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

8. A. l.. WILSON, treasurer OF the Chesa-
peake & Delaware Canal Company, was en-
the Both ult. discovered to be a defaulter
for $500, 900, and he had fled from Philadel-
phia.
I. F. COLLINS, the ringleader of the Lake
Shore strikers at Chicago, was arrested on
the Both ult. for contempt of court in VIC
lating an Injunction. ,
ALL the w~indow-glass factories in the
country closed down on the 30th ult. for
the usual summer vacation of two months.
WHILE acting as a pall-bearcr the other
day at Dover, N. h, and assisting in carry
ing out the casket, George W. Varney
dropped dead.
The prose writer's and poets of Indiana
opened their first convention on the Both
ult. at Indianapolis. Maurice Thompson
was elected permanent president.
A PROFIT of $1,000 for June is reported
by the managers of Sing Sing Prison, New
York.
THE 1s6th commencement exercises of
Yale College took place at New Haven,
Conn, on the 30th ult., the graduating
class numbering 2S5. The income of the
college last year was s1s7,450 and the ex-
penses $167, 2235.
The Chicago directory for 1856, which
made its appearance on the Both ult., indi-
Gated a population of $50. 900.
INVESTIGATIONS made by the Cincinnati
Price-Currcnt showed on the 30th ult. that
the aggregate of the winter wheat crop
was 295, 0cO, 600 bushels, against 2l2, 0OO, 600
mated at 49, 00, 900 bushels, against 49,
600. 600 bushels last year.
W. A. JoHSsoN's livery stable at Shell
don, ILL.,, was. burned on the Both ult., with
buggies, carriages, wagon, harness, etc.
Ten horses persisted in the flames.
To their joy over the settlement of
the strikes, the tradesmen Of Troy, N. Y,
GU the 1st gave their employees q grand
procession, picnic and barbecue.
Fol- the first six months of this year the
business failures numbered 5.136, with
S50,434 900 liabilities, against 6,004 failures
for the corresponding period of 1885, and
liabilities aggregating s74, $4,000.
THE explosion of a saw-mill boiler on the
LIST neal Russellville, Ark, killed three
men and mortally wounded two others.
The p~ublic-debt statement issued on the
LIST shows the total debt to be 1889, 1876, 3S4;
cash in treasury, $75. 1911, 109; decrease
during June $9,o61, 1877; decrease since
June 30, 1885, sos, S02, 900.
ARRANGEMENTS lave been completed for
the holding Of the inter-denominational
convention in Pittsburgh, Pa, from July
% to August 4.
OVER fifteen hundred Q nployes in roll
ing mills at Philadelphia struck on the LIST
on the question of wages.
President r. j.. LANE, of the Abingdon
(Mass.) National Bank, was arrested at
Portland, Me-, on the 1st on the charge of
having fraudulently taken from his bank
amounts aggregating s135.0e
INDEPENDENCE, Cal, was almost wiped
out by fire on the LIST. The loss was $780,
600, with $40, 900 insurance.
ADvIcEs of the LIST from st. Louis say
that seventeen thousand men throughout
the country have joined a league in sup
port of Law and order and IN opposition 10
strikes and boycotts.
In a family quarrel the other day at
Scooba, Miss, George NJ. Gullett killed
James Barlow and wife.
ALL the retail and most of the wholesale
licenses for the sale of liquor in Atlanta,
Ga, expired on the 1st. The prominent
wholesale dealers had arranged for trans
ferring their business elsewhere.
PROF. TIMOTHY DWIGHT was inaugurated
president of Yale College at New Haven,
Conn, on the LIST, to succeed DR.. Porter.