Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-03-31
EPlTOME OF the WEEK.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
By the sinking of III oystes-boat near
Baltimore a few days ago five of the seven
men composing her crew persisted, one of
them being frozen to death while dashed in
the rigging.
SECRETARY CHANDLER has issued an or
der that eight hours shall constitute a days
labor in the navy-yards.
The old-established banking firm of r.
E. & H. Hooper, at New Brighton, Pa,
made an assignment on the Goth.
AN attempt is alleged to have been made
a few nights ago at Taylorville, ILL.,, to alb
duct Miss Emma Bond, the victim of the
terrible outrage near that place, several
months ago, and who is still suffering, and
at times is in an unconscious condition,
from the effects of the brutal treatment to
which she was subjected. In her account
of the attempted abduction she says two
men, with black masks, 'stook hold of me
and tried to pull me out of bed. Ihad hold
Of the ~head-board, and in trying to get me
out they moved the bed out from the wall.
I tried to scream, but was so scared that L
could not. They then carried me out of the
house and around the corner, when we
heard some one screaming inside the house.
One of the men then said: Curse it, let's
drop her and skip out;' which they did.
All this time 1 was perfectly conscious of
everything that was going on, but when
they let me drop to the ground Ibecame in
sensible" Soon after Miss Emma had
made her statement she relapsed into an
unconscious state, and Oh the 10Th was con-
tinually talking about her abductors, some
times asking if they returned and took her
away after having let her drop.
The Commissioner of Agriculture has in
vited DR.. Solomon, a disciple of Pasteur,
to conduct his experiments relating to the
germ theory of disease under the auspices
of the Agricultural Bureau. The Commits
sioner is hopeful that farmers in the United
States will find incubation effectual in
preserving their live stock from disease.
REPORTS lave reached the Interior De-
partment that complete anarchy prevails
throughout the Greek reservation, in con-
sequence of the animosities existing be-
tween the two factions of the tribe. A de-
mand has been made for Governmental in
reference.
A WAR between the dairymen and milk
dealers about prices has caused a distress
ing scarcity of milk in the city of New
York.
A GLUCOSE company in New York has
bought up the works of all the other prin-
cipal glucose factories in the United States.
By an accident on the 21st in the Bessemer
steel works at Cleveland, O., the huge con-
verter, filled with melted metal, was over
turned, and two men were fatally, and a
dozen others seriously, scalded.
MONTANA stockmen report that their
herds have wintered unusually well, the
losses not exceeding five per cent.
The Treasurer of the Irish Land League
of America has cabled $4,000 for the relief
of sufferers by famine in Ireland.
THE men who recently captured a train
IN the Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroad
and killed the conductor lave been Jailed
at Ozark, Ark, and have confessed their
crime.
SUPERINTENDENT KE1GHLEY, of the
Youngstown Coke Company, shot and
killed a miner named Kane at Uniontown,
Pa, on the 21st. As the miners were on a
strike there was great excitement, and an
outbreak was feared.
DUNCAN DoLEs, an aged and wealthy
farmer living alone near Byers' Station,
O., was robbed and %strangled the othc..
night, and his house set on fire to destroy
the evidences Of the crime.
KATIE A. JUDD, for robbing and burning
her employers house, was sentenced at
Newport, R. l., a few days ago to twenty
five years in States Prison.
Tur E,,ro1,o Co++o,, N5;1l, 4, 1E...A
Airy, N. c., were destroyed by an incen-
diary fire Oh the 21st. Loss, 500, 1000.
The 22O Irish girls who recently sailed
from Limerick, Ireland, reached Nashua,
N. H., on the 21st, and were given immedi-
ate employment in the cotton mills in that
city.
The cashier and paying-teller of the Sec
ond National Bank of st. Paul, Mimi,
have been found to be embezzlers of the
funds of the bank to the extent of about
$15, 900.
THERE was in the United States Treasury
,on the 21st a total of $3.50, 900, $40, of which
Slso, 1896, 637was gold, $107, 133, 741 silver, and
the remainder United States notes.
A COTTON warehouse was destroyed by
fire at Columbus, Ca, on the morning of
the2.d. Loss, $4,000
A A explosion a few mornings ago in
Packer Colliery, No. 3, at Lost Greek, Pa,
probably fatally injured six miners.
H Cree Indians have been committing
~depredations in the vicinity of Fort Con-
rad, Montana, killing at one place seventy
five work oxen. They were pursued and
overtaken on the 22d by a party of Piegans,
q fight ansupd. in which +p-o C,.ooe
were killed and two Piegans were fatally
wounded.
A BAND of prospectors, while inspecting
coal-ields near Charleston, Arizona.
a few days ago, were attacked by Indians,
several of them were killed.
RICHARD CROWLEY, a Texas lunatic. es-
capped from the San Antonio Asylum the
other night, went to his mothers house,
and Drained her with an ak.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Washington states that the receipts at
his Office from July 1, 1882, to March q,
1888, w7es.e $l4G,40 900, an excess of s., 2OO,-
Ooo over the receipts for the corresponding
period the preceding year.
1T was discovered on the ODD that the
boo~k-keeper of the Merchants and Plant
ers' Bank of Montgomery, Ala, had lost
100000 Of the institutions funds in specula-
lion.
A FEUD between cattlemen eliminated
On the 22d in a fight near Fort Huachcua,
IN the Mexican border of Arizona. in which