Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-03-05
DOMESTIC.

GEORGE DRIscoLL, Of Springfield, O., was
shotdead in his house by burglars on the
18th. A colored man named Harry Slater
was arrested on suspicion.
MANY cotton-mills in Massachusetts, and
New Hampshire will next month advance
the wages of their workmen ten per cent.
AN unknown white man was lynched on
the 9th near Spencer's Store, Va, for steal
ing a mule.
OK u farm at Mortified, O., q laborer on
the 9th took an iron bar and rendered sense
less the young daughter of John Hoar and
then burned a barn and cattle valued at
$4,000. Jencik, the perpetrator of the
crime, had been refused q kiss.
SIX persons lost their lives on the 10th in
a railway wreck near Pittsburgh, Pa.
In an address before the National Elec-
itric-Light Association at Baltimore on the
10th it was claimed that there are now 49,
600 incandescent and 80, 900 arc lights in tho
United States, representing an investment
of So 900, 900.
ADvlCEs of the 10th say that during the
recent severe cold weather one hundred
thousand head of cattle and one hundred
persons were frozen to death within a "a
dius of one hundred miles of Dodge City,
Kan.
THE club stable belonging to the Mead
OVERLOOK Hunt, at East Meadow, L. l., was
destroyed by fire on the 10th, tw%enty-four
blooded horses, valued at $780, 600, perishing
in the flames.
THREE Hungarian laborers at Gas Valley,
W. Va, were frozen to death a few nights
ago.
No FURTHER outbreaks against the
Chinese occurred at either Olympia or
Seattle, W. T., on the 10th. Precautions
against trouble had been taken ut Port
land, Ore.
BY the burning of a jewclry store on the
10th at jamestown, N. Y, c. r. Kayner
and wife, each aged about sixty, lost their
lives.
ALL the operators in the Pennsylvania
coke regions concluded on the 10th to sus-
pend work until the strikers came to terms.
JOIN FEssSER, a farmer living near In-
wood, Ind, set fire to his dwelling on the
10th and persisted in the flames. No cause
for the suicide was known.
LEONARD & BARRows' satisfactory at
Middleboro, Mass, was burned on the 10th,
causing a loss of 100000, and throwing
nearly three hundred persons out of work.
TIE First National Bank of Chicago paid
out S3,SO0 on forged checks on the 10th. The
forger escaped.
Mrs. kAT BARBER, aged forty-two years,
dropped dead from heart-disease in New
York City on the 10th, caused by the way
wardness of her sixteen-year-old son.
Owing to a disappointment in love,
Charles Dunbar, of Colfax, Ind, blew out
his brains on the 10th.
THE schooner Althea Godfrey was
wrecked a few days ago in Lynn Haven
bay, Va, and the crew, together with the
captain and his wife and five daughters,
persisted.
A GREAT wind and rain-storm prevailed
in New York City on the 18th. People in
the streets we're blown down, and horses
refused to face it, causing great blockades
on the principal streets.
For the sum of two dollars Alexander
Maullin, a boy of thirteen years, was muir
dered in the streets of Toccoa, Ca, on the
18th.
JAMES BRACKET, a young farm hand,
was shot dead near jacksonville, KY, on
the 18th by t. j. Beal. Bracket had been
charged by Mrs. Beal with attempting to
kiss her, but denied the charge, and called
hera liar, whe1 Beal shot him.
AT Bloomington, ILL.,, on the 18th two
confidence-men relieved George Bradner,
an old citizen M retired merchant, of
five thousand dollars by the lottery swim
die and made good their escape.
II thaw had on the 18th caused a sus.
pension of operations in many of the lum-
Der camps in Michigan and Wisconsin.
AN assignment was filed on the 18th by
the Garfield Manufacturing Company of
Chicago, engaged in the harness line, with
liabilities estimated at 100000.