Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-15
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"A fAkIi VI ulGS HlNt uicu, WIZ 9 SuV-
ting one hundred cords OF wood daily on
Government land near Fort Lincoln, were
captured by a detachment of the 10Th in
fentry on the 3lst ult. and imprisoned at
the fort.
AN aged couple, Mr.. and Mrs. Clinton,
were burned to death in their home near
Norwich, N. ", a few nights ago.
A SLEIGH containing twenty-seven ladies
upset on Crooked Hill, at Reading, Pa., a
few days ago, and Mrs. Hummel suffered
to the extent of a broken nose; three others
were badly injured about tho head by the
horses feet, and others were more or less
bruised.
THE Commissioners of Golden Gate Park
at San Francisco, with a force of twenty
five armed citizens and six policemen, a
few days ago tore down the shanties of d
lot of squatters on the beach, where liquors
aud luncheon were sold in defiance of law.
Denis Kearney was one of the evicted per-
sons.
DURING the seven days ended on the LIST
the business failures throughout the
United States and Canada numbered 402,
against S4S the previous week. The distri-
button was as follows: New England
States, IS; Middle, 20; Western, 125;
Southern, 63; Pacific States and Terri
tories, 40; Canada and The Provinces, 81.
J.. C. p. COLLINS was executed on the
LIST at Nevada City for robbing a stage in
1879, and killing and robbing a banker,
named W. F. Cummings, of seven thousand
dollars. Simon Bonner was hanged at
Port Gibson, Miss, for the murder of James
r. Light.
E. E. JOHNSON, agent of the Northern
Pacific Road ut Ainsworth, was arrested
at Walla Walla on the 1st for embezzling
a package containing $4,000.
The boiler i'll Twichell's shingle-mill,
near Blanchard, Mich, burst OH the LIST,
killing two persons, mortally wounding u
third, and injuring several others.
AT Opeleeka, Ala, on the 1st James
Abercrombie, son of Judge j. J. Aber-
crombie, stabbed and killed Town Marshal
Henry Hart.
AN explosion of gasoline on the LIST i'll
the store of F: NJ. Orr, at Alliance, O.,
damaged property to the amount Of S75,-
600, and killed Mr.. Orr; Elmer Orr, his
SON; Mrs. Homer Highland, Mr.. Or's
daughter: Mrs. Frank Evans and her two
children, aged respectively two years and
four months, and the two-year-old son of
Mrs. Highland. Nine persons were also
badly injured.
~ LITTLE son Of Isaac Kennedy was
killed on the 1st at Wheeling, w. Va, by
falling into u kettle of boiling Il and
an eleven-year-old daughter of Mr.. Taylor
choked herself to death at Mayfield, Ky,
while playing with a s~lipping-rope.
FIRE on the 1st swept away the Denver
& Rio Grande round-house and six loco
motives at Leadville, and six houses and q
livery-stable at Pueblo.
AT Bloomington, Neb., the other MORN
ing Henry B. Holmes was burned to death
in his barn. Thirty cattle and all the con.
tents of the building were consumed.
B. II. LANIER, of New Orleans, a post
office inspector, who recently fed to South
America, defrauded seven Southern post.
masters of considerable sums on the pre-.
tense of needing it to follow up and pro-.
ecute criminals.
H public-debt statement issued OH the
1st makes the following exhibit: Total
debt (including interest of S, 49s, 3GO), ST.
$40, 49S, 952. Cash in Treasury, $3.50, 49,.
2333. Debt, less amount in Treasury, 81 1885,
0S3, 719. Decrease during January, SILL
95s,0Oo. Decrease since June 80, 1888,
| $685. o7,4S7.
IT was reported on the LIST that the ex-
IRENE cold weather in South Carolina had
seriously damaged the oat crop, destroyed
early vegetables, and killed doves, mock
ing-birds and poultry.
A l at Searcy, Ark, a few days ago
destroyed the stores of R. A. Ward, w. S.
Lay and j. H. Redmond. Loss, 5000, 900.
A SUIT which had occupied the courts of
California for seventeen years, involving
lands in the vicinity of San Pablo valued
at s 1000, 900 was on the 1st decided in
favor of the heirs of Ex-Governor Alvar-
ado.
MARQUIS DE MoREs reported on the 1st a
new disease among sheep on the Montana
ranges, which had carried off six thousand
lead of merinos sent from Iowa and Wis.
/ consin.
sixty policemen of Philadelphia made a
descent Oh a cockpit a few nights ago and
captured n~inety-five spectators and seven
ty-two chickens. Nearly all the men paid
fines Of $11.50 each.
MOVING ice from the Allegheny River
sunk two boats at Pittsburgh on the 1st
and set adrift several fats. Floods caused
by gorges had resulted in much damage
on the bottom lands of the Y~oughiogheny.
families i'll some instances having been
compelled to seek safety in the upper
floors of their houSes