Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-04-17

THE dwelling Of Maria Dixon, colored,
at Chanute, Kan, was burned the other
night, and two children persisted in the
flames.
GREAT suffering still prevailed on the
in West Virginia, for want of food. Scores
of dead animals lined the roadways, killed
by starvation, and the people were living
on corn-meal, sparingly dealt out.
WELLS were being opened rapidly on the
Goth in the new Macksburg (O.) oil dis
trict, and the production was about four
thousand barrels daily. People were ar
irving in such numbers that it was impos-
sible to provide houses for them.
ORTIZ STEIN, who three years ago killed
George Fredericks at Kansas City, for
which he was once sentenced to imprison-
ment for twenty-five years, was on the
18th acquitted on the ground OF self
defense.
AFTER remaining in a trance for twenty
six days, during which time no food was
taken, a daughter of Joseph Renner, Of
Marion, Pa, regained consciousness on the
26th, and was considered in a fair way of
recovery.
LEADING cattlemen from Wyoming,
Colorado and Nebraska stated at Chey-
enn on the 26th that the past winter had
been the finest for years for cattle, and
to five per cent.
I. SOLOMON SH1PLEY, aged seventy, COM
mitted suicide recently at New Holland,
O., by drowning himself in a pool. He was
suffering from alcoholism.
ADv1cEs of the 9th to Bradstrect's re-
ported that trade was generally dull
throughout the country, and the outlook
for u revival of business was not consid-
cred encouraging.
The ferry steamer Mark Twain, plying
between Memphis, Tenn, and Mound City,
Ark, exploded her boiler on the 9th while
lying at the latter place, killing i've per-
sons and wounding four others.
THE Supreme Court of New York on the
9th ordered the release of Becky Jones,
who spent a year in Ludlow Street Jail
rather char testify in the Hammersley
will case.
l. STRIKING shoemakers were accused of
partially wrecking the Windsor Hotel at
Randolph, Mass, on the 9th with dyna-
mite.
AN incendiary fire on the 9th destroyed
fourteen buildings at Oakland City, Ind,
the loss being estimated at 100000.
AN explosion of gas the other day caused
a fire in the Michigan carbon-works, near
Detroit, resulting in a loss of $150,000.
John SEXTON was hanged on the 9th at
Barboursville, KY, for killing a stranger
who had two hundred dollars on his per-
son; and William Neal, the third and last
of the villains who murdered and burned
the bodies of two girls and a boy at Ash
land, KY, was executed at Grayson. He
maintained his innocence tothe last.
G S. w. TALLMADGE, of Milwaukee, report
ed on the 9th a decrease Of 4,2SS,950 acres
in the territory sown to winter wheat in
twenty of the principal States, and pre-
! dicted a shortage in the yield Of 10G. 100000
bushels. y
SECRETARY ENDIcorr stated on the 9th
that after a reasonable time the lands of
Oklahoma would be freed from all in
truders, whether settlers or cattlemen,
even if the assistance Of the army was
necessary.
In the United States and Canada there
were 242 business failures during the
seven days ended on the 9th, against 2s4
the previous seven days. The distribution
was as follows: Middle States, 49,; New
England States, %; Western, G4; Southern,
SO; Pacific States and Territories, Is; Cam
ada. 30.