Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-18
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lHE Louisiana Legislature mas passed {
bill appropriating 100000 for the Worlds
Exposition at New Orleans.
The total collections of Internal revenue
for the first eleven months Of the yea1
were reported on the Oath at $112, 2sO, 900,
against $134, 6S9,54S for the previous year,
a decrease of 500, 403, 1928.
FOREST fires were on tine Oath burning
:fiercely in the vicinity of Round Pond,
N. H.
EARLY on the morning of the Oath 6
mob broke into the Jail at Vincennes, Ind.
took out Oliver Campbell, who murdered
Mrs. Mollie Gherken because she refused
to marry him, and hanged him to a tele-
graph pole.
JOSEPH w. BURNHAM, q Ne~v York bro.
ker, who lost $1O0,O0O during the Nay
panic, blew out his brains with q revolver
on the oath, at his home in Yonkers.
r. T. g. G. B. HARGRovE, bankers q
Rome, Ga, nave failed.
IT was announced on the 25th that the
damage by forest fires in the district of
Machias, Me-, was 100000.
AT San Francisco the other morning
William G. Milton killed Albertina Ander.
son because she refused to marry him, and
then shot himself.
. A HURRICANE, blowing at the rate of
sixty miles al hour, did considerable dam.
age at Omaha on the 25th, leveling trees,
fences and outbuildings.
A LARGE painting of the wife of Presi-
lent Polk, presented by the ladies of Ten
nessee, was hung in the green-room of the
White House at Washington on the 25th.
The Episcopal Conference at Omaha on
the 25th elected DR.. Potter, Of Geneva, N.
Y, Bishop of the Nebraska Diocese.
The t%rotting horse H.. B. Winship, with
running mate, made the fastest time on
record on the 25th, at Providence, r. l.,
going one mile in 2:0s.
ZENo I. YOUNG, editor of the Madison
vile (Ky.) Times, fell from the second
story of his office a few days ago and was
fatally hurt.
SECTIONS of Western Pennsylvania and
wind and thunderstorm, several persons
being killed by lightning.
WILLIAM Cox, at Danville, KY, shot at
two men the other night who were trying
to break into his house, and killed his
mother.
THOMAS ]. WATSON, the heaviest dealer
in oil on the Pittsburgh Exchange, failed
on the 25th.
REPORTS from California on the 18th
were to the effect that heavy rains had
lodged grain, and that the loss would an.
proximate twenty five per cent.
A PARTY of eleve persons ate ice-cream
in a Coal Bluff (Pa.) saloon the other
night, and within two hours all were taken
with pains, vomiting and commissions.
Two of the party had since died, and
three others were very low. It was sup.
posed that the vanilla favoring poisoned
the cream.
HEAVY rains ON the Goth overlooked the
creeks and rivers in Western Maryland.
At Union Bridge the water was three feet
deep in the principal hotel; and in Hagers.
town many houses were invaded by the
waters. In Double Pope Creek houses
were submerged and the people made mar.
reaching 100000 wa in Carroll County
where crops, lumber and other property
were swept away and cattle drowned.
SECRETARY FoLGER on the Goth issued {
!call for $40, 000, 900 of bonds.
i A RA1N-sToRM on the 26th in Southern
Pennsylvania leveled thousands of acres
!!of grain in Bucks, Montgomery, Berks and
Lancaster counties, and along the line Of
the Northern Central Road, between
;Wrightsville and York, nearly two hun,
idred houses were washed away, and three
children were drowned.
In the Harvard-Yale University boat
race at New London, Conn.,, on the Goth
the latter won in 2O:31, the best four-mile
time on record. Harvard was seventeen
seconds behind.
A BRIDGE over the Wabash River at Lo,
gansport, Ind, gave way OF the Goth, let
ting a Vandalia construction train into the
water. Engineer Grace and Fireman
Scott were instantly killed, and q brake
man was fatally injured.
A FIRE at New Orleans the other even.
ing destroyed property valued at $780,
900. Three firemenw were injured.
STOUT g. Co., bankers, of New York, sus.
pended payment on the 26th, with liabili.
ties estimated at 81 ,000, 900.
THE Comptroller of the Currency has
called for a statement of the condition OF
the National banks at the close of business
ton the 20th of July.