Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-04-10
DOMESTIC.

The loss sustained by Texas cattlemen
during the winter is placed at three to five
per cent. of the herds. AT least 10000
head wandered southwark, and their re
covery would require much time and a
heavy outlay.
The Contocook IN. H. district was dis
turbed by an earthquake at noon on the
18th.
WITH the thermometer at seven below
zero on the 18th at Lafayette, Ind, light
ming destroyed a strawstack and barn and
killed a calf.
In a quarrel about a debt the other day
at E~llettsville, Ind, David Allen shot and
mortally wounded W. w. Pitts. Both men
are wealthy farmers.
A DROUGHT prevailed on the 18th in the
central counties of California, and crops
we're in a bad condition.
MRS. ScHR1sr, aged ninety years, while
in bed a few days ago at GAINESVILLE, O.,
was fatally burned by her clothing catch
ing fire from a lamp.
FROM six to ten inches of snow fell on
the 18th in Virginia and North Carolina.
In the lunatic asylum OF Essex County,
N. j., one inmate beat out the brains of
another with a heavy spittoon a few days
ago because he desired him to go to
Heaven.
The paraffine factory at Elizabethport,
N. j., valued at 5000, 900, was recently de-
stroyed by fire.
ADvICES of the 18th report immense
damage by an ice-gorge overflow in the
counties of Carroll, Ray and Lafayette, in
Missouri. At Waverly, a email village i'll
the latter county, the water was from ten
to fifteen feet deep, and hundreds Of cattle
had persisted. The people were unable to
leave their homes, and were suffering from
hunger. In Carroll County the water
spread out several miles, and hundreds of
farmers were driven from their homes.
Several lives were lost. The wheat crop,
embracing hundreds of acres, was COM
;pletely ruined.
AN organization of destitute farmers
was reported on the 18th near Stats Mill,
w. Va, to compel an equal division of
what food remains in the region, in order
to save the lives of people and stock. The
committee of public safety took fifty
bushels of wheat from some barns for dis
'tribution.
r. H. LATMoRE, a coal-mine shperin-
.tendent, was waylaid the other night by
strikers at West Newton, Pa, and fatally
beaten.
:" NEAR Elkhart, Ind, on the 18th William
'Hubbell, who was about to be removed to
AN insane asylum, shot his wife fatally and
then shot himself dead.
LOUIS BRADSHAW, fourteen years old,
committed suicide at Kansas City the
other morning by taking strychnine. His
parents forcing him to attend school
against his wishes was the reason for act.
JENNIE HALL, a schoolgirl, of Akron,
O., wa on the 18th said to have lived
seventy-five days upon nothing but an oc-
casional bit of orange and swallow OF
water.
THE Cincinnati Price Current on the 18th
placed the number of hogs packed in the
West up to March 1 at GAGS 900. an increase
of 100000 over last year. The average
weight and yield were increased consider
ably.
FRANCIS STORMS glass works at Brook
Ign, N. Y, were burned a few nights ago,
causing a loss of 100000. Two hundred
and fifty men were thrown out of work.
AFTER a rush dow a steep grade two
sections of a freight train came in collision
recently near A%llequippa, Pa, fifteen
cars being wrecked, one man
killed, and three others probably fatally
injured.
A FRI a few nights ago il Carter
& Co.'s tobacco factory at Augusta, Co.,
destroyed property valued at 100000.
JAKE Doss, q colored man, was lynched
by members of his own race near Artesia,
Mas, q few nights ago for the murder of
his wife.