Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-16
OF THE WEEK.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC

THERE was all advance OF five cents in
petroleum at Bradford, Pa, on the Goth,
and great excitement prevailed on the oil
exchanges.
A HURRICANE at Fort Smith, Ark,
on the Goth unroofed the Southern Hotel
and many other buildings, and demolished
shade trees.
Don CARvEr:, a wealthy merchant at
Gainesville, Miss, shot dead Charles Ar
mold, his boek-keeper, in a quarrel over the
accounts a few nights ago., and in q store
near Shreveport, La, A. j. Northcutt shot
and killed A. L. O'Neal, a cattle dealer.
The murder was ~unprovoked.
THE Atlantic cables, according to Mr..
John Fender, are capable of accommodate
ing three times the amount of business that
is at present required of them.
JULIUS BUTzEN, a teacher in a Catholic
parochial school at Cleveland, o., was ar
rested on the Goth, charged with having
beaten one of his pupils so severely, a
year ago, that he would be a cripple for
life.
ADv1cEs received by the National Board
of Health at Washington on the Goth indi-
Gated a steady increase in the number of
ycllO" leteI CASES uLluOl ucdOl1o dU ufilL
There were also a considerable number of
cases at Rio de Janeiro. The Southern
ports on the Atlantic and the Gulf had all
established rigid quarantine.
A CRUSH and panic occurred at about
four O'Clock on the afternoon Of the Both
ult. at the New York side of the new Brook
lyn bridge at the short flight of steps lead
ing to the main footway. For some rea-
son unknown those coming from Brook
lyn halted near this spot, but were
pushed rapidly forward to the
edge. Suddenly those in front were
precipitated downward, and persons in the
rear were tumbled on the victims three or
four deep. The cries, shrieks and means
of the throng were appalling, and in the
struggle tho clothing of hundreds of per-
sons were torn to shreds. Fifteen persons
were killed and over fifty were wounded,
some fatally.
THIRTY students in the Delaware (Ohio)
College were suspended on the 30th ult. for
drunkenness and billiard playing. A few
days before some of the boys put all OK in
President Payne's room. to brighten him,
n the animal ruined three hundred dol
lars worth Of property.
The bursting of a steam-pipe a few days
ago on board an excursion-boat on the
Charles River, at Boston, fatally scalded
four men.
SOMETHING like a cloud-burst occurred in
Butler County, Ohio, a few days ago,
which flooded houses and unroofed numer.
GUS buildings. Several persons were bad
ly injured.
Y>uR fHhIoa u0 h,ia1-1oxya,.c c{,.,,o1 n <r,S- Az
the 30th ult. They alleged forgery" in
an important particular as regarded the
newly patched-up agreement, and recon-
sidered it unanimously.
In an ARRAY at Salida, Col, on the 30th
ult., caused by two drunken miners, City
Marshal Stengley, Deputy-Marshal Ba-
thurst and three miners were killed, and
two other miners were fatally wounded.
The United Presbyterian Synod has
adopted the report of the majority in
the music question, which Endorses musical
nstlumen in churches.
DECORATION Jay was appropriately OBJ
served throughout the country, and in
some places the ceremonies were more i'm
posing than in former years.
A LARGE amount Of property in the bust
ness part of Lynchburg, Va, was de-
stroyed by fro on the 30th ult., the loss be-
ing estimated at $500, 900. Five men were
killed by the falling out of the walls of one
of the burning buildings.
THE yacht Skylark was capsized off
~Thompson's Island, near Boston, during a
squall Oh the 30th ult., and six men were
drowned.
MATT LEWIS, a st. Louis wife murderer,
convicted four times, and on three occa.
sions sentenced to death, has been granted
a stay of execution from June S to the Goth.
The bottom Of one of the reservoirs OF
the Knoxville (Tenn.) Waterworks dropped
out a few nights ago, letting free SOC, 0OO
gallons of water in five minutes.
The ~Amalgamated Association of Iron
and Steel Workers on the 30th ult. de-
manded an advance of fifty cents per ton
on the rate for pudding in the Cincinnati
districts. The manufacturers regarded
the demand as a breach of faith on the part
of the workmen, and would not entertain
the proposition.
Kennedy Brothers, in the Academy of
Music at Pittsburgh Oh the evening of the
30th ult., mesmerized a half-~intoxicated
man, but were unable to restore him to con.
seriousness. Medical aid was then called,
but up to midnight the physicians efforts
were unavailing.
The iron-mill owners at Pittsburgh, Pa,
Cleveland, o., and Wheeling, W. Va, on
the 3lstult. signed the Amalgamated Associ-
ation's scale of prices, and the anticipated
strike has thus been averted at those places.
The proprietors of the five mills at Cincin.
natl refused to sign the scale, and five
thousand employees stopped work.
THE mint of Philadelphia coined 1900
gold dollars, 1000, 900 silver dollars, $40, 900
dimes, 2,5so,o 900 five-cent pieces, and $780,
QUO cents during the month of May.
ROBERT SMITH, one of the brothers who
killed the two Cecil brothers at Helen
wood, Tenn, was killed on the 31st ult.
while resisting arrest.
MORMON missionaries in Western North
Carolina have recently made many pros
elytes, who were baptized into their new
faith with shocking orgies. Public indig-
nation had been aroused. and on the 31st
ult. threats of lynching were made.
THIRTY-FOUR of the miners engaged in the
recent riot at the Collinsyille (Ill.) mines
were on the 31st ult. arraigned incourt and
fined twenty-five dollars, but a stay of exc
-cution was granted during good behavior.
The Coroner's Jury in the case of Hender-