Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-11
OF THE week.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.


at Winnipeg for completely in the rebellion,
was on the 18th sentenced to three years.
imprisonment.
The skeletons of nine adults and five
children, supposed to have been Indians,
were unearthed on the 18th by workmen
who were ~excavating in Dorchester, q
Boston suburb.
THREE men were killed and one serious
ly injured by stroke of lightning on the
18th while fishing in the Illinois River, neal
Peoria.
THE Executive Board of the Knights of
Labor Oh the 18th ordered q strike of oil
members of the organization employed by
the Gould lines west of the Mississippi.
Mrs. MARY PARD, Of Lawrence, Mass,
who began to fast a month ago because of
her sins, was buried on the 18th.
From January l to the 18th inst. the ar
rivals of immigrants at Castle Garden
were thirty thousand fewer than during
the corresponding period of 1884.
VARIOUS points in Illinois, Iowa and
Wisconsin were visited by severe storms
on the night of the 17tn, many head of
live stock being killed and buildings de-
stroyed by lightning, and much damage
inflicted upon standing crops by hail and
wind.
AT Grand Rapids, Mich, on the 18th, in
the matter of D.. c. 6 H. G. Reed & Co.,
patentees of the sprins-tooth harrow, VS..
Chase, Taylor & Co. ct al, for infringe
ment of patent, tried in the United States
Court, Justice Stanley Matthews found
for the plaintiffs. The case had been be-
fore the courts several years. By this de-
cision every farmer using and every con-
Germ making any sort of an infringement
will have to pay a royalty. The case is
Il of the most important ever decided in
this country.
THREE children of Emile Lirett, of Little
Gallon, Terrebonne Parish, La, We're in
stantly killed, the mother fatally burned
and the father and two other children
seriously injured by the accidental explo-
sion of %gunpowder a few days ago.
1T was announced at Washington on the
18th that the demand for silver dollars all
over the country was constantly increas-
ing, and that the issue averaged about
$780, coo q week more than the same period
last year.
THREE brothers named TRULY, of Mar
tins Valley, Pa, met with violent deaths
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other, and the shock so Frustrated their
mother that her life was despaired of.
OFFICERS of the Pacific Mail steamer
Pic Janeiro, which sailed on the 18th from
San Francisco for Yokohama and Hong
Kong, refused to receive United States
mails.
REPORTS covering the whole South from
Virginia to Texas showed on the 10th
that the prospect for the lcrops and the
outlook for business in that section were
remarkably good.
The little town of Heath, Mass, cele-
DRAFTED its Tooth anniversary on the 10Th.
THERE are one hundred and ninety per-
sons serving life-sentences in the prisons
of New York State, thirteen of whom are
women, all for murder in different de-
grees.
The population of Albany, the Capital
of New York State, according to the re-
vised census, is 96,33s6.
,. By a collision on the 10Th on q railroad
near Charlestown, w. Va, four men were
killed and several others injured.
A CASE of yellow fever was reported
from New York on the 19th.l The victim is
a sailor who recently arrived in port.
INVESTIGATION established the fact on
the 10Th that the recent explosion on the
steamer FELTON, at Philadelphia was the
work of dynaniters.
THE death of John Nichols, Vice-Presi-
dent of the City National Bank at Fort
Worth, Tex, occurred recently, and on the
10Th it was discovered that he was a de-
%faulter in, the sum of $50, 900.
In Watauga County, N. c., several Sc
we're shocks of earthquake were reported
on the 10Th, greatly frightening the inhab-
itants.
THE eighth annual meeting of the
American Bar Association convened at
Saratoga Springs, N. Y, on the 10Th.
BETWEEN six and seven hundred men
and boys employed in a colliery at Shenan.
doah, Pa, struck on the 18th against a
ten per cent. reduction in wages, and
assaulted the Hungarians and Poles work
ing about the mine, who repulsed them
after an hours battle, ten or twelve men
being badly hurt.
IT was stated at Washington on the 10Th
that the scarcity of one and two dollar
notes was due to the fact that the Treas
ury had suspended the printing of those
denominations, and since August - no
small notes had been paid out by the
Treasury. In lieu of these small notes the
Treasurer was paying out silver dollars
and fractional coins.
The National Association of ex-Union
Prisoners of Wa held its twelfth an
nual session on the 10Th at Philadelphia.
AN old man named Willis Roach, who
was attacked a few days ago by four rob-
bers near Frankfort, KY, was rescued by
his young son, who shot and killed two of
the desperadoes and fatally wounded a
third.
FIVE employees of a wholesale shoe-house
at Pittsburgh, Pa, were arrested on the
18th, charged with stealing $4,000 worth
of goods from the firm during the past
three years.
A THUNDERSTORM broke owe Erie, Pa,
early on the morning of the 18th, and q
bolt struck the electric light plant, demol-
ishing the!dynamo and plunging the bust.
ness part of the city into darkness. A
dwelling-house was wrecked, and its occu-
pants found unconscious in the debris.
Barns, with crops and horses, were burned,
and vineyards were destroyed.
The harvest of small grains in South
west Dakota and the adjoining counties of