Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-02
DOMESTIC.

IREAT eEcluElllenU existed on the JCh IL
Western North Carolina over the discovery
of a new gold mine near Marion, Mcdowell
County. Scores of miners were fiockine
there from all sections.
PIERRE PREFAUN, a blind beggar, died
recently at Pittsburgh, Pa. and invcstiga.
ions showed that he had 5000 on deposit
in q savings bank. There was no clew tc
his heirs.
THREE blocks of houses at Trenton, Pa.
were burned early on the morning of the
9th, Thomas Barlow, his wife and three
children and a man named Fitzgerald
perishing in the flames.
Mrs. c. E. GEIsENDoRFF, wife of O
wealthy manufacturer at Indianapolis,
committed suicide a few days ago by
drowning herself in a cistern. Deceased
had been an invalid for years, and on the
day of the suicide eluded the vigilance OF
her attendants.
EXPORTS from the port Of New York dur
ing the seven days ended on the 9th, ex-
elusive of specie, We're $o,456 ,030-an in
crease Of 81 ,1s3, 900 over the week before.
WILLIAM PITTS, alias White, who re-
Gently beat a citizen to death with Il wagon
spoke, was taken from the officers at Dag
gett, Cal, a few mornings ago and hanged
to a telegraph pole.
CHARLES STEVENS, alias 'Omaha Char
ley,' a de%sperado, was taken from jail
the other morning at Maryville, Mo-, by a
mob and hanged to the railway bridge.
GREAT excitement prevailed at Cullom
Springs, Choctaw County, Ala, on the 9th
over the discovery Of oil, drilling for which
had been going OH for over a year. 1t was
said that the flow of oil was greater than
could be secured.
A RECEPTION was given the delegates to
the Centennial Conference of Metlodism at
Baltimore on the evening OF the 9th, three
hundred members attending.
j. w. MILLS saloon at New Paris, Ind,
was destroyed the other night by incen-
diaries, who were opposed to having a
liquor shop in the town.
HI citizens of AndersonviIle O., turned
out in great numbers Il few lays ago and
dispatched a tiger which had escaped from
his winter quarters in a m~enagerie. The
animal had killed hogs, sheep and COWS
along his route, but attacked no human
being.
b JOHN P. MARTIN, who shot Floyd Tolli-
yer at Morehead, KY, was taken from a
train on the 10th not Tar from that place
and killed by a mob.
The Agricultural Department at Wash
ington reported on the 10th farm products
as tending lower in values. The average
price of corn was 3G!& cents, being highest
in Florida $50 c%ents), and lowest in Ne.
braska Us %cents). Wheat averaged 81
cents, against 81 cents a year ago; while
the range for oats was IS cents, the lowest
ever reported by the department.
The Centennial Conference of Methodism
began on the 10th at Baltimore, Nd.
The National Association of Health
Boards met at Washington ON the 10th, in
accordance with the call which set forth
the dangers TO this country from cholera
and the Importance Of adopting necessary
precautions.
A GARNER named John S.. Shondlemeyer
thre.v himself in front of a train near
Lafayette, Ind, the other night, and was
instantly killed. This was the third time
he had attempted suicide within the past
year.
H.. WORTH WRIGHT, Who recently died
in Connecticut, confessed thai in 1878
while a medical student, he aided in disin-
wv ~ Z HILL, al
Egremont, Mass, and took it to the ALBANY
Medical College, where, after being placed
on the dlssecting table, she showed signs
OF life, and was resuscitated. The woman
was then sent to an insane asylum in
schoharie County, n. Y, but Wright
knew nothing Of her subsequent move
ments.
A FIRE recently destroyed the furniture
mandatory of Clark Bros. g. Co., in Phil
adelphia, together with a few other build
ings in the same block. The loss was about
,$165 900.
The wheat yield of California this wear,
Officially reported, is 51,420, lss bushels,
leading all other States in the Union. This
is the product of 3,5s7,s64 acres, being an
iaverage yield of 1854 bushels.
A COMMERCIAL traveller from St. Paul,
named Baird, was recently murdered at
Golden City, B. c., and robbed of $500.