Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-10
OF THE week.
: Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

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strikes in the East had seriously affected
the market, large mines and furnaces were
closing down one after another, and the
outlook was on the whole a dismal one.
THE damage done by the recent storm
100000. Seventeen persons were killed
and nearly sixty injured.
A WIND and rain-storm on the 10th did
considerable damage at Knoxville, Ark.
The Baptist Church and r. A. Tay's store
house were totally destroyed. No ives
were lost.
The post-otfice at White Springs, Fla,
was burned the other night, and all the
stamps and funds in the office were de-
stroyed.
HAWKINS, q truckman, shot and killed
his wife at Portland, Ore, a few evenings
ago, and, while under arrest and in the
hands of the police, cut his own throat.
Four violent deaths and three cases of
insanity had up to the 10Th occurred
among the deffauded depositors of the
Erie County (Pa.) Savings Bank. The de-
faulting cashier is engaged in mercantile
business at Chatham, Ont.
= A COMPROMISE was effected on the 10th
between the iron manufacturers and the
operators at Pittsburgh, Pa, and a gen.
eral resumption of work would take place
Immediately.
Ten persons were sun-struck in New
York City on the 10th, two of whom died.
THE coal mines at West Elizabeth, Pa,
suspended operations on the 10th, throw
ing one thousand men out of employment.
AN oil well recently sunk at Lima, O.,
Suac on tbo 1ftb Anyvinr of fha r.oto of DIV
barrels an hour.
The special train conveying the Liberty
bell from New Orleans arrived at Phila-
delphia on the 18th, and was received by
Mayor Smith, the city officials and a vast
number Of citizens. The old relic was
placed on a decorated truck and conveyed
to Independence Hall, the sidewalks along
the route being lined with cheering thou
sands. The bell was placed in it's former
position in the lobby of the hall.
By the explosion of a powder magazine
the other day at Pueblo, COL, two lives
were lost and considerable property de-
stroyed.
The packing and provision establish
ment of Washington Butchers Sons, in
Philadelphia, was burned on the 18th.
Loss, $15O,0o0; insurance, 100000.
A NUMBER of prominent citizens of
Charlestown, W. Va. having been in
dicted for playing cards in private apart
ments, waited upon the foreman of the
Grand Jury on the 18th and requested him
to leave the country.
PRICE WEATHERLY (colored) was hanged
by a mob a few days G near Yazoo,
Miss, for an attempted outrage on a white
girl.
: The one hundred and thirty eighth an
nua commencement exercises of Princeton
College were concluded at Princeton, N. j.,
on the 18th.
ADMIRAL JoUETT reported to the Navy
Department at Washington on the 18th
that his efforts to bring about an adjust
ment of the roubles in Colombia had
proved fruitless. The Government forces
were now marching on Barranquilla.
. BARTHoLDI's statue of "Liberty Eulight-
ening the World'' arrived on the 18th in
New York harbor on board the French
steamer Isere.
GEORGE MORGAN, Pete Moore and Bill
Williams, desperadoes and cattle thieves,
were lynched a few days ago by vigilantes
Mt Healton, Ind. I.
SAMUEL ANDERSON, who murdered
Wash Osborn near Dry Ridge, KY, twen-
ty years ago, was discovered and arrested
on the 18th.
The epidemic at Plymouth, Pa, had on
the 18th spent it's force, and the Relief
Committee announced that it was in need
of no more funds.
JOE BARBOUR and Horace TeYill (both
colored) were hanged at Charlottes vile,
Va, on the 18th, the former for killing
Randall Jackson and the latter for the
murder of Mary Foster.
MEREDITH WORKMAN, who was on the
18th committed to the West Virginia
Penitentiary under a three years. sem
tence, has spent twenty-seven of his fifty
four years behind prison walls.
ABUDDENsIEK, the builder of man-traps
in New York, was found guilty on tn
18th of manslaughter, and remanded for
sentence.
Sauerbier sold his wife and baby to a man
named Mcfarland for one hundred dol
lars. The purchaser left with the woman
and infant for his home in Logan, O., and
Sauerbier left for Chicago.
/! TWENTY-FIVE iron-mills in Pittsburgh,
Pa, ave resumed operations since the
signing on Gne scale.
PROMINENT members of the Salt Lake
:(Utah) police force were arrested on the
18th for poiygamy.
The first railway car on the new Broad
way road in New York passed over the
lower half of the line on the 18th, drawn
by four gayly caparisoned horses.
THE schooner Austin d. Knight sailed
from Philadelphia on the 18th for Vigo,
Spain, where she is to be engaged in rails
ing the Spanish treasure galleons sunk in
,Vigo Bay in 1902.
ON Chicoteague Island, near Tasley, Va,
William Freeman, aged eighteen years, on
the 18th fatally shot Timothy Hills, his
wife and daughter, because the latter re-
jected his suit, and then killed himself.
COLONEL BRADLEY, stationed at Santa
Fe, te~legraphed on the 18th to the War
Department at Washington chat there
were no hostile Indian. in New Mexico.
1t was thought that the Apaches had also
left Arizona.
MASKED men on the 19th took Henry
Howard (colored) from Jail at Coshocton,
o., and hanged him to a tree for assaulting
two young white women. He confessed
the crime.