Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-14
EPITOME OF THE WEEK
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

burned over s~eventy-five acres, including
the Oldest and best residence portion.
Hundreds of people were made homeless
and destitute, and on the 2lst appeals for
ai1 were made.
G.. B. GERoLD, County Judge of Waco,
Tex, adjourned his court for five minute
the other day for a fist fight with an at
torncy named I. A. Blair. After friends
had stopped the contest the court calmly
resumed its session.
THE exports of manufactured goods and
produce from the port of New York during
the week ended on the 18th were $G,403,-
coo, against $5,G51,000 for the previous
week.
A FIRE on the o1st at Pawtucket, r. l.,
destroyed the lunber-yard of j. +. Cot
trell and several adjacent buildings, caus-
ing a loss of 500, 00o. Two tirepA~s, we're
seriously injured.
BRALEY's livery stable at Woonsocket,
d. T., was burned early the other morn
ing. Sixteen horses were burned to death,
and a number of buggies, harnesses, robes,
etc, were destroyed.
FIv dogs, valued at 100000,
were on the 21st on exhibition in ANEW
York garden. Anon. them were the
Esquimaux dogs brought by the Greedy
relief expedition.
ARTHUR w. BOWMAN, who was con-
didential agent at San Francisco for $l5,-
Ooo,o 900 worth of property, failed recently
Tor $77l, 900.
MISS ANE WARD and j. r. Dorsey, in
Jail for completely in a murder, were
lynched by a mot a few nights ago at
Center, Ala. Dorsey was postmaster at
A1ripa on3 oroI eora~%r-Gro ,,a,r.
while tho woman was about sixty.
A TRAIN on the Northern Pacific Road
brought to Fargo, D. T., a few days ago
110 cars filled with wheat-the greatest
wheat train on record.
The cornerstone of the new Govern.
ment building ut Columbus, o.. was laid
on the 2lst by the officers of the Masonic
Grand Lodge.
MINNIE CUMMINGS, the actress, has been
awarded $50, 1000 damages against Il police
man and q dressmaker in New York for
causing hor arrest on false charges.
The Southern Barbct Wire Company's
works at st. Loui were burned the other
night, the loss being $4,000. Two en-
ployes were seriously injured.
WHILE packing his runk q few evenings
g a. Richmond, Va, preparatory to his
honeymoon trip, Edward 0. Fitzgerald,
Jr., accidentally shot himself fatally.
PAyNAsTER GENERAL ROCHESTER, of
the army, in his annual report, made re-
Gently, says the total amount available
for the fiscal year was / $3.50, 1Gl; total
amount disbursed, $l3,225o, $50; leaving a
balance of 81 ,929,4l1.
Snow, to the depth of from one to three
inches, fell on the Odd in tho vicinity of
Huron, ID. T., IL Brainerd, Mimi.
THE drought of nearly three months in
Central Virginia was broken up ON the
22d by Il heavy fall of rain.
FRED MoETLER, of Dslphos, O., dreamed
the other night that he was dead. He re-.
tired the next evening in a Respondent
mood, and was found a corpse in the morn.
ing.
THE Woman's National Christian Tenn
,perance Union met on the 22d at st. Louis,
Miss Frances E.. Willard deliverin. the
welcoming address.
BURGLARS invaded the Adams Express
.Company's office at Woonsocket, r. l., a
few nights ago and carried off $1,000 in
bonds and coupons, 1000 in checks and
notes, and 81, 900 in bank bills.
GENERAL HAzGN, in his annual report
on the 22d on the operations Of the Signal
Service, stated that during the past year
no general storm had passed over the
country without warning.
POLICEMAN BEACH, Of Brunswick, Ga,
attempted recently to arrest two sailors
inamed Peter Hatton and George Reef,
who were drunk. They resisted, upon
which he shot and killed them both.
AN old stable near Jersey City, N. j.,
fell the other afternoon, burying three boys
;Sn the ruins. Michael Sullivan, aged
twelve, was instantly killed, and the other
two were severely injured.
SAMUEL I. BOONE, whorecently assault
ed Governor Clevelanl in the streets Of
Albany, was examined on the 90 by three
physicians. They found him sane, but Ia
boring under great nervous excitement,
He was discharged by the Justice of the
Police Court, and, i'll company with his
wife, left the city.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, was excited on the
evening Of the 22l by the appearance of a
comet-like body in the northern heavens.
To the eye it was about two feet long and
fiery red. 1t remained visible from $3.50
till 6:10 O'Clock, when it suddenly disap-
peared.
CoPIoUs rains had on the Esd nearly ex-
tinguished the forest fires in Southern New
Jersey, which still smoldered in the under
brush. The damage would reach $3.50, 900.
WHILE driving to market at Cleveland,
o., the other morning Charles kimball fell
asleep in his wagon. His horses became
frightened near a crossing and dashed into
a coal train, Kimball md his team being
killed.
In a family quarrel q few days ago
Harry Altman killed his father, Lafayette
Altman, at ST. Charles, Ky.
THREE men We're killed u few lays ago at
Atoka, Indian Territory, by the explosion
OF a saw-min boiler.
The first snow-storm Of the season in
Western New York and portions of penn
eylvania occurred on the 23d.
AMONG the resolutions passed on the
23d by the Masonic Grand Lodge of Ohio,
at Columbus, was one that the selling of
Intoxicating drinks is n Masonic oirense
and should disqualify any one from %atfiliat-
ing with or joining any lodge.
CHARLEs RICE and James Scott, labor
ers, were killed in Louisville or the 2sd,
Dne by the caving in of a sandhank and the