Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-30
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

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A QUARREL on the 18th about a fence be.
tween farmers at Arnold Station, Mo-, re-
suited in the killing of S. and j. H. Arnold
by George Noll. The latter was taken to
Jail at Liberty.
DURING a quarrel on the 18th at Cash
Point, o., Charles Morrison drew a knife
and cut his brothers. throat.
THE ~coal-oil refinery of Slemmer &
Brothers, at Norristown, Pa, was de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th, causing q loss
of 500, 900.
THE bodies of two women were on the
18TH taken from the ruins of the recent fire
in a factory at Charleston, S. c., and one
of the three girls who jumped from a win
dow had died, making the total number Of
lives lost four.
The storm on the lakes was on the 18th
represented to be one of the worst known
for some years. The steamer Francis
Smith, with one hundred passengers on
board, was believed to have been lost in
Lake Huron, and several other vessels with
their crews were missing.
BY the explosion on the 18th of the boil
ers of a sugar house at Bayou Bouff, La,
three men were instantly killed, their
bodies being blown to atoms.
A TERRIFIC wind-storm prevailed in the
White Mountain region of New Hampshire
on the 18th, numerous buildings being de-
stroyed. At Newport, R. L., a gale blew
down houses, trees and fences, and wrecked
shipping. A tug-boat that arrived at New
port from down the bay reported that
near James Island q schooner was cap.
sized and Captain Preston Webster
and q crew of eight men were
drowned. Three other schooners were
also capsized and two more men drowned.
Thus far reports had been received Of the
loss of twelve lives, and it was feared that
many others were lost, as James Island
was strewn with wrecks.
WHILE workmen were demolishing an
old brick residence a few days ago at
Richmond, Va, 4 wall fell, crushing three
colored men, one of them, aged ninety,
being fatally injured.
ADvICES of the 18th state that a prairie
fire along the Blue Earth River, Minnesota,
had burned one hundred tons of hay,
and stacks of grain and other farm prop
erty, which was uninsured.
OFF the Highland light, Boston harbor,
the wind for the t~wenty-four hours ended
on the 18th had been blowing at the rate of
sixty miles an hour.
The walls of the burned kimball House
at Atlanta, Ga, fell on the 18th, killing a
young man named Washington. The dead
mans parents compromised with the pro-
prietor for two hundred dollars.
MARY RUSSELL, aged eighteen, commit
ted suicide at Pittsburgh, Pa, the other
night by taking arsenic. Cruel treatment
by a brother was said to be the cause.
LAFAYETTE Cook, an eccentric character
OF South Auburn, Me-, some weeks ago
fixed upon November II as the date of his
death. When the time came he took to a
lounge, placed one hand under his head,
passed into a condition of stupor, and,
within a few hours, calmly died.
The fine propeller H. c. Ackley, valued at
100000, went down a few evenings ago in
Lake Michigan. Captain Stretch, the
mate, steward and two firemen were lost.
Twelve of the crew were rescued by the
schooner Driver.
BALTIMORE was visited by another furi-
GUS gale on the 18th, increasing the de-
struction which resulted from the previous
blow. The shores of Chesapeake Bay were
lined with wrecks. The oyster boats and
small schooners had suffered severely,
and scores of lives had been lost.
LIE SIliSca9o 1nC-SlOSh ouOW OpGllcu vi
the evening of the 14th with about one
thousand choice samples of horses, sheep
and swine.
FORTY masked men on the night of the
10Th tore up the Mexican National track at
a point ten miles over the border from La
redo, Tex, and cut the telegraph wires.
The passenger train was ditched, the engi-
peer and fireman being seriously injured.
The express-car was robbed of $40, 900 in
specie lying in bags on the floor, the rob-
bers being unable to open the safe. Mexi-
can troops had been sent after the brig
ands.
The Norton rolling and rail mills at
Ashland, KY, valued at 5000, 600, were de.
stroyed by fire on the l4th. One thousand
men Were thrown out of work.
1T was reported on the 18th that George
Shaw, living eight miles from Canal Dover,
o., had killed his wife and six children.
The cause for the crime was unknown.
SEVEN buildings in Duluth, Mimi, were
burned early on the morning of the 14th,
a man named Kennedy being suffocated.
The losses aggregated $4,000.
FLAMES on the 14th swept away two ex-
tensive freight warehouses at Norfolk,
Va, containing seven thousand bales of
cotton and lumber and other freight valued
at $500, 900.
ADvIcEs of the 14th from Lewistown,
Me-. state that many buildings and millions
of dollars worth of timber in the northern
portion of the State were destroyed by the
recent gale. The damage in Oxford Coun-
ty alone was estimated at So o. while the
loss in the town of Bethel was upward of
100000. Many cattle were buried in the
ruins of the barns destroyed. Franklin
County reported SO 1000 damages.
HARRIET HAWKINS, a colored woman,
and her child were found dead on the 14th
in a house near Lexington, KY. They had
died of s@arvation.
BY the giving away of the wall of a gray.
el-pit at Dallas, Tex, on the 14th five men
were instantly buried. One of the number
was killed and all the others sustained Sc.
we're injuries.
A LOSS Of $3.50, 900 was caused on the 18th
by fire and water in the five-story building
owned and occupied by S. d. Kimbark, of
Chicago. dealer in carriages and wagons.
ADvICEs from several points in Mime
sofa and Dakota at midnight on the 10Th
represented the temperature at fifteen to