Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-21
EP|TOME OF THE week.
Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.

SSAA hiNAA6 DCSA ASSClNV y uU III
Department of Agriculture in Washington
that the sorghum seed distributed this
year failed to grow, samples of it were
tested in the gardens of the Department.,
and it was found that only about ten per
cent. of it would sprout.
The President on the 2Sth declined to
modify his order for the removal within
forty days of cattle from the Cheyenne
and Arapahoe reservations, in Indian Ter
ritory.
STRIKERS at Cleveland, O., again became
riotous on the 2Sth, and several men work
ing around the iron-mills making repairs
were badly beaten.
y The Apache raiders on the 2Sth had
broken up into small squads, and were
trying to gain their reservation. A squaw
camp was discovered by q company of
Mexicans in the Pinati Mountains, in
Sonora, and n number of squaws and old
bucks killed. Captain Lawton's troops
struck a party of Indians in the Whet-
stone Mountains, and captured twenty
four horses.
IHE cotton-worm was at work on the
2Sth in South Carolina fields, and planters
were much dishesrtened at the outlook.
A A of oil exploded q few days ago at
Monongahela City, Pa, killing two little
daughters of John Everets.
HI United States mail.ccach was rob-
bed recently near Hawshaw, A. T., by
high waymen, and one passenger was
killed.
+ A FIRE on the 2sth in the chemical works
at Greenwich Point, near Philadelphia,
did damage to the extent of $500, 600.
THE Treasury Department at Washing
ton on the 2Sth purchased 105, 900 ounces of
silver for coinage into silver dollars at the
Philadelphia Mint.
A Ian named Carriers, his wife and
child, three negroes and three horses and
three COWS were all killed by one bolt of
lightning on the 2Sth at Marion, N. c.
THOMAS K. BRANTLEY, of Bainbridge,
Ga, recently arrested for indecent brutal
.ity toward his wife, was taken from Jail
at that place on the goth by O mob and
hanged to a tree.
DODGE g. Co.'s flint glass factory at
Pittsburgh, Pa, was destroyed by fire a
few days ago.. Other buildings were dam
aged, making the total loss $3.50, 900.
In Anderson County, KY, three BROTH
.ers named hawkins were shot on the Goth
by Horace Mullins, whom they had called
to account for alleged SANDER of their
sister.
1.-Two MEN were killed and five others Sc
riously injured on the Goth by the fall of a
rolling-mill at Wilmington, Del.
A FIRE on the Goth at M~annsville, N. Y,
destroyed every store in the town, min
dwelling houses and a church, the loss ag-
%!gregating $780, 900.
MRS. MARY EBR1GHr was burned to
death at Omaha the other day while try
ing to start a fire with kerosene oil.
The town of Montfort, Wis, was visited
early on the morning. of the 10Th by a cy-
clone. which demolished several buildings,
leveled fields of grain did other dam
age.
NATURAL gas was s'struck' on the Goth
in the center of Ithaca, N. Y, and oil oper-
ators declared that petroleum would also
be found.
RTHE rate of postage ont letters sent from
the United States to Australia and New
Zealand, via England, Brindisi and the
Suez Canal, has been reduced from fifteen
to twelve cents, making it uniform with
the rate via San Francisco.
A FIRE on the Doth at Memphis, Tenn,
destroyed William & Co.'s planning mill
and one million feet of lumber. Loss,
1926, 600.
CROP reports on the Goth from Minnesota
and Dakota We're to the effect that the re-
ported damage to wheat had been exag-
gerated, and that, while there had been
some damage from rust and blight report
ed, the loss was insignificant.
A SEVERE electric storm prevailed in
Mount MacGregor on the evening of the
Both ult. One bolt followed the electric
light wires into the Grant cottage and en-
tinguished the lamp Immediately over the
.casket containing the dead soldier. A
portion of the plastering was torn away.
-Four persons were stunned bv the fluid,
but revived upon the application of restor-
iatives. In the afternoon the cottage was
thrown open, and people on the Mount
avalled themselves of the opportunity to
gaze upon the revered remains. Mrs.
Grant visited the room twice during the
day, and a letter from her, hoping to meet
her husband in a better land, will be in
TERED with the casket.
! THE general belief that the advent of
better times in the iron trade are at hand
prevailed at ittsburgh on the Both ult.
JOHN EIDE, seventy-tw years old. and
worth $4,000, living near New Philadel-
phia, O., hanged himself in his barn on the
NA"S "AA w u OuUlCSs
THE weather continued intensely hot |
throughout the West and Northwest on
the Both ult., the mercury ranging between
80 and 107 degrees at various points in
Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Da-
kota, Minnesota and Michigan.
REV. JOHN G. Young, one of the most
eloquent pulpit orators of the South, COM
mitted suicide by poisoning at Highbridge,
KY, on the Both ult. Nocause was assigned
for the deed.
VALENTINE WAGNER, a desperate MUIR
derer, was executed at the Ohio Peniten-
tiary at ColumhEs on the morning of the |
31st ult.
: MANY points in the Northwest were Wis.
ited during the %forty-eight hours end.
ed at six p. IN. of the 30th ult. by severe
storms, involving great destruction to
property and serious damage to the crops.
In a sham battle between Pennsylvania
troops at C%onneaut Lake, on the Both ult.,
the men became SO excited that they be.
lieved they were engaged in u real con-
fict. Wads from cannon seriously injured
four men, and the colors of one company