Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-03-19

traders and commission merchants OIL dos
TON. faileo on the Sd, with liabilities OF about
Sl,O00,OoO.
w. S. THORN, recently cashier in the
ticket-office ut the Canal street depot IN
Chicago. was on the Sd discovered to be a
defaulter for nearly $4,000.
THE census of the Northwest Territory
of Canada shows $4,000 whites, 10000
Indians and 1900 half-breeds.
ESRAGED at a fractions cow, Castor NC
tCartney, a farmer, of LAGRANGE, GA, ilrea
at the animal on the Sd, missed his almnno
shot dead his nine-year-old son.
THE American House and six other ousl-
ness buildings at kearney, Neb., were de-
stroyed by fire on the Sd.
ALEXANDER DAY, gedeighty-eiehtye years,
one of the Oldest settlers at ~Leavenworth,
Kan. fell downstairs on the 3D. and was
killed.
HuGH MCMAHON, of Philadelphia, was on
the Sd convicted of arson and sentenced to
solitary confinement in the penitentiary
for ten years.
The residence of William Halloran, near
Erie, Pa, was burned on the 4th, and his
two boys, aged five and three, who hao
been shut in the house by their mother
while SIG WTGV Ou I'LL ClllANA. ESA "A 49,
| the flames.
THE Secretary of the Treasury informed
the United States Senate on the 4th that
National banks held S6,3S5 $50 of the II
called for payment April ].
THE strike in New York City OF the
street-car employees assumed serious pro-
portions ON the 4th. 1t required the pro-
lection of one thousand policemen to move
the cars on the Dry Dock road. The officers
dubbed the rabble, who threw stones and
other missiles. Many persons were serious
IL injured.
THIRTY prominent citizens Of Edgefield,
S. c., who participated in the recent lynch
ing Of A. j. Culbreath, are to be tried for
murder.
THE Central Union Telephone on the 4th
notified its subscribers in Indiana that it
Intended to discontinue business in the
State.
TIE railway offices in San Francisco were
ON the 4th selling limited tickets to Chicago
for s225. The rate westward from Chicago
was $3.50.
TIE Treasury Department at Washington
on the 4th ordered the cutter Bear to the
islands off Alaska to prevent the taking OF
seals by pirates, and also dispatched the
Corwin thither to suppress whisky snug
Cling.
TWELVE men, identified as being in the
mob which drove the Chinese outof Oregon
City on the night of February 81, were ar
rested at Portland on the 4th.
TIE strike of weavers in the Amoskeag
mills in Manchester, N. H., which resulted
in the lockout of six thousand men, ended
on the 4th in a victory for the ~mill-owners.
ADv1cEs of the 4th say that a two-day's
snow-storm had seriously interfered with
business in Nebraska.
BY the burning of q dairyman's barn on
the 4th near Owensboro, KY, thirty-fve
Jersey COWS were cremated.
DISPATCHES of the 4th announce the loss
of the schooner Virginia Dore, of Glouces'
ter, Mass, and her crew of fourteen men,
in the recent gale off the coast. This made
seventy-ive men from that port who hae
found watery graves since last Christmas
SIXTY Mexican outlaws ditched anC
robbed a north-bound freight train on the
Mexican Central road, near San francisco
station, Tex, on the 4th. The outlaws
robbed the train hands, stripped them en-
tirely naked, tied their hands and started
them afoot toward San Francisco station.
On the 5th over one hundred Chinese la
borers were driven from Mount Tabor
Ore, by a masked mob, who marched then
to the ferry, whence they were conveyed
to Portland, three miles distant.
THE strike of street-car employees in New
York and Brooklyn was amicably ar
ranged on the 9Th and travel was resumed
DURING a quarrel the other day in Jeffer
son township, near Bolivar, Mo-, Alonzo z
Swingle shot and killed his brother Sigel.
THE Turner-Howard faction war still
progresses in the mountain section nea
Woodbine, KY. Several men have beel
slain on both sides, and within two week
, four persons have been murdered.
THE snow in Nebraska was twelve to -four
teen INCHES on the level on the 5th. 1t ha,
not drifted, and railway traffic was no
seriously retarded.
Mrs. MARY L. TERRY, aged sixty-nin
!, years, for the past eighteen years keeper Q
, cremated in a fire on the 9Th which d.
stroyed the structure.
, V. A. WITCHER, we'll known in West Vii
+ ginia for some years as a leader anon
, the Mormons, was recently lynched j
OuthWeStern virginia LOT The murder c
his fifth wife.
$ THE fire losses in the United States an
Canada during February last were sc, 500
, 900, about the average February loss fc
p the past eleven years.
HALF of the Alabama warehouse {
Montgomery was burned on the 5th, wit
O over three hundred bales of cotton, causin
o a loss Of sl50,000.
s JAMES HOLLAND, the Texan who kille
Tom Davis in New York, last year, durin
a quarrel over the purchase of some coul
S terfeit money, was acquitted by u jury Q
g the 5th.
CHARLES MARBLE, an extensive florist
Gloucester, N. j., mistook his daughte
4 aged twenty-three, for a burglar a fe
rights ago and fatally shot her.
THOMAS CHRISTIE and Horatio Kin
clerks in the First National Bank at Bra
a ford, Pa, were arrested on the 5th for Ell
bezzling 100000.
: By the explosion of an oil tank on til
IA 9Th at Point Breeze, Pa, Thomas Arr
strong and Thomas Murphy, workme
were fatally burned.
d THE receipts from internal revenue Fl
q the first seven months of tho fiscal We,
4 were s66,S7S, III, an increase of 81, 535, i