Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-02

ordered quarantine against all vessels
from Canada and Newfoundland.
REPORTS on the 10th from important oil
Pa, indicated the opening up of q new
territory of indefinite extent.
THE Commissioner of Internal Revenue
at Washington states that during the fs-
cal year ended June 30, 1885, there were
60, 156,9o2 gallons of distilled liquors con-
sumed in this country and 2O,5OS,3 45 gall
Ions of wine.
LESTER BROTHERS. livery stable at
Nashville, Tenn, was burned on the 10th.
Seventy horses and mules persisted. The
total loss was $54 900.
A CLOUD burst near Pantano, A. T., the
other evening and washed out six miles of
track and injured the bridges.
HEAVY rains on the 10th in the vicinity
of Jackson, Miss, did great damage to
crops. The fall of water was unprece-
denied, overlooking and almost washing
away the fields in some places.
Four more bodies of Chinese victims Of
the recent riots at Rock Springs, Wy. T.,
were discovered on the 10th. Nearly six
hundred Cinnamon had resumed work at
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tary protection.
ACCORDING to returns received on the
10th by the Department of Agriculture at
Washington the wheat crop this year will
be below, and the corn crop above, the
average. Thu harvest in Great Britain
will not vary materially inyield from that
Of last year.
MRS. DR.. MARSHALL and two other la
dies were drowned in Lake Traverse,
Mimi, the other evening, the boat having
been capsized in a storm.
WILLIAM WHITLEY and Cain Bell, rival
suitors for a woman's hand, fought a duel
with knives in Georgia on the 18th, both
being fatally wounded.
= THE United States steamer Swatara left
New Orleans on the 18th with $40, 400, 600
i'll silver on board, doubtless the most val
liable cargo ever taken from that port.
ACCORDING to the Michigan crop report,
issued on the 18th, wheat in that State will
yield 81, 294, S45 bushels, an increase of
4,S42,345 bushels over the highest previous
official estimate.
MAXWELL, the alleged murderer of
Preller, was re-arraigned at st. Louis on
the 18th, and the case was continued until
October 10.
NJ. G. ROCKWELL, an banker of
Union, N. Y, was arrested on the 11th,
charged with Incorporating $4,000, by
Mrs. Livinia Stone, a depositor.
ADvICEs oil the 18th to Bradstreet's state
that general trade throughout the country
was still improving, and the outlook was
considered encouraging.
OWING to the continuance of bad wealth.
err the directors of the Iowa State Fair, at
Des Moines, declared the exposition closed
on the 18th. TIL Wisconsin State Fair at
Madison was also closed for the same rea-
son.
The silver clerk III the Sub Treasury at
Washington last month counted 25o, 900
of silver dollars, and found thirty-two
counterfeits; $4,000 in halves, finding
eleven counterfelts, and S4S, 900 in quarters,
in which were four counterfeits.
A NUMBER of miscegenationists in Bair-
field County, S. c., We're on the 18th visited
at their homes by a band of masked
regulators" who whipped them severely
and ordered them to leave at once for
other parts.
SAMUEL SCALES, a negro, who recently
outraged u white woman neal Walton,
KY, was hanged by u mob at Burlington,
in that State, on the 18th.
A coLoRED woman named johnson, 112
years old, arrived at Louisville on the 18th
from New Orleans, to see q daughter from
whom she had been separated fifty years.
THE individual losses from the recent
cyclone at Washington Court House, O.,
were Gu the 18th estimated at over $780,
600. About one hundred families were re-
ported by the local relief committee to
be in need of assistance.
In the United States and Canada there
were 204 business failures during the seven
days ended on the 18th, against 1856 the
previous seven days. The distribution
was as follows: Middle States, IS; New
England States -; Western, SO; South
ern, IS; Pacific States and Territories, So;
Canada, 81.