Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06
DOMESTIC

ENGLISH sailors in a drunken condition
boarded a British bark the other day at
Portland, Ore, III a fight arose between
the crew aboard and the intruders, MARLIN
spikes and hand-spikes being used with
deadly effect. Three men were fatally
wounded and several others were badly
injured.
A FoUR-ToN distilling vessel in the soda
ash works near Syracuse, N. Y, exploded
the other morning, the great iron tank
ascending seventy-fve feet and then
crashing through the roof, wrecking ma
chinery, ETC., and causing a loss of $4,000.
Twelve men were wounded, several of
them seriously.
SCALPERs in Chicago were on the 18th
selling round-trip tickets to New Orleans
for So, while the regular rate was $40.
In a quarrel q few evenings ago about
the distribution of beer at a wedding at
Camden, N. j., George Zant, the BRIDE
groom, was fatally shot by his brother
John.
THE recent cyclone in Alabama caused
great destruction of property in Hale,
Perry, Bib, Chiffon, Macon and Green
Counties. The path of the storm was half
a mile wide. Five persons lost their lives
and numerous horses and cattle were
killed.
A PROCLAMATION has been issued by the
Governor of New Jersey conveying a
warning that pleuro-pneumonia exists
among the cattle in that State, and order
ing all diseased cattle to be q%uarantined.
j. B. GREGG q Son, of Binghamton, N.
Y, boot and shoe manufacturers, failed a
few days ago for $4,000.
FIVE hundred pounds of dynamite ex-
ploded on the 18th in the Somerset (Pa.)
chemical works, causing the burning to
death of two men. All the houses in the
town were shaken, and window-glass was
shattered in residences half q mile from
the scene.
THOMAS H. GRAHAM, cashier of the Bal
timore & Ohio works at Mount Glare, Md,
was missing on the 18th. His accounts
were short $4,000.
AFTER an idle period of several months
work was on the 18th resumed by four
tobacco factories at L%ynchburg, Va, and
others were preparing to start, giving en-
ployment to two thousand colored laborers.
WHILE intoxicated the other night Lewis
and Harry Priest, brothers, were killed by
a train near Delaware, o.
THE Grand Jury of Warwick County,
Va, on the 14th found indictments against
nineteen office-holders of that county for
fraud. AS the Grand Jury was still in
session it was thought that other indict-
ments would follow.
GEORGE p. CURRY, an insolvent banker
of Augusta, Ca, was found guilty of lar
ceny on the 14th and sentenced to five
years in the p~enitentiary. Curry is worth
100000.
q. CHESTER DARBY, proprietor of a steam
f~ouring-mill at cortland, N. Y, failed
recently with SIT 900 liabilities.
ADvIcEs of the 18th reported great suf-
'fering and loss OF stock on the north and
south sides of the Red River, in Louisiana,
caused by floods from recent rains. At
least five thousand head of stock were
lost.
The new capitol building at Bismarck,
D. T., was dedicated on the evening OF the
14th.
Two CoLORED men at Charleston, s. c.,
were crushed to death a few days ago by
the caving in of a pile of fertilizers at tae
works of Wilcox, Gibbs SEQ.
MICHAEL NANCY, a farmer of Saxton
Station, No, started home while intoxi-
II oohei HiShu' ne uOoh Gue wrong
track, got b~ewildered, and, lying down,
was frozen to death.
THE bodies Of four infants were found
buried under a bridge in Franklin, Pa, a
few days ago. They We're in rough boxes
and one was out recently buried.
FOUR Mormon elders recently established
a settlement near ~Spartansburg, S. c., and
nave taken thither twenty three Indian
converts from York County.