Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23
EPIIOME OF THE WEEK.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC

Is oAA0 VIZ
Roberts and Fireman Lee Transcomb, and
badly injuring two other persons.
A named Whitney, who oper-
ated on the plan of the late James gang,
was taken from Jail by a mob at Hermann,
Mo-, the other night, and hanged.
AN old lady named Maxon was crushed
to death by a team that was running away
in Troy, N. Y, on the 9TH, and four other
persons were seriously, if not fatally, in
jured.
AT the inquest on the 9TH into the Brook
lyn bridge disaster, the acting President OF
the trustees deposed that all the policemen
in New York could not have stemmed the
panic-stricken tide of humanity at the time
of the accident. The jury found that the
s'oficers and trustees were reprehenslble,"
and recommended improvements i'll the
road for foot passengers.
In a fight at Dover, NH, the othernight,
between striking lasters and men who had
taken their places, one of the former was
fatally shot.
A storm blew down several
houses at Comanche, Tex, a few days ago.
No lives were lost.
DROUGHT in the vicinity Of ~Lynchburg,
Nd.s HIS IeSu1CCo LII 1uSolSoAAhAS NsAAAoSS'
Information from the southwest on the 9th
represented an alarming state of affairs,
the cattle-raisers having to purchase food
for their stock, the pastures being all dried
up.
A PASSENGER train went through a trestle
at harrington, Ind, on the 9th. David
Hutchinson, the engineer; Millar Humes,
the fireman; George Ammons, the baggage
master, and the porter of a new Pullman
sleeper, were killed. No passengers were
fatally injured.
AN addition to the Northwestern marine
elevator at Milwaukee collapsed on the 9th
underline pressure of its contents, the walls;
it was feared, burying seven tramps who
were resting in the building. Twothousand
bushels of wheat went into the river.
A SEVERE rain and wind-storm pre-
vailed in portions of New York and Penn
sylvania on the 9th. At Muncie, Pa,
lightning struck an eight thousand gallon
oil tank, which was burned, together with
several houses. At Albany, N. Y, $4,000
damage was done
LIGHTNING struck the Hazard Powder
Company's magazine at Hutchinson, Kan,
on the 9th, exploding it, the conclusion do
ing great damage to the
ADELAIDE S. SMITH has recovered $4,000
damages from two saloon-keepers of New
York for selling liquor to her husband and
causing him to become a drunkard.
A FIGHT a few days ago between negroes
in the fatal injury Of three Of the parttcff
pants.
Two attempts having recently been made
to burn the city of Silverton, COL, for the
evident purpose of creating a stampede OF
the citizens and then robbing the First Ma.
tional Bank, on the It'll seventy-three in.
dictments were found by the Grand Jury
against those connected with the plot, and
a Vigilance Committee was formed, who
gave notice that the first person who at.
tempted incendiarism would be hanged,
The schooner S~enneckson, reported lost
at sea, with nine souls aboard, arrived in
safety on the 18th at Charleston, S. C.
UTAH advices of the 7th state that in an
interview Brigham Young, Jr., said the re.
ports from the laborers in til vineyards in
Europe and this country warranted the ex-
pectation that there would be fully twenty
thousand converts this year.
Two EMPLOYEES at an iron-mill in Chatta.
nooga, Tenn, had a difficulty on the 7th.
when the larger one, becoming frantic,
seized the other and laid him on his back
on a red-hot slab of iron, holding him there
until his head and back were badly roasted.
NEAR Skipwith, Miss, on the 18th
Thomas Paris, a boy, killed his STEP
father, Isaac Adams, who had threatened
his life, and in a family row at st. Louis
George Marshal shot and killed his step-
father, Thomas Edwards.
EXCITEMENT prevailed at Ansonia,
Conn.,, on the 18th, owing to the priest at.
tempting to coerce Catholic citizens to EN-.
ploy a young Catholic physician, who had
just hung out his sign, in preference to the
theoretical murderers" who lave long prac.
tlced in the place. Church rites, Father
Byron said, would be refused to those who
permitted other doctors to attend them.
CHARLIE CLYNE, aged seventeen; Henry
Turnkey, aged twenty-five, and William
Bonholt, aged twenty, students of Calvin
Institute, at Cleveland, O., were drowned
on the evening of the Sth while bathing in
the River C%ayahoga.
Ebert M. STEPHENSON was hanged IN
the 9Th at Lawrenceville, Ga, for murder
ing his aunt. He asked tina a band be an.
gagged to play "The Golden Slippersu at
the gallows, but his request was refused.
A SMALL cyclone struck the western part
Of Springfield, Ill, or the 9Th, demolishing
fences, houses and trees, but injuring no
person.
A FALSE alarm of fire caused a panic
among the pupils of a primary school in
New York on the sth, and a large number
OF children were severely injured. No
lives were lost.
THREE powder-mills near Newburg. N.
Y, were struck by lightning and exploded
on the sth. One man was killed. Several
barns in the vicinity were badly wrecked.
A ENERA shutting down of WOODEN.
mills in New England was i~naugurated on
the 9Th.
SHERIFF D%oNcKLEY and T. w. Waller
fought a duel on horseback on the sth near
Patrick Courthouse, Va. Waller was ia
tally wounded. He was the opponent of
Donckley in the last election.
AN underground cave, said to exceed in
size the famous mammoth cave of Ken.
lucky, was discovered by a party of men
at Mineral Wells, Tex, on the sth. There
was great excitementin the town,
A sNoW-sToRM prevailed throughout
Colorado on the 9Th.
The business failures for tIc saya,, dow.