Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-27
EPITOME OF THE week.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

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THREE wrecks came ashore or the 9Th
near Hatteras Inlet, N. c., all bottom up.
IT was thought the crews were drowned.
AN unknown negro was taken from Jail
at Huntsville, Ala, on the 9th by a mob
and hanged for the murder Of Policeman
Street.
A LITTLE girl named Pauline S. Hart
jman,of Chicago, aged ten years, died a few
days ago of h%ydrophobia, having been bit
ten by a black-and-tan dog nine weeks pre-
lvious, but no symptoms of the terrible dis
ease were apparent until three days before
the child's death.
SAMUEL Mcdonnell was executed at Fort
Wayne, Ind, on the 9th for numbering
Louis Laurent OF March 90 last.
Gus SUMMERS and Willis w. Long were
arrested at Denver, Col. OF the 9th, by a
Secret-Service officer, while in the act of
counterfeiting silver dollars.
THE fastest mile ever known was made
on the 9th on the Chicago Driving Park by
the PAGER Johnston, who covered the dis
lance in 2:10. This leaves Maud S. a
quarter second in the lurch, and Jay-Eye-
See half a second behind her.
FIVE counterfeit postal notes were re.
deemed at the Indianapolis Post.ofice on
the 9th. The banks of that city were re-
fusing to receive any more postal notes.
ISAIAH JACKSON and Wiley Rayford (col-
ored) were drowned in crossing the Savan-
nah River at Augusta, Ga, a few days
ago.
LIGHTNING destroyed the main factory
building of Frazer & Shepherd, at Mime
apolis, Mimi, the other day, causing a loss
of $4,000. Andrew ~Thornquest fell through
fhatchwa4, during the fire and was Gre
LIEUTENANT STOREY, of the navy, reports
having discovered in Alaska a river TWEEN
ty miles wide and said by the Indians to be
over fifteen hundred miles long.
A SINGULAR death occurred on the 9th in
asaw-mill at Nashville, Tenn. A splinter
from the end of a log few off, striking
William Allen in the side and causing in
slant death. There was no bruise, nor did
the splinter enter the flesh at all. The
Coroner's Jury returned q verdict of death
from nervous shock.
WHILE hunting in the woods a few days
ago in Franklin County, Va, a citizen
tail of a dog. Joseph P. Love fatally
OoJAu Hlo OlOlucl, pIOUuoI.lLl.ldW bIlu
father.in-law, the latter being the of.
ender.
The first SNOW of the season fell in
Manitoba on the 10th at Winnipeg.
FOURTEEN thrashers were sleeping un'
der q granary near Moorhea d, Mimi, a
few nights ago, when the floor of the gran.
ary broke and 1,4O0 blu shels of oats de-
scended upon the sleepers, four of whom
lost their lives by suffocation.
AN earthquake in San Francisco on the
night of the 9th shook buildings severely
and cracked metallic roofs. Half-dressed
persons rushed from residences and hotels,
and many walked the streets all night as q
precautionary measure. Other shocks oc.
Cured along the coast.
Two United States Deputy Marshals,
while engaged on the 10th in guarding In
dian prisoners at Fayetteville, Ark, quar-.
relied over a game of cards, and emptied
their r%evolvers into each other, with fatal
effect to both.
"SPRINGHURsr," near Growers Hill,
Conn.,, the summer residence of Thomas
w. Pearsall, banker, of New York, was
burned on the 10th. Loss, 1926, 900.
IKE BUzzARD, a notorious inmate of the
Jail at Lancaster, Pa, locked the watch
man in a cell on the 10th, released eleven
pong-term companions, and all made their
escape.
The imitation Maid Of the Mist ran the
lower rapids at Niagara on the 10th, re.
manning ten minutes in the whirlpool.
So SEVERE was the drought in Mississippi
on the 10th that drinking water commanded
"a premium in Vicksburg, and planters in
<1~k oos, 80, ,%DkoJ Al,~A .--r
scores.
The annual report of the Western Union
Telegraph Company, made on the 10th,
showed that the company had 432, 726 miles
of wire and 2,917 offices. During the year
40,6S1,117 messages were handled, the re.
ceipts from which were $780, 54 ,902, against
$17, ,165 last year. The expenses for
the year were $11, 1874 ,553, leaving a net
profit Of s., 500 ,349.
The Wickenburg stage was stopped the
other night by a ~highwayman, near Pres.
colt, A. T., and robbed of the Wells-Fargo
express box and mail. The passengers
were also robbed.
SIX Of John Stouffer, of Ligo-
nier, Pa, were poisoned on the 10th by eat.
ing weeds, two fatally.
RICHARD gibson, while at work recently
i'll a barn at Alliance, o., was pierced il
the breast by a pitchfork which fell from
the haymow, and bled to death in two
hours.
AN engine on the Georgia Central Rail.
road exploded at Augusta on the 10th, and
Nv. c. Starr, the engineer, and Thomas
Watkins, the fireman, were fatally scalded.
THE Agricultural Department at Wash.
!ington, from reports received on the 10Th,
estimated that the cotton yield would be
one million bales less than last years crop.
MOB at Edgerly Station, La, boarded
a Texas train a few days ago, captured
Lewis Woods, a negro who had been con.
ivicted of criminal assault Upon a white
girl, and hung him.
FIVE noted murderers imprisoned at Gin.
%'cinnati scaled the walls on the 1lth and
attempted to escape. Thirty shots were
fired at them by the guards. One of the
offenders secured his liberty, another was
killed, and two were badly injured.
AT Danville, Va, on the 18th John A.
Ferguson was acquitted of the murder OF
Officer Parks, the court instructing the jury
that a citizen may legally kill a policeman
lsubo ottornpfc To or.oct b;,, ,r;%L.,% 100.