Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-13
DOMESTIC.

A YOUNG man and his sister were on the
Goth reported to nave been murdered at
Rochester, Pa, the perpetrator, a German,
cutting the corpses into small pieces.
GEORGE WINANs, aged fifteen, while
coasting at Mansfield, o., the other after
noon, was struck by an express train and
instantly killed.
THE Bank of Wadena, owned by E. S.
Case, at Wadena, Mimi, closed it's doors
on the 21st. 1t was thought that not more
thar twenty per cent. on the dollar would
be paid.
1T was estimated on the 21st that 100,-
600 men, previously unemployed, had OBJ
tanned work in manufacturing enterprises
since January j.
THE jamestown (Pa.) Savings Bank
failed recently, ard on the 2lst n defalca-
tion of $4,000 was discovered. One of the
officers had been missing for several days.
THE West Shore and the Pennsylvania
Roads We're on the 91st selling emigrant
tickets from New York to Chicago for one
dollar.
THE Committee on Public Lands reported
on the 2lst to the House of Representatives
at Washington that European noblemen
had acquired twenty-one million acres
in the United States, and that foreign cap
ital would before many years possess itself
of one hundred million acres more by the
foreclosure of American railroad bonds.
PATRICK LE%NNINGHAM, a laborer, living
in the suburbs of Philadelphia, reported on
the 2lst that the savings of his lifetime,
81, 700, had been stolen from a sachel in his
bedroom.
Ten persons were injured on the 21st by
n ,oi1r-o,y ,noiIa,+ ,,o,. C,I,1i, ~, +l,o
Missouri Pacific Road. The west-bound
passenger-train struck Il broken rail and u
chair-car was precipitated dow a high
em~bankment.
AFTER an appeal by Director General
Burke, members of the New Orleans Cot
ton Exchange on the 21st subscribed $780,
900 to meet current expenses of the
Worlds Exhibition.
THERE was great excitement i'll st.
Louis on the 21st concerning the outbreak
of alleged Asiatic cholera. Two
Russian-Jew peddler and a negro-had
died in that city of the disease within a
few days.
In an affray with knives the other day
in a Louisville coal office a white man was
fatally stabbed, and two negroes were Sc
riously wounded. .
FIRE in q tenement house at Baltimore
on the night of the DIST created a panic. A
woman jumped from a window and was
fatally hurt, md two children would die of
exposure. The remaining occupants had
narrow escapes.
PosTMAsTER-GENERAL HATToN on the
21st sent to the Chairman, of the House
Committee on Post-ofiices md Post roads
the draft Of a bill providing for u reduc-
tion of postage on second-class matter, or
newspapers, mailed by publishers, from
two cents to one cent per pound.
HOG cholera has within a short time
swept Off one thousand head in q town.
ship near Lincoln, Neb.
A BAND of thirteen thieves who recently
stole $4,000 worth of goods from the Chi
cago g. Alton freight yards at Lexington,
Mo-, and had committed numerous other
robberies, was arrested on the 21st at Lex
ington.
MANUFACTURERS at Wheeling, w. Va,
on the 22d advanced the price of nails
twenty cents per key.
A PORTABLE engine exploded on the 22d
On d farm near GIoton, n. Y, killing two
nlen and fatally wounding two others.
AN officer of the Franco Prussian war
named Louis Ladenberger hanged himself
the other day at Scranton, Pa, after hav-
ing been out of employment for three
months.
THE creditors of Oliver Brothers, of
Pittsburgh, Pa, decided on the 22d to
grant a fve-year extension, taking ssepa-
rate notes for the payment of interest
~semi-annually.
GENERAL HATCH had on the 22d sur
rounded COUGHS Oklahoma boomers at
Saltwater, and intended to starve them
out. Those willing to leave Couch's camp
We're permitted to go, and number were
taking advantage Of the order.
The Piutes We're on the 22d said to be
starving on their reservation in Nevada,