devised the scheme of a grand cotton expo
sition to further the interests of the lottery,
which is now deprived of the use of the
mails. Mr.. Gresham said he had no au-
thoritv under the law to close tho mails to
the Directors of the Exposition. Mr.. Ste
YER promised to prove that Congress had
been imposed upon i'll this matter.
TWENTY THOUSAND coal miners in the
bituminous regions of Westnloreland,
Blair, Bedford, Huntingdon, Center and
Clearield Counties, Pa, were on the Goth
preparing to resist a proposed reduction of
WAGES.
HAnDESBuRG & Co.'s large carpet store
at Brooklyn, n. ", was destroyed by fire
a few nights ago, involving a loss in excess
of 500, 900.
ADv1cEs of the 9th state that three
more men had lost their lives by recent
snow-slides in Colorado.
In the Emma Bond case at Hillsboro, ILL.,,
John z. Montgomery, one of the defend
ants, was examined on the 9th as to his
whereabouts Oh the day of the outrage. He
denied any connection with the crime, and
also denied that he knew anything of the
conversation which two convicts testified
took place in the Jail. His statements
were corroborated by three other persons.
The failures We're announced Oh the 9th
of c. A. Coutant & Co., Of Chicago, dry
goods dealers, for $685. 900, and Jefferds,
Bailey & Co., lounge and table manufact-
urers, at Jamestown, n. V, for 500, 900.
PROF. DODGE, Statistician of the Agricult-
ural Department at Washington, on the
9th estimated the corn crop at 1,55l ,oGG, $50
bushels. the wheat crop at 400 100000 bush
els, and the cotton product at 5000, 900
bales.
JOHN A. CLARK was executed at Boze-
man, NJ. T., on the 9th, for the murder of
Thomas Rogers. The condemned man
died protesting his innocence.
LEAKING gas caused an explosion in a
restaurant at Buffalo, n. V, a few even
ings ago, four persons being seriously in
jured. The bar, dining-room and fixtures
were demolished.
UP to the 9th there We're 343 assignments
filed III New York City during the year,,
with liabilities of S3o,S57,S43, and the
actual assets amounting to S9,314,451.
WHILE rehearsing a play with pistols
recently at Erie, Pa, James Brandt NOR
GOVERNMENT four-per-cent. bonds were
on the 9th quoted at Sl.25, the highesU
point ever reached.
HENRY S. BEALL, a telegraph operator
at Ell Paso, Tex, killed himself at his
desk recently because he had lost his
months pay in gambling.
A HEAVY thunder and lightning storm
passed over New Haven, Conn.,, on the 27th,
and while it prevailed a strong smell of
sulphur was noted.
A COMPANY engaged in boring for oil at
Warield, KY, struck a flow of gas the
| other day which blew five thousand pounds
of tools into the air. The roar of the well
could be heard for three miles.
A FAMILY named Edwards, tA,e most
prominent citizens of Mason County, w.
Va, are ~endeavoring to establish their
title to the Trinity Church property in
New York, now valued at $64, 0Ch 1000.
A SLEIGH containing four couples was
dragged over a precipice by a run
away team near Rocktown, Pa, a few
evenings ago, and two men had an arm
each broken and a woman was injured in.
ternally.
A PETITION to Congress was on the 9th
being extensively signed b: workmen in
the .neighborhood of Reading, Pa, request
ing that the importation of foreign labor
under contract be stopped.
Mrs. B~1GGERsToFF and her little daughter
Ida were drowned in the Black River at
Piedmont, NO., a few days ago.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 9th
states that daring the first five months of
the present fiscal year the total internal.
revenue collections were S51, 2279,43S, being
S11 81 less than the corresponding pc.
Rod last year. In spirits there was a to.
tai increase in collections of 50 ,O74, III, and
fermented liquors increase S497,3SS. The
total decrease in the collection of taxes
on tobacco was $9,19l, 607, from banks and
bankers 81 ,0GS, 2292, AID miscellaneous taxes
IS ,G56,231.