Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-29

HENRY S. CHURCH, for six years Cham
berlain of Troy, N. v, was discovered on
the It'll to be a defaulter for ST. 900. 1t was
thought that the most of the money was
lost in stock speculation. His whereabouts
were unknown.
YOUNG woman named Margaret O'Don-
nell, while shooting atrats at Cumberland,
Md, a few days ago., accidentally shot and
killed Thomas Coughlin.
I. C. WALLS, a merchant of Lockport, N.
Y, sixty-fve years of age, met with re-
verses and emigrated to Texas to retrieve
his fortune. Hepoisoned himself at Dallas
a few days ago, after having subsisted for
some time on one meal per day.
WHILE robbing the house of Samuel Nor
man, near Chillicothe, o., the other night
Martin Hendricks (colored) was shot dead
by the proprietor.
AMAS supposed to be Kid Wade, a no.
torious horse-thief, was found hanging to
a railway whistling-post near Bassett,
Neb., on the It'll.
In a recent collision between Baltimore
& Ohio passenger trains, near Fallsburg
Station, Pa, four persons were seriously
injured, and the locomotives and express
cars were wrecked.
DURING the seven days ended on the 9Th
the business failures throughout the United
States and Canada numbered 2G0, against
400 the previous week. The distribution
was as follows: New England States, 33;
Middle, SO; Western, 80: Southern, 5S; Pa
citic States and Territories, %; Canada
and the Provinces, 33.
JOHN BENNINGTON. a farmer, and his
wife, residing near Frankfort, Kan, were
found dead in their barn on the Sth. A
hired man who had recently been dis
charged by bennington, and who was
missing, was suspected of the crime.
PERRINE & Co., WOODEN dealers at New
York, failed on the sth for $1,000.
THE river was rising at Cincinnati on
the Sth and the suffering was increasing.
Provisions We're becoming scarce at
Wheeling, w. Va, where fifteen thousand
homeless persons were in need. Wells
burg, w. Va, and some Ohio towns along
the river were also threatened with fam
inc.
THE Excise Commissioners of New York
City on the Sth revoked the licenses of
eleven hundred liquor-dealers for violating
the law.
JAMES GRAHAM, a lawyer of New Or
leans, who had squandered his wife's fort
une, killed her on the Sth with a pistol
while she slept, and then took his own life
with a razor, nearly severing his head from
his body.
A TEAMER and a sloop, carrying an
armed force, sailed from Annapolis, Md,
OIL the Sth to capture men engaged in rob
bling the oyster-beds in Chesapeake Bay.
SUCCESSIVE explosions of eight tanks of
oil, tar II naphtha in the Standard Oil.
Worksi at Long Island City, l.. l., on the
Sth resulted in a fire which caused a loss of
100000.
JOHN HAZARD, on trial on the Sth at
P;ttsfield, Mass, for stealing a ham, spent
some years among the cannibals of the
South Sea Islands, and processes to retain
his appetite for human fl Ash.
AN Englishman representing a syndi-
cate desiring to invest f5,000,000 in ranch
property in Texas left that State in dis
gust on the Sth, and would make an adj.
verse report to his principals. He said
there was mora security for property in
Ireland, and no prospect of Improvement
in the near future.
ROBERT DALEY, d leaO.llS cOlOfeu man
of Toledo, o., was arrested on the Sth for
marrying a white woman in December
last. He pleaded that the Probate Judge
granted the license OH full knowledge OF
the facts.
EMIGRATION from South Carolina to
Texas and Florida was on the Sth said to
have been quite general among the negroes
throughout the former State for some time.