Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-30
Ax ~extensixe movement is on foot amor

AN extensive movement is on foot among
the miners and laborers i'll the vicinity of
Wilkes5arre, Pa. to organize for the
mutual protection of their interests.
FIRE in a tobacco storage warehouse at
Durham, n. c., the other night destroyed
property valued at $4,000.
REPORTS to BrudStrcet's on the 9th from
leading business centers throughout the
United States indicated, in many instances,
| evidence of an improved feeling i'll COM
mercial circles. The general situation,
however. was considered far from salts
factory, and the industrial outlook was I'M
favorable.
S. S. VOORHEES,. for attempting to wreck
| a train near Burchard. Neb., was on the
| 9th sentenced to fifty years imprison-
mcnt.
T. w. CLARK. member of a banking firm
! in Boston, was missing on the Ssh, and was
! supposed to he sojolIrning across the bor-
der. His shortages We're placed at $4,000.
AT n O'Clock on the morning of the 10th
two business blocks had been burned at
Sioux City, Ia, and the fire was spread
ing. Numerous offices, dental rooms and
other establishments had been burned out,
and the water supply was meager. The
loss thus far would exceed 100000.
ELEVEN persons drank coffee at the
house of Mr.. Van Fossen, of East Liver
pool, O., a few evenings ago. Mr.. Van
Fossen and a child died at midnight and
the others were not expected to live. A
package of ~rat-poison was found at the
bottom of the cotfee-pot.
The Bank of Augusta, Ga, chartered by
the State long before the war, has been
forced to make an assignment. The capital
is SliA,o00.
MAJOR CHARLES B. BRADY, a we'll
known st. Louis citizen, and NJ. Guild, ex-
cashier of the First National Sank of Gin
| cinnati, committed suicide a few nights
ago.
W]REcKERs ditched a'passenger train the
other night near B~ethpage Station, l.. L.,
the locomotive falling upon and killing the
engineer and fireman, but the few passen-
gers on board escaped with a bad shaking.
A NEGRO in Franklin County, Miss,
blew out the brains of one of Il party of
bulldozers who recently came to maltreat
him. and the Coroner's Jury declared thai
it was justitiable homicide.
TIE commission sent from Washington
W ZIG Sclul il alA oul !itS iNt'ii Iot
in the interest of reported to the
President a few days ago that there should
be regular direct communication by steam,
and reciprocal concessions in tariff duties.
The recommendation is made that the Gov
eminent establish an Executive Depart
ment, similar to the Board of Trade in
England. to have the management of our
foreign commerce..
In the office of O'Donovan Rosa, in New
York, an atfray occurred on the 9th be-
tween Captain Thomas 7. Phelan, of Kan
sas City, and Richard Short, leading Irish
~T,ationalists, the former of whom was ia.
tally injured.
BY the explosion of an oil-lamp Gather
inc Van Nessen, an aged woman, was
burned to death at Pittsburgh the other
morning.
j. A. BoLL1N, of Chattanooga, Tenn, fifty
years old and a grandfather, eloped re-
Gently with his wife's servant girl.
In the United States and Canada there
were 40 business failures during the seven
days ended on the 9th, against ISL the pre-
vious seven days. The distribution was as
follows: Middle States, l02: New England
States, II; Western, 151: Southern. ll9; Pa
cific States and Territories, 10; Canada, %.