Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-08-29
EPIT0ME OF THE WEEK.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

otdtSSs bClIS C-stJo ftSS 1ui ~ tlC PiC-
vious fiscal year, and 26o, $50 less than for
the year ended June 80, 1881.
SIX THOUSAND persons gathered in the
amphitheater at Chatauqua Lake, n. V,
on the evening of the 9th to open the
eleventh session of tho Assembly, which
continues till August %.
HAIL and thUnder-storms a few days
ago in Lancaster County, Pa, seriously
damaged the tobacco crops. Several
buildings and barns were struck by light
uing, and many of the latter were burned.
ALI trains coming into the United States
from Guaynas, Mex, are to be inspected,
owing to the prevalence of yellow fever.
In an election dispute recently at Brad
louisville, Ky, Burr Dean (colored), who
opened fired on a crowd, was mortally
shot. two negroes and q white man We're
wounded, and a horse was killed.
A Loss of .S215, 600 was occasioned a few
days ago by the burning of the Schlnid
Label & L%ithographic Companv's building
at SAN Francisco.
GEORGE PEARSON, one of the pioneers of
Idaho, who murdered John I. Hall in a
saloon at Boise City, was executed on the
9Th in presence of one thousand persons.
BREWER e GoLDEN's warehouse, with
$4,000 pounds Of tobacco, at Milton, KY,
was destroyed by fire the other morning.
FRITZ STElNMULLER, a newsboy of Leav-
enwortll, Kan, fell under the wheels of a
passenger train leaving the depot on the
9th, and was crushed to death in plain
view Of three hundred persons.
The following Congressional nomina-
tions were made on the 9th: Republican,
Illinois, Thirteenth Distric5, James NJ.
Taylor. Missouri, Thirteenth District,
W. II. Wade. Democratic - Illinois,
Twelfth District, j.. NJ. Riggs Genomi-
nated). Missouri, First District, W. H.
Hatch ;tsenominatcd). Ohio, Eleventh
District, w. w. Ellsbury. Maine, First
District, Nathan Cleaves; Third District,
d.. H. Wing.
A CYCLoNE swept over the town of
Wasco, in Eastern Oregon, the other day,
and several buildings, including the
Methodist Church and q mill, We're de-
molished. A. NJ. Barnett was caught un.
der a falling building and fatally injured.
The estimated corn crop of Nebraska
this year is 1901 oO, 900 bushels-nearly
100000 bushels greater than last year.
The National Convention of the ANAL
gamated Associations, in session on the
S'5 iA' VAN "a
for chief of the new Labor Bureau, and re-
4uested President Arthur to sign his COM
mission at an early day.
NEAR F%redonia, Tex, the other evening
q horrible encounter took place between
four desperate men, in which one was shot
through the heart, another was fatally
stabbed, the third received a deadly
wound in the shoulder, and the other was
SHOT in the breast.
OWING to an old feud Theodore t. Mowry
fatally shot Elmer E. Mowry at Man
vile, r. l., recently. and then sent a
bullet into his own brain.
THE, fourteenth annual convention of the
Catholic Total Abstinence Union of Amer
ica met in Chicago on the 9th, Rev. James
M. Cleary, of Wisconsin,, President Of the
Union, in the chair.
missouri PACIFIC passenger train was
ditched near Whitesboro, Tex, a few even.
ings ago. Ten persons were injured, one
fatally.
Jay GOULD has resigned the Presiden-
cy of the Wabash Railroad Company, and
MIR. James F. JOY, of Detroit, has been
elected to succeed him.
GENERAL HATCH encamped on the 6th
with six cavalry companies at a point
twenty-five miles southeast of Caldwell,
Kan, and proposed to clear Oklahoma of
two thousand invaders.
A BENzINE explosion in Fauke's dyeing
works at New York on the 9th blew the
structure to fragments and caused the
burning of a stable, two horses and a sa-
doom. Two men were fatally burned.
WITH the exception of two buildings the
town OF Laporte, Cal, was consumed by
fire a few nights a@o. Loss, $4,000.
Up to the 9th forty-ive persons had
been killed by accidents in the coal regions
near Scranton, Pa, during the present
year.
SAMUEL II. DREW, ex-County Prosecut-
ing Attorney of Cincinnati, was arrested
on the 9Th, charged with embezzling IS, 900.
In a quarrel with his wife at Troy, n.
Y, a few days ago James Mason threw a
belt at her. The buckle struck their infant
child on the head, inhicting a wound from
which it died.
CORRESPONDENTS of e. p. Bacon & Co.,
OF Milwaukee, on the 9Th reported heavy
losses in the barley crop, by hail and rain
storms, in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Dakota,
Iowa and Nebraska.
FIRE was discovered early on the morn
ing of the 9th i'll a closet of the Capitol at
Washington near the clerks office on the
House side. The damage was slight, but
how it started was a mystery.
Two soUADRoNs of United States caval-
ry descended upon Oklahoma Payne's
camp at Rock Fails, l. r., on the It'll, and
arrested the leaders, and started them off
for Fort Smith. The women, children and
new offenders were escorted to the Kansas
line. The clearinghouse, drugstore and
some other cheap structures were burned,
and not Il vestige of the settlement was
permitted to remain.
W MINERS were killed and q third was
fatally injured by the fall Of twenty five
tons Of top-coal in a c%olliery at Shenan-
doah, Pa. a few days ago.
THE defendant in a "Mother Hubbard"
dress case at Omaha was dismissed Oh the
18th, Difference to public opinion causing
the Chief-of-Police not to prosecute. The
style OF dress involved was being worn
more than ever.
THE City of San Francisco embarked
Chinese lepers on the 7th for
their native land, giving each five dollars
paying full fare.
WV .~,-