Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-05

AT Bonneville, Mo-, a frame tenement oc-
cupied by negro families was destroyed by
fire on the 2lst, Anna Reed and her two
little children perishing in the flames.
AN explosion occurred on the 2lst in the
Oriel coal mine, at Newburg, w. Va, re-
sulting in the imprisonment of thirty-seven
persons in the shaft, and it was feared that
all would perish from %fire-damp.
Miss RISER and her escort, James Mar
shall, were drowned on the 2lst near Daw-
son, Pa, while skating.
EXCITEMENT at Vandalia, Mo, in regard
to the presence of mad dogs led to the
shooting a few days ago of thirty-seven
animals by their owners in the public
square
THE recent blizzard caused many deaths
in the vicinity of Oberlin, Kan. Men were
found in their huts and dugouts, with bread
in their hands, frozen stiff.
TnE relief committee at Nanticoke, Pa,
had up to the 21st received from the public
at large the sum of S., 534 to aid twenty
families left destitute by the recent coal
mine disaster.
By an explosion in a distillery at Terre
Haute, Ind, the other morning two men
were killed and five injured.
The ship Frank N. Thayer, hemp laden,
from Manila to New York, was burned at
sea recently, entailing a loss of 1910, 600.
THE State W~orkingmen's Convention at
Albany, N. Y, on the 21st decided to boy
colt all Chinese labor and the products of
such labor, and also all citizens who may
in any manner assist the Chinese.
AN avalanche in Maroon Pass, Col, on
the 2lst buried a party of men and mules,
and six of the men and a like number of
snow-slide swept away the houses, plant
men being killed.
NOBLE B. JUDAH and other Chicagoans
have incorporated the American Press AS
ISOLATION, with a capital of 5000, 600, to col
lect and distribute news.
GOVERNOR HUGHES, of Arkansas, on the
21st pardoned thirty colored men known as
the Howard County rioters, who were serv-
ing sentences ranging from five to fifteen
years.
A HURRICANE ragged on the Pacific coast
on the 21st, the wind at San Francisco
reaching a velocity of eighty-two miles per
hour. In the city buildings, church spires
and chimneys were blown down, and
streets and Easements were flooded by the
heavy rain. Two women were killed and
several persons were injured by falling
houses.
In a house of bad repute in Chicago on
the night of the 21st Charles A. Cloves, a
wealthy young man, shot and killed his
mistress, Blanche Gray, and then shot him
self dead. The cause of the deed was un-
Goouyo (1nupae1 yroo%l,o,, -1-, s-.z TT-.I-
Park, and with her is Cloves young wife,
whom he married only three months ego in
New York.
FIRES on the 21st in cotton s%torehouses at
Tompkinsville, s. l., caused losses aggre.
eating $4,000.
WILLIAM PITTMAN shot and killed his
brother Herbert OF the 22d. They were
farmers, lived near Petersburg, Va, and
quarreled over the loan of a horse.
THE State of Pennsylvania has eighteen
schools for soldiers orphans, on which S.
100000 has been expended during the past
twenty years.
In the northern portion of Berks County,
Pa, diphtheria has swept away thirty
persons within a short period, and the
disease was on the I'D still spreading.
THE total number of business failures in
the United States and Canada during the
seven days ended on the 22d was 1874,
against 1874 for the previous seven DAYS.
HENRY JACKSON (colored) was executed
in Webster Parish. La, on the ed for the
murder of q grocer named r. A. Britten.
MRS. GEORGE GRAvENER, of Covington,
KY, drowned herself and babe in a cistern
on the I'D while temporarily insane.
ADv1cEs of the 22d say that no less than
forty-one lives were lost by the recent mine
disaster at Newburg, W. Va.
The Carrollton c~otton-seed oil mills, in
the upper portion of New Orleans, valued
at 100000, were destroyed by a recent fire.
GREAT excitement prevailed on the ed in
Searcy County, Ark, over the reported dis
covery of rich copper mines.
DENNIS JACKSON, e farmer living at Pilot
Grove, no, was shot lead on the 22d bv
his fourteen-year-old son because he had
severely whipped the boy.
IhE damage to property in the city and
county of Los Angeles, CAL, by tue recent
floods was on the 22d estimated at $500, 600.
Over six persons are known to have lost
their lives.
AT a campfire on the 22d at Upper San
dusky, O., held for the relief of INDECENT
soldiers and their families, Lowell b. Harris
paid one thousand dollars for his supper.
WHILE coasting at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the
I'D two boys ran into a heavy wagon and
were fatally injured.
THE weather throughout the Northwest
on the 22d was the most severe thus far
this winter. In Chicago and other portions
OF Illinois the mercury fell to tw~enty-three
degrees below zero, III Iowa it ranged from
twelve to twenty-six below, in Wisconsin
twenty-five below was reported, and in
Minnesota thirty below. Railway travel
was suspended at many points, owing to
the drifting snow.
The residence of the widow of General
Henry Storms, at Tarrytown, N. Y, was
robbed the other night by six masked men.
who carried off the family plate, valuable
relics, jewel-hilted swords and the accumu-
lated silverware of three generations.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The funeral of Miss Katharine Lee Raw.
ard took place at Wilmington, Del, on the
10Th.
IHE Supreme Court of Illinois has af-
hlmed the decision of the lower court that
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