Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-08-29
tally hurt. and Faulkner might possibly

tally hurt. and Faulkner might possibly
recover
AN American railway company opera.
ting in Mexico received information on the
7th that diplomatic relations between til Al
country and England. which were eus.
pended on the death of Macmillan. had
been fully restored.
The Catholic Total .Abstinencye Union of
America, in session at Chicago on the 9Th.
elected Rev. James NJ. Cles.ry, Of Wiscon.
sin, to the Presidency.
ABOUT a dozen white citizens of Fairfax.
Va, on receiving reformation recently
that a young lady was being followed
home i'll the country by u negro, ode out
and captured the villain, who was given
one hundred N.asLes on the bare back.
THE iron mills at Pittsburgh on the 18th
We're employing 1000 men less than last
year. and the depression was greater than
for several years.
GOVERNOR SHELDON, of New Mexico,
issued a proclamation on the 18th for the
inspection of cattle, no matter from what
section, before they We're permitted to
enter the Territory.
AT the session of the National Christian
Sunday-School Associations Indianapolis
on the 18th A. r. Benson, of Indiana, was
elected President, and I. II. Green, of
Ohio, Secretary.
The Secretary of the Interior received
word at Washington on the 9TH that one
thousand Piegan Indians at the Blackfcet
Agency, i'll Montana, We're actually starry
ing. The death rate was large.
The Grand Jury at Petersburg, Va, on
the eth indicted the officers and several
employees of the wrecked Planters Bank
for misdemeanor or for felony.
NEAR Nilkesbarre, Pa. a few days G
two brothers, David and Solomon Slusher,
We're suffocated by %fire-damp.
A struck a carriage on the
Sth containing five persons, who We're re-
turning from a funeral at Connors Station,
Pa, killing four persons and the two
horses and demolishing the vehicle.
DURING the seven days ended on the Sth
there were 276 business failures in the
United States, against 2il the previous
seven days, and tGG fer the correspond
ing period of 1855.
In an attempt to beat his record, JAY
Iye-See at Buffalo on the Sta trotted with
out a skip in 2:10A.
ARUNAwAY horse on the Sth dragged ex-
anu III 1Lt'itGuCIIllll
onto the railway track at Lima, O., and a
switching engine killed both of them, the
horse escaping.
The main shaft Of the monument to
George Washington at the National capt.
tai on the Sth reached a height of five hun.
dred feet, and preparations for erecting
the roof would be commenced.
IT was announced on the Sth that in the
neighborhood CT FONT Pleasant, W. Va.
three farmers at different points had suf-
fered the loss of wheat fields from fires set
by incendiaries.
CoKE operators in Pennsylvania are
loud in their complaints about the dullncss
of the trade. Over-production is the cause
of the present depression.
TEXAS FEVER and pleuro-pneumonia ap-
peared on the Sth among the herds in the
vicinity of Lancaster, Pa. The infected
herds had been q~uarantined.
HOLMES, LAFFERTY & Co, dealers in
live stock at Pittsburgh, made assign.
ments a few days ago with liabilities of
500, 900. The Penn Bank suspension caused
the failure.
One hundred and fifty men in the La
Belle Nail Mill at Wheeling were dis
charged on the sth, the mill-owners de-
Gliding to procure their steel bars from
Pittsburgh, doing away with their forge
department.. If other mills adopted this
plan, five thousand persons would be
thrown out of employment. The new
movement had caused CONSERVATION at
Wheeling.
The Post-ofice Department. is making
preparations for 4 fine exhibit of postal
supplies at the New Orleans Exhibition,
which will soon be forwarded to that city.
DoRoTHEA GORDON was on the Sth found
hanging in the woods near Mount Carmel,
KY, with a rope made from her dress.
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