Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06

HEAVY rain in Eastern Texas had on the
18th washed out railroad tracks, seriously
impeding travel.
A RED of salt ninety feet deep is said to
have been discovered at Boutwell,, Ont.
The firm of Oliver Bros. & Phillips,
leading iron manufacturers of Pittsburgh,
Pa, failed on the 18th for $5,00O,0 900. The
mills employed four thousand hands.
ABEL kIcTHARN, over eighty years of
age, was burned to death in his home in
New York City a few days ago..
JOHN j. Cisco & Co., Of New York,
bankers, failed on the 18th for over 3d.
100000.
THE bodies of two young men, Thomas
Harvey and Samuel Knox, We're on the
18th foundin Brush Pond, Greene County,
Ind, where they had been drowned New
Years Day while out hunting.
CHARLOTTE Hook, of Baltimore, aged
forty-ive, hanged herself recently, when
about to be arrested for spending $3.50 be-
longing to another which was left in her
care.
The County Commissioners of Maine re-
Gently voted to abolish the system of
workshops connected with the county jails.
This action would doubtless lead to the
adjustment of the system in all the Maine
prisons.
CUTS were being made on the 18th in the
price of passenger tickets across the At
lantic, and the emigrant rate from New
York to Chicago had been reduced from
$13 to S..
GEORGE TRAvIss was hanged on the 18th
at Wellsboro, Pa, for numbering a woman
in 1883, and cre1nating her corpse in an at
tempt to conceal the crime.
SAMUEL WILLIAMS, a stock dealer, was
murdered the other night by a highway
man near Red Key, Ind. The assassin fed
without securing the $1,000 his victim pos
sessed.
MRS. MARY Mccoy and her infant child
were burned to death a few nights ago
near Winfield, w. Va.
ACCORDING to the annual report of the
Department of Agriculture at Washing
ton, the corn production of the country
last year was 1,795, 600, 900 bushels. Of
wheat there was 513,0 900, 900 bushels, and of
oats $50, 000, 1000 bushels. These are the
largest aggregates ever recorded.
WILLIAM GATES, eighteen years old,
confessed on the 10th, at Warren, N. Y,
chat Mrs. Druse killed her husband Deceln-
Der II last, and burned the remains. The
woman compelled Gates to assist in the
tragedy, and both were placed in custody.
A FIRE a few days g destroyed the
store of F. W. Thornton, at Lafayetteville,
N. c., valued at $4,000.
A Observation-Disclosures hog, owned
by Farmer Buchanan, at Roscoe, ILL.,, was
accidentally buried under a straw-rick last
October. The animal was unearthed on the
10th, alive, and found to weigh but twenty
five pounds, but had increased it's avoirdu-
pois materially sincei its discovery.
For circulating false reports against the
character of a young lady at Americas,
Ca, G.. w. Murphy was taken from his
house the other night by a party of young
thirty-nine lashes with q cowhide.
Four men were probably fatally scalded
by the bursting of an engine boiler at
Laclede, Mo-, a few mornings ago.
A PASSENGER train on the st. Paul
Road was ditched the other night near
Storm Lake, Ia. One coach was turned
over, and several persons were injured.
|. The Ohio Legislature on the 10th adopt
ed q resolution for a joint committee to
inquire into the cause of the strike in the
Hooking Valley, and report on the condi-
zion Of affairs within a month.
The failure is announced of Martin Del
Escobel, a tobacco manufacturer of New
Orleans, for $$234,OOO.
REPORTS on the 10th to Bradstreet's in
Dictated that the general commercial situa-
tlon throughout the country was slightly
improving, but the industrial outlook,
owing to strikes East and West, was con-
sidered discouraging.
SNOW fell heavily throughout the entire
West during the ten hours ended on the
evening of the 10th, reaching as far South
as Northern Texas. Railway traffic was
greatly impeded.
WILLIAM FELIX HENRY (colored) was
hanged on the 10Th at Edwardsville, ILL.,,
for numbering two negroes in 1883. Weight
Leroy was executed at San Francisco for
choking Nicholas Skerrett to death.
FIVE employees in the oil-works at Point
Breeze, Pa, We're fatally injured by the
explosion of a gas tank on the 10th.
In the United States and Canada there
were 4s2 business failures during the seven
days ended on the 10Th, against 40 the pre-
vious seven days. The distribution was as
follows: Middle States, 81: New England
States, 80; Western, 166; Southern, 1O9; Pa.
cific States and Territories, 81; Canada, 81,
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Hon. SCHUYLER CoLFAx, of South Bend,
Ind, on arriving on the 18th at Mankato,
Mimi, walked three-fourths of q mile to