Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-16
DOMESTIC.

TWENTY-FIVE passenger conductors on the
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroad
and its branches between Buffalo and Chi
cage were discharged on the 2Sth. The
cause was not Known.
On the 2Sth Adam and Alphonse Reed,
brothers, fought a duel with shot-guns near
Opelousas, La, both receiving mortal
wounds.
FREIGHT-TRAINs We're moved on the Lake
Shore railroad at Chicago on the 2Sth
under a heavy guard of armed men. The
striking switchmen refrained from inter-
fering.
A HAIL-sToRM on the 2Sth in Grand
Forks and eWalsh Counties, D. T., ruined
crops and leveled buildings. The loss was
estimated at $780, 600.
ELIZABETH DAWES, her two daughters
and two sons were probably fatally sufro-
Gated by smoke in a fire at BROOKLYN, N.
Y. on the 2sth.
DURING the past year the tobacco sales at
Danville, Va, aggregated s41. 600, 600.
IT was ascertained on the 2Sth that Miss
Frances A. Whipple, the Adrian (Mich.)
milliner who disappeared several days ago,
committed suicide by jumping into the
Niagara whirlpool.
The French steamer La B~ourgogne,
which arrived at New York on the 2Sth,
made the passage from Havre in seven
days, five hours and thirteen minutes, the
fastest time on record.
A TERRIFIC hail-storm on the 2sth in Han
cock County, Ia, proved very destructive
to the crops.
OK the 2sth Mrs. Ira Chapman and Mrs.
William Lantz were thrown from a buggy
near Shelby vile, Ind, by a runaway
horse, and both ladies were fatally in
jured.
The trustees of Yale College, at New
Haven, Conn, decided on the 2Sth to here
after admit only men to the school.
The issue of standard silver dollars from
the mints during the week ended on the
18th was $50, 604. The issue during the
corresponding period of last year was
~, 494.
THE police commissioners Of Boston on
the 2Sth for a second time refused to grant
a liquor license to Paddy Ryan, the pugil-
list.
THE business portion of Alturas, CAL,
was swept away by fire on the 29th.
The two little daughters of William Mil
Ter, of Sherman, Tex, were burned to
death in a fire which destroyed their home
a few nights ago.
In q five-mile race on the Goth at Wilkes
barre, Pa, John S. Prince, on his wheel,
defeated the pacing mare Miss Brady by
three yards in 1917.
PAUL JUSTICE and his wife, who kept a
grocery near Memphis, Tenn, were MUIR
dered on the Goth by burglars.
The Anglo-American Fire Insurance
Company of Washington, D, c., which had
several policies existing in Western States,
failed OF the Goth.
LAKE SHORE freight-trains were moved
to and from Chicago on the 29th without
molestation from the strikers.
EDWARD WILLIAMS (colored) was lynched
on the Goth at Gainesville, Tex, for crimi-
nally assaulting Mrs. Cook, a white woman.
JONES & LoUGHLIN's nail-factory at
Pittsburgh, Pa, resumed operations on the
18th, after al idleness of thirteen months.
BY the upsetting of a yacht on the goth
at Boston four young men were drowned.
They all leave wives and families.
JAMES COOPER and Joseph Van Wrinkle
fought a duel at Brown Greek, Tex, on the
29th, and both were killed.
JOHN CASEY, charged with melting riot
In New York during the recent car-drivers
strike was on the goth sentenced to six
months imprisonment. In passing sem
tence Judge Cowing said: casey, every
body sympathized with you when the OBJ
ject sought was to secure better pay and
shorter hours of labor, but when you I'M
dertook to say that a man shall not work
unless he identifies himself with your
organization you struck a blow at liberty
and the principle so dear to us ALL"
Two BOYS of Rev. j. b. Brigham, of Vau-
cluse, S. c., were killed by a stroke of
lightning on the 30th ult.>
AID was asked by the Governor of Louis
lana on the Both ult. for sufferers from the
ravages of storms in the parishes of Rap
ids, Grant and Catahoula.