Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-28
OF THE week.
Interesting News Consultation.
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Mich, on the Sd averaged forty tons per
day.
SOME workmen %excavating recently for a
sewer at Schenectady, y. Y, found q COR
duroy road laid in 1880.
A STILL at the Chester tPa.) oil-works
exploded a few days ago, fatally i~njuriEg
Martin Ryanan and Alexander Smith.
REPORTS reached Columbia, S. c.. on the
3D. that Il terrible riothad occurred between
whites and blacks in Seneca City, 81 c., on
the Air Line Road. the number of ..lled be-
ing placed at twenty.
THE Erie & West Shore Railways were
on the Sd selling frst-class tickets from
New York to Chicago at So.
THOMAS d. SUTHERLAND & SoN. pro-
prietors of the Franklin iron-works of
Troy, N. Y, made an assignment a few
days ago for 100000.
The Knoxville coal-mine. near Pitts
burgh, Pa, had on the Sd been burning
three days, the fire having been set by in
cendiaries, who used petroleum to spread
the flames.
TIE coinage in the United States Mint
at Philadelphia during October was S1,4ll,-
600, and included 100000 silver dollars
and 50l 800 dimes.
In a collision on the Santa Fe Road. near
Newton, Kan, the other morning eighteen
freight cars were demolished, and one man
was killed.
NoREMAc, the pedestrian, began at New
York ON the Sd an effort to beat five thou
sand miles in one hundred days.
THE missionary ship Morning Star sailed
Oh the Sd from Boston to Honolulu. She
carried a large life-boat donated by
aiuGtaap C.bI,}b-e,bo1 LODI.
NEAR Huntingdon, Pa, early on the
morning of the Sd a house occupied by
James Holt and George Rogers and their
families took fire. The men threw their
wives and children from an upper window,
and then jumped themselves. All were
badly hurt, and the four children of Holt
were believed to be fatally wounded.
JAMES DAVIS, a tanner of Pawtucket, r.
l., made an assignment recently, with liza
bilities of about 100000.
In Little River County, Tex. the other
night the negro assaulter of q white woman
was captured. He confessed that the
woman husband hired him to commit the
crime, and the husband and negro were
both lynched.
+ FLORA CAMPBELL, aged ten years, was
burned to death near Steubenville, O., a
few nights ago, her clothes catching fire
from a bonfire she was building.
AT twenty-six leading clearinghouse
in the United States the exchanges during
the week ended on the lst aggregated
$3.50 ,931 AGO, against $751;, 30, 0lS the pre-
rious week. AS compared with the corre-
spending period OF 1883, the clearings indi-
Gated a decrease of ST..
FOUR thousand coal miners were on the
4th on a strike in Colorado.
RUDGER CLAWSON, of Salt Lake, who
was recently convicted of polygamy, has
been sentenced to four years in the pen
%itentiary and fined $500.
EBECAUsE Of an alleged flaw in the Tax
law, certain citizens Of Louisville prayed
an injunction to restrain their collection.
Northumberland denied the request
recently, thus making necessary the pay
ment of about $4,000 900:
The damage done to tha California grape
CROP by recent rains is estimated at over
81, 100000.
A FREIGHT train on the Virginia Midland
Road colllded with a passenger train at
Accotink Bridge a few days ago, and a
brakeman was killed and five other per-
sons were injured.
AT Buckhannon, w. Va, a few after
moons ago two brothers named Lee and
Tom Farnsworth engaged in a bowie-knife
encounter, in which Tom was horribly cut
and mutilated and left in a dying condi-
ton. The participants belong to a wealthy
family.
AT Dalles, Ore, a few days ago four
roughs took an intoxicated German to a
lonely place and attempted to rob him,
when the German, who had been knocked
down, pulled a revolver and shot one Of the
roughs through the heart, killing him in
stantly.
In the habeas corpus case of a China
woman named Ong Con, who arrived re-
Gently at Il Francisco on the steamship
Oceanic, Judge Sabin, of the United
States Circuit Court, remanded her to the
vessel and refused to allow her to land.
A PRAIRIE fire which started recently on
the north side of the Yellowstone River,
in Montana, near Dales ranch, burned over
fifty miles of rich land. The country
burned over was one of the finest cattle
ranges in the Northwest.
GRoHMER's stables in Carrollton, Ind,
were burned on the 9th. Thirteen valuable
horses We're consumed, and several others
fatally burned. The loss was very heavy.
In Chicago on the 9Th DR.. S. S. Gardner
and his infant child were shot dead by Mrs.
Gardner, and she also shot herself, prob
ably fatally. 1t was thought that, owing
to domestic difficulties, the woman was
temporarily insane.
In a planing-mill at Michigan City, Ind,
a supply pipe became disconnected Il few
days ago, fatally scalding B. L. Lower and
John Snyder.
THREE bridges on the S%traitsville branch
of the Columbus, Hooking Valley g. Toledo
Road We're burned by strikers on the 9Th.
The loss was about $1,000.
On the 9th two well-dressed men entered
the office of the st. Louis Smelling Com
pany and, while one of them engaged the
manager in conversation, the other en-
tered a private office and walked off with a
sachel containing $1,000. Both made their
escape.
! The railways centering at Chicago have
made a rate of SO for round trip tickets to
the Worlds Fair at New Orleans which
will open next month.
A TRAIN on the East Tennessee, Vir-