Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-19
OF The WEEK.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.
NUMEROUS labor strikes were inaugurated
IN various parts of the United States on
the LIST, the most noteworthy being that of
six thousand coal:miners in the Pittsburgh
(Pa.) district. At many places the cigar
makers ceased work, and at Lynn, Mass,
there was a general strike of shoemakers.
AN incendiary fire at Yazoo City, Miss,
the other night destroyed the stables on j.
II. Woolfolk's plantation, burning to death
thirty-five mules.
THREE HUNDRED pauper immigrants from
Southwestern Ireland were landed at Phil
adelphia on the LIST.
THE public debt statement issued on the
LIST make the following exhibit: Total debt
(%including interest of 3d. I'll $3.50, 1884,
239, 1856. Cash in Treasury, $319,159,401
Debt, less amount in Treasury, $1,574,079,-
SS5. Decrease during April, 1851 ,402. De-
crease since June 80, 1882, STA, 1884, 75.
The three Cain brothers Inc two sup
porters recently met the three Smith boys
and two followers at Mckinney, KY, and
q battle followed, all the Gains being shot,
one mortally, while one of the Smiths was
shot in the mouth.
MAJOR WEssoN, a United States Pay
master, claimed on the I'd to have been
robbed of a valise containing $4,000 III a
train between Forth Worth and Sweetwa-
ter, Tex, while he was asleep. No clue to
the robbers had been found. Wesson was
on his way to pay the troops on the Rio
Grande frontier.
THE Red Cross Society at Wesson, Miss,
issued an appeal on the I'd to the charitable
everywhere for aid to continue the needed
relief to the sufferers by the recent cy-
clone. Rations were being issued daily to
nearly four hundred destitute people.
HENRY FoRHAM was hanged on the I'd at
Helena, NJ. T., for murder.
ALEXANDER SULLIVAN, President of the
Irish National League of America, stated
on the I'd that the plan of the league was to
organize the Irish people of this country on
the platform adopted by the recent Phila-
delphia Convention. He also said that the
British Government would be shown that
in its treatment of Ireland it had to deal
with Ireland at home and ireland abroad.
AN Elpaso (Texas) dispatch of the I'd
says that Genera Crook had crossed into
Mexico and was in the Sierra Madre Noun
tains in pursuit of the Apaches. The Next
can authorities co-operated by sending two
companies to the frontier. Other troops
were in the field.
PAY envelopes containing $4,000 were
stolen from the safe of the Providence (R.
~ Gas Company by sneak thieves on the
I'd.
DIRECT telephone conversation was had
between New York and Chicago on the I'd
over the wires of the Postal Telegraph
Company. Sentences containing several
words were transmitted, and the voice of
the speaker at one end of the line was dis
tinctly recognized by the receiver at the
other.
ABOUT eleven hundred s~tone-cutters and
plasterers at st. Louis went on a strike on
the I'd. They had been getting three dol
lars and fifty cents per day and demanded
four dollars.
TIL President has selected Boston, At
lanta and Chicago as the names for the
three new steel cruisers of the navy.
AMOS BAILEY, a colored man who killed
a farmer in Franklin County, Miss, was
taken from the Sheriff's custody a few days
ago by an armed mob and hanged to q tree.
THE President of the Louisville, New AL
bany & Chicago Railroad Company issued
an order on the I'd directing the cessation
OF all unnecessary work on Sunday. The
order states that efforts will be made to alb.
rogate mail contracts that involve the me-
cessity of Sunday trains, and that in future
no excursion trains will be run on Sundays,
not even to camp-meetings.
A SALTWATER fountain oyp1odad Of
Syracuse, N. Y, a few days ago, fatally
injuring one and seriously injuring two
other persons.
CLARA j. WILSON, a young girl confined
in the Atchison (Kan.) Jail for attempting
to set fire to several buildings, has become
a raving maniac, and has been incarcerated
in the Kansas Insane Asylum.
The spruce trees in the Aroostook dis.
trict Of Maine are said to be dying from
some unknown cause, and owners of forests
of spruce are much troubled in conse-
quence.
EDWARD LILLY, a negro near Fayette-
vile, NC, was bitten by a mad dog re-
Gently and became so frightened that he
died before reaching home.
The st. Adams (Vt.) Iron and Steel
Works Company has failed, with heavy
liabilities.
LIEUTENANT ANDERSON, of Fort Assina-
boine, in command of a mounted detach-
ment OF infantry, captured a band of eighty
Canda Indians near Bear Paw Mountains,
in Northern Montana, OH the I'd. They were
taken to the fort, and by order Of General
Ruger were liberated and driven across the
boundary line. This was the third band of
Crees driven back North since April 1.
OVER e~levenhundred German immigrants
arrived at Baltimore on the Sd.
JOSEPH BoRK, the defaulting City Treas
urer of Buffalo, N. Y, has been sentenced
to five years Imprisonment in The Auburn
fenitentiary. The amount of his embez-
element was $4,000.
The meeting of iron manufacturers and
representatives of the Amalgamated Asso.
citation held on the Sd at Pittsburgh result
ed in a rupture, and a great strike was said
to be imminent.
AN explosion of gas in the Refnpe O;,