Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-15
OF THE week.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
!: THE family of James Hamilton, living at
Northrep, o., nte canned whortleberries at
supper the other evening. and all became
suddenly i'll, three persons dying before
morning, and the recovery of the others
was still in doubt.
AN incendiary fire on the 22d wiped out
the village of Perryville, on the Tennessee
River.
THREE prominent Mornons, S. NJ. Smith,
E. D. Davis and Bishop Stewart, were ar
rested ut Salt Lake on the 22d for uulaw-
full Capitalization.
THE forest fires near Wilton, N. j., were
under control on the 22d. The new settle
lnent known as Chiselhurst was entirely
burned over.
THE Louis Cook Carriage Company, of
Cincinnati, with liabilities of ? 100000,
made an assignment on the 22d.
A HURRICANE swept over Dallas, Tex,
between two and four O'Clock on the morn-
ing of the 22d. -Four houses were leveled,
several stores unroofed, and fruit trees
and shrubbery shorn. A deluging rain
converted the streets into rivers aud sub
merged the country, doing immense dam
age.
NAVIGATION on the Mississippi is now
open from the Gulf Of Mexico to st. Paul.
A BLAZE on the 22d at Vicksburg, Tenn,
caused q loss of $250,O00. 1t was feared
that twelve persons persisted in 1.-THE flames.
To make q test case the catcher of the
Cleveland baseball club was arrested on
the ed for playing ball on Sunday, ard
the law and order people would make a
vigorous prosecution.
A TUG made q trip of five miles into the
lake from Buffalo, N. Y, on the 22d, and
found the ice loose and porous. The opfn-
ion was expressed that propellers could
easily make their way through Lake Erie.
A wATERsPoUr swept over Medicine
Lodge, Barber County, Kan, on the ODD,
causing great destruction to property and
the loss of several lives. Among those
known to be lost are the following: G.. w.
Paddock, wife and four children; Jerry
Gibbs and daughter; Mrs. Harris and
daughter; Mrs. Maddox and four children.
-Four wagons containing mowers" had not
been heard from, and it was thought all
had persisted. The bodies of fifteen per-
sons had been recovered.
Two converts to Mormonism,
mostly English and Scotch, arrived at New
York on the 22d, en- route for Utah. There
twere one hundred and twenty women
among the number.
THE heaviest rain on record at Austin,
Tex, fell on the ED. Many buildings
were flooded and the water ran three feet
deep in the streets.
1T was announced on the 22d that frosts
had killed the entire wheat crop along the
lake shore in Pennsylvania, and farmers
were blowing the land for other crops.
+ HI total values of the imports of mer-
chandise during the twelve months ended
March 81, 1885, were 500, 1911 1884, against
1888, 20S, PSI the preceding twelve months.
Value of exports, $743, 765, 800, against
$761, GGS, COL during the preceding twelve
mouths.
The heaviest snow-storm ever known in
Colorado closed at dark on the 23d. The
fall ut Denver was twenty inches, and the
roofs of numerous buildings fell in.
NORTH and west of Denison, Tex, rail-
way travel was stopped on the 23d, heavy
storms having caused washouts and weak
,ened bridges. The Red River was rising
at the rate of four feet an hour.
F: BUDDENs1EK, the tiimsy householder of
New York, was on the 23d reported as
having jumped his bail of $4,000 and
started for Canada.
CAPTAIN O'BR1EN, of the steamer City of
Mexico, was arrested in New York on the
;23d for carrying arms and munitions of
war to the Colombian insurgents.
FRANK ROLAND, a young student spend
ing his vacation ut his home in Erie, Pa,
was crushed to death recently under a
iponderous iron and stone land-roller.
AN i%ncendiary fired the barn of J. K.
Hansen, in Hand County, D. T., a few
days ago, and sixteen head Of fine cattle
and other valuables were burned.
THRONES of people were on the 23d flock
ing to the newly discovered silver district
,near Piedmont, w. Va. The assayists
pronounced the ore, which is near the sur
face, a very rich quality.
MARTIN MITCHELL delivered himself up
at Memphis, Tenn, on the 23d, claiming
that in an ARRAY in st. Francis County,
Arkansas, he had shot and killed three
lnen who opened fire on him..
FOREST fires were raging on the 23d in
the Welsh Mountains near New Holland,
Pa. Fires also had caused serious dam
nge in the vicinity of Williamsburg, N.
j., and in the region about Mt. Carmel,
Pa, thousands of feet of valuable pine
timber having been destroyed. Incendia-
Ties were said to lave caused the c%ontiagra-
tions.
A on the 23d at Prairie Grove,
Tex, killed a fourteen-year-old girl and
fatally injured three other persons. A
school house, church and four dwellings
were demolished, a number Of children re-
ceiving severe wounds.
y AN incendiary fire destroyed thirteen
buildings at S%harpsburg, Pa, early on the
morning of the 23d, rendering sixty per-
sons homeless.
Hot weather prevailed on the 23d in New
England. The mercury registered ninety
two degrees in the shade in several places
in Vermont, putting a stop to sugar-mak-
ing.
II bodies of six persons who lost their
lives in the recent Vicksburg fire were re-
covered on the 23d. 1t was believed that
from fifteen to twenty others were still in
the ruins
NINE HUNDRED reports from the wheat
growing States were published on the 23d.
Illinois was the only State not reporting
IN improvement.
, THE resignation of Treasurer Wyman
AZ - $500,