Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-04-28
OF THE week.
Interesting News Compilation
DOMESTIC.

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AFlvE-sToRY brick building in Rochester,
N. Y, fell on the morning of the 10th, i'll
consequence of some alterations which had
been undertaken to admit of the opening
of a new street. One of the workmen was
killed outright and a half-dozen others were
injured, some of them, it was supposed,
mortally.
TWENTY-FIVE cigar-makers OF
Cincinnati were on q strike on the 10Th Tor
higher wages.
1T was stated on the 10th that the Treas
nry Department at Washington had deci-
ded to accept the proposal of the Hawaiian
Government for the coinage of silver for
that country at the San Francisco mint.
The Upper Mississippi was open to nav
igation on the 10th to Lake Pepin. The
ice in the latter body of water was two feet
thick.
DURING the twelve months ended March
81 there were 1,G06 suicides in the United
States, nearly double the humber for the
preceding twelve months.
SIXTEEN dwellings and stores and a
church were burned at Westminster, near
Baltimore, Nd, on the night of the 9th.
Loss about $3.50, 600.
THE lumbermen of Maine have organized
n protective association and advanced the
price of building lumber one dollar per 1000
feet.
TIKI issue of standard silver dollars from
the Mint for the week ended April I was
SlG5.+99; for the corresponding period last
year., $4,000.
A CONFESSED colored murderer was
lynched by a mob of colored men at At
lanta, Ga, on the night Of the 9th.
ACTING PosTMAsTER-GENERAL HATToN
has issued the following order: "That
order No. 463, January -, 1888, is hereby
revoked. Section 81, Postal laws and
regulations of 1879, is amended so as to read
as follows: 'Postal-cards and prepaid let
ters to be forwarded if requested.' Pre-
paid letters shall be forwarded from one
post-oftice to another at the request Of the
party addressed without additional charge
for POSTAGE All letters upon which one
full rate of postage has been prepaid and
all postal-cards shall be forwarded from
the Office to which they are addressedto any
other Office, at the request of the party nd.
dressed, or of the party whose card may
be upon the envelope, or whose name may
be signed to the postal-card, without addi-
SAoAs4 liza Sc u pOSo1Sc. ouCu " 1uluS
must be continued until the party addressed
is reached.'"
The position of the United States Gov
eminent relative to the Irish conspirators
against Great Britain was explained to
Minister West on the 18th, to the following
effect: This Government holds itself ready
to surrender for extradition any person
who may have been guilty of crimes in En-
gland, according to the terms of existing
treaties; but proof will be required of the
identity and guilt of persons whose extra
dition may be asked. The refusal to sur
render P. j. Sheridan was based upon the
fnsufficiency of the evidence that he had
been engaged in the Phoenix Park conspir-
acy, as was charged by the British author
tiles.
ADvICEs of the 18th state that four hum
dred soldiers had been detailed to protect
the San Carlos Indian Reservation from
Arizona rangers, from whom an attack
was apprehended. In the State of Sonora
ninety-three persons had been killed by
Apaches since the present hostilities be.
gan, some of the murders being committed
with atrocity unusual even with savages.
General Crook was at Hermosillo arrang.
sHS 'AS SAS hSA1SoI1 1IlCS q LO1ul
campaign against the Indians.
DR.. H. r. PALMER's international Nor.
NAL Music School begins july at Mead
vile, Pa, and continues four weeks.
ST1LLwELL H. RUSSELL, a defaultine
United States Marshal for the Western
District of Texas, has been sentenced tc
two years. imprisonmentinth the penitentiary
at Chester, III.
TIE strike of the bricklayers in Chicago
continued on the 18th, seriously interfering
with building operations.
A COLLISION occurred at Bound Brook,
N. j., on the 10Th, between a train of the
Lehigh Valley Railroad n one Of the
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad trains.
The rear car of the Philadelphia train was
overturned and took fire, but all the passen.
gers were extricated. A number of the
passengers were seriously injured. A sig.
nalnan's mistake caused the disaster.
WILLIAM Z. CROCKETT, q murderer, was
taken from Jail at Wytheville, Va, on the
night of the 18th by a mob, and hanged to
a beam in a mill on the outskirts of the
town, after which his body wa riddled
with bullets.
A BOILER explosion in q chair factory at
Hudson, Wis, OF the 18th resulted fatally
to one of the worknen, the foreman receiv.
ing severe injuries.
Two MEN We're killed and a third serious
ly wounded at Cornwall, Pa, a few DAYS
ago, by a premature explosion of powder
which was being tested at the ore-banks.
A STEAMBOAT on the Chattahoochie River
Ca, struck a bridge and sank at Fort
Gaines, on the night Of the 18th. Six lives
were lost.
AN earthquake shock was experienced at
Cairo, ILL.,, on the 18th, lasting four sec.
onds. A frame building was shaken down.
A SHIPMENT of one thousand barrels OF
whisky was made from New York to Ser.
muda on the 18th, in order to evade the paw.
ment OF internal revenue tax. Other ship.
ments would follow, distillcrs considering
it more profitable to pay freight charges on
the overproduction than to pay the taxes.
THREE %non-union i~ron-workers were fired
upon near Springfield, ILL.,, on the evening
OF the 18th, one being shot dead and his
companions dangerously wounded. Anal
gamated Association men were charged
with the crime.
1T is stated that most of the smallpox
cases in New York this year have been of
the type commonly known as black small