Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-23

tant disasters, Of $1,21G, 400. Other minor
mishaps, SS223,60O.
a r a few days ago at Evansville,
Ind, originating in the dry-goods house of
Miller Brothers, destroyed property val
ued at $3.50 900.
The thermometer at Fort Benton, M. T.,
registered ifty-six degrees below zero on
the 3lst ult., and tifty-one below at Fort
Keogh. The average during the past six
teen davs was t%hirty-one degrees below
zero.
A PACKAGE of $500 in currency, con-
signed by a bank in Indianapolis to the
Treasurer of the United States, was abb
stracted between the express Office ana tee
railway station on the LIST.
REPORTS received at Bozeman, NJ. T., on
the LIST were to the effect that cattle were
starving to death in the Madison and ell
lowstone regions. The snow was two 1eet
deep on the level, making it impossible for
the animals to get at the grass.
!, MEssRs. DERossET and Pass engaged i'll
a duel with slnt-guns Il few days ago in
the streets of lockwood, Tenn, and both
men were m~ortally wounded.
Mrs. LIE IloFT, NilVs ~ AA >''S
reached Macedon. n. V, the other day in
search of her husband, cut her babes throat
in the railway station and then cut her
OWL.
THE tug Admiral exploded her boilers
in the Chicago River on the evening OF the
3lst ult., and five men We're blown to
pieces.
EIGHT lives were lost recently by the
stranding of the Norwegian bark Lena on
Hog Island Bar, near Birds Nest, Va, III Il
fog.
In the United States and Canada there
were 3SI business failures during the seven
laws ended on the ID, against 81 the
previous seven days. The distribution
was as follows: Middle States, 81; New
England States, IS; Western, i3S; Southern,
Sc: Pacific States and Territories, %; Can
ada, II.
ONE HUNDRED weavers in Johnson's mill,
at North Adams, Mass, struck on the I'd
against q reduction, and We're ordered
from their tenementS.
THE Northwestern Travelling Mems As
ISOLATION, at a meeting held recently in
Chicago, elected j.. c. Miller President.
| There are oven 3,4O0 members, and during
the past year $4,000 was disbursed in
benefits, leaving about $4,000 in the
Treasury.
SOME children who were playing a few
days ago on ice at Manchaug, Mass, broke
through, and two girls of Mitchell VAN
zant, and Il son of Levi Debraus, aged nine
to eleven years, We're drowned.
AN Arab tramp was arrested and lodged
in Jail at White Plains, n. V, a few even-
ings ago, and on his person was found a
money belt containing $4,000 in English
gold.
DR.. CARVER broke a quarter of a ton of
coal a few days ago with his rifle at New
Haven, Conn, firing G3O shots in 333 min
utes, and smashing the coal piece by piece.
EARLY the other morning a mob wrecked
the Bristol tunnel on the Baltimore & Ohio
Road, near Lexington, o. Three hundred
feet of the structure caved in, compelling a
Uansfer of passengers. The loss to the
railway company was very heavy.
THE Michigan Central Road OH the Cd
cut the tirst-class passenger rate from Chi
cage to New York to $l4.00, and was fol
lowed by the Lake Shore and Pennsyl-
vania. A reduction to $3.50 was made by
the Chicago & Atlantic and the Niagara
Short Line.
DURING December last the United States
minis coined s., S49,95S, of which 81. ISL, lG;
was standard dollars.
a TRAIN on the Baltimore & Ohio Road
was boarded on the evening of the I'd at
Rising Sun, Ind, by two men, who robbed
the passengers Of money, watches and
valuables, and then jumped from the train
while it was running at full speed.
ALL the white messenger-b boys in the
employ of the Western Union Company at
Savannah, Ga, have been discharged, col
ored lads taking their places.
A REVISION of the records of assertions
from the regular army Of the United States
shows that lW, 900 assertions have occurred
during the last seventy years.
AN ice-gorge on the I'd in the Susque-
hanna River at Nanticoke, Pa, flooded the
lowlands. Traffic on the Delaware, Lack
awanna & w estern Road was at a stand
still, and travel was only possible in boats.
FIRE recently destroyed the Glen Woole1
Mill at North Adams, Mass, causing D
loss of 100000.
TIE coolest weather recorded there was
noted on the ID at ST. Paul, Minn.-36 be-
low zero. Throughout the Northwest the
temperature ranged unusually low, mark
ing 30 below at Winnipeg, 45 below at Bis
marck and 40 below at Duluth.
A POWDER MIL near Nenia, O., was de-
molished by an explosion the other morn.
ing, an employe being blown to pieces.
THE public-debt statement issued on the
I'd makes the following exhibit: Total debt
Including interest of $11 ,452, 1922, Sl,S51,-
023.3l,. Cash in Treasury, $432,415,1 76.
Debt, less amount i'll Treasury, S1,4lS,54S,-
81. Increase during December, $641 ,3S4.
Decrease since June 80, 1884, $31 ,501, SG4.
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