Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-07
EP|TOME OF THE WEEK,
Interesting News Compda.ic.o.
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Hamilton and his friend, Louis Robinson,
owing to family troubles, and both were
literally hacked to pieces, Robinson dying
instantly and Hamilton in a few hours.
In Arago Township, D. T., on the Nth
eight persons had died of smallpox, while
nineteen were sick with the disease.
DURING the seven days ended on the 14th
produce exports from New York reached
S5,651, 900, against 81, 10000 the previous
seven days.
SAMUEL TUDOR, paying teller for S. s.
Davis (the Cincinnati banker who failed
recently, was ON the nth discovered to be
a defaulter for $4,000, which caused the
crash.
il. THE coal combination in Pennsylvania
has ordered a suspension of mining one
week in November and two weeks in De-
cember.
DISPATCHES on the 18th from Columbus,
o., stated that all the syndicate mines in
the Hooking Valley, with the exception of
Nos. 3 and Z, were on fire. 1t was inpos-
sible to get at the flames. Thus far there
had been no disturbance in the valley, but
the excitement there was reported to be
intense. Nc one douhted that the striking
golfers set fire to the mine.
THE boys employed in a number of the
glass factories in Pittsburgh, Pa, struck
on the 18th for an advance of from threeto
ten cents per day i'll their wages. The
factories We're closed.
A CYcLoNE swept over Auburn, Me-, on
the 14th, destroying numerous barns, I'M
roofing several houses, aud blowing down
trees and fences. No lives were lost.
COKE trains collidcd a few days ago
near Monongahela City, Pa, wrecking an
engine and twelve cars, killing a fireman,
and fatally scalding an engineer.
WHEN the steamer Woodson was TWEEN
ty miles below Little Rock, Ark, the 9th
q colorel man named Clay and the engi-
Ileer, John Humes, in which Humes was
shot and instantly killed. Clay leaped
overheard and was drowned.
WHILE u Vigilance Committee was at
tempting to arrest two desperadoes at
Unionville, Ind, a few evenings ago a
struggle took place during which two men
and two women were fatally wounded.
The dasperadoes escaped.
GEORGE SWAMI and James Kelly, both
colored, quarreled about political mat
tiers at Cincinnati on the 18th. Kelly
stabbed Swami and Swami shot Kelly,
their wounds being fatal.
Four masked men robbed the house of
Nelson Helfrick. near st. Boniface, Pa,
the other night of $1,000 in gold.
The Fall River (Mass.) mills decided on
the 10Th to close for a week, rendering ten
thousand persons idle. If there were no
Improvement in prices the mills would
probably remain closed for an indefinite
period.
A SECTION of the business part of Law
renceburg, Ky, was burned the other
morning.
THERE was a heavy frost in Virginia on
the night Of the 10Th, which damaged veg
citation.
JAMES LEGG & Co, proprietors of the
hapleville Mills at Burrellville, r. T.,
made an assignment recently, their liabil-
tiles being 100000.
The steamer Defiance and five hundred
bales of cotton were consumed by fire Oh
the morning of the 18th at Newbern, N. c.,
the total loss reaching $4,000.
WHILE attempting to prevent a prairie
fire near jamestown, D. T., a few days
ago Mrs. Carl Schroeder and a three-year-
I'D child were burned to death.
H lighthouse at He'll Gate, near New
York, was Illuminated on the evening Of
the 10Th by nine electric lamps, which
were said to be visible for fifty miles.
unknown persons recently threw poison
into the we'll Of John Ganmer, near Gosh.
octon, O., and the entire family, six per-
sons, drank of the water. They were pros
trated on the 18th, and none of them were
expected to recover.
Two Hungarians were killed near Som
srset, Pa, a few days ago by the explosion
which followed their attempt to drill out u
dynamite cartridge with a crowbar.
A TRAIN struck a wagon containing three
persons on the 18th at Elkton, Md, all be-
ing instantly killed, and the horses and
wagon destroyed.
HEIDMEFER & S~TIEGL1Tz, of Chicago,
large wholesale dealers in woolens, were
closed by the Sheriff on the 18th. Liabili-
ties about $250,00O.
MAYBIRD, for whom $4,000 had been re-
fused, dropped dead at Mystic Park, Bos-
ton, on the 18th, after trotting in the 1928
class
REPORTS were received at Raleigh, n.
C., on the 10Th that Mormon missionaries
had again made a regular invasion of the
State, and this time were devoting their
attention especially to the Piedmont sec.
ton. 1t was said hat no less than four
teen of them were at work in Surrey
County.
Snow fell in various parts of New
Hampshire On the 10Th to the depth of four
inches.
SEVENTY acres of cedar timber had on
the 1G5h been destroyed by fires in Big
Egg Harbor Swamp, N. j., and an extern
sive cranberry bog was threatened.
GAS exploded in the Central Pacific
hill at Lawrence, Mass, a few days ago
destroy ing the naptha house, shattering
Its windows and fatally injuring two men.
THE Director Of the Mint at Washing
ton has prepared a statement in regard to
the present money circulation III the
thir;y-nine principal countries of the
world as compared with the circulation re-
ported a year ago, which shows a decrease
iii gold circulation Of about So, 600. 900, an
increase in silver circulation of 81, OOr, 900,
and an increase III paper circulation of
SIP, 900. 00J.
THREE young men were run over and
killed by the cars u few evenings ago at
Elizabeth, N. j.
AN explosion of q ~coal-oil lamp at Girls