Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-06-26

atoga, N. ", on the 4th, Rev. DR.. Edwin
Webb, of Boston, presiding.
GAS exploded in u mine near West Nam
ticoke, Pa, on the 4th, killing three men
and seriously i%njuring two others.
A IRE destroyed the shingle factory of
the North Buffalo p~laning-mill, at Buffalo,
n. Y, the other morning, causing a loss of
100000.
The Youngstown CO., section was swept
by a hail and rain storm on the evening of
the 4th, seriously damaging vegetation. A
rapid rise Of the streams caused floods,
which swept away fences and light struct-
ures.
A RUNAWAY team at Erie, Pa, injured
five persons so severely on the 4th that
only one OF them was expected to survive.
JOSEPH MCCAIN, a compositor on the
Herald, and Ira Somers, Il compositor on
the Ho1id, set type in New York on the
4th for a purse of $500. Mccain was the
victor, setting $3.50 TENS" in three hours
to Somers' 6,022. In the first hour the
Herald maj got W 2,123 Gems" beating
Arensberg's record of 2,0Gs.
THE Secretary of the Kansas State
Board of Agriculture states that of the
1,G13,229S acres of winter wheat sown, forty
per cent. has been plowed up, and the
ground seeded to other crops, and that the
product in the State will not exceed
1000, 900 bushels.
SANFORD SIsco was hanged on the 9TH
at Hackensack,tN. j., for the murder of
Ahram Gurne'; Joe Clark (colored) was
executed at Bolivar Turner, Tenn, for
killing Peter Wooten, and Foster Chase
and Robert Williams, both colored, were
hanged at New Orleans for killing Marie
Louise Provost.
AT Gudsell's Station, near Evansville,
Ind, on the 9Th John Butcher stabbed
James H. MINIS to death, and after emp
tying all the chambers, save one, of two
revolvers ut pursuers, blew out his brains
with the remaining bullet.
THE Indians on the 9TH raided Dinean
Station, on the Southern Pacific Road,
killed a man named Woods, and stole
twenty horses. Advices from General
Crook state that the Indians were still
moving South, and that the number of set
tiers Known to have been killed was severn
teen.
AN order from the Chief of Police closed
all the gambling houses in Chicago on the
9TH.
COMPLAINT was made on the 9th by the
New York State Board of Health that a
carload of hogs shipped to Fredonia from
Chicago, and sold in small lots, were af-
fiicted with cholera, and many of them
died.
BENJAMIN HELPK1N, a saloon.keeper at
No. 206 Fourth avenue, New York, shot his
wife fatally and then killed himself a few
days ago.
The Grotegout famiy-father, mother
and o daughters-living near Edwards.
port, Ind, We're found murdered on the
morning of the 9TH. 1t was supposed that
Grotegout, while insane, killed the women
and then committed suicide.
By an ingenious system of manipulation
of money orders the ~absconding postmas-
ter at Lewiston, Ore, Isaac Hibbs, has
swindled the National Treasury out of be.
tween $4,000 and $4,000. 1t was stated
on the 9TH that the robberies would neces-
state u change in them oney-order sys-
TEN.
AT the National Conference of Charities
and Corrections in Washington on the 5th
a delegate from Delaware reported the
whipping-post sill in general favor for
the punishment of petty offenses, and that
few culprits were fogged more than once.
j. H. AUFDEMoRTE, redemption clerk in
the sub-Treasury at New Orleans, who
was charged with a deficit of $$25, 343, dis
appeared on the 9th.
{ AN unusually heavy wind storm pre-
vailed on the 9th along the Atlantic coast
from New York to Petersburg, Va. MANY
houses We're unroofed and several fatal.
ties were reported
ADvIcEs of the 9TH to Brudstreet's
showed an increased depression in general
trade throughout the country.
In the United States and Canada there
were 1s7 business failures during the seven
days ended on the 9Th, against ISL the
previous seven days. The distribution was
as follows: Middle States, IS: New England
States, %; Western, Al; Southern, SO; Pa
citic States and Territories. IS; Canada, %.