Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19
DOMESTIC.

SNow-sL5DBs in the vicinity of Crested
Buttes, Col, on the 25th carried away two
cabins and killed five men.
AT Cleveland OF the night of the 18th
%dynamiters partially wrecked the dwelling
of police officer George Z. Corner, who re-
Gently killed a notorious burglar.
JESSE c. WIcKERsHAM and wife, residing
twenty miles from Cloverdale, Cal, were
recently found murdered. A Chinese cook
having disappeared, he was suspected.
CHARL HOWARD, night Waterman at
the railway shops in Marietta, Ca, was
murdered a few days ago by unknown per-
sons with a hammer, and his corpse covered
with live Goals
SIX stores at Opelika, Ala, were de-
stroyed by fire on the Goth.
THE first of the five games of the inter
national billiard-match at New York, for
five thousand dollars a side, between Wig
naux and Schaefer, resulted on the Goth. in
a victory for the latter by a score of 600 to
274.
The Agricultural Department. of Illinois
on the 2Gth reported a deficit of i've million
bushels in the amount required for home
consumption-a state of affairs not known
to exist for a quarter of a century.
A GEORGE man named Daniels killed his
wife at Griffin, Ga, o n the 18th. He had
eloped with his sister-in-law. and his wife
was in pursuit of him.
THE damage to the orange crop in Flor
ida by the recent cold snap was on the 26th
estimated at $4,000, 900.
The loss by the recent fire in Philadel-
phia was on the Goth placed at $3.50, 600.
AT Canton Ca n, tho OStl, n. Moo,o
an aged physician, was bitten by his horse
In the neck, the teeth of the animal almost
severlng the doctors head from his body.
"A at Stockton, CAL, washed away
levees and caused a damage of $500, 600 on
the Goth.
EARTHQUAKE shocks were felt on the 26th
in Ulster, Green and Duchess Counties,
New York.
The Indianapolis State Board of Health
announces that during 1885 there were
l5,605 deaths in the State, TIC being from
accident and 10 from suicide: S,1l5 were
males and 7,4SS females.
A LETTER mailed in Silesia for a citizen
OF Madicoen, Java, found it's way to the
Chicago post-office Oh the Goth. having been
mlssent twelve thousand miles to Madison.
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MEssRs. MooDY AM SANKEY began their
revival meetings at Knoxville, Tenn, on
the Goth.
The people of Cloverdale, Cal, on the
10th warned all Chinese residents to leave
within forty-eight hours.
The strikers in the coke regions Of Penn
sylvania on the 9th ordered out the engi-
neers at the pumps, and all the mines
would soon be flooded.
The f%ruit-growers of California on the
9th memorialized Congress not to ratify
the reciprocity treaty with Mexico; and
further asked that the duties on prunes.
raisins and olive oil be materially in
creased.
REPORTS of the 9th from the peach-grow-
ing sections of the Hudson river valley
show that the buds were killed by the re-
centcold snap, and that, for the third year
in succession, there will be no crop.
HOLDEN DICK and Vicente Olinas, the
former an Indian, the latter a Mexican.
both convicted of murder, were taken out
of jail at S%usanville, Cal, on the 9th by a
mob and hanged.
THE Mississippi river was on the 9th
blockaded by a solid mass of ice from St,
Louis sixty miles south and as far north as
the mouth of the Illinois river.
II number of hogs packed in the West
during the week ended on the 23d was 800
OO0, compared with 21O,OOO for tile same
week last year.
"A PARTY of hunters at Brushy lake, Ark,