Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-14
EPlToME OF THE week
Interesting News Compilation.
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VIC week titNcu Ou NIc sCu Welo FASVVuSooC3
Gl3, against 1892, 14S,477 the week previous,
indicating a marked Improvement in bust
ness.
A ToRNADo swept through Elberton, Co.,
a few evenings ago, demolishing thirteen
buildings and three churches, and killinga
colored man.
The issue of standard silver dollars from
the minis for the week ended on the 23d
amounted to 211, 500; for the corresponding
period last year, 205,499.
THE Treasury Department at Washing
ton was informed on the 25th that large
numbers of Chinese laborers were being
imported into California through British
Columbia in violation of the Anti Chinese
law.
The liabilities of McGeoch, E%veringham
& Co., of Chicago, whose failure has been
announced, were on the 25th reported to
he Sc, $1,000, with assets of about $4,000.
THE Planters Cotton-Seed Oil Works, in
Algiers, La, the largest cotton-seed oil
mill in existence, was destroyed by fire on
the evening of the 25th. Loss, 81 100000.
THE New York Emigration Commission
ers considered on the 25th the cases of
:" assisted " immigrants, and decided to do
their utmost to prevent the landing Of such
persons.
A WOOD and a gravel train on the North
iern Pacific Road collided at Heron siding,
Montana, a few nights ago, killing
eighteen Cinnamon and wounding twenty
five others.
The examination into the shooting of
Rev. j. Lane Borden, at Mansfield, La, by
a clergyman named jenkins, resulted on
the 25th in the latter and his brother being
held for murder.
RAINS have overlooked the Big Nemaha
River, in Nebraska, to such a degree that
thousands of hogs and cattle were drowned,
inficting a loss of $780, 200. The town of
,Tecumseh, with a population of two thou
sand, was on the 18th without groceries
and -four.
NEARLY all the bottom lands OF the Illi-
nois side of the Mississippi River, from
Alton to Cairo, a distance of some two hun
'dred miles, were under water on the 26th.
Several submerged villages had been aban-
idoned, and a vast and increasing area of
farming lands was covered with water.
The loss was computed at millions of dol
lars. and the flood was still extending.
AT a Cabinet meeting in Washington on
the 26th the question of assisted" immi-
grafton was considered, resulting in an or
der to the Collector of Customs at New
York to cooperate with the Commission
,ers of immigration and prevent the land
ing of paupers, Il to send pack those who
had landed.
A NEGRO who was found guilty of as
,sault upon a white woman was lynched in
broad daylight at Jefferson, Tex, on the
Goth, by a crowd of five hundred persons.
WR1GHT& McCoRD, large lumber dealers,
pf Merrill, Wis, failed on the 26th for
$4,000
JAMES r. DAVIS, Appraiser of Teas at
New York, on the 26th announced that he
had rejected three thousand one hundred
packages of a cargo from China. Some of
these he foun mixed with sand OF gravel;
Others consisted of dust and paste rolled in
pellets. He also rejected five hundred and
forty packages from Japan in which dust
and mineral substances were found.
R. N. PARKS & Co., bankers and brokers,
of New York, failed on the Goth for
$2OS,000.
A BILL has been passed in the Massachu2
;setts Legislature establishing a company
for the purpose of building the long-pro-
jected Cape Cod Ship-Canal.
The band of desperadoes who have been
terrorizing the citizens at Little Missouri,
D. T., was effectually broken up on the
10Th by a Sheriff's posse. One man was
killed and the leader of the outlaws was
captured.
. W NEGROES were lynched near Jeffer-
son, Tex, on the 9th, for outrage. One
was hanged II the other burned to death.
GREAT damage has been lone in Penn
sylvania by heavy rains, all trains on sew
eral railroads having been suspended on
the 9th by washouts. In the Ashland and
Wilkesbarre mines work was entirely
stopped, and at the latter place a house
had been carried down seventy-five feet,
and the occupants Of surrounding dwell
ings were seeking places of safety. Near
Scranton the crops had been almost ruined
Several dams were burst asunder by the
pressure of the water and many small
buildings were carried away. At Strouts-
burg many cellars were filed. The topac-
co and corn crops near Lancaster were
ruined. A loud burst in the vicinity of
Portland, wrecked a number of c~ulverts
and bridges, and washed away tracks in
large sections.
HATHAWAY, the Philadelphia doctor, in
whose cellar was found the skeletons of
twenty infants, was on the 9th fined five
hundred dollars and sentenced to seven
years in the penitentiary.
AFFIDAv1Ts were on the 9th published
by;some of the inmates of the Bath IN. w
Home for Soldiers and Sailors that they
had been subjected to shameful cruelties.
HEAVY rains have caused extensive floods
i'll the western part OF Michigan. All the
railroads we're suffering on the 9th from
washouts of bridges and %culverts.
Four persons We're shot lead at Collins
vile, Ala, on the 9th, in an ARRAY caused
by a dispute over a boundary line.
ATPullman, ILL.,, on the 9th George Fox
and Thomas Ryan were shot dead by We
burt Ray, who claimed the shooting was
lone in self-defense. D.
BONDS to the face value of 800, 900, 900
were Cancelled at the Treasury Department.,
IN Washington, on the 9th.
ONE thousand employees of the Bethlehem
(Pa.) Iron Company's Steel Mill quit work
on the 9th because they had been refused
an increase of wages.
VANDERHooF e. Co., brokers, of New
York, mad an assignment on the 9th.
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