Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-24

poisoned on the 1st by drinking coffee
which contained arsenic.
THE coinage at the various mints during
June was 1886, sol, of which 1885,, $50
was in standard dollars.
THE law allowing letters weighing one
ounce or less to be sent through the mails
at two cents each went into effect on the
LIST.
NEARLY three thousand iron-workers
struck on the 1st at Cleveland, o., because
iof a reduction in wages.
GELARD1, Silvestri and Azari, the Chi
cage Italians who %strangled Filippo Caru-
it to Pittsburgh, were convicted of murder
in the first degreei on the LIST, and would
suffer death.
FOREST fires were on the 1st destroying
valuable tracts of timber in the great Egg
Harbor swamp in New Jersey.
The South American Commission on the
LIST submitted a report to the President of
their observations in Peru. They declare
that until peace is restored and a stable
government established in that country
there can be no profitable. commerce with
it.
VERY cold weather was reported on the
LIST from the southwestern portion of Vir-
ginia. . Snow fell in Laswell County and
ice formed in Wythe County.
The public-debt stntementi Told form)
issued on the LIST makes the following ex-
hibit: Total debt Gnoluding interest of
S12,925 $500, 81, 273, 7oo.o91; cash in Treas
ury, $685. l2, 429; debt, less amount in
T.o~e,,rx ,t-SS nc- roo no,n1-.z J,~:n-
June, 50, 1885, 61. Decrease since June 30,
1884, $G5,494, 104.
THE only son of Thomas Fitzpatrick, a
Cleveland dry-goods merchant, who was
suffering from diphtheria, was killed o.
the I'd by a leading druggist preparing a
stronger dose of medicine than called for
in the prescription.
The settlements on the Mancos and
Dolores rivers, in Colorado were on the
I'd threatened by the Utes, and the Gov
ernor had been appealed to for protection.
LIGHTNING struck q powder magazine OF
the I'd near Cheyenne, Wy. T., causing the
explosion of three tons of giant powder.
Several houses were blown to pieces, but
no lives were lost.
The Harrington Hotel barns ut Short
NA1lC3 " Ley "c1c OuI10u u OUucE ulRuU,
and seven horses persisted in the flames,
DISPATCHES of the I'd state that the re-
cent storm lin the twestern part of New
York State did great damage, and the
losses would be heavy.
MRS. LEWIS STEELE, married but two
weeks, committed suicide by shooting, in
her bedroom at Ilion, N. Y, on the I'd. No
cause was known for the deed.
AT Kansas City a few days ago Samuel
c. Shaffer, a land Spectator, was indicted
for embezzling $4,000 from q New Jersey
capitalist.
ADv1cEs of the I'd say that heavy rains
in Kansas have resulted disastrously tc
crops in low lands and compelled many
families to move away. Railway tracks
have been washed out and bridges swept
away. In some instances the streams
were higher thar they had been for years,
WILLIAM MENcKEN, who was hanged al
~Ringhamton, N. Y, on the I'd for the muir.
der of Katie Brodehoff, died protesting his
innocence.
JAMES MCDANJELs, q Texas desperate,
who was recently sentenced to ninety
nine years. imprisonment for robbing the
mails, escaped from Jail and fed to @
ranch near San Geronimo, where he was
shot and killed on the I'd by officers while
resisting arrest.
The residence of j. o. Matthews, a,
Citra, Fla, occupied by a negro family
during the owners absence, was entered
by several men On the I'd, who killed three
of the inmates and then burned the house.
On the I'd typhoid fever was reported to
be raging with deadly effect in Hancock
County, Tenn. Whole families had been
stricken, and many persons had died.
The multilated remains of three per-
sons, Tone of them being a woman, were
found in IN outbuilding Mt Buck Creek,
Ind, on the Cd, on premises formerly occu.
pied by a physician. An investigation
would be held.