Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-28
EPITOME OF THE week.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

$$7735, 912, 1913, against S761, 205,576 the pre-
vious week. As compared with the corre-
spending period of 1884, the falling of
amounts to one per cent.
IT was announced on the Sd that the
Pacific Mail Company would withdraw its
Australian steamers November 1.
In an election row at Athens, KY, on
the Sd, Bud Harris shot and killed two
men named Walker and Neal, and was
himself wounded.
HENRY VANDERFEIGHT, who leaped from
the suspension bridge across the Cumber-
land River at Nashville, Tenn, striking the
water, 40 feet below, with terrific force,
was alive on the Sd, and would probably
recover from his injuries.
SEVERE wind and rain storms prevailed
in some of the Eastern States on the Sd.
At Camden. N. j., a number of persons
were killed and much property destroyed.
OF Greenwich Point the steamer Major
Reybold was struck by a cyclone, which
washed the Captain and pilot overheard,
while flying timber struck and injured
some of the passengers. At Baltimore,
Philadelphia, Reading and other Eastern
points the rainfall was heavy and the
damage extensive.
TIRE curly vi Uuo AlOIu1uR il II 4UA uOs
stroyed the building and stock of the
Phoenix Distillery, corner of Clybourn
Place and North Branch, Chicago. The
loss was estimated at $4,000. The bonded
warehouse adjoining the distillery and
fifteen hundred cattle herded in the yards
in the rear of the buildings were saved.
The regular monthly coinage statement
issued on the Sd shows that the total COIN
age executed at the United States mints
during the month of July consisted of
100000 standard silver dollars.
CATERPILLARs had appeared on the Sd
in the cotton fields in several counties of
South Carolina, and the boil worm in one
or two.
AT Minneapolis on the Sd the suit of
Colonel William King against Philo REM
ington, of New York, involving 81, 5000 0
worth Of property, was decided in favor of
the plaintiff.
A TREMENDOUS waterspout passed over
Pennsylvania County, NC, on the Sd, car
rying away bridges and washing away
houses. The crops were said to lave been
completely destroyed in the section over
which the storm passed.
AT Porter Station, Ind, five persons had
dice and forty others were dangerously ill
on the 4th from the effects of eating un-
wholesome meats.
ID MRS. EDWARD j. BROWN and Mrs.
Louisa Brown and her infant son, promi-
e New York society ladies, were killed
on the 4th at the Lackawanna Railroad
crossing, near Summit, N. j., while trying
to cross the track in a carry-all Immediate.
ily in front of the Dover express. Two
other ladies were seriously injured.
The visible supply of wheat, as reported
by the New York Exchange on the 4th, is
IS, 407, 94S bushels, and of corn 5,75s,30
bushels.
The fire losses in the United States and
Canada during the month of July were OF
the 4th estimated at $9,000,O00. For the
seven months of the presentycar the value
of the property destroyed was placed at
$685. 200.
TWELVE miners in the Massil-
Ion (O.) district had determined on the
4th to strike against the reduction in wages
recently ordered.
AT New Orleans on the 4th Boyd
Abode (colored) killed Lizzie Laundry,
his quadroon mistress, with q razor, and
then cut his own throat. Thirteen gashes
were found on the body of the woman.
L 14hnn1 )nOWH3 AIl1Cl1y u 4cdO1u6
coal and oil operator of Erie, Pa, on the
4th at Chattanooga, Tenn, seized a bottle
of belladonna, drank it, and then, gaining
possession of a razor, fed to the woods and
cut his throat, dying Immediately.
The President on the 4th told the CATTLE
men who waited on him to secure an ex-
tension of the time III which to vacate
their Indian Territory ranches that they
had already wasted twelve days of the
forty allowed them, and it would be we'll
to obey his order.
THE loss by the destruction of the Phe-
nix Distillery at Chicago on the 4th was
about 500, 900, and the insurance $4,000.
PERRY Bros, jewelry jobbers of Chi
cago, failed on the 9TH with liabilities of
about $4,000 and assets of $50, 600.
MINNEAPOLIS millers stated on the 9th
that there was at present absolutely no
market for flour, and the production had
been cut down very materially in conse-
quence.
H number of hogs packed from March
/ to the 9th inst. at Western points is 8, 16O,-
600, against 2,625,0 900 same date last year.
A STROKE of lightning by which Robert
Thompson was instantly killed at Omaha,
Neb., on the 9TH, left no marks on the body
except a small hole on the top of the head
and another in the right foot. The cloth
ing of the unfortunate man was torn into
shreds and scattered.
The wheat crop of Minnesota was on the
9th estimated at 10000, 900 bushels: of
Iowa at 100000 0 bushels, and of Dakota
at 100000 bushels. Another authority
placed the average yield per acre in Da-
kota at u to 10 bushels, and in Minnesota
at II bushels. The cotton crop in South
Carolina promised to be the largest gath.
cred in many years.
MICHAEL KAHN, an old citizen of Wayne
Township, Ind, was found murdered near
his house on the morning of the 9TH, and
Patrick Mcclure, a neighbor, who has dis.
appeared, was suspected and a reward
had been offered for his arrest. A broken
rail was the weapon used. ..
THOMAS w. CARPENTER, the vel. known
Secretary of the Virginia Baseball Asso.
citation, and book-keeper for J. L. School,
craft, a broker, recently stole $4,000 from
She vault of the State Bank, in North Car.
olina, composed of Petersburg class B..
Riddleberger bonds. He was on the 9th