Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-30
OF The WEEK.
; Interesting News Compilation.
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past ten years.
. SEVERAL hotels and cottages at Straw
berry Hill, Mass, were burned on the 9Th,
causing a loss of S2l5,o0).
: THE National Cotton-Exchange crop re-
port, issued on the 9th, estimated the av.
erage condition of cotton throughout the
belt on October 1 at S11s, against seventy
five on the corresponding day OF last year.
FROST and snow We're reported on the
9th at various points in the Northwest and
Canada.
: THE annual reunion OF the Grand Army
of the Republic at Pittsburgh on the 9th
attracted great crowds to that city. The
parade of the vet arans was IN imposing
affair, about ten thousand men being in
Sine.
EXTENSIVE nail-mills at Sharon, Pa,
which had been closed for some time, re-
sumed operations on the 9th at last years
wages, with several hundred employees.
/ THOUSANDS of fiint-glass workers in
Massachusetts,, Connecticut, New York,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania struck OF
the 9th for Higher wages.
THE authorities of Coclise County, A.
T., on the 9Th offered q reward of $500 for
the capture of Geronimo, dead or alive,
and the citizens of Tombstone promised
$3.50 for every Apache scalp brought into
that town.
THE issue of standard silver dollars from
the minis during the week ended on the
Sd was S621, 12o. The issue during the cor
responding period of last year was S491,99S.
GEORGE THOMPSON, who, q few months
ago, cut with a razor Lucy Lawton, a
beautiful girl, at Cleveland, ~disfiguring
her for life, was sentenced on the 9th to
twenty years in the penitentiary.
, The threatened strike of street-car en-
ployes at st. Louis for shorter working
hours was inauguratel on the 9th, three
fourths of tue men taking part.
THE Grand Jury at Green River, Wy.
r., after an Investigation of the anti
Chinese riots at Rock Springs, adjourned
OH the 9th without returning any indict-
mcnts.
Tn New York Clearing House Associa-
ton held its thirty second annual meeting
OF the 9th, electing G. G. Williams, Presi-
dent of the Chemical National Bank, Pres
ident for the ensuing year. The total
transactions for the year ended September
80 reached SO, 54G, Jag, G92-a daily average
of $S1, 036, $50.
AT Utica, N. Y, on the 9th Mrs. Druse
was sentenced to be hanged November %.
Last December, aided by her children, she
murdered her husband in Warren, N. Y,
and cut up and buried his remains.
THE Piegan, Crow and Cheyenne Indi-
ans in Montana We're reported on the 9th
to be on the war-path, and were killing
cattle and burning buildings.
THE Post-office Department at Washing
ton Oh the 9th received a number of re-
ports from postnnasters as to the first
three days working of the special de-
livery service. The reports showed hat
the system was receiving support, and in
Dictated that it would be fairly successful.
THE transfer to the United States Treas
ury of the $40, 400, 900 in silver brought
from New Orleans by the steamships Swa-
tara and 1antic was completed on the 18th.
WHILE mixing mortar a few days ago
stricken with paralysis, and falling into a
bed of hot lime was burned to death.
MRS. WILLIAM McCLUsKY, of Urbana,
o., poisoned herself and babe with NOR
phine the other night, the husband finding
both in bed, arrayedi in their best clothing.
A g named Huntley was lynched
the other day near Tuckerman, Ark, for
a riminal assault upon a young lady.
~ PITTSBURGH celebrated on the 7th the
opening of the Davis Island dam, which
has been seven years in construction and
cost &, 1000, 600.
EIGHT Italians, two of them! women,
were arrested at Washington on the It'll
for passing couuterfeitacoin.
A STATEMENT prepared at the Treasury
Department in Washington shows that
the amount Of standard dollars put into
circulation during the month of Septem-
Der in the regular course of business was
81, 000,0 00.
SEVERAL riots occurred in st. Louis on
the Sth owing to the strike of the street,
car employees. Cars We're smashed and
numerous persons were injured, some ia
tally.
The NeW England Homestead reports the
Eastern potato crop as fully one-third be-
low the average of last year, and smaller
in size.
UPON returning from the Jerome Park
races to New York City on the Sth Mr.. w.
H. Stedecker left his pocket-book, con-
tanning $4,000, on a seat in q car, and had
seen nothing of it since.
NEARLY all the glass manufacturers in
New York, Pennsylvania and the New En-
gland States We're closed on the Sth, ow-
ing to the strike of the employees for high
er wages.
Snow fell for three hours on the Sth at
Ringtown, Pa, aud ice formed an inch
thick.
FIVE white men and two Indians who
were engaged in the recent nti-Chinese
riot near Seattle, w. T., were indicted on
the Sth for murder in the first degree.
l. MISS ARABELLA KENTNER, of Williams
port, Pa, in a suit for breach of promise,
recovered 100000 u few days ago from
Lewis Zaner, the Sheriff Of the county.
AT Lafayette, Ind, August 26 last Miss
Amanda Sturgis accidentally swallowed
a needle. Within a few days her left
knee had caused her intense pain, and on
the sth she applied for relief to u physi-
clan, who extracted the needle from the
suffering limb.
> CLARENCE CLARK, formerly a wealthy
business man Of Bellefoute, Pa, COM
mitted suicide a few days ago, and on the
Sth his widow, once the belle Of Belle
fonte, took her own life at Williamsport,
in that State. The unfortunate couple
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