Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-09-26
EPITOME OF THE WEEK,
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC

Missoula, NJ. r., swept away twenty-five
buildings.
REPORTS on the I'd from the mining re-
gions in the Hooking Valley, in Ohio,
stated that everything was quiet. With
the presence of the militia no trouble was
anticipated.
Mr.. NASH called upon his fance,
Alice McCiban, the other evening at
Cadiz, o., and when parting jocularly in
formed her that he had decided to sever
their relations. The girl Immediately
swooned, and remained unconscious until
her death two days after. At times she
was seized with spasms, when it required
the efforts of three men to control her.
Nash was likely to lose his reason.
AT Mitchell on the Sd the cornerstone
of the new Dakota University, q Metho-
dist institution, was laid.
DURING a recent storm at Lemond, Mimi,
a son of Berger Larson was struck by a
lightning-bolt and killed while blowing in
the field. The team was killed, the pillow
melted, and three wheat-stacks in the same
field were struck and burned.
A FAMILY of five persons at Baltimore,
Md, were taken with cramps ON the Sd
after eating sardines, and two children
would not survive. They were poisoned
by the tin covering the sardines.
MRS. w. KELLER, who began fasting
forty-eight days ago at Pittsburgh, died
on the Sd. The corpse weighed only 1O2
pounds, but before she began the starva-
tion process her weight vas 30 pounds.
FRANK FRIsBEE, employed in the First
National Bank at Portland, Ore, recently
stole $1,000 and fed to New York, where
he was arrested on the Sd on a steamer ly-
ing at quarantine.
The George Woods Organ Company, of
Middlesex, Mass, is insolvent. Its liabil-
titles are $4,000, with nominal assets of
$65,0Oo.
THE Minnesota Elevator Company, with
warehouses at thirty points in that State,
made an assignment on the Sd. Its liabil-
tiles were nearly $40 900, chiefly due for
borrowed money.
The spark from a hammer prematurely
exploded a blast at Sharon, Pa, the other
evening, one man being fatally injured,
and four others were mangled and burned.
On reports of the State Veterinarian,
the Governor of Illinois on the Sd declared
pleuro-pneumonia epidemic among cattle
in nine herds, and enioined their owners
from transporting them without a %certifi-
cate of good health.
IT was understood in New York City
on the Sd that Pinkerton's detectives had
positively learned of eighteen Aldermen
who received brides in the Broadway Rail
w~ay-franchise steal, and that the man
who gave the money and the men who re-
ceived it were known. Each Alderman
received $40, 900 cash and $4,000 in stock
ut par.
: DURING the sham hattle on the 4th at the
Soldiers Reunion at Fremont, Neb., a
stand collapsed, and forty persons were
injured, some seriously.
A ~MURDERoUs Hungarian was lynched
by his countrymen the other morning near
Wilkesbarre, Pa.
RAIN fell On the 4th at Galveston, Tex,
for the first time in twelve weeks. In
some sections of the city water had been
an article of III for two weeks.
A FRAME house which was being raised
at Pitts burgh fell the other evening, q
young man being killed and his father ia.
tally hurt. A woman and several children
who occupied the structure escaped UNI
hurt.
CHARLES HILL, who had been Cashier
of the National Bank of New Brunswick,
n. j., for twenty years, was found dead
in bed on the morning of the 4th, caused
by inhaling gas.
A GANG of hi%ghwaymen, headed by the
notorious Bill Ostrander, committed
three brutal highway robberies OH the 4th
1n the road between st. Charles and Fer
guson, two suburbs of st. Louis. The
victims were three farmers named Riley,
Dunlap and Glossner. After robbing the
farmers the scoundrels beat them into in
sensibility.
Two UNKNOWN men tried to shoot Sit.
ting Bull in st. Paul the other night as he
came out of a theater. His companion
knocked the weapon down and his assail
ants fled.
DOWNIES, a emb OF the
Chicago Board of Trade, was shot and
killed on the night of the 9TH by his brother
Charles, with whom, some days previous,
he had quarreled over the division of some
property. The murderer was arrested and
confessed his crime.
SEVEN deaths occurred recently in a
mining village near Ashland, Pa. as a re.
suit of eating canned meats and pork, and
twenty-four persons were i'll on the 9th.
Two CAVES of the Enterprise mine, near
Port Bowkley, Pa, took place on the 9th,
$50 acres Of land settling about six feet,
and the ground was full of seams and
cracks. The mine was being flooded by
water rushing through the assures, and
could not be worked fo- at least a year.
The loss was placed at $500, 900. Five
houses were wrecked, and six mules were
killed by falling rocks. Five hundred
persons were thrown out of employment.
THOMAS J. LIBBY, proprietor Of a sum
mer resort at Scarborough, Me-, shot and
killed one Of his female employees and
then fatally shot himself.
In one night recently twenty-four stores
and houses were entered by burglars at
Duluth, Mimi, but not much property was
stolen.
GRETCHEN Telling, a beautiful German
girl employed as a domestic in the house
of Colonel Charles Parrot, of Columbus,
O., Was shot dead the other morning by
her Jealous lover, James Greiner.
A FoREsT fire which broke out in Talbot
County. Nd, had on the 9th burned over
1000 acres OF timber lands, and, aided by
a prevailing drought, was still burning
fercely. Tho loss would be heavy.
DR.. /. WATSON LYLE. charged with nom