Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-27
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Cured on the Sd at Pittsburgh, Pa, a wom
an being badly burned. Her house was al
most shaken from it's foundation, and sur
rounding buildings felt the shock.
THE ice gorge in the Mississippi at Cairo
was broken on the 4th and navigation was
open to st. Louis.
Miss ANNIE LEE BOWMAN, aged twenty
one, was turned upon recently and fatally
injured by a hog OF her fathers farm near
Lexington, KY.
A LOSS Of. 500, 600 was incurred in New
York on the 4th by the burning of a
marble building in Barclay Street, occu-
pied by several manufacturing firms, and
another fire in Wooster Street destroyed
property valued at over 100000.
A COMMITTEE of commissioners left for
Washington on the 4th, to petition Con-
gress for additional aid for the New
Orleans Exposition.
A HURRICANE on the 4th blew a pas
senger train from the track near George
town, Col. Eighteen persons were
wounded seriously, and a few of them
might not recover. In Georgetown CHM
neys were blown down and windows
wrecked.
The Secretary of the Navy has author
lied Lieutenant George W. Stoney to make
further explorations in Alaska with a par
4y of three officers and ten men.
A SWITCH turned the wrong way wrecked
a passenger train on the 4th near Dayton,
o., the one hundre passengers on koard
being badly shaken up and some of them
seriously hurt. The fireman and engineer
were in a critical condition.
ELEVEN horses lost their lives by a re-
cent fire in the livery stable of A. II. Bates,
at Utica, N. Y.
IN imminent peril of their lives, two men
crossed the ice in the Susquehanna on the
4th to aid the Roberts family, who We're
starving on an island near Port Deposit.
A horse and cat had been killed and
eaten, and Mrs Roberts and her little
babe had persisted for want of medical at
tention.
AT the gate of a farm in Worth County,
Ga, Sheriff Shivers and Frank BoatrigAt,
who had been warm friends, suddenly
drew revolvers a few days ago and fired
while grasping. Theylfell lead locked in
each others arms
CICERO JEFFERSON, Joel j. Wilson and
John A. Smythe, the murderers of Hiram
Jefferson Gather Of the first namely, We're
lynched by a mob early on the morning of
the 4th at Audubon, Ia.
AT Harbor Greek, Pa, the other morn
ing Mrs. Hiersh told her little son, aged
ten years, to prepare for school, upon
which the lad repaired to the barn and
hanged himself.
The Oklahsma boomers, in State Con-
vention on the 4th at Topeka, Kan, re-
solved that the use of troops to expel them
frola the Territory was an outrage and a
grave crime.
Us. LocKARD, a prominent merchant Of
Avondale o., whose store was recently
closed by the Sheriff, committed suicide on
the 4th b. cutting his throat.
Two DR. goods houses in Portland, Ore,
failed On ,ae 4th-J. filger, with liabilities
of $4,000, and Z. s D. Barman, with liabil-
tiles of SOL 900.
In the Brooklyn Dime Savings Bank Oh
the 9TH one man engaged an official in con-
'versation while his ~''partner'' appropriated
$500, and both escaped.
BATTLE LAKE, a Minnesota village, was
almost swept away by fire on the 9TH.
BEN HAWKINS, a negro murderer, was
taken from Jail the other night at Frank
lin, Tex, by a mob and hanged.
J The loss by fire in the United States and
Canada during January was $500, 900
more than $ $1,000, 900 above the average
January loss in nine years.