Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-09-19
EPITOME OF the WEEK
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

National Bank of Jamestown, d. T., on
the Goth confessed Judgment to his brother
in Newcastle, Pa, in the sum of $4,000,
and the bank suspended.
A FEW nights & the Pacific Bank of st.
Paul, Mimi, was robbed of $4,000. The
money was taken from the safe by some
person who must nave known the combi-
nation. A young book-keeper named Ma
son was suspected.
A SLIGHT shock of earthquake was felt
In Eastern Tennessee the other night. 1t
lasted a minute and a half.
A Boston dispatch of the Goth states
that the most perfect counterfeit silver
dollar since 1881 has made its appearance
in that city. The only perceptible differ
ence between it and a genuine dollar is
that it does not weigh as much as the stand
arc dollar. 1t is also thicker, and will
not enter a tester. 1t has about the same
ring as a good dollar.
THREE cases Of leprosy exist Within ten
miles of Granite Falls, MINI.
REV. CHARLES SHARP, a Catholic priest,
shot himself dead a few days ago at
Bloomfield, near Pittsburgh, Pa. He was
crazed by sickness.
THREE young women-Bridget Hayes,
Annie Hayes and Mary Neutrality-suspicious.
New York City, were drowned at Cats
kill, n. Y, recently, while bathing in a
creek.
SAMUEL ROBERTS, late paymaster of
Charles Parrish 81 Co., coal operators at
Wllkesbarre, Pa, was on the 9th reported
a defaulter to the amount Of $4,000 or
$4,000. He surrendered his property to
lis employers, and a settlement has been
effected.
This years hop crop in this country is
estimated to be about o%ne-fourth short of
the average.
The Second National Bank of Xenia, O.,
suspended on the 9th, owing to specula.
lions by its cashier, j. S. Ankeney. The
liabilities were placed at $500, 900; assets,
100000
DR.. SALMON, Chief of the Bureau of AMI
NAL Industry, said on the 9th that he
found eight cases of pleuro-pneumonia
among cattle in the vicinity of Chicago,
and ten cases in other parts of the State.
NINE HUNDRED -cigar-makers lave been
on a strike at Cincinnati for twenty-four
weeks, during which time the union has
paid out $4,000 in benefits.
SEVERAL arrests have been made at Duck
Hill, Mlss.i of parties who nave on several
occasions wrecked trains on the Illinois
Central Railroad.
Two of Judge Davidson, of
Cleveland, o., a boy aged fourteen years,
and a girl'aged eleven, were drowned at
Dennlson a few days ago by the upsetting
of a boat. The bodies were recovered.
A CICLoNE visited Forestburg and
Diana, ID. T., on the 2Sth. At the former
place a farmer named Briggs lost his
house, thirty head of cattle and three
horses, and a man named Mckillon was
Killed: At Diana a track eighty yards
wide was swept over, several houses were
destroyed, and a numbe of lives were
lost.
AN open switch the other night Oh the
wabash Road wrecked over twenty
freight cars, killing Henry Nordeck, the
engineer, and Thomas Devlin, the brake
man.
THE business portion of the village of
Adams, Jefferson County, N. Y, was
burned on the 2Sth, involving q loss of
5000, 900.
GRAND DUCHESS Add, an animal that cost
about $4,000 in England, was burned to
death in a railroad accident near ALBANY,
N. Y, a few days ago.
BANNIsTER's shoe factory at Newark, N.
j., was burned the other morning. Loss.
100000.
DURING a recent fire in a tenement house
an Minneapolis James Curran, one Of the
occupants, was fatally burned. He had
rushed back tc rescue a child.
MAGGIE JONES, of Baltimore, in filing a
bill for divorce a few days ago alleged
that she believed she was marrying q
bachelor Of sixty years, but discovered at
his residence nine grown children, eight of
whom were older than herself.
5. w T~ALLMADGE, the crop statistician
OF Milwaukee, on the 18th issued his final
estimate of the wheat crop of the United
.s'tates for 1884, as follows: Winter wheat,
SWO,oOO,Ooo bushels; spring wheat, 100000
O00, OF l30, 000, 900 bushels more than the
crop Of 1881.
AGENTS of the West Shore Road were
selling tickets from New York to Chicago
for $14 on the Goth.
A RAILRoAD-cAR attached to a circus
train caught fire near Greeley, Col, on the
18th, and of seventy-ive men who were
sleeping in the car at the time ten per-
ished, and several others were badly
scorched.
WESLEY A. LUMM, while city engineer
at Sandusky, O., was indicted for accept
ing brides. He soon entered on q career
of dissipation, which caused his wife to
commit suicide, and he finished the sad
chapter on the goth by ending his own
days with morphine.
AN unknown sailor died of yellow fever
in New York OH che Goth, the first case
there.
EXECUTIONS for murder took place as
follows on the Goth: Berry Johnson Cool
.ored), at Shreveport, La; Schip Holly
4colored), at Tuscaloosa, Ala; Josh Ber-
1yman (colored), at Natchitoches, La;
Willie Williams, at Franklin, La.
A HURRICANE swept over Evansville,
Ind, on the morning Of the Goth, unroof-
ing hundreds of houses, mills, factories,
warehouses, stores, ETC., and in many in
stances whole houses were blown down.
The loss was estimated at $3.50, 900. The
7transfer steamer Belmont, bound for Hen
derson, KY, and freighted with a train
,,of cars, was sank by the gale, and fifteen
dives were lost.
! GOVERNOR CROSBY, of Montana, sent a
Especial agent to Investigate the reports Of
,~sfarvation among the Piegan Indians.