Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

away by the SCTlkeFS. Inc loss ny uue ule
was estimated at 100000.
A WIND, rain and thunder storm at Pat
erson, N. j., on the evening of the Sth un.
rooted many buildings, scattered lumber
piles and uprooted trees. At Trenton the
main tent Of "a circus was blown down and
the canvas and aerial apparatus destroyed.
Many houses We're struck by lightning at
Williamsburg, Pa, and trees, fences II
roofs were blown down.
c. E. CRAGAN, a baggage-master, and
William Herzog, a brakeman, on the run
from Longview to Texarkana, OF the Inter-
national & Great Northern Road, were ar
rested at Longview, Tex, on the Sth,
charged with having robbed the baggage
of passengers repeatedly during the past
year or two. The company had paid be-
tween $1,000 and 5000 to passengers as in
demnity for losses sustained by pilfering
from trunks.
FIVE children were poisoned by sewer
gas in New York on the Sth. Two of them
had died, and the others were not expected
to recover.
WAT Cox (colored) was lynched by a
masked mob at Madisonville, KY, a few
evenings ago, for an attempted assault
upon the wife of w. B. Haywood.
A PLArrsBuRGH IN. W clothing firm
has contracted for the labor of ourhundred
and fifty ~convicts in the Clinton County
Prison, for five years, at thirty-five cents
per day for each man.
A COMPANY of rangers were on the Sth
sent to suppress smugglers on the Rio
Grande, Texas. A desperate gang of cat
tie thieves had been arrested in that vicini-
ty, and valuable stock recovered.
A TERRIFIC wind and rain-storm pre-
vailed on the 9th in Eastern Pennsylvania.
Between Penn Haven and Hazleton trees
in the woods for a distance of two thousand
feet were moved down like grass. Falling
trees and telegraph poles injured the cars
and locomotives of trains, which moved
slowly and carefully, II the windows of
the coaches had to be reinforced to resist
the blast.
CHARLES E. MONROE was arrested at
Lynchburg, Va, on the 9th, for fatally
poisoning his mother and brother.
The walls of a burning livery stable at
New Haven, Conn.,, fell upon nine firemen
on the 9th, four of whom were probably
fatally injured.
The entire business portion of Forney,
Tex, was destroyed by fire a few days
ago.
PARK GRIMES and Cassius Ide were
burned to death in a saw-mill at Vermont
vile, Mich, a few nights ago.
THE wholesale liquor house of Henry T.
Gillett & Sons, of Buffalo, N. Y, has made
an assignment.
A COLLISION occurred on the 9th between
two engines on the Third Avenue Elevated
Railway in New York. One of the fire.
men was fatally injured, but none of the
passengers were seriously hurt. One of
the boilers was crushed in, the hot water
scalding horses and foot passengers on the
street below.
The frequent burning of barns in Eastern
Indiana was on the 9th attributed to farm
hands, who were e~ndeavoring to drive
farmers to abandon the use of self-binding
harvesters and other improved farm ma.
chinery.
THE Florida Ship Canal Company was
organized at Washington on the 9th by the
election of Ex-Governor Brown, of Tennes-
see, President and Hon. William Window,
Vice-President. It was estimated that the
canal would cost $50, 900, 900, and would be
completed in three years.
UP to the 9th nothing had been heard
from General Crook since he crossed into
Mexico ION the 3d} in pursuit of the rene
gade Apaches. At the Wan Department
in Washington the rumors of an engage
ment between General Crooks forces and
the hostile Indians in Mexico, il which
Crook was defeated, were not credited at
the Department.
DURING a fire on the 10th at Baltimore,
Mr.. Adams, a paralytic, was suffocated, a
colored cook was burned to death, and a
female servant was fatally injured by
jumping from a third-story window.
OVER eight hundred evicted tenants from
Ireland, most of whomhad been "assisted'
to emigrate by the British Government, ar
rived in Boston on the 10th.
NORTHERN Illinois and Southern Wiscon.
sin suffered severely by a storm on the 10th.
A number of farm-houses and out-buildings
were blown down, and in one family aman
was killed and four others were badly in
jured.
REPORTS received on the 10th by the De-
Dartnent of Agriculture at Washington
from the wheat-growing sections of the
country indicated a shortage in the winter
wheat crop of seventy-seven million bush
els as compared with the crop one year
ago, and a corresponding shortage in the
spring crop. The greatest amount of de-
crease was reported in New York, Ohio,
Michigan, Illinois and Missouri. All the
other States, except New Jersey and In
diana, reported an improvement.
WARD McCoNKEY was hanged at Pitts
surgh, Pa, on the 10th, for the murder of
George A. Mcclure on August 2, 1881.
DURING a storm early on the morning of
the 10Th lightning struck and exploded a
large oil tank in the Standard Oil Com
pany's works at ~Communipaw, N. j..
The blazing fluid quickly spread in
all directions, reaching other tanks
and exploding them, and be.
before the fire was got under con-
troll twelve great tanks, eighteen cars, six
barges, a dredge, three docks and five brick
structures were consumed. Six men were
missing, and were supposed to lave been
burned to death. The total loss would ex-
coed 81 800, 900.
THE First Baptist Church of st. Adams,
Vt, was burned Oh the 10th, causing a loss
of $4,000.
The mail, baggage and express cars of a
Louisville, New Albany e. Chicago train
were burned on the 10th near Cedar Lake.
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