Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-03
EPlTOME OF THE week.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

William COLLISION, a telegraph operator,
was shot and killed by a guard, being
mistaken for an incendiary miner.
THIRTEEN houses were destroyed and
several persons were injured by a cyclone
on the 9th in the vicinity of Saltwater,
MINI.
THE cornerstone of . hall for the pic.
neers of California, which is to cost $780,
600, was laid a few days ago in San Fran
cisco.
A~poL1cEMAN In Washington named Fow.
Ter was shot dead the other day with his
own revolver by a colored member of the
chain gang named John LANCASTER.
In the Little Rocky Mountains, one u
bred miles from Benton, NJ. T.. gold has
been discovered, and people were on the
9th fiocking to the new diggings in great
numbers.
The New Brunswick IN. J.) Bank pub
1icly announced on the 10th that its capital
was intact, and every creditor would be
paid in full.
ADv1cEs of the 10Th state that a cyclone
which recently struck Wisconsin and Min
.nesota destroyed the village of Clear
Lake and did a vast amount of damage at
White Bear Lake. Several persons were
killed, and the property loss would be
heavy.
The Chippewa River, at Chippewa
Fails, Wis, rose twenty feet on the 10th,
and five bridges and a number of build
ings were swept away, causing a loss of
$500, 900. The river was sstill rising, and
greater damage was anticipated.
FIR destroyed stores and stocks at
Mitchell, Oak, a few days ago, valued at
+S125,OO0.
THE 10th was the hottest day of the
season in the Atlantic States. There were
fifteen deaths from sun-stroke at New
York and seven at Philadelphia. In New
York 400 horses died from the heat and
over 5000 others were Frustrated.
THE steamer Wyoming landed at New
York on the 10th five hundred Mormon
proselytes for Utah.
TORRENTS of rain fell Oh the 10th in
Southern Texas, where live stock valued
at 81, 000, 900 was threatened with death
from thirst, the ground having been dry
for fifteen weeks.
THE State Bank at Fort Edward, N. Y,
closed its doors on the 10th. The officers
said that,depositors would be paid in full
as soon as the accounts were examined
and adjusted.
"a hIiihc vi AL4oh SAploNCu VII Vic
10th in Cragin's japan works in Brooklyn,
N. Y, by which one man was burned to a
crisp and four others received fatal in
juries.
Two coNvIcTs were recently beaten to
death at the water-works reservoir, near
Lexington, KY, by their guards.
THE Coroners of New York City on the
18th reported twenty-five sudden deaths
caused by the excessive heat.
A thunderstorm did damage on
the 18th in Massachusetts towns, particu-
larly at Maiden, where a number of trees
were Frustrated and windows blown in.
lightning struck in many places, dam
aging houses and shocking the inmates.
j. H. SQUIEH, the insolvent Washington
banker, killed himself on the 18th by cut
ting his throat.
BURGER, HURLBuT & LIVINGSTON, sugar
refiners at New York, made an assignment
recently, giving preferences for STA, 500.
DURING the first eight months of this
year 112,512 immigrants entered Canada.
OF these 1920 passed through to the
United States.
STREAMS in the Petersburg (ya.) dis.
trict were on the 18th drying up beca-se
OF the protracted drought, and mills were
doing less than half their usual work. The
city of Petersburg was threatened with a
water famine.
THE Eagle furniture factory at South
Baltimore, Md, was recently destroyed
by fire, the walls Of the structure falling
in. The loss was 5000, 600; lightly in
sured.
The roof of the new roller s~kating-rink
at Detroit collapsed a few days ago, bury
ing eight workmen, two of whom died of
their injuries.
The river at Eau Claire began falling at
noon On the 18th after reaching the great.
est height on record. The loss by the
flood between Chippewa Falls and Eau
Claire would exceed $l,500,0o0 and in Eau
Clair alone more than two hundred houses
were swept away. Forty buildings were
carried off from Chippewa Falls, and the
loss in that city would approximate
81, 000, 900.
A PHILADELPHIA Judge ruled recently
that the occupant Of a house may cut tele-
graph or telephone wires if stretched over
his roof without his permission.
The st. Petersburg (Pa.) Savings Bank,
which suspended in July, resumed bust
ness on the 18th, with the old officials in
charge.
The examiner of the New Brunswick IN.
.J.) Bank reported on the 18th a surplus of
$$4s,0OO, after %deducting the 500, 900 deficit
of the cashier and President.
On the 18th BradStreets' report of the
condition of trade noted a general inn
~provenlent, arising from the demand for
autumn goods.
1t is estimated that the corn crop of
Iowa this year will.be 800, 0e0, 900 bushels,
the largest ever known i'll the Hawkeye
State.
BENJAMIN JOHNSON (colored) was
hanged at Cincinnati on the lsth for com.
plicity in the murder of beverly Taylor,
his wife and their little girl at Avondale,
near that city. Frank Hutchings was
hanged at San Francisco for murder.
WILLIAM NJ. M~EssER, while drunk on the
18th at Boonton, N. j., shot his wife and
daughter and then killed himself The
young woman was fatally wounded, but
her mother would probably recover.
On the fair grounds at Lexington, Ky,
the other evening eight horses owned by
Smith & Merrill, and valued at $1,000,
were burned to death.
The office of a street railway at Augusta,