Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-13
EP|TOME OF The week.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

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the %latter's atfianced, whom the old gen.
tleman disiiked, and the father shot the
son dead.
THE thirteenth annual meeting of the
Carriage Builders National Association
opened in Boston on the Goth, with two
hundred members present.
THE explosion of a boiler on the Goth at
Ridgeville, S. c., killed three persons and
mortally injured three others.
INcENDIARIEs burned the East Avenue
Presbyterian Church ut Schenectady, N.
V, the other night, the loss being $780, 00.
THE families of the striking miners in
the district near Pittsburgh, Pa, were in
a starving condition on the 10Th, and it was
expected that the men, to save the lives of
their wives and children, would soon re-
sumo work. The strike has lasted seven
weeks.
The sanitary precautions adopted in the
transmission of italian mails intended for
this country during the prevalence of
cholera in Italy have been ordered discon-
:tinued.
E, BURGLARS entered the residence of Mr..
C. j. Adams, at Chicago, the other night
and stole jewelry, cash aud other val
,uables amounting to more than $1,000.
Among other things taken was the gold
pen, given by Mrs. Lincoln to Mrs. Adams,
with which Abraham lincoln signed the
Emancipation Proclamation.
MISS EFFIE ~LITTLEFIELD, a Scotch wom-
an, hanged hers If on the goth to a chan
;delier in n Boston hotel. She crossed the
Atlantic recently, and was in search of a
brother in Chicago.
NEAR Williamsport, Pa, on the Goth
two passenger trains collided.. two en-
;ployes being killed and several persons
severely injured.
A FOOT of snow was reported on the
Goth from nearly all parts of the peninsula
:of Michigan, %blockading the railroads.
AT Indianapolis on the 10Th the brother
of a young white woman, who had been
assaulted by n negroe shot the fiend, in
,flicting "a fatal wound. The tragedy took
place in the courthouse.
ACCORDING to the figuring of the New
York Produce Exchange, the visible sup
ply of wheat on the Goth was a., 10, ASP
bushels, and of corn I, S37, 423 bushels.
AT Youngstown, o., n lad named Tom
Muldoon stole over 81, 700 from his mother
on the Goth and ran off. The police found
him in a drunken sleep in a shed with
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The Cane Hill College, at Fayetteville,
Ark, the oldest institution of learning in
the State, was destroyed by an incendi-
surance.
THREE kegs of g%unpowder exploded in
the grocery store of Petit & Lautz, at
Mexico, Mo-, on the e1st, and $4,000 worth
of property was destroyed by the fire
which ensued-
Mrs. GEORGE VANSEss, of New Brook.
Ign, N. j., gave birth to four children on
the 21st, two boys and two girls.
ROBERT J. DoxEY, a wife-murderer, was
taken from Jail bya mob on the 2lst ut
Holly Springs, Miss, and hanged.
ADvIcEs of the 21st say that seven men
were killed by the recent boiler explosion
at a saw-mill in Ridgeville, S. c.
A DERRICK at the Lowell (Mass.) water
works fell on the 21st, killing four men.
MRS. Ohm CONWAY and her daughter
Kate were found dead in their dwelling in
Kansas City on the 21st, having been MUIR
..dered by an unknown person. Thirty dol
liars in money was carried off by the as
;sassin.
MORTON c. WARREN, importer of laces
lat New York, made an assignment the
other day, giving preferences for $lOG, 900.
The twenty second annual convention
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
,neers convened in New Orleans on the 21st.
The steamship Niagara from Havana
arrived in New York on the 9lst with
three passengers suffering with yellow
fever.
: A MOB surrounded a wooden building
used as a jaia in Murfreesboro, Ark, the
Other night, in which one Churchill, a
murderer, was confined, and after saturat-
ing the structure with oil, they fred it,
Churchill perishing in the flames.
A MINER at Plymouth, Pa, on the 21st
entered u dangerous portion of a mine
with a naked lamp on his head, causing
an explosion which killed three men and
fatally burned fourteen others.
AN alleged Internal machine-a piece of
gas-pipe filled with powder-was found
on a street-car track at st. Louis on the
21st, a cap being SO arranged that a car
wheel would explode the missile.
THOMAS WHITLEY and his wife. who
were married a few days ago, were found
dying in a room of a Lincoln (Neb.s hotel
on thes2lst, having taken morphine, it was
supposed, with suicidal intent.
" IN a game of thr ee- ball billiards on the
21st at Yankton, D. T., Mr.. Laurie McAfee
made, it was said, a run Of G.004 points-a
most remarkable performance.
The iron trade at Philadelphia contin-
ued active on the 2lst, and old rails, both
iron and steel, were in brisk request, hut
scarce. Prices we're firmly held, and nails
had advanced ten .ents in retail lots.
TWENTY Mormon Elders from Salt Lake
City arrived at Chattanooga, Tenn, on the
Dist. They were said to be the first of a
larger number who would be sent South to
proselyte.
ADv1cEs of the ODD from Salt Lake City
say that the Mormon Bishops and papers
were advising the people of Utah to hoard
wheat now that they have such abundant
crops for a famine which they predicted
would come.
The Secretary of the Interior at WASH
ington on the 22d received a special report
from Governor Squire, of Washington
Territory, upon the Chinese situation in
the Territory. The Governor said that
there had been much agitation on the
subject of forcing Chinese residents to
leavet the country, but thus far there had
been no outbreak, although sarious trouhle