Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-11
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
TIT Grand Lodge of the World of Good
Teinplars met in annual session at Rich
mond, Va, on the 25th.
On the 18th two carloads of powder ex-
ploded at Chattanooga, Tenn, killing sew
eral persons.
THE American Congress of Churches con-
vened at Cleveland, o., on the 25th.
TWELVE THOUSAND miners in Virginia,
Maryland and Pennsylvania coal regions
who had been on a strike for tho past thir-
teen weeks decided on the 18th to return to
work at the old wages.
THE Daily Leader office at Des Moines,
Ia, was destroyed by fire on the 18th, the
total loss reaching $4,000.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, began on the 25th
the celebration of the 250th anniversary of
the founding of the town.
THE grand jury at Chicago voted on the
25th to indict for murder, conspiracy and
riot all the leaders of the Haymarket meet
ing, including Spies, Fielden, Parsons,
Schwab, Fischer, Hirschberger, Lingg and
Schnauble, besides three others not yet an
nounced.
THE seventy-second annual convention
of the American Baptist Missionary Union
opened at Asbury Park, N. j., on the 25th.
FOREST fires were raging on the 18th
along the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & West
ern railroad, the village of Coleman hav-
ing been partially destroyed and West
boro having had a narrow escape.
SNow-sToRMs occurred on the 25th in the
vicinity of Oil City, Pa.
SMITHS HOTEL, near Rhineland, Wis,
was destroyed by fire on the 25th, four per-
son perishing in the flames.
LEWIS WILLIAMS, the owner of a dairy
near Brownsville, Tex, engaged in a quar-
rel with two of his employees on the 25th,
and during the fracas all three were shot
dead.
A FURNITURE factory and a number of
dwellings We're burned at San Francisco
on the 18th, the loss a~ggregating $4,000.
Fifty families were rendered homeless.
REpoRrs ON the 25th to the State Board
of Agriculture showed that there were
good prospects for a large yield of every
variety of fruit except peaches.
FORGE G%EHLoRT, aged seventeen, con-
fessed at Cincinnati on the 25th that he
put poison in the coffee used by the family
at breakfast recently, nearly causing the
death of his parents and of his brother and
sister.
PITTSBURGH dispatches of the 25th stated
that the prospects of the iron trade were
frightening.
A SPECIAL general convention of the
Knights of Labor met at Cleveland, O., ON
the afternoon of the 25th. One hundred
and seventy delegates were in attendance.
AT the American Congress of Churches
- r1o,oJ,-l So Ill., OeEI II..-..- <y----
said the ~workingman's hostility to the
church was because he recognized the
church as the bulwark of the oppressor of
the laborers.
l~ScEND1AK1Es burned John Leine's stable
at Laporte, Ind, on the Goth, seven valua
BILE horses, including the trotting stations
Abdamed Allen and Pilot Duroc, Jr., per-
ishing in the flames.
LIE Ohio State convention of coal oper-
ators, held at Columbus on the Goth, in
structed delegates in the Interstate Board
OF Arbitration to vote for the continuance
OF the present system Of ten hours work a
day.
TIE recent mysterious assassination of
Wayne Anderson, a wealthy farmer, near
Mountain Grove, Mo, was solved on the
2Gth by the confession of his sons that they
murdered him.
TIE publishing house of Bedford, Clarke
q Co., i'll Chicago, connecsed with which
were Donohue g. Henneberry, R. S. Peale,
Peale q Co. and Van Antwerp & Co., pub
fishers, and the Central L~ithograping Com
pnny was burned on the 26th, the loss being
nearly ST. 00, 0Mo.
ADvICEs of the Goth from Sierra County,
N. NJ, gives the details of the discovery of
a wonderfully rich deposit of silver ore,
averaging over 81, 900 per ton.
THE strike in New York of the furniture
employees and tailors was considered a fail
ure on the 26th, many of the strikers hav-
ing returned to work at the old hours and
wages.
AT a session of master carpenters and
manufacturers of wood-building in Chi
cago on the 96th resolutions were adopted
that the eight-hour movement had proved
q failure, and that after June l ten hours
would constitute a days work.
The tfty-seventh anniversary of the
Brooklyn Sunday-School Union was cele.
DRAFTED on the Goth in hat city by a parade
of fifty thousand scholars through the
principal streets.
The officers of the Grand Lodge Of the
Brotherhood of Railway Brakemen on the
10Th expelled twenty-siX Of their members
who inaugurated and conducted the recent
strike on the Union Pacific.
AT the convention Of the Knights of La
Dor in Cleveland on the Goth Mr.. Powderly