Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-09-05
EPITOME OF THE WEEK;
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

r A sKIFF containing our men capsized
on the 18th opposite Bellaire, O., and Wal
tor Tunney aud Patrick Dixon were
drowned.
MICHAEL MCDONALD, engineer in a box
mill at Milford, Mass, caught his sleeve
recently in the screw of a shaft, and for
some time wa whirled at the rate of four
hundred revolutions per minute. Every
stitch of clothing was torn from his body,
but when he fell to the floor he was ALSO
lutely uninjured.
LIEUTENANT. GREEDY on the 18th made
Charles p. Henry was shot dead on the 9th
day of June, for having persisted in steal
ling from the limited supply of provisions
held by the expedition. A detailed report
of the execution had been forwarded to
the Secretary of War. With regard to
the rumors of ~cannibalism, Lieutenant
Greedy said if anything of the kind &C.
Cured it was an individual act.
The American Bankers Association met
in annual session at Saratoga Springs on
the 18th. Lyman j. Gage, of Chicago,
President of the association, called the
meeting to order, and urged as a remedy
for panics the keeping of cash reserves
considerably larger than twenty-five per
cent, a repeal Of the usury laws, and the
adoption of uniform rules as to loaning
freely in times CT distrust. A resolution
was adopted favoring the di~scontinuance
of the coinage of standard silver dollars.
TEXAS fever was on the 18th conceded to
exist at eight scattered points in Kansas.
THE business portion of North East,
Pa, was burned on the 18th, including
hotels, banks, a church and other structr
ures, resulting in a loss of 5000, 900.
In the final heat for senior fours at the
National amateur regatta at Watkins, N.
", OH the 18Th the Argonaut crew, of
Toronto, won in 500, beating the best
record by ten seconds.
THE National Association of ax-Union
Prisoners OF the war began it's annual con-
ventionu on tho 18th at Detroit.
THE annual reunion of the Army Of the
Tennessee commenced at Lake Minneton-
ka, Mimi, on the 18th, General Sherman
presiding.
The Irish National League of America
began its annual convention on the 18th in
Fanueil Hall, Boston, the President, Alex
ander Sullivan, calling the convention to
order.
WILLIAM MASON, of st. Vincent, Mimi,
was arrested a few days ago for arson,
having burned his own stable. Eighteen
horses were burned to death in the fire.
AT Elkhart, Ind, on the 18th Mrs. F.
Shaffer and Mrs. Andrew Swinehart,
wives of prominent citizens, were killed
while driving across the Lake Shore track.
A Bu1LD1NG on Beach street, Boston, oc.
cupied by several manufacturers, was
swept away by flames on the 18th, and
two firemen were burned to death. The
loss of property was $4,000.
DURING the month of July of his year
So, $40 worth of breadstuffs was ex-
ported, against $40, 1913, 673 worth exported
in July, 1883. During the first seven
months of this year the exports were val
ued at $40, 54S, PSI, against sos, 420,916 ex-
ported during the corresponding period of
last year.
FIFTY convicts engaged in a murderous
plot to escape from the Frankfort (Ky.)
Penltentiary on the 18th, and during the
riot two guards and a prisoner were seri-
ously wounded and three murderers made
their escape.
JOHN MCMAHON, a porter at the Leather
Manufacturers National Bank of New
York, absconded on the 18th with u pack.
age containing $40, 1000, with which he was
sent to the Adams express office.
The family of Charles Dickinson, living
near Point Pleasant, w. Va, were pois-
oned recently by drinking milk in which
arsenic had been placed. Two of the VIC
tins had died, and others were not ex.
pected to recover. A colored servant girl
had been arrested for the crime.
ADUEL at Emory Gap, Tenn, between a
cripple named Staples and a drummer
from Cleveland named William H. Roger.
son, fought at ten O'Clock a few evenings
ago, resulted in the death of both.
, GOVERNOR MURRAY, of Utah, tele-
-graphed the Indian Office at Washington
on the 14th that the Ute Indians were on
the war-path, and had killed several men,
stolen many cattle and burned several
ranches. He asked that troops be sent to
protect the whites.
THE value Of exports of domestic cattle,
hogs, beef, pork and dairy products for
1884 is as follows: Seven months ended
July 81, $$53, s2S. 443; 1883, $G7,5sa, 1853; beef
and pork products for the nine months
ending July 81, $G4, 800, GIG; 1883, $77,719,-
1856; dairy products for the three months
oHueu ouiy u, FC,@co,o1-S 1000, 90, 1t0,oof.
The remains of Lieutenant Kislingbury,
of the Greedy expedition, were disinterred
on the 18th at Rochester, N. Y, by friends
and physicians, and it was found tina the
body had been mutilated. The surmise
.vas that the missing portions had been
devoured by the starving explorers.
TRoops were on the 18th again asked for
by Governor Murray, of Utah, to be used
to drive back from San Juan County Utes
from Colorado who had killed two men,
burned and destroyed property and threat
ened other outrages. All the whites in the
valley had been expelled by the maraud-
il G Indians.
IN an earnest effort on the 18th to lower
records, Jay-Eye See made a mile in
2:1Ok at Philadelphia.
A GERMAN family of five persons, the
you est a girl of five years, left New York
May Is for Janesville, Wis, carrying their
stores in a cart, and arrived at the latter
place on the 10Th, having walked the ell
tire distance.
AT Manhattan, Kan, q few days ago M.
P. Waters, a prominent citizen, ordered
his son Sherman to shoot a neighbours dog.
boy refused and a quarrel ensued,