Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-09-08

! steps be taken to secure harmony and
unanimity among all the trade and labor
organizations of the country.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
! at Washington has decided that bitters
sold in goodfaith as medicine need not pay
a especial tax as a beverage. One specimen
which he caused to be analysed contained
eighty-two per cent. of ordinary whisky.
FURTHER reports on the 23d from Roch-
ester, Mimi, placed the number of persons
killed by the recent cyclone at ~thirty-six,
with a long list of wounded, and a proper
ty loss of over 100000. A freak of the
wind was the driving Of a pine board
through the trunk of a maple tree.
Ten buildings and the st. James Hotel
were burned on the 23d at Middleport, o.
JOHN MCCLA1N and George Gwinn, while
engaged a few days ago in digging a we'll
near Knoxville, Tenn. were both suffocated
by foul air.
MOBILE on the 23d declared quarantine
against Pensacola because of the outbreak
Of yellow fever. The scourge had APP
peared in Woolsey, a Pensacola suburb,
and two deaths had occurred.
SHERIFF BUMPAss, of Wayne County,
Tenn, while attempting on the 23d to pro-
tect Miller Mclean, a colored prisoner,
from a mob of lynchers, was shot dead, as
was also the negro.
FIVE valuable horses, standing under a
tree at Erie, Pa, were killed by lightning
on the 23d, the only mark on them being
melted shoes.
NEARLY the entire village of Dollarville,
in Wayne County, Mich, was destroyed by
fire on the 23d. Two children were burned
to death, and a great many people escaped
only with what clothes they had on.
The Treasury Department at Washing
ton on the 23d purchased $4,000 ounces Of
silver for delivery at the San Francisco,
New Orleans and Philadelphia mints.
THERE was but little doubt ON the 23d
that the yacht Mystery, which sailed for
Nantucket from New London, Conn.,,
August II, had been lost. Another body
the fourth-had been picked up at Pc.
casset's. Prominent citizens of New
aboard.
MRS. CAMERON. wife of the pedestrian
"Noremac," was killed in her apartments
at New York on the 23d by George Beattie,
a bartender, who had recently been dis.
charged by "Noremac." Beattie imme.
diately shot himself through the heart and
fell dead upon his victims body.
The five Cinnamon recently deprived oil
their cues in the State Prison at Trenton
N. j., threatened on the 23d to sue the
authorities for damages, on the ground
that the United States Constitution gives
liberty of conscience, and the cue fig
ures prominently in q Chinaman's re
ligion.
THROUGHOUT the United States anc
Canada the business failures for the sever
days ended on the oath numbered 1G5, as
compared with 10 the previous seven days
The distribution was as follows: New
England States, %; Middle, 90; Western
As; Southern, 80; Pacific States, 81; New
York City, 4; Canada, 10.
Two sisters named Littlefeld, in attempt
ing to escape from an asylum at Zanes.
vile, o., by means of a rope made of bed
clothing, fell to the ground and were
killed on the Oath.
The town of Florence, A. T., was visited
by a flood a few nights g that sweep
away houses and filled up the mines. A
man named O'Donnell was drowned.
AT Wells Beach, Me-, four young people,
who were bathing, were swept out by the
undertow a few days ago and drowned.
WILLIAM TUDOR and family, of Winsted
Minn., were mysteriously poisoned by
their supper on the oath. Three had died
and four others were not expected to sur
vive.
JOSEPH MAYFIELD and son overlook
couple of horse-thieves on the oath neal
Erie, Mo-, and shot both of them dead.
TEN horses in a livery stable at Stark
vile, Miss, were burned to death a few
nights ago
The American Rapid Telegraph Compa
ny, which made an early surrender to tn,
strikers, notified its employees on the 24tl
of the restoration of the old scale of wage.
and hours of labor.
THIRTY miles of valuable timber hav,
been destroyed by fire in the mountain
near Chico, CAL, and sixty men wer,
at work on the Oath in checking the flames
In an exciting twenty-mile bicycle rae,
at Washington on the Oath H. w. Highan
the English champion, won in one hou
nine minutes FIVE and t~hree-quarters sec
onds; John s.. Prince, of Boston, second.
Snow & Co.'s elevator at Madison, Ind.
together with 100000 bushels of wheat
were burned or the oath. Loss, $125, 900.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. :.
The funeral of .Judpa R1ack az Vor1r