Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-16
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: FIRE swept away a wooden mill at Clay
vile. n. V, a few days ago, causing a loss
of 100000.
In Texas there are G,773333 miles of rail
~ay-an increase during the year of 26s
miles.
THE National Tube-Works Company at
McKeesport, Pa, suspended operations on
the sd, rendering more than 2,00e men
idle.
RUDOLPH ScHIcKE, a dry-goods clerk
in Cincinnati, o., was arrested on the 23d
on a charge of embezzlement. Upon be-
ing unprecedented, he swallowed a dose of
potassic cyanide and fell dead. He was
to nave been married the next day.
FLAMES consumed a school-house at
Beverly. Mass. a few days ago. The four
hundred children who were in the building
all got out safely.
"A cANAL-BoAT moored to a dock at
Brooklyn, N. Y, sprung leak the other
day, and sunk SO quickly that a boy and
girl who were on board were drowned.
On the 23d three hundred and fifty men
were luIp"u Ouu VI e1HplCS llchu " Il Nol.
fagration which was raging in the
Paintertown coal-mine. 1t would be sew
eral weeks before work could be resumed.
THE north bound express train on the
New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad was
thrown off the track on the sd by obstrucS
tons near Purvis, Miss. A number of pas
sengers were injured, and the engineer and
fireman were killed.
ELIZA Ross, one hundred and three years
old, was found dead on the 23d in a squalid
cabin at st. Louis. She leaves some prop
erty.
AFTER being dashed to the rigging of the
barkentine Ephraim Williams five days
without food or swater, the Captain and
crew were rescued recently by the life
boats at Cape Hatteras.
Mrs. MARY MCGOWAN, aged nincty-six,
was locked up in her sisters cottage in
Little Falls, n. Y, the other day, during
the ~latter's absence. The house burned and
she persisted.
HENRY STRONG and William Ervine.
while driving recently in a sleigh at Mount
Carmel, Pa, We're hurled over an embank-
ment and killed.
A PREMATURE explosion occurred in
Klein's stone quarry at Catawissa, Pa, on
the sd, killing William Heckler, Michael
Mulroy and Harry Heinz.
EXPORTS from the port of New York for
the seven days ended on the 23d, exclusive
of specie, were SG,429,000, against S1,S45, 00l
the previous seven days.
GEORGE w. WALKER, a leading lawyer
of Virginia, having suffered for years from
the allputation of his right leg on the
battlefield, killed himself with Il revolver
a few days ago at Heathville.
For using the word 'National" on his
business signs at Atlanta, Ga, suit was
recently brought against c. c. Nelson,
who is q money lender, for so ,009-the
sum total of so a day since he began bust.
ness-that being the, penalty, under the
United States statutes, for bankers and
brokers for using the word "N%ational,'
unless authorized by Congress. The in.
former claimed half of the money.
In reply to a recent inquiry from aresi.
dent of Kansas whether he could pre-.
empt land in Indian Territory, the Secre.
tary of the Interior has written as follows
"There is no lanA within the boundaries Of
Indian Territory subject to settlement.
Settlers who 60 into the Territory now will
simply lose time and money"
HARRIGAN & HARRIS theater in New
York was burned On the 23d. The loss wa:
100000; uninsured.
I The steamship Oregon recently crossed
the Atlantic in six days six hours and fifty.
two minutes, the quickest passage on rec.
ord.
TJJD.-> ,,r.l.1l ,.11~u, cL.- --.1
searching the residence Of Elias Marting
near Wheeling, w. Va, a few days age
applied red-hot pokers to his back, burned
off his hair with live coals, and at last en-.
veloped'him in straw and set it on fire. HI
was found nearly dead by neighbors. but
revived sufficiently to relate the story O.
his torture.
To MEET the cut of the Bennett Macke1
cable the other cable companies have re,
duced their rates to forty cents a word TO,
business messages.
The Laporte CInd.) Savings Bank sus.
pended payment on the 18th, and a receiver
was appointed. The President OF the con.
cc"n was confident that ~depositors would
L. paid in full.
THE building at Minneapolis. Nina, for
AiNiiS hAip a. I!S -tCuIielllN Oh IiiSIC. Wa.
destroyed by fire the other afternoon. caus.
ing a loss of 100000.
A FALSE alarm of fire was given on til,
evening of the 18th in a museum at New
Haven, and in the panic which ensue,
many persons had their clothing nearly
torn off.
The dry-goods house of S. NJ. Rothschild
OF Chicago, was closed by the Sheriff OF
the oath. The liabilities were believed t,
he nearly $1,000 900.
HEAVY SHOWS ali over the West blocked
the railroads Oh the oath.
ONE man was fatally shot and two 9th.
ers were fatally stabbed in a drunken fight
the other day at Montana, Pa.
h. A DISCREPANCY OF $40, 900 was discovered
on the 10Th in the accounts of Charles z
stephens, cashier Of the Chicago a. Will
minston Coal Company, of Chicago. Ste.
phens had fled.
A SLEIGH containing nine persons was
struck by a locomotive,at u crossing near
st. Paul, Mimi, the other night. and Il
man was killed, a woman fatally hurt,
and the rest Of Che party were badly in
iured,