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

The Gloucester ishing-schooner Mabel
Dillaway. which sailed December 20, was
on Tia, l4th given up as lost. She carried
a crew of sixteen men.
A PASSENGER train at Miamisburs, o.,
ran over and killed Mrs. James Deglin re-
Gently, and threw her husband and child far
enough from the track to save their lives.
IT was estimated on the 18th that the re-
cent frosts in Florida destroyed 100000
boxes of oranges, worth 81, 0Oo.0 200.
A coLoRED woman at Pond Hill, Conn.,,
thinking to keep her baby warm while out
visiting a few days ago, left it in the oven
of the kitchen stove. The husband return
ing first relit the fire and unconsciously
roasted the child to q crisp.
THE four children from Newark, N. j.,
who were sent to Paris for treatment by NJ.
Pasteur for h%ydrophobia, reached home on
the 14th in safety and good health.
SIX of the convicts who recently tun-
neled out of the Coal Hill (Ark.) mine were
brought back on the 18th by an old farmer
named James johnson, who captured the
desperadoes while they were sleeping in a
hay-stack.
A HEAVY snow-stolm prevailed at Shreve-
port, La, ON the 14th.
REPORTS of the 18th announce that eight
cen lives were lost during the recent
storm and cold wealth. in Kansas, and
over a dozen other persons were missing.
The loss of cattle was also very heavy.
THE bark Julia A.. Brown, from Perth
Amboy, N. j., with q crew Of ten men, was
lost on the 18th.
EMILY BARMoRE, a reputable colored
woman Of Anderson County, S. c., froze to
death with two young children in ther re-
cent storm.
THIRTEEN men were instantly killed on
the 18th by an explosion of fire-damp in u
mine at Almy, Wy. I. A train of thirteen
cars going into the mine was broken into
fragments, and the corpse of a passenger
was blown seven hundred feet.
FURTHER advices of the 18th state that
tw~enty-four persons persisted III Kansas by
the recent blizzard, and others were miss
sing. The remains of four men who had
been frozen to death were found near
Benkelman, Neb., and in the district of
Akron, Col, several persons also persisted
by tie storm.
TIE carriage factory of Hiram W. Davis
s. Co., i'll Cincinnati, was on the 18th dam
aged by fire to the amount of 10000, and
the car-works and foundry at Beaver Falls,
Pa, worth 1880 were also burned.
The miners and coke-drawers at the
Standard works i'll the Connellsville region
of Pennsylvania demanded an advance of
ten per cent. on the 18th and threw down
their tools.
FOURTEEN prominent citizens of Redfield,
N nv 1,n,.o ,,r.acfaI M, flo I XII, far, NJ Mt ;n;-
patton in the Ashton County-seat war.
GEORGE McCABE, who was reputed to
lave persisted at the hands of his fifth wife
in Dakota, after having poisoned several of
his other wives, is now a resident of Chi
cago, and denied all the charges on the 18th.
ADvIcEs of the 18th from Accommac
County, Va, report dreadful ravages in
that section by high tides. Nearly all the
region that fronts on Poccomoke Sound was
inundated, and many lives were lost.
THERE was great excitement at Charles
ton, W. Va, oil the 18th over the reported
discovery that some of the most prominent
citizens in the town had for years past
been organized into a society for the de-
struction of property by fire. Several al
rests had been made.
ADv1cEs of the 18th to Bradstyeet's from
leading business places throughout the
country reported general trading as quiet,
but a speedy improvement was expected.
OVER nine hundred cigarmakers in New
York City were Oh a strike on the 18th for
higher wages.
EXECUTIONS for murder took place as fol-
lows on the 18th: Noah Merriman, at
Belleville, ILL.,; Charles Wilson, at ST.
Louis, Mo-; Henry NJ. Stair, at Nevada,
Mo-; William George (colored), at Lake
Providence, La; William Madison (col-
ored), at Beaumont, Tex, and Jose Maria
Mendoza, at Cotulla, Tex.
A TENEMENT house at Kings Mountain,
N. c.. was destroyed by fire on the 18th,
and three colored persons persisted in the
flames.
Four persons were killed on the 18th by a
collision of trains near Millville, Va.
The business failures throughout the
country during the seven days ended OH
the 18th were 1872, of which twenty-five were
in Canada, against a total of 1926 for the
week preceding.