Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-09

supposed to contain about $4,000.
Four D riotous miners on the 24Al
drove n%on-union workmen from the col
liery at C%ollinsville, ILL.,, and the proprie
tors had asked the aid of the militia.
OVER 100000 in United States notes
and gold and silver certificates were re-
duced to pulp in the Treasury Department
at Washington on the 9th. This was
destroyed.
ArRAIN on 1.-THE Denver e. Rio GrandeRoad
went through a bridge over the Gunnison
River, near Delta, Col, on the oath. The
mail and baggage cars floated a mile before
lodging. Engineer Duncan IL Fireman
Emery were drowned, and several passen-
gers were injured.
A LANs1NGBURG IN. W firm had on the
oath nearly completed a paper Steamboat
for a Pittsburgh (Pa.) company.
COMMISSIONED MARBLE stated on the
oath that the receipts from the Patent Of
fee i'll Washington this year would be
about 81, 200, 700. The Patent Office is one
of the branches of the public service which
is self-sustaining.
AT Nevada, Mo-, Bill Fox lured w. L.
Howard into the woods a few days ago,
put four bullets into him, and robbed the
corpse of forty dollars. Fox confessed his
crime.
CAPTAIN RAND and Mate Fender, of the
steamer Tropic, were convicted at Phila-
delphia on the 24th of violating the neu-
trality laws by conveying insurgents to
Hayti.
ARTHUR WILKES, aged twenty-five, a
..o11a,, =, 41,, NJ,,.I,,% T,,,, NJ;J1 ,+ Dor,o
N. Y, was crushed to death a few days
ago by falling feet first through a train of
twelve-inch rolls.
AN unknown horse-thief was lynched by
cowboys at Overton, Neb., a few days
ago.
Two COMPANIES of militia We're OH the
25th ordered to the Collinsville (Ill.) mines
to curb the riotous miners, who, inflamed
with drink, uttered loud threats and pre-
vented mining operations.
Four executions took place in the South
on the 18th, as follows: Leander Coleman,
at Baton Rouge, La, for the murder of
John Cray: Jack Hinton, at Helena, Ark;
John Taylor, at Clarendon, Ark, for the
murder of Hugh Ingram, and Joseph
Young, colored, at Texarkana, Ark.
THE boilers of the steamer Pilot exploded
near Lakeville, Cal, on the 25th, wrecking
the vessel and causing the loss of eighteen
lives.
A LOT was discovered at Troy, N. Y,
on the 25th, to blow up a tenement house
containing sixty persons, families of non
union workmen employed in the IRON
works. Suspicion attached to the union
men who recently left the works.
THE result Of the League baseball games
up to the 25th placed the Providence, Cleve.
land and Detroit clubs a tie for first place,
each nine having won eleven out of sixteen
games.
S. H. SEAMANs, of Milwaukee, Secretary
of the Millers' National Association, gave
publicity on the 25th to the wheat-crop
estimate, which promises for the whole
wheat-belt of the United States 273, 800, 1000
bushels for 1888, indicating a prospective
shortage from the 1882 crop of nearly
93,000,000 bushels in twenty-one States,
which represent nearly all the wheat-pro-
ducing areas.
In the half-breed settlement near Neche,
d. T., the ravages of smallpox were in
creasing on the 25th to an alarming extent.
The number of cases was very large.
LIE ouol1lcso AdA1uleS ~CulOuSuOuu Tue
country during the seven days ended on
the 25th numbered 15s, against III for the
week previous, a reduction of 10. New
England States had II; Western, Al; South
ern, 81: Middle, %; Pacific States and Ter.
r%itories, IS; New York City, Z; Canada, Is.
SIXTY armed men attacked the Jail at Mt.
Sterling, KY, the other night, for the pur-
pose of lynching a murderer, but were re-
pulsed. The Sheriff and several others
were wounded in the affray.
Two packages of tea were
seized at New York on the 25th under the
provision of the act prohibiting the impor.
tation of spurious and adulterated teas.
WITH a view Of keeping the Indians on
their respective reservations, and also OF
reducing the expenses Of the Indian ser
vice, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs
at Washington on the 25th issued u circu.
lar to agents of non-treaty Indian agencies
directing them to discontinue supplying
Indians with coffee, tea, sugar and tobac-
co, exceptas a compensation for labor per-
formed.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the o5th
states that the total value of imports of
merchandise for the twelve months ended
April 30, 1888, was $7733, III, 431: forthe year
ended April 80, 1882, S70s,O24 ,427, increase,
$S25,153,Go4; value of exports of mer.
%chandise, for the year ended April 80, 1883,
Ss11 ,G41, 3354: for the, preceding year, $777,.
s75,7s1; increase, * $$33 7765,573.