Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-18
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

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OWING to the slack movement of freight
and passengers the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company on the 31st. ult suspended over
one hundred of it's employees at Fort
Wayne, Ind.
THE shoe and leather interests of Boston
We're on the 31st ult. represented as para
lyzed by the recent failures. AThe firm of
Macomber & Greenwood had also suspend
ed, with liabilities of 1925 900.
CHARLES BURKE, of Cleveland, recently
drove away from home a step-son eighteen
years of age. The boys mother was rem
dered nearly insane, and the other night
she went to the lake in her sleeping raj
ment and drowned herself.
The extensive stables belonging to the
Gordon House, Orangeville, Ont, together
with several valuable horses, were burned
on tire 31st ult.
AT Newark, N. j., onthe evening of the
31st ult. John Brixius was shot in the head
by a scape-grace nephew of the same
name. The latter fed to the salt meadows,
put two bullets into his head, and leaped
into the water, where he soon expired.
The posse engaged in hunting down the
Arkansas outlaws on the 3lst ult. lynched
a farmer named John Coker for leading
them into the ambuscade.
AMONG the losses by fire on the 31st ult.
were: A warehouse at Nashville, Tenn.
loss, $4,000; twelve business houses at
North Amherst, o., loss, 100000; property
at Tulare, CAL, loss, $4,000; and Nor
CAMS foundry near Belleville, Ill, loss,
$l50,000.
THE barn of Horatio Perry, at Downer's
Plains, Mass, containing fifteen cows, a
yoke of oxen, five horses, seventeen pigs,
wagons, hay, ETC., was destroyed by fire
on the 31st ult. Loss, 100000.
The coinage of the United States minis
for the month of July aggregated 3,05G,000
pieces, valued at 81, 22S,S00 This amount
included 1906, 900 silver dollars.
AN explosion in a lime-kiln a few days
ago, near North Adams, Mass, killed two
men and injured another man seriously.
ADvICEs of the 31st ult. from the wheat
fields of Minnesota and Northern Dakota
reported the crop safe from drought.
A %HIDE-MILL at Johnstown, N. Y, valued
at $4,000, and an ~oil-cloth factory at AL
bany, N. Y, worth $4,000, were destroyed
by fire on the 31st ult.
The total collections from internal reve-
nue. during July were $9,27S, 535, which was
So, 600, 900 less than the total collections in
July, 1882.
The public-debt statement issued on the
LIST makes the following exhibits: Total debt
(%including interest of $9,S54,57S), $780,
726,9G1. Cash in Treasury, 1851 ,536,345.
Debt, less amount in Treasury, 81 ,543, 190,-
GIG. Decrease during July, $1,000, 500.
Decrease since une 80, 1888, $1,000, $50.
A ra.o.. k..:. - L.
was derailed on the evening of the 1st near
North Troy, VT, and completely wrecked.
There were fifty passengers on board, of
whom one was killed and thirteen serious
ly injured.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
reopened it's lines without conditions and
restored its money-order system on the LIST.
There was no change i'll the attitude of the
strike.
BY the neglect of the telegraph operator
at Petersburgh Junction, VT, freight trains
;on the Troy & Boston Road collided on
a curve near Pownal on the morning of
the 1st. Eight men were killed, and the
engine and cars were wrecked and burned.
Til damage vas estimated at $4,000.
The Southern Exposition at Louisville,
KY, was formally opened at moor on the
list. President Arthur made a speech, at
the conclusion of which he pulled a silken
cord above his head, opening the throttle
of the immense engine, putting in motion
all the engines in the building. Secre.
'taries Lincoln and Folger, Postmaster.
General Gresham, General Sheridan and
other distinguished visitors were present.
The Thirteenth Annual Convention OF
tho Catholic Toto1 A hct;,a~oo T1r;o,, ~
America convened at Brooklyn, N. Y, on
the LIST.
A WASHINGTON dispatch Of the 1st SAYS
that all the neat cattle arriving in the
United States from any part of the world
except North and South America will be
subjected to quarantine for ninety days
counting from the date of shipment.
The additional vaults built by the Treas.
ury Department at Washington to store
standard dollars were on the 1st filled tc
their utmost capacity.
FRED WEIssER, an old citizen of Poplar
Grove, KY, drew $500 pension money and
went to drinking with a party. On the
morning of the LIST he was found on the
roadway near his home, having been beat.
en- nearly to death and robbed of his
treasure.
The Watch Company Of Lancaster, Pa,
suspended operations on the LIST, throw
ing two hundred and fifty men out of en-
ployment.
T~WENTY-E1GHT years ago Thomas Bar.
bour and Benedicta Price parted in Liver.
pool, relatives objecting to their marriage.
They agreed to await the removal by time
of the objections and saw each other nc
more until the 3lst ult., when they were
united in Philadelphia.
The %Springvale Milling Company, Of
Springvale, Me-, manufacturers of print
cloths, suspended on the 1st. Liabilities,
100000.
THE Exchange Telegraph Company, cap.
ital $1,000, 900, filed certificates of incorpo.
ration in New York on the LIST. The line is
to run from that city to San Francisco.
DExTER's hat factory at Danbury, Conn.
was burned with contents a few nights
ago. The loss was nearly 500, 200.
The two.year-old child of Colonel o. G..
Under, of Indian Territory, was accident
ally shot and killed by his eight-year-old
brother a few days ago.
On the arrival of the steamer Saratoga
at New York from Havana on the I'd,
Steward Barnes was removed to the mar.