Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-02
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Mrs. KENNEDY shot and killed her hus-
band Daniel in the street at San Francisco
on the morning of the 10th, and made two
futile attempts to kill herself. Jealousy.
AT Woonsocket, r. L., Mrs. Augustus
Williams was surprised a few days ago by
a call from her husband, who mysteriously
disappeared eight years ago, and had been
mourned as dead. Heinvited her to a fur
nished house i'll Georgiaville, which he
purchased with part of a fortune left him
recently by his grandmother.
FIVE inches of snow fell at st. Louis on
the 18th.
THE leading hominy millers of the United
States effected a permanent organization
on the 18th by electiug GeorgeJ. Holman,
of Evansville, Ind, President, and George
n. Flanagan, of ST. Louis, Secretary and
Treasurer.
AN assignment was made on the 18th by
Wescott & Co., bankers at Syracuse, N.
Y, with liabilities of 100000.
A RoBBER who was recently captured at
Hannibal, Mo-, proved to be William CAL
laghan, who escaped from Jail at Sand
witch, Ont, last March, by numbering
George O'Leach, the Governor of the Jail.
MARY BRANNAN, who four years ago was
a favorite i'll the highest social circles of
Baltimore, was released from the Jail in
that city on the 18th, and ended her career
by finging herself IN the track before a
passenger train.
A NEW mine was opened at jumpers
Station, in h e.Hocking Valley, on the 18th,
and two houses from which striking miners
had been elected were burned to the
ground.
THE various glass-workers' unions
throughout the country on the 18th sub
scribed $4,000 to aid the prescription glass
blowers on a strike at Pittsburgh, Pa.
JOHN HENRY, u blacksmith at Spring
City, Ga, while digging in his yard a few
days ago struck a vein of gold which as
sayed fifty dollars to the ton. He had been
offered and refused $4,000 for his property.
JOHN P. HARDEN, who resides near Little
ton, w. Va, accidentally shot himself, his
wife and four children while trying to ex-
tract a load from a shotgun a few days
ago. Mrs. Harden and one child were the
only ones fatally injured.
OFFICERS of the mint at Philadelphia re-
ported an the 18th that attempts had been
made lately to palm off spurious bullion.
A FIRE at New Bedford, Mass, the other
morning caused q loss of $4,000, with
heavy insurance. Two firemen We're in
jured by falling ladders.
FoRTY-FIvE lodges and 1000 members
We're added during the year to the Good
Templar phalanx in Dakota.
GEORGE Cook was executed on the 18th
at Laramie City, Wy. T., for killing his
brother-in-law; and Warren Price was
hanged at Wrightsville, Ga, for taking the
life of his son-in-law.
Nearly all the buildings, walks and lakes
for the Worlds Fair at New Orleans were
completed on the 18th. Several thousand
men We're at work night and day in ar
ranging exhibits, which poured in at the
rate of one hundred carloads daily. The
main structure covers thirty-three acres,
and has eighteen miles OF aisles and a mile
of galleries.
= GENERAL BRIsB1Nl publishes a letter in a
Montana newspaper declaring free CATTLE
range no longer practicable, and advocat-
ing a Texas cathedral. He states that
one-sixth of the herds west of the Missouri
River are controlled by Englishmen, who
get free grass and drive citizens out of the
business.
AT least forty negroes lost then. lives by
the recent capsiZing of oyster-boats in the
Rappahannock River, in Virginia, during Il
gale. Seventeen bodies had been recov-
cred.
H.. j. GOODWIN & Co., wooden dealers in
New York. made an assignment on the 18th
10 secure liabilities of $500, 900.
LEwIs Fox, manager of the Tate planta-
ton near Little Rock. was shot dead the
other evening while sitting at u table WRIT
ing, the assassin having fired through a
window.
THE Mackay-Bennett Commercial Cable
Company received it's first cablegram on
the 18th at its New York office from Wal
t%erville, Ireland.
DURING navigation season this wear
1,S23,117 tons of iron ore were delivered at
Lake Erie ports, 13O,42S tons in excess of
last year'4 record.
The sudden breaking out Of fire in GRAY,
Toynton & Fox's candy factory at Detroit
on the evening Of the 18th caused the girls
employed in the second story to rush for
the fire-escape, i'll descending which one
young woman fell and was slightly hurt.
Three girls were seen at a window, but a
sudden burst of the flames drove them
back, and they were burned to death.
Two IDAHO cowboys recently tied their
left hands together and fought a duel with
knives until both fell dead.
THIRTEEN masked men took Hezekiah
Brown colored) from his residence in the
lower section of Howard County, Md, on
the 18th and hanged him to "a tree. The
otfense was said to be an assault upon q
white woman.
AN oil well in Butler County, Pa. To-
Gated half a mile from all previous de-
velopments, was torpedoed on the 18th, and
commenced flowing at the rate of five
thousand barrels per day.
REPORTS Oh the 18th to Bru1strceEs from
leading trade centers indicated that gen.
eral trade at ali points was at a low ebb.
In the United States and Canada there
were 33S business failures during the seven
days ended on the 18th, against $50 the
previous seven days. The distribution
was as follows: Middle States. G2; New
England States, 43; Western, 1l9; Southern.
70: Pacific States and Territories, Il; Can.
ada, %.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL,
WILLIAM II. VANDERBILT filed in New