Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-07

1HE DO1ler OF a IudCAluo VII
Robert Williams plantation, near Green
vile, S. c., exploded a few days ago, kill
ing Ned McBrayer, the engineer, and a
negro, and fatally injuring two others.
THE Union and Bay State Manufacturing
Company, of New York, failed on the 21st
for $4,000. The company had been extern
sively engaged in the manufacture of straw
goods.
THE fourth natural gas we'll near Wheel
ing, W. Va, was struck OF the 21st at a
depth of $40 feet.
OMAHA advices of the 22d state that six
teen persons were drowned by the recent
floods in Nemaha County. In Pawnee
County the wife and four children of John
Grubb, and seven members of a Bohemian
family, were drowned. Many houses were
washed away, and the crops were badly
damaged.
the business failures were 1S1, against 1SG
the previous seven days, divided as fol
lows: New England and Middle States,
%; Western, As; Southern, 43; Pacific
| States and Territories, 81; Canada, 26;
New York, Z.
ADvIcEs of the 22d say that the recent
tornado which visited the section some
thirty miles west of Kansas City, Mo-,
proved very destructive. Two persons
| were killed outright, five others were
fatally injured, and q large number were
more or less injured. The obliteration of
farm-houses, barns and orchards was very
complete.
Four train robbers, Cove and James
johnson, Monroe Mcdonald and James
Herndon, were hanged at GAINESVILLE,
Ark, on the 22d, for the murder of Con-
ductor Cain, and Lewis Carter (colored)
was executed at Jerusalem, Va, for muir
dering his wife.
EIGHT men were badly injured, three of
them fatally, by o series of explosions on
the 22d at the South Chicago Rolling Mil.
KYLE WALKER and Harry Reid, both
colored, who were arrested for implication
in the murder of young Trice, at Veto, Ala,
were lynched on the 22d. They confessed
before being hanged.
FIvB deaths from smallpox have oc-
Cured in one family in Lancaster, Pa, and
considerable alarm prevailed on the 22d
over the rapid spread of the disease.
On the first day of the professional re-
gaSta given by the Pullman Gill; Athletic
Association, on the 22d, Edward Hanlan,
of Toronto, Can, was victorious, winning
the three-mile race over six strong com.
petitors. Time, 22:3O.
CH1EF1MosEs and two other chiefs Of his
tribe of Indians arrived in Washington ON
the 22d from Washington Territory, to OBJ
tain money in payment of lands declared
open to settlement.
THE Mississippi River at st. Louis was
still rising on the 22d. The Fish Lake
levee below East C~arondolet, ILL.,, had
broken, and about ten thousand acres of
fine farms were under water. The damage
to crops and other property was estimated
at $100, 900. Above Friar's Point, Miss,
many fine farms were flooded.
A TERRIFIC wind-storm passed over JEFF.
ferson City, Mo-, on the 22d, unroofng the
penitentiary and seriously wounding sew
eral persons. Other buildings were also
damaged, and threelnen were reported to
have been drowned while attempting to
cross the river in a skiff.
SECRETARY TELLER decided on the 22d
that General Crooks captive bucks could
not be placed on the San Carlos reserva.
ton, but he would consent to receive the
children and unmarried squaws.
The laundry of Mrs. G. M. Hopkins, of
Troy, N. Y, together with seven thousand
dozen collars and cuffs, was destroyed by
fire on the 22d. Loss, $4,000.
THE boiler in Giants wooden mills, at
Boonville, Mo-, exploded on the 22d, wreck
ing the building. Several mon were in
jured, but only one, the engineer, fatally
The mills were valued at $4,000.
The actual cost of the recent S~tar-route
trials at Washington was $751; BIS.