Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-17
OF THE week.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

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ments for friends caused the disaster.
: The residence of w. D. Brimmer, ut
Dayton, Mimi, was burned Il few nights
ngo,a and a three-year- old girl persisted in
the flames.
A CYCLONE swept over Sulphur Springs,
Tex, a few days ago, destroying two
churches, unroofing several other build
ings and uprooting trees, while fencing in
cvery direction was blown down and crops
in the Immediate vicinity of the to wn were
badly torn up. No lives We're lost.
THE National Council of Bishops Of the
African Methodist Episcopal Church met
in annual session at Columbus, o., on the
23d. The Bishops and ministers present
represented 100000 communicates, $500
travelling preachers, 100000 Sabbath-school
children, 1900 Sabbath schools, 10 COL
leges, 25 parochial schools and $4,000, 900
worth OF property.
A L passed over Hendrysburg,
Belmont County, o., on the evening of the
23d, destroying buildings, fences, orchards,
etc, and doing immense damage to crops.
No lives were lost.
IT was reported on the o3d that negotia-
lions were contemplated having in view
the annexation of the Sandwich Islands to
the United States.
y LARGE numbers of hogs in the vicinity
of Lebanon, Pa, were on the 23d dying of
a strange disease known az ~"breining."
AT a meeting of the alumni of Vale Col
lege on the 23d a resolution was adopted
In favor of changing the name Of the insti-
tuition to Yale University.
IT was announced on the 23d that the
revenue of the Government for the current
fiscal year would be S10,O0o,0O below the
estimates. The surplus would be about
$4,000 900.
ESTRAwBERR1Es sold at from two to six
cents per quart at Albany, N. Y, on the
23d, the days receipts a~ggregating 60, 900
'quarts-the largest on record.
b AN epidemic of CHAMBERS among horses,
which had been communicated to cats and
dogs, was raging on the 23d at Knoxville,
ia suburb of Pittsburgh, Pa.
A SENTENCE of ten years. imprisonment
and a fine of $500 was passed on the 23d
upon G. A. Buddenseik, the New York
builder, some Of whose structures collapsed
in April, killing one man and injuring
Others.
TWENTY families in Rock Island, ILL.,,
were poisoned on the 23d by eating canned
beef. Some Of the victims were seriously
ill.
INVENT THOUSAND veterans were in line
on the 23d in the G. A. R.. at Portland,
Me-, and 100000 persons witnessed the
parade.
A wATERspouT on the 23d inflicted much
damage upon buildings and crops in New
ark, O., and vicinity.
SEVEN cases of suicide were reported on
the 23d in various portions of the State of
New York.
! ANOTHER Maryland wife -beater, Henry
"a. Myers, was given twenty lashes at Bal
timore on the Path.
ROBERT Phillips, a colored laborer of
Indianapolis, married three months, cut his
,wife's throat, and then his own, on the
Gath. Jealousy caused the tragedy.
FIVE HUNDRED lndiansi in Southern Colo
RADIO We're on the oath reported as about
taking the w~ar-path. Army officials at
Washington attributed the outbreak Of the
Southern Cheyennes to dissatisfaction at
the leasing of their reservation to CATTLE
men.
p A q boiler in q grist-mill at Mo-
bile, Ala. exploded the other day, killing
five colored employees.
REPORTED discoveries of gold on the oath
near Huntington, Ore, excited much in
:terest OH the Pacific slope.
AT the commencement exercises on the
Path at Harvard College degrees were con-
tferred upon ISL members OF the class of 'S5.
THE Roman Catholic Union Of the
knights Of st. John, q uniformed benov-
client and religious organization extend
ing all over the United States, commenced
its seventh annual convention in Chicago
on the 24th.
Two E were killed and six others
were seriously injured in a recent collision
or the Wabash Road, near st. Louis.
CORNELIUS 3. D~EMAREsT, an extensive
carriage manufacturer of New Haven,
Conn, cut his throat from ear to ear a few
days ago while laboring under on attack
of temporary insanity.
r. In his address to the Grand Army of the
Republic at Portland, Me-, on the oath,
!Comnander-in-chief Kountz stated that
-four years ago there was a membership of
nearly 10000. On March 81, 1884, thirty
EIGHT departments reported 5,026 posts and
2G9,Gs4 members, whilo the rerort of the
Adjutant-Genera shows the membership
to be 2S7,G37. The large number of 81, g292
reported by the Adjutant-G General as sus-
pended during the year is due in great
measure to the negligence and inet1iciency
of post officers. "Our finances" the Com
mand@'-in-chief continued, "are in excel
lent condition. We have on hand a cash
balance CT $15,224." It was decided to
hold the next encampment at San Fran
cisco,.California, guaranteeing 500, 5000.
+: THREE brothers named Wolf were ar
rested on the 25th at Scottdale, Pa., on a
charge OF counterfeiting. A large amount
of counterfeiting material was found in
their possession.
+. II imports of merchandise during the
twelve months ended May 81 aggregated
in value $3.50, 3337. 633, and the exports $747,-
O31,3S6, the former being a decrease of $780,
99S,15S and the latter an increase of $780,
b43 as compared with the preceding twelve
months.
ANDREW ANDERSON, treasurer Of West
Hoboken, N. j., was on the 25th said to be
short $50 900 in his accounts.
THE aquatic contest of the freshman
Crews Of Harvard and Columbia Colleges
occurred at New London, Conn, on the
2otia, Harvard winning easily by ten
lengths.
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