Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-13

having failed to receive the Congressional
appropriation of s., 900 obtainedfor themby
Senator Dawes.
A wASHERWoMAN at Dayton, u, who
was recently given some clothing belong-
ing to q dend woman of her acquaintance,
found $500 in currency sewed i'll an UNDER
garment, and promptly returned the money
to the heirs.
THE internal revenue collections in the
United States for the first SIX months of
the fiscal year amounted to $55,51S,56S, q
decrease of 81, 80, 7S6 as compared with the
corresponding period last year.
THE American Tinned-plate Association
held it's annual meeting on the 22d at
Pittsburgh, Pa, when W. j. Lewis was
elected President for the coming year.
A TROOP of the Fourth United States
Cavalry had a fight with Mexican band is
a few days ago and four of the latter were.
killed and twelve were taken to Fort Yuma.
THE thermometer on Mount Washington,
N. H., went down fifty degrees below zero
on the morning of the ODD, Que degree be-
| low the record. A hurricane was blowing
| ut the time at the rate of one hundred
Ae SAS
miles an hour.
ADvIcEs of the 23d to Bradstrect's Jour-
nal stated tina general trade throughout
| the country was still in an unsatisfactory
condition.
line, was burned at her dock in New York
on the 23d. The boat was valued at. $780,
600, and was noted for her speed.
ANTHONY WALKER (colored) was hanged
at Marshall, Tex, on the 23d for the MUIR
der Of William Henry, q wealthy white
planter, in November, 1888.
WILLIAM r. LYLE, q reporter of the Chi
cago Times, was found guilty on the 23d of
assaulting with intent to kill Henry Gregg
at the Chicago Driving Park last Septem-
Der, his punishment being fixed at two
years in the penitentiary.
ApvIcEs of the 23d state that snow
storms and freezing rains had prevailed
for a week in Northern Texas, and cattle
and sheep were reported to be dying rap
idly.
The Liberty Bell was taken from INDIE
pendence Hall in Philadelphia on the 23d
and shipped by special car to the New Or
leans Exposition.
A VERDICT of 800 was given recently
against DR.. NJ. S. Reber, of Shoemakers-
vile, Pa, in favor of Peter Herring, aged
eighty-four, whose broken legs the physi-
clan had improperly treated.
A sLEET-SroRM on the 23d in the Shreve-
port La.) section covered the country
with ice. Streams We're unusually high,
and the bridges had been carried away.
JAMES CoMoDE. IN aged missr of Del
phos, Ohio, was found frozen to death in
his hut on the 23d, and search for his
treasure was being made.
AN immense ice-gorge in the Susque-
hanna River on the 2Sd caused the flooding
of the lower section of Port Deposit, Nd,
the rapid rise of the tide causing great ex-
element. Citizens removed their effects
hastily, and there were some narrow es-
capes.
AMONG the three thousand books stolen
from the Chicago Public Library the police
on TIN 23d found a box containing %a.revolv-
en-, dynamite cartridges and giant powder.
The thief, who gave the name of j. G. Tai
bert, proved to be Otto Funk, who admit
ted that he had been experimenting with
explosives.
In the United States and Canada there
were 416 business failures during the sever
days ended on the 23d, against 49, the pre-
vious seven days. The distribution was as
follows: Middle States, 81; New England
States, 43; Western, 143: Southern, 50; Pa
cific States and Territories, IS; Canada, 80.