Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-31
EPIT0ME OF THE week.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

W. c. Cook and wife, living in Brule
County, D. T., were killed by lightning
the other evening.
FELIX WILLIAMS and Perry McChris-
tan, two murderers, were hanged by .
MOI at Grenada, Miss, on the 7ch.
The coming wheat crop of Minnesota is
estimated at 81, O0O, 900 bushels, a decrease
of 100000 bushels from last years yield.
AHAIL-SToRM of unprecedented severity
did great damage on the 9TH to the crops
in Sussex County, N. j.
H C%heyennes were on the It'll re-
ported on the war-path in Comanche and
Pratt Counties, Kansas, where they were
committing many murders, running off
stock and burning houses and barns.
Many of the same tribe had left their res.
ervation and gone into the "Pan-Handle"
of Texas. Troops had been ordered to
Fort Reno, where serious trouble was
feared.
In tue county Offices of London County,
Tennessee, defalcations of $780, 900 were IN
the 18th discovered. An ex-Sherif is serv-
ing a thirteen-year sentence for swindling
the same county out Of $1,000
REPORTS of appalling loss of life and de-
struction of property by the floods in
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the 18th.
JAMES KANE was executed at Phila-
delphia on the 7th for the murder of his
brother, whom he killed January II last in
a quarrel about a woman.
Two MoRMoNs, with three wives each,
were arrested at Salt lake City on the It'll
for illegal cohabitation and held for trial.
A DECREE was affirmed at Baltimore,
Md, a few days g awarding three
colored women damages of one thousand
dollars for being excluded from first-class
berths on O steamer, though possessed of
the proper tickets.
A ~DoUBLE-scULL race for five hundred
dollars a side and the double-scull cham
pionship of America will take place on the
Charles River, at Boston, between August
IA and August "a, Gaudaur and Hosmer
being matched against Courtney and Con-
ley.
AN investigation ordered by the Cover
nor of South Carolina on the Sth developed
a shocking condition of affairs in the con-
vict camps of that State, the prisoners
having been systematically overworked,
under-fed and cruelty punished.
REPORTS from the alleged Cheyenne In
dian raid or the Sth were indefinite and
conflicting. Governor Martin, of Kansas,
and General Augur had ordered State and
National troops in readiness for the ex-
pected outbreak. At Fort Reno nothing
was known of a raid. The sensational
stories of massacre n pillage on the 18th
had not been confirmed, but settlers in
Kansas were greatly alarmed.
Z MOSES HOPKINS, a San Francisco septua.
ryanorio, x,yor&L &c n0n non -poo ,,oJ fon
breach of promise on the 9Th by a middle
aged widow, who places her damages at
1925 900.
LATE reports from Dallas, Tex, con-
firm the great losses said to have been
caused by the recent overflow of the Neo-
sho Rive in Indian Territory and Kansas.
The bodies of various persons reported
drowned had been recovered on the Sth.
The total amount Of damage in the over
flowed section was estimated at from
$780, 900 to $500, 900.
SEVEN underwriters were
engaged in the strike at Bay City, Mich,
where oil the mills are closed. Riotous
proceedings on the Sth resulted in the ar
rest of three of the ringleaders.
THE mob which lynched the two negroes
ut Grenada, Miss, on the Sth completed its
work by taking BARLEY James from his
home and hanging him to a tree and kill
ing John Campbell, for whom q similar
fate had been reserved, but who was on his
guard and refused to be taken alive.
: EDWARD HANLAN and George Hosmer
had agreed on the 9Th to row a fve-mile
race on Cazenovia Lake, New York, July
%, for a purse of $1,000.
MRS. JOHN ROGERS, of Howden, War
rick County, Ind, on the Sth butchered her
two children and destroyed herself in a
fit of jealousy.
. PARTS of Western and Southern Mime.
sofa and Western Wisconsin were swept
by a cyclone on the Sth.
OFFICIALS Of Federal Courts having dis.
regarded orders permitting cattle to be
driven through the Cherokee strip in In
dian Territory, claiming right of obstruc-
ton on the ground that the cattle were
infected, Secretary Lamar on the Sth re-
quested Attorney General Garland to in
struct court officers to cease their OPPOSE
tion to the use of established trails.
DISPATCHES of the 9Th from points in
Northwestern Iowa, Northwestern Ne.
braska, Southwestern Dakota and South
eastern Minnesota stated that within a
Ao" udys Iue coiu ciop udu Deeu SFedUly
improved by warm weather.
Il THE other evening Professor Barnard,
of the Vanderbilt University Observatory,
of Nashville, discovered a small comet,
having u daily motion of 35 minutes
southwest.
GENERAL SHcoFIELD advised the War
Department at Washington on the 9th that
no C%heyennes had yet been in Kansas and
no citizens had been killed. A hundred
young members of the tribe had, however,
left the agency. An order was issued for
the concentration of all troops that may
be available in the event of q serious out
break.
LOUIS B. REAuME, the Denver (Col.)
maniac who killed Officer Barrett at the
Polk street depot at Chicago a few weeks
ago, was on the 9th declared insane and
ordered sent to the asylum.
TwENTY-sIx thousand bushels of corn
in the Erie Basin stores were posted in the
New York Produce Exchange on the 9th
MS being musty.
SECRETARY CHAMBERLAIN, of the Ohio
State Board of Agriculture, estimates that
the total wheat crop of the United States
this season will amount to 300, 900, 900
bushels, against an average of 451, 600, 900
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