Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-06
OF THE week.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

tempted by the strikers.
A SPECIAL agent of the General Land
Office submitted a report to COMMISSIONS
Sparks ON the 18th, estimating the value
of the timber cut from the public domain
without authority by the Northern Pacific
Railroad and Montana Improvement Com
panies at S613, 402.
l" q Washington Township (Pa.) Police
Court the other day Albert ~Southworth,
the plaintiff in a suit, became SO excited
under Il vigorous cross-examination that
when he left the stand he fell dead.
CONSIDERABLE damage was inflicted at
Baltimore and other points on the 18th by
heavy winds.
THE strike of the street railway EN-.
ploycs at st. Louis was practically ended
on the 18th, all the cars being run with
out interference.
ENRAGED with his wife because she re-
fused to give him money to buy whisky,
Thomas Bingham, of McKeesport, Pa,
fatally beat her on the 18th.
AT Wilkesbarre, Pa, u church building
In process of erection was blown down
during u gale IN the 18th, and four mon
were severely injured.
MMRs. SETH %STAuNToN, of Barnes County,
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child in her arms, and fed before all adj
vancing prairie fire, was overtaken by the
flames and both persisted. The fire parted
at the house, which was left untouched.
OFFICERS of the Secret Service on the
18th raided a camp of eleven counterfeit
ers in Clarion County, Pa, capturing six
of them, who were taken to Pittsburgh
and committed for trial. The others es-
capped. The gang had been extensively
engaged in manufacturing and c~irculat-
ing spurious silver Collars.
HOG cholera was on the 18th said to be
making terrible ravages in twenty coun-
ties in Kansas.
JOHN HOFFMAN, a saloon-keeper, fatally
shot his wife and then himself on the 18th
at Newark, N. j.
NATURAL gas was on the 18th being
rapidly substituted for coal at Pittsburgh,
Pa. Another rich strike had been made
near the city.
The illicit distillers of franklin County,
Georgia; have begun a war Upon law
abiding citizens whom they suspect OF
having informed upon them. A young
man who testified for the Government in
several cases was assassinated on the 18th,
and many persons had been ordered TO
leave the county or take the consequences.
A SEVERE storm prevailed along the Al
lantic coast on the 18th, and for the first
time in twenty-five years there were no
arrivals at or departures from the port Of
New York. The tide at Rockaway Beach
was the highest known for years.
A BALTIMORE Il ONO express trair
struck a rock near Ohio Pyle Falls, Pa,
on the 18th, the locomotive, two baggage
cars and the smoking-c.r %plunging into
the river. Several persons were injured,
none fatally.
The Treasury Department at Washing
ton on the 14th purchased 1915, 900 ounces
of silver for delivery at the New Orleans
and Philadelphia mints for coinage into
standard dollars.
THE anti Chinese movement in Wash
.ington Territory was thoroughly organ.
lied on the 18th, and aims at nothing less
the Pacific slope.
THE total values of exports of domestic
breadstutfs from the United States during
September, 1885, were $9,o67, 200; for Sep
TENDER, 1884, $l3, 631 1853.
The profits of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company for the twave months
ended June 80, 1885, were So, 70o, 924. 10.
ANOTHER high tide swept over Rock
away Beach, N. Y, on the 14th, carrying
away part OF the iron pier and washing I'D
a large quantity Of wreckage from some
unknown vessel.
OVER SG00,0 900 had been pledged on the
14th for the establishment of a Catholic
University at Washington, and the pro-
jectors expected to lave $1,000, 00o secured
by January l.
Cinnamon were burned to death on
the 18th during a fire in a laundry at Oak
eand, Cal.
TIE business portion of Sandbank, Os-
wego County, N. Y, including two
churches, was swept away by fire on the
l4th.
ADvIcEs received at the Post-OAicc De-
partment ut Washington on the 14th indi-
Gated a general wash-out of railroads in
Georgia and interruption of mails through
heavy rains.
DURING the first two months of the cur.
rent fiscal year the internal revenue re-
ceipts We're less by 81. 146, 327 than during
the corr e%sponding period of the preceding
fiscal year.
In a three mile contest on the 18th on
S"S AStNCA III 1aAObAS 11dQldu una
Lee finished in eighteen and a quarter
minutes, beating Courtney and Conley by
three lengths.
GENERAL HOWARD on the 18th ordered
the removal CT the troops from the coal
mines in Wyoming where the Chinese
laborers were Slaughtered.
BURGLARS entered the post-ofRce at
Waverly, o., on the 10Th and carried off
500 in money and numerous letters.
MRS. WILLIAM Cook, Of Petersburg, Va.
was attempting to kindle q fire with kero-
sene oil on the 10Th when the can ex-
ploded, and Mrs. Cook and her two little
children were burned to death.
MRS. BARBARA BIEHLER was accidental.
~ burned to death at Crestline, O., on the
18th.
AT a meeting in Pittsburgh on the 18th
of nearly all the green glass bottle manu-
facturers in the country it was resolved
that a much lower scale of wages must
precede the reopening of the works now in
suspension.
The total values of exports of domestic
cattle and hogs and of beef and pork from
the United States were as follows: Sep
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