Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-14
EPITOME OF THE week.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

FIVE murderers confined in the Jail at
Asheville, N. c., overpowered the turnkey
on the 14th and locked him in a cell, max
ing their escape to the mountains.
ALBERT Ross, a business man of JEFF
~fersonville, Ind, who had been married
two weeks, shot and fatally wounded his
wife on the 14th and then killed himself.
Jealousy caused the tragedy.
Mrs. SUSIE WILLIAMS, of Bailey, Ga,
locked her three children up the other
day while she went to the field to work.
On her return she found the house and
children burned up.
The strike among workmen at Bay City,
Mich, and other points had assumed such
a threatening attitude on the 14th that
Governor Alger called out the militia to
protect lives and property.
OWING to dull times the great coal
in the vicinity of Corning, o., were prac-
tically deserted on the 14th, hundreds of
miners having removed to other points.
DAVID G. Topper, aged thirty nine
years, one of the editors of the Mille,'s
Journal, at New York, shot himself dead
on the 14th because of a loss of money.
4. A STORM of wind, rain, hail and light
ming swept through the Allegheny Valley
on the night of the 18th, working havoc
from Pittsburgh to Titusville. In the tele-
graph office at Harmarsville James Nc
Feeters was killed by an electric shock.
Railway tracks were submerged at many
places, villages and manufacturers flooded
and crops ruined. The aggregate losses
were enormous.
AS H result of a quarrel a few DAYS
ago at Pittsburgh Edward Bulger and his
wife were mortally wounded by William
Wilbert, who dubbed them with a base
ball bat.
A. II. ROSE, an extensive farmer Of
California, filed a petition of insolvency
at Oakland on the 18th, with liabilities of
$780, 600 and assets nominal.
SEVEN Polish and Bohemian
strikers attacked the plate-mill in New
burg, near Cleveland, o., on the 10th. They
were met by fifty policemen, and a fight
ensued in which two policemen were hit
with stones and fifty strikers badly
dubbed, one perhaps fatally.
IT was reported on the 18th that the dry
goods market at New York was improving
dHily, there being a brisk demand for fall
specialties.
GENERAL HOWARD, who returned to
Fort Omaha from Salt Lake City on the
10th, said the situation of affairs at that
place was very threatening, and a serious
collision between the Mormons and Cen
tiles was liable to occur at any moment.
JOSEPH PALMER (colored) was hanged at
Cincinnati on the 18th for the murder of
William n. Kirk on December "a, 1883.
William Berner, his associate in the crime,
is serving a twenty-year sentence in the
Ohio Penitentiary, the verdict of man
slaughter in his case having been the ex-
citing cause of the great riot of March,
1884.
CHICAGO advices of the 18th state that
the present season is without a precedent
in the history of the lake marine. Freights
were completely demoralized, and there
was no immediate prospect of any inn
provement.
The dedication ceremonies at Niagara
FAILS Park on the 18th were attended by
twenty five thousand people. Ex-Lieu-
tenant Governor Dorsheimer, President of
the commission, made the presentation
address, Governor Hill formally accepting
the reservation on behalf of the people of
the State of New York.
A ERRIFI hail-storm passed over the
section of country from Niagara to Rey-
nolds, in Dakota, on the 10Th, utterly de-
stroying all the grain in one of the best
wheat-growing regions of the Northwest.
The loss covers 10000 acres, involving
100000 bushels of grain.
WHILE attending the celebration at Nj
agara Falls on the 18th Mrs. Jones, of
Welland, Can, fell into the river and was
carried over the American falls.
NJ A CDrrNy roea l1oo,,;,, -
the usual tints was discovered on the 18th
at Otterbein, Ind. A botanist said that it
was a marvel of nature.
on the 10th were that the
coming crop of oats in Illinois would be
the largest in the history of the State.
The prospects for grain in the Northwest
were said to be improving, and the crops
promised to be much larger than antici-
pated three weeks ago.
The cloth printing works of j. T. Mar
tin & Co., of Philadelphia, were burned a
few days ago. Loss, $25O,0OO.
UP to the 10th thirteen deaths had &C.
Cured in Chicago among boys ranging
from five to seventeen years of age, caused
by wounds from toy-pistols on the Fourth.
~ In a shooting ARRAY at Pittsburgh, Pa,
on the 18th five persons were wounded,
.Cnree IaGally.
ADv1cEs of the 10th say that a recent
tornado wrecked fifteen houses at High
more, D.. T., and completely destroyed the
town of Holabird. Property in the dis
trict suffered severely, and two men were
killed.
In Great South Bay, Long Island Sound,
William Tichenor, John Hedden, and Ag-
mes Roe were accidentally knocked off a
sailing yacht on the 10Th and drowned.
JOHN P. MILLER, Isaac Ensey and a
man named Weston were fatally over
come by heat at Dayton, O., on the 10th.
The st. Joseph's Mothers Home, a
magnificent structure, located at Delhi,
six miles from Cincinnati, was destroyed
by fire on the 10Th. Loss, 100000.
AT Kasson, Brainerd and near st. Paul,
Mimi, terrific wind storms did great dam
age on the 10Th. Farm-houses, barns and
fences were blown down, and widespread
destruction was done to growing crops.
No lives were reported lost.
JOSEPH f. C~oTHRINGE, ex-Treasurer of
the Philadelphia Coal Transportation