Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-26

their houses on Tile 81. lIOuUfe was le'siS"'
AMAN named Lennon, his wife and SIX
children, were found frozen to death OH the
prairie near Oberlin, Kan, a few days ago.
EDwARp CRowL, of Cleveland, O., was
arrested on the 4th on the charge of having
drawn 100000 from his mothers bank ac'
count and forged her name to notes for
100000
ADVICE of the 4th say that the cold
spell mas proved very disastrous to Central
Illinois farmers aud stockmen through Sc
rious losses in stock. Numbers of fat hogs
have been frozen to death.
THE January fire loss of the United
States and Canada was on the 4th esti-
mated at S12, 600, 900, which is 100000
more thar the average January loss in the
last ten years.
OVER two thousand street railroad en-
ploves in New York City struck on the 4th
for twelve hours as a working day with no
reduction in wages. The officials granted
them their wishes.
RUFUS ER1s1NAN, a merchant of Frank
fort, Ind, hanged himself on the 4th, as the
result of dependency over the death of his
father-in-law.
THE Territorial Normal School at Madi-
son, D. T., one OF the finest structures in the
Territory, was destroyed by fire on the 4th,
entailing a loss Of $4,000, with nc insur-
ance.
Moses likes fell against a saw the other
day in a mill at Camella, Ga, and was cut
in halves from the head downward.
AGERMAN who was placed in the lookup
at Crisield, MI, committed suicide on the
9TH by setting the building on fire.
ADvIcEs of the 4th from the East and
South say that the recent snow-storm was
the worst known for years. The streets of
New York were blockadcd, and at various
points throughout Virginia, Maryland,
Delaware, Kentucky, Georgia and Tennes-
see traffic was interrupted by the snow.
WHAT was declared to be rich silver
quartz was found on a farm near Latta-
vile, Ross County, O., on the 4th, causing
great excitement in the neighborhood.
OWING to q strike the extensive mills Of
the Bates Manufacturing Company at Lew
iston, Me-, were closed on the 4th, throwing
nearly two thousand employees OUT of work.
TIE Secretary of the Treasury at Wash
ington stated on the 4th that the conscience
fund, the first item to it's credit being made
in 1927, now amounts to 1920, az.
THE California Refinery on the 18th re-
duced the price of sugar one-half to n
cent per pound.
Miss BETSY Jon, an old lady of eighty
years, was burned to q crisp in her home at
Martins Ferry, O., on the 5th. 1t was sup
posed that she was robbed and murdered.
AT a crossing at Edgerton, O., on the 5th
a sleigh containing fourteen persons was
struck by an engine, and ,six persons were
wounded, one of them fatally.
Two PASSENGER trains were in collision
on the Iron Mountain road, near Pied
mont, Mo-, ON the 5th, three employees
being killed and several travellers slightly
injured.
A PLAGUE of diphtheria threatened on the
5th to depopulate the towns of South Ma
lone and Duane, in Franklin County, N. Y.
FIRES at G~reenville, s. c., the other night
destroyed several stores. The loss was es-
timated at 100000.
ONE of the owners of the Ritzinger Ban
at Indianapolis stated on the 5th that cred
itors would receive s%eventy-ive pc: cent.
of their claims.
I BUSINESS failures Throughout the country
for the seven days ended on the 9Th were
253 for the United States and "a for Cana
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Gus seven days.
DENNIS W. DILDA was hanged on the 5th
at Prescott, A. r., for the murder of Deputy
Sheriff ]. NJ. Murphy, and 81 Mihich was
executed at I4eadville, Col, for the murder
of Samuel Baldwin.
Some miscreant at East st. Louis on the
5th poured oil down the chimney of a
shanty occupied by seven railway laborers,
all of whom were dangerously burned.
THE mercury throughout Virginia on the
5th showed a temperature Of from four to
t~hirty-fve degrees below zero, the most Sc
we're weather being at Staunton. In Wash
ington two degrees below was recorded.
WILLIAM J. HlGGINs, of New York, was
bitten by a mad dog SIX months ago. The
fear that he would nave hydrophobia took
possession of him and on the 9Th he shot
himself dead.
INTENSELY cold weather prevailed on the
5th throughout the East and along the At
lantic coast. Heavy SHOWS lay on the
ground in New England and the Middle
States, and the mercury ranged from six
degrees below zero in New York City to
thirty below i'll the interior of the State,
and it marked forty degrees below in Yer
mont. In Pennsylvania railroads were
blocked by huge drifts, the snow in some
instances overlapping the cars, and in the
Shenandoah section collieries suspended
work and schools were closed owing to the
low temperature.
In a hotel at Waco, Tex, a few evenings
ago William Lamb, q Chicago, travelling
man. was shot and killed by j. E. Graham,
of st. Louis. The quarrel was caused
by Lamb declaring that ga man who trav-
eled for a st. Louis house was no good.n
GEORGE r. SIMS, who was sent to the
penitentiary for three years for participa-
tion in pension frauds at Chicago, has been
p%ardoned by the President.
JOHN LADING, a German miser, ffty-ive
years of age, who lived in an old shanty,
was ounda at Delphos, O., frozen to death
on the 5th. A large sum Of money was also
found.
JOHN MCMAHON, who, while Collector of
Revenue at Hoboken, N. j., two years ago,
embezzled s5l 900, was on the 5th sentenced
to five years. imprisonment.
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