Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-06-13
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Pa, closed its doors on the 21st, a steady
"run" having largely diminished the
funds. The President, Mr.. Riddle, said
the bank was able to pay dollar for dollar.
The liabilities were said to be about
$l.50o.0 600, with assets greatly in excess of
these figures.
LLOYD L. MAJORS, one of the trio who
murdered Archibald Mcintyre and w. P.
Renowden in Santa Clara County, Cal,
was executed on the 21st.
II annual convention of the brewers of
the United States was held at Buffalo on
the 21st. The attendance was large.
THE Sunday-school scholars Of Brooklyn,
N. Y, observed children's day on the 2lst.
In the grand line of march there were &C.,
3S3 children from 1852 schools.
The suspension bridge across the Scioto
River at Portsmouth, o., was crushed by a
drove of cattle on the 21st, and two chill.
ldren of the name of Fullweiler were
drowned.
ANOTHER heavy rainfall occurred in
Northeastern Texas on the 21st, making
the fourth since May l. Immense tracts
of, country were flooded, and great damage
ito crops had resulted. In some sections
crops had been planted twice, and would
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"a house was blown over and a child was
Killed.
The steamer Faraday landed the shore
END of the Bennett-Mackey cabl at Rock
port, Mass, on 22d, and sailed away to
make a splice at a buoy go miles to the
northeast. She would next pay out 1000
miles in the deep-sea section.
HENRY HAYS, a farmer of Davies Coun-
:ty, KY, was found dead near his residence
"a few days ago with three pistol-shots in
his body. Hays was a Desperate man,
land had engaged in several shooting af.
trays.
TNE street-car stables and eight horses
were burned at Portland, Me-. the other
might. Engineer Shilling was fatally in
;jured.
1T was announced on the 22d tina there
was. fully twenty thousand people be-
tween Natchez and Vicksburg who were
destitute, and had no prospects that they
could raise a decent crop until next year.
SECRETARY FoLGER on the ed issued a
call for the redemption of $40, 900, 200 Of
three per cen bonds maturing tue 3Oth Of
June.
JAY GOULD cabled Vanderbilt at London
ON the 2ed that a better feeling prevailed
on the stock-market, that no further fail.
fures were expected, that the crops were in
ian excellent condition, and that the new
%trunk-line pools had been completed and
signed. Vanderbilt replied that his views
were in accordance with those held by Mr..
Gould.
A WELL of natural gas, of eight thou
sand horsepower, was struck in Pittsburgh
recently at a depth of fifteen hundred
feet. .
In Elk Township, Pa, the other night
Mr.. and Mrs. Greist lay quietly sleeping,
struck the woman on the head with an ak,
the assassin escaped.
BURGLARS penetrated the twentv-inch
brick wall of The vault in the City Clerks
Office at East ST. Louis the other night,
and carried off about $4,000 in money and
nearly $4,000 in city scrip.
THE wholesale dry-goods firm of Elliott,
Dewey & Co., Of Richmond, Va, has
made an assignment, with liabilities of
100000.
A FREIGHT train on the Parker & Harms
City Railroad went through a trestle near
Harms City, Pa, a few days ago, and was
badly wrecked. Two men, named Thomp-
son and Cook, were killed.
20 The house of Samuel Alderman, near
Portsmouth, o., was destroyed by fire a
few nights ago, and Mr.. Alderman, his
wife and a daughter aged sixteen years
persisted in the flames. The other six chill
dren were saved.
A cATTLE-RA1sER Of Texas, Who had just
made a tour of the stock region, estimated
on the 22d that the drive for the season
would be half a million head.
The following executions fer murder
took place on the 23d: Loban Stevens, at
Waverly. O.; Lloyd L. Majors, at Oak
land, CAL; Leonidas Johnson, at McDo-
nough. Ca; John McKiethen, at Way
Gross, Ga, and Charles B. Clark, at Little
VALLEY, n. Y.
NICHOLAS PAULEY's house In Clyde,
Mich, was destroyed by fire on the 23d,
and two children, aged eleven and eight
years, persisted in the flames.
THERE were 203 failures in the United
States and Canada during the seven days
ended on the 23d, against 222 the previous
seven days, distributed as follows: Mid