Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-09-10
COMPRESSED DISPATCHES

THE recent earthquake shock which was
felt throughout the country was most severe
at Charleston, S. c., causing far more loss
of life than the cyclones of the year before.
The city is wrecked, the streets encountered
with masses of fallen bricks and tangled
telegraph and telephone wires, and more
than sixty persons were killed and wounded,
mostly colored. Hardly a house in the city
escaped injury, and many are 80 shaken
and racked that hard blow would bring
| them to the ground. Fissures in the earth
are noticed, from which fine sand, appar-
emily from a great depth, exudes.
sulphurous smell is very noticeable. Three
or four fires started in as many sections
with the first shock, and the city was soon
Illuminated with flames, thus leading all
to believe that what was left by the earth
quake would be destroyed by fire. How
ever, the fire department SO we'll divided
and handled the work that the fires were
soon under control. From 1875 to $50 resi-
dences and stores are consumed. The loss
by fire and earthquake cannot be assuredly
estimated, but can be placed safely at
S5,OOo,0O0. The principal business portion
of the city was destroyed by the earthquake
and hundreds of persons are rendered
homeless.
FIVE tramps, cleveland Charley"
Capt" Ebbs, "Brick Henry" Jack VIII
lirms and an unknown, are now believed,
it is stated by detectives in Chicago, to be
the perpetrators of the Rock Island train
robbery last March, when Messenger Mich
OILS was killed and $21,000 stolen from the
express car. "Cleveland Charley" and
"Capt." Ebbs are at present under sentence
to the Waupun penitentiary for burgalry
committed in Milwaukee, and detectives
are close on the track of the others. The
first clue, it is said, was obtained from the
keeper of tramps' boarding house in
Chicago, whom cleveland Charley" gave
bundle of bloody clothing to keep until
called for. Further details are withheld by
the officers.
ADv1cEs from Ching Too Foo, the chief
city of the province of Sechuen, China,
Stutc tldU Uuc uuVlStb VI luc ctoGo1u pulU VI
that province and those of Northern Cochin
China have risen against the Christians and
are massacreing them and destroying their
property. The active persecution is at
tributed to the imprudence of English and
American missionaries. In Cochin China
alone fifty Christians have been killed, their
houses burned and their farms destroyed.
In Sechuen a general massacre of Chris
tians is reported in progress and they are
killed wherever found. 1t is said that
whole villages occupied by christians have
been destroyed. Foreign consuls barely
escaped with their lives. No efforts have
been made up to late reports to quell the
disorder, and so far as now known it con-
tinues unsurpassed.
A WASHINGTON correspondent, speak,
ing of ths condition of Secretary Manning IS
health. say.; Secretary Manuing's i'm
provement is only apparent, aud is due
solely to his favorable hygienic surround
ings. The Secretary had stroke of apo
plexy when he was taken i'll in the treasury
building. There was effusion into one Of
the ventricleE of the brain, and resulting
paralysis on the opposite side of the body.
Thanks to his strong vital powers, he rail-
led, the effnsion was absorbed and the par
alysis has disappeared, leaving n weakness
of the side. BY care his life may be pro-
longed for years. If he attempts to work
he is sure to break down.