Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-26
DOMESTIC.

The ice carnival at st. Paul, Mimi, was
formally inaugurated on the evening of the
list by the opening of tho ice palace, the
procession of uniformed clubs comprising
i've thousand persons.
A PETROLEUM we'll that will yield in ex-
cess of $50 barrels daily was struck on the
I'd near Lima, o.
A COURIER brought information on the I'd
to Fort Bayard, N. NJ, that the Apache
Chief Geronimo had Internationally sur
rendered to Lieutenant Maus.
DURING the month of January the United
States minis coined 3,799,0GO pieces Of gold
and silver, valued at sG,2O9,470.
THE blunder of a sleepy brakeman on the
I'd caused a collision on the Chesapeake &
Ohio foad at Stuunton, Va, M man being
killed and three others fatally injured.
THE silk manufacturing firms of the
United States have decided to advance the
price of silk thread and twist ten per cent.
BOILING PARKER, a farmer of Nansemond
County, Va, killed his wife and sister the
other morning while insane.
In portions of the south q severe snow
storm prevailed on the I'd. At Memphis the
snow was four inches deep, at Nashville ten
inches, and in Arkansas one foot in depth.
In Northern Michigan the thermometer
on the I'd ranged from forty to forty-four
degrees below zero.
A RABID dog ran through the streets at
Parsons, Kan, on the I'd, during a terrible
storm, and bit five persons before it could
be killed.
THE terrible sufferings from hydrophobia
of George WateIhouse, a lad of fourteen
years, of Cohoes, N. Y, were ended on the
I'd by his doctors, who said that relief was
impossible, and that it was a mockery of
the healing art to allow the poor wretch to
writhe in such terrible fortunes. They
therefore smothered him..
JAMES Brown and William Snyder were
drowned in the Allegheny river at Par
passus, Pa, on the I'd, by the upsetting of a
boat.
WILLIAM NEIssE, a farmer living near
Canton, o., was gored to death by his
vicious bull on the I'd.
YOUNG carp to the number of thirty
thousand were recently frozen to death in
she State pond in Texas, and the attempt
to breed them would doubtless be aban-
doned.
The Murphy Temperance Society at
Youngstown, O., passed a resolution on the
Sd asking the manufacturers of the State to
change the pay day of laborers to Tuesday
in place of Saturday.
The Commissions of Pensions estimates
that s75,S0O,0M will be required for pen
sions the next fiscal year.
On the Sd a tug-boat in the river at New
York collided with and upset a small boat
containing eleven men, five of whom were
drowned.
EIGHT carloads of imported laborers were
on the Sd sent into the coke region of Penn
sylvania, but the striking Hungarians per-
suadei them not to commence work.
In the stables Of c. r. C. Dye, at Troy,
O., seventy-two imported Jersey cattle were
roasted alive in a fire on the Sd.
The third MA convention of the Inter
national Associations of Fairs and EXPOSE
tons began at indianapolis, Ind, on the
Sd, with representatives from ten States
and Canada in attendance.
ADvIcEs of the Sd from Texas say that in
the nine months Of war waged by Geronimo
and bis Indians there wore nearly two
hundred settlers and soldiers killed. The
surrender of Geronimo has ended the con-
fict.
The Chinamenin Chicago celebrated their
New Years Day on the Sd.
. Snow fell to the depth of several inches
OF the Sd at Washington and at various
points i'll Kentucky, Arkansas, Texas and
Virginia.
COMMISSIONER SPARKS made the discov-
cry on the Sd that ten million acres in
North Dakota, embracing the Bismarck,
Grand Forks, Mouse River, Turtle Mount
ain and other districts were still vested in
the Indians, and surveys had been ordered
suspended.
IT was announced on the Sd that Miss
Jennie Sherman had converted two hun
dred sinners at Cameron, W. Va, and COL