Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-30
OF THE Week,
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.


Harmon & Holmes, at Sank Center, Mimi,
We're destroyed by fire on the 18th. Loss,
500, 1000.
GENERAL Crook on the 10Th sent a dis
patch to army headquarters at San Fran
cisco detailing the events of his campaign,
and stating that no Mexican troops CO.
operated with him, nor did he see any
persons, save Indians, since he left
the settlements. He was compelled to
quit the scene of operations, as, having
many prisoners to feed, rations were get
ting low. Among his prisoners are the
Chiefs Loco and Mana, besides five Next
can women and a child captured by the
savages.
II was recently reported at the Treasury
Department in Washington that the Brit
ish Government twas sending paupers to this
country by a roundabout process. The
paupers were said to be assisted to Belgium
and then again aided to emigrate to the
United States. TWAS charged that this plan
was adopted by the British authorities to
prevent complaint ON the part of the
United States through diplomatic chan
nels.
THE Treasury Department at Washing
ton has issued an order that in addition to
the quarantine cattle-sheds now in use, YES
sells engaged in transporting cattle will be
inspected and disinfected to prevent germs
of contagion from remaining in the apart
ments in which the cattle are shipped.
JORDAN CoRBIN (negro) entered the
house of a peaceful citizen, Benjamin Car
den, at Rockford, Ala, on the 18th, and
shot him while lying upon his bed. His
wife jumped up and the negro shot her
down. The son started to give the alarm
and he was also shot. All were instantly
killed. TIL daughter, aged fourteen years,
escaped and gave the alarm. There was
no provocation for the MURDERS.
A passing over the town Of
Hampstead, L. l., on the afternoon Of the
18th, did great damage to structures. Ten
or twelve persons We're injured, but none
fatally.
DURING the exercises attending the dedi-
cation of a soldiers monument on the 18th
at Mystic Bridge, Conn.,, a cannon was
fred at close range into the ranks of a COM
pany of veterans who We're marching past
while the artillery were firing a salute.
Eighteen men We're injured, three, it was
feared, fatally.
A oRNAD in Missouri recently de-
stroyed eleven buildings at Sumner City,
at Utica the Baptist Church was demolished
and at Chillicothe several houses We're
wrecked.
FOUR men were fatally injured at Gin
cillnati on the 18th by the falling of a roof
which they were attempting to raise over a
new building.
YCLoN and water spouts seriously
damaged crops in Northern Arkansas on
the 18th.
WILLIAM D1RELY, a negro, was arrested
at Columbus, o., on the 18th, upon the
charge of numbering three young people at
Ashland, KY, December 81, 1881, the crime
for which George Ellis, William Neal and
Ellis Craft were sentenced to death and
for which the first-named was hanged by a
mob. Direly implicated two other ne
groes, Dobney Jones and Reuben Kendall,
in the crime.
THREE men were suffocated by fire-damp
in a coal-mine at Crested Buttes, Col, a
few mornings ago.
JOIN WILLIAMS, aged s~eventy-seven
years, was on the 18th released from the
penitentiary at Little Rock, Ark. In 1871
he was convicted of murder i'll the second
degree, and sentenced to Imprisonment
for life. The longest punishment allowed
by the statutes for that offense is twenty
one years.
ORDERS have been sent to the Arch
bishops of the Catholic Church in the
United States to appear at Rome in Sep
TENDER to receive instructions relative to
the Plenary Councilto be held subsequently
i'll New York for the purpose of %reorganiz-
ing the church here and framing new arti-
cles of discipline.
~BEEBETowN, a small village in Harrison
County, Ia. was almost completely blown
away by a high wind a few nights ago.
Only one house was left standing, andthat,
~singularly enough, was OIL top of the hill.
No lives were reported lost.
SIx men at Mt. Sterling, Ky.-John Bar.
nett, Newton Yarber, John and William
Becraft, John Gibbs and Elliott Watkins
We're on the 18th sentenced to imprison-
ment for life for the murder of Vaughn
Hilton.
WILLIAM SIMS, Secretary of the Kansas
Board of Agriculture, estimates the Weld
OF wheat in his State this year at 23,GO1,-
ga bushels-12 1873 ,252 below last year,
AARON HARRIS, a colored boy who MUIR
dered a white peddler at Enterprise, Miss,
was taken from Jail by a mob on the night
of the 18th and lynched. He had con.
fessed his guilt.
JAMES MCDANIEL, one of the Oldest resi-
dents OF Tallahassee, Fla, was slain on
the streets on the 18th by John Skepper.
No reason was known for the crime.
LAST year Illinois raised one-ifth of the
entire oat-harvest of the country. This
year the indications on the 18th were that
the yield would be handsomely in excess
OF that of 1882, the number of bushels be-
ing estimated at over 100, 900 1000.
The Iowa Railway Commissioners have
decided that a pooling of the business of
railroad corporations within the State is
contrary to law.
RELATIVE to the Indians captured by
General Crook in his recent raid into the
Sierra Madre Mountains, Secretary Teller
on the l4th suggested that they be not re-
turned to their former reservation, but that
the adults be punished for their crimes and
the children separated from their parents
and sent to school.
DURING the seven days ended on the 18th
there were lS6 business failures, against
1I3 the previous seven days, distributed as
follows: New England States. "a: Middle