Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-09
OF THE WEEK.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

hIltcllIlS III DEuyeTs was hllleu OH lle lDuH
by John Beale, one of the posse which had
been securing the woods in search of him.
THOMAS HYLANa. a Columbus CO.. po-
liceman, while in a jealous fit IN the 18th
murdered his wife and then shot himself
Two MEN were fatally injured u few
days ago by the bursting of a tly-wheel in
a G~reenvilie (Pa.) rolling-mill.
AN express train on the Kentucky Cen
trail Railroad was wrecked on the 10Th
near Lexington, KY, the engineer and
fireman being killed and many persons in
jured.
The Willowdale Company, a Boston
corporation engaged in the manufacture
of blankets at Meriden, Conn, failed on
the 10th, with liabilities of S4oo,o 900.
THE 950th anniversary of the settlement
of bingham, Mass, was celebrated on the
18th at that town with appropriate exer-
cises.
THE New York Produce Exchange on
the 18th figured the visible supply of wheat
at a., o4S, 200 bushels, and Of corn at 7,153,-
4G3 bushels.
THE bodies of about three hundred
Cinnamon, supposed to have been gath
cred from cemeteries in all parts of Cali
fornia, We're discovered on the 18th in a
a Francisco cellar, where they were
beinglprepared by fellow-countrymen for
shipment to the Flowery kingdom.
The Treasury Department at Washing
ton on the 18th purchased 100000 ounces
of silver for delivery at the New Orleans
and Philadelphia mints for coinage into
standard dollars.
The Chief of the Bureau Of Statistics at
Washington reports that the total value of
beef, pork and daily products exported
during the eight months ended August 81,
1885, were $6i,217,51G, against $62, 90 ,275
Tor the similar period of 1884.
THE Dauphin County (Pa.) centennial
celebration took place at Harrisburg Oh
the 18th.
THE twenty-seventh annual convention
of the Independent Order of Red Men Of
the United States was held at Washing
ton, d. c., on the 18th. N~inety-two out Of
one hundred and eleven tribes were repre-
sented.
WHILE attempting on the 18th to rescue
their brother from Imprisonment at Ow-
ingsville, KY, James and Moses Ballard
were shot dead by officers.
Fox & Co.'s g~lass-works at Durham
vile, Oneida County, N. Y, were burned
ia eAS LOsH 4hCy VIlICC uSlcS
The loss was estimated at $l50,000.
IT is said the corn crop of Missouri will
be somewhat below the average for the
past five years, which has been 151, OOG, 900
bushels.
The seventeenth annual reunion of the
Society of the Army of the Cumberland
began at Grand Rapids, Mich, on the 10th,
Generel Sheridan presiding.
THE second race between the American
sloop Puritan and the English cutter Cen
esta, which was sailed on the 10th at New
York, twenty miles to windward and re-
turn from Scotland light-ship, was won
by the American sloop by about u quarter
of n mile in four hours, nine minutes
and fifteen seconds, and the international
championship cup will therefore remain
an this country.
A DECISION on the 10th by United States
Judge Brewer that $1,000 acres of land
held by the Kansas Southern Railroad
were legally Il part OF the public domain,
caused wild excitement in Southern Kan
sas. Farmers were flocking to Woodson
and Greenwood Counties, and were stalk
ing off claims, and some were building
shanties and breaking the sod.
FIVE indictments for illegal cohabitation
were returned on the 10th by the Federal
Grand Jury at Salt Lake City, and two
women h refused to testify were sent to
the penitentiary for contempt.
The mill buildings and 5000, 900 feet Of
lumber owned by the Southern Pump
Company, at Nashville, Tenn, were
burned on the 10th, entailing a loss of
$500, 0oO.
A FREIGHT train went through q bridge
on the 10Th near Charlotte, N. c., wrecking
twenty-three cars, killing two men and in
juring several others.
A MAN who robbed q banll of $500 at
Attica, n. Y, or the 10th, was caught
while escaping with his booty and handed
over to the police.
MAUDS S. has been retired from the turf,
for the season ut least, by her owner, Rob-
ert Bonner.
HAIL fell five miles south of Granite
Falls, Mimi, on the 10th, damaging farm
houses. Drifts of hail formed three feet
inches i'll circumference.
TIE Chinese Consuls located at San
Francisco left on the 10th for Rock
Springs, Wy. T., to investigate the recent
massacre of their countrymen at that
place.
THREE men who had recently wrecked
several trains on the Denver & Rio Grunde
Road by using giant-powder We're arrested
on the 18th near Denver. They We're dis
charged employees.
" DIR. ADELAIDE RICHARDSON, q teacher
of physics in Mount Holyoke (Mass.) Fee
male Seminary, and a popular physician,
committed suicide on the 18th. Temporary
Insanity, caused by over-study, was the
cause.
A COMPUTATION made at the Treasury
Department in Washington on the 18th
showed that the bullion value OF a stand
ard silver dollar according to the London
yates of silver is 70 ITO cents.
FIVE feet of track on the West
Shore Road, near Kingston, N. Y, sank
twenty feet on the 18th. Quicksand caused
the sinking. =
OWING to the long strike, nail dealers at
Pittsburgh, Pa, reported on the 18th the
supply smaller than in the past twenty
years, and claimed that an order for two
hundred kegs could not be filled in that
city.
ADvIcEs of the 18th state that during