Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-24
EPIT0ME OF THE week.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
A coLoRED mob at Adams Station,
Miss, the other night lynched Ben Holt, a
negro who had killed his wife.
DURING the two weeks ended on the
Soth ult. eighteen horse-thieves were
hanged in Texas, and detectives were
hunting others with bloodhounds.
TWENTY-FIVE men and five women were
on the 2Jth ult. arrested for completely in
the recent Polish riot ut Toledo, o.
The National Military Encampment at
Paramount Park, Philadelphia, opened on
the goth ult., with about three thousand
troops present.
NEAR Lancaster, Pa, q few days ago, o
lad of ten years was drowned, and Will
lam Robinson, fourteen years old, lost his
life trying to rescue him.
THE Egyptian obelisk in Central Park,
New York, is rapidly %crumbling, owing to
the sudden changes in weather and the ac-
ton of frost.
H new schooner yacht Brunhilde,
owned by John S. Phelps, of Englewood.
N. j., sailed from New London, Conn, on
the Goth ult. for a trip around the world.
Besides the owner, five other members of
the class of 1873 of Yale College will make
the trip.
AN army of tramps, over one thousand
in number, ransacked sixty houses ut
Stumptown, Pa, a few days ago, carrying
away or destroying their contents.
THOMAS O'SHEA went to the Brooklyn
in. ~ police headquarters the other day
and said he had beaten his wife's brains
out with a Ratchet while intoxicated. He
told the truth.
Tr1rS ce,,1 sc ,ko~I-nl xJ@1I-~o c.3s. A.
minis during the week ended Oh the 9th
Tult. was $444 ,437. The issue during the
corresponding period of last year was
$3.50, 4Sl.
GREAT preparations are being made at
Niagara Falls for the opening of the State
Reservation on Wednesday July 10
THE conductors and drivers on the West
Division Street Railway lines in Chicago
struck early on the morning of the soth
ult., owing to the discharge of several en-
ployes by the company, and no cars were
allowed to run during the day.
By q gas explosion in a mine at Scran-
ton, Pa, on the Both ult. hundreds of
entirely destroyed, while not a whole pane
of glass was left in the neighborhood. No
lives were lost.
ootC1u I41cuU expenditures during
the fiscal year ended on the Both ult. were
$4,000, 600; receipts, 1921, 900, 200; about
$1,5W,OUO less than tho estimates. The re-
duction of the public debt was about $751;
100000.
; SECRETARY WHITNEY has revoked the
order requiring naval officers attached to
cruising vessels to leave their families at
their fixed places of abode.
IAMES HoTTAND for q cp,ol1 ,u,-o
climbed an ~,electric light tower 100 feet
high at West Indianapolis the other day,
but in descending relaxed his grip on a
rope, and falling, was fatally injured.
Snow fell in Greene County, New York,
early on the morning of the Goth ult.
ARTHUR MCCONNELL, living near Lafay-
ette, Ind, who was crushed to death the
other day under a log, dreaSnt alfew nights
previously that he would be killed by a
falling tree.
woods roam gelding, Harry Parker, paced
ten miles, without urging, in % minutes
Sex seconds, the fastest pacing time on
record for the distance.
THE amount of National bank notes out
standing on the Goth ult. was $31S, 631, 1913,
which was 500, 252, 94G less than the amouns
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new National banks established during the
current fiscal year was 146, and the cor
porate existence of 731 banks was ex-
tended.
EDWARD A. BOYD, a wealthy New York
glass merchant, was sentenced on the Both
ult. to two years in the penitentiary for
d~efrauding the customs. His son, George
H. Boyd, who was implicated in the fraud,
was ined $1,000.
BY a collision of two freight trains on
the 3Oth ult. on the Nickel-plate Road near
Springfield, Pa, a woman, her nurse-girl
and two children were hurled down a ra-
vine, the little boy escaping alone by be-
ing caught in the branches of a tree.
ROWS New York directory, issued on
the 3Oth ult., gives the population of that
city as 1,553, 730, an increase of $4,000 over
the previous year.
ARIZONA advices of the 30th ult. state
that in a recent battle the Indians defeated
the Mexican troops, killing four hundred,
including General CARGO, and wounding
General Loaiza.
DUN's AGENCY reports failures for the
six months ended on the Both ult. as 6,0O4,
against $50 for the corresponding period
of 1884. The liabilities, however, were but
- 600, while in 1884 they aggregated
1924, 600, 1000.
ADv1CEs of the 30th ult. from Tomb
stone, A. T., state that in a recent battle
near Fronteras thirty-six Indians and
sixteen Americans were killed and several
wounded. At a ranch near Fort Bowie
sixteen Indians were killed and twenty
taken prisoners.
AN incendiary fire on the morning of the
ast in an apartment building at Cleveland,
o., caused the burning to death of Miss
Rosa Meisel and two children, aged nine
and eleven years.
The Pension COMMISSIONS at Washing
ton on the LIST approved over twelve hun
dred pensions, the largest number ever
granted in one day in the history of the
Pension Office.
OVER five hundred Swedish and Danish
converts to Morlnonism arrived in New
York from Europe on the 1st en- route for
Utah.
ALL the windQw-glass factories in the
Pittsburgh district have closed down until
September l.
/ GEORGE STEFFY, who had been in tho in
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