Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-08
OF THE WEEK.
Interesting News Compilation.
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caused a fire o the 14th in the Reed build
ing, 70 to s. Wabash avenue, which was
extinguished after q loss of $150,000 had
been incurred. Several of the occupants
and firemen barely escaped with their
lives.
BURGLARS blew a safe on the 18th in a.
savings bank at Miami, Mo-, and obtained
$1,000 in currency.
A PLATFORM collapsed a few days ago OF
Toledo, O., precipitating twenty five chill
dren twenty feet to the ground. Three boys
were seriously hurt, and several others
were more or less injured.
RoLLER-sKATING rink proprietors organ
lied an association ut New York on the
18th, the purpose being to elevate the tone
of the Kinks.
A WELL in the Thorn Creek oil district
of Pennsylvania, after having been tor
pedoed, commenced to flow on the 14th at
the rate of $500 barrels per day.
A FRI in a New York piano factory on
the 18th destroyed $780, 600 worth of prop
erty. A number of men were injured by
the falling in of the second floor and one
of them at least was expected to die.
THE town of Mann's Landing, on Puget
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ago.
FOURTEEN buildings were destroyed by
fire at Kinston, N. c., on the 14th, two at
Wilmington, N. c., and two colored
churches at Baton Rouge, La.
In q duel in a hotel at Lancaster, s.. c.,
on the 18th w. D. Curtis was shot to death
by Charles Emanuel.
THE wholesale boot and shoe firm of Fell
lows, Shaw & Raymond, of Boston, failed
on the 18th for 100000.
GOVERNOR MARTIN, of Kansas, on the
10Th issued a proclamation establishing
quarantine against several Of the States at
the present time said to be afflicted with
pleuro-pneumonia.
AT Diamond Island, in the Ohio River,
Mrs. Mary Draper and two children were
drowned a few days ago by the capsizing
of a canoe.
NEAR Mount Zion, o., the other night
burglars broke into the house of Andrew
Coleman, bound the whole family hand and
foot, and secured $1,000.
TWELVE children and one man were bit
ten by a mad dog at Milwaukee on the 18th.
EDMUND McCURTIN, Chief of the Choc-
taws, calls upon all freedmen residing in
the Nation and entitled to citizenship to
register themselves before JUNE or suffer
expulsion as intruders.
GEORGE r. HUMPF, residing in Herkimer
County, N. Y, killed his wife and child a
few days ago, while insane, and then cut
his own throat.
WILLIAM CLARK, living in Holt County,
Mo-, a few days ago shot and killed Mrs.
Hardin and her daughter Annie, whom he
had betrayed, and then shot himself. The
murderer was wealthy, and leaves a wife.
THE Marine Hospital Bureau at Wash
ington was on the 18th taking precautions
against the introduction of cholera into the
United States. Two quarantine stations
were already in operation, and others
would be opened next month.
S. A. DUNHAM, cotton factor and dealer
in naval stores at Charleston, S. c., failed
on the 10th for $125,000.
A of twenty-five men from Blunt
and Harold, D. T., forced the Jail at Pierre
early on the morning of the 10th, and
hanged James H. Bell, the murderer Of
Forest G.. Small, to the flagstaff of the
courthouse.
A woRK-TRA1N on the Denver & South
Park Road was buried in an avalanche of
snow near Kokomo, COL, on the 10th, and
of the fifty laborers on the cars one was
killed, five were probably fatally injured,
and the others were more or less bruised.
A I at an early hour on the evening
of the 10th entirely destroyed the new
Buffalo IN. W Morning Express block,
with all its contents, causing a loss of
$2233,00O, with an insurance of 1924 900. A
printer named James Ross was fatally in
jured.
AN old woman called Granny Galloway,
with two grandchildren, girls, aged eight
and ten years, were oun dead in their
beds IN the 10th In their house tour miles
from Mount Pleasant, w. Va. The three
evidently starved to death.
THE section near Hamlet, n. c., was
swept by a cyclone on the afternoon of the
10th, timber, fences and houses being lev
eled, but no lives were lost.
AT the Barbour nax-spinning works at
Paterson, N. j., fourteen hundred spinnels
struck on the 10Th for an increase of ten
per cent. in wages.
EMANCIPATION DAY (the twenty third
anniversary was celebrated at Washing
ton on the 18th by a parade Of about five
thousand colored people.
ESTIMATES of the losses to farmers in
West Virginia, by reason of the starvation
OF cattle and the depreciation in prices,
placed the loss on the 10th at one hundred
thousand dollars.
THE overseers of Harvard College have
refused to grant the petition Of undergrad
yates that attendance at morning PRAYERS
lie made optional.
Mr.. SwANK, of the American Iron and
Steel Association, states his belief that
prices OF thoss staples have reached bot.
tom, that business is slow and the demand
at low ebb.
A BILL passed the New York Senate on
the 10th providing for q perpetual park
around Niagara Falls, and for an appro-
priation to purchase the iund. The meas
ure awaited the Governors signature.
In Toledo the other day q Federal Com
missioner sold to al agent of the bond
holders, for 81, zoo, 900, the main line Of the
Ohio Central Road.
n SENATOR S~TANFoRD's stable on his VIVA
(Cal.) ranch were fired by tramps early on
the morning of the 10th, one hundred and
eleven horses and mules being burned to
death. The loss was placed at $4,000.
. At Cabinet meeting in Washington on