Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-22
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.


MRS. q. G. BURT and her little daughter
were found floating dead in a cistern at
Little Rock, Ark, a few days ago.. The
theory was that the child accidentally fell
into the cistern and the mother plunged in
to rescue it.
IT was stated on the 2Sth by the Third
Assistant Postmaster-General that the
jtwo-cent postage rate during the first
year of trial had been u success, the reve-
nue. being 1923, 100 greater.t than was antici-
gpated.
NEAR Eldorado, Mo-, on the 2Sth Russell
II. Garris shot and killed his father, sixty
years of age, in a dispute over a trunk.
The capital Of West Virginia was on
the 2Sth being removed from Wheeling to
Charleston.
THE Chicago Board of Trade, organized
in 1S4S, removed to their now building on
.theievening of the 2sth. The opening
~jercises were attended by about twelve
Thousand persons. The new ediice cost
over ST. 900, 900.
A DOZEN business houses at Chillicothe,
Mo-, were burned on the 2Sth, the loss be-
ing $4,000.
CROP reports on the 2Sth from Califor-
mia showed a greatly lessened acreage of
wheat and q much larger area devoted to
fruit.
A FIRE in the Lindell Hotel, at st. Louis,
ion the evening of the 2sth caused the
greatest alarm, as the house was we'll
filled by families. The flames originated
i'm the cellar, and rose no higher than the
iofice floor. The loss was estimated at
100000.
A COMMITTEE of architects who examined
various buildings in New York erected by
lBuddensiek reported on the 2Sth that near
lily all of them must be taken down, as the
walls are bulged, the foundations de-
Elective, and the general material of the
worst order.
I. A. DURHAM & Co., cotton factors at
charleston, S. c., have failed for 1925, 000.
The Cincinnati Police Commissioners on
1.-THE 2sth issued an order that hereafter the
|theaters and all other places Of amusement
must be closed on Sunday.
FROM six 10 twelve inches of snow fell
on the 18th throughout Northern Michigan.
HERBERT C. HALL, member of q good
family, vas arrested at New York on the
l2sth for embezzling $12,0 900 while clerk in
the TRANSPORTATION Office of Gerard F.
Hastings.
VAlSol 1OClS2 L Efh1NS las DIOuSAU SSlu
lat Los Angeles, Cal, against Lucky
Baldwin for $500, 900 for breach of promise.
MRS. e. HAwLEY, who is over fifty
wears old, was arrested on the 29th at Gin
%lcinnati for attempting to burn the Palace
Hotel block, in which structure she had
conducted a small manufacturing bust
ness for months.
NEARLY half q hundred people of
iCorinna, Me-, assembled on the Goth i'll
their tabernacle dressed in white robes
expecting to be translated to a better
world. AT last accounts they were still
icitizens of the United States.
AT Buffalo, N. Y, on the Doth Josiah
'Beardsiey, a real-estate dealer, was swim
idled out of s. 5000 by a Chicago bunko man.
q FIRE on the Goth destroyed an opera
house and carriage factory at Railway, N.
IT,, worth 100000.
GOVERNOR CARPENTER, of Montana, on
the 10Th issued a proclamation against cat
tile entering into the Territory.
AFTER being in the courts for twenty
three years the estate of c. H. Mccormick,
;of Chicago, was on the goth awarded dam
ages of $16,431. 10 against the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company for property destroyed
by fire.
IT was announced on the goth that unless
the striking miners in Southern Illinois re-
turned to work soon there would be a coal
famine in st. Louis.
MARY F. CoNNoR, aged twenty five, Of
Quincy, Mass, visiting the family of Rev.
George A. Thayer, in Cincinnati, drowned
herself in a cistern the other day.
THE window-gla trade is reported as
unusually dull, with several factories
closed, and unless business improves sew
:eral others will suspend operations.
In aquarrel at Chattanooga, Tenn, the
other evening Will Irwin killed his brother
Charley by ~plunging a dirk knife into his
back.
FIRES in the Blue Mountains, between
''Berks and %Schuylkill counties, Pa, were
;ruging fiercely on the Goth, and several
thousand acres had been burned over.
The Governor of Iowa on the Goth issued
a proclamation q%uarantining the State
against all cattle from States east of the
Mississippi River.
OPPREssIvELY warm weather is reported
at New Orleans and throughout the South
west.
JOHN l.. SNovALL, book-keeper of the
Georgia Chemical Works, at Augusta, is a
,OeIaulGer TO Gne amount OF 94U,OUJ.
THE North Chicago rolling-mill, located
mt South Chicago was compelled to close
,on the 30th ult. on account of a strike for
higher wages by two hundred pitmen.
Twelve hundred workmen were thrown
out of employment.
! SEVEN THOUSAND people witnessed the
opening of the baseball league season at
list. Louis on the 33th ult., the home club
defeating the Chicagos 8 to 9.
The United States Grand Jury at Kan
Isas City, Mo-, on the Goth ult. found sep
!arate indictments against sixty-eight of
the Oklahoma boomers and one sweeping
indictment against the remainder as a
whole, upon the charge of "inciting and
assisting in rebellion"
JOHN MURGATRoDE, a miser who recently
died in the city hospital at Philadelphia,
left $4,000 to his brother and sister.
A TORNADO at Pleasant Hill, Mo-, the
other night wrecked houses, blew thirteen
freight cars off the track, badly %wounding
three men and killing a number of hogs
with which she cars were loaded. A child
was killed at Holden, and property in the
vicinity suffered severely.
THE total issue of postage-stamps,
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