Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-12

aS D. 49,
THE marriage of a Pole and Il Hungarian
on the esth at Centralia, Pa, was opposed
by the parents of the bride, and in the tight
which followed two persons were shot
dead.
AT Catlettsburg, KY, Van Bartram and
Green Kirk, two young men, fought a duel
with dirks on the 26th, and both were
fatally wounded. An old family feud was
the cause.
In a recent storm a barge owned at New
London, Conn.,, foundered, and Captain l..
p. Smith and two other men persisted.
SEVEN buildings were burned a few days
| ago at New Orleans, and Edward j. Muir
ply. who was sleeping in one of them, was
burned to death.
TIE annual report of Pension Commits
sioner Black, issued on the 9th, says that
the net increase III the number of pension
ers during the last fiscal year was 22,3o9.
The aggregate annuaI value of all pensions
was s3S, 09O, 9s5. an increase during the year
of S ,634,G S4. The amount paid for pensions
was :64, 97S. 435. The claims of S9o,33f per-
sons for pensions were filed, and 52l ,O23
were allowed.
TIE damage by the recent high tides on
the Atlantic coast at Long Branch and
other points was on the 26th said TO be far
greater than at first reported.
ALBERT BEDELL, aged eighteen, was ac-
cidentally shot and killed on the Both by a
twelve-ycar-old boy ut Mt. Vernon, o.
THE schooner Highland Maid, Of Port
Stanley, Ont, was found capsized on the
Goth off Cleveland. Captain Oliver and his
two sons were drowned.
AT New Orleans on the 25th Charles L.
Davis, proprietor of Davis Consolidated
| Show, while handling a pistol in his room
at a hotel, accidentally shot his wife fatal
ly. Soon efterward Davis put the pistol to
his own head and blew his brains out.
A LoDGING-HousE at New Orleans was
destroyed by fire the other morning, and
Edward J. Murphy persisted in the flames,
In a belt around his waist was.found $3.50.
Foun children were killed and several
Others wounded in Jersey City on the 25th
by the full of a condemned four-story
building.
w. Is. SMITH, a teller in the Second Ma.
tional Bank at St. Paul, Mimi, absconded
on the 25th, and his accounts showed a
shortage of $4,000.
II dulludl lSpolh VI IL w.. SoiloL
Comptroller of the Currency, issued on the
25th, shows that during the year ended No
vember l, 1855, Ia banks We're organized,
making the total number now in existence
2,727.
THANKSGIVING DAY vas generally OBJ
served throughout the country.
ANDREW BRAUN, President Of the de-
funct Hot Springs (Ark,) National Bank,
was arrested on the 27th, charged with EN-
bezzling $4,000.
THEEE were 225 business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the 9th, against 234 in the preceding
week. The total number of failures from
January l last to date is lo,osi.
AT Mortified and other places in Ver-
mont the thermometer registered ten de-
grees below zero on the 9th, and in por-
tions of Massachusetts and New Hamp-
shire snow fell to the depth of two feet.
FREIGHT trains collided near Missoula, M.
T., the other day, destroying much proper
ty and killing three men and wounding sew
eral others.
COMMITTEES representing tho National
Cattle Growers Association and the Ma
tional Cattle and Horse Breeders Associa-
Iioi lueC at springfield, H., OH Ile @tIl ana
formed a new organization to be called the
Cattle Growers Association of the United
States.
TIE special-delivery letter system in New
York, Brooklyn and other cities was on the
eth considered to be a failure.
THOMAS STANTON, living near San Ber-
nardino, Cal, was surprised by four Indi-
ans on the 9th, who, failing to secure the
whiskey they demanded, roasted Stanton
alive.
TIN striking coal-miners near Pittsburgh,
Pa, attacked the non-union workers on the
9th, i%njuring many of them severely, and
five probably fatally. More trouble was
anticipated.
ADvIcEs of the 9th from Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Michigan, Kansas and Nebraska
state that the winter wheat crop was in a
promising condition.
TIE steamer Emma Graham, of the Gin
cinnati packet-line, sunk on the 9th six
teen miles below Parkersburg, W. Va, the
fireman and several deck-hands being
drowned.
ADEATII from yellow fever occurred on
the 9th on board the steamer Venezuela in
the harbor of New Orleans.