Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-03-12
during their nine months strike, returned

during their nine months strike, returned
to work on the 18th.
Dir. EDWARD H. COATES shot and killed
DIR. A. b. Keith at st. Louis on the 18th.
Both men were dentists. Coates charged
Keith with breaking up his family,
ADv1cEs of the 25th state that on a ranch
near Deming, N. NJ, General Crook and
Geronimo held a conference, in which the
latter asked leave to return to his reserva-
ton. Crook demanded an unconditional
surrender, but the Indian leader rode away
with a white flag flying.
in the vicinity Of Huntingdon, Pa, pneu-
monia was prevailing to an alarming ex-
tent on the 26th, and numerous deaths were
occurring daily.
THE annual encampment of the Army of
the Tennessee met at Atlanta, Ga, on the
26th. Colonel E.. S. Jones, Of Nashville,
was elected department commander.
ALL the co~ke-drawcrs and miners in the
Connellsville (Pa.) region resumed work
on the 26th, their strike having proved e
failure.
WEIBERN WARTENA, a Hollander, was
hanged on the 26th at Rensselaer,, Ind, for
the murder of q neighbor named Dregher
in 1854.
CONRAD NAGLE, a hermit who for fifty
years had occupied a hut on South Mount
ain. near Womelsdorf, Pa, was found dead
in his bed on the 26th.
A TERRIFIC storm prevailed on Mount
Washington, N. H., on the Goth, the wind
reaching a velocity of 40 miles III hour,
with tie mercury 25 degrees below zero.
TIL total value of merchandise and gold
and silver exported from the United States
during January past amounted to S57 ,959,-
562, against SS0.53 5S4 in January, 1886.
The total value of imports for January last
was s47, 1895, 400, against 81, 1921, III in jan
uary, 1885.
THE steamer Idlewild was wrecked on
the 26th by a storm on Shippal Point,
Conn. The passengers and crew were
saved, but the vessel and cargo, valued at
S125, DOC, was u total loss.
A BLIZZARD, with snow and wind, pre-
vailed throughout the New England States
Oh the Goth. AT Westield, Mass, the First
Congregational Church was wrecked, and
at Boston telegraph poles were blown down
and the streets ~blockaded.
A sK%ATING-RINK M three other struct-
ures at Troy, N. Y, We're burned on the
Goth, falling walls injuring several persons,
the skull of one man being crushed.
A HURRICANE, accompanied by rain, dam
aged many buildings at Baltimore on tho
Goth.
In the United States Court at Charleston,
w. Va, on the 25th George j. Williams, Il
convicted pension swindler, was sentenced
by Judge jackson to three months impris-
onment. In the sentence was embodied an
order of Punishment of Williams forever
from the State of West Virginia. to take
effect sixty days after the expiration of
his imprisonment.
SIXTEEN cars, containing 163 tons Of raw
silk goods, the largest shipment ever made
in this country at one time, arrived in New
York from San Francisco on tho Goth. 1t
was valued at 81, 0 1000.
THERE were POS business failures in tho
United States during the seven days ended
on the 18th, against 2l4 in the preceding
seven days.
TIE Houston CTex.) Savings Bank, which
held deposits of $3.50, 900, closed it's doors on
the Goth:
a SALE of fifty miles an hour prevailed
on the 26th from Buffalo to New York, with
a drop Of twenty degrees in temperature.
A lady, said to be a sister of the late Hora-
ito Seymour, was blown from the platform
of a Lake Shore car near Dunkirk, receive
ing serious injuries.
AT Harrisburg, Pa, several structures
were unroofed and chimneys leveled by a
storm on the Goth, the Lochiel iron works
being badly damaged.