Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-06-27

DCn....In the House DIS were passed 1OfIC1t-
hng the land grants of the California & Oregon
Road and the Iron Mountain Road from Pilot
to Helena.
DOMESTIC.
In the Cleveland CO., Rolling Mills on
the. Cd, in tapping a vast caldron of molten
hron, holding fifty tons, too large all orifce
twas made, and the seething fluid speedily
covered the floor. All the employees es-
capped save two, who were compelled to
wade through the kissing mass, which nh
Explosion sent flying in all directions,
stripping the men Of their clothing, and
literally cooking their flesh. Their in
juries were fatal.
AT twenty-six leading clearinghouse
i'm the United States the exchanges during
the week ended on the 31st ult. aggre-
sgated $725, 6SS,075, against $912,373 FOG the
previous week. AS compared with the cor
responding period of 1883, the clearings
showed a decrease of 11.S per cent.
! The public-debt statement issued on
fthe 2dsnakes the following exhibit: Total
debt (%including interest of $40, 1926, e93), ST.
,S4S,63 ,129. Cash i'll Treasury, $3.50, 36S, 637.
Debt, less amount in Treasury, $780,
1867 ,492. Decrease during May, 4 ,762,-
i241. Decrease since June 80, 1883, SOL $685.
t714.
The United States Circuit Court at Phil.
,adelphia on the I'd appointed Stephen N.
caldwell, Edwin M. Lewis and George De
lB. Keim receivers of the Reading Railway
Company, and issued an injunction re-
,straining any interference with the re.
ceivers.
The Ware River mill at South Barr,
Mass, was burned by an incendary the
other night, causing a loss of 900, 900.
NEAR ~Pleasanton, Kan, on the I'd a
woman, two girls, aged sixteen and elev.
len years respectively, and a boy aged six
years were found murdered, and the bodies
were too much decomposed to be identi-
fed. There was no clue to the horrible
affair.
E~x-SHER1FF BANKsToN and Lawyer
Goats, who prosecuted Bankston recently
for bigamy, had on ARRAY on the I'd at Ar
kansas City, Ark, Coats being killed and
THE ex-Sheriff mortally wounded.
Fisk & HATCH, the well.known New
York firm of brokers, who suspended du-
ring the recent crisis, announced their re-
sumption of business on the I'd.
SHERIFF TAYLOR, of Montgomery Coun-
ty, Tenn, on the Sd captured five of a gang
lof outlaws fourteen miles from GAINESVILLE
who had been carrying on their deeds of
violence for twenty years. A dozen or
more murders, innumerable house. burn
!ings, robberies and other crimes hadNeen
traced to them.
ANOTHER raln-storm swept through the
eastern section of Texas on the 3D., en-
tbracing an aree as large as Illinois and
Indiana. Crops were washed out and
3ra i 1-a " fro lc and hri1ooc xroro. 1.rroolyal
thousands of acres-of wheat ready for
harvesting had been Frustrated, and cot
ton was completely ruined. The loss to
agricultural interests would reach hum
hreds of thousands CT dollars.
GEORGE SHELDON, of the firm of Sheldon
{& Co., bankers, of Sherman, Chautauqua
known with $4,000 of the banks money,
and the institution had been closed.
JESSE CARTER, a colored murderer, was
hanged at Pittsburgh, Pa, ON the Sd. He
asserted his innocence on the scaffold.
The steamer Rosa Belle exploded her
boiler on the Sd five miles below Peters.
burg Ind, instantly killing Captain
Charles Apologize and his son, and John
F. Hayne, the engineer, and making a total
wreck of the boat.
IOh11 pc1SOuS SIuuudUCu lTOIu Ul0
Annapolis (Md.) Naval Academy on the
3D..
WILLIAM WALLACE, President of the
Stroudsburg (Pa.) Bank, failed on the Sd
Tor $780, 00.
KANSAS Sheriffs were on the 4th hunting
for Lewis Wampler, who murdered five
members of the family of John H. Ander-
son on a farm near Plensanton. Wampler
r-o. lz-k $500. D--1, .-J --.. -1..---l
TO be hidden in Kansas City.
The Palisade Mountain House, on the
Hudson, ten miles above New York, was
burned the other morning. Loss on build
ing n furniture, $130,oO0; insurance,
100000.
AT st. Louis on the 4th John Stan
ton, in a fit of jealousy, threw a COB
ietful of s%ulphuric acid over his wife as
she lay in bed, burning out her eyes and
causing fatal injuries.
SADIE HAYS, a negress, who killed Po-
lice Sergeant jerks, was sentenced at st.
Louis OH the 4th to be hanged July is.
The assignee's report of the condition of
the Penn Bank of Pitts burgh, Pa, made on
the 4th, Shove that 81 ,46G, 205 was.due de-
positors, ard that the overdrafts aggregat-
ed 81, 250, 1854. Most of the directors with.
drew their accounts on the day the bank
closed for the last time.
FIVE children went home from a circus
In Dakota few days ago deeply impressed
by the feat of descending an incline on a
globe. Finding a smoothlog lying at the
teS of a steep hill, they took their places
on it IN . row and set it rolling. They
were all thrown off and run over, three be-
ing killed.
FIVE men were seriously injured at
Columbus, O., a7few days ago by tie sud-