Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-07
OF THE week.
, Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

time on record in a single-scull race.
) WHILE playing with a revolver (sup-
pos ed to be unloeded) ut Columbus, o.,
on the Goth George Packard, aged eleven
years, shot and killed his brother Albert,
aged thirteen.
For the week ended July IS, s39,9s1
standard dollars were issued.
AN east-bound Santa Fe passenger
train, which left Ell Paso, Tex, was
wrecked a few days ago near Wallace,
and three firemen were killed.
THE families of Mr.. Carmen and Mr..
swept away on the Goth while attempting
50 ford the Walnut River near Douglas,
Kan. All were drowned save one.
AT Marley, N. c., Julius Lucks, a Texas
desperate, while intoxicated on the Goth
wantonly killed two men and wounded
several others. lie was in custody, and
a%ynching was threatened.
JOHN GAUNT, of Jersey City, N. j., who
was arrested recently for the murder of
his wife, hanged himself in his cell on the
2Oth.'
In a dispute at Stewards, Va, a few
DAYS ago two little white boys were killed
by a colored boy.
AMONG the strikers in Cleveland, O., and
Bay City, Mich, everything was quiet on
the 21st, and it was hoped that a complete
settlement of the difficulties would soon be
effected. The troops had been withdrawn.
THE heat at various points still remained
intense OH the 21st. At New York the
thermometer marked 81 degrees, with
twenty-three cases of sunstroke; at Phil
o1olphio 701 1r,;fb fuortv-frro /,
strokes; at Pittsburgh 81; at Cincinnati
IS, with twelve sunstrokes; at Louisville
95, at st. Louis 96, with twelve sunstrokes.
In Chicago the temperature fell to y.
, OWING to the actions of the County At
torney ten linen who were charged with a
dozen or more murders at Lexington, KY,
which everybody knew they had COM
mitted, were acquitted on the Dist.
AS AN outcome of the recent Polish riots
in Toledo, o., the Grand Jury on the 21st
found nearly one hundred indictments
against the rioters, eleven being for MUIR
der in the first degree.
Two CoLoRED women were arrested at
Philadelphia the other nightlfor attempt
ing to kidnap a white child.
AN explosion on the 21st near Hunting
oOAS L OsS AAAACu WI Ll1C duu 1dudl1y
Injured two others.
REPORTS gathered by an Eastern agri-
cultural journal represented on the 21st
the winter wheat situation in the North
west as favorable, although the crop
would not be equal to that of 1884 in any
State save Michigan. Spring wheat prom
ised IN average crop. Oats and corn
looked we'll.
The I'D Washington Artillery Armory
at New Orleans was set on fire by burglars
the other morning and entirely destroyed.
The remains of Edward Gillian, wife
murderer and suicide, were inferred on the
21st in tbs potter's field at Cleveland, O.
Deceased leaves an estate valued at $780,
600, and was refused burial in the Catholic
cemetery.
ABOUT thirty Mexicans were on the 21st
reported to have been killed by bands of
hostile Indians on the Texas frontier.
REPORTS of excitement among the
Northern Cheyennes in Montana were
confirmed on the 21st. The settlers were
preparing for defense.
The town of Skidmore, Mo-, was almost
entirely destroyed by a recent fire.
AT Philadelphia on the 22d Edward Metz,
who had attacked William Battersby, a
wealthy merchant, for purposes of rob-
berry, was shot and instantly killed by his
intended victim.
CHARLES jackson, who lives in the
mountains of West Augusta, Va, in a
frenzy of temper on the 22d dragged his
child from it's cradle and struck it Violent
ly against the bed, killing it instantly.
: AN explosion of powder in a mill ut
York, Pa, the other morning blew two
men four hundred feet, horribly mangling
them.
THE first encamplnent of State troops
held in the South since the war began at
Asheville, N. c., on the 22d.
THE count Of the Cheyennes and Ara
pahoes was successfully concluded at
Fort Reno, l. T., on the 22d, under the di-
rection of Inspector Armstrong. The
ensus shows 1900 Arapahoes and 8, 1G9
Cheyennes.
A TERRIFIC rain-storm, with high wind,
passed over the Catawissa Valley, near
Shenandoah, Pa, on the 22d, uprooting
trees and blowing down fences inc barns.
The damage to crops alone was estimated
at $50, LOCO.
SIX fatal cases of sunstroke occurred at
Louisville, KY, On the 22d.
AN examination on the 22d of the books
of the Sedalia (Mo.) Savings-Bank, from
which r. E. King, the bookkeeper, alb
seconded recently with $40, 900, showed that
$4,000 of the $4,000 capital of the bank
had been stolen.
! A HEAVY thund err storm at Columbus,
o., on the 22d cooled the scorching atnos-
phere, but blew down trees and moved a
few houses from their foundations.
THE Captain of a schooner which arrived
at Portland, Me-, on the 22d reported the
Capture alive Of a veritable sea-serpent
which weighs about 1000 pounds and looks
something like a turtle.
The President and Cabinet decided on
the 22d that the leases of land in Indian
Territory to cattlemen were invalid, and
would take measures to have them set
aside, the exact method of procedure not
having as yet been determined.
THERE were fourteen deaths from sun
stroke in New York City on the 22d and
eight at Philadelphia.
A MOB of 100 men broke into the Jail at
Minden, La, the other night and shot lead
two co,ored men held for murder.
PATRICK BRANDON murderously ASSAULT
ed and then robbed his aged mother of
$3.50 at Wooster, o., on the 22d. He de-
hut was arrested and inopriconod