Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-01-08
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
IT was reported in st. Paul on the 21st
that the log-cut in the Northwest this sea-
son would fall from fifteen to twenty per
cent. short because of the continued warm
weather.
JONI LEE, q white man, was taken from
|the Jail at Rockingham, N. c., on the 21st
lby a mob and hanged for the murder of
|Solomon WEIGH.
EDWIN GooDE and William Wheeler,
residing near Jackson, N. c., fought a duel
on the 21st with pistols, both men being
fatally wounded.
THE names of the United States Grand
Jurors recently discharged at Salt Lake
,City nave been published by the Mormon
Ipapers so that they may be boycotted.
TIE hotel, post-ot1ice and q dozen build
lings at Bartlett, O., were burned on the
l2lst, entailing heavy loss.
THE explosion of a boiler on the 21st in a
idistilIcry at Beavers Station, o., killed two
men, wounded three others, and destroyed
property worth $4,000.
! Rich discoveries of iron ore have recent
Ily been made by accident in the Vermillion
district Of Minnesota.
ESCAPING coal gas suffocated Simon
,Steinberg aud his wife at Indianapolis, Ind,
1.-THE other night.
Mrs. PREssLY BERRY was burned to death
lat Spring Hill, KY, on the 21st, her clothing
taking fire from the stove; and James
Startling, a farmer, fell into a vat of boiling
water near Chattanooga, Tenn, and was
roasted alive.
H issue of standard silver dollars dur
ing the week ended on the 10Th was G29,211.
The issue during the corresponding period
of last year was 454, 995.
The recent billiard tournament in Chica-
go between Schaefer, Slosson and Vignaux
for the championship of the world resulting
in a tie, another contest began ON the even
ing of the 21st.
ANOTHER cavern on the 2lst stopped the
work of the men who were ~endeavoring to
rescue the twenty-nine buried miners in the
lNanticoke (Pa.) colliery, and all hope Of
taking them out alive had been abandoned.
TIT State Veterinarian of Pennsylvania
son the 2a2d found six cattle infected with
Ipleuro-pneumonia in a herd at West Will
low.
ERAsTUs WIMAN, Of New York, on the 22d
secured the release of +. @. Ross from jail,
where he had been detained for six years,
Iby compromising his Indebtedness of 800,
700. He then secured employment for him
and sent for his wife.
JOSEPH WALSH, aged fifty years, was
rcrushed TO death by machinery in the Brook
i1yn IN. W sugar works on the 22d, and
frederick Bird, aged forty-tive, fell dead
from horror at the sight.
THREE men were killed in a collision OF
trains on the ED near Ashevills, N. c.,
caused by a conductors watch being one
hour slow.
THE iron market at Pittsburgh was or
tho 92d reported materially stronger, and
orders for material were plentiful. Price.
had been raised, and n further advance was
anticipated after the holidays.
GUsTAvUs MEIsTER, collector for q Buff
falo IN. W brewery, absconded on The ed
and his books showed a deficit of $4,000.
The locked-out employees of the Singer
sewing machine factory at Elizabethport
IN. j., numbering $500, were set to work OF
the ed.
THE New York Produce Exchange on the
22d figured the visible supply of wheat anc
corn at SO, 16l 1858 and 1885, 256 bushels, re
:spectively.
A CITIZEN of New York has brought eigh1
suits i'll indianapolis against %bondsmen Of
township trustees VINO lave issued illeea,
warrants and fed to Canada.
TIE annual report Of the State Audito,
of indiana, which was filed with the Gov.
ernor OF the 22d, showed that the debt of
the State was Sc. DOS, G0S.34.
IT was announced on the 22d that nine
,collieries near Pittston, Pa, would soon
suspend operations, throwing fourteen
hundred employees out Of work.
Dow, SHoR q Co., bankers at Syracuse,
IN. Y, failed on the 22d for over 100000.
PHILLIP BRADY and his wife were killed
by the cars a few days ago while attempt,
ing TO cross the railway tracks in Is car.
rlage at Goshen, N. Y. They had only
been married four weeks.
A sNow-sLlDE on the 22d near Silverton,
Col, did much damage to property and
killed two men.
MIR. PATIIcE EGAN says that the Irish Ma.
%,tional League of America has forwarded
$4,000 to MI. Parnell during the last two
months.
AT Greenville, Ca, Chunk McLenden dur.
law, Judge Rufus johnson, but himself re-
ceived fatal wounds.
AT Chenango, n. Y, nine buildings were
burned On the ed, among them the Che
mango Hotel.
TIE forty-two shoe factories at Brockton,
Mass, resumed operations Oh the 23d under
the compromise between the strikers and
;their employers arranged by q board of az
bitlation.
A SECOND cavein on the ed at the Nanti-
coke (Pa.) Mine destroyed all hope Of
the rescue Of the twenty-eight Imprisoned