Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-04-10

EXTENSIVE gold discoveries were report
ed on the 18th about four miles from He
lena, NJ. T. The ore had proven so rich
that it was taken from the mines in sacks
and shipped without being put through
any process.
The Oriental Hotel at Seattle. w. T..
| was burned early on the morning of the
18th, and three persons lost their lives and
twelve others were badly injured.
MANY employees of the Alabama & Great
Southern Railroad struck on the 18th for
three months wages said to be due them.
THE private bank of NJ. W. Klein & Co.,
at Johnstown, Pa, closed its doors on the
10Th, with liabilities of $4,000 and no
assets.
The Secretary Of the Treasury on the
18th issued a warrant of $685., 308 in favor
of the Governor of Kansas for expenses in
Cured in that State in repelling Indian in
| v~asions.
JUSTIN SEGR1sr, aged nineteen years,
son of a coachman, and Mary Baker, the
sixteen-year-old daughter Of William
Baker, the German comedian, eloped from
Buffalo, N. Y, a few days ago, but were
captured on the 10Th at Cleveland, o.
MRS. KATE HOWE, a temperance lecturer,
was placed in Jail at New Orleans on the
10th, on a requisition from the Governor OF
Colorado, IN a charge of obtaining from a
relative in Denver $4,000 by false pretenses.
OFFICERS Of the secret service in Chicago
on the 10th captured two counterfeiters
who had been passing bogus silver money.
The counterfeiters' apparatus was con-
| faoofo1 tonofhor Nth C1ln IN min
HENRY SCHLEMMER, aged seventy three
years, a wealthy farmer of Upper San
dusky, O., cut his throat the other day,
assigning as q reason that he had lived
long enough.
THE Communication of the sentence of two
confessed murderers, under sentence of
death, by Governor Marmaduke, of Mis-.
souri,, resulted on the 10th in the circula.
ton of q petition asking Marmaduke to
resign his office.
In the United States and Canada there
were 284 business failures during the
seven days ended on the Goth, against 2se
the previous seven days. The distribution
was as follows: Middle States, g.; New
England States, %; Western, e; Southern,
| IS; Pacific States and Territories, 10; Can
ada, 81.
The structure known az the "Sisters'
House" of st. Joseph's Academy at En-.
mittsburg, Md, was destroyed by fire a
few days ago, the loss being estimated al
100000.
THE Boston Machine Manufacturing
Company's works were burned the other
night, the loss being $4,000, and insur.
ance $4,000.
By the recent explosion of O boiler in the
| shoe factory of the South Carolina Peni.
tertiary, a life convict and a crippled pris.
oner were killed, and seventy feet of the
/ prison wall were blown out.
LEVI KERR, an aged millionaire of Cleve.
land, while making a tour of Florida with
a party of friends, was drowned in the st.
Johns River, near Palatka, a few days
ago.
FRANK WILLIAMS, an old miser of Port
land, Me-, was found dead in his candy
store the other evening, having starved
himself to death.
EADvIcEs Of the goth to Bradstreet's stated
that the cold weather had checked trade,
and in all tho large cities the trade was
backward. The industrial situation was
somewhat improved.
THE Schoharie IN. W National Bank
failed on the Goth, with liabilities of Sl2O,.
600.
THE extent of the restitution in Writ and
Pleasant Counties, w. Va, had on the
Goth reached the point that unless aid was
ut once given deaths from hunger must
result.
POLICE INSPECTOR THoRNE, Of New
York, fell dead in a store on the Goth.
BETsRY r. HoADLEY, aged eighty-two
years, was burned to death in her house at
South Bay, N. Y, a few days ago.
FSAMuEL LAzARE, of Chicago, died on the
Goth from the effects of hydrophobia. The
deceased was bitten in the hand by a New
%foundland dog about two months ago.
A PRIvATE double execution took place
on the Goth at Los Angeles, Cal, the VIC
Tins being A.. Silvas, who stabbed a man
for an insult, and NJ. Martinez, who per-
petrated a murder for 500. Stephen Jones
(co!ored) was hanged at San Francisco for
killing his mistress. Joseph Drake was
executed at Salem, Ore, for the murder of
David Schwartz.
Two PERSONS were burned to death or
the Goth in q clearinghouse at Bridge
port, Conn.,, and a fireman received fatal
injuries.
DANIEL CORK, a well-to-do colored man,
and his wife, who lived near Paducah,
KY, left homo a few days ago for a few
hours, leaving their three children in
charge of the house. During their absence
the building was burned, and the children
persisted in the flames.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
THE Wisconsin Senate on the 18th killed
the bill empowering women to vote at mu-
nicipal elections; and the lower branch