Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-20
DOMESTIC.

YIN Tue morning OIL Cno 24Gl State Sena-
tor William G. Montgomery committed SUI
icide at Gosport, Ind, by hanging himself
in his barn. He was one of the wealthiest
and most prominent citizens of Southern
Indiana. The act was attributeds to ill
health.
COLONEL A. NJ. DAwLEY, a claim agent,
said to be from Iowa, dropped dead in a
Turkish-bath establishment at Washing
ton on the 9th.
A TRAIN on the Erie & Pittsburgh Road
was thrown from the track near Erie, Pa,
on the oath by a broken rail, and one per-
son was killed and three others were ia
tally injured.
The annual report of Mr.. Spofford, the
Librarian of Congress, was submitted to
the Senat on the oath. 1t says the library
contains 544, 6S7 volumes and $4,000 pam
phlets, an increase OF 81, 2246 volumes over
the previous year.
G.. NJ. TODD, who pleaded guilty to en-
bezzling $4,000 from a trust company of
Philadelphia, for which he was book
keeper, received q sentence on the 9th of
two years and eight months in the peni-
Tertiary.
A U named Robbins, was chopping
wood near Erie, Pa, a few days ago when
his young brother George stumbled and
fell on the block just as the axe was de-
scending, and his head was split open.
Two CHINESE laundrymen at Blooming
ton, ILL.,, committed suicide on the oath with
opium, becoming respondent because they
had, while on a spree, cut off their cues.
A MARKED improvement has taken place
In tho onEa fra6a and couopty, nor can't of
the ovens controlled by the Pennsylvania
syndicate are now in operation.
The Chicago Relief and Aid Society, in
appealing to wealthy citizens for funds to
continue its work, reported on the Oath
that in point of restitution this winter is
the worst in the history of Chicago.
sixty feet of a brick dye-house at
Lowell, Mass, fell into the canal at noon
on the Oath, just after seventy employees
had passed out for dinner.
DAVID HAY, aged sixty-eight, a wealthy
hermit who lived near Dayton, o., was
found dead in his bed on the 25th. He had
died from exposure:
WHILE out sleigh-riding near Reading,
Pa, a few evenings G a party of twenty
persons were thrown down an embank-
ment by the horses running away Two
persons were fatally injured, and all the
others were cut and bruised.
: MRS. C~RANDAL, of Bloomsbury, N. j.,
died on the 25th from a fast of forty-three
days, during which time her weight de-
creased from $50 pounds to 1926.
AN assignment for $3.50, 900 was made on
the 25th by Keen & Haggerty, dealers in
tin and %japanned ware at Baltimore.
OYSTERS have q%uadrupled in price at
Baltimore, the cold weather seriously re.
stricting the supply.
TwENTY-THREE students left the State
University at Lexington, KY, on the 25th,
because, as they claimed, a mate had been
unjustly expelled.
THOMAS B. HARRISON, of Baltimore, who
was one of the most daring cotton specu-
lators in the United States, killed himself
on the 25th rather thar be examined as to
his sanity. He made $500, 900 last year, and
just before Christmas lost every cent Of it.
= WAREHOUSES; at Norfolk, Va, contain
ing 2,450 bales of cotton, were destroyed by
fire on the 25th, the losses a~ggregatine
.$147,Oo0
!. NEAR Williamsburg, Pa, the other day
n sled containing nine boys and girls
AAdSuCO uO"u u Al1lo1uc anu CdL1C Ill "
lision with a passing wagon. All were
wounded, five very seriously.
WHILE at work on the 25th at Lafayette,
Ind, Edward Burkhalter, a teamster, be-
came suddenly and incurably blind. The
glare of the snow caused the malady.
EIGHTEEN employees in the
machine shops along the line of the Wa
bash Road struck on the Goth against q
proposed reduction in wages.
MISS MARIE VAN HATTEN, aged twenty.
one, of Cincinnati, drowned herself in a
cistern a few days ago because of unre-
Quilted affection.
A NATIONAL association of electric light
companies was organized in Chicago on
the Goth, with j. T. Morrison, of Baltimore,
as President, and w. A. Hovey, of Boston,
Secretary.
In a house of ill.repute at st. Louis On
the 26th j. B. Boswick sho and killed Mrs.
j. B. Cue, and then committed suicide.
+ The National Thsater at Washington was
destroyed by fire on the night of the 26th,
causing . loss of $780, o0.
OVER $4,000 in charred paper money