Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-11
EP|TOME OF the WEEK.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

a GREAT cavern occurred Il le" udyS =
over the old workings of the Laurel Hill
mine. near Hazlcton. Pa. The hole made
was three hundred feet in diameter. Two
railroad sidings and a dozen coal cars, to-
gether with "a large ~dwelling-house, went
down.
JAMES K. GEE. while skating on Floyd
Lake. near Detroit, Mimi, the other day
broke through the ice and was drowned
He leaves q wife and nine children.
SEVEN persons in the family of Rev, John
Gillian were seriously injured, three prob
ably fatally, by horses running away on
the 10Th at Dorristown, Tenn.
EIGHT busines buildings at Butler, Nd,
were destroyed by fire on the 10th. Loss,
100000.
TIE issue of standard silver dollars from
the minis during the week ended on the
18th was 62S, 1l7; during the corresponding
period last year, 4iS.99l.
A CORRECTED report on the 10th Shove
that SIS residences at Galveston were de-
stroycd by the recent fire, and that the loss
was fully 81. sos, 900.
FoRTY-Two Shoe factories at Broclton,
Mass, were closed on the 10th in conse-
quence of the ~lasters' strike.
TIE Chief of the Bureau of Statistics re-
ported on the 10Th that the value of the
total exports Of beef and pork products for
the twelve months ended October 81 was
over SS6, 600, $50, being all increase of nearly
S2.6O0,000 as compared with the previous
year.
A billiard contest for the championship
of the world commenced in Chicago on the
10th between Slosson, Schaefer and Vignuux.
Ir was reported on the 10th that the
Tongue River Indians, in Montana, were in
Il starving condition.
About two months ago. in Harlan and
Knox Counties, Kentucky, twcnty-nine
moonshiners We're arrested by II. w. Rog-
crs, a Deputy Marshal, and most of them
are now serving sentences. A few even
ings ago Rogers was fatally wounded by a
ball fired through his bedroom window in
Harlan village.
TWELVE townships in Finncy and Foli
Counties, kan,, Were swept over by Il
prairie fire Il few days ago. Several head
of cattle persisted in the flames, and fences
and outbuildings We're destroyed.
a FIR: which broke out in Il coal-mine
three months ago near Shenandoah, Pa,
and has been burning ever since, was be-
coming very threatening on the 18th, and
renewed efforts We're being made to eX-
tinguish the flames.
TIE business portion of the village of
HaZlehurst, Miss. was destroyed by fire on
the 18th. Loss, $780, 0O, with little insur-
ance.
TIE annual report of Acknowledgement
Sheridan, issued on the 18th, shows that at
the date of the last consolidated returns
the United States army consisted of 2,154
officers and a. 105 men.
TIE houses of William Bryant and
Woodfort Ash, in Bullitt County, KY,
were set on fire on the 18th by burglars,
who secured 81 900 at each place. A lad in
the former residence was cremated.
Tile Catholic Protectorate, q school for
boys at Glencoe, near st. Louis, was burned
on the 18th. Loss, $4,000.
IN a coal mine near Pomeroy, O., a fall
of slate the other night killed two men and
dangerously injured two others.
AS THE result of a quarrel over forty
cents Mortimer Cockerell shoe and killed
his brother George on their farm near Law
renee, Kan, Oh the 18th.
REPORTS Of the 18th indicated that the
fall wheat sown in Indiana. Michigan
and Ohio was slightly greater, and in Hi
inois. Missouri and Kansas somewhat less,
than was sown last autumn.
O~vEHTAXATloN caused the National Bank
of Plankington, d. H., to go into liquidation
on the 18th. Depositors and stockholders
would be paid in full.
In the Colby mine, on the shore of Lake
Superior, four men were killed on the 18th
by the fall of q large section of ore.
On & bet of $3.50, three carTier-pigeons
were turned loose at st. Louis on the 18th
for Crystal City, to make thirty miles in
half All hour. The first bird was two min.
utes late.
TIE dynarniters who attempted to de.
stroy street-cars in ST. Louis were leading
members Of Cleveland Assembly knights
of Labor. The charter of the lodge was re.
voked on The ltlh.
a NOVEL exhibition, consisting of thou
sands of crazy-quilts, opened in New York
on the 18th.
SUICIDES were reported on the 18th as fol
lows: II. L. Smith, at Butte City, NJ. 7.
Reinhardb Ramp, at st. Louis, Mo, anC
Oliver p. Terry and Mrs. Thomas Casey, Al
Middletown, n. Y.
TIE discovery was made on the 18th that
thousands of Michigan soldiers had been
swindled out of bounties through forged
assignments, pulporting to be duly signed
and witnessed.
THE annual reporton the 18th of the Chief
of the Bureau of Statistics shows that the
United States Stands fourth in the list OF
nations in respect to foreign
Great Britain leading, Germany SECOND
and France third. The total value Of oul
foreign trade during the last fiscal year was
&l.547. 020, BIG.
AT q hamlet in West Virginia, the arrival
OF the Eth of several thousand dollars fol
arrears of pension started a fight in q fam.
lily bearing the name Of Drake. and the old
xnan dropled dead from heart-disease be.
fore he had touched the currency.
WHILE repairing a furnace on the 18th at
JohEstown, Fa., j. &. Smith. being over
come by gas, fell into the red-hot recep-
tacle. In attempting a rescue seventeen
men were rendered unconscious by the gas
and had to be dragged away to places of
safety.
TIE explosion OF q tank of oil on the 18th
i'll a refinery at Philadelphia caused the
death of four men aud the fatal wounding
of three other persons.
JOHN Z. WErIEEBEE, a prominent mem
Der of the Suffolk County (,Massachusetts)
bar, committed suicide in his office at Bos-