Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-04-09
of cattle and four horse.

Philadelphia. valued at S10o,0OO, was dc
stroyed by fire a few days ago.
THE ice in the Heart river at Mandan,
d. T., broke on the 25th, causing a gorge,
flooding the southern portion of the town
The ice remained solid in the Missouri.
In a fight on the 25th at Tascosa, Tex,
caused by a dispute about cattle stealing,
four men were shot dead II two Others
fatally wounded.
THE Illinois Supreme Court has refused
to grant james Dacey a new trial, and fixed
May II as the date of his hanging for the
murder of Alderman Gaynor, of Chicago.
SEVERAL blocks at Salida, Col, we're
burned on the 18th, the losses being Sl5O,0Oo
The boiler in a saw-mill at Calera, Ala,
exploded on b e25th, killing three men and
badly w%ounding four Others.
ADv1cEs of the 25th state hat navigation
was opening rapidly On the lakes.
IT was said on the 25th that no clue touch
ing the identity Of the persons h MUIR
dered the twelve colored men in the court
house at Carrollton, Miss, recently, could
be found.
A DISPATCH of the 25th from San Francis
co announces the loss of the steamer Beda
in Coos bay, thirteen persons on board go
ing down Win the wreck.
THE railroad strike still continued on the
225th. Proclamations were issued by the
Governors of Missouri, Arkansas and Texas
ordering mobs to desist from interfering
with the movement of trains, and stating
that the power of the law would be in
voked to aid in the resumption of business.
The directory of the Missouri Pacific had
resolved to do its utmost to move trains on
the road. In many Kansas towns there
was a serious lack of flour, coal, oil and
groceries, and prices of goods had doubled.
SwITCuMEN On the Wabash o a in st.
Louis struck on the Goth. The strike in
East st. Louis remained in force and little
freight was handled. No extensive dis
turbance was reported from any South
western point, and freight trains were NOV
ing from various points. Grand Master
Workman Powderly issued a circular to
the Knights of Labor, Gliding the men for
rushing into useless strikes and warning
them against hasty, ill-considered action.
A company of United States troops were
EN- route for st. Louis, to be on hand in case
labor riots took place.
IT was developed at Uniontown, Pa, on
the 26th that Captain A. c. Mutt, who was
murdered by Dukes, who ia turn was killed
by his victims son, was short in his ac-
count as State Treasurer 81, 500 at the
time of his death.
TIE Aygus office at Fargo, d. T., was de-
stroyed by fire on the Goth, causing a loss
of $780, 900.
FRANK MULKosysKI, the murderer of Ag-
mes Kledzieck, was hanged at Chicago on
the 26th, and John Drake %(colored) was
hanged at Thomaston, Ga, for wife-mur-
der.
FIRE at Buffalo, N. T., on the Goth de-
stroyed tho North Buffalo fiour mills, the
Gilbert starch works and other structures,
entailing a loss of s50O,OOO.
THE Bank of North Minneapolis, Mimi,
failed on the Goth, and it was announced
that the depositors, mostly w%orkingmen,
would not receive fifty per cent.
ADvIcEs of the Goth from Suwanee Coun
ty, Fla, say that three negroes who recently
killed a negro boy there were pursued and
killed by four others of their race.
The business failures during the seven
days ended on the Goth numbered for the
United States 1917 and for Canada "a, a
total of 221, against 225 the previous seven
days.
THE flood in the Heart river at Mandon,
D. T., had on the 25th driven thirty families
from their houses. At Bismarck the Mis-
souri, river was rapidly rising, and at Sioux
Falls a heavy snow-stormp prevailed.
THEODORE KEARNEY e. Co., of Chicago,
wholesale jewelers., failed on tho 26th for
$685. 600.
IN a quarrel on the Goth on a ranch near
Fort Elliot, Tex, over alleged cattle-steal-
ing four men were killed and two others
were wounded.
THE Comanche Indians recently visited
the Pease river country in Texas, killed
many cattle and fired the prairie.
A FIRE in the coal mines near Charca.
nooga, Tenn, was raging furiously on the
26th, the entire mountain side being per-
meated with veins of furious flames.
Mrs. HENRY FRANKIE, living near Read
ing, Pa, leaped into a cistern the other day
to extinguish flames on her clothing. She
was drowned and her two children fatally
burned, the house catching fire from a can
of kerosene which had exploded in the
mothers hands.
MRs. KATE DAWSON, wife of a farmer liv-
ing near Indianapolis, who eloped with her
step-son, poisoned herself with arsenic on
the 10Th, and her paramour took morphia,
dying in q few hours.