Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-04-23
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mill at La Crosse, Wis, on the morning OF
the 9th spread rapidly until ten blocks had
been consumed, entailing a loss of about
S1,000,000, with small insurance. Eighty
dwellings We're consumed, four hundred
persons were rendered homeless, and about
one thousand persons were thrown out of
employment.
HEAVY snow and sleet-storms were re-
ported on the 9th in Illinois, Michigan,
Ohio and Indiana. The snow was so deep
at Detroit that business was partially sus-
pended, and street-car travel was stopped.
The sames state Of affairs prevailed at To-
ledo and Cleveland. In Michigan a pas
senger train was blown from the track and
fourteen persons were injured.
A FIRE in the Central railroad ware
house at Savannah, Ca, consumed forty
five carloads of corn and damaged three
hundred bales of cotton.
TIE wind capsized a steane on the 9th
at Greensboro, KY, three persons being
drowned.
REPORTS on the 9th from the flooded dis
tricts in the South showed that the waters
were rapidly receding.
THERE was no material change in the
railway strike on the 9th. The st. Louis
Knights of Labor issued an address to the
w~orking-men Of the world, denunciatory of
the doings of Mr.. Gould. No attempts to
prevent the movements of trains were re-
ported.
TIE Halifax schooner Beta was wrecked
on Plum Island, Mass, on the 7th, three
persons being drowned. Others chung to
the rigging for hours, and were finally res
cued.
THE order issued last April by Commits
sioner Sparks, suspending final action upon
entries of public lands, has boon revoked
by Secretary Lamar.
TIT worst Hood known for years was
doing great damage at PALMYRA, N. Y, on
the 18th.
THE Gem City FIGURING Mills at Quincy,
Ill, were burned on the eth, causing a loss
of S2NO,00 20.
The Grand Army of the Republic of the
State OF Iowa met in annual encanpment
at Sioux City on the 7th.
AN express train on the Hoosac Tunnel
route went over an embankment two hun
dred feet high on the 9TH near Bardwell's
Ferry, Mass. Ten dead bodies had been
recovered from the wreck, ard over fifty
persons were missing. The train consisted
of five cars, four of which took fire and
were consumed.
HEAVY seas on Lake Ontario on the 7th
did great damage at Charlotte, n. Y, and
other lake ports.
The Chinese Minister at Washington on
the 9TH made a formal complaint to the
Secretary of State in regard to the treat
ment of his successor at San Francisco at
the hands of the United States customs
officers.
A COAL famine prevailed on the 7th at
Charleston, w. Va, on account of the
flood. Hundreds of citizens in the sub
merged section of the town were being
aided by a local committee, who distrib-
uted money, clothes, provisions and fuel.
In a fight on the It'll at Laredo, Tex, be.
tween political factions, five men were
killed and three others were wounded.
WILLIAM ELLIS, Of st. Francis, Ark,
while drunk a few days ago shot and killed
his wife and two-ycar-old child.
A MCB at East St. Louis ON the 7th
marched to the Ohio & Mississippi, Wanda
lila, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and
Cairo Short Line yards, where they com
PEELED all the employees to abandon their
work. at tho Alton yards the mob came
face to face with a force of deputy mar
;shals, armed with rifles, and retired. The
companies threatened that if the mob reap
ipeared blood would be shed. At other
places every thing was quiet and trains
were moving.
TIE winter wheat crop throughout Hi
inois is in a promising condition.
! Nix. ARTHUR, Chief of the Brotherhood
;of Locomotive Engineers, stated in Cleve-
land on the 9Th that he knew of no inten-
ton of members of his order going on a
and it a strike should take place it
would be without his sanction.
ROBERT j. PHILLIPS, a colored wife
murderer, was executed at Indianapolis,
Ind, on the sth.