Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-06
DOMESTIC.

FOUR men We're killed outright and
twenty others were wounded at Brazil,
Ind, on the 10th by the explosion of a
boiler in the Central Iron & Steel.W Works.
Two of the wounded men died soon after,
and several others were not expected to
live.
: JOHN MoxNER robbed a saloon at Phila-
delphia the other night, and beat a seven
months old child of the proprietor to death.
GEORGE A. VINCENT, alias Charles Per-
rim, alias Williamson, the most expert
forger of the age, was on the 10th convict
ed of attempting to swindle the st. Louis
National Bank of $4,000, and was sentenced
to ten years i'll the penitentiary.
H production of pig-iron in the United
States last year was 1858, 613atons, against
b,140, 792 tons in 1883. The stock of pig-iron
unsoid January /, 1885, was 500, 900 tons,
against 535S, 600 tons January 1,,1Ss4.
The Edgar Thomson steel-work at Brad
dock, Pa, resumed work on the 10th, Civ
ing employment, at a slight reduction in
wages, to nearly four thousand men who
had been idle for eight weeks.
A BOILER explosion on the 10th at the
Trenton mine, near Pottsville, Pa; fatally
injured two men. A portion of the boiler
went through a house sixty yards away,
fatally w%ounding an infant in its cradle.
The Department of Agriculture reports
the value of cattle in the United States at
81, 107, 00O, 900, and of all other domestic an
imals at s., 456, 900 700.
Il A MEMPHIS tTenn.) undertaken recently
exhumed the body of a little child he had
buried and returned it to it's mother be-
cause she could not pay two dollars, the
price of interment.
A BOILER in Cumbler's stone quarry near
Harrisburg, Pa, exploded on the 18th,
causing the death of three men.
AN express train on the Louisville, New
Albany & Chicago Road was wrecked near
Bloomington, Ind, on the 18th, four or five
persons being injured. The express car,
with a lot of merchandise and thousands of
dollars, was burned.
A DISPATCH of the 18th from San Fran
cisco states that the Chinese Government
intends to make az international matter of
the recent expulsion Of its citizens from
Eureka, and to claim indemnity from the
United States.
The Genesee Brewery, at Rochester, N.
Y, was destroyed by fire a few days age,
the loss reaching $125, 900.
u, THE bodies of three drunken men, frozen
stiff, were found in a snowdrift near
LOOMS, Ill, on the 18th. They were on a
carouse the previous night and probably
lost their way while attempting to travel
through the snow.
A BILL to 'prevent children from acquir-
ing the habit of using tobacco" was intro
duced On the 18th in the Michigan Legisla-
ture.
AT Hammondsville, KY, o. M. Dudgeon
killed himself with a razor because of the
death Of his infant child and the fatal ILL
ness of his wife. The remains of the fami-
ly were buried in one coffin on the 18th.
The recent closing of the mills at Mana
,yunk, Pa, has caused great restitution
among the 10000 persons thrown out of
employment.
BECKY JONES, the famous housekeeper of
the Hammersley family in New York. hav-
ing spent several months in Ludlow street
Jail for contempt, decided on the 18th to
tell q jury all she knows in regard 10 the
will.
~ An escaped lunatic from Seneca Falls,
II. Y, was arrested at st. Louis on the
I11th for threatening to assassinate Presi-
dent Cleveland. He said the Divine Pow
.er had authorized him to do it.
AT q dance the other night in Indian
Territory whisky engendered bad blood,
several men being killed and wounded.
Two TRAMPs removed a rail, afew days
ego on the Missouri Pacific track, near
lMarthaville, No., wrecking a train Of