Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-25
EP|TOME OF the WEEK.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

By an explosion of natural gas in n
bakery at Pittsburgh on the 31st ult., five
persons were terribly burned, two of them
fatally. The proprietors had recently IN
troduced the natural gas into their ovens.
DURING the tweve months ended July 81
the imports of merchandise into tho
United States we're valued at S511 ,439, 2l9,
and the exports at S17SS33, IS, 429.
ANOTHER heavy rain and Wind storm at
Charleston, s.. c., on the 1st caused dam
age to .ae extent of 100000.
A sNEAK-rH1EF entered the banking
bouse Of Bateman & Co. at Washington
on the LIST and stole S $1,000. There was no
clew to the robber.
DURlNGsa quarrcllat Jamaica, N. Y, on
the LIST between Ann Saukin, aged six
ty-five, and Rosie Barnum, aged seventy,
tho former hit the latter twice on the head
with an axe, inflicting fatal injuries.
ACTuATED by jealousy, George Curry
shot at his sweetheart, Susie Wescott, at
Red Bank, N. j., on the 1st, aud then killed
himself.
MORE than 100, 1000 cattle had up to the
1st been driven out of the Cheyenne md
Arapahoe reservations since the President
issued his proclamation. The number ro-
manning was estimated at from 60 1000 to
$4,000.
FROST was reported ut several points in
the Northwest on the 1st.
H strike of the glass-blowers at Balti-
more, which begun last winter, was ami
cably settled on the 1st.
DURING the eight months ended August
81 the receipts of all kinds of live stock at
the Chicago Stock-yards were greater by
~1,177,457 head than for the corresponding
period of last year.
NEW MEXIco's population, according to
the census just taken, is 131, 9S5, as against
1875 in 1880.
t. ALL the coal-miners at Shawnee and
New S~traitsville, o., struck on the 1st for
an advance in wages.
Co~TToN-MlLLs in Baltimore County, Md,
which had been idle for several months,
resumed operations on the LIST with sew
eral thousand employees.
THE New York Produce Exchange on
the LIST placed the visible supply of wheat
at 4,61U,459 bushels, and of corn G,S21, SSG
bushels.
WHILE sailing on the Potomac River on
the LIST, at Washington, a boat containing
John 7. Morgan, Jr., son of Senator Nor
SoAS VA Ahba11 o1A L oUCll1s
was upset by a squall, and both were
drowned.
BURGLARS the other night rifed the
post-ofiice and Blountz's drug store at La
Gro, Ind, and secured a large sum in cash,
postage stamps and jewelry.
The public-debt statement issued on the
1st makes the following exhibit: Total
debt INCLUDING interest of $40, 719, $3.50,
$ l,2G0, 776.912; cash in Treasury, 1892 O65,-
1923; debt, less amount in Treasury, $685.
711,5S3. Decrease during August, $780,
052. Decrease since June 80, 1854, $77,O3G,-
545.
THREE deaths resulted in one family on
the I'd at Shenandoah, Pa, from the eat
ing of toadstools, and a fourth victim was
not expected to survive.
The issue of standard silver dollars
from the mints during the seven DAYS
ended on the I'd was $517,4ss. The issue
for the corresponding period of last year
was $3.50 ,995.
CHINESE miners at Rock Springs, WY.
T., were raided by strikers on the I'd, and
during the ARRAY seven Cinnamon were
killed and many others wounded. Thirty
nine houses We're burned by the raiders.
AT Nevada, Mo-, Henry Stair and wife
were on the I'd convicted of the murder of
an old man and his young son several
weeks ago.
CONSIDERABLE damageto corn and vege-
tables was inflicted by frosts throughout
the Northwest on the night of tile LIST.
The Commissioner of the New Orleans
Exposition has set apart January 10, 20
and 81 next for a special convention of
persons interested in the improvement of
waterways of the United States.
Four masked nen boarded q Chicago &
Alton train at Blue Springs, Mo-, on the
Cd, robbed several of the passengers of
their money, and made their escape.
H striking coal miners in the Hooking
Valley, o., returned to work on the I'd.
DURING the races at Brighton Beach, N.
Y, on the I'd two jockies, Moran and Riv-
ers, were thrown from their horses and
killed.
A MASS of loose rock fell from the shaft
of a mine near Wilkesbalre, Pa, Oh the
Cd, and, striking a cage filled with work.
men, killed four of them and wounded six
others.
CHAUNcEY HoUGH, of Batavia, N. Y.
threw himself into the Niagara Rive near
the precipice a few days ago because Miss
4lduGlc oOOurlCu refused TO marry MIN,
and was carried over the falls.
j. ROMERO 81 Co., contractors. and stock
raisers at Las Vegas, N. NJ, failed on the
I'd for 100000.
CHARLES +. CLARK was arrested at Lin
coin, Neb., on the ID, for making counter
felt silver dollars. His tools and several
of the coins were captured.
EDMOND T. NAMES, a travelling sales
man., was robbed of one thousand dollars
and murdered at Mile Spring, Tenn, on
the I'd. A man named Lee Sellers was ar
rested for the crime.
Two LITTLE boys, George and John Zim-
merman, we're burned to death on the I'd
while playing with matches in a barn in
the rear of Henry Zimmerman's house at
Harlem, near Chicago.
A HAIL-SToRM on the I'd in Erie County,
Pa, destroyed crops and fruits and broke
the windows of every building in the path
of the storm, Hail fell to the depth of two
inches.
The cornerstone of the new Georgia
State-house was laid at Atlanta on the I'd
with appropriate ceremonies.
GENERAL NEWTON, Chief of Engineers,
U. S. A., estimates that an appropriation
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