Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-31

AT San Francisco on the 9th DR.. R. q.
Piper, of Chicago. was arrested for libel,
on complaint of Sarah Althea Hill.
The Supreme Temple of the Patriarchal
Circle of Odd-Fellows of the United
States met at st. Paul on the 9th and
elected Peter Van Vechten, Jr., of Mill
waukee, Supreme Counselor for the en-
suing term.
The coming wheat crop in Iowa was on
the 9th estimated at thirty million bushels.
Corn promised an average crop.
IT was stated on the 9th that the Apaches
were defeated near Guasabus, in Sonora,
on the I'd with a loss of forty killed and
fourteen prisoners.
DISPATCHES received by the Signal Ser
vice Bureau on the 9th state marked me-
theological disturbances had been expe-
rienced during the day along the entire
Atlantic coast. At Dover, N. H., the ther-
mometer indicated lO2 degrees in the shade.
The extreme heat was everywhere followed
by terrific thunder storms, and numerous
persons in various places had been killed
by lightning.
BY an accident on the Panhandle Rail-
road near Halliday's Cove, w. Va, on
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seriously wounded.
killed Mrs. George Morris and then killed
himself on the 9th. He was believed to
lave been insane.
VARIOUS portions of Illinois, Michigan
and Wisconsin were visited by severe
wind and thunderstorm early on the
morning of the 9th, and much damage was
done.
EIGHT Italians who were ~excavating
along the line of the Reading and Penn
sylvania Railroad near Mount Carbon.
Pa, on the 9th were buried beneath a
huge mass of rock and earth. Five were
killed outright and three received fatal in
juries.
BY virtue Of an order issued in the Su-
preme Court at New York on the 10th, the
lines Of the American Rapid Telegraph
Company will be operated by the Western
Union Company.
sixty Indians and sixteen cowboys were
on the 10th reported to have been killed in
a re cent battle on the New Mexican ranch
belonging to j. B. Slaughter, of Colorado
City.
A TORNADO the other afternoon nearly
demolished the village of Aquetuck, stu
ated where the Erie Canal crosses the
Mohawk River, in New York.
In the United States and Canada there
were 1874 business failures during the seven
days ended on the 10th, against 211
the previous seven days. The distribu-
ton was as follows: Middle States, as;
New England States, 20; Western, CO.;
Southern, &c; Pacific States and Terrific
ries. 10; Canada. "a.
CHARLES WILLIAMS, of Highland Home,
S. c., who compelled a number of ladies to
present him with locks of their hair, while
be lourished his revolver in their faces,
was riddled with bullets by q band of
masked men on the 10th while being taken
to Jail.
THE June wheat report of the National
Agricultural Department issued on the
10th estimates the aggregate yield at 1868,
100000 bushels. The condition of corn is
higher than in any year since 1880 QSS3
excepted), and cotton has materially i'm
proved.
PETROLEUM had been "struck" in Sara.
toga County, New York, on the 10th at a
depth of one hundred feet, the flow from
the we'll being copius.
L" OCINS VI I4tO ny ,
killed himself on the 10th in Oxford, Ind,
because separated from Miss Matte Hill
man, with whom he had eloped. Miss
Hilman was detained in the house of a
friend, and Deem hot himself under her
window. He was but eighteen years of
age.
A LANDSLIDE occurred oa the morning
Of the 10th on what is known as Cherry
Mountain, in New Hampshire. At Owls
Head a strip of forest two miles long and
some rods in width was swept to the base
of the mountain.
THE New Orleans Board of Health Oh the
10th denied the report that yellow fever
had been prevailing in that city.
FOURTEEN of the sixteen employees, whose
discharge caused the recent strike on the
Chicago West Division Street Railway
Company, were reinstated on the 10th by
President Jones.