Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-18
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

FRANK r. LASS ana "A. r. IOOuy kouLGl,
two prominent and wealthy white citi-
.zens of Vinita, Ind. T., were murdered
for their money while asleep in camp q
few nights ago, two miles from the Sac
and Fox Agency.
FREIGHT trains collided on the oath
hear Newport News, Va, and four men
lost their lives by the collision.
A New YoEK servant-girl recently stole
IA tin box containing $4,000 in money and
%Ealuables from her employer and de-
ramped. She had up to the oath eluded
the vigilance of the police.
THE Southern Utes residing in New
Mexico were on the oath said to be starry
ing, and it was feared they would go on
the warpath as a last resort.
PORTIONS of Kalamazoo, Mich, were
flooded on the 23d, and the celery fields
about that city were destroyed at an esti-
Snated loss of 100000.
JOHN PURD1N, of New Orleans, who
lived ninety-one years, hanged himself in
shat city on the oath.
DURING the week ended on the 22d there
were 513,497 silver dollars issued from the
mints.
A TERRIFIC storm of wind and rain
swept over Hellam Township, York Coun-
!ty, Pa, on the oath, wrecking buildings,
,uprooting trees and running crops. The
loss was heavy.
Mrs. MARY A. STUART, wife of Joseph
Stuart, a millionaire banker of New York,
was instantly killed on the Oath at her
summer home at Rye Beach by the acct
dental discharge of a gun which she was
removing from a closet.
ORDERS We're issued at Washington on
the 25th for the immediate shipment of
supplies to the furnishing Utes of New
Mexico. The trouble was ascribed to q
deficiency in the appropriation for this
purpose.
AT Washington on the 25th John Brooks,
the Philadelphia champion, rode a twenty-
mile bicycle race in 1:02:41, beating the
best American record by five minutes and
two seconds.
BY the capsizing of a sail boat a few
days ago on Lake Benton, Mimi, Captain
jacobson, of Chicago, and his nephew,
John Oleson, We're drowned.
A C~LOUD-BURST on the 25th near Pitts
burgh, Pa, washed away thirteen bridges,
flooded twenty-five houses and drowned q
large lot of live stock.
M report of the murder of three
Americans and eight aMexicans by
Apaches at B~asachuca, A. T., was con-
frmed on the Goth.
M1NNEsoTA's population, according to
the census recently completed, is 1,11s,4 56,
an increase of 337, 713 in five years.
HEAVY thunder storms on the 25th near
Hartford, Conn.,, damaged the tobacco
crop to the extent of $150,0O0.
A L o. in New York was wrecked on
the 25th by the bursting of two whisky
barrels, and two men were fatally injured.
FRosTs were reported on the morning Of
the Goth in portions of Wisconsin and Da-
,kota.
S. j. CALVIN was arrested on the 25th at
Beaver Falls, Pa, charged with embezzling
$50, 600 from the Loan Association of that
place, of which he was Secretary.
: A CYCLONE swept over Charleston, s. c.,
on the morning of the 25th which unroofed
forth of the houses in the city and did
much damage to the shipping. The loss
was estimated at 81 ,Oo0, 900. Great havoc
Atlantic Coast. At Savannah, Ca, great
damage was inflicted upon shipping, and
the loss of life and property was large.
A VERMONT sportsman who was acci-
dentally caught in a bear-trap was res
cued a few days ago at the end of thirty
six hours in a perishing condition, having
existed during his imprisonment without
water, with but little air, and no food ex-
ceptthe raw meat with which the trap was
baited.
ADvIcEs of the Goth state that the path
of the cyclone which recently visited
Charleston, s. c., presented scenes of des-
plation and ruin scarcely less appalling
than those which followed the lombard
ment during the war. A local journal
estimated the aggregate loss at 81, 000.
! The damage to crops in the Connecticut
Valley by the recent storm was on the Goth
estimated at 100000.
AT Harvey's Lake, near W%ilkesbarre,
Pa, snow fell at Intervals during the Both.
HENRY F. SANDMAN and Charles Far
man, member of the Knights of Pythias,
in camp near Cleveland, o., were drowned
on the Goth while bathing.
LIGHT frosts were reported on the 26th
from various points in Wisconsin and
Iowa, the damage to crops being inconsid.
rable. The weather was exceptionally
cold for the season throughout the West.
CORPORAL Ross HALLS, of Company A.
Twenty-fifth United States Infantry,
stationed at Fort Meade, D.. T., was
lynched on the 26th by a mob for shooting
DIR. Lynch, against whom he had a
grudge.
A GIGANTIC scheme for the counterfeit
ing Of Brazilian treasury notes in this
country has been unearthed by Govern
tment detectives. Lucius White, the sup
posed prime mover, was on the 26th placed
in Jail at st. Louis, and several alleged
.counterfeiters were arrested at other
points.
A SEA turtle eight feet long and weigh
ing nearly nine hundred pounds was land
ednear Boston on t he Goth.
The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics
at Washington on the Goth reported the
total value of exports of beef and pork
products for nine months ended July 81,
1855, at SGT, 7OG, 092; dairy products for
three months ended July 81, 1885, $4,Oa1,-
ZIG The total value of the exports of
breadstuffs from she United States for the
seven months ended July 81, 1885, was
$50, sos, 952.
FURTHER details on the 9th of tho de.
struction wrought by the recent storm on
the coast of South Carolina and Georgia