Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-31

aggregated $7,110,000, against $3.50, 900
the previous seven days and $G,599,000 for
the corresponding period of last year.
REFUSING to accept reduced wages, three
thousand men in Oliver Brothers, & Phil
lips rolling mills at Pitts burgh, Pa, were
locked out on the 18th.
MRS. CHARLES McNAIR (colored), aided
by two other negroes, killed her husband,
who was an invalid, ut Laurel Hill, n. c.,
q few days ago, being tired of supporting
him.
The heat was so excessive at Savannah,
Ca, ON the It'll that dock laborers were
unable to work at loading vessels. One
death occurred from sun-stroke.
THE officers of the Hampden Mutual
Fire Assurance Company of Springfield.
Mass, have decided to close up the con.
pany's business. Recent losses cause the
stoppage.
A PARTY of seventeen persons, most of
whom are missionaries, left Atlanta, Ca,
the other day for China. Some of the la.
dies will organize in Shanghai a high school
for girls.
w. w. C%oTTERAL, of New Castle, Ind,
reported missing a few days ago, was ex-
Auditor of Henry County, and short in
his counts $500.
A BARREL of whisky exploded the other
day at Canton, Miss, the liquid immedi-
ately taking fire, though there was neither
light nor fire in the room.
NEAR Marysville, Mo-, a few nights g
a bridge collapsed under a freight train
laden with hogs, nearly all of which were
drowned. TIL engineer was killed, and
the brakeman and fireman badly injured.
Ten THOUSAND persons gathered in the
Northampton (Mass.l camp grounds on
the Sth to celebrate the centennial of the
independence of American Methodism.
The Indiana Supreme Court has decided
that it has no power to respite or grant par.
don to convicted criminals. The law con-
ferring that power on any other person
than the Governor was declared unconsti-
tutional.
THE strike of stove-molders at Pitts
burgh, Pa, which had continued for nine
months, was declared off on the Sth, and
union men would return to work as indi-
viduals at a reduction of fifteen per cent.
TIE Supreme Court of New York has
declared uncons titutional the law forbid
ding the manufacture of cigars in the
tenement-houses of the larger cities.
GEORGE DoLL1NG recently caught a
young rat in a mine at Honesdale, Pa,
and made a pet of it. TIL animal repaid
the kindness by biting it's benefactor with
such severity as to cause his death.
WHILE out riding a few evenings ago
near North Adams, Mass, a train struck
the carriage containing George and Alice
Hall, brother II sister, both being in.
stantly killed.
A FIRE destroyed q number of buildings
the other night at Richmond, KY, includ-
ing a planing-mill, n flour-mill and the
city ~gas-works. Loss, S125,Ooo.
A TERRIBLE catastrophe occurred on the
morning of the Sth in Lake Michigan, OFF
Hyde Park. near Chicago, during the
most terrific gale of the season., involving
the loss of ten out of fifteen men who
ty, pending the construction of q water.
works crib at that place.
A HURRICANE swept over Harrisburg,
Pa, Oh the evening of the sth, unroofing
houses and l~eveling trees. A section Of
the carriage bridge over the Susquehanna
was carried away.
BURGLARS robbed four business places
at Perry, N. Y, the other night, securing
abou. $4,000 in bonds and cash.
TICKETS from Chicago to New York were
selling ON the Sth at S14, to st. Louis for
r, and to Kansas City for St. so.
A CIRCUS employe was badly mutilated
recently while attending to some Gagged
tigers at Waterbury, Conn. The animals
dragged him inside and began to feast on
his arms and legs. The beasts were
beaten off with iron bars.
A FREIGHT train on the Union Pacific
Road collided with a wild engine at Elk
horn, Neb., the other day, and a fireman
and engineer were killed and another fire.
man lost both legs.
The Fort Pitt Iron and Steel Works at
Pittsburgh, Pa, which had been idle for
three months for. lack Of orders, resumed
operations on,the Sth.
AT the annual meeting in New York on
the Sth of the directors of the Western
Union Telegraph Company the report of
the President showed the capital stock to
be $50, 0O0, 900; bonded debt, $7,214.OO0;
revenues for the year ended June 50, 1884,
$40, 900; expenses, $13, o22, 900; profits,
$6,6l0,OO0; surplus June 80, 1884, $751; 900.
GREAT excitement prevailed at James
town, O., on the Sth over the discovery
tuaU eleven graves Ill Cl6 cemetery there
had been opened and the corpses stolen.
A reward of $1,000 was offered for the
ghouls. At Birds Vile, five miles east,
and at South Baltimore violated graves
were also found.
p AT q secret conference of paper manu-
facturers held in Philadelphia on the Sth
reports were made Of a short supply of
rags all over the country. owing to the
Government embargo on imported rags
from the East, and it was decided to
call a meeting to be held in Cleveland. 1t
was thought a determined effort would
be made to force the price up an average
of w cents a pound. The supply of rags
in port and on the water will only keep
the mills going until December l. The
large paper dealers in Chicago and other
cities, East and West, are serving their
customers with notices to the effect that
they are compelled to withdraw former
quotations and give prices on amounts,
or from day to day. The writing-paper
manufacturers agreed, at a meeting held
in Boston on the 9th, to advance prices
two cents per pound, and to maintain the
advanced rates.
THE New York State Supreme Court re-
Gently CAV a judgment against the city of