Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-04-02
DOMESTIC.

AT q large meeClnS OF clGlZenS OF Fort
land, Ore. on the 10th. to considerthe anti
Chinese agitation, it was resolved to bring
condign punishment upon any one who by
unlawful or riotous conduct should en-
deavor to intimidate or do violence to any
person engaged'in making a peaceful live
lihood.
A GENERAL strike of the thirty thousand
miners in the competing bituminous coal
regions was i~naugurated On the 10th at
Huntingdon, Pa.
THE general situation in the railway
strike remained unchanged on the 10Th, all
efforts to run other than mail trains over
the Gould lines proving futile.
REPORTS of the 10th from the Lower
Mississippi indicated no high water this sea-
son and splendid prospects for q good crop
of sugar.
AT q railway crossing at Orrville, O.,
Mrs. Yachen was killed on the 10Th and her
husband fatally injured. Their buggy was
smashed to splinters and the horse de-
stroyed.
By the recent wreck off Fire Island of the
steamer Oregon 59s bags of mail matter
were lost. The total loss by the disaster
was on the 10th placed at 50. 166, 600.
JAMES F. BAKER, of Franklin County,
Pa, on the 10Th received back pension
amounting to sl1 900, the largest ever paid
i'll Ohio. and the third largest ever paid in
the United States.
MILTON W. HENRY, an aged merchant of
Akron, O., after serving on a jury on the
10th, walked home and fell dead.
Four Apaches arrived on the 10Th at
Camp Lieutenant Maus, in Arizona, with
the tidings that all the hostiles wished to
surrender Internationally.
TIE suit brought in New York against
William S. Warner, by an official in the in
terest Of the creditors of Ferdinand Ward.
resulted on the 18th in a decision by the
referee that Warner must pay over to Re-
!ceiver Davis, within thirty days, the sum
of 81, 395, 7752. ST.
RICH deposits of silver quartz we're on the
18th found at Palisade, d. r., and the dis
'coverer had staked out claims for himself
and friends. Strangers were focking to
the district.
The Ohio, Indiana and Michigan t%rotting
circuit was formed at q meeting held in
Kalamazoo recently; the premium list ag-
,gregating S35, 900.
OLD S%oRREL, Stonewall Jackson's war
horse, died at Richmond, Va, on the 17tn.
He was thirty-two years old.
THE explosion of a boiler on the 18th at
North Walcott, Vt, killed three men and
wound two others, one of whom expired
a few hours later.
ABoDY was incinerated at Pittsburgh on
the 18th by the aid of natural gas, the re.
mains being reduced to ashes in less than
an hour.
LAURA A. MILLER, aged nineteen, banged
herself on the 18th at her parents house,
at East Buffalo, N. Y, because she had
been forbiddeL. to attend g roller skating
rink.
A FREsHET in Nebraska on the 18th did
great damage at Wilder and Crete. Hun
dreds of people were driven from their
houses.
ARRANGEMENT were being perfected on
the 18th to settle the great railroad strike
on the Gould lines in the Southwest. It
was thought that a United States Judge
would act as arbitrator.
/. NEARLY three thousand cloak-makers in
New York City struck on the 18th for
higher wages.
AT Memphis, Tenn, on the 18th Emma
Norman, aged twenty-one years, shot and
killed Henry Arnold, who had betrayed
her and then married another woman.
A TRAIN was wrecked near Marshall,
Tex, on the 18th, and the railway bridge
near Fort Worth was partially destroyed
by fire, the structure having bsen soaked
with coal oil. The strikers were charged
with the crimes. l