Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-25

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which afforded employment to two hun-
dred men was burned on the Sd, with q
loss on building and stock of 1926, 900.
1NQUESTS wore held in Chicago on the
Sd on three children bufned to death, as
the result of their being carelessly allowed
to get matches.
w BOYS, one seventeen and the other
eighteen years of age, were detected on
the Sd by a Post Office Inspector in rob-
bling the mails on a North Carolina star
route.
ADvIcEs of the Sd from Rock Springs,
Wy. T., show that the raid on the Chinese
was more determined and sweeping thar
the first report indicated. Over five hun-
dred Celestials were driven from the town
and one hundred houses burned. The
bodies of fifteen Cinnamon had been dis
covered, and it was thought that as many
more persisted in the flames.
H Waterways Convention at st. Paul,
to consider means for improving the
waterways of the country, was opened on
the Sd. William Warner, of Missouri, was
chosen President, and Ex-Governor Bross,
of Illinois, delivered the inaugural ad-
dress.
JOHN HAWKS and John S%tinchcomb,
between whom q feud had existed for
years, met on the road near Warfield, O.,
on the Sd, and began firing on each other.
Both were fatally wounded.
A STRIKE of fifteen hundred miners oc-
Cured at Mckeesport, Pa, on the 3D., and
it was expected that four thousand more
would soon quit work.
GEORGE CRENsHAw (colored) was taken
from the Lafayette (Ark.) County Jail by
a mob on the Sd and hanged for the muir
der of Henry Parep.
JOHN LoHRUM, q wealthy farmer, hav-
ing been accused of %swindling his niece
out of a small amount of money, hanged
himself to a tree near Pittsburgh on the Sd.
THE freight depot of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton g. Dayton Railroad at Cincin-
natl, the upper stories of which were occu-
pied as a grain warehouse, was destroyed
by fire on the Sd with all its contents, tho
loss reaching S225,OOO.
A PATENT was issued at Washington on
the 3D. for an apparatus, composed of q
system of springs, to run sewing-machines,
entirely doing away with the treadle. The
motive power is produced by simply bear.
ing the foot on a rest.
In Lebanon, Boone County, Ind, Elias
Mayfeld shot and killed James Lytton on
the 4th from an ambush. Both were farm
ers. An old feud was the cause.
THOMAS H. BROWN, JR., a Chicago
paper-dealer, met with q terrible death at
Putney, VT, on the 4th, by falling into a
large revolving water. wheel lie was in
speeding.
The body Of Mrs. Emma Markley, who
weighed $50 pounds, was carried to the
grave at Philadelphia on the 4th by twelve
strong men.
A REVIVAL in the knit-goods industry
was reported on the 4th from Cohoes, N.
Y, where all the mills were running on
extra time to fill heavy orders.
A SEVERE wind and hail-storm visited
jackson County, Mo-, on the 4th, inflicting
much damage upon crops vegetables and
fruits.
IT was estimated on the 4th that nearly
1000 miners were idle in Pennsylvania
because of. the strike for an advance of
half a cent a bushel for mining.
AT Buffalo, N. Y, on the 4th Mrs. Mary
Miller, while insane, threw her four-year-
old child in front of a railroad engine, and
the babe was terribly mangled.
KossUTH, MARX & Co., wholesale deal
ers in jewelry and importers of diamonds,
at New York, failed on the 4th for $780,
600.
SAM DARLING, a ten-year-old colored
boy, was placed in Jail at Farmersville,
La, on the 4th, charged with numbering
Isaac Thompson (colored), aged six years.
ADvIcEs of the 4th to Bradstreet's say
the increased mercantile activity now APP
parent is confined largely to print cloths,
blcached and brown %cottons, boots and
shoes and raw wool.
LIGHTNING struck a barn at Olean, N.
Y, on the 4th, killing two zen and de-
stroying the building.
WILLIAM HARETT, aged forty years,
was married to Sallie Wilson, aged ten
years, near Atlanta, Ca, on the 4th, the
parents of the girl giving their consent.
THREE boys were shot by William Kim
ball, a farmer, near Dayton, o., on the
4th, while stealing melons. The wounds
were not considered fatal.
The Chicago Post-ofice disposes of
about ninety thousand postal-cards daily,
but none could be or the 4th, the print
ers at Castleton, N. Y, being behind in
their orders
In the United States and Canada there
were 1S6 business failures during the seven
days ended on tho 4th, against 154
the previous seven days. The distribute
ton was as follows: Middle States, So;
New England States, 20; Western, 3d.;
ries, 1G; Canada, II.