Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-21

Two SHIPS arrived at Pensacola, Fla. on
the 18th, from Vera Cruz, with yellow fever
on board.
The Board of Health of Pensacola, Fla,
has issued an order that yellow fever in
fected vessels arriving shall remain at
quarantine until frost comes.
THE hot wave in New York has been
causing great mortality among children in
the tenement districts. Up to moor on the
9th the total deaths for three days num-
bered 494. There was also twenty-sixcases
of sunstroke on that day-three fatal.
MRS. CHRISTIAN, of San Antonio, Tex,
on the 9Th confessed having poisoned seven
men to obtain their personal effects. One
victim was Mr.. Ilston, of Chicago, whom
near Laredo.
THIRTY assisted immigrants, mainly
from the workhouse at B%allanisloe, Ireland,
arrived in New York on the 9th.
WIND and rain did serious injury on the
9th in the vicinity of Albany, N. Y, trees,
ice-houses and barns being demolished, and
crops injured.
LIGHTNING struck an oil-tank at Oil City,
Pa, on the evening of the 9th, setting it on
fire, and $4,000 barrels of oil were con-
sumed.
Six cases of sunstroke occurred in Phila-
delphia on the 9th, five of which proved
fatal.
The bark Vega arrived off Mobile bar
early on the morning of the 9th with all
the crew save four down with yellow
fever. The Inflated craft came from Vera
Cruz.
NELSON HOWARD, who recently killed
John Kane, a bridge contractor on the Wa
bash Road, was lynched by a mob on the
night of the 9Th, at Mound City, Ill.
GRIMLEY, an aeronaut who assembled
from Honesdale, Pa, OF the 4th, i'll a bal
loon, landed on the 9th in the Catskill
Mountains, N. Y, and had a terrible ex-
perience.
THERE were one hundred andthirty bust
ness failures throughout the country dur
ing the seven days ended on the 9th, dis.
tributed as follows: New England States,
ten; Western, fifty: Middle, eighteen;
Southern, twenty-four; Pacific States and
Territories, thirteen; New York City, sew
en-; Canada, sixteen.
THE miners at Ely, VT, who could not
get their wages, threatened on the 9th to
destroy the town with gunpowder, and had
already committed acts Of violence. The
Governor ordered four accompanies of militia
to the place, and would also attend himself
to prevent outrages.
AT the %rolling-mill in South Chicago on
the 9th steam was accidentally turned into
a boiler which was being cleaned by John
Hero and John Holngren, scalding them to
death.
TIMOTHY SMITH, a clerk in the office of a
firm of brokers in Boston, confessed onthe
9th to having stolen $4,000 and lost it in
gambling.
The region around Petersburg, Va, was
visited by a heavy thunder and rain-storm
on the night of the 5th, many structures
being struck by lightning aud orchards
damaged.
JOHN CONE t(colored) was hanged at
Houston, Tex, on the 9th, for criminal as.
sault upon a white girl.
JAMES NAPIER, a negro, became jealous
of his wife at Hampton, Ca, the other day,
beat her fatally, and then hanged himself.
The Red River Valley was on the 9Th
still suffering from drought. Minnesota
and Southern Dakota had been blessed with
copious rains. The wheat crop in that Sec
ton was estimated at ninety-four per cent
of an average yield. Corn was fully three
weeks later than usual.