Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-08-22
OF the Week.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

GENEN IOISc-Uu1oNtS "clc Ou Ou0 SJuu
to trees at the mouth of a creek
in Meagher County, M. 7. A large band
of cowboys were hunting others, with in
dications pointing to a second wholesale
dynching.
. j. G.. S. HARRISoN's report as receiver
of the Indiana Banking Company indi-
Gated on the Goth a shortage of sos, G11.05,
anG that he pleaded poverty and inability
to make up the shortage. Harrison, who
was lying i'll at his residence in Indian
apolis, was placed under arrest on a
charge of enlightenment, his bail being
fixed at sec, 900.
The Burlington Road is running over its
lines a locomotive from which the steam
and gas escape through iron pipes at the
side, whitening weeds and grass for a
space of two feet on each side of the track.
!, In the Georges Creek Valley in West
Virginia a food the other night did $780,
600 damage and drowned twelve persons.
Several houses in the villages were swept
away, bridges and ~trestles ruined, and
miles of railroad track wero washed out.
BATTLE q BROTHER, of Philadelphia,
wool merchants, have failed for $120,000.
CHARLES WRIGHT, a s~ixteen-year-o old
boy, fatally shot his father, Joel Laws, a
farmer living near Shelbyville, Ind, the
other night. Laws had quarreled with his
wife and tried to get into the house where
she was staying. Wright resisted Laws,
and in doing so fired the fatal shot.
w. w. CULBERTSoN, a membcr Of Con-
gress from Kentucky, who was stopping
at the National Hotel in Washington, fired
live shots into his head on the 30th ult., in
ficting dangerous wounds. The cause was
said to lave been depression from excessive
indulgence in liquor.
ANOTHER herd of cattle affected with the
Texas fever arrived at the Chicago stock
yards on the 30th ult. They were prompt
ly slaughtered.
THE entire village of Luning, New, ex-
cept the railroad depot, was destroyed by
fire the other night.
The Baltimore & Ohio Road has ap
propriated $4,000 per annum for the pay
ment of pensions to employees incapaci-
tated from earning a living.
GENERAL HATCH, with a cavalry force,
under instructions of A. r. Greene, In
spector of the General Land Office, was at
Caldwell, Kan, on the 3Oth ult., II would
Immediately proceed to drive Payne and
Others from Indian Territory.
MRS. UpMEIER, of Cincinnati, undertook
recently to split open 4 rocket with a
hatchet. She and her daughter were fatal.
ly injured by the explosion which fol-
lowed, and two children were severely
hurt.
WHILE Captain j. NJ. Shelton and his
daughters, Louisa and Florence, aged
nineteen and twenty-oneyears, were bath.
ing a few evenings ago near Little River
Station, Tex, the girls got beyond their
depth and were drowned, the aged father
being unable to assist them. They were
highly accomplished, and the family were
travelling through the State in a carriage
for pleasure.
A SENSATION has been caused at Omaha
by the Chief-of-Police issuing an order
that any woman appearing in tho streets
wearing a Mother Hubbard dress be ar.
rested and lodged in Jail.
PAUL STEVENS, who died in Camden,
Me-, a few days ago, was librarian of the
House of Representatives under President
Lincoln and Grant.
FOUR daughters of Nathan Miller, resid-
ing near Marysville, Kan, were killed by
lightning while sleeping early the other
morning.
Two BEAUTIFUL young girls named Lucy
and Jennie Jones, aged respectively seven
teen and nineteen, committed suicide near
Gadsden, Ala, a few nights ago by hang
ing. Disappointment in love was supposed
to have been the cause.
The balance of trade against this coun.
try for the first t~wenty-nine weeks Of 1854
mounts to STA, 144.47.
MRS MCCORMICK, who was caught in the
recent food at Barton, Nd, chung to a log
for twenty-four hours, and was rescued
after drifting four miles.
ONE MILLION silver dollars were coined
at the Philadelphia Mint during the
month of July, no other coins having been
made.
THE Indiana State Board of Health re.
ceived reports on the 3lst ult. from health
officers in over eighty counties of the State
which showed that tho condition of county
prisons was wretchei.
THE police of Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 31st
nlt. captured four colored burglars, who
had six large trunks containing watches,
diamonds, sealskins and silks, valued at
$4,000.
THREE masked men entered the farm.
house of Rhody Boyle, near st. Joe, Pa,
the other afternoon, and compelled him to
open his safe, from which they took $13,-
GOO. Then they ubsconded. They had not
been captured.
The failure is announced of Ohm Cas-.
we'll & Co., tea-dealers, Of New York,
heretofore rated at 81 900, 900.
CHARLES SUFFRAHN, aged eleven years,
of Chicago, who was bitten over nine
weeks ago by a rabid dog, died of hydro
phobia On the 31st ult.
A SWARM of wild bees attacked a train
on the Northwestern Road, near Chicago,
a few days ago, flew through the open win
Gows. and before they could be driven off
stung a large number of passengers in u
painful manner.
A RAIN and wind storm at Baltimore on
the 3lst ult. flooded cellars in the lower
section, unroofed buildings and damaged
shipping. The loss was placed at $780,.
900. A child was killed in a falling house.
A FREIGHT train on the F%itclburg Rail-
way demolished Il horse-car in Charles
town, Mass, the other day, fatally injur.
ing j. H. Wiley, and b~ruising several
women and children.
A~CcDR DIM, to cn1SuS rot,1rnc obtained