Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-12
EPlTONE OF THE week.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

that thirty-four lives were lost, against l3l
last year, and an average of 124 for each OF
the previous fifteen years. The men lost
left five widows and thirteen children.
ANDRE ANDREWS, o Chicago pawnbroker,
was convicted on the 21st of forcing a
prison bird to recommence Il life OF
thievery, and wa sentenced to eight years
imprisonment.
]ISEER1ATEs upset a lamp III 4 cabin at Sa-
bula, Pa, Il few nights ago, setting fire to
the structure, and wv men, who were too
drunk to escape. persisted in the flames.
WHILE in a fit of temporary insanity on
the ODD Mrs, Louise Stecger jumped from Il
fourth-story window in Jersey City, N. j.,
with a babe in her arms, and both were
killed.
c. A. THORPE and J. White blew out the
gas upon retiring in a Baltimore hotel the
other night, and were found dead from suf.
location the next day.
Tue second annual convention Of the Ma
tional Cattle and Horse Growers Associa-
ton began at st. Louis on the 23d.
A FATAL case of yellow fever occurred il
a New York City hospital on the 23d.
TIE United States Supreme Court has
g SiS e'taI Sie'iN - VAN w
ticer nor a private citizen can lawfully ar.
rest, without q warrant or orderof military
authority, a deserter from the United States
army.
STEVENS, the Indian agent ut Tongue
River, t~elegraphed to Commissioner At
'kins on the 23d for troops, stating that the
Cheyennes had fired Mt him and threatened
to burn the buildings.
HEAVY rains were reported on the 23d at
San Luis Obispo, Cal, where ten inches fell
in twelve hours, doing damage to the
amount of 100000.
A DOUBLE tenement-house, filled with 30
ilemian families, was destroyed by fire on
the 23d in New York, and a mother and
her two young daughters persisted in the
flames.
JoHN SHAMELESS, a prominent Quaker
residing near Chester, Pa, was killed with
Il Ratchet on the 23d by a strange colored
man, who afterward fired Il barn. foul
horses perishing in the flames.
MINING experts on the 23d discovered a
fine vein of coal and large deposits of beau
tifnl black marble i'll the mountains at
White Oaks, N. NJ.
TIE recent billiard contest in Chicago for
the championship of the world resulted in
a tie, and the three contestants, Schaefer,
Slosson and Vignaux, decided to let it lie.
main so.
TIE American mackerel fishing season is
over. The catch falls short of last years
by many thousand barrels.
For some months the farmers near Car.
thage, N. Y, have been annoyed by the
malicious destruction of property. Sus-
Iicion fastened on q man named Burns and
his four sons, and they were on the 23d or
dered to leave.
Four bodies were found on the 23d in the
ruins of the sandusky (O.) infirmary, and
four others were missing.
Snow to the depth of six inches fell Oh
the 9th at Westminster. Nd.
THE Galveston (Tex.) fire-rclief fund on
the 9th amounted to over 100000.
TIE exports of produce from New York
for the seven days ended on the oath WERE
valued at nearly 100000.
TIE Metropolitan Hotel at st. Louis wa
damaged by fire on the night of the 9th
One woman was killed by jumping from q
window, and it was feared that others per.
ished in the flames.
HENRY BLACkENBURG, a farmer living
near Warren, O., committed suicide the
other day by tying a gun to u tree anC
pulling the trigger by means Of a string.
THREE men were arrested at Omaha or
the 24th charged with robbing the post-oni
fces at beatrice, Crete, Guide Rock, Endi
colt and half Il dozen other places in Ne
braska.
DURING October 25,91S immigrants al
rived in this country, being 6,179 less than
i'll October, 1854.
THE highest tide known along the At.
lantic coast for many years did vast dam
age Oh the 9th at Atlantic City, Coney
Island and Cape May. The damage alonf
the river front at New York was estimated
at $500. 900.
OK the first bid of s22,0 0o, 900. the Yves
Shore Railway was on the 9th knocked
Down to j. Picrrcpont Morgan, Chauncey
n. Depcw and Asnbel Green.
A NEWSPAPER office, the post-offce ant
several other business structures at Con
way, Ark, We're swept away by fire a few
days ago.
TIE official count on the 9th gives Huron
for State capital of Dakota, a plurality O.
r2.121.
A sToRMo on the 24th raised the Railway
River SO high that residents in some por
tons Of Railway, n. j., had to move to Tho
upper stories OF their dwellings.
Mts. WILLIAM DUNLAP was convicted or
the 24th at Delaware, O., of cruelty toward
her step-children, INC sentenced to impris
onment Tor sixty days, be to fed on bread
and water, and to pay 500 fine.
UNUSUALLY heavy snow-storms were re
ported in sections Of Pennsylvania on the
24th. IN the Mount Carmel district two
feet OF snow had fallen, and twenty-five
inches were reported at Penobscot, neal
Wilkesbarre.
The residence of Jay Cooke at Chelton
Hills, Pa, was robbed the other night OF
diamonds and jcwelry valued at $ 1920.
TIE Colorcd Orphans Home at Chat
fanooga, Tenn, was totally destroyed by
fire a few mornings ago.
DURING the six days ended on the Oath
seven persons in the family of John Gear.
hardt, of Maintop, Pa, died of diphtheria,
AT Bridgeport. Conn, and Fall River.
Mass, great damage was lone on the 9th
by the tide which rose to the highest point
known in years.
TIE continued scarcity of dimes on the
oath caused orders to be given to the Super
1ntendent OF the mint at Philadelphia to
coin INTO ten-cent pieces all uncurrent sub
sidiary silver Oh hand.
THREE hunters, who were caught setting
fire to underground, were hanged near