Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-28

A FREIGHT wreck in the mountains on
the Pennsylvania railroad on the l1th de-
molished twenty-five cars, killed three men
outright, and INSTRUCTED the tracks so
badly tina it took twelve hours to clear
them.
A FIERCE wind-storm, accompanied by
ram and hail, passed over Dinwiddie Coun-
ty. Va, on the 18th and into Chesterfield
County, wleclling barns, houses and
fences.
A v1oLEST wind and rain-storm passed
over Evansville, Ind, on the 11th, wrecking
the African Baptist Church and a number
of other buildings. Stores were unroofed
and trees and chimneYs blown down.
FREDERICK Il. PALMER, aged s~eventy-ive
years, a prominent Boston physician,
jumped from a steamer on the 18th with
his g%randchild in his arms, while en- route
to Portland, Me-, and both were drowned.
No cause was known for the deed.
A TORNADO on the 18th at Leavenworth,
Kan, partially wrecked the Morse school
and the new market house, dangerously
weunding a man and killing three horses.
Tho railroad bridges at Easton and Fair
mount were washed way
ABOUT four thousand sewing girls in Chi
SdSo vi uAC oI llFo 1lCu, u employers
refusing to pen their shops until existing
differences were settled. Nearly all the
furniture manufactures were also closed,
and in he southwestern lumber district
dealers did not expect to resume opera
tionsfor several days.
THE thirty-seventh annual convention
of the Ancient Order of Hibernions began
in New York on the 18th with delegates
present from nearly every State in the
Union.
The switchmen on the various railroads
in Indianapolis struck on the 18th because
the Vandalia road discharged a Knight of
Labor and hired a n%on-union man in his
place.
THREE soldiers were drowned in the Vel
lowstone river a few nights ago near Fort
Keogh, NJ. T., by the upsetting of a skiff.
A HURRICANE on the 18th at Odessa, Mo-,
wrecked five churches, two warehouses and
several dwellings.
Ar N%ortonvtle, Kan, a cyclone on the
18th destroyed over twenty buildings and
badly damaged several others. No lives
were lost.
THIRTY-Two wholesale clothiers in Chi
cago decided on the 18th to shut down
rather than to acceed to the demands made
by the tailors. This action affects nearly
twenty-five thousand persons.
The strike of the sugar refiners in Brook
Ign ended on the 18th. The strikers sur
rendered Internationally.
THE death list at Kansas City resulting
from the recent storm embraced on the
18th tw%enty-nine names. 1t was reported
that other persons were missing.
The lpmoval of 81, 900 900 of silver from
the sub-treasury vaults in Chicago to
Washington commenced on the 18th.
TIE switchmen's strike at indianapolis
proved a failure on the 18th.
THE Illinois State ~Sunday-School Con
vention, in session on the 18th at Bloom
ington, elected L. A. Trovbridge, of Rock.
ford, president for the ensuing year.
ABOUT eleven hundred carpenters at AL
legheny City, Pa, struck on the 18th for
nine hours work at full pay.
In retaliation for the cut in passenger
rates from st. Paul to Chicago, the North
western and ST. Paul roads on the 18th
authorized an SIS. 50 rate from Omaha to
Chicago, a~neductiop of 81.
THE lumber bosses of Chicago were firm
and ohdurate on the 18th on the ton hours
york for ten hours pay question.
AltE ualf-aC7 III "AICu passed. ONSF several
Western States on the afternoon of the 18th
was accompanied by a hurricane at Odell,
H., where several persons received fatal
injuries and q dozen buildings We're
wrecked.
GOVERNOR OGLEsBY on the 18th ordered
the evacuation of East ST. Louis by the
militia.
WlLILAMspoRr and Attica, Ind, were de-
wasted by a cyclone on the afternoon of
the 18th. A bridge at Attica, upon which
several persons were standing at the time,
was destroyed, and many were supposed to
haze been killed.
ONE Seidell, a hoyoetter, was fired
twenty-five dollars and costs at Milwaukee
on the 18th by Judge Mallory, who de-
noumced the boycotting business as an out
rage.
The freight agents of all the roads cen
tering in Chicago reported on the 18th chat
everything was working smoothly.
AT Four-Afile Creek, henrico County,
Va, the other nighta negro attempted to
murder Rev. W. c.. Hall, aged seventy
three, and his wife. both Of whom were
beaten on the head with u Club. Dr. Hal
il pastor Of the Baptist Church.