Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11
DOMESTIC

AoAAS oCAAAhOS VIC AOUOllOuS utS pcIuuO
Of Lancaster, Pa, who was involved in a
number of murders and other misdeeds in
Pennsylvania some months ago, together
with the Buzzard gang, was arrested in
Chicago on the 18th. A reward of $500
was outstanding for Buzzard's arrest.
GEORGE P. SANBoRN, receiver of the
Manufacturers Bank of Milwaukee, esti-
mated on the 18th the liabilities at $4OO, 900
and the nominal assets at $500, 900.
CINCINNATI was threatened on the 18th
with a strike by six thousand shoemakers,
fifteen hundred stove-molders and Eve
thousand cigar-makers.
NEARLY one hundred pupils of the In
dian Training-School at Carlisle, Pa, left
on the 18th for their homes. They had
nearly all completed the full term of three
years. They belong to twelve different
agencies.
WHILE towing a bark from New York in
the Mississippi River early the other morn
ing the iron tug W. w. Wood suddenly
careened and sunk, drowning the pilot and
two other persons.
IHE suspension was on the
18th of Carhart, Whitney & Co.. the heavi-
est clothing house in New York, with liza.
bilities of $1,000, 900.
A NUMBE of structures at Athens, Pa,
were destroyed by fire a few days ago,
several persons being injured by jumping
from the blazing buildings. The financial
loss was placed at $102,0 0o.
-. j. G. DoUGHERrY, chief of the money
order department of the Baltimore Post
office, was on the 18th arrested for the en-
bezzlement of $1,000, the larger portion of
which was wasted on lottery tickets.
G. c. MORRIS, of Greens burg, KY, left
his home on horseback a few LAYS ago,
and was soon afterward found dead OH the
road, with six bullets in his body.
ON a West Shore train, near Syracuse,
pickpockets took on the 18th So, 100 from
Dr. M. Angelbrow, of Minneapolis.
H boiler of the saw-mill of jackson &
Sears, near Bolton, W. Va, exploded the
other afternoon, killing two men and fla.
tally injuring three Others.
The Zoo Variety Theater and three or
four adjoining structures, at Leadville,
Col, were burned on the 18th. A fireman
and a miner were struck by falling walls,
and persisted in the flames.
COMMISSIONER EVANS stated on the 18th
that the refusal of Congress to appropriate
$l50,oo0 for the salaries of e-kee pers
n keepers until July 1 would make it
necessary to close the distilleries.
IHE coal-miners' strike in the Mononga.
hela Valley had on the 18th spread to all
the pits Of four pools, and 5000 men were
idle.
GJoHN CALLAHAN & Co., liquor-dealers
at Louisville, KY, have failed for 500, 900.
A BOILER thirty feet long exploded in
Penock & Co.'s machine shop at Kenneth
Square, Pa, a few days ago, badly injur.
ing eight men.
j. II. MCKINNEY, clerk of the Supreme
Court of the United States, was stripped
of $61,00O by the recent collapse of Mid
dleton's Bank at Washington. Envelopes
IN which he q left securities in their
safe were cut open and the contents alb.
stracted.
A FIRE recently destroyed two hotels
and six stores at Braddock, Pa, valued at
$4,000, and a hotel and two business build.
lngs at Bradford, in the same State.
WHILE attempting the other day to light
a fire in a house at Pittsburgh, Pa, with
kerosene oil, the can exploded, and two
persons were burned to death.
A of new wheat from Texas,
in good milling order, was sold at auction
on the 18th in st. Louis for 81. q per bushel.
The California Board of Agriculture es.
timated on the Goth the damage to the
wheat crop by rain at twenty-five per
cent.
Four negroes were killed at Albany,
Ca, on the Goth by the explosion of a boil
er in Fields & Co.'s brick-yard.
AT Armour & Dole's elevator, in Chica.
go, Miss Alice NJ. Wells, of Boston, while
viewing the machinery on the goth on tile
upper floor, was caught and crushed to
death in an instant. She was eighteen
years of age, and was visiting the family
of H. N. Greedy.
% G. K. GARRISON, of New York, who
valued his estate at $40, 900, 600, made an
assignment on the Goth for Sc, 600, 900. MI.
Garrisons counsel said the failure was
forced by the protest of notes bearing his
Endorsement.
MISS MARY A. OLIPHANT, aged seven
teen, the daughter of a clergyman, COM
suicide at Orrsburg, Mo-, on the
o0th, by changing. -. No cause was known
for the deed.