Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-06-19
EP|TOME OF THE WEEK,
Interesting News Compilation
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
n. A. POWERS and wife, Of Osborne,
Kan, accompanied by another woman,
were drowned on the 26th while attempt
ing to cross a swollen stream.
MILLIONS of young grasshoppers were
on the Goth reported coming out of the
sandy soil on the south side of the Arkan-
sas River above Pueblo, Col, devouring
early vegetables and tender shrubs.
DISPATCHES of the 26th from various
points in Kentucky stated that the tobac-
CO crop was thirty days behind, and that
this years crop would be one of the poor
est ever known.
~ AT Manila, Ind, William Riley killed his
young daughter and himself on the 2Gth.
After months of domestic trouble he kid
mapped the child from its mother, and u
fear hat the courts would a k her from
his custody caused the tragedy.
n The residence of I. G. Campbell, the
noted criminal lawyer, near Cincinnati,
was mysteriously destroyed ty fire early
the other morning. The loss was $4,000.
y BURGLARS entered the residence of
Theodore Vandore, a wealthy farmer of
Butler County, Mo-, a few nights ago, and
carried off s., 900 in money. This was the
fourth time that Vandore had suffered in
this manner for his lack of faith in banks.
F., CuBANs at Key West were on the Goth
celebrating the landing Of an expedition
of 200 men in Cuba, which had been re-
enforced, as alleged, by 1000 natives, and
q state of siege had been proclaimed, but
troops were en- route to meet the invaders.
THE fruit crop, with the single exception
of peaches, in the Hudson River Valley,
will, it is said, be one of the largest and
best in several years.
ALLEN BRAMM beat his sweetheart, Cath
crime Bohan, with a revolver fatally on
the Goth at Wilkesbarre, Pa, and then
rushed to the river and drowned himself.
ANGUS BRAT, a prominent citizen of
East Liverpool, O., shot and killed jeff c.
Davis, of Youngstown, o., on the Goth.
Davis, it was said, slandered Bratt's
daughter.
AT the Presbyterian General Assembly
in Cincinnati on the Goth the Committee
on Home Missions reported that the Home
Missions Board was $4,000 i'll debt, al
though the total receipts for the year were
S49S,S90. There are 1886 ministers sup
ported by the board.
The bodies Of five Americans who had
been killed by Indians were found on the
goth at Blue River, N. NJ, and a missing
stage-coach was supposed to AVE been
captured by the savages. Cavalry were
pursuing q body of Indians who were
heading for Mexico.
CHARLES ?. BOYD, who absconded from
Steubenville, O., last fall, after commit
ting forgeries to the amount of 500, 900,
was brought a captive to Pittsburgh on
the 2Gth, having been arrested at Colum.
bia, S. c.
JERRY TAYLOR and Wesley Hicks, who
burned a residence recently, endangering
the lives of a woman and her three chill
dren, were taken from Jail at Franklin,
KY, by a mob early on the morning of the
Goth and carried across the line to
Mitchellville Station, Tenn, where they
were hanged.
ADv1cEs of the 9th from Deming, N.
NJ, report a fight between the United
States troops and the Indians in Cooks
Canyon. Six Indians were killed and four
soldiers. The total number of white peo.
pie killed by the Apache raiders SO far as
known was t%birty-three.
DURING a quarrel in Memphis the other
day William Kanerz, nineteen years old,
shot and killed r. M. Schuyler, his step
father.
II Four miners were killed on the 9th
while going up a mountain on an incline
road near Charleston, w. Va, by the
breaking of O brake-band, which threw
them down the hillside.
JAMES N. DAY, a confidential clerk for
Martin & Runyan, bankers, New York,
was on the 9th found to be short in his &C.
counts $4,000. He lost the money in Wall
street.
EeA MAN named Prentiss, OF Orange,
Mass, while in q drunken fit the other day
ordered his son to shoot a cup off his
head. The boy obeyed and shot his father
dead.
THE fifty-third annual meeting of the
Baptist Home Mission Society began at
Saratoga Springs, N. Y, on the 9th. The
report of the board showed the expend-
itures last year exceeded the receipts $685.
GG7, and that the entire deficit was $l17,397.
i DURING a fire in New York City on the
9th Mrs. Emma Derner and her baby were
burned to death.
: LIZZIE SPINLER, aged twenty-three years,
of Brooklyn, N. Y, shot and killed her.
self the other day because of a recreant
lover.
MISS GRACE LORD, a literary celebrity
in Boston, was killed a few evenings ago
by the fall of a derrick.
! THE managers of the New Orleans Ex-
position on the 9th claimed to lave Sc
cured nearly all the funds required for it's
extension, but the refusal OF the Cabinet
at Washington to permit the Government
exhibits to remain was thought to have
killed the scheme.
THE Bank of Mitchell, D.. r., suspended
recently, and q receiver was appointed.
A THREE-sToRY frame tenement at Jer-
sey City, N. j., occupied by five families,
collapsed on the morning Of the 9th, kill
ing three children of one family and a lad
of fifteen. Ten persons were injured more
OF less seriously.
: COWBOYS with drawn revolvers on the
9th stopped the special train with Theo-
dore Thomas concert troupe III board at
Coolidge, N. NJ, and compelled Nine. Ma
terna to sing and the musicians to play.
CYCLONES did serious damage on the
9th at Nortonville, COTS and Frankfort,
Kan, wrecking several structures and in
Jurlng many persons, a few fatally.
HERMAN's furniture faetory in New
York City was DESTROYED by fire on the