Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-10
GP|TOME OF THE WEEK
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

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warm.
LEHoN Fry proposed n few evenings
ago and was rejected by the Widow Gar
mon, living near Homer Center, o. Fry
then shot the woman in the head; and
thinking he had killed her he procured a
gun, put the muzzle into his mouth, and
blew his head to pieces. Mrs. Carmen
might recover.
AN industrial school for Indians, with
accommodations Cor four hundred pupils,
was opened at Lawrence, Kan, on the
18th.
AT the Lykens Valley Colliery, near Ly-
kens, Pa, four boilers simultaneously ex-
ploded the other evening, one man being
fatally and three seriously wounded.
Work would be necessarily suspended for
some time.
THE extensive vitrol-works of James IT,
win & Co., at Pittsburgh, valued at $780,
600, were destroyed by a recent fire.
EIGHT THOUSAND coal miners were on
the 18th engaged in the strike in Pennsyl.
were at work. The women had organized
a "tin-pan brigade" and greeted the nom
u%nionists with a serenade on pans, kettles,
etc, when they left work i'll the evening.
For the eight months ended August 81
the exports Of domestic breadstuffs
reached the value of SOC, o0S, $50, against
STA, 239, 476 for the same period in 1855.
The Cambria Iron Company, OF Johns
town, Pa, which gives employment to five
thousand men. announced on the 18th that
wages would next month be reduced ten or
twenty per cent, with a corresponding
allowance in coal and rents to employees.
WILLIAM ALBEIT and Albert Derby were
in a carriage the other night that was
struck by a train near Glassboro, N. j.,
and were fatally injured.
!, STATEMENTS were sent out from La
Crosse, Wis, on the 18th that the damage
to wheat by rust was widespread, and that
a Minnesota miller suffered heavy loss in
New York on flour made from smutty
wheat which he had cleansed.
MARSHAL CLARK, at Albany, N. Y, at
tempted to serve ejectment papers on John
Ahearn's wife recently, when the woman
threw him over a railing, killing him in.
stantly.
RICHARD A. FLYNN, aged twelve, was
shot dead at Worcester, Mass, on the 18Th
by Eddy Sheridan, of the same age, with
a pistol which he thought was unloaded.
MRS. JOSEPH STEVENS, of Hollisterville,
Pa, who was for years in the habit of eat
ing raw ham, now suffers 50 terribly from
trichiniasis that she constantly pleads
with her friends to kill her. The worms
keep her flesh ill perpetual motion, and
frequently twist out from the muscles in
%Wriggling masses.
s LEADING citizens of Eau Slaire, Wis. on
the 18th appealed to the public for aid for
tue sufferers by the recent overflow Of the
Chippewa River, and appointed acommit-
tee to distribute contributions.
!, AT Frankfort, KY, recently John Sim
mons, a coloreo boy, whipped Morgan
Browner, aged sixteen, when Browner
procured a gun and shot the negro dead.
1T was announced in Chicago OH the, 18th
that never in the history of lake naviga-
ton had freights been so badly depressed.
Many vesselowners contemplated strip
ping their craft and placing them in winter
quarters.
LIZZIE BAXTER, daughter of wealthy
parents in Elmira, N. Y, who had been
deserted by her husband and had received
no answer to a telegram sent home for
money, committed suicide near Pitts bureh
the other night by throwing herself in
front of a train.
In Laconia, N. H., a few days ago N re.
Sally Young, aged sixty-six, was struck
by a train and killed. Her first
fell from a building and bro'.e his necx-
and her second husband was killed nv the
cars near the scene OF. Wednesdays &C.
cident.
The outlook Tor the fall and winter
trade IN al. sections of 1.-THE South is re-
ported 30 be favorable. .
CAPTAIN SIMPSON died of yellow fever
at the Boston quarantine hospital on the
18th. ..
INTENSE excitement prevailed at Union.
town, Pa, on the 18th over the discovery
of an attempt to take the lives of all the
me mbers of the Mutt family. The well
from which the supply of water used in
the Mutt household was drawn was
poisoned by some unknown miscreant.
Two of the young ladies, Annie and Net
tie, were already dead and the other mem
bers of the family were i'll.
MINNIE R. paced a mile with running
mate at Milwaukee on the 18th in o:O6.
Johnston made a mile in 2:11a4, and Rich
ball in 2:1GA.
"A HoRsE-THIEF was sentenced at Will
mington, Del, recently to pay $500 resti-
tuition and 5000 fine, stand an hour in the
pillory, receive twenty lashes, and he i'm.
prisoned for eighteen months.
DINK9Ns is the name of a poor white
man i'll Aiken County, S. c., who was re.
Gently sentenced to one month in Jail. He
asked for the order of commitment and
walked ten miles to deliver himself. When
he returned, he collected two dollars from
the Justice for mileage under the pro-
visions of the State law.
The village of Milton, Ind, was almost
totally destroyed by fire a few nights ago.
The opera house, a drug store, hotel, sew
eral business houses, and almost every
thing save the Wayne Agricultural Works,
were burned. The loss was great.
R1NDsKoPF Bros, clothiers, of New
York, failed on the 10Th. The liabilities
were estimated at 5000, 900.
BETWEEN 2:B and three O'Clock on the
afternoon of the 10Th several towns in
Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky
and West Virginia were shaken by an
earthquake of a few seconds duration,
the oscillations being more perceptible in
the upper stories of structures. Tableware
was dashed to the floor, furniture dis
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