Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-08-08
OF THE WEEK
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC

Lincoln on the 18th.
CAPTAIN W. B. CHEW, one of the best
known conductors on the Baltimore g.
Ohio Road, was arrested at Baltimore on
the 18th for embezzling fares, and held for
trial.
dawson BROTHERS., manufacturer of
mill machinery at Wilmington, Del,
failed on the 10Th for 500, 900, and the
senior member of the firm had absconded.
The estimated loss by June rains on the
wheat crop in California was on the 18th
placed at 1866 0 tons, and of barley $4,000
tons. The hay crop was injured forty por
cent.
Fvpmen were buried under a mass of
earth at Brooklyn, N. Y, a few days ago,
and Michel McDonough and Patrick Quin-
Ian were crushed to death.
FLETCHER & SHARPE, bankers at indiana
apoiis, closed their doors on the 18th, ow-
ing to inability to realize, but claimed thai
the assets were ample to pay all claims
The failure caused runs on other banks.
The receiver placed the liabilities at ST.
SOC, 00Q, with assets of about 81, 600, 900.
THREE masked men at Mitchel's Station
near Culpepper, Va, the other night bound
and gagged Frank Somerville, took him TO
the cellar of his store, where they removed
his clothes and tarred his limbs. They
then blew open the safe and carried off
$500 in money.
BURGLARS on the 10Th blew the safe in
the post-office ut Swanton, VT, securing
$500 i'll cash and $1,000 in notes.
THE wife of Rev. Il. S. Strong, a Meth
odist preacher at Dublin, Ga, has caused
a sensation by occupying the pulpit on al
faCn1tn E,1O1 oyS with I,ar bJ,c1,o~l pi-l,-
OPP Pierce said she should not be allowed
to preach, and Mrs. Strong was praying
for the Bishops conversion.
WARRANTS for the payment of pensions
a%ggregating $4,000, 900 were issued by the
Treasury Department. at Washington on
the 10Th.
THERE died on the 10th in the peniten.
tiary of New Jersey a convict who was
formerly janitor in a bank at Elizabeth,
where he was caught fishing up bills from
a teller's desk with a cord, sinker and
shoemaker's wax, through Il hole in the
second floor.
EDWARD YARD, JR. s. CO., lace mer-
chants, Of New York, failed on the 10th for
81 100000
ALBERT MILES, a negro, was hanged on
the 10th at Natchez, Miss, for the murder
of his wife.
HIRAM CAMPBELL & Sons, iron manu-
facturers at I%ronton, o., haye failed for
$500, GOA.
A SPECIAL Treasury agent reported at
Washington on The 10Th that rags from the
cholera districts of Egypt and Turkey were
being brought into the United States
through Canadian ports.
ACCORDING to the assessment rolls the
taxable value of the State of Texas shows
an increase this year over last of SEQ, OOO;S
900.
AT Edgard, La, the other day Amos
Seaton (colored) was sentenced to death
for lnurier. He was so overcome by his
fear Of the galiows that he died in his cell |
during the night will, fright.
GEORGE W1cKs, with his wife and
daughter, nged five years, were drowned
near Dunkirk, N. Y, q few days ago by
the upsetting Of a skiff.
Ex-MINIsTER SARGENT said on the 1G5h,
at Washington, that the efforts made by |
him to protect German-American citizens
in their rights accounted for the hostile
attitude assumed by Bismarck.
Z. e. SWAN, chief clerk in the Treasu.
rer's office Of tho Northern Pacific, at st.
Paul, was on the 10Th discovered to have
embezzled several thousand dollars. He !
had fed.
OVER two hundred clerks in the Pension
Bureau at Washington received promotion
on the 10 II, the average advance in salary |
being two hundred dollars.
THE first carload of beer ever sent East |
from California was shipped on the 10th
from San Francisco to Chicago.
/ REPORTS reached Ottawa, Ont, on the !
10th that the foot-and-inouth disease pre-
vailed among cattle at Helena, N. T., and
an investigation would be made.
THE Postal, Baltimore g. Ohio and Bank. !
ers' & Merchants Companies agreed on |
the 18th to pool their earnings and expen-
ses for a period Of twenty-five years, and
hereafter the lines of the three companies
will be under cine management.
SEwELL g. ERICKSON, jobbers in MILL
merry goods at New York, rave failed for
900.
WHILE in the woods recently near Fritz.
town, Pa, William Seachrist was attacked
by seven polecats, who scratched and bit
him for twenty minutes. 2. He killed six of
them with a club, and lay helpless when
found by his neighbors.
FRANK Il. SHERMAN, the noted Western |
nIoSh' Lialts WHO nau LOT a long time been |
III the Albany IN. W County
Jail for contempt Of court, was on the 18th
admitted to bail i'll the sum Of $4,000.
IMPROVEMENTS now making on the Cap
itol at Washington will cost $3.50, 003.
Work was suspended ON the 18th at the
cotton-mills of William Parks s. Son, at
'St. John, N. B., and an extension was
asked on liabilities of $225, 600.
. IT is announced that the United States
is now the wealthiest nation in the world,
the increase in wealth. having been seven
ty per cent. between 1870 and 1880.
ONE fireman was killed and several
were seriously injured by the fall
ling in of the roof of a burning stable at
Toronto, Ont, a few daysago.
IT is expacted that the number of letters
in the United States will be greater
thy twenty Per cent. this year than it was
jim 1880. That year 100000 900 letters were
+ The closing exercises OF the National
Teachers Association were held at Madi- |
son, Wis, on the 18th. Fifty Of the teach
had arranged for a trip to Alaska.
A FIFE destroyed the business quarter of
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