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

1HE brussels carpet mills ut Lowell,
Mass, shut down on the 18th, throwing
nearly five hundred employees out of work.
In the Circuit Court at Chicago on the
18th Mrs. Della Gardner was acquitted of
the murder of her husband and babe, last
November, the jury being convinced of
her insanity at that time. She also shot
herself in the head, but has recovered
from her wound.
AT Bloomington and other places in Illi-
nois q coal famine prevailed OF the 18th,
owing to the railroads being blockaded by
snow, and actual suffering was reported in
some small towns. Farmers were burning
fencing and corn.
IT was stated on the 18th that new war
rants would be issued at Wichita, Kan,
for the arrest of Captain Couch and other
invaders of Oklahoma, returnable March
5. General Hatch had gone forward to
forestall another raid.
In the northern and western portions of
New York State a fierce snow and wind
storm prevailed on the 18th. At Troy,
Buffalo and other points great damage was
done, and the. railroads were completely
blockaded.
G. A. COFFIN 6 Co.'S shoe factory in
Lynn, Mass, was Quilted by; fire on the
18th. Loss, 100000; insured. G. B. Teb-
belts shoe factory was damaged 800, 900;
insured.
ELIZABETH BoNY, n~inety-six years old,
committed suicide on the 18th by burning
herself to death in her house near Fall
mouth, KY.
A well, gushing twenty-five
barrels al hour, has been struck in Dallas,
Wy. 7.
VEL men were on the 18th
thrown out of employment by the closing
of the Victoria iron mines and furnace in
Rockbridge County, Va.
UNKNOWN persons recently disinterred
half a dozen bodies in Pisgah Cemetery,
near Point Pleasant, w. Va, and left the
corpses strewn about.
LAKE MICHIGAN was on the 18th frozen
from shore to shore. The ice varied from
eight inches to three feet in thickness.
In Hawkins County, Tenn, James Rey-
nolds recently put kerosene on the heads
of his three children to kill vermin. Two
of the little ones died, but the third sur
vived.
The steamers Ida Darragh and City of
Helena, with full cargoes, and the wharf
boats were burned at Memphis OH the 18th,
the losses a~ggregating 100000.
FIRE III Hon. Harry Oelrich's barn near
Cheyenne, Wy. T., a few afternoons ago
destroyed the imported stallion Brudant,
which cost $4,000, Cleveland Boy, worth
$1,000, and three other horses and a num-
Der of carriages.
BRAY Bros, grain commission merchants
at San Francisco, nave failed for $500, 900.
1T was announced on the 18th tina thirty
persons lost their lives by the recent snow
slide at Alta, Utah.
WITH the exception of the PeppereIl
Company the cotton mills of New England
report a losing business for the last half of
1854, production being still in advance of
consumption.
RIOTS were reported on the 18th in the
Virginia coal-fields near P~ocahontas, ow-
ing to the discharge of miners on account
of business depression.
AT Hogdenville, KY, Ben Coombs shot
and killed his wife and her paramount, Jake
Mason, on the 18th, and then eloped with
Mrs. Mason.
Bob JOHNSON, a negro boy, who assas-
sinated a citizen near Princeton, w. Va,
u few days ago, was taken from Jail by IA
mob on the 18th, tied to q tree and riddled
with bullets.
A FIRE at Troy, N. Y, early the other
morning destroyed 500, 600 worth of prop
erty.
S~EvENTY-FIvE Mormon " left
Chattanooga, Tenn, on the 18th for Salt
Lake City, Utah. They were from East
Tennessee, North Georgia and North Caro-
lins. Elder John Morgan, head of the
church in the South, said the elders were
meeting with great success. Churches
were being established in all parts of Vir-
gilia and North Carolina.
A EhUIT-scHooNER, the e. v. Olive,
went ashore a few nights ago on Dixie |
Island, as the entrance to Mobile Bay. |
Five lives were lost.
Four mas were killed by the explosion
of natural gas at Ashtabula, O., a few
mornings ago.
c. CAvARoc's Son & Co., of Chicago, |
wholesale wine and liquor dealers, have
Jailed fof 100000.