Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-09-12
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Interesting News Compilation.
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Louis Zeigler, proprietor of the Metropoli-
tan Hotel, while trying to save his guests,
wa burned to a crisp. The United States
Signal office was consumed.
u IT was reported on the 10Th that heavy
rains along the line of the Northern Pa
cifc in Dakota had seriously damaged tho
wheat crop.
ALL the cotton-mills at Fall River,
Mass, that had been closed down We're
reopened on the 10th. The Great Falls
Mill at Dover, N. H., would also resume
the 1st of September.
LOUIS R. KNOTT, under death sentence
at Colfax, w. T., for murder, was taken
from Jail by a mob on the 10Th and
lynched.
A. D. SLY was arrested at Minneapolis
on the 10Th for robbing the American Ex-
press Company ut st. Joseph, Mo-, in Sep
TENDER last, of $1O,50O. He confessed his
guilt
Mrs. HENRY F. WHITING, Of Atlanta,
Ca, died a few days ago from swallowing
tobacco juice.
The authorities have no fears of yellow
fever at Key West, Fla, and have discon-
tinued quarantine.
TWENTY people were Frustrated by the
heat in New York and Brooklyn on the
goth, four of the cases proving fatal.
The firm of Warner & Merritt, fruit
Importers at Philadelphia, failed recently
for 100000.
COUNTERFEIT ten-dollar national bank
notes on the Third National Bank of Gin
cinnati were in circulation in New York
en- the Goth. The note has q brown back
and is of the series of 1882.
PAUL PAPuLoRuM, for many years doing
a large business in Chicago as tanner, has
failed for $780, 900.
The Governor of Kentucky on the Goth
pardoned a horse.thief and u homicide,
who was serving a life sentence, for
timely assistance rendered the officers of
the State Prison during the recent out
break.
AGENT DYER has informed the Indian
Bureau at Washington that the Cheyennes
and Arapahoes abuse boys who ave re-
turned from the chool at Carlisle, Pa,
not wishing their people to be educated.
ALI but three States were represented
on the Goth at Saratoga Springs, N. Y, in
the annual meeting of the American Bar
Association.
The Commissioner of Agriculture an
nounced on the Goth the existence Of what
was supposed to be contagious pleuro-
pneumonia among several herds of Jersey
.attle in Illinois, and requested owners of
Jersey stock to stop shipments until after
October !.
THE Northwestern Lumberman's Asso-
citation, representing $500, 00o, 900 capital,
held a meeting in Chicago ON the Goth, ami,
after a long debate, resolved that it would
not DO wise to close the mills before No
vember l. q.
A I broke out in a village thirty miles
east of Wheeling, w. Va, on the night Of
the 21st, and before assistance could az
rive fQrty-six houses were consumed. The
loss would amount to $4,000.
REPORTS received in Boston on the 21st
from 1876 points in New England indicated
that the hay crop this year would be about
thirty per cent. less than it was q year
ago..
MRS. CELIA VICTOR, an aged widow, her
daughter, Mrs. Trees, and her two-year-old
granddaughter, Maudie Trees, died on the
2lst some miles east of Shelbyville, Ind,
from the effects of eating biscuits in which
Mrs. Trees put arsenic, mistaking it for
bakingpower.
AT a meeting on the 21st of petroleum
producers at Oil City, it was resolved that
drilling be stopped for the year, on account
of over-production.
A FIRE at Swayzee, Ind, recently de
stroyed the principal stores in the village.
THE directors Of the First National Bank
Of Albion, N. Y, were on the 21st forced
to suspend business, owing to the con-
fip1,al ,,,xe{or;o,,r o, E A., D.a.
dent, Albert S. Warner. The deposits ag-
gregated $4,000.
A U girl, Lizzie Watson, was bru-
tally assaulted and then choked to death
while returning to her home from market
at Yorkton, Salem County, N. j., a few
evenings ago.. Three colored men had
been arrested on suspicion.
The property of the Sprague Manufact-
uring Company at Augusta, Me-, which
fifteen years ago cost 81, 00o, 900, WAS sold
at auction on the 21st for about 500, 900.
The Postmaster-General, after a thor
ough Investigation of the factory. has an
nulled the contract with P. P. Kellogg, of
Springfield, Mass, for furnishing envel-
Opes and tags.
The Government launch Daphne explod-
ed her boiler the other day at Memphis.
Paymaster N. Golden was blown over
board and drowned, and the engineer,
pilot and two others were seriously in
jured.
HE manufacturing companies of Lowell,
Mass, have decided to shut down for a
week, commencing September 1, by reason
of the accumulation of goods and low
prices.
SEVEN men and eleven mules were killed
by the fumes of gas while tunneling in a
mine at Shamokin, Pa, on the 21st.
1.-TWO i trains collided on the 22d
in the yard Of the Pennsylvania Railroad
at Columbia. -Four cars filled with sheep
and hogs were smashed. The wreck caught
fire and upwards of eight hundred animals
were killed.
A RAILWAY official from the East made
a statement in Chicago on the 22l that the
Baltimore & Ohio Road had offered $23,-
100000 for a controlling interest in the
Illinois Central.
In Cedar Hill Cemetery, at Hartford,
Conn.,, the recent burning of a temporary
t aging used by the carvers ruined the
elaborate Italian marble column at the
grave of the late Governor Edwin D. Nor.
gan, of New York.