Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-09

cago, sc at st. Paul, % at Rockford, Ill,
aud "a below at Des Moines, Ia. At Daven-
port and Dubuque the Mississippi River
was frozen over. Leadvifle, Col, reported
two feet of snow and all railroads block
AIDED. Heavy snow-storlns prevailed at
| Lynchbrmg and Richmond, Va, at Mobile,
Ala, and at Raleigh, N. G. The indica-
uions were that the cold would be more Sc
we're,
IT is said that owing to the general de-
preston in trade the railroads running east
from st. Leuis are doing only about half
the business done at this time last year.
AT. Philadelphia a recent explosion in
the building of the Metallic Car Company
killed the Superintendent, G. NJ. Hughes,
and George Owens, u boy.
RAILWAY disasters occurred on the 18th
at Christiana and Reeds Road, Pa. In
the former a passenger and a sleeping car
were thrown partly down an ~emhankment,
the inmates being badly shaken up. AT
the latter place tho engineer and fireman
were crushed beneath the locomotive.
The cold wave from the Northwest
struck New Orleans early on the morning
OF the 18th, and the day was raw with the
Thermometer near the freezing point. The
attendance at the exposition consequently
was small.
EAT Geneva, O., the other night farmer
Harrington was shot lead by u burglar,
who also shot Mrs. Harrington through
the shoulder. The woman recognized the
murderer as Lewis Webster, a neighbor,
and the district was being searched for
him.
FIRE destroyed the Catholic Orphan Asy-
lum for boys.in Brooklyn on the 18th. 1t
was feared that some Of the children per-
ished in the flames. There were $50
orphans in the building.
EDWARD GILTINGs, who attempted to
burn up his wife and child, was sentenced
at Baltimore on the 18th to five years. i'm
~prisonment, and expired in the city Jail
in the evening.
. LIEUTENANT A~BERCRoMBIE, who recently
returned from Alaska, reported having eN-
plored the Yukon River for 300 miles,
and found gold placers paying $50 a day to
the man.
H~oG-cHoEERA around Dayton, O., has
been checked by the cold snap, after Il loss
in eight counties Of ten thousand hogs.
THREE negroes shot {, bachelor named
William Solnerville dead near Hazelhurt,
Miss, Oh the 18th, and robbed him of 81 900.
Two negroes had been arrested OH sus-
picion.
STREET-cARs going down Capitol hill
i'll Washington on the 18th collided, in
fticting painful injuries ito Messrs. Nc
bers Of the House.
I A portion Of the Government
Works at Pine Bluff, Ark, was recently
swept away by high water in tho Arkan-
sas River.
In the ruins Of the burned Catholic Or
phan Asylum at Brooklyn the charred
bodies of eleven boys and two grown per-
sons were discovered on the 18th. Tons of
rubbish and timbers were yet to be re-
moved, and there were fears that other
corpses would be found. The rosters of the
little ones bowed about 40 as missing,
but these We're supposed to be housed in the
neighborhood. The property destroyed
was valued at $250,000.
Is The steamboat Fred. A. Blanks, valued
at 100000, was sum at New Orleans on
the 18th by collision with the steamer Vic
toria.
LINZ hoNI w., vi SleNtluilu, W.,
the largest marble firm in the country west
of New York City, failed on the 18th for
$4,000.
TIE retail dry-goods lhouse of Leubrie
Brothers, in st. Louis, was closed on the
18th by creditors. Liabilities. $780, 900.
INVESTIGATIONS by Bradstreet's Com
mercial Agency on the 18th showed that
in twenty-one States there were at the
present time 3lG,0 600 persons out of employ
ment.
BY a recent explosion in the cartridge
factory at Bridgeport, Conn, an employe
was blown to pieces and a small structure
was reduced to splinters.
THE velocity of the wind on Mount
Washington on the night of the 10Th ex-
ceeded one hundred miles an hour and the
mercury was frozen. The spirit thermom-
eter marked 42 below, and was still NOV
ing downward. The weather was intense
ly coldi i'll New York and New England.
FIVE 1,G90-barrel oil-tanks were burned
a few days ago at Bradford, Pa, together
with other valuable property.
1T was II above zero at noon on the 10Th
in Petersburg, Va.-the coolest dav in ten
years.
DURING the seven days ended on the 10Th
there were 3G7 business failures in the
United States and Canada, against $50 the
previous seven days and $50 in the cores
ponding period of 1883.
On information furnished bv an anony-
nous letter, the sanitary authorities of
New York recently discovered huge heaps
of moldy human skeletons in a loft at No.
IL West Third street.
The Griffin House at Youngstown. O..
was burned early the other morning, and
a number OF the guests escaped by Jump.
ing out of the windows.
i JOSEPH HERZoG, of Lancaster, Pa, has
in ten years committed forgeries aggre-
eating $4,000. The banks are heavy losers
by his operations.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
For the Garfield monument at Cltve-
land the people Of the United States and
of five foreign countries lave contributed
Sl32 1863.
B. PLATT CARPENTER, of Poughkeepsie.
n. y, was on the 10Th nominated by Presi-
dent Arthur for Governor of Montana.
Mr.. BLAINE on the 10th instructed his Mt.
tOrn9vS tO diSniSc hic s,,it ,-;n. A. T.