Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-06-05
OF THE week.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

MES were found on the floor where they
bad been dropped during the count.
WILLIAM HESS, a farmer near Wells
Valley, Pa, while fighting q fire on the
18th in some valuable timber-land on his
farm, became unconscious. His two
daughters dragged him to a place of safe
ty, but in doing so their clothes caught fire
pnd they were fatally burned.
Prof. I. S. LATIMER reported to a medical
gathering at Baltimore IN the 10Th that a
cholera epidemic might be expected in
this country either this summer or the
next.
ANDREW j. JOHNSON, the noted outlaw of
Bell County, Kentucky, lay in wait be-
hind a building in Pineville a few days ago
and killed Thomas j. Napier and Josiah
Hoskins and his daughter as they returned
from church..
SIX weeks ago a student in the Female
College at Pittsburgh was secretly mar
ried to a son of Rev. DIR. Pershing. After
n quarrel the other night the bridegroom
started for Chicago, and the young wife
shot herself fatally in the right temple.
MRS. PFANTz, a laborer's wife, living
near Letitz, Pa, while insane took her five
children to a pond on the 18TH, and after
fAlSStuS Uucul, UuItW U1cul luUO Uue "uUeTs
The screams of the eldest children brought
help, and three of them were rescued, but
the mother and two others were drowned.
p, A FIR at Duncansville, Pa, the other
morning destroyed the residence Of Sam
uel Black, his two boys, aged eight and
three, perishing in the flames.
DURING the absence of Henry Stevens
and his wife from their home near Jeffer-
son City. Mo-, the other night the house
burned down n two of their children
persisted in the flames. A third child es-
capped.
Tue issue of standard dollars from the
mints during the week ended on the 9th
was $3.50, 999. The issue during the COR
responding period of last year was $345 ,997.
THE sixth annua convention of the Ho-
tel Mems Mutual Benefit Association was
held in Chicago on the 10Th, delegates be-
ing present from every State. and Territory
in the Union. u w. D. Garrison, of New
York, was electedPresident for the ensuing
year.
THREE Italians under arrest for COM
plicity in the murder of Fillippo Caruso at
Chicago made written confessions on the
10Th describing the manner in which they
%strangled their victim for his mohey and
then shipped the body in a trunk to
Pittsburgh, where it was discovered.
; RUSSIAN flour of very fine quality, to
The amount of two thousand sacks, was on
the 10Th offered OH the New York Produce
Exchange at six dollars per barrel.
CAPTAIN LORD, of the steamer Critic,
which arrived at New York on the 18th,
reported ~encountering miles of solid ice,
with numerous icebergs two hundred to
eight hundred feet high, and as large as
sland In the Captains experience he
never met such quantities of ice befo s.
E1N Pike County, Kentucky, a few days
ago Frank Stratton encountered Mount
Clark clipping with his sister, and in the
conflict Stratton was fatally stabbed and
Clark mortally shot.
&The american Rural Home, from advices
received, stated on the 18th that the wheat
yield throughout the country this year
would be but sixty-two per cent. of a full
crop.
The extensive brewery of Michael
Brand & Co., in Chicago, was damaged by
fire on the 18th to the extent of $3.50 $1,000,
on which there was no insurance.
: The twenty-sixth annual convention Of
the Young Mems Christian Associations
of the United States and Canada met at
Atlanta, Ca, on the 18th. The Interna-
tional Committees report showed $50 as
sociations, with a membership of 10000.
The associations own $1,000, 900 worth of
property.
The residence of Theodore Sears, in Bal
timore, was shattered by a powder explo-
sion a few nights ago, and nine of the in
mates We're seriously injured. Sears is
a non-union foreman in a glass factory,
and union strikers were charged with
causing the explosion.
THE total number of hogs handled by
Western packers from March / to the 18th
inst. was 1,155,00 against $780, 900 during
the same period last year.
THERE are 1926 working lodges of the
knights of Honor in the United States,
with a membership of 131, los. The deaths
d.ring the past year numbered 1,409, and
thy assessments for death benefits
amounted to s., 100, 5G1.
~TwENTY-sEvEN boomers wagons passed
Through the Cheyenne agency recently on
their way to Oklahoma, and on the 18th
n dispatch was sent to those camping near
Caldwell, Kan, that the coast was clear
for another raid.
A CAvE-1N occurred on the 18th at the
North Ashland (Pa.) colliery, by which
three miners and a driver were killed and
another fatally injured while trying to es-
cape.
PUBLIC interest in the Afghan question
was much lessened in London on the 18th,
the general opinion being that the differ
4ences would be peacefully settled.
ALL the troops at Lemont, ILL.,, were re-
called on the 18th, and the utmost tran
guilty reigned there. Work had been re-
'sumed by the strikers.
: The elevated railway in Brooklyn, N.
Y, was opened to the public on the 18th
free of fare.
! MICHAEL ALDERFER, President of a
National bank at East G%reenville, Pa,
being eighty-two years of age, was driven
to suicide on the 14th by runors of a def
lcit in his accounts.
DONALD c. TowNE, who was sent to the
penitentiary from Chicago for u violation
of the postal laws, has been pardoncd Ivy
the President.
Mrs. JANE HOLMES, of Pitts burgh, Pa,
recently deceased, left an estate of 81, OOO,-
1000 to be divided between seventeen chari-
table institutions in that city.
ABRAHAM D. TH1ERwEIcHTER, Of Oak