Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-28
.EPlT0ME OF THE WEEK.
Interesting News Compilation.

Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.
In the office of the Boston Herald, on the
evening of the 10th the engineer struck the
chief stereotyper three blows with an iron
bar, fracturing his skull. No words had
passed between them, but Flannery as
saulted Johnson as he passed down stairs
to his duty.
THE cashier of lions Savings Bank, at
Salt Lake, was knocked senseless by a thief
on the 10th, when the latter and his confed-
crate walked off with considerable gold,
and had not been arrested.
Two RAINS on the Buffalo & Southwest.
ern Road collided near jamestown, N. Y,
early a few mornings ago, two train-hands
being killed and one fatally injured.
KANSAS was visited by a cyclone on the
night of the 18th, which completely de.
stroyed Soldier City, a towno of two hundred
inhabitants, in Jackson County. Three
women and one child were killed, and fif-
At Cimarron, Gray County, six buildings
We're wrecked, but no one was injured.
r. L. CLINGAN, postmaster at Polk City,
H., was shot dead in his Office on the night
of the 10th by two unknown men. No
cause was known for the crime. Citizens
were hunting for the assassins with shot
guns and pistols. D..
HIGH water caused a freshet at Topeka,
KAN, on the 18th, many persons being res
cued from the rising waters by boats.
THE nail-keg factory of Edward Win
ming, at Steubenville, o., which employed
two hundred men, was destroyed by fire
on the 18th.
On a narrow-gauge road in Dodge
County, Ga, four cars went through a
burning bridge on the 18th, by which three
men lost their lives and ten others were
wounded, some fatally.
FLAMES wiped out Selden's planing-mill
and Sage's sash factory, at Rome, N. Y,
valued at 500, 200, on the 18th.
The New York emigration authorities on
the 18th ordered the officers of the steamer
Lydian Monarch to carry five pauper Po-
lish families back to London.
THE commission firm of Stiles, Colby &
McMahon, of Chicago, failed on the 18th
fo1s$150,000.
BURGLARS entered the bank at Franklin,
N. Y, early on the morning of the 18th,
blew open the safe, secured eight hundred
dollars and escaped. The explosion blew
out the entire front of the building.
At Burnt Prairie, White County, ILL.,,
Douglass Dowdy IL Buck Williams,
brothers-in-law, fought with knives on the
18th, Dowdy being stabbed to the heart and
Williams fatally wounded.
DURING the first six months of this wear
$500 miles of railroad main track have
been built in this country in t~hirty-fve
States and Territories. California ranks
first with two hundred miles, and Montana
follows with II hundred and ninety.six
miles. The total is a decline of 2,49O miles
from the corresponding period of last
year.
PHINNEY q JACKSON, merchants, of Port
land, Me-, have suspended, with liabilities
exceeding $1,000
DENNIS HoGARrY and Henry Bowling
were lynched by the citizens of M~arysville,
Col, a few nights ago, for the murder and
robbery of two men.
The new department of the University
of Indiana, at Richmond, containing the
library and museum, was destroyed by
fire on the night of the 10Th. Loss, 5000, 900.
The fire was caused by lightning.
THE region about volga, D. T., was Wis.
tied by a fierce hail-storm early on the
morning of the 18th, which seriously in
jured crops. Hamilton County, Neb., also
suffered by a gale, accompanied by rain
and hail, many structures being wrecked,
and some stock killed. The residence of a
family named Berry was blown to pieces,
and all the inmates were wounded.
A CYCLONE struck Indianapolis on the
evening of the 18th, tearing up shade
trees by the hundred, and unroofng build
ings. The new steel mill was partially
wrecked.
DOMESTIC money-orders can now be oh.
tanned for any amount from one cent to
one hundred dollars. The international
civilized nations.
EX-TREAsURER RUFUS S. MANN, of Ian
singburgh, N. Y, having been injuriously
affected by a sun-stroke, cut his throat
from ear to ear on the 10Th.
THE sales of petroleum in the various
exchanges at New York on the 18th ex-
ceeded II, OO0, 1000 barrels.
ALICE GUM, of Falls City, Neb., aged
fourteen, was burned to death the other day
by the explosion of a coal oil can she had
been using to light a fire.
SEVERAL showers met OH the hill near
Springfield, VT, ON the 10Th, and uniting
poured down the narrow valley in a tor
rent, carrying away bridges and buildings,
and doing damage estimated at 500, 1000.
FIVE carpenters were badly injured at a
Philadelphia ship-yard on the 18th by the
giving way of a scaffold. Thomas Le-
compile would die.
The fear of yellow fever has caused the
negroes to commence an exodus from
Northern Louisiana, Arkansas and Eastern
Texas.
AT Laurens, S. c., two twin children of
George Boozer, six weeks old, died sudden
ly a few days ago from the effect of NOR
phine, administered by mistake by a care
less nurse. ..
The Illinois Department Of Agriculture
reported on the 10Th that corn promised a
better crop than last year, although the
season had been unfavorable.
N. S. TEMPLE (colored), a politician of
note, was found guilty at Jackson, Miss,
a few days ago of numbering his wife. and
was awarded life Imprisonment.
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