Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-29
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Interesting News Compilation.

Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.
COUNTY JUDGE BROOKS, of Pittsburg.
Tex, convicted of bribery and sentenced
to two years. imprisonment, shot himself
dead on the 9TH. He left a letter declaring
his innocence of the crime.
A PLAGUE similar to that at Plymouth,
Pa, settled upon the village of Coldsprin.g,
N. j., on the 9th, where every attack
proved fatal, with one exception. Six
deaths had occurred, and no one dared
visit the town.
No NEW demonstrations were made by
the striking quarrymen at Lemont, ILL.,, on
the 9th, and the trouble was considered
virtually at an end.
The people of Charleston, W. Va, on
the 9th celebrated the establishment of
their Gown as the Capital Of the State.
WHILE insane from the use of intoxi-
cants at Newark, N. j., the other night
Mrs. Lucy Gilchrist decapitated her six
months-old babe with an axe.
AN immense crowd gathered in front of
the courthouse at Richmond, KY, on the
9Th, to witness a public sale of negroes at
auction. One man brought thirty-eight
dollars for twelve months service, one
fourteen dollars for three months, and a
woman twenty-five cents for twelve
months. The sales were made under the
vagrant laws of the State.
THE earnings of the Union Pacific Rail-
road for March, 1885, were 81, 975, 517; ex-
penses, 81 54,56S; surplus earnings, $780,
Gao L. nv 1ro 10 1E kl~ $1,000 ~. 1885,
month last year of $31, 142.
AN attempt on the 9Th to raise one of the
wings of a five-story factory in Atlantic
avenue, Brooklyn, caused the wall and
roof to fall, and flames instantly broke out.
TIL building was occupied by twenty
small manufacturers, who employed hum
dreds of men, women and girls, about
thirty of whom were believed to have lost
their lives. The pecuniary damage was
estimated at $500, 600.
THE jury in the case Of Richard Short,
for stabbing Captain Phelan in O'Donovan
Rossa's office in New York, returned a
verdict on the 9th Of mot guilty." The
Judge expressed establishment at the ver-
dict.
The winter wheat acreage in Kansas
this year, reported on the 9th, was seven
'ty-three per cent. of last years area,
't~wenty-seven per e of the crop sown
being killed. This leaves only 1,145,00O
acres, the product from which was ex-
pected to reach but fifty-two per cent. of
last seasons yield.
UNITED STATES TREASURER JORDAN said
on the 9Th that the treasury count was
practically over, and everything was
foJln1 tn ha ,o0ct coficfo of Tho o,1-
discrepancy was two cents missing from a
f~ive-dollar package of pennies in the CASH
room.
ADv1cEs of the 9th state that the Mollie
Maguires in Tazewell County, Va, were
committing fragrant outrages on person
and property almost hourly. Any person
making q complaint against the law
breakers was Immediately served with a
"coftin notice'' and compelled to quit the
place.
THE Commissioner of Agriculture has
calleda convention of delegates from State
agricultural colleges to meet at Washing
ton June "a, to consider the best methods
OF promoting agricultural education and
of harmonizing the interests of different
State institutions and the National de-
partlnent.
GEORGE W. TRIP, seventy-nine years
old, of Freeville, N. Y, hanged himself
the other afternoon, on being informed
that his wife, whose age is seventy eight,
had a cancer and could notlive.
MITCHELL ANDERSON, a Choctaw In
dian, seventeen years old, was executed at
Fort Smith, Ark, on the 9th for the MUIR
der of a Choctaw boy last summer.
GEORGE FREY, of Atlanta, Ga, who
married five young ladies in the vicinity of
Erie, Pa, and betrayed four more was
convicted in the Criminal Court at Erie on
the 9th, and sentenced to two years. i'm
prisonment.
UP to the evening of the 9th fourteen
dead bodies had been taken from the ruins
OF the recent fire in Brooklyn, N. Y, and a
number We're still missing.
AT the, mining camp known as Conito
City, N. NJ, Martin Nelson on the 9th
killed DR.. William H. Flynn, Mr.. S. Ma
berry, his wife, two sons and a daughter,
and Peter Nelson and Herman Beck. The
citizens then shot Nelson dead in the
street. He was supposed to be insane.
JAMES S. ANDERSON, a w%ell-known lum-
ber-dealer, had his right arm torn from
his body by machinery at Holton, Mimi,
a few mornings ago.
The mercury fell several degrees below
. freezing-point OF the night of the It'll in
Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota and
Dakota. Ice formed in many places from
half an inch to one and one-half inches
thick, and snow and cold winds were re-
ported. 1t was thought hat small fruits
aud garden vegetables had been hurt in
most places. Snow was reported from
Kansas.
The Sea View, Atlantic and Ocean
Houses at Hampton Beach, N. H., with
several cottages, were burned early on the
morning of the 7th, the loss reaching
100000.
ACCORDING to the 117th annual report of
the New York Chamber of Commerce,
issued on the 18th, the imports of the entire
country during 1884 de creased $57,s 12,s O6,
while the falling off in exports reached
$3.50 ,273. During the same period tn 9
coin and bullion imported was increased
by S. 1883 ZIG, and the exports were aug
nented to the amount of $3s, 66s, 554. Are
rival in many branches of trade through
out the count y was also reported.
+ A TERRIFIC wind storm prevailed in the