Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-14

IN q game at New York on the sd for
the baseball championship of the United
States, the Providence nine defeated the
M%etropolitans of the American League, 6
to 0.
h. D. Cook & Co., private bankers at
Washington. suspended payments on the
ODD, their liabilities reaching $4,000.
TIE dry-goods store of II. A. Chapman
& Co., of Milwaukee,, was destroyed by
fire on the evening of the 23d, with the en-
tire stock of goods. The loss was 500, 900
or more, and the insurance $500, 900.
THE Bear Valley shaft, owned by the
Reading Company, was burning on the a3d,
necessitating the flooding of the coliery,
which would result in heavy. loss.
DURING the fiscal year ended September
i the Minneapolis Touring mills shipped
4,S14,424 barrels of flour, against 4,Os9, sos
the previous year. The receipts of wheat
for the same period amounted to 3d.
514,516 bushels, against 10, 1903, $50 in 1SS2-'S3.
THE total of the losses by the recent fire
at Carthage, N. Y, were over 100000. The
total insurance was $780, 800. Great desti-
tuition was said to prevail among h $50
homeless families, and appeals for aid were
again made on the oath.
THE report of the Post-ofice Department
for the fiscal year ended Jun 30 shows a
deficiency of So, $685. 79, owing to the reduc-
ton in postage.
DESERTED by her husband and suffering
from poverty, Mrs. Annie Logan gave
landanum to her little boy on The oath ut
Philadelphia, then took some herself and
burned on the gas. When found both We're
dead.
THE forest fires which for two weeks had
been devastating the shores of Chesapeake
Bay in Maryland and Virginia We're
quenched on the oath by rain. The loss was
estimated at 100000.
In several counties in Dakota Vigilance
Committees nave been formed for the pur-
pose of prosecuting and Furnishing parties
who start prairie fires.
THREE %incendiary fires, started n few
days ago in close succession, IN Chatham,
N. Y, destroyed the tCoWicr building,
p%ost-ofice, several stores, dwellings and
barns. Loss, $4,000.
THE Western Export Association de-
cided at a meeting in Chicago on the 9th
to reduce the production of whisky ten per
cent, or 10000 gallons a day.
THE boiler in the Columbus Touring
mills exploded the other morning, in
stantly killing the engineer and fireman,
both negroes. The fireman pumped water
into the boiler when it was red-hot.
N st. Tammany Parish, La, a few days
ago three persons were murdered, and a
posse hanged four negroes supposed to be
the perpetrators, and were in pursuit of
others.
JOHN f. P~LEAsANTs, editor of a newspa-
! pei a. Petersburg, Va, having been con-
victed recently OF libel, was fined five dol
lars and sentenced to one minute in Jail.
In a patent case involving the invention
OF the speaking telephone the chief exam
liners of the Patent Office at Washington
decided on the oath mainly in favor of
Alexander G. Bell, who already holds
patents.
A POLE named Jan Wasielewsky was
executed on the 9th at San Jose, Cal, for
the murder of his wife.
ADvIcEs of the 9th state that a violent
storm had been raging for forty-eight
hours on Lake Superior. Many vessels
were wrecked. The storm was the most
terrific known for years.
In the United States md Canada there
were 2G3 business failures during the sever
days ended on the oath, against 23l the pre-
vious seven days. The distribution was as
follows: Middle States, so; New England
States, IS; Western, %; Southern, 40; Pa
citic States and Territories, IS; Canada, 90