Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19
cut an air-hole in the ice the other day and

cut an air-hole in the ice the other day and
killed tAirty-two beavers.
JouN C.. KINDRED, a farmer, n his wife
and three children were frozen to death
near Dodge City, Kan, during the recent
cold snap.
THE total value of the exports of mer-
chandise for the yea 1885 was S6SS, SAG, $50,
and for the year 1884, S749, 366, 42s, q de-
crease of 500, 1882. The value of the i'm
ports of merchandise for 1885 was $5S7 ,55l,
5O6, and for 1884 5000, 261 $50, a decrease of
Sal, 7lO,354.
At South Egremont, Mass., on the 9th
Richard Winchell sold his wife to his
brother William for three dollars, who took
the woman and left for Albany, N. Y.
Apv1cEs of the 9th say that after Il fight
in Sonora, the American force, under
Captain Crawford, was fired on by Mexican
troops, American scouts returning the fire.
Five of the American party were wounded,
among them Captain Crawford, who died
soon after, while the Mexican loss was four
killed and five wounded.
THE total number of emigrants arriving
in the United States during the year 1885
was 32G,411, against 402,23 for 1854.
FULLY fifteen thousand cattle were on the
2Sth dead on tine prairie within seventy-five
miles of Fort Elliott, Tex, having been
frozen to death.
WILLIAM WRIGHT. In old man., Andy
Wright, his son, and William Wright (col-
ored) were killed by James, Samuel and
Elijah Wright in Letcher County, KY, on
the 2Sth. The parties were relatives, and a
family feud was the cause.
Six men were killed on the 2sth by a
snow-slide near Park City, Utah.
FLAMES on the 2sth destroyed the Opera
house block at Franklin, Pa, filled with
stores, the loss a%ggregating 100000.
THE Albany IN. " Brewing Company's
brewery was partially destroyed by fire on
the 2Sth. Loss, $15O,0OO.
THE explosion of a can of gasoline a few
days ago at Mitchell, d. T., fatally burned
Mrs. DR.. Dix and Mrs. Malcolm.
THE PROSECUTING work of two Mormon
polygamists at Walhalla, S. c., has caused
much excitement, it being reported on the
2Sth that fifty converts were ready to pro-
coed to Utah. The young men of the dis
trict had organized md warned the Nor
mons to quit.
THE biennial directory Of millers and mill
furnishers shows a total of 1S,267 Touring
mills in the United States and Canada,
being decrease, as compared with 1854, of
of 6,S12. The mills in the United States
number II, 1855.
A STORM of sleet on the 2Sth at Newbury-
port, Mass, was the most destructive for
many years, and it was thought that q
quarter of q century would be required to
restore the trees of the city to their former
beauty.
THE Reading road suffered a loss of near
ly $1,000 600 by the burning on the goth of
the engine-house at Mahoney Plane, Pa.
OWING to the strike, coke was on the Goth
becoming scarce, and furnaces in the Pitts
burgh district were closing down for want
of that article.
Four dogs entered the pens adjoining the
slaughter-house of Henry Walker, near
New Brunswick, N. j., the other night and
killed forty sheep.
MURAr j. HALsTEAD, editor of the Cincin-
natl Commercial Gazette, and Joseph j. Nc
Dowell, business manager of the Enquirer
of chat city, were arrested on the 29th on
the charge of publishing lottery advertise
ments
EARLY on the morning of the Goth a col
]ision of Baltimore Ohio trains occurred
near Chicago Junction, o., by which four
employees lost their lives and several pas
sengers were injured
Mr.. DoUDNA, of Lincoln, Neb., who was
bitten two weeks ago by a mad dog, left
for Paris on the Goth to be treated by Dr..
Pasteur.
The business failures throughout the
United States and Canada for the seven
days ended on the Goth numbered $50, as
compared with 329 the previous week.
A FAMILY OF negroes at Howth Station,
Tex, were fatally poisoned a few days ago
by eating stolen pork which had been
dosed with strychnine.
The boiler of a steam saw-mill near
Breckenridge, Mo-, owned by Morris Heed,
exploded a few nights ago, killing Spencer
Reed and his step-son, named Adams.
The Secretary of the Treasury on the Goth
called in $40, 0oO, 900 of the three per cent.
bonds Of 1882, on which interest will cease
March l..
The Texas State Treasury on the goth
temporarily suspended payment on claims
of all kinds, being out of funds.
THE building and stock of the Ryan
Drug company at st. Paul, Mimi, was de-
stroyed by fire on the Goth. Loss, $3.50, 900.
SPECIAL kilograms on the goth to brad
streets from a number of large distributing
centers indicated that general business was
very quiet.
IT was announced on the 29th that small
pox had entirely disappeared from Mon
treal, Can.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
JOHN KELLY was reelected chief of the
Tammany Society in New York on the Goth.
His health is very poor.