Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-24
EPITOME OF THE week.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

INDIAN COMMISSIONER PRICE has sub
United the estimates for the Indian Bureau
for the next fiscal year. They aggregate
S 1885 900.
NEAR Marquee Station, Tex, the other
passenger train were throwndown IN en-
ously wounded.
, NEAR Towanda, Pa, a few nights ago a
cyclone ravaged the country, shattering
buildings and uprooting trees. Five per-
sons were injured.
GEORGE A. WILT, a lumber merchant of
Philadelphia, cut his throat a few days
ago in a Fort Wayne sleeping-car near
Lima, o., and leaped from the train.
When found he was dead. His wife, who
was with him, could give no reason for his
act.
AN explosion a few days ago at No. 2
colliery, Lost Creek, Pa, killed Abram
and Dan Hinkle, brothers.
The Pennsylvania Salt Company's acid
mandatory at Natrona, near Pittsburgh,
was destroyed by fire the other morning.
Loss about 500, 900.
JUDGE WYL1E has decided in Washing
ton that a minor eighteen years old may
enlist in the Marine Corps of the Navy
without the consent of his parents.
SCoTT MADK1Ns, a youth of nineteen,
was married to Annie Ingersoll, his
twefve.year.old step-sister, at Snowhill,
Md, recently.
ABNER MASON, a farmer aged seventy
eight years, was kicked to death near
Nashville, Tenn, a few days ago.
FOREST fires were raging on the LIST in
Prince George County, Va, and large.
quantities of wood and timber had been
destroyed.
The annual convention of locomotive
engineers of the United States and Canada
opened in San Francisco on the LIST.
For the seven days ended on the 1st the
thermometer at L%ynchburg, Va, had been
at ninety, and the drought in the south.
western section Of the State was without
parallel. Forest trees were dying, streams
had run dry, and the hay crop had been
destroyed. Stock was being taken into
Tennessee for water.
THE firm of Bradley, Garretson & Co.,
publishers, of Philadelphia, failed recent
ly for $lS5, 600.
MRS. NIEHAUs, aged seventy-two, COM
mitted suicide at st. Louis a few days ago
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until death resulted.
w. j SIMMONS, a wealthy citizen of
Troy, N. Y, learned on the 1st that his
daughter had been secretly married to his
coachman, named w. R. Bartholomew.
PRESENTS of the value of $500 0 were
sent to the wedding of J. S. Yeaton, a
Baltimore coal merchant, and Miss Julia
Ridgely a few days ago. Five hundred
persons were present.
EXPRESS trains on the Denver g. Rio
Grande Road collided on the LIST at n point
seventeen miles south of Denver, injuring
about thirty passengers.
The revenues of the United States
showed on the 1st a decrease during the
last quarter of So, 466, 005.
AT New York on the 1st the trustees of
the Peabody Educational Fund held their
annual session, General Agent Curry re-
porting an expenditure of $50, 900 in the
Southern States during the year.
V1e1LANTEs a few days captured
Bob Smith, colored, who had assaulted a
little girl, near Franklin, Miss. A mob CT
negroes took the prisoner. from his captors
and hanged him to a tree.
JOHN NUNLEY, while drunk, began
shooting into a Democratic gathering a
few nights ago at Charleston, W. Va, kill
ing a negro and fatally %wounding, a wkite
citizen.
A CAIssoN of the railway bridge at
Frenchtown, Nd, sank recently with seven
men under it. Air was forced into the
chamber by two pumps and the sufferers
were rescued after a confinement of five
hours.
WHILE attempting to cross Polk Creek,
near Paris, Mo-, a few afternoons ago, ].
j. Hickman and his daughter-in-iaw and
her two small children were caught by q
rising flood and all were drowned.
A REGISTERED letter containing $40, 500
in bonds was stolen on the 1st from the
mail between New York and East Hamp.
ton, Conn.
THE Prime Meridian Conference, with
forty-two delegates representing twenty.
two countries, assembled at Washington
on the 1st, being welcomed by Secretary
~Frelinghuysen.
AT Minneapolis, Mimi, the first snow.
storm of the season occurred on the LIST,
but it was of short duration.
The Glen House, IN Mount Washing
ton, was burned on the night of the LIST,
and the woods in the vicinity were blazing
brightly. There were apprehensions that
some lives had been lost.
IT is estimated by the Railuay Age
that 1888 miles of track have been laid in
the United States since January 1.
The writing paper makers in session OH
the LIST at Springfield, Mass, resolved, in
view of the prohibition of the importa.
ton of foreign rags, to advance the price
OF paper one to two cents per pound.
The public-debt statement issued on
the LIST makes the following exhibit: To-
tai debt (including interest of $l1, 546, le4),
$3.50, 49s, 1916. Cash in Treasury, S425, oa1,-
521. Debt, less amount in Treasury, 81 ,425,.
467 ,o55. Decrease during September, $12,-
O47,O39. Decrease since June 80, 1888, $24,-
$50, 1870.
DURING a recent ARRAY at Salinos, Tex,
growing ont of alleged official corruption,
the Judge, Chief Of Police and about twen-
ty other persons were killed by a mob.
NEAR Sullivan. Ind, on the % a shot
was fired into the railway car occupied by
Mr.. John P. st John, the Prohibition
candidate, the missile lodging in the
woodwork Immediately in front of him.
The explosion of a cotton-gin boiler in
Fredericksburg, Tex, a few days ago
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