Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-04-14
EPIT0ME OF THE Week.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

lice served notice of an injunction issued on
the suit of the Society for the Refor1nationof
Juvenile Delinquents. Morse stated the
facts to those assembled as spectators, and
promised to refund the money collected at
the door in the morning.
THE Denver & Rio Grande Railway is
completed to Salt Lake City, Utah.
THE issue of standard silver dollars from
the mints for the week ended March 81 was
II ,999. The issue for the corresponding
period last year was 14S,0Oo.
AT San Francisco on the Sd min firemen
were severely burned by an explosion of
gas in the cellar of the Palace Hotel.
The Secretary of the Interior has decided
that an application to amend a homestead
entry is a matter of right only when neces-
sary to correct a mistake, clerical or other
wise, which would result i'll depriving the
settler of his actual home or valuable i'm
provements. If allowed in any case as a
matter of executive discretion to enable
him to take the full quantity allowed by
law. and to avoid a conflict with other as
serted claims, the new land sought to be III
cluded must be actually vacant ard free
from adverse rights, legal or equitable, so
that no injustice to any other person shall
result therefrom.
1t was announced on the 4th that the In
dians who had recently been committing
depredations in Arizona and New Mexico
had escaped across the Rio Grande. There
were apprehensions of an outbreak Of the
San Carlos Reservation Indians.
THE iron manufacturers Of the United
States, at a meeting in Pittsburgh on the
AL, o,,- , ~1,Ja 4f 1vnroc RI hn cy,h-
mitted to the workmen, instead of, as has
been customary, waiting to learn the de-
mands of the workmen. The scale adopted
by the employers is ten to twenty per cent.
below that Of the season now drawing to n
close, and it was given out that no PROPOSE
ton looking to a compromise wouldbe con-
sidered. The reduction, it is claimed, was
necessitated by the state of the iron trade
and the changes made in the tariff at the
recent session of Congress.
DAVID ToRcHEIMER & Co., hatters, of
New York, ave made an assignment; liza
Utilities, 100000. The failure is also re-
ported of c. S. Short, banker, of Marion,
New York, with from S225 200 to 10000 liza
bilities.
The Sanitary Council of the Mississippi
Valley, in recent consultation at Jackson,
Miss, has prepared a petition to the Presi-
dent of the United States that, in case of
all outbreak Of yellow fever or other cpl
demic disease in the Mississippi Valley,
the fund of 100000 provided by Congress
Zoe placed at the disposal of the National
Board of Health.
FRED INGRAM and James Green were
1ynched at Hastings, Neb., a few nights
400 for tho D1,1rIar of ~ II Mi11af ., o,.oooy
of that place, March q.
A LIGHTED match recently thrown into a
man-hole of a sewer in Baltimore by Il boy
caused an explosion that killed two chill
dren II did damage to property to the
extent of $4,000.
In Chicago on the evening of the 4th
Nignaux, the billiardist, made the best run
ever scored in the balk-line game, adding
forty-one points to the hitherto unsur.
passed run Of two hundred and five made
by Schaefer a few days before. The game,
in which the Frenchman was opposed by
Morris, was played in nineteen innings, the
winners average being a fraction less thar
thirty-two.
EIGHT new cases of smallpox were dis
covered at Nashville, Tenn, on the 4th, anc
quarantine was established over sixteel
different houses.
A FAMILY of four, named Wilson-hus
band, wife and two daughters-perished il
the flames of their burning house near Hart
wick, Otsego County, N. Y, early on tn.
morning of the 9Th.
BLuE HORSE, a Sioux Chief, has writer
a letter to the President asking for a new
eye to replace one which was knocked GU
while splitting wood for his wife.
THREE little girls were drowned in tn
Hudson at Valatie, n. Y, the other day
while playing on the ice.
A TRIPLE murder was committed q few
nights ago at West Union, WA. the vic
Tins beings grocer named Barney Doyl
and his two daughters, seven and five year
old. Robbery was probably the motive
One of the children, who retained conscious
ness when the tragedy was discovered
charged the crime upon a vagrant nance
Harper, who, together with two other men
was arrested.
The New York Chamber of Commerce,
resolved on the 9TH that the trunk lines dis
cr1minated against the dry-goods trade OF
"est'bound traffic, and requested the Rail
way Commissioners to make an inquiry
and report to the Legislature.
HARRY WooDsoN, known as 1.-THE Blacl
diamond, of C~incinnati," and Jim Nc
Laughlin, a white man, fought seven round
with hard gloves for a purse of $500, nea
New York, on the morning of the 9th
Mclaughlin was knocked senseless by
blow on the nose, and the colorcd man wa
awarded the money and all the "honors'
attaching to the victory.
ASSIGNMENTS were made on the 9th by
Lawrence & Asher, stationers, of New
York, with liabilities of $3.50, 900 and asset
amounting to $50, 1000, and Hengehold &
Yungbluth, coal-dealers, Of Cincinnati
who claimed to nave $50, 900 assets and $40,
900 liabilities.
THERE were eleven new cases of small
pox reported to the Health officer at Nash
vile, Tenn, on the 9th. The towns of Galen;
and Empire City, Kan, were also suffering
from the existence of smallpox, Their
being three cases in the former and sever
i'll the latter place.
JAMES S. LYON, who was concerned will
City Treasurer Bork, of Buffalo, in the
speculations that cost the city $500, 0O0, ha:
been convicted Of criminally using thu
clty's money i'll his private business. The
penalty is Imprisonment for from three tt
ten years and a fine not exceeding five