Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-02
EPI1OME OF THE week.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

country was over r., 100000 bushels, and
of corn about 100000 bushels.
INCREASED activity was reported on the
Sth in the iron and steel trade,at Pittsburgh.
Orders were coming in freely, and prices
generally were advancing.
IT was announced on the Sth that the
recent abduction from Winnipeg of Law
renee Brainerd, the Ascending st. Albans
banker, threatened to cause international
complications.
i. The damage to corn, buckwheat and
growing products in Northern Minnesota
by the recent frosts was on the Sth said to
lave been very great.
In the steeplechase at Coney Island, N.
", on the sth Revenge fell with his jockey,
William Ford, both being killed.
THE American Historical Association
began it's second annual session at Sara
toga, N. Y, on the Sth, with three hun
dred members in attendance.
The wheat crop of Ohio was on the Sth
estimated at 2l,707, 7G3 bushels, or fifty
three per cent. of the average for the past
five years. The yield of oats would be the
largest on record, and that of corn would
probably surpass that of any former year
except 1878.
TRAINS containing Sunday-school chill
dren and ministers going to a conference
collided near Youngstown, o., on the Sth,
two of the employees being killed and six
others badly wounded, but the passengers
escaped serious injury.
A VIOLENT easterly gale swept Lake
Michigan on the Sth, doing much damage
to shipping in the lake, as we'll as to YES.
sells in the harbor at Chicago. The
schooner Advance was wrecked fifteen
miles south of Sheboygan, Wis, and Cap
tain Paulsen and five other men were
drowned.
DR.. j. E. ROBERTS and wife, an aged
couple, were killed by the cars near Lex
ington, KY, on the Sth.
SEVERAL attempts having been made to
burn the town of Port Townsend, w. T.,
citizens patrol.
NEAR Gainesville, Tex, Detectives Tay-
lor and Worth surprised and killed the
two Lee brothers on the Sth, who were re-
garded as the most daring roadmen that
had ever infested Indian Territory, and
for whose capture, dead or alive, a reward
of s, 1000 each had been offered.
IT was reported on the Sth that the
fraudulent warrants issued by the alb.
sconding township trustees of Daviess
County, Ind, amounted to $500, 900. The
warrants were scattered all over the
country, and We're largely in the hands of
innocent purchasers.
THE safe in the County Treasurer's office
in Linn Greek, Camden County, Mo-, was
robbed of $1,000 the other night. Several
stores in the place were also visited by the
burglars.
PORTIONS of Indiana, Michigan and Mis-
souri, were swept by cyclones on the Sth,
houses being unroofed, barns blown down
and crops destroyed. No loss of life was
reported.
THE brig La Regina, from the West In
dies. arrived in New York on the 9th with
yellow fever Oh board. Captain Keene
and four seamen died of the disease on the
voyage.
WILLARD F. MCINTYRE, aged twenty
two, the confidential manage for w.
Goodrich, drain-pipe dealer at Boston, alb
seconded on the 9th with $4,000 of his en-
ployer's money, taking with him a Chel-
sea belle.
ADvIcEs of the 9th state that the recent
storm on the lakes resulted in numerous
disasters to shipping and the loss of sew
eral lives. Old seamen at Chicago said
the storm was one of the most severe ever
known.
JOHN T.. SHELTON, of Atlanta, Ca, on
the 9th eloped with Ida Maxwell, the six
teen-year-old daughter Of John Maxwell,
of that city. The couple were married,
and in the evening were found by the
father and brother Of the bride, who ut.
tempted to take her home. A quarrel en-
sued, during which the three men were
fatally injured.
In New York on the 9th the wife of DR..
W. D.. Hoyt was burned to death by a
spark from a furnace in their home, and
Marion Norwood, an actress, met the same
fate at her home while smoking q cigar
cite.
One person was killed, three others
were fatally injured and q dozen were
seriously burned in a Philadelphia and
Reading coal-mine near Pottsville Pa, on
the 9th.
ADvIcEs of the 9th say that the storm
which visited Washington Court House,
o., the previous night, almost demolished
the town. Every public building and
business house in the place and about two
hundred residences were destroyed. Ten
persons We're known to have been killed
and over a hundred wounded, several of
them fatally. The property loss was
estimated at $1,000, 900. In Lancaster
County, O., the storm was severe, ten per-
sons being injured and many buildings
wrecked. At Troy, Upper %Sandusky INC
other Ohio. towns the damage was exten.
sive.
On the 9th two Chinese hop-pickers
were killed and four wounded near Seattle,
W. T., by a mob of Indians led by white
men.
MRS. MCINTOSH, residing near Pitts
bur5h, Pa, on the 9th requested her son
James, uged twenty-three, to shoot a cat.
Through an inadvertent movement of his
mother, the young maj sent the bullet
into her brain, causing her death.
DISPATCHES of the 10th from %Indianapo-
lis say that as u result of the swindles in
township orders Indiana was threatened
with a financial panic.
A SHAMoKIN (Pa.) dispatch of the 1oth
states that Mollie Maguireism is again
rampant i'll the upper and lower iuzerue
districts. Nine murders had recently &C.
Cured in the northern coal fields. and
mines were frequently fired. A general