Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-01-29
DOMESTIC.

| AT points in Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee
and North Carolina on the 18th the ther-
anometer registered from zero to ten below.
.Blasting-powder was being used to remove
ice gorges Several inches of snow fell at
Galveston, Tex.
THE residence of Mrs. Miles, near Union
City, Tenn, was destroyed by fire early a
few mornings co. and her daughter and a
negro woman persisted in tho flames.
Others of the family were badly burned.
TRAINS on the Baltimore & Ohio Road
collided on the 18th at Aida, Ind, killing
four employees.
MASKED h%ighwaymen in the vicinity of
Fort Robinson, Neb, on the 18th robbed a
stage of S., 900 in gold consigned to the pay
master Of the army.
AT the Schuyler (Neb.) Jail the other
morning q prisoner named Latour killed
Sheriff John Deg1nan, who had held office
but five days, by striking him on the head
with q piece of scantling.
A LARGE storehouse in Boston was de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th, the total loss
being in excess of $500, 900.
In Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont
the temperature ON the 18th ranged from
ten to twenty-five below zero, and in por-
lions of New York thirty degrees below was
renorted.
: TIE Continental warehouse in Chicago
was completely destroyed by fire on the
18th, involving a loss Of nearly $500, 900.
IN a jealous rage George Seiners shot his
wife and himself at st. Louis on the 18th.
There were slight hopes of the recovery of
the woman.
THREE men were killed on the Missouri
Pacific track, near st. Louis, ON the 18th,
by a passenger train.
THE Department of State at Washington
on the 18th received official information
from the United States Consul at Apia,
Samoa, of the seizure of the Samoan Isl
ands by the German Government,
TWELVE men were buried by the caving-
in of an ore mine near Alburtis, Pa, on
the 18th. Three bodies had been recovered.
II. W. ScHosc1IKE, of Elmira, N. Y, re-
Gently brought an old pistol from Scotland,
which he playfully snapped twice at his
bride, although she begged him to desist.
The second shot took effect in her abdo-
men, INC caused her death.
A SUBSTANTIAL ice bridge was formed on
the 18th in Niagara River, below the falls
Four stores and several dwellings at Do
yer, N. H., were burned IN the 18th, caus-
ing a loss Of $4,000. The thermometer
registered twenty-five degrees below zero.
HE explosion OF u boiler ON the 18th in
st. Mary's Catholic Church ut Fort Wayne,
Ind, resulted in a fire which DESTROYED
S65,0UO worth of property. One man and a
child were killed.
ltEPoHrs of the 18th from Indian Terri
tory state that numbers of cattle persisted
during the recent severe cold weather.
IN the South the weather was moderating
on the 18th. At Mobile, Ala, the bay was
covered for miles with ice, but it was grow
ing weak
: The loss of cattle in Indian Territory in
consequence of the recent storms was on
the 18th said to be extremely heavy.
JOHN MowRY and his brother. from
Bonneville, Mo-, recently paid $500 in New
York for a sachel full of counterfeit money
to be shipped to Pittsburgh, Pa, ut which
place they found only a bowlder in the
E1jpsack.
TERRIBLE restitution prevailed on the
18th among the idle miners in the coal-felds
pear Franklin, Pa, and several families
were reported to be starving.
a WAR i'll passenger rates between New
York and Chicago was inaugurated by the
Baltimore d Ohio Road on the 18th.
NoKMAS II. CAMP, assayer of the assay
Office at Boise City, Idaho, was on the 18th
convicted Of embezzling $4,000.
tAcoD REEL, a wealthy farmer of Boil
brook, o., hanged himself in his parlor on
the 18th because Of the arrest of his eldest
SON for homicide.
LAPouE, who recently murdered Sheriff
Degman at Schuyler, Neb., was taken from
Jail by q mob on the 18th and hanged.
The steamer Old Dominion was ice-bound
in the James River below Richmond, Va,
on the 18th. Navigation in the river was
entirely stopped by an ice blockade.