Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-14

IHE Ihllauelphla RuDOcr WORKS were
destroyed by fire on the 18th. Loss, $780,
900. Several horses and mules persisted in
the flames.
The Brighton cotton mills, near Chi
cago, were destroyed by fire on the 10th.
Loss, $135, 600.
GENERAL SHERIDAN telegraphed the
President from Fort Reno on the 10th that
no serious Indian troubles need be appre-
hended.
A BUILDING in Washington occupied by
the Post, the National Republican, the
Critic and the Sunday Gazette was de-
stroyed by fire on the 10Th, causing a total
loss of $3.50, 600.
JOSEPH TAYLOR, who, while an inmate
of the Eastern P~enitentiary, murdered
Michael +. Doran, one of the keepers, was
hanged at Philadelphia on the 10th. Tay-
lor began his criminal career at the age of
fifteen, and during the ten years proceed
ing the murder of Doran stabbed or shot
forty-five persons.
FREDERICK BURME1sTER, a wealthy Ger
man, of Baltimore, committed suicide on
the 10th. His brutal treatment of his wife
and daughter were said to have caused
their self-destruction but short time ago
DAVID Hill and his son Edgar, aged
sixteen, were drowned on the 10Th in ST.
lent Lake, at Dora, Mimi, while attempts
ing to cross the lake in a poor boat.
AT CLEVELAND, O., large numbers of
strikers armed themselves with shot guns
and muskets on the 10th and engaged in
regular military drills in their settlement.
The militia was in readiness to quell any
disturbance. At Bay City, Mich, strikers
burned fifty thousand feet of lumber.
DAVID ACKLEs (colored) was hanged on
the 18th at Helena, Ark, for the murder of
Frank Burrell and Felicia Flanagan, and
Eaton Mills (colored) was executed at
Halifax, N. c., for the murder of Henry
Ponton.
FIVE families who arrived at New York
on the 18th from Bremen were sent back
as paupers.
The dwelling of Josiah NJ. Evans, near
Grahampton, Pa, was burned on the night
of the 10th, six of his children perishing
in the flames. Evans, his wife and three
other children narrowly escaped.
GRAsSHoPPEgs made their appearance
On the 18th in the wheat fields of Dakota,
near Fort Buford, and were doing consid-
cradle damage.
GENERAL HOWARD, Commander of the
Department of the Platte, was on the 17th
ordered by the President to make all pos
sible preparations for any emergency that
may arise in the near future in Utah.
JOSEPH F. CoTTINGER, of Philadelphia,
aged sixty-eight years, on the 18th pleaded
guilty of embezzling $147, 800 from the Cen
trail transportation Company, and was
ca,topoa1 70 fo,r x,aorc3 col;f,rr oo,R,o-
ment.
In the United States and Canada there
were 1S5 business failures during the seven
days ended on the 18th, against 1914 the pre-
vious seven days. The distribution was as
follows: Middle States, 46; New England
States, y; Western, 40; Southern, SO; Pa
cific States and Territories. 80; Canada, IA.
A CENSUS just taken of Nebraska shows
that the population of the State is over
100000, as against $4,000 in 1880. The pop
ulation of Omaha was increased from 3d.
652 in 1880 to 81, $50.
AT present there are 327 distilleries in
operation in the United States, producing
daily 1G4, 424 gallons of spirits.
JOHN A. ARMSTRONG and Alexander
Coen, steamboat-owners and lumber-deal-
ers of Wheeling, W. Va, have assigned,
with liabilities of $3.50, 900.
The 18th was the hottest of the season
in New York City, the thermometer regis
tsring ninety-nine. There were eight
deaths from sunstroke in Hudson Coun-
ty, N. j.
The general trade situation throughout
the country as reported by special tele-
grams to Bradstrect's showed no improve
ment during the seven days ended on the
18th, and the Industrial situation was less
satisfactory, strikes and suspensions hav-
ing increased.
IT was discovered on the 18th that Frank
B. Keesle, secretary of the Rock City
Savings Association at Nashville, Tenn,
was a defaulter in the sum of $4,000.
At the Cleveland rolling-mills notices
were posted on the 18th announcing that
operations would not be resumed until the
men were willing to return to work. The
strikers were said to be drilling and
further violent outbreaks were appre-
hended. F."
GENERALS SHERIDAN and Miles reached
Fort Reno on the 18th, where General
Sheridan would remain several days,
making an investigation into the Indian
troubles.