Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-18
sailors in other craft were drowned during

sailors in other craft were drowned during
the gale.
FROST in Virginia on the 9th did on
siderable damage to late crops.
AT Fossil, Ore, Rev. James Young
killed his two children On the 9th by Civ.
icine, and q little boy living across the
street from Young's residence lost his life
by drinking concentrated I've.
SNOW fell at Lock Haven, Pa, on the
9th.
HENRY BURNETT, a colored murderer,
eighteen years old, was hanged OF the 9th
ut Lonoke, Ark.
ALBERT D. SWAN, q wealthy citizen of
Lawrence, Mass, was shot dead on the
9th by Henry r. Goodwin. Business diff
f~icslties led up to the murder.
The receipts of cattle on the 9th at the
Chicago Stock-yards-12,5 O0-were the
largest on record, and the market suffered
a decline of ten to twenty-five cents, clos
ing very weak.
A~PAssENGER train ran of q bridge on
the 9th near Jackson, Miss, the engineer,
fireman and one brakeman being killed
and eight men injured, two of them dan
gerously.
A CAMPAIGNING held by Northern Meth
odists (colored) at Piney Hill, N. c., was
attacked on the 9th by an armed body of
Zion Methodists and fired into. The
Northern Methodists fled in disorder, seven
of them being wounded.
CATTLE in Erie County. Pa, were on the
9th said to be dying by scores from Texas
fever.
ALL the .iron-mills in the Mahoning VAL
ley had on the. 9th signed the Amalga-
mated Association scale, and operations
were being generally resumed.
SOUTHERN WISCONSIN tobacco-growers
decided on the 2sth to petition Congress
to protect their interests against the
Sumatra product, and ask that imports
from the latter island be made to pay the
full duty of seventy-tive cents.
ASSISTANT TICKET AGENT RIPLEY, of
the Monon Route, decamped from Lafay-
cite, Ind, on the 2sth with $1,000 of the
company's funds.
IT was learned on the 2Sth that three
pilot-boats and fourteen members Of their
crews were lost of Beaufort, S. c., during
the recent cyclone. The revised estimates
of the losses in Charleston from the cy-
clone foot up $1,690, 900.
The British bark Victor arrived at Sa-
vannah, Ca, on the 2Sth with fourteen of
ths crew sick with yellow fever.
ABvIcEs Of the oSth to Brddstreet's re-
ported hat the general trade situation
throughout the country continued to i'm
prove.
LIGHT frosts occurred on the 2Sth in Hill
nois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin,, Ne
braska and Kansas, but the crops suffered
no damage.
THE Post-office Department at Washing
ton on the 2sth ordered the fumigation OF
all Canadian mails in order to prevent the
introduction of smallpox.
EXECUTIONS for murder took place as
follows on the 2Sth: Samuel w. Collins,
at Bowling Green, No.; John Waizman,
at Duluth, Mimi; Charles Townsend (col-
ored), at Huntsville, Ala, and Shelby
Montgomery, at T%alladega, Ala
AL LOCKE, who murdered six persons
recently, including his daughter, brother,
sister -in-law aud another relative, was
taken from Jail at Blanco, Tex, on the
2Sth by a mob and hanged. Twenty chill.
dren were made orphans by Lockie's muir.
ders.
JOSEPH FossLEBEN, agedl twelve years
shot and killed his nine-year- old niece a,
Shelbyville, Ind, on the 2sth with an old
musket he was playing with, and which
he did not know was loaded.
IT was stated on the 2Sth that ten thou.
sand ex-soldiers and sailors of New York
State had joined the G. A. R. since the
death of General Grant. Tho membership
of the order in the Empire State is now
about fifty thousand.
A TRAIN ran through an open switch or
tho 18th at Rome, Ga, killing one man and
fatally injuring three. others.
In the United States and Canada there
were 154 business failures during the seven
days ended on the 2sth, against 49,
the previous seven days. The distribu.
ton was as follows: Middle States, 80;
Now England States, %; Western, Al,
Southern, 20; Pacific States and Terrific.
ries. %; Canada. 8.