Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-30
DOMESTIC.

1t cost the GOVERNMENT $G,45l, 7G2 to COL
lect the revenue at ports OF enury,during
the last fiscal year.
THERE We're ii. 1873 marriages in Ohio last
year, G5,0GG births, 1888 divorces and d.
3G4 deaths.
THE bodies Of three dead infants We're
found on the banks of the river near Day
ton, o., a few days ago., within a short dis
tance of each other.
THERE are now 1856 Mormons in the
United States. They have 2G7 churches,
with a seating capacity Of . 1869.
THE first train from the East for twenty-
three days arrived at Portland, Ore, on
the It'll. The roads had been blocked by
snow.
DURING a fight on the 9TH at Lexington,
KY. between whisky dealers and officials,
several men We're killed.
THREE tramps recently attacked John
Narek, Il track-walker of the Lehigh Val
ley Road, near Easton, Pa, and after bru-
tally beating him stripped hin naked, tied
him h~and-and-foot, and amused them
selves by sticking knives into him. VareE
would probably die.
ALFRED II. OLIVER, cashier in the East
ern Railway Office at Boston. confessed on
the It'll to having embezzled ST., 900 during
the past eleven years.
ARMED men from Gettysburg reached
Forest City. D.. T., on the morning of the
9TH. wrecked the building in which the
Potter County records were housed, and
carried off the safe and all public docu-
mems. TIL Sheriff, with an armed force,
had gone in pursuit, and Il battle was i'm
minent.
DETAILS on the ,th from the recent cy-
clone which swept over Lancaster. Clar-
endon and other counties in South Caro-
lima show terrible loss of property, but
miraculous escapes of persons from loss of
life. In Lancaster a number of barns, GIN
houses and other outhouses were blown
down. The greatest damage was lone in
Clarendon County. The cyclone cut a road
five hundred yards wide through fifteen
miles OF the country, making a clean
sweep of buildings and timber, and killing
or Gripping large number of animals.
The wooden mills in Shamrock Mills, r,
L., employing several hundred persons,
were burned the other night, together with
several houses. Loss, 500, 900.
IN Newport, KY, on the Sth Adam
Brown, a huckster, was chloroformed and
S169 taken from under his pillow. This was
the savings OF himself and bis wife for
years.
II extensive iron-works of Stoverin e
a Fleming, on the flats at Cleveland, were
destroyed by fire a few eveninrs ago.
The county Jail in Fredericksburg, Giles
pie County, Tex, was burned recently,
and one of the prisoners persisted.
IHE Denver Chamber OF Commerce in
vltes all friendly to the unlimited coinage
OF silver to meet in national convention in
that city on January IS.
WILLIAM VAUGHAN. of Grafton, w. Va.
became jealous of his wife, whom he mar
ried four weeks ago, and She OF her dead
through a window of theirresidence on the
Sth.
In an aifray with knives recently at Rut-
LEDGE, Ga, twenty-five men tool part. One
was killed, and many Of the others were
badly wounded.
SNOW i'll the Indian Nation has caused
considerable suffering to stock. The losses
thus far this winter are about fifteen per
cent.
No s than 1866 new manufacturing
and mining enterprises were started in the
''ouo!ielH oVaues ltSt year, With an aGGre-
gate capital of sos, oG9, 600.
ARNOLD c. STACY, of Bath, Me-, was
shot dead by his wife a few evenings ago
during Il quarrel. Mrs. Stacy said the
shooting was accidental.
n cloak manufacturing firm of Silk
Brothers, Herman & Co.. Of New York.
failed recently, with liabilities of SlGO.0 600.
Four boys were drowned at Pottsville,
Pa, on the 9th by the ice giving away.