Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-08-15
EpIT0ME OF THE Week.
Interesting Views Compilation.
DOMESTIC,

Palmer Houseat Chicago on the odd. His
body wasembalmed, and a cablegram was
sent to his relatives.
NEAR Cowee, Tenn, q few days ago, a
locomotive pulling a train filled with con-
victs exploded, killing three men:and ia
tally scalding several others.
FIRES were raging on the GOD in the
fields and forests IN all sides of Warren,
Trumbull County, o.. Scores of men were
fighting the flames day and night to pro-
tect fences, fields of grain and buildings.
North of the tow an area of one hundred
acres had been burned over. A great
deal of damage wal also being lone in
the southern part Of Morrow County by
forest fires.
A TERRIBLE gas explosion occurred on
the cd in the store of Charles Nj. Barrey,
at Atlanta. Ca, resulting in the killing of
two people and the wounding of seven
others.
TIE exercises Of the eighteenth Nation
al encampment of the Grand Army of the
Republic were formally opened on the ODD
at Camp Beath, near Minneapolis.
Speeches were made by General Beath,
Governor Hubbard, Mayor Pillsbury and
others. The attendance was very great
and the enthusiasm u~nhounded.
H. T. ROBINSON e. BRO, general store
and bankers at Ocala, Fla, have failed for
5000, 900.
A wind and rain.storm swept
through the Mohawk Valley, in Central
New York, on the 23d. Near Utica trees,
fences II buildings were blown down
and barns We're burned by lightning.
Great damage was also done in the hop
yards, the losses being estimated at thou
sands of dollars. Near Little Falls a farm
laborer named Henry Trumbull was killed
by lightning. Through Otsego County
hop-yards and other property were also
destroyed.
THE Coatsville Iron Company of West
chester, Pa, has failed for 100000.
COLONEL Z. w. COLE, of Nashville, has
purchased the greater portion of Lookout
Mountain, and intends to set engineers ct
work on a railway from Chattanooga to
the summit, after the model of the Mount
Washington Road.
WEAR, BooGHER & Co.. d~ry-goods deal
ers at st. Louis, made an assignment on
the 23d. The liabilities were $4,000 100, and
the assets greatly in excess of that sun.
TWENTY-FIVE acres Of swamp land near
Canton, O., had been burned over on the
23d, and the flames were spreading. Two
large fields of wheat and oats in the vicin-
ity were also burned.
FIRE at Dayton, o., recently destroyed
the hay.rake works of John Dodd and 9th
er property valued at $4,000.
A THUNDERSTORM III the 23d leveled
Barnum's circus tent at Syracuse, N. Y,
creating a panic among the audience, sew
eral of whom were injured, a few it was
thought fatally. The damage to the tent
and wardrobes was $4,000.
j. NJ. GRIFFIN, a prominent farmer liv-
ing near Marshall, Mo-, had occasion to
correct his son William, aged seventeen, a
few days ago, when the youth fatally
sta bbed his father with q pocket-knife.
IT was stated on the 23i that seven per-
sons were killed near Sioux Falls, D. T.,
by the recent great storm, and four lives
were lost near Luverne, MINI.
A GENTLEMAN from Philadelphia on the
23d showed the secret-service officers in
Chicago n twenty-dollar Treasury note
made wholly with a pen, its execution be-
ing so complete as to deceive a keen ex.
pert.
NEAR Gunnison, Col, an explosion of
giant powder on the 23d killed John
Lynch, John Morris and j. w. Olsen, and
wounded several other men.
THE managers Of the Worlds Exposition
at New Orleans lave placed 50, 900 at the
disposal of the Governor of each of the
States and Territories.
BY the explosion Of a steam thresher
near Rushville, Ind, on the 24th three
men were killed, one was fatally hurt, and
four others were seriously scalded or
wounded.
A PASSENGER train ran into a street-c car
at Waterford, N. Y, on the oath, killing
Mrs. M. f. Scott, a woman of sixty-two,
who was in the street-car, and fatally in
juring "a nine-year-old boy. Three other
persons and the driver were badly hurt.
The explosion of an oil can, used in
starting a fire, resulted in an explosion at
Plano, Tex, a few days ago, by which two
children Of John Ransdale were burned to
q crisp.
The distillery of A.. Overholt G. Co., at
Connersville, Pa, and seven thousand bar
rels of whisky were burned early on the
morning of the Oath, causing a loss of
5000, 900.
FRANK DEWALr. the %defaulting Lead
riAO \Noh| oihc Lta pEcH SclltcIceu 10
ten years in the penitentiary.
LOUIS SPENCER, a colored man, died on
the oath in the poor-house at L%ockport, N.
y, in his one hundred and fifteenth year.
AN illicit distillery conducted by a moon
sinner named Polk West, in Overton Coun-
ty, Tenn, was Oh the oath seized by the
revenue officers, who destroyed one thou
sand gallons of beer and q still Of one hun-
dred gallons capacity.
AN assignment has been made by Hand
& Ellsworth, paper-dealers in New York,
whose liabilities We're 5000 900.
THREE children of Joseph Ashley, aged
nine, seven and five years, of Suamico,
Wis, went out to pick berries on the
oath, and were drowned while bathing in
the river.
The deaths were reported on the 25th Of
Walter Hartman, Ex-Governor of New
Hampshire, aged sixty-seven, and Daniel
Pratt, formerly Attorney-General Of New
York, aged seventy-cight.
The report of the Commissioner Of In
ternal Revenue for the fiscal year ended
June ESQ showed that the aggregate re-
ceipts of his department were Sl2l, 800, 039,
a decrease of nearly $3.50 900 compared
with the previous year.