Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-03
ePITOME OF THE WEEK.
Interesting News Compilation.
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DOMESTIC.
NEAR Denison, Ia, four persons were
drowned a few days ago, two of them in
attempting the rescue of a family who,
with their wagon and horses, were swept
away while crossing a swollen stream.
DURING the month of May the aggregate
loss by fire in the United States aud Can
ada was S $4,000.
In portions of Michigan land Wisconsin
heavy frosts were reported on the morning
Of the 9th.
SEVERAL business houses ut Syracuse,
N. Y, were destroyed by. fire IN tho 9th,
causing a loss of 100000. Two men lost
their lives in the co~nf1agration.
THE cotton-worm appeared on the 9th
In alarming numbers in Texas and Indian
Territory, and was committing extensive
favages.
AT the annual meeting Of the trustees of
the Chicago University on the 9th a report
was made by the committee appointed to
consider the present financial embarrass.
ment of the university, recommending that
\ subscription-list be opened to obtain
money for the payment Of the debt. The
report was favorably received.
ACCORDING to the June report Of the
State Department of Agriculture, issued
On the 9th, the coming winter. wheat crop
In Illinois viii be the poorest on record.
The yield was estimated at less than TO-.
100000 bushels.
Is The number of immigrants who arrived
at the leading ports in this country during
May last was 1856. For the eleven months
the total arrivals were 343,4S9, against
@54,26 for the corresponding period of 1884.
SAN and Eli Dyer, two cattle thieves,
were k from Jail at Bonham, Tex, a
few days 6 and lynched. The Dyers
murdered a Sheriff and deputy last May.
DANGEROUS counterfeit of a two dollar
note Of the Dominion Bank of Canada made
its appearance at Detroit, Mich, on the
9th.
The Agricultural Bureau at Washington
ON the 10th estimated the yield of wheat
this year at 36O, 100000 bushels-2O7, 00O, 900
bushels of winter and 1853, 900, 900 bushels of
spring wheat.
= WHILE suffering from delirium tremens
the other day Joseph Rensen, a saloon.
keeper at Newport, R. l., blew up his place
of business with powder, and was horribly
mangled in the debris, which was thrown
in all directions, injuring half a dozen per.
sons.
REPORTS submitted on the 10th to the
Conference of Charities and Corrections
at Washington showed that the Juvenile
reformatories of the country represented
an investment of $4,000, 900, and had eleven
thousand inmates.
JUDGE BREWER, of the United States
Court, has rendered a decision holding
that Joseph F. Glidden was the original
inventor of the barbed-wire fence.
The Iowa State Board of Health has
prohibited public funerals of persons who
die from smallpox, scarlet fever or diph-
liberia.
EZRA HERRING, an express messenger,
was arrested on the 10th at Troy, N. Y,
for stealing 10000 in bonds and cash from
the National Express Company. The
bonds were recovered, and Herring con-
fessed the crime.
HARLOW, SPENCER & Co., a st. Louis
grain and commission firm, failed recently
for 100000.
W. A. DANIELS, q mounted Inspector of
Customs, has been murdered by Apaches
near Bisbee, A. T. Public officials at Tomb
stone on the 10th forwarded an appeal for
help to the President.
A HEAVY frost was reported on the morn.
1ng OF the 10th along the line of the Illinois
Central Road in Iowa, doing great damage
to vegetation.
AT Bay Horse, in Idaho, Henry Perkins,
ayoung man aged thirty-three years, shot
his wife on the 10th in a jealous rage and
then blew out his own brains.
The entire family of William King, a
printer, of Clifton, Staten Island, were
poisoned on the 10th by eating canned
corn. One child died and the remainder of
the family were in a precarious condition.
The twenty.seventh annual commence
ment exercises of the University of Chi
eago were held at Central Music Hall on
the 10th. Degrees were conferred upon
dfty-one persons.
The Secretary of the Treasury on the
10th issued an order repeating the existing
regulations governing the importation and
disinfection of rags, but Collectors of Gus
toms are instructed to enforce the State or
City laws on the subject.
A TUNNEL caved in on the 18th on a con-
struction train on the Cincinnati Southern
Road, near New River, Tenn, and six per.
sons were killed and twenty others were
wounded.
= The Apaches IN the 18th killed four SOL
diers in Guadalupe Canyon, and a Mexican
near Bisbee, Arizona, in the MILESTONE
Mountains. The reported outbreak among
the Southern Utes was denied by the In
dian agent at their reservation.
i DURING a thunder storm a few DAVIS APO
at Lincoln, N. j., two young men took ref
'uge under a tree, which was struck by
lightning, and both men were killed.
In an affray recently at a camp. meeting
In York County, s. c., one negro was
killed, two fatally injured and a score seri-
ously wounded.
The Attorney General at Washington
has decided that the capitation tax levied
under the immigration act must be COL
lected every time that an alien passenger
comes into the United States.
TIKI Land Commissioner at Washington
on the Nth issued an order FORGETTING the
bulk of the alleged fraudulent Maxwell
land grant. This throws open to public
entry over 1900, 900 acres.