Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-04
OF THE week.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.


: 1r was discovered on the 18th that Coun.
ty Treasurer William Geilker, of Column.
bus, Bartholomew County, Ind, was q de-
faulter in the sum of $4,000.
DURING a fit of coughing on the 18th
Mrs. ]. S. Lantz, of Logan, O., swallowed
her false teeth and was choked to death.
EXPORTS of merchandise from New
York during the seven days ended on the
18th were valued at $5,44s,3S1.
THREE dead bodies wers on the 11th
taken from the ruins of the burned oat-
meal mill at Leavenworth, Kan.
Two BROTHERS named Pond were at
tackled The other evening and killed by an
Infatuated bull, which they We're leading
to their farm near st. Paul, MINI.
A NUMBER of miners were suffocated by
gas on the 18th in a colliery at Macana-
qua, Pa, the disaster being caused by the
breaking of the engine which supplied the
mine with air. At a late hour in the even
ing seventeen dead bodies had been dis
covered.
The General Land Office at Washington
had on the 18th specific knowledge of the
illegal inclosure of nearly 100000 acres of
the public domain, and estimated that not
less than ten million acres in addition
were illegally Enclosed.
d KANSAS CITY was visited on the 18th by
a heavy rain-storm, which flooded many
cellars and caused the collapse of two
brick buildings. A tornado in Hancock
County, Ohio, inflicted serious damage
upon crops, and destroyed a large amount
of property.
The two daughters and a son of q plant
er named Vandermere, living near Dallas,
Tex, were burned to death on the 18th by
the explosion of a can of kerosene which
they were using to start q fire.
The Secretary of the Illinois Millers'
Association, who has made a tour of Mis-
souri, and Kansas, stated on the 18th that
the quantity of wheat in those States was
smaller and the quality poorer than re-
ported.
The Couch Oklahoma colony at Cald-
well, Kan, was disbursing on the 18th,
Captain Couch Interpreting the present
action of the Administration as the in
auguration of a movement which will lead
to the opening of Oklahoma in the near
future.
MRS. ANNIE CORY, of Lowell, Mass, at
tempted to light her fire with kerosene on
the 18th while holding her six-months- old
baby in her arms. The can exploded, and
both mother and child were fatally burned.
A HEAVY bank caved in on the 18th at
the Government works on the canal at
Louisville, KY, by which three men were
fatally injured.
ONE man was killed and four others
were fatally injured on the 18th by the
explosion of two boilers at q colliery at
Shenandoah, Pa.
The population of Massachusetts, based
on returns received for the census of 1885,
is 100000, a gain of 100000 since 1890.
A FIRE On the 18th in the yards of the
Sturtevant Lumber Company at Cleveland,
O., destroyed property valued at 500, 900.
= A TREE fell on three men named Low
cry, johnson and Morgan, in Wayne
County, No., a few days ago and killed
them all.
1T was announced on the 10Th that no
extension would be granted by the Presi-
dent of the forty days allowed cattlemen
to get out of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe
reservations, except to such as made an
effort to comply with the terms of his
order in good faith.
. IA GNnAc NY CAOuc t1SlUcu IL Village O1
Norwood, st. Lawrence County, New
York, on the afternoon of the 18th, killing
eight persons, injuring many others, and
destroying a vast mount of property.
=, THE Greenwood Iron Works, at New
burg, N. Y, shut down on the 18th, owing
to financial embarrassments. The liabili-
ties were stated to be about 100000.
In a collision with riotous strikers on
the 18th at Bay City, Mich, Sheriff Bren-
nan was wounded in the head. Nine of
the mob were arrested.
IT was said on the 18th that the defense
of Maxwell, the alleged killer of c. Arthur
Preller, at st. Louis, would be that no
murder was committed, and that the body
found in the trunk was a subject obtained
from a medical college.
NINETY young ladies from various cities
in the country and Europe took the veil on
the 18th at the Mallinckrodt Convent, near
Wilkesbarre, P.
THE immediate delivery" system,
authorized by the last Congress, will be
put into operation October l at post offices
in all cities and towns having a population
of four thousand or over, as shown by the
last Federal census.
HE mystery attached to the recent MUIR
der of A. L. Herrick, a prom nent mer-
chant of Brooklyn, N. Y, was cleared up
On the 18th by the confession of Thomas j.
Armstrong, his stepson, that he did the
shooting, claiming to lave acted in self
defense.
THE family of Daniel Abagh, Jr., near
New Philadelphia, O., were poisoned on
the 18th by eating toad-stools. One boy
died and four other persons were in a crit
ical condition.
ADvIcEs of the 10Th say that the recent
storm year Tiffin, O., cut q swath forty
rods wide, leveling trees, fences and grain
to the ground. Several barns in Seneca
County were struck by lightning, horses
killed and grain and barns burned.
WHEAT in Minnesota, north of st. Paul,
was on the 18th reported to be damaged by
blight and insects, and south of st. Paul
by hot weather and storms. Corn in the
same territory was doing we'll
DAVID HuNToN, who shot and killed
Samuel Smiley, his cousin, in the Chicka-
saw nation, was captured on the 18th and
slein by friends of his victim.
JOHN GATE, a farmer, aged seventy
years, living near Missouri City, Mo-, was
found early on the morning of tho 18th