Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-18
EPlT0HHE OF THE week.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

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flames.
by the fall of q derrick on the list in an
iron-worls at Wheeling, w. Va, ono man
was killed and three others fatally injured.
Another man was killed by the parting of Il
cable III 4 hlast-furnace
AT Lancaster, o., on the 1St tho clothing
of Ella English caught fire from a crate
and she was burned to death.
DQNALp STUART, aged twelve years, son
of Dr.. George y. Stuart, of Schenectady,
n. Y, took poison on the LIST. after being
udmonished for some boyish fault, and
died in ten minutes.
JOSEPH H~oSpowIrCH. teller of the Farm
ers' National Bank OF Mansfield, o., alb
seconded to Canada on the lst, taking with
him $1,000 of the banks funds.
AT the State Creek Iron Mines, near
Olympia, Ky, an explosion on tho LIST
Wounded eight men, four of them fatally.
The eyes Of ono of the victims were blown
ont.
THE annual report of the Postmaster
General, issued on the list, shows thai the
total revenue of the Post-of1ice Department
during the last fiscal year was So, 800, S43,
and the total expenditures *lA,Go2 lSS, leav-
ing a cash deficiency of s7,O41,345, due to
the decrease of revenues and the increase Of
expenditures. The number OF post-otfices
is 31,2252, and of m~oney-ordar Offices 1855.
THE County Clerk of Westchoster Ccun-
ty, n. Y, absconded on the LIST, but took no
public funds. He owes various persons
$4,000.
AT Enfield, Me. on the LIST Ed Whitney
shot his wife twice, but not fatally. He
then shot himself through the heart. dying
instantly. They had been married only
three weeks and she had left him.
AJuEY at Elmira, n. Y, on the list con-
victed Mrs. Eusibia Fitzgerald of robbing
the grave Of General Irvine.
II coinage executed at the minis dur
ing November was Si,653, $50, of which So
100000 was in standard silver dollars.
THE first snowstorm in the South this
season fell on tho ed along the line of the
Wilmington & Weldon Railroad, in Vir-
ginia.
Two named Laclair were
drowned while skating on the I'd near
.Anoka, MINI.
TWELVE pickpockets who went to Indian
apolis during Vice-President Hendricks
funeral were arrested on the I'd for robbing
persons and houses.
B1RDsALL's planing-mills at Bay City,
Mich, We're destroyed by fire on the 2d, the
loss reaching sl5o,oO0.
ADvIcEs Of the I'd say that the Apaches
had murdered five more whites in Arizona,
and the settlers were panic-striken.
TIE ST. Louis fast express train on the
Erie Road was wrecked on the % near Scio
Station, N. Y, and fire breaking out, two
cars were consumed, The engineer was
killed and the passengers badly shaken up.
TIE striking glass-workers of Pittsburgh,
after & year Of idlcness, compromised on
the I'd on a reduction of ten per cent. in
wages.
A BOY named Adams, aged thirteen
years, was frozen to death in the mount
aims Of Cambria County, Pa, q few days
ago.
THE internal revenue statistics for the
year ended May l, 1885, show that during
toe year 1926, $50 barrels of beer were sold
in the United States, an increase of 1853, So4
barrels over the previous year.
FOREST fires south of Little Rock, Ark,
were raging on the I'd, and had destroyed
large tracts of valuable timber and several
lfalm-hoUses.
THE two Best boys, sons Of the man who
killed seven persons and always escaped
punishment, were acquitted at Lancaster,
Ky, on the I'd, Of the murder of a colored
man.
THE public-debt statement issued on the
I'd makes the following exhibit: Total
debt Gncluding interest of s1l ,S53, 0SS),
81 ,2s72, 63l, 700; cash in Treasury, s4SS, G57,-
1E; debt, loss amount i'll Treasury, 81 .452.-
r544, 166. Increase during November. s4,Ss7,-
,19S. Decrease, since June 30, 1854, sos, $685.
1882.
JAMES GUEESHuCu, a popcorn vender in
Nh, rr> ,-,c ~, tla OIL .>,+,,.,l b. 500
prisonment for twenty-five years for as
'saulting two little girls named Lawrence.
THE Commissioner OF indian Affairs sub
mitted his annual report on the Cd for the
fiscal year ended June 30. He looks to aeri-
culture as the chief means available for
-civilizing the red man. There are at pres
sent in the United States, exclusive of
Alaska, $4,000 Indians, 1900 being civil
lied.
A COLLISION between Baltimore & Ohio
freight trains on the I'd near Washington,
Pa. caused the death of Conductor Rider
and Engineer Snyder, while four other
persons We're badly injured.
MARSHALL CLEMENTS was hanged at Sa-
Nguache, Col, on the 3D. for the murder of his
brother and sister-in-law, Thomas and Susie
Clements.
- VOC i'lDA oi II ~ tuip W. lucIl
Cheyenne Indians were in u starving con-
,dition.
A NEW comet was observed on the night
tof the Sd at Harvard College observatory,
Boston, by Mr.. Wendell.
TIE wheat crop Of California this year is
estimated at 100000 tons, the largest
known in the history of the State.
A FIRE on the Sd in the WEIGH clock fac
tory at Forestville, Conn, did damage to
the extent of 800 900.
a STEAM tug exploded at New York on
the Sd, the crew of six men being killed.
The glass in the windows for squares
around was shattered.
AN advance of one dollar per ton on pig
metal and fifty cents on ore was reported
on Che third from Pittsburgh, on account Of
the steadiiy-inclcasing demand.
News reached Washington on the 81 that
& tilibustcring expedition was fitting out at
Key West, Fla, with a view to a descent
on C1ba.
THE rcveuze collected from leading post
Offices for the five p.cnths ended December
], 1883, was: Now York. St3. a5%; Chicago.
SIS 800: IjliludAiphia. $3l,aJa; Boston. SOB