Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-08-22
because he failed to keep an ap-

pointment.
The explosion of a lamp a few mornings
ago resulted in a fire which destroyed
nearly the whole business portion of Hot
Springs, Ark.
The school census of Chicago, recently
completed, indicated a population of G29,-
9S5, an increase of 1914 per cent. within a
year. The Chinese number 291 and the
colored people 7,5l7.
Two COWBOYS engaged in n shooting af-
fray near Miles City, M. II, a few days
ago, and both were fatally wounded.
THE Bradford tPa.) Glass Works, which
shut down on accoun of the strike recent
ly, resumed work on the 31st ult. with nom
union men. In the afternoon the strikers
surrounded the factory, captured Fortune
Dogneaux, the new foreman, and gouged
out both of his eyes to prevent him from
doing any more work.
GEORGE T.. WILLIAMS, Secretary of the
Chicago Stock Yards, reported on the 1st
that the Texas fever had been entirely
eradicated by the butchery of the infected
herd, and that no further trouble with cat
tie was expected.
The Greedy Arctic relief expedition came
to anchor i'll the harbor of Portsmouth, N.
H., on the afternoon of the LIST. The party
was warmly welcomed by Secretary Chan
dler, all the naval vessels in port and the
citizens generally.
THE wholesale drug stock of Leighton g.
Clark, at Omaha, was destroyed by fire
the other morning. Loss, $780, DOC.
The executions on the 1su included three
young white men at Scottsboro, Ala, for
arson; Frank Williams (colored), at Pine
BLUM, Ark. for The murder of his wife;
Wilson Stevens (colored), at Edgefeld, S.
c., for killing a peddler; Frederick Ce-
phas (colored), at Cambridge, Md, for
numbering Mrs. Murphy, and Alexander
Jefferson (colored), in Brooklyn, N. Y,
for taking two lives and terribly wound
ing a third person.
A BUILDING in Water street, New York.
was damaged to the extent of $4,000 by
fire on the lst, and five persons were
fatally burned. Flames also swept away
nine buildings at Philadelphia, the loss
being $780, 00.
AS THE result Of a feud, because of a
runaway match in the families, Elisha AL
exander was killed, his brother John NOR
tally hurt, and Mrs. Charlie Poor slightly
wounded in q shooting affair recently near
Burns, KY.
Mrs. FRANCES STEGALL, a widow, aged
seventy, who died a few days ago near
Monroe, N. c., confessed to a clergyman,
and afterwards made her confession pub
lie, that she had murdered her husband by
pouring molten lead into his ear thirty
years ago. She refused to say THAT was
the motive of the crime.
REPORTS for last year from forty.two
farms in scattered sections of New En-
gland show u profit of eight per cent. on
the capital invested, and it is asserted that
in ordinary seasons farming in that re.
gion will pay eighteen per cent.
JAY-EYE-SEE beat the trotting record at
Providence, r.. l., on the LIST, making q mile
in 2:10.
The Wannamaker %Company's furniture
factory, Towards Hotel, a planing-mill,
lu1nher-yard and four saloons at Philadel-
phia were destroyed by fire on the LIST,
causing a loss Of $780, 600.
During the seven days ended OF the
1st the business failures throughout the
United States and Canada numbered 259,
against 240 the previous week. The dis
tribution was as follows: New England
States, 53; Middle so; Western, ca;
Southern, 81; Pacific States and Territor-
les, IS; Canada and the Provinces, IS.
AT st. Louis on the LIST Fred Voch, a
carriage manufacturer, William Osech, a
laborer, and Bertha Murphy, a domestic,
committee suicide.
WILLIE CULL1NAN, eight years old, and
Michael Nasterson, his cousin, aged ten
years, of Boston, were drowned on the LIST
by falling from a boat.
THE public-debt statement issued on
the 1st makes the following statements:
Total debt (including interest of IS, $50, O52)
81 ,S51, 9GG, $50. Cash in Treasury, $4o5, 91O,-
0o3. Debt, less amount in Treasury, $1,446,.
05G,947. Decrease DUNG July, $685., 2ss.
Decrease since June so, 1883, $105, 034, $50.