Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-05
DOMESTIC.

IN the county Court at kahoka, Mo.,
David 7. Howern pleaded guilty on the 18th
OF murder and was sentenced to the peni-
tertiary at Jefferson City for a term of
ninety-nine years.
The lighthouse at Roanoke River, North
Carolina, was carried away by ice on the
18th, and Chesapeake Bay was still block
AIDED.
The lockout of cigar-makers at New
York City was begun on the 10Th, the ten
thousand employees of fifteen factories be-
ing informed that there was no more
..t'stock."
GEORGE FOSTER, the most notorious burg
lar, highwayman and bank thief in Ohio,
whose operations extended over Ohio, In
diana, Michigan and Pennsylvania, was
shot dead at Cleveland on the 18th by Off,
Ger George E. Corner, of the police force,
while resisting arrest.
WELL-1NFoRMED fruit men in Montgom-
cry County, ILL.,, stated on the 18th that
peaches had all been killed by the severe
cold weather Of the past few weeks.
A TRAIN of fifteen cars, loaded with silk,
valued at 100000 was on the 10Th making
fast time from San Francisco to New York.
III SPooNER, of Orange, N. j., aged
ten years, who lost a leg while crossing the
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Rail-
road track, was on the goth awarded $780,
600 damages.
The managers of all the theaters in Gin.
cinnati except Heuck's have signed an
agreement not to give Sunday perform
ances.
GENERAL HOWARD, commander of the De-
partment of the Platte, received instruc-
lions from the War Department at Wash
ington on the Goth to remain with his
troops at Salt Lake City to protect the
country against any Mormon outbreak.
The Executive Committee of the Irish
National League of America met in Chica-
go on tue Goth to make arrangements for a
National Convention. In the evening a
public meeting was held, which was largely
attended.
NINE cowboys visited Burlington, Tex,
the other night and terrorized the citizens
by riding through the principal streets and
firing into windows. A Deputy Sheriff
with a posse succeeded in driving the ruff
fans from the Town, but not until four of
their number had been killed.
AUSTIN SHELDON, who for forty-fve years
had lived i'll a cave at Dingman's Ferry,
Pa, die on the Goth. His mode of life was
inspired by the death of his young wife at
Brantford, Conn.
r. THREE oil warehouses at Philadelphia
were Quilted by fire on the Doth. One man
was seriously burned, another persisted in
the names and two young women had
narrow escapes.
ADv1cEs of the Goth from Pittsburgh, Pa.
say That the strike in the coke region was
assuming serious proportions. Four thou
SAND ovens and six thousand men were
idle. At Norwood sixty-two Deputy Sher-
ms and policemen had a fight with two
hundred and fifty Hungarian strikers, re-
sulting in thirteen men and one woman be-
ing arrested. Over a Hundred shots were
hired and many Of the strikers were
wounded.
: THE mail boats on the Mississippi River
were detained at Natchez, Miss, on the Goth
by running ice, which was the heaviest
known there for fifty-three years.
i: The National Board of Trade met in an
nual session at Washington on the Goth.
The association was formed sixteen wears
ago, and is composed of delegates from the
various Chambers of Commerce of the
United States in all the leading cities.
Apv1cEs of the 10th say that the latest
gas well, developed at Findlay, O., rosrs
like Niagara Falls, and no one dares IN
light the flow.
CHARLES II. VERNON, of Dyersberg. Tenn.
seventeen year, of age, the heir-apparent
to an estate valued at $500, 900, killed him
SOIL on the 10th with a revolver, at Louis
vile, because his father ordered him IN
cave the Kentucky Military Institute for a
Southern college.
. AN officer of the Illinois Humane Society
caused the arrest and punishment on tho