Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-01-15

STRIKERS captured and bound the engi-
neer of the Marshall Coal Company works
at Erie, Col, the other night and then fired
| the premises, causing heavy loss.
JOHN TEEMER, the American oarsman,
has made a contract to visit Australia next
spring and row two races with Beach.
Mrs. L. D. WooDwoRTH, wife of q promi-
nent ard wealthy physician of Fitchburg,
Mass, eloped on the 3Oth ult. with George
Viles, a brakeman ON the Fitchburg Rail-
road, leaving behind two young children.
AT Mount Pleasant, S.. c., the other day
an Italian named Geretti killed James P.
| Colbuln for interfering in a family row,
and then took his own life.
The Ohio Central Road, which was re-
Gently sold under foreclosures, has taken
the title of the Kanawha & Ohio Road.
"A SHORTAGE Of $4,000 was discovered in
the accounts of the City Treasurer of In
dianapolis, j. N. Pattison, Oh the 30th ult.
The total number of hogs packed in the
| West from November l to the 3Oth ult. was
100000, against 1866, 900 last year.
THE United States District Attorney at
Omaha, Neb., has received instructions to
begin civil and criminal proceedings against
several persons for illegal fencing of public
lands.
In the American towns along the Rio
Grande, between Laredo and Brownsville,
uprisings were on the S0th ult. said to have
taken place with the object of marching
upon and capturing Mier, Mex.
A VETERINARY surgeon at Newark, N. j.,
having recently received from New York
the bodies of a dog and four cats afflicted
with the rabies, has i%noculated a RABBIT with
the virus, and proposes to initiate Pasteur.
"A FIRE q few days ago destroyed the cot
ton warehouse of J. S. Stewart & Son at
Macon, Ca, and five business houses at
Lebanon, Tenn.
The First National Bank at Lake City,
Mimi, suspended on the 31st ult.
DURING December nearly 800, 600 in
gold was received by the Treasury at
Washington from San Francisco.
TIE late William H. Vanderbilt left O far
larger estate than was supposed. The value
of the property was on the 31st ult. placed
at 1905, 600, 900.
THE entire fire losses in the United States
and Canada for 1885 were s1O5, 100000, as
compared with S125, 600, 600 the previous
year.
DURING the year 1885 there were 1,90S
murders in the United States, against 1,465
in 1854, and los legal executions, against 12S
the previous year; 161persons were lynched,
against 1876 in 1884.
IT was reported on the LIST that leprosy
prevailed in several Scandinavian families
near Spring Grove, Houston County, MINI.
A. TOTAL of 347,S 1872 ocean passengers land
ed ut New York in 1885, of whom 6, 1856 were
cabin, 1908 intermediate and 2s1, 434 steer
age passengers.
THE term Of Assistant United States
Treasurer Acton, of New York, expired on
the 31st ult. During his four years service
nearly 5000, 600, 600 was received and paid
out at the s~ub-Treasury.
PITTSBURGH advices of the LIST were to the
effect that the long strike of the river coal
miners was practically over, many men
having returned to work at the reduced
rate.
THE number of persons who during 1885
committed suicide in the United States. as
reported by telegraph, is 97s, as compared
with $40 in 1854. OF the total number 7S9
were males and 1877 females.
ADvIcEs of the LIST state that boats crew
of a whaling schooner owned at New Bed
ford, Mass, were pulled to the bottom re-
Gently by q whale near the Cape Verd ISL
ands, and no trace of BOAT or men was ever
discovered.
Miss ELIZABETH B. VAN Worst, aged
sixty-nine, member of a prominent family
at New York, was burned to death on the
1stby her clothing coming in contact with
anopen CRATE.
THE cotton warehouse Of Cole & Co., at
Opelika, Ga, valued at $780, 600, was burned
the other evening.
DUN's agency reports 1O,637 business fail
ures in the United States during 1885, with
liabilities slightly in excess of s124, 0OO,OO 0
The failures in 1884 numbered 1O,96s, with
liabilities of s226,00o,oo0.
So A as reported 2,23S lives were lost in
1885 upon the ocean, 1879 upon our inland
waters, 947 by railroads, 1894 by disasters
i'll the New World and 3Sl,SH by disasters
in the Old World, or a grand total of $751;
463, as compared with 101, 1884 in 1884.
LouIsIANA's sugar-crop is larger by
fifteen per cent. than the average of pre-
vious years.
ANDREW 7. Cox, a wealthy pillow manu-
facturer, drowned himself the other morn
ing at Maysville, KY.
WILLIAM H. Mcneil, President of the
Lancaster Bank at Clifton, Mass, disap-
peared recently, and on the LIST he was
hownt to be a defaulter for 500, OOOo or more.
A FIRE on the 1st at Detroit, Mich, de-
stroyed D. M. Ferry G. Co.'s mammoth seed
house, Whites Grand Theater, the Wesson
Block, and badly scorched other structures,
creating a total loss of about 81, 800, 900. One
fireman was instantly killed by falling
walls.
STEPS were taken at New York on the
31st ult. for the Incorporation of the Amer
lean Institute of ~Hydrophobia, where the
methods Of treating rabies according to the
formulas of NJ. Pasteur will be followed.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL,
JAMES E.. BAILEY, United States Senator
from Tennessee from 1875 to 1881, died at his
home in Clarksville on the Goth, in his sixty
third year.
PETER B. SWEENEY, one of the alleged