Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-25

20 The effects on the markets OF the death
of w. H. Vanderbilt. The New York and
London stock-exchanges showed wild
fluctuations, with a general decline of from
one to three per cent.
A CHICAGO company closed n contract on
the 9th to supply the French army with
100000 pounds of canned beef. 1t involves
the slaughter of Is, 1000 cattle.
AT Northampton, Mass, Allen ]. Adams
was on the 9th found guilty of the murder
of Moses B. Dickinson at Amherst, Mass,
ten years ago, and sentenced to be hanged
March 12, 1856.
THE Blood Indians in the Canadian
Northwest have stolen two hundred horses.
A special train left Regina on the 9th for
Fort Mcleod with a troop Of mounted DO
lice.
SEVEN men were buried by the caving of
a sewer at Akron, o., on the 9th, four of
them being killed and the others fatally in
jured.
In the winter quarters of a menagerie Mt
Philadelphia a Nubian lion was killed a few
days ago by the elephant Bolivar.
In portions of Central Illinois the snow
was eighteen inches deep on the 10th.
ADvIcEs received in New York on the
10th announced a large number of wrecks
on the northeastern coast in recent storms,
and great suffering by the crews. Several
lives were lost.
j. B. MANN1X, the assignee of the late
Archbishop Purcell, at Cincinnati, con-
fessed on the 10th hat he had misappopri-
ated 100000 of the funds that fell into his
hands.
AT Pine Run, Pa, the striking coal
miners came into collision on the 10th with
the men who now hold their places. The
riot lasted over two hours, and ten men
were injured, n fatally.
A SHOWER of young smelts, each half an
inch in length, fell on the 10th at Cumber-
land, Me-, for a radius of n mile.
ATToRNEY-GESERAL GARLAND urges the
building of a National penitentiary and the
construction Of a Jail at each place where
Federal courts are held.
ACCORDING to the figures of the National
Agricultural Department the average farm
price of corn is 80 cents, against Sc cents in
December a year ago. Wheat averages 7S.7
cents, against Is cents last year. Rye, bar
ley, oats and potatoes show an advance of
from 4 to Z cents.
The worst gang of %smugglers on the Texas
border was attacked near Eagle Pass on the
10th by Sheriff Oglesby and two deputies,
who killed the leader of the smugglers and
three of his followers. The others ESCAPED
into Mexico.
c. L.. AusTIN's Clubhouse and mill at Ell
hot, Miss, were destroyed by fire on the
10th, and two men persisted in the flames.
TIE entire family of Frederick Haus-
meyer. six in number, at Tarentum, Pa,
were i'll on the 10th with trichiniasis, and
the doctors thought that none would re-
cover.
The Secretary of the Interior on the 18th
requested the President to ask Congress for
an appropriation of So, 500, out of which to
aid Cheyenne Indians in Montana who
were reported starving.
TIE boiler i'll a foundry at Austin. Tex,
exploded on the 18th, killing two mo, one
of whom was Charles Jones. the proprietor,
and %wounding two others.
In a drunken passion James Murray shot
his wife three times ut Williamsburg, L.. l.,
on the 18th and then shot himself.
The Adj utant-General of Texas received
information on the nth that twenty-five
Mexican soldiers recently crossed the line
and drove Off a herd of cattle belonging to
Americans.
SURGEON EWING, who returned on the 18th
to Fort Leavenworth from Oklahama, re-
ported that the entire region coveted by
the boomers had been burned over, and the
territory was clear Of settlers.
One c%onvicts employed in a
mine at Coal Hill, Ark, were on a strike on
the 18th for more powder, and had taken
possession of the mine.
TIE sales of coffee decreased ut New
York during the year as compared with
last year 2,432,O00 bags, or thirty-one per
cent.
A BLOCK of business houses was burned
on the 18th at Navasota, Tex. Loss, s115,-
600.
THE house of a colored woman named
Sparks was burned at Chadbourne, N. c.,
on the 18th, and two of her children, who
were locked in during their mothers alb
sence, persisted in the flames.
The total number of failures reported in
the United States for the seven days ended
on the 18th was POI, as against PAT tho pre-
vious seven days. In the corresponding
time of 1884 the failures amounted to 361;
in 1883, $40: in 1882, 23O; and in 1881, 1863.
The total number in the country this wear
to date is 1854. against 10,7S3 in a like por-
ton of 1884.
Two L were killed and a boy mortally
iHJulcu ny dlItlSuUG lulu near Altoona, Ha.,
a few evenings ago.
JOHN ALEXANDER (colored) was hanged
at New Orleans for wife-murder on the 18th.
A PASSENGER coach and a box-car of q
train left the track a few days ago near
Caldwell, O., and rolled down an embank-
ment, the former taking fire. a woman
and her two children were fatally burned
and other passengers were painfully hurt.
Mrs. ELIZA DEssMAN, aged sixty, was
bulne to death the other night by a fire
breaking out in her residence at New York.
AN acre Of the surface over the Harleigh
mines at Hazleton, Pa, caved in on the 18th.
causing great damage and throwing four
hundred miners and laborers out of en-
ployment.
SPECIAL kilograms On the 18th to Brad
streets from leading trade centers through
out the United States revealed a somewhat
better trade generally West, Northwest and
Southwest and South than was reported at
the East.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
WHILE conversing on business matters
with Mr.. Garrett in his residence in New