Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-07

motive tor the murder was known. The
criminal was taken to Jail, but was soon
after secured by u party of citizens and
hanged TO a tree.
AT Harrisburg, Pa, IN the 10th Miss
Lizzie Wallace stepped from the cars in
front of a moving train. Harry Foster
rushed to the rescue, but both were cut in
pieces.
TIRE station of the Pennsylvania and Read
ing roads in Trenton, N. j., wero burned
a few days ago. The fire caught from a
gas Jet.
MATT Is. PERKINSoN role to the house of
Derby z. Payne at Deer Trail, forty miles
from Denver, q few days ago, and because
Payne could not pay $50 he wed him,
Parkinson shot him dead and surrendered.
A train went through a
bridge near Bata via, o., on the 18th, fall
ing a distance of forty feet. Engineer
Wilbur and Fireman JONES We're instantly
killed, two passengers were fatally in
jured, and several others were badly
bruised.
SPECIAL dispatches on the 18th to Brad
streets from leading business centers con
tfrmed previous reports that general trade
throughout the United States was decided
ly dull.
WILLIAM McMAsTEs, a farmer of STRAIT
ford, Vt, whose drinking habits had dis.
sipated his fortune, being dunned by a
ere 1itor the tother day, went out to his
barn and hanged himself.
THE drought in Alabama and other parts
of the South had continued for eleven
weeks on the 18th, and cattle had to be
driven long distances to procure water.
The cotton and other crops were burnt up,
while turnips, the main staple for stock
feed, were q complete failure.
j. Il. WILLIAMS, a lawyer at David City,
Neb., absconded on the 18th, and his de.
falcations were placed at $4,000.
JAMES MCADE'S carpet mandatory i'll
Philadelphia was destroyed by fire a few
days ago, causing a loss of $4,000.
The New York, Ontario 81 Western Rail
road recently flied a mortgage of $4,000, O0C
to the Mercantile Trust Company of New
York. The money was borrowed to com,
plete, equip and operate the regular ano
leased lines.
HlGHwAYMEN visited the Coreletas
ranch near Laredo, Tex, the other night
oiN " tiV.Jpo DClOuSlIS w VAilAC
Nidauri, the proprietor. No arrests.
THE Harrison Wire Company of st
Louis failed on the 18th for 100000.
THE aged father of Mrs. Henry Curtis
OF Lafayette, Ind, who had been extreme
ly deaf for years, WAS startled by Il louC
peal of thunder during a storm a few days
ago, and his hearing was completely re
stored.
FIRES in the woods and swamps in At
lantic County, N. j., continued on the
18th, the Lake cranberry bog and 81;
acres of the Atlantic Company's bog hav
ing been burned.
FIRE at GAINESVILLE, Ga, on the It'll
destroyed the business quarter of the
town, causing a loss of S40O. 900.
The tobacco factory of Watson & Nc
Gill, II of the largest in Petersburg, Va.
which suspended operations some weeks
ago, has resumed work. 1t employs fou1
hundred operatives.
JOHN +. QUINN, JR., a prominent either
of st. Clair, Pa, and Captain Joseph II
Denning were killed by coal gas in q mine
a few days ago.
HOG cholera prevailed to all alarming
extent on the 18th near Lancaster. Pa.
In the United States and Canada there
We're 231 business failures during the sever
days ended on the 18th, against 237 TIL
previous seven days. The distribution wa
as follows: Middle States, so; New En-
gland States, 90: Western, &C; Southern
4G; Pacific States and Territories, 10
Canada, %.