Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-13

FoUK men were killed on the 18th by a
collision on the Virginia Midland Road,
near Alexandria.
A STOCK train on the Alton Road was
wrecked nj Sag Bridge, ILL.,, on the 10Th,
by a broken rail, killing one hundred head
of cattle.
G1D1ERE DAY & Co., cotton factors ct
New Orleans, have failed for $712,32s.
A LOSS of nearly $780, 600 was incurred in
Chicago on the evening of the 10th by the
burning of the Grannis block, in Dearborn
street, and damage to adjacent property.
IT was reported on the 18th that at
Macksburg, O., new petroleum wells were
being opened daily. Three spouters, averag-
ing se~venty-five barrels each, had been
struck, and the population was rapidly in
creasing.
VALUABLE silver discoveries nave been
made in Ritchey County, w. Va, and it
was asserted on the 10th that the Balti-
more & Ohio Road ballasted it's track for
miles through the mountains with silver
quartz.
HORSES and cattle were on the 10th dy-
ing in large numbers in the Caldwell (Ohio)
SOAS q Lay ~ AOuS CpAoS1uASS Ulo
loss to farmers thus far r%eaching soc, 900.
FLAMES burst forth on the 10Th in a cot
ton warehouse in Chestnut street, Phila-
delphia, and ragged until a entire quare
was destroyed. Two firemen were killed.
The losses aggregated $250,0O0.
A PECULIAR and fatal hog disease was
raging on the 18th in many sections of
Massachusetts,. The symptoms were loss of
| appetite, sight and strength, death invari-
ably resulting in three days. Thousands
of hogs were dying.
FIRE on the Goth destroyed the Marvin
safe factory in New York, valued at $780,
600.
DISPATCHES of the goth state that the re-
cent railroad collision in the District of
Columbia caused the death of five train
hands, the loss of about 100000 in cur
rency in the express safe, and the destruc-
ton of more valuable mail matter than
was ever before known.
FIRES on the Goth partially destroyed st.
Michaeps Orphan Asylum Il st. Joseph's
| Convent near Pittsburgh, Pa.
NINE people were injured the other night
in railroad accident near Ashton, Mo.
The east = bound train on the Wabash
struck a broken rail, and two passenger
cars plunged owe a bridge.
AT Boston on the evening of the Goth
George Oliver held his wife on the floor
while he cut her throat with a jack-knife,
and then cut his own throat from ear to
ear. No cause was known for the deed.
The house of a colored woman named
Alice Wilson, living in Buncombe County,
N. c., caught fire on the Goth and her three
small children were burned to death. 1t
was said that over one hundred colored
children had been burned to death in this
manner since October last. The mothers,
while at work in the fields, leave the chill
dren locked in the houses.
The striking miners in the Tuscarawas
Valley, Ohio, lave agreed to q reduction
of ten per cent. in their wages, and have
resumed work.
A PARTY of sn~ow-shovelers at the Chica.
go St~ock-yards were rundown by a North
western train on the Goth, and two of them
were killed and several others were in
jured.
The walls of the Grannis Block, in Chi
cago, which was burned the other night,
were incased in a heavy coating of ice on
the Goth, and thousands of curious people
visited the scene to view the picturesque
ruins.
IT was reported on the Goth that in an.
ticipation of a Socialist outbreak the Ma.
tional Guard in New York City and else
where was drilling for street fighting.
Chicago merchants were also said to be
drilling their employees in similar tactics.
WHILE Joseph Haberecker, his wife and
three children were out sleighing at Muncy
Valley, Pa, a few nights g the horses ran
away, overturning the vehicle and drag
ging it a long distance. The entire family
were killed.
A SEWER in the heart of the business
district of Chicago, at the corner of Clark
and Madison streets, eleven feet below the
surface, was on the goth found to be frozen
solid.
NEAR North Vernon, Ind, the sleeper of
All Ohio & Mississippi passenger train was
thrown dow an embankment on the Goth,
resulting in the loss of three lives and the
injuring If several others.
IN the United States and Canada there
were 2S7 business failures during the seven
days ended on the 18th, against 3O7 thepre-
yious seven days. The distribution was as
follows: Middle States, As; New England
States, %; Western, 80; Southern, IS; Pa
cifc States and Territories, SO; Canada. 81,