Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-04-03
DOMESTIC,

"A BODY of $50 militia was on the 10th
sent from ST. Louis to Sedalia, No., to
protect railway property from the
strikers, who were said to have assumed q
Threatening attitude.
THE coal miners strike was spreading
on the 10th in the Pittsburgh District.
Some of the operators were paying the
advance demanded, but others said they
would never yield.
The low lands south of Carrollton, NO.,
bordering on the Missouri River, were sud-
denly inundated on the night of the 10th,
caused by a heavy gorge of ice near Wa
verify. Farmhouse were surrounded
with water, cattle were imprisoned on
small high spots, and great destruction to
property was feared. One man lost his
life and many families were rescued in
boats.
w. H. McCUnDY & Co., iron manufact.
,urers at Cleveland, o., failed recently for
1925, 900.
OFFICERS from Otsego County, N. Y,
went to De Sofa, Mo-, the other day and
arrested Egbert NJ. Carver, a bank presi-
dent, for the embezzlement of a large
amount of money seven years ago..
THE Maryland Court of Appeals, in the
case of Gamble and James, decided recent
ly that the selling of pool tickets and the
keeping of pool-rooms were not violations
of the law.
:. FIVE blocks and other buildings at Wind
sor, N. Y, were swept away by fire the
other night.
LIEUTENANT AUSTIN, treasurer of the
Salvation army at North Adams, Mass,
decamped a few days ago with all the
money.
h The Women's Medical College at Phila.
,adelphia a few days ago conferred the de-
gree of NJ. d. on twenty-five graduates.
A BROOM factory at Cincinnati collapsed
and took fire on the 18th, burying three
persons in the debris, two of whom were
extricated, but the third was burned to
death.
CoUNTERFEITs Of one-cent pieces are be-
ing circulated throughout the country on
al extensive scale.
Mrs. WILLIS HENDERSON, tw%enty-three
years old, the pretty wife of a prominent
farmer at West Shelby, N. Y, blew out
her brains the other morning. No u
was known.
THE Indiana House passed a bill on the
18th making it a felony for bankers to re-
ceive money on deposit when they know
that their concerns are insolvent. The
maximum penalty is $4,000, and five Or
ten years. Imprisonment.
AN examination made on the 18th at
Oswego, N. Y, showed that Lake Ontario
was frozen to a distance of seventeen miles
from the harbor, the cakes being eight to
ten feet thick.
&THE distress and loss of property conse-
quent upon the high water south of Car
~rollton, Mo-, was increasing on the 18th.
The ice gorges in the Missouri River had
not broken, and the water was being forced
all over the adjacent lowlands.
THE boiler in the American tube-works
at Middletown, Pa, exploded the other
day,injuring eleven persons and demolish.
ing the building.
AT Salt Lake the other day Thomas
Simpson was convicted Of %polyganay. He
had q wife in England and married anoth-
er in Utah.
THE value Of the exports of domestic
cattle and hogs, and beef, pork and dairy
products for February, 1885, was $7,421,-
5Ss; for the same time in 1854, $G.954,s0O.
ST. DoMIN1cK's Catholic Church in
Washington was partially destroyed by
fire on the 10Th. The loss was $4,000.
AF1RE at Stroudsburg, Pa, "a few days ago
destroyed a broom factory, badly damaged
the Burnett House, and caused the death
of a fireman by falling walls.
n NEAR Browns Station, o., on the 10Th
the capture of a "wild man." who lived in
a cave and subsisted on raw food, was
effected. His body is covered with long
hair, and his utterances are unintelligible.
He had been sent to the Steubcnville Poor
house.