Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-11
EP|T0ME OF THE week.
Interesting News Compilation.
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the pier, when the structure gave way, and
half the number were precipitated into the
water. Seventy-eight bodies had been
taken out and sent to the city. Most of
the drowned were women and children.
The exchanges at twenty-three leading
clearing houses in the United States for
the week ended on the 21st were 81 ,007, $780,
455, against 1925 AL, 720 the week previous.
A FIRE on the oath in Memphis, Tenn,
among grocery and commission houses,
destroyed about 5000, 900 worth of property.
ABOUT fifty masked men drove into Har-
Ian, Ia, at two O'Clock on the morning of
the oath, marched to the Jail, and secured
Hardy, one of the Polk City murderers.
As the fire-alarm bell rang out to wake the
citizens, the mot hurried Hardy to the
bridge, where they hanged him, riddled
Ahe corpse with bullets, and threw it into
3he river.
THE wreck of the schooner Seabird was
found on the Oath about thirty miles off the
port of Milwaukee, and its crew of six men,
from Chicago, were supposed to lave been
drowned.
EDWIN j. GADDIs, of New York, we'll
Known in military circles, was drowned on
the Oath at Jamesport, L. l., while endeav-
oring to rescue Sarah and Ida Hamilton,
who were bathing.
A NEGRO fired into a crowd Of boys a few
days ago at Newark, N. j., who were mock
iag him, and fatally injured two of them.
1T was stated on the Oath that under a
large tree in Llano County, Tex, was re-
gently found a carriage with the skeletons
of three adults and two children. The be-
7iof p,ovoi1ad fh of tbaxy yvora ENro1ic1, fo,,r-
lists, and were struck by lightning at least
a year ago..
The Sioux held their annual sun-dance
st Rosebud Agency on the oath, ten thou
SAND being present from all parts of the
reservation. The Government had given
orders to suppress the barbarous practice,
kut the agents were powerless.
The new Irvine factory of Leonard &
Blackies, at Piqua, o., valued at $4,000,
was destroyed by fire on the 25th. Four
Aremen were probably fatally injured by
falling walls.
The steamship Audean with yellow fever,
arrived at Newport, r. l.. on the 25th,
and was ordered below to the quarantine
station. All foreign vessels entering the
capes would be stopped if there was sick
ness on board.
Miss WALKER and eight other young
ladies of Huntsville, Ala, the other day
challenged a male nine to a game of base
ball and beat them by twenty to eleven.
NJ RAND was at work n few days ago
in a field near Rich Hill, Mo-, with three
horses, when a stroke of lightning killed
man and animals, the latter being horribly
lacerated.
WHEN eleven rounds of a prize-fght had
been finished at Nianticoke, Pa, on the
25th a crowd of women armed with knives
and pistols broke into the ring and stopped
the mill.
A WILD freight train near Schenectady,
NJ. ", on the 2oth struck a passenger train
at full speed. One man was fatally
scalded, six others were seriously injured,
and the engines and six cars were wrecked.
SEVEN passengers in a mixed train on
the Wabash Railway were killed near Law
son, Mo-, on the night of the 25th. The
passenger-car ran off the rails and turned
completely over. 1t then broke into pieces,
crushing the persons.
AT Lexington, Ky.,. while operating q
few days ago on the teeth ofMrs. Seaman,
DIR. John B. Kidd fell dead in her lap from
heartrdisease.
ROBERT REED, Samuel Harland and Will
lam Dunn were fatally burned by the ex-
plosion of a cinder-blast at the Crane Iron
Works, in'Catasaqua, Pa, ON the 25th.
The American Rapid Telegraph Com
pany on the 25th agreed with the Brother
hood OF Telegraphers to advance salaries
ten per cent, make eight hours in the day
time or seven hours at night a days work,
and pay extra for Sunday service.
EIGHT colored persons were drowned
while crossing the river at Claremont, Va,
a few evenings ago, to attend prayer
meeting.
DURING a thunderstorm on the 25th three
children of Isaac Berry, of Jacksonville,
O., were killed by lightning. They were
in the field hoeing corn when the storm
came up, and took shelter under a tree.
The Oldest child was only fourteen years
of age.
JOHN II. ~PETTINGILL, a substantial bust
ness man of Lewiston, Me-, went to a cir.
Gus recently with his grandson, and suf-
fered himself to be defrauded out of 81, 900
by monte men.
The Howe Sewing Machine works, at
Bridgeport, Conn.,, were destroyed by fire
on the Goth. Loss, $780, 00.
A MAN named Rigney, in Jail at Miles
City, M. T., for disorderly conduct, was
taken out a few nights ago and hanged.
Two hours after the lynching the theater
was fired and completely destroyed, to.
gether with six other buildings, presum-
ably in retaliation. The loss by fire aggre.
gated $780, 00.
A SEAMAN from the brig Julia Blake died
on the 26th of yellow fever at the quaran-
tine station below Philadelphia.
The bank of Leadville, Col, of which E.
L.. Campbell is President, made an assign.
ment on the Goth.
AT Fulton, N. Y, in the presence of five
thousand persons, H~anlan, Hosmer and
Lee rowed a three.mile race on the Goth,
coming in one second apart, Hanlan win
ming.
THE Ward Iron Company, of Niles, O.,
failed on the Goth for nearly 81, 900, 900.
The Executive Committee Of the trunk
lines on the Goth fixed a rate of $1S.5 80 for
passengers from New York to Chicago
over the new line formed by the Wabash,
Baltimore and Grand Trunk Roads.
SIX colored men We're drowned in the
Waccamaw River, in Horny County, S. c.,
on the Goth. They attempted to cross in an