Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-06-20
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customs districts. Adjourned to the 3lst.
DOMESTIC.
The Captain of the schooner George
Sherman, of Chicago, reported on the 2Sth
having ridden out the recent gale on Lake
Michigan by pouring on the water twelve
gallons of linseed oil, which Gained the
waves for a distance of half a mile from,
the ship.
1T was stated on the 2Sth that depositors
in the Penn Bank at Pittsburgh would be
fortunate if they got five per cent. The
pverdrafts by fictitious persons and firms
had reached 81 200, 900, and the total liabili-
ties were thought to exceed 1900, o00. The
wreck was said to be complete.
DURING arecent storm near Harrisburg,
o.. Clara, daughter of w. H. Snyder, was
Struck by lightning and instantly killed.
Lulu, her sister, was seriously injured by
the same flash.
AT a meeting of the barbed-wire manu-
facturers of the West and Northwest in Chi
cago a few days ago it was resolved to
close the factories during the months of
July and August in ord r to keep up prices.
The Methodist General Conference in
session at Philadelphia on the 2Sth adopted
a report by the Committee on the State of
the Church that divorces should only be
granted for adultery, and that the guilty
party should not be married again by any
minister of the church.
In a quarrel recently about a herse.trade
near Dublin, Ga, Stephen L. Padgett shot
bis brother Joe lead.
D. L. WHEELER, statistical agent of Ne.
braska, estimated on the 2Sth the yield of
wheat in his State this year at 81, 100 900
bushels. The acreage sown to corn and
oats has been largely increased.
AN old feud between John G.. Garrett
Rnd John Turner, of Richmond, KY, end
cd the other day in the latter meeting the
former in the road and shooting him
dead.
MISS CLARA BARTON was on the 2Sth
closing the seasons work of the Red Cross
Society by distributing a steamboat-load
of household goods and building material
to the flood suffers at tho upper end of
the Ohio River.
INSANE at the loss of a handbook Mrs.
Caroline Schreifer killed five of her chill
hren at Albany, N. Y, OF the Goth, and,
with another child in her arms, threw
S~lerself before a train. She was killed,
while the little ones leg and arm were
crushed.
DuR1NGthe seven days ended on the goth
S1,6 600 worth of dry-goods were import
ed into the United States.
The Methodist Protestant Convention,
lin session at Baltimore Oh the goth, de-
elared in favor of total abstinence and
passed a resolution insisting that the di-
vorce avs be so framed as to forbid
either divorced party to marry during the
fife of the other.
INCENDIARIES burned the court house at
Florosville, Tex, on the Goth, the records,
deeds, mortgages and all valuable papers
being consumed.
A HEAVY frost in Southern Wisconsin,
Northern Illinois, Northern Ohio por-
tions of Pennsylvania and Michigan Sc.
1iously injured fruit-buds in those sections
on the night of the 2Sth.
WHILE standing at his door in Pitts
burgh the other night Robert Sloan was
shot dead by Joseph -Dickenbaugh, who
said in extenuation THAT he was shooting
at a mark.
T%HIRTY-EIGHT million barrels Of petrol
cum were on the Goth stored in tanks in.
the Pennsylvania oil region-enough to
make a lake one mile square and ten feet
deep.
REPORTS recently received by S. w.
Tallmadge, of Milwaukee, indicated that
the total yield of wheat in tho country this
year would reach 5o4, S20, 900 bushels-an
increase of JOG, 900 900 over the crop Of
1888.
In a shooting ARRAY near Cranky, Mo-,
q few evenings ago, resulting from an old
grudge, John G.. Koontze, ex-postmaster,
and George Tabor, n merchant, were
killed, and George Hudson, o desperate,
was seriously injured.
BY the fall of a scaffolding on tho Goth in
a railway tunnel near Ligonier, Pa, nine
Italian laborers were killed and eleven
Others We're seriously injured.
WESLEY JOHNSON was hanged on the
29th at Napoleon, O., for the murder of
George W. Williams and wife. Plumber
was his sole object in committing the
crime, and he secured twenty-six dollars
i'm currency and a silver watch.
FRANK II. C~UsHMAN, second teller of the
Merchants National Bank Of Providence,
IL. l., after embezzling S., 900 absconded on
the Gosh.
The, Union Deposit Bank Of Greensburg,
Pa, closed its doors on the Goth. The liza
Utilities would reach $1,000 600, and the re-
sources were less than half that amount.
HARDE HARDIsoN and wife, OF Column
bus, Tenn, ah aged couple, were~fata1ly
assaulted by Walter Daniels, a nephew, a.
few evenings ago, the object being rob
parry.