Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-06-26
EPIT0ME OF THE week,
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

RICHARD NJ. ScoTT, paying teller of the
Rank of the Manhattan Company, New
York, on the ID proved to be a defaulter to
the extent of SlG0,0oO
Much excitement was created on the Cd
at Penn's Grove, n. j., over the discovery
by a fisherman of a box imbedded in the
mud of the Delaware River, which was
found to contain the bodies of four male
infants.
SAMUEL BOWMAN, of Circleville, O., his
family and visitors Were poisoned on the
Cd by unknown persons. Mrs. Bowman,
aged sixty, was dead and her husband was
dying. The others would recover.
THE Hotel Interlaken, at Saratoga Lake,
n. ", built by the late Frank Leslie, was
burned early the other morning. The
guests escaped in their night-clothes, saw
ing no property.
h announcement was made on the Cd
by the Ohio Live Stock Commission that
pleuro-pneumonia had been stamped out
of the State.
r. NJ. REYNOLDS, ex-First Auditor of
the United States Treasury, jumped into
the air shaft of the Southern Hotel at st.
Louis on the I'd, and falling to the floor of
the rotunda was killed Instantly. He was
temporarily insane.
THE Supreme Lodge of the Ancient
Order of United Workmen met in Des
Moines, Ia, on the I'd, twenty-five States
being represented, and all the officers be.
ing present.
THE troops following the renegade In
dians in New Mexico We're reported on the
Cd to have captured the main portion of the
band, and to be on their way to Apache
with the prisoners.
JOHN GARDNER, a Deputy Sheriff, and
John Cox, brother of the Sheriff of Dubois
County, Ind, We're fatally shot the other
evening near Jasper by three men named
Reeves Ga father and two sons), whom
they were attempting to arrest.
THE cathedral erected at Garden CITY, L.
l., by Mrs. A. T. Stewart, was consecrated
on the I'd by E~piscopalian dignitaries.
A sKIFy in which were six fishermen was
swamped i'll the swells of the Monongahela
River near Pittsburgh, Pa, a few days
ago, and S. Kunkle and J.. Sinclair were
drowned. The others swan ashore.
THE citizens of New Orleans decided ON
the I'd to reopen the Exposition next fall,
whether the Government exhibit remained
or not.
A G named Townsend Cook, who
had assaulted a white lady, was taken
from Jail on the I'd at Westminster, Nd,
and hanged to a tree two miles away, aft
er making a full confession of his crime.
A FURIOUS wind, rain and hail storm
swept over the Northwest On the I'd, doing
great damage to property. Several per-
sons were killed by lightning in Chicago
and elsewhere.
HEssIAN flies have appeared in Mary.
land in great numbers. Wheat stalks
which had been attacked were on the Sd
exhibited on the Corn Exchange at Balti-
more.
IT was announced on the Sd that all
wlndow-glass factories west of the AL
leghanies would be csosed down within
two weeks, and when work was resumed
in the fall wages would be reduced
twenty-five per cent.
The Treasury Department at Washing
ton on the Sd purchased 10, 600 ounces of
silver to be delivered at the Philadelphia
II New Orleans MINIS for coinage into
standard dollars.
HORSE thieves were on the Sd supposed
to have murdered Louis Rivers and e. A.
Allen, wealthy stockmen and old residents
in the Baker City (Oregon) section.
The managers Of the New Orleans Elk.
position reported on the Sd to the Secre-
tary of the Treasury that they had an APP
preparation of $685., 900 with which 10 set.
tie claims of S;3o7,31s.
JOHN MAYORS, an aged man in Jail at
Canton, O., on charge of arson, expired
from heart-disease a few days ago on
reading an u~nfavorable letter from his
brother.
The coinage of the various United States
mints during May was $14 ,o55, 431, of which
S2,401 ,S37 was in standard dollars.
The iron strike had closed one hundred
mills and thrown out of employment iftv-
eight thousand men on the Sd. Thirty -four
nail factories were also idle, and two We're
running.
DIR. N. YOUNG, a leading citizen of Vim.
cennes, Ind, was accidentally shot lead
the other day by Carrot Robertson, while
hunting.
THE great Beaver Park reservoir near
Longmont, Col, burst the other afternoon,
a wall Of water one hundred and twenty
feet high sweeping over the adjacent Sec
ton, wiping out all distractions and wash
Ing away titled and meadow lands, result
ing in heavy losses.
clA persons were seriously burned (twO
fatality by the explosion of n kerosene
oil lamp in New York q few evenings ago.
r. S. SCOTT, paying teller of the Man
haitian BanL of New York, who fed with
100000 in grecnbacks, bought a ticket for
Montreal, and was known on the Sd to have
crossed the border.
In the Police Court at Cincinnati on the
3D. the discharge of DR.. 10y, on the ground
of self-defense, in killing his brother-ia-
law, Harry C%hamplin, was greeted with
applause by the audience.
DURING a fight between policeman and
burglars at Sedalia, Mo-, early the other
morning, one of the thieves was shot
through the heart and an officer was seri-
ously wounded.
WHILE standing in the door of their res
dence on the 4th at Mendoza, No., a father
and son named Mckinley were killed by
lightning.
ADvICEs received at the War Depart
ment at Washington on the 4th lr,,n Cen
eral Schotield showed that the troops were
powerless to protect the widely scattered
settlers of Arizona and New Mexico
against marauding Indians. During the