Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-03-26

A MAD steer charged into q crowd OF
school children at Cincinnati ON the ll'h'
knocking many of them down and tossing
several into the air. Three of them We're
fatally injured.
WHILE in bed at Philadelphia on the 18th
Frank Murgatroyd was taken with a Vlo-
lent fit of sneezing, and died before a ply
sician arrived.
As A result Of the Uniondale (Pa.) mine
| explosions up to the 18th five persons mad
died, and three others were still in danger.
FLAMES originating i'll the Brunswick sa-
loon at Hot Springs, Ark, destroyed prop
erty a few days ago valued at Sl5o,ooo.
AN aged inmate of the altnshouse near
Lebanon, Pa, threw paris green into a
| huge kettle of coffee on the 18th, by which
| one hundred persons were poisoned, ten or
more of them fatally.
THE Secretary of State of New Jersey on
the 18th ordered the Dime Savings Ban of
New Brunswick to close its doors. There
were rumors that Arthur G. Qgilby, the
treasurer, was n defaulter for $4,000.
HARLOW VARNEY, aged eighty years,
hanged himself on the 18th at Mishawaka,
Ind. Domestic trouble was the cause.
THE boilers of tho steamer Ike Bonham
exploded on the 18th, eleven miles below
Vicksburg, Miss. A number of persons
were killed and several dangerously
wounded.
THE next meeting of the American Con-
gress of Churches will be held at Cleveland,
O., beginning May Is.
THE Minister'S Association, composed OF
representatives of each church in Minneap-
oils, Mimi, passed resolutions recently to
withdraw their patronage from all Sunday
papers published in or out of that city.
The Chinese we're on the 18th being dis
| charged in large numbers by employers in
Los Angeles, Cal.
JOHN 7. H%1LDEETH, tow treasurer Of
Stowe, Mass, was missing on the 18th, and
his accounts were $40, 600 short.
A negro lad aged thirteen was taken
from Jail on the 18th by a mob at Ridge
land, S. c., and hanged for beating and
robbing a widow lady named Sauls.
THE two great powder mills of the Gambo
Powder Company, near Portland, Me-,
blew up on the 18th, killing two men and
destroying a large amount of property.
THERE was 10 change in the great rail
way strike on the Gould lines in the South
west on the 18th. No trains were running.
A TERRIFIC snow-storm prevailed in Col
| orado on the 1lth, and all railway travel
was greatly delayed.
THERE were oil failures in the United
States reported during the sever days
ended on the 18th, against 227 in the pre-
ceding seven days.
AN unknown man, of middle age, walked
| into Niagara river on the 18th, about a
| ,,,to IF , ,,,;1o ,I,o-,{ Tho II o,.,.5 m f,11c
and was swept away.
FIRE CHIEF MAHADY was thrown from
his buggy at New York on the 18th, and
was killed by falling under the wheels of
a fire engine.
PATRICK Ford and John Murphy, two
New Orleans politicians convicted of the
murder of Captain A. H. Murphy, were
hanged in that city on the 18th. They
sought to escape the gallows by taking
poison, but were partially revived and TX
| ecuted at the hou appointed. Louis O'Neil
was hanged at Portland, Ore, for the muir
der of Lewis Mcdaniel.
No CHANGE of note occurred on the 18th
in the relations between striking knights
of Labor and railroad managers in the
Southwest. The great strike was still on,
with no sign Of yielding on either side.
IT is said that a process has been discov-
cred at Pittsburgh which renders explo-
sions of natural gas impossible while all
the heating qualities are retained.
THE wi~nter-wheat crop, according to ad-
| vices of the 18th, would only reach an aver
age, even with favorable weather for the
next thirty days. The greatest falling off
in acreage was in the States of Illinois,
Kansas n Missouri. The outlook was the
most encouraging on the Pacific slope.
AT Logansport, Ind, on the 18th the tank
of a gasoline stor exploded, its flaming
fluid saturating the clothing of Sarah Has
soft and Joseph Heffner, and they were ia
tally burned.
In the billiard match at New York be-
tween Schaefer and Vignaux the former
made a run on the 18th of $50 points, beat
ing oil previous records.
THE house of Joseph Galce, near Pitts
ton, Pa, was destroyed by fire on the 18th,
and his two children, aged four and six
years, persisted in the flames.
AN nj i-Chinese convention in San Fran
cisco on the 18th adopted resolutions in
favor of ~boycotting all firms employing
Chinese labor. Ex-senator Sargent, who
opposed the boycotting resolution, with
drew from the convention.
SECRETARY LAMAR on the 18th submitted
to Congress a list of about 4, 5OO Indian
depreciation claims. The total number of
claims call for an amount approximating
SIS, GOO, 900.