Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-27

the year 1854 was 461, while 2S1 others We're
destroyed by fire.
The steamship Servia reached New York
on the 9th after a fearfully tempestuous
passage, looking like a wreck. The stearn-
er was nearly destroyed in a storm which
lasted four days.
The dead bodies of John Sullivan and
his wife Margaret were found in their
house near Ansonia, Conn.,, on the 9th.
The cause of their death was a mystery
as no marks of violence were found upon
the bodies.
ALEXANDER JONES, mail carrier from
Grants Pass to Wilderville, in Oregon,
Mrs. George Gibson and two children, and
q young man named McClung were
drowned on the 9th while attempting to
ford A%pplegate Creek, which was swollen
by recent rains.
NEAR Radical City, Kan, the widow
Bonham and her son and daughter were
found murdered in their house on the
morning of the 9Th.
AT the offices of the Postal Telegraph in
New York and Chicago an attempt was
made on the 9Th by Mayors Grace and
Harrison to converge by telephone, but the
result could hardly be classed as G success.
CITIZENS of Bland County, Va, mount
ed and armed, recently took from Jail a
young colored murderer and riddled him
with bullets.
F.. F. WAsHBURN, who was a few days
ago placed in the Arkansas Lunatic Asy-
lum, lost his reason through serving as a
witness against a murderer in Monroe
County, and cherishing q fear that the
condemned man would appear and take
his life.
A SHER1FF's posse recently attempted to
arrest Hugh Parks, a crazy old man, on
Shaw's Island, w. T., who had killed two
men, but failing in their efforts, the
officials set fire to the cabin and burned it
to the ground. Parks persisted in the
flames.
By the burning of q leather store a few
days ago at No. IS Gold Street, New York,
property to the value of 1925, 900 was de-
stroyed.
The Union Pacific Road reports its gross
earnings for 1884 at $50, 7G1, 200.
D. w. MILLER, a carriage manufacturer
of Cincinnati, has made an assignment.
His liabilities We're believed to be about
$3.50, 900.
BY fire in a residence near St..Charles,
Mimi, the other night two daughters of
NJ. Burns, seven and eleven years of age,
were burned to death.
WAYNE Powers and George Gibson,
who killed q man for twelve dollars and a
suit of clothes, were executed on the 9th
at Estellville, Ga.
THE citizens of White Rock, Tex, met
on the 9th and passed resolutions reuuir-
ing a Mormon elder named r. NJ. Stevens
to cave the region.
ADvIcEs of the 9th to Bradstreet's indi-
Gated a hopeful feeling respecting the out
look for an improvement in general trade
at all distributing points throughout the
Northwest. In the East trade was gene
rally dull.
NEARLY five hundred employees of the
Lowell (Mass.) Manufacturing Company
struck on the 9Th against a ten per cent.
reduction in wages.
THE opera-house and several business
houses at Mount Sterling, Ky, were de-
stroyed by a recent fire.
1T was announced on the 9th that such a
pressure was being brought to bear against
Mormonism in Salt Lake City that the
practice of polygamy was threatened with
extinction. Discussions in the Mormon
Church were causing its gradual disin-
tegration, and the young Mormons were
trying to break away from ecclesiastical
rule. A city Of refuge was being estab-
lished by the church near Guaymas, in
Sonora.
MASKED burglars entered Philip Glass
house, near Dayton, o., a few nights ago,
bound and gagged Glass and his sister and
demanded $1,000, which was in the house.
The robbers tortured Glass in a horrible
manner for three hours, but departed with.
out the money.
CATTLE were OF the 9th dying rapidly in
Marshal County, w. Va, of q disease
which begins in the hoof. causing a swell.
ing of the leg to an enormous size, death
resulting in twenty -four hours.
In a railway accident near Quincy, Fla,
the other morning three persons We're badly
hurt and q dozen others were more or less
injured.I l+
AT Vincennes, Ind, on the evening OF
the 9th Henry Strattman killed his father
in-law and fatally injured his wife. The
murderer had four children very i'll of ty-
phoid fever, end was probably driven in
sane by grief.
GLESMoRE TODD, a clerk, was arrested
on the 9th at Philadelphia for embezzling
about $4,000 fromthe Provincial Life &
Trust Company. W.
The imports Of dry goods at the port OF
New York for the seven days ended on the
9th We're s., 1898, 200, and the amount mar
keted 81 $4,000.
One hundred Mexicans were on the 9th
reported to lave crossed the Rio Grande,
ell route to Carrozo Springs, Texas, to re-
lease Mexican cattle thieves confined there.
In the United States and Canada there
were 36S business failures during the Sc ZEN
days ended on the 9th, against 800 t.l.s
previous sever days. The distribu-
ton was as follows: Middle States, p;
New England States, 40; Western, lo9;
Southern, 81; Pacific States and Terrific.
ries, sc; Canada, IS. 49,.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL,
A PETITION was presented in the New
Jersey Senate on the Sd that Representa-