Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-03-05

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sCharlber of Commerce shows that S10,Oo0,-
600 in treasure was last year shipped to
China in excess of the amount received.
NJ. O. VAN FLEET, treasurer of Huron
County, O., charged with the embezzlement
of $4,000, was arrested at Brantford, Ont,
on the 18th, where he lived under the name
of Seymour.
EMPLOYEES in John P. Wullaly's stables at
st. Louis, discovering on the 1lth that the
building was on fire, undertook to save the
horses, and were vigorously dubbed by
two policemen, who claimed to have mis-
taken them for thieves. The result was the
cremation OF %sixty-two horses.
PASSENGER trains on the Boston & Lowell
road collided on the 18th at North Woburn
Junction, killing man and wounding
nearly thirty passengers.
TIE State Press Association of Florida
announced on the 18th that, all previous re-
ports sent North by individual members to
the contrary, the orange trees of the State
were unframed by the recent blizzard.
NOT for forty years had a storm caused
so much damage to the elms and orchards
of Central Massachusetts as the rain and
slect of the 18th.
TIE Raritan river overlooked its banks
on the 18th and submerged the lower part
of New Brunswick, N. j. Business in the
s~hip-yards and c%oal-yards had been sus-
pended.
DURING the fourteen days ended on the
18th two hundred children died of scarlet
fever at Shenandoah, Pa, and the ravages
of the malady were increasing.
FREIGHT train was in collision on the
18th with the Mount Lookout dummy train
near Cincinnati, seven persons being
wounded, one of them fatally.
DURING a quarrel ut Brunswick, Ca, on
the 18th over three cents Richard Walker
shot William Miller dead. Both were col
ored.
An Austrian bark was wrecked on the
Barnegat shoals, off the coast of New ;Jer-
sey, on the night of the 18th, and eight of q
crew of thirteen and three of the l%ife-saving
crew were drowned.
RECENT storms at Ship Island, Miss, I'M
covered the bones of many soldiers who
We're buried there during the war.
PRESIDENT WISE, of the strikers organi-
~zation, was arrested at Mount Pleasant,
Pa, on the 18th, on charges of riot and as
sault.
TIE remains of three hundred soldiers,
which had been inferred ON Governors
Island, New York harbor, were removed
on the 18th to the National Cemetery at
Cypress Hills.
Two MINERS at Webb City, Mo-, were
blown to pieces the other day while lamp
ing a charge of eighteen sticks of giant
powder, and several others were badly in
jured.
TIE main feature of the winter carnival
at st. Paul. was the storming of the ice pal
ace OF the 18th by five thousand uniformed
men.
THE total value of the exports of the
principal articles of provisions during jan
uary past amounted to S6,67l,5 sol, against
Sl1, 965, 97S in January, 1885.
CHARLES II. MCCAULLEY, county treasurer
of Warren County, Pa, was on the 18th
said to be a defaulter in the sum of So, 600.
AN ice-gorge on the 18th in the Susque-
hanna river at Port Deposit, Nd, caused
the water to sweep through the lower por-
ton of the town, flooding the streets to q
depth of three or four feet. The inhabitants
were compelled to move promptly, leaving
their houses and goods to the mercy of the
floods.
CHARLES Hermann, who recently muir
dered his wife at Buffalo, N. Y, was
hanged on the 18th. He made q detailed
confession of his crime.
TIE house of Jacob Allen, at Halifax,
Va, was t0,red a few days ago, and two
of his children persisted in the flames.
THE treasurer of the Irish National
League of America sent a check for three
thousand dollars salary to Patrick Egan,
the president, who Endorsed it back on the
18th es his personal contribution to the
fund.
THERE were 1876 failures in the United
States and 80 in Canada reported during
the seven days ended on the 18th, against
2S9 for the previous seven days.
The heavy rains had on the 10Th flooded
the Delaware river, and a portion of Tren-
ton, N. j., was submerged, the water in
some instances reaching to the second
stories of houses. Many bridges had been
swept away. Reports from all sections of
the State indicated alarming disasters.
TIE Secretary Of the Navy on the 18th,
in his statement to the House Committee
on Naval Affairs, advocated the construc.
ton of six steel-armed cruisers, and said
that they should be begun as soon as prac
ticable.