Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-18

petrated in Georgia, advices OF the I'd an
nounce from Tennessee terrible barbarities
practiced by midnight m%arauders upon
white and colored citizens of Wartrace, for
no known reason.
WHILE suffering from delirium tremens,
Wilhelm Schmeld, of Baltimore, a few
days ago killed his wife and himself with
a revolver.
A HAcK-rEAM became frightened and
plunged into the river at Polk street bridge,
Chicago, about seven O'Clock on the even
ing of the Cd. Mr.. James Bezey, who was
inside, jumped out and escaped, but three
of his children, two daughters, aged re-
spectively sixteen and twelve years, and q
son, aged eight years, We're drowned. The
driver went over, too, but wa saved.
The United States Treasury Cattle Com
mission, after exhaustive inquiry, reported
on the I'd that it was unable to find a
trace of the f~oot-and-mouth disease, apart
from the herds recently landed from Great
Britain.
GEORGE N LENA SousT, aged respect
lively sixteen and fourteen years of age,
were drowned the other day near New
York City while out boating.
FIT. gid. PHINNEY, boot and shoe count
er manufacturers, of Boston, failed on the
I'd for over S400, 200.
CHARLES HENRY LEE, a colored murder
er, was hanged at Richmond, Va, on the
Sd.
THE Treasury Department at Washing
ton has ordered that clerks be 20 longer
granted what is called election leave.
The business failures reported during the
seven days ended on the Sd numbered
49,, against 100 the previous seven days,
distributed as follows: New England
States, SO; Middle, SO; Western, 40; South
ern, 80; Pacific States, IL; Canada, %, and
New York City, 10.
THE Postal Telegraph Company an
nounced on the Sd that it's lines betw cen
New York City and Chicago were working
satisfactorily, and chat messages would be
transmitted with promptness for twenty,
for ten words or less.
A HOTEL and several other buildings at
Midlothian, Tex, We're destroyed by a hur
ricane on the Sd, and numerous persons
We're badly injured.
THE ~sixty-second anniversary of the
birth of the late Uriah S. Stephens, found
er of tho Order of Knights of Labor, was
celebrated at Philadelphia on the Sd.
A DESTRUCTIVE wind, hail and rain
storm visited the region north OF Rochester,
N. Y, on tho night of the Sd, running grain
and fruit.
THOMAS p. RIPLEY, a shoe-manufacturer
at Brockton, Mass, was badly injured a
few nights ago by a runaway, and OH being
taken home his sister was SO overcome
with excitement that she dropped dead.
A CHARTER for the st. Louis, Emporia &
Denver Railway has been filed at Topeka,
Kan. The road is to be 1000 miles long.
The capital stock is $20,o00,O0
MARK A. BLANFoRD, of Columbus, Ca,
has been elected to the Supreme Court of
that State, to succeed Martin j. Crawford,
deceased.
The first bale of new hops arrived ir
New York City on the Sd from Oneida
County, N. Y, and was sold to a promi
nent brewer for fifty cents per pound.
OFFICERS of the Santa Fe Road on the
Sd estimated the average yield of wheat il
Kansas at twenty bushels to the acre
Many fields of oats had exceeded ninety
bushels per acre. A large gain would b.
made on the corn crop of last year.