Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-04
OF THE week.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC

Ten stores at Oxford, Ala, were totally
destroyed by fire a few days ago.
IMMIGRATION statistics show that the ar.
rival" in this country for the first half of
1883 were 592,324,. against 770,422 during
the same time last year.
JOHN RoTTLER and Nicholas Roeder,
while drilling for a blast at st. Louis on
the 18th, were buried under a mass of clay
which became detached from a bluff about
forty feet above them, and were crushed to
death.
Two BROTHERS,, named Barnard, in Jail
at Vernon, La, for murder, were released
on the night of the 18th by a crowd of
armed men.
SAMUEL LOCKER, a clerk in the Adams
Express Office in Cincinnati, was arrested
on the 18th for the theft of diamonds left
in the Office for shipment.
EIGHT boilers of the anthracite furnaces
owned by the Philadelphia G. Reading
Company, at Allentown, Pa, exploded on
the 18th. One man was killed, one fatally
wounded, two seriously hurt, and several
slightly injured. The furnace was COM
pletely destroyed.
DURING a severe storm On the 18th a
church at Warrensburg, ILL.,, was blown
down, and several cattle were killed by
lightning.
The Sprague estates at Providence, R. l.,
were sold at public auction OH the 18th, the
amount realized being about $50, 1000.
WALTER BROWN, of Kansas City, has
entered $4,000 acres of land in the counties
of Clark and Comancha, Ram, at one dol
lar per acre, for capitalists, who will fence
the tract and raise cattle.
REV. FATHER O'HARAN, pastor of st.
Mary's Church, of Wilkesbarre, Pa, and
the pastor of the Catholic Church at Plym-
outh, have informed the Sunday-school
children of their congregations that here
after they will not be allowed to wear
bangs or frizzes while attending divine
service. If they do they will be sent home.
The Post-offce Department at Washing
ton on the 18th issued a circular to post.
masters notifying them that the reduction
in postage rates would take effect October
], and directing them to make preparations
for it. The head of Washington has been
adopted for the new two.cent stamp and
the head of Jackson, similar to that on the
present two-cent stamp, has been adopted
for the new four-cent stamp.
In the Hanlan-Ross boat-race on the
18th, at Ogdensburg, N. Y, the former
won with ease, making the best time on
record for the same distance, four miles,
and defeating Ross by a quarter of a mile.
Time, 27:57h. Best time previously made,
% minutes 6a seconds.
FROST appeared at several points near
Davenport, Ia, on the morning of the 18th.
At New Orleans, La, the heat was so op-
pressive that horses and mules dropped
dead in the street.
A CUBAN club has been organized at
Philadelphia, the object of which is 10 work
for the independence of Cuba.
A VERY severe hail-storm passed over
Clay County. D. T., onthe 18th, destroying
all the crops in it's path. The damage was
estimated at 5000, 900.
THE Mexican Consul at Tucson received
advices on the 18th that hear the point
where General Crook left the hostiles, they
had attacked a settlement and killed five
Mexicans. A detachment of infantry
which followed the savages was repulsed
with a loss of seven.
SURGEoN-GENERAL HAMILTON reported
on the 18th that no case of yellow fever
had yet appeared this season on shore in
ooooSo3 bAAo U10U hO uou III lcdI
that it would get inside the quarantine
limits. The disease was still raging at
Vera Cruz, the total number of deaths up
to date being 495.
Ida BUSHNELL, of Carter's Creek, Va, a
young lady of high social standing in Vir-
ginia, committed suicide a few evenings
ago after having a slight quarrel with her
lover.
w. II. M1LLER's barn and slaughter
house at Carthage, No., and many trees
were struck by lightning the other night.
A large number of barns in Marshall were
burned by lightning, trees uprooted and
grain blown fiat.
SEVERAL worklnen in the Yonkers IN.
W Gaslight Company's works were Sc
verely injured by a recent explosion, and
the works were destroyed.
BISHOP KNuDsoN, Of Uintah County,
Utah, was arrested on the 18th for placing
dynamite under a bed and blowing up and
severely injuring two of his wives.
The cotton-worm has done much harm
along the railroad from Austin to San
Antonio, Tex, and on the 18th had ap.
peared near Calvert and Hearne.
The total amount of cash received and
w Vuo COHlullGUce appO1QUeu to
relieve the sufferers by the Ohio floods of
February was $160, 800.
The total values of exports of breadstuffs
in June, 1880, was $11, 545 1886; in June,
1882, 1920, 1875; for the six months ended
June 3o,18s3, $50, JAS, 1886; for the same
period in 1882, $64, s56,93O; for the twelve
months ended June 80, 1883, $500, 971 ,491; for
the same time in 1882, $177, OO1, 1896.
FRANK THAYER, aged twenty, son of j.
T. Thayer, a ~well-known New York
banker, was taken with cramps while
bathing at Hampstead Harbor, L. l., a few
mornings ago., and was drowned in sight
of his mother and friends, who were stand
ing on the shore, helpless spectators of his
death.
THE members of the Brotherhood of
T~elegraphers, some eight thousand in num-
Der, employed by various lines throughout
the country, struck on the 10Th for an in.
crease of wages and shorter hours of work.
The strike was general in all the large
cities. The Western Union and other com
panies were filling the places of the strikers
with new men. No case of personal as
sault OF of injury to the property of the
great corporations was recorded.
JOSEPH STAEGAMER, a Philadelphia
saloon-keeper, shot his wife dead and then