Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-01-08
Eyon the bodies of the victims

can not now be TOT q mOntn.
A PARTY of seventy-five masked men on
the 23d attacked with revolvers the men
employed in the Eagle mines of Brown q
Co., lear Monongahela City, Pa, and
broke the windows in their houses.
EIGHT persons in the Hansmeyer family,
at Farentum, Pa, had on the 23d died from
t%richiniasis.
THE hotels in Troy, N. Y, on the 23d Ne
fused admittance to the Fisk Jubilee Sing
ers, because they are colored people.
A 1 at Vincennes, Ind, OH the 29d de-
stroyed the Grand Hotel, an undertaking
and furniture establishment and a livery
stable, with q number of horses.
The striking miners at Bevier, Mo-, on
the 23d kept up a fire on the stockade, and
the Sheriff had been called upon for aid.
THE village Of Hogansville, Ca, was
nearly wiped out by fire or the 2Sd.
OWING to excessive taxation many of the
large manufactures in Paterson, N. j.,
were on the 23d making arrangements to
move into Pennsylvania. There was great
excitement, as over sixty per cent. of the
residents of Paterson depend upon the fact
cries for a living.
A OUR in New York rendered Adhesion
on the 23d that Miss Ellen King could not
recover from innocent purchasers the value
of bonds stolen from her residence.
Six workmen were fatally injured by the
explosion of n boiler in the Lochiel rolling
mill at Harrisburg, Pa, on the 23d.
Mrs. FRED Kopp, Of Vaudeville, w. Va,
went to a store on the 23d, leaving her girl,
four years, and babe, eighteen months,
Jool.oJ M, IN +Io Ioy,co o1orn Y1,o hO,,sa
caught fire during her absence, and the
children were burned to death.
j. M. WADDELL's gin-mill at Society Hill,
S. c., was burned OF the 23d, three colored
boys perishing in the flames.
NEAR Lowell, Mass, four men were IA
tally injured on the 23d by q collision Of
trains.
THE family Give in number) of George
V. Karell, a carriage manufacturer in
Cleveland, developed trichiniasis on the
23d from eating raw ham, the lives of all
being despaired of.
NEAR Owego, N. Y, on the 23d Aaron
Shaw, aged sixty-fve, while insane from
jealousy, mortally wounded his wife, aged
forty. He then shot himself through the
head.
LIE SoSuoCOol WI lIoN uuo iotcCl w oIhs
closed down on the 23d, throwing over one
thousand men out of work.
TIE famous mare Early Dawn, with a
record of2:2l15, and valued at $4,000, died
on the 23d at Lexington, KY, from poison
given by unknown persons.
OPHTHALMIA and other contagious dis
eases of the eye are said to be alarmingly
prevalent in public and private institutions
for children at New York.
THE Treasury Department at Washing
ton on the oath purchased 100000 ounces
of silver for coinage into standard dollars.
The silver dollar was quoted at 7915 cents.
A GREAT gas vein was struck at Berea,
o., on the oath, after boring two years.
Tn gas rushed out so vigorously that it ig-
nited and set fire to the buildings.
THER were 1913 failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on the
18th, against 217 in the preceding seven
days. Total number during the year TO-
1854, against II 1866 in 1884.
FRANK V. ADAMS, a clerk in q military
office at Omaha, insured his life recently
for $4,000 in favor of a friend, and closed
his career by the use of morphine.
TIL postal and express employees of New
York reported on the 24th greater demands
upon them than during any previous holi-
day season.
A BAND of Indians were surprised on the
9th while encamped near the railroad
track between Clifton and harrisburg, N.
NJ, by a BAND Of Mexican residents, and
eleven of the savages were killed and thir-
ty-two horses were captured.
TIE house occupied by Patrick Driscoll,
in New York City, was destroyed by fire
early on the morning Of the 25th, and two
youths, aged seventeen and fourteen re.
spectively, and a girl aged seven, persisted
in the flames. Mrs. Driscoll died in a hos.
pital during the day.
THE Spring Valley Watcrworks Mt San
Francisco were destroyed a few days ago
by the explosion of five boilers used in the
establishment, involving a loss of $50, 900.
Two men were killed and two others dan.
gerously wounded.
AT Austin, Tex, burglars on the night Of
the 24th entered the residence of James
Phillips, robbed the house and murdered
Mr.. Phillips and his wife. The residence OF
MI. Hamilton was also robbed and his wife
killed. There was no clue to the guilty
parties.
SILAs E. CHEEK, q real estate and loar
agent of Clinton, Mo-, is a defaulter fol
about 100000, and has issued forged
mortgages. He is in Canada.
In defense of his mother at Louisville
KY, the other night Philip Ewald shot his
father four times, inflicting mortal wounds
s. r. STERLING, for fourteen years Treas
urer of Rockingham County, Va, was OF
the oath discovered to be short in his &C
counts between $50, 900 and 6 1000.
AT the Cook County Hospital, in Chica
go, a bountiful dinner wal served on tn,
18th to six hundred patients. An outbreal
OF fire, however, created a wild panic, ant
caused the destruction of the Christina
tree, with 5000 worth of presents, man,
persons being severely burned.
A DOZEN or more drunken persons en-
gagged in a street riot at Wellsville, O.. or
the 25th. Three men were fatally stabbed
spectators wounded and stones and beer
kegs hurled through windows.
SIX men broke into the Jail at Springer
N. NJ, the other night and took out Theo.
doro Baker, whom they hanged to a tele
graph pole. A body of citizens drove of
the lynchers and cut Baker ~down-iust
in time to save his life.
Rev. JOHN r. GILMORE, of CLAYTON. Ind,
having been expellad from +ho ,,1,;+ g.,