Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-16
oned after a desperate struggle with

come to be used annually for the care of
the teeth of children in the primary
schools.
WARD, STANTON & Co., steamboat build
ers at Newburg, N. Y, failed on the &th,
throwing a large number OF men out of
work.
THE north half of the Masonic Temple
at Cincinnati was consumed by fire a few
mornings ago, Enoch Carson's famous
Masonic Library and the paraphernalia of
the Scottish Rite fraternity being de-
stroved. The total loss was placed at
$4,000.
THE residence Of Henry jackson, al
aged farmer. near Bo%wersville, O., en-
tered by six masked men a few nights ago,
who bound and tortured Jackson, his wife
and three daughters until they gave up
$50 in money, when the robbers left.
THE directors of the lake Shore & Mich
igan Southern Road on the oath decided to
declare no dividend for the last quarter of
1884: and the directors of the Michigan
Central also separated without announcing
a dividend.
MILES 0GLE, a noted counterfeiter, was
arrested at Memphis, Tenn, on the 25th,
with $4,000 in,ten-dollar counterfeit bills
on the Third National Bank of Cincinnati
in his possession.
AT Long View, KY, a few evenings ago
an unknown assassin fired through the
window of farmhouse, instantly killing
Jacob Torian and dangerously %wounding
Peter Adcock.
WHILE riding at anchor in the bay of
New York a few days ago the British ship
Lomby, loaded with oil, was run into and
sunk by the steamship Cornwall. The loss
was S150,000.
JOHN GoETz, JR., and his sister were
burned by a gas explosion the other morn
ing at Butler, Pa. Goetz died soon after,
and his sisters suffering and anguish at
his demise had rendered her insane.
THE engine-house, boiler and machinery
of the Mineral Spring Colliery, near
Wilkesbarre, Pa, was burned the other
night, throwing three hundred men and
boys out of employment
Hoes were on the 18th dying in southern
Nebraska of a new disease. In the head of
each animal that died of the complaint a
large grub-worm was found.
In the United States and Canada there
were 81 business failures during the seven
days ended on the 26th, against SG7 the
previous seven days. The distribution
was as follows: Middle States, "a; New
England States, %; Western, H.; Southern,
81; Pacific States and Territories, 20; Can
ada, SO. The total number of failures dur
ing the year was 11,G00; aggregate assets,
S130,000, 600; aggregate liabilities, $240 ,000,-
900.
A FIRE in Springman's express stables
in Washington a few days 6 destroyed
property valued at 10000. Eight horses
persisted in the flames.
A wager has been laid between Mr.. Nc
Laughlin. the engineer, and Paul Hines,
the baseball player, that the latter can
not catch a ball dropped from the top of
Washington Monument. 1t is estimated
that six feet from the ground the ball will
have a velocity of two miles per minute.
MASKED men entered the residence of
James Evans. a very old man, at Romeo
vert, w. Va, a few nights ago and stole
$500 in money. Mrs. Evans was so shocked
that she died before morning.
JOHN SWIM. a miser. was found recently
half frozen near Delaware, o., with more
than $1,000 on his person. He owns land
in Franklin and adjoining counties in Ohio
valued at $3.50, 600, but has always existed
by begging, his clothing being of the shah
best and tilthiest description.
SINTY-SEvEN accidents occurred:in Ohio
mines during the past year, Of which TWEEN
ty-SiX We're fatal.
AT West Junction, n. Y, Il 10000 barrel
oil-tank exploded on the morning of the
18th. The shock was felt in Elmira, five
miles distant, and houses near by were
badly damaged. No one was hurt. The
loss would reach $780, 900.
A wELL.D1GGER at Atlanta, Ca, recent
" found, at a depth of sixty-five feet,
oyster shells and varieties of sea shells
never seen in the region. Biologists were
investigating.
AT Clayton, N. c., Charles Smith and
Henry Davis (colored) were taken from
jail by masked nea a few days ago and
thrown from a bridge forty feet high into
the Neuse River, both being drowned.
Their crime was burglary, and Davis was
thought to have been innocent.
JAMES COLLINS, ticket agent of the Pan
Handle Railroad at Cadiz junction. O., fed
III SAS JUL Will. lD.pOO DtlOllSlug uO D1S
friends and the company.
# No MONEY having been appropriated by
Congress for the support Of the Navy after
the close of the year, Secretary Chandler
has issued an order for the closing of all
the navy-yards and the suspension of all
work December 81.
TWO OF the train-robbers involved in the
job a month ago Fear Little Rock, Ark.
have been sentenced to six and seven wears
til the penitentiary respectively.
ELLIOTT BROS. g. Co., of PHILADELPHIA,
dealers in dry goods, awe failed for sy27,-
900.
ELEVEN barges, the property of the New
England Transportation Company, found
cred the other night in Long Island
Sound, ana two tugs and twenty-five
barges mad not been heard from.
Mrs. JOHN GREENR1DGE was assaulted y
few evenings ago near Greenridge, Pa, hv
unknown parties, wholett her unconscious,
and she was frozen to death.
RA1NWATER & STERNS' elevator at Dol-
las, Tex, was burned Il few DAYS ago with
$4,000 bushels of grain. Three persons per.
ished in the flames. The loss was S.. 900,
a fire also destroyed fifteen business build
lngs at Clarksville, Tex.
A UNION OF miners and coEe-drawers. tc
resist further reductions of wages by tho