Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-09
EPI1OME OF THE WEEK
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

named Grossett. A militia company Lad
captured six of the murderers.
MARC F. KAY, the Deputy Auditor of
Alameda County, California, who stole six
teen thousand dollars, was on the 22d SEN
fenced to fourteen years in the State
Prison.
ILLINOIS, Indiana and low reported
severe frosts on the night of the 21st, in
.{uring small fruit to some extent IL seri-
pusly damaging vegetables. Heavy rains
and floods were creating great havoc in
sections of New York and Ohio, while the
unusual cold in the South, it was feared,
would affect the cotton plant.
EML1N HEwEs, commission lumber dealer
at Wilmington, Del, hasfailed for 100000.
ONE silk weavers in Ashley &
Bailey's mills at Paterson, N. j., struck on
the 22d for an advance of ten per cent. in
wages.
MICHAEL COHEN, a notorious bank-rob-
Der, better known as "Sheeney Nike" on
the 22d disclosed to the police of Pitts
burgh. Pa, the plans of the gang of which
he was a member for burglarizing banks
in several of the principal cities Of the
Union.
CROP reports received on the 23d from
different points in the Northwest showed
that the recent cold snap did no material
injury beyond impeding the planting of
corn.
THE General Council of the Reformed
Episcopal Church began its ninth annual
session at Baltimore on the 25d, Bishop
Latene being chosen President.
GEORGE CRAMER, residing near Living
sto, Lv,, ,oo1oo ,,ro,,oc;t;o,, ~ ~, ,,,,,; 4, M
to Miss Lille Wenzell a few evenings ago,
who refused him. He then drew a revolver
and shot her twice, snd then cut his own
throat. Both were fatally wounded.
SMALLPOX of a v~irulent type broke out
in the Lancaster (Pa.) County Jail on the
23d, and the institution had been quaran-
tined.
A FOOT of snow fell on the sd in sections
of Virginia, and the weather was very
cold. Crops had been severely injured.
Two DISTINCT shocks of earthquake were
felt at Catlettsburg, KY, at 1880 O'Clock
on the 23d, which shook the buildings in
town.
NEW YORK advices of the 23d say that
the bark II Sapere, from Buenos Ayres to
New York. with a cargo of hides and os-
trich feathers, had foundered at sea. Loss,
$500, 900.
fIFTy-FoUR THOUSAND school children
paraded the streets of Brooklyn on the 23d,
the occasion being the f%fty-fourth ami
versary of the Sunday-school Union.
Fort SMITH (Ark.) advices of the Esd
state that a5disastrous cyclone had swept
over Jefferson County; 1t followed Horse
head Creek several miles, destroyed TWEEN
ty-tive dwellings, one church and numerous
barns, killed John James and wounded
about twenty other persons.
TIE dwelling of Henry w. Moody, at
Lyme, N. H., was destroyed by fire a few
days ago, and Human Moody, aged eighty
years, was burned to death.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, is excited over avis
itation Of small pox. There was eleven
new cases on the 23d.
THE steamer Prussian arrived at Boston
on the 23d with ten hundred and sixty
Irish immigrants, most Of whom had been
s'assisteo."
A RECENT fire almost entirely destroyed
the town of G~uerneville, Cal.
A RICH discovery of horn silver at Tur.
key Creek. A. T., was reported on the 23d.
Two prospectors had taken out $40, 900 in
five days. 1t was also reported that i'm
mense gold discoveries had been made in
Lower California.
DIR. BURCH, of Illinois, and Jeremiah
Witt, Of Mount Ida, Ark, fought with
knives and pistols in the courthouse at
the latter place a few days ago. Burch
was shot dead.
Ten boxes, containing fifteen hundred
s~lung-shots, shipped from Baltimore, were
seized by the police at New York on the
23d. They were consigned to certain gun.
smiths, and the bill of lading alleged they
were chocolate.
Slowed away in various receptacles in
the room of Henry Thomen, a native of
Switzerland, of miserly habits, who died at
San Francisco a few days ago, was found
$4,000 ia bonds and gold coin.
The Secretary of the Treasury at Wash.
ington has decided that the $780, 900 an.
propriated for the prevention of the
spread of epidemic diseases shall be dis.
bursed by the Surgeon General of the
Marine Hospital Service, and not by the
National Board of Health.
WITH much pomp and circumstance the
magnificent new bridge between New York
and Brooklyn was opened on the oath. The
President and several members of the Cab
met, the Mayors Of the two cities, the Gov
ernors of New York and other States, and
many other distinguished public servants
took part in the proceedings, which were of
an elaborate character.
THE authorities at Washington are of
opinion that the provisions of the Immigra.
ton law relative to paSpes' Immigrants
will warrant the exclusion of two-thirds of
the Mormons brought here from foreign
countries.
A BOILER in the Bismarck Brick Works
at Bismarck, Oak, exploded a few DAYS
ago, killing two men and fatally injuring
two others.
A BAND of tifty-two Canadian Cree In.
dams unde Chief Tabor were captured
near Musselshell, on the Missouri River.
the other day, by a detachment of United
States troops, and were driven back over
the border.
The international Exposition Of Rail
way Appliances at the Exposition build
ing in Chicago opened on the oath.
WHITE & RUNK, Wholesale clothing deal
ers i'll New York City, nave failed for $780,
600.
A IND and rain-storm swept over How
ell County, Mo-, a few days ago, doing