Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-23
OF THE week.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

minis during the week ended on the 26th
aggregated S7736,577, against $455, 500 for
the corresponding period in 1884.
ONE of the buildings of the insane
asylum at Warm Springs, NJ. t., was
burned on the Goth ult., three of the in
mates perishing in the flames.
LARGE four-story building in Chicago
fell in on the 10Th ult., causing n loss of
$4,000. Several men at work in the
structure were missing.
CHARLES TAYLOR, aged twenty-one
years, Mayor of Van Buren,, Ark, shot
and killed IL man who attacked him on the
street the other night.
AT Austin, Tex, u few nights ago four
colored servants, one male and three fe-
male, were attacked with an axe while
sleeping in their rooms, two of them being
killed and the others dangerously injured.
A QUARANTINE was OF the Goth ult. de-
clared in Ohio against cattle from New
York, New Jersey, the District of Column
bia and Kentucky.
Four negro assassins, three men and
one woman, were lynched the other night
near Pittsboro, N. c.
Dv1cEs of the 10Th ult. say the potato
crop in Western New York will be almost
a Y AoAAuiSs O"AAS w
INDIAN d~epredations continued in Ari-
IONA on the Goth ult., and the Governor
had called out the Territorial militia for
active service against the hostiles.
PATRICK HARTNETT, a wife-murderer,
was hanged in the Ohio Penitentiary at
Columbus at three o'clock on the morning
of the 3Oth ult.
HNEARLY all the towns in Washington
Territory were represented at a mass
meeting at Seattle on the 29th ult., which
adopted resolutions calling on all citizens
to aid in the expulsion of the Chinese, who
would be notified to leave on or before No.
vember ].
DURING the first nine months of 1885 tho
business failures in the United States num-
bered S,1G7, with aggregate liabilities of
$9', 900 900. The failures during the CORE.
spending period of last year We're 1856 and
the liabilities $751;, 0o0, 900.
WILLIAM FOSTER was arrested in the
Choctaw Nation on the 30th ult. for u MUIR
der alleged to ave been committed in
Texas eleven years ago..
mules owned by the st.
Charles street railroad were recently shot
at New Orleans because incurably sick
with CHAMBERS.
RosENFELD Il KAUFMAN, Cincinnati
clothiers, failed a few days ago with liza
bilities of 100000.
SIX laborers on the Pittsburgh, Virginia
& Charleston Railroad were fatally in
jured on the 3Oth ult. by the caving in of a
sand bank near Hays Station, Pa.
THE Treasury Department i'll Washing
ton on the Goth ult. purchased 315, 900 ounces
1f Gil vor for So1iuor1, Mt tho Na&,, nrl,,~
and Philadelphia minis.
THE ~aerolite which caused the loud de-
donations in Western Pennsylvania re-
Gently fell upon a farm neal the West Vir-
ginia line. The stone, which is more than
thirty feet square,, has been visited by
large number of people.
UNINTERRUPTED rail communication be-
tween st. John, N. B., and Boston, is af-
forded by the bridge over the st. JOIN
River at the former point, which was for
mally opened on the 3Oth ult.
THE immediate delivery sly stem went
into operation on the 1st at the leu ding
post-offices of the country.
MRS. ELIZA STEELE, u widow, aged
seventy years, committed suicide on her
farm near Fort Recovery, O., on the LIST,
by throwing herself from a hay-mow.
She left a note to her children saying she
was tired of life.
A Mr.. OMsTEAD, a farmer, of LAGRANGE
County, Ind, was swindled out of 1900
by three-card monte men while attending
n fair on the LIST.
WILLIE j. CosHEY, aged fifteen, and
Miss Laird, fourteen years old, eloped
from Greensburg, Pa, a few days ago,
and, going to Pittsburgh, were married.
AT q meeting of window glass manu-
facturers on the 1st at New York reports
were submitted showing the outlook for
the fall trade to be very unpromising.
A DECREE ordering the sale of the West
Shore Road for not less than 500, O00, 900
was entered at Newburgh, N. Y, on the
LIST by Judge Brown.
DURING September the weather was I'M
favorable in Mississippi, Louisiana and
portions of Alabama, Arkansas and Ten
NJ Apaches were on the 1st still MAX
ing raids in Arizona, killing citizens and
running off stock. The troops were in
pursuit.
The Central branch of the Union Pacific
Railroad has been Leased to the Missouri
Pacific Company for twenty-five years.
AN omnibus containing school children
was struck by a train on the LIST at a cross
ing in New Britain, Conn Minnie and
Lottie Dyson died of their injuries, and
their brother Charles could not recover.
w sons of Mr.. David Appenzellar
were killed by the cars on the LIST at q
crossing near Chambersburg, Pa, their
father narrowly escaping.
PROTESTS against Sunday deliveries I'M
der the new immediate-delivery system
were filed with the President and POST
master-General on the 1st by the Chair
man Of tie Presbyterian Publication So
ciety.
THE September coinage at the various
mints amounts to 81 ,420, 1914, of which ST.
100000 was in standard silver dollars.
nessee for cotton.
FIVE coal miners, employed
in the Union Pacific Mines at Carbon, Wy.
T., and two hundred at Louisville, Col,
struck OH the 1st, demanding the dis
missal of all Chinese employed by the
company. The manager ordered the mines
closed for the winter.
The public-debt statement issued on the
1st makes the following exhibit: Total
debt (inoluding interest of So, PA, 1881,
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