Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-27
OF the week
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC,

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the Rome IN. W police station on the
Sd the place took fire, and two prisoners
who were confined in the lookup lost their
lives.
The exhibition of the National Horse
Show Association was opened in Madison
Square Garden, New York City, on,the Sd.
ONE of the postal stations in Chicago
was burned on the night Of the Sd, and all
the mail matter was destroyed.
AGENTS in Indian Territory having re-
ported that large number of ~freighters
were crossing the border from Kansas,
Secretary Lamar on the 81 requested the
War Department to remove the boomers.
Miss KATIE TABB, Il prominent Louis
vile girl, set her clothing a1ire while
kneeling i'll prayer before u CRATE the 9th er
night, and was fatally burned.
Four Arctic whalers arrived at San
francisco on the 4th with ., 100 barrels of
oil and $1,000 pounds of whalebone.
TUE SUPERINTENDENT OF the army, in
his annual report made on the 4th, says
that the strong probability of an invasion
of cholera before the close of the year de-
mands a provision for prevention Of the
spread of that disease in the army.
THERE were seventy-one assertions from
the army of enlisted men in the Depart
ment of Texas during the quarter ended
September so.
merchants, were driven out of Tacoma, w.
T., on the 4th by the citizens.
THE Secretary of the Navy on the 4th pur-
chased of John Roach the steamer Dolphin,
whose vagaries on her trial cruises were
the subject OF SO much public interest.
THE Grand Rapids & Indiana Road ON
the 4th sent a physician along its track, in
a special train. to vaccinate every en-
ploye at the expense of the company.
Sin inches of snow fell Oh the 4th in
portions of Michigan.
"A gas company, covering e
eral counties in Pennsylvania, with IL cap
ital of about $1,000 900, was formed on the
9TH at Pittsburgh. 1t proposes to pipe the
gas to other States.
THE fishing schooner Daisy Speaker, of
New London, Conn.,, with a crew of eight
men, was given up for lost on the Ash.
OK the 4th a National Association of
Watchmakers and jewelers. was organized
at Chicago.
AT Galveston, Tex, on the 4th sixteen
hundred knights of Labor struck for
higher wages. They were employed on
railroads, wharves, steamships, etc.
THE combination of the New York Gem
trail and West Shore Railroads was ratified
by the stockholders of the former company
at a special meeting at Albany, N. Y, on
the 4th.
AN accident on the East Tennessee Road
near Childersburg, On the 4th caused the
death of two men and the fatal iniuring OF
four others.
CYRUS WANDER, of st. Paul, shot him
self dead on the 4th on the freshly-made
grave of his father, who had been his in
iseparable companion. The young man
lshrank from the task of settling an estate
!of II, 1000, 900 left to himself and sister.
The Governor of Arizona reported to
Washington on the 9th the shipment of
nearly $4,000, 900 worth of precious
metals during the year.. The population
'of the Territory was estimated at 80, 900.
A LAD named Willie McAllister escaped
from the Orphan Asylum near Troy, N
", and soon became imbedded to the ear.
in bank of soft clay, where he struggled
for twenty-four hours until relieved on the
9th of his sutferings by death.
A QUANTITY of blasting-powder ex
;ploded at Atlanta, Ga, on the 9th, blow
ing two negroes to atoms.
A PLANT for the conversion of natura
gas into better Illuminating material was
completed at McKeesport, Pa, on the 5th
with the idea of extending pipes 10 New
York.
On the 9Th $50 Mormon converts arrived
in New York from Europe, en- roNte tt
Utah.
CHARLES HERMAN confessed ut Buffalo
IN. Y, on the 9th to numbering his wife by
cutting her throat, and said he had slep'
in the same bed in which the body lay fol
three nights.
SEVEN members of the knights of Labor
and others were arrested at st. Louis on
the 9th fer placing explosions on tho
street. :nr tracks, and they cofessed their
guilt.
THE losses by fire during October in the
United States and Canada reached s., $50,
'N0-about 81, 250, 900 less than the average
for October in the past ten years.
In his report to Washington on the 9th
Governor Swineford estimated the popu
'lation of Southeastern Alaska at seven
Thousand natives and nineteen hundred
whites. The gold deposit on Douglass
Island was represented to be phenomenal.
,ly rich, and the vegetation in September
exceptionally luxuriant.
On the evening of the 9th two cyclones
swept over the eastern and western por-
lions of Illinois, nearly two hundred miles
apart, and it was reported that numerous
lives were lost and many houses destroyed
in White, Pike, Logan and Mclean coun-
ties.
7 A Los of nearly 100000 was incurred
in Chicago on the 9th by u fire in the old
Farwell block on Monroe street, occupied
by several cloting and shoe firms.
The jury in the famous Walkup poison
ing case at Emporia, Kan, rendered n
verdict on the 9th declaring Mrs. Walkup,
the accused, not guilty of her husbands
murder.
AN oil well was struck on the 9th at
Findlay, O., which flowed three hundred
barrels a day. Great excitement pre-
vailed in the town.
I. The Missionary Committee of the Meth :
,odist Church, in session on the 9th in New
York City, appropriated S205, 12G for for
eign mission work.
Snow to the depth of ten inches fei, on
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