Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-20

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551; total, $54. 237 $3.50. TIL number of sill
yer dollars distributed by the mints dur
lug the year was 20,S73,625. The total
amount of coin and bullion in the country
| July /, 1885, was estimated at 1892, 5O0,518.
THE strike of shoemakers at Beverly,
Mass, came to an end on the Doth, and
over two thousand men resumed work.
THE total expenses Of the diplomatic
service for the fiscal year ended June 80
last were $40, 249. For the same period
the Consular service cost $50, 1873.
A FIRE at New Hartford, Conn.,, a few
days ago destroyed newspaper office and
other buildings, valued at $4,000.
The barn belonging to Hon. r. r. Greer,
of Lanesboro, Mimi, was burned the other
day, and his ten-year-old son persisted in
the flames.
AN explosion occurred on the propeller
Myles at Duluth, Mimi, the other after
noon, killing the first and second engi-
neers, Thomas Hickey and William
Rooney, besides badly damaging the ves-
sci.
GENERAL MILES, commanding the De-
partment of the Missouri, with head
quarters at Fort Leavenworth, received
information on the 29th that about four
thousand we'll armed and equipped men
were on their way to Oklahoma under the
leadership of Captain Couch. These new
boomers announced their intention to stay,
and fight, if necessary, for possession of
the coveted lands.
EowAnp s. RArN, an employee of the
National Metropolitan Bank of Washing
ton, on the 10Th ~uls.-A~ss %As,vvv -wni1o~ ON
the street. Balm claimed to nave been
robbed.
TIL other night a Wagner sleeper on
the Bee Line was raided west of Indian
apolis and $500 stolen from the passen-
gers by robbers, who got off the train at
Indianapolis. The passengers were chlo-
reformed.
SENATOR STANFORD, of California, has
given three immense ranches, valued at
s, $500, 900, for the endowment of a uni
versity and schools about to be erected at
Palo Alta.
THE Land Commissioners Mt Washington
on the Goth ult. rendered a decision which
restores to the public domain a tract in
California claimed by the Atlantic g. Pa
cific Road equal in size to the Stat of
Massachusetts.
FRANCIS L. WHITE, q member of the
Boston Common Council, was arrested on
the 30th ult. for embezzling $4,000.
DAVID G. AND w. r. JOHNSTON, special
agents for the Louisiana Lottery at Gin
%cinnati, were convicted a few days ago of
using the mails for distributing lottery
advertisements.
A CHICAGO "drummer'' named Maxwell,
while eating oysters at Lafayette, Ind,
the other night, discovered q pearl of the
alleged value of 5000.
GEORGE KILLER was hanged at Grand
Forks, d. T., on the 30th ult., for MURDER
ing O Mrs. Smell and her child last Janu-
airy.
The eleventh annual convention of the
National Woman's Christian Temperance
Union convened in Philadelphia on the
30th ult.
SIX laundry girls were terribly burned
by the explosion of a steam-drum in New
York City on the Goth ult.
The report of Adjutant General Drum
shows that 6,515 enlisted men of the United
States army are drawing increased pay
Cor periods of continuous service ranging
irom five to thirty-tive years.
A EA1N-sToRM OF eighteen hours dura.
ton had on the 3oth ult. caused floods in
the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, more
water falling than in the two previous
years. Near Lexington % trestle col.
lapsed under a train, the engineer and
fireman being killed, but the passengers
escaped. The rivers were rising rapidly,
and merchants on the water front at
Richmond were moving out.
A MINING machine, which can perform
the work of several men, has been placed
in Watson's shaft, in the Pittsburgh dis.
trict, and n number Of miners lave beer
discharged. ".7
JESSE w. JONES, aged sixteen, who
robbed two stage-coaches, was recently
sentenced at Graham, Tex, to ten wears
in the Chester (Ill.) Penitentiary.
ADvICES of the 30th ult. to Bradstreet'.
from various business centers indicated
no general improvement in trade through
out the country, excepting in iron and
steel.
THERE were 1911 business failures in the
United States and Canada during the seven
days ended in the 30th, ult., against 10
the previous seven days. The distribu.
tion was as follows: Middle States, 80:
New England States, 80; Western, 4s;
Southern, 80; Pacific States and Terrific
ries. "a. CANADA 81