Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-17
EPIT0ME OF THE WEEK
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

OVAxG0 44Os
ROBERT PuLL1AM, in a drunken row a few
nights ago at Munday's Landing, KY,
shot and killed Cuyler Hawkins and fatal
ly wounded James Hawkins.
The creosoting-works at Money Point,
Va, were destroyed by the explosion of
oil on the 31st ult., the loss being $780, 900.
NEAR Caldwell, O., Mrs. Polly Miller,
Mrs. Cynthia Turl and a young man were
thrown from a wagon by a runaway a few
days ago. Mrs. Miller was fatally hurt
and the others were badly injured. Will
lam Miller was crippled for life while try
ing to stop the team.
A FIRE at Garfield, Col, on the 31st ult.
destroyed the entire business portion of
the town. One person was killed and sew
eral others were badly injured by an ex-
plosion of giant powder which occurred
during the fire.
Ct A YOUNG mar named Ridgeway, living
near Washington, Pa, shot and killed his
little brother a few days ago while fooling
with a revolver supposed to be unloaded.
GARNET, STUBBs & Co.'s cotton ware
house and three hundred dwellings at Saw
annah, Ca, were destroyed by fire on the
31st ult., and ten lives were believed to
have been lost. Property valued at 81 ,000,-
600 was wiped. out, and fifteen hundred
people were rendered homeless.
MARY WEIGH, an aged woman, and her
grandson, aged nine years, were burned to
death at Cumminsville, O., a few nights
ago. The woman was trying to say the
boy from q burning building.
GEORGE A. E. RUGGLEs and Sarah
Ruggles, son and daughter of George c.
Ruggles, of Terre Haute, Ind, were
drowned in the old Wabash & Erie Canal
q few nights ago by driving off the bridge.
FORTY coal cars were totally wrecked by
q recent collision on the New Jersey Road
near Lebanon, Pa.
ELLKaY H. ANDREWS, corresponding
clerk of the Northwestern National Bank
of Chicago, was indicted and placed in jail
on the 31st ult. for embezzling $1,000.
The steamer San Bias, from Panama, ar
rived at San Francisco on the 31st ult. with
three cases Of yellow fever on board. The
patients were placed on the floating hos
pital.
NINE Cherokee Indians have subscribed
$4,000 for the organization of a National
bank at Vinita, I. T..
The coinage of the United States MINIS
for October was 81, 1859, 914, of which ST., 05O,-
05O were silver dollars.
Two masked men on the 31st ult. robbed
the vault of the county treasury at Virgin
ia City, Nevada, of $4,000, and then locked
up the treasurer.
FIVE men on a hand-car ran off a twenty
foot trestle in Nashville, Tenn, a few days
ago. One of the men was killed and the
rest badly hurt.
JOHN G. K. HEINE, q prominent lawyer
of Reading, Pa, who has disappeared, was
charged on the 3lst ult. with forgery, and
with embezzling $4,000.
Mrs. HINES defeated her husband,
Rudolph, at croquet the other afternoon
at Woodbury., N. j., when he kicked her
with a heavy boot. She became uncon-
scious, dying shortly after.
A BAND of Indians, including Chief
Natchez and sixty women and children,
were On the 3lst ult., reported to nave sur
rendered to the military at Fort Bowie,
A. T..
IT was announced on the 31st ult. that
fully one-half the corn crop in the first bot
toms of the Wabash River, in Indiana, was
ruined by the late freshet. One farmer had
100000 bushels under water.
Two intoxicated wo~od-choppers were
killed by the cars on the outskirts Of De-
troit, Mich, a few days ago.
The annual report Of N. G. Mcfarland,
COMMISSIONS of the General Land Office,
issued on the LIST states that 1900, 100 acres
Of public lands and 800, 235 acres of Indian
lands were disposed Of during the year, for
which $11, 713, 1888 was received. He recon-
1,,o,1a1 tho ,.oroo1 0f %1,o Dive o-,~%;o. o-l
Timber-C Culture laws, and the amendment
of the Homestead law, and said that much
valuable timber-land on the Pacific coast
was being taken up by persons hired for
that purpose.
A frame structure at New York
City in process of demolition fell on the 1st
while children were gathering kidding
wood, killing two of them instantly, wound
ing another fatally, and injuring a car
penter seriously.
THREE inches of snow were reported on
the LIST in Western New York.
FOURTEEN Federal Marshals and detect
ives had a desperate engagement on the
LIST near Pikeville. Pike County, Ind, with
a gang of counterfeiters, nine of whom
were captured, two of them being danger
ously wounded.
Two D were suffocated q few
days ago by the burning of John Ernest's
residence at Middletown, O..
THE public-debt statement issued on the
LIST makes the following exhibit: Total
debt (~including interest OF $9,SOl ,243), ST.
S75,S54,23s. Cash in Treasury, $780,, 347 sol.
Debt, less amount in Treasury $1,511 $685.
737. Decrease during October, $40, 304, 79s.
Decrease since June 80, 1883, $$a39, 5S4,47O.
The boiler on James Goldberry's planta-
tion, near Terre Haute Landing, Miss, ex-
ploded a few days ago, and the engineer
and two negroes were killed and several
others were wounded.
AT Narragansett Park, Providence, R. L.,
OF the LIST the trotter H. B. Winship made
mile with a running mate in the remark
able time of 2:10A.
WIswALL & Co.'s paper-mill at Pack
ards Falls, N. H., was destroyed by fire
on the LIST, n two women were badly
burned. Five others narrowly escaped
with their lives.
. GENERAL SHERMAN made his last annual
report to the Secretary of War on the LIST,
which shows that the army consists of
2,1A9 officers and 1886 men. The General
considers Crooks Apache campaign a sue