Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-04-02

= B. WATRous, one of the wealthiest
merchants and stock-raisers in New Mex
leo, committed suicide On the 18th at
Watrous by shooting himself through the
heart. Grief over the recent suicide of his
son was the cause.
A MOB rode into Carrollton, Miss, on the
18th and repaired to the courthouse, where
thirteen negroes were on trial for murder.
They shot ten prisoners dead and MORALLY
wounded the other three.
JOHN GILLESPIE, the negro who murdered
| Mrs. Thomas Gray, near London, Tent,
was lynched by a mob on the 18th.
AT Salem, Mass, Earnest Trip paid a
debt of one dollar to Edward Hatch by
giving him q season ticket to the G.. A. r.
fair. Hatch took it reluctantly. On the
18th the ticket drew a one thousand dollar
bond.
THE strikers on the New Orleans division
of the Texas g. Pacific road resumed work
on the 18th on an agreement with Receiver
Sheldon to submit the case to the United
States Court for arbitration.
The two little children of Mrs. Mandy
Greer, of I%ronton, O., were burned to death
on the 18th during their mothers absence.
SPECIAL agent of the Treasury Depart
ment reported on the 18th that extensive
frauds were perpetrated upon the customs
revenues by sending Texas calves into
Mexico to fatten and be returned free of
duty.
A sTR1KE of the street-car employees at
| Columbus, O., was begun on the 18th. No
cars were running.
PASSENGER rates from San Francisco to
Chicago were on the 18th reduced to $l4.50,
and from Chicago to California points to
$24. SO.
NEARLY fifteen hundred employees Of the
National tube-works at McKeesport, Pa,
struck on the 18th for an advance of fifteen
per cent. in wages.
THE ninety-ninth session of the Philadel-
phia conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church opened in that city on the 18th.
THE ice was moving out of the Mississip-
pi river on the 18th as far north as Dubuque,
la.
Mrs. BonRMAN, Of Avondale, a Cincin-
natl suburb, cut the throat of her son AL
bert, aged fourteen, mortally wounded an
other son and then killed herself with a
razor on the 18th. She became insane over
the loss of a lawsuit by her husband.
TELEGRAMs on the 10Th to Bradstreet's
stated that general business throughout the
country was dull, numerous strikes caus-
ing a portion of the d~ullness. The grand
total of those on strikes at various places
was placed at fifty-ive thousand.
LEAKING natural gas exploded on the
10Th at M%urraysville, Pa, fatally burning
three persons and causing the destruction
by fire of seven dwellings.
AT Back Greek, Va, tho other night a
man named Griffey called from theirdwell-
ing John and Pike Metz, aged seventeen
and eighteen, and shot them dead for al
legged intimacy with his wife.
THE steamer Beda of Marshfeld, Ore,
sprang a leak of Cape Perpetua a few days
ago and %foundered within a few minutes.
Only two of her crew of thirteen were
saved.
A FIRE on the 10Th in a tenement house at
New York caused the suffocation of Mrs.
Maria Bech and her infant son.
THERE were 300 business failures in the
United States and 80 in Canada during the
seven days ended OF the 10Th, against 2339
the previous seven days. The total num-
Der of failures in the United States from
January l last to date is {, 94s, against 3,474
during the same time last year.
In Clay County, Tenn, on the 10Th the
six-year old daughter of Joseph Taylor ac-
cidentally exploded a revolver, the bullet
killing her father.
THE thermometer registered seventy-two
degree above zero in Chicago on the after
noon of the 18th.
ELEVEN buildings, including two hotels
and several business houses, were destroyed
by fire on the 10th at Poplar Bluffs, Mo.
THE farm hands in Pettis and Saline
counties, Mo-, struck on the 10Th for an
increase in wages, and their demands were
complied with.
THE city hall at Fall River, Mass, with
all the municipal records, was destroyed
by fire on tho 10th, causing a loss of
s25O,OOO.
LEHMAN & Co., of Duluth, Mimi, who
own eight elevators on the line of the
Northern Pacific in Dakota, made an as
signment on the 18th, with heavy liabili-
ties.
In answerto the communication Of Grand
Master Workman Powderly requesting a
conference, Vice-President Hoxie, of the
Missouri Pacific road, declined on the 18th,
stating that as previous arrangements
with the Knights had been violated bv
them no guarantee could be given that
future arrangements would be of a stable
character.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
THE German ministers of Cincinnati
have declared themselves in favor of the
Ohio Sunday law.
AN order was issued from the War De-
partlnent on the 10Th retiring Maior-Geu-