Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-25
DOMESTIC.

In Belknap and Grafton Counties, N. H.,
myriads Of grasshoppers had made their
appearance or the 30th ult., and were do
ing great damage tothe growing hay crop.
JOHN F. MOODY, a wealthy planter Of
Jackson County, Ala, during a quarrel a
few days ago with two %neighbors named
Council shot and killed them both.
A FIRE in a Youngstown CO., suburb
early on the morning Of the 3oth ult. de-
stroyed Mrs. Murphy's house, her three
perishing in the flames.
ST. JosEPH's Catholic Orphan Asylum
near Newport, KY, was burned On, the 30th
ult. The inmate all escaped, and were
temporarily quartered in Newport.
AT Wharton, Tex, a few days ago II.
Gibbs got into an alteration with Sheriff
W. G.. Brooks and his brother and shot
them both, the Sheriff fatally. Gibbs es-
capped.
The exchanges at twenty-six leading
clearing houses in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the 2Sth ult. aggre-
gated Ss21, 27S, 294, against $765, 952, 900 the
previous week. AS compared with the
corresponding period of 1888, the clear
ings showed a decrease Of one per cent.
THE citizens Of Eastern Montana were
on the Isl urging Secretary Teller to re-
move nine hundred renegade Cheyenne In
dams from the lands along the Tongue
and Rosebud Rivers. The savages were
killing cattle, having nothing else OIL
which to subsist, and the stockmen threat.
ened to appeal to arms.
DURING a recent quarrel in New York
John Kelly, aged eleven years, shot and
killed James Quinn, of the same age.
The Investigation of the defalcation of
ex-State Treasurer Thomas j.. Churchill,
of Arkansas, who served three terms,
showed on the 1st that he purloined a total
of Sso,522, taking in the first two years
SG4, 300.
D1Az, a Cuban, was found guilty on the
lst at Key West, Fla, of violating the
Neutrality laws in alaning an expedition
against a friendly power.
DURING the first quarter of the year
1854, as compared with a similar period in
1883, there was a decrease in the sales of
postage stamps in the United States
amounting in the aggregate to $1,051, no.
IHE Waltham Watch Company, Of Mas
sachusetts, has decided to run only four
days each week in July, and to suspend
entirely for half of August.
OVER 100000 of 81 and 81 bills have
recently been issued from the Bureau of
Printing and Engraving at Washington.
A COLLISION of freight cars caused a pc.
troleum fire at D%riftwood, Pa, on the 1st,
which consumed fifteen buildings, includ-
ing the post. office and Gazette office, caus-
ing a loss of $4,000.
The public-debt statement issued on
the LIST makes the following exhibit: Total
debt (inclu!ing interest of ST., SOL, 24o), ST.
$4,000, 1853. Cash in Treasury, 1891 ,9s5, 1925.
Debt. less amount in Treasury, 81. $50, O5O,-
235. Decrease during June, 1921, 2256.
Decrease since june 80, 1883. lO1, O4O, 971.
ADv1CEs of the LIST from ~kowlandsville.
Md, stated that the little town was nearly
swept away by the recent rising of Basin
Run and Octara Creek. The heaviest dam
age was to the works of the Nc.
Cullough Iron Company, situated at
the junction of the streams. These
large buildings wereIcompletely destroyed,
and the loss would be 500, 900. The water
rose to a height of twenty four feet. There
was not O bridge left standing, and in the
country around about most of the houses
were washed away. All that were left
standing were unsafe and would have to
be rebuilt.
A DESTRUCTIVE wind and rain-storm
ragged in the district between Washington,
D. c., and York, Pa, on the night of the
1st. Houses were wrecked, bridges swept
away, and grain and corn-fields almost
ruined. The damage was very great.
TIE failure is announced of the Golden
Age Flouring-Mill Company, of San Fran.
cisco, with liabilities of sos, 900.
FREIGHT trains on the kentucky Central
Read were telescoped the other day near
Cunningham, and Mr.. Gillian and Mrs.
Hastings, of Berea, KY, passengers, lost
their lives.
FIVE cotton-duck mills in Maryland,
owned by William E.. Hooper e. Sons, in
which twelve hundred men were employed,
have shut down for the summer on account
of a glut of goods.
THE poik.slaughtering house of J. &,,F.
Sclroth, at Cincinnati, was destroyed by
fire a few rights ago, and one hundred n
twenty-five hogs were burned to eeath.