Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-07

TIE ministers of Cleveland, o., headed
by Bishop Bedell of the Episcopal Church,
were en- the 22d preparing to boycott the
Sunday secular newspapers.
TIE levee on the Mississippi river, six
teen miles below Helena, Ark, broke on
tho 2ed, flooding Il million acres of fine cot
ton land. The loss would be very heavy.
In obedience to an orderfrom the knights
of Labor five kundred employees of the Mis-
souri, Car & Foundry Company at st.
Louis stopped work on the 22d.
AN unknown man wrecked a train the
other night by placing a tie OIL the track
near Silver Creek, Ga, one nan being
killed and another fatally injured.
WHILE Mrs. Albert NeF was planting
vegetables i'll her garden at West Newton.
Pa, on the 22d the house caught fire, and
before she could rescue her four children.
who were sleeping upstairs, they were
fatally burned.
THE rifle and sewing-machine firm of Z.
Remington & Sons, at lion, N. Y, on the
22d placed its affairs in the hands of re-
ceivers.
JAY GOULD, in opening his testimony be-
fore the Congressional Labor Inquiry
Committee at Washington on the 22d,
stated that the Missouri Pacific road has
at this time no differences with its men,.
He said that after the strike last March
the Knights of Labor look forcible posses
sion of the railway and of eight cities on
the line. He declared that he had always
been in favor of arbitration, and had
given no secret instructions to Nice-Pfesi-
dent HoXie
TIE furniture manufacturers from Hi.
nois. Wisconsin, Michigan. Ohio, Indiana,
Minnesota, Missouri and Kentucky met in
Chicago on the 223d and concluded to adopt
the eight-hour system May / and raise the
price of furniture ten per cent. at once.
TIE strike of six thousand men in the
sugar retineries on Long Island was fol
lowed on the 22d by ariot at Green Point, in
which three policemen were injured. Sew
eral wagon-loads of sugar were dumped
into the street.
TIE strike of the Lake Shore freight
switchmen in Chicago still continued on
the 22d, and no freight trains were running.
TIE last stone in the Bartholdi pedestal
at New York was laid on the ed. The in
auguration of the statue will take place
September 3.
ALL. the street-cars in New York City
We're again running on the 23d except the
Third Avenue line.
WHILE attempting to cross the river at
Defiance, o., on the 23d Fred Hillman and
his wife and two children were drowned
by the capsizing of the boat.
NEAR Keyport, N. j., the insane wife of
j. Monroe Smith, aged forty-three years,
took a dose of rat poison on the 2s3d, and
then attacked her children will an axe,
killing a little girl aged four years, and
mortally wounding a boy of thirteen and a
girl of eleven.
THE business failures throughout the
country for the seven days ended on the
23d were 1863 in the United States and 25 in
Canada, a total of 1874, against Il total OF
1S2 for the seven previous days.
A REVISED list on the 223d showed that
the recent cyclone in Minnesota resulted
in seventy-one deaths.
TIE strike in the Lake Shore freight
yards at Chicago ended on the ODD
through a compromise, and all the switch
men resumed work.
AT a meeting of Socialists in New York
City on the ODD Herr Most said that the
time for revolution had come, and that
w%orkingmen could only protect themselves
with arms. He said they must seize the
armories and arsenals and use them in
their own defense, so as to put down the
capitalists and politicians.
TELEGRAMS on the 23d to Brd0strect's from
leading trade centers showed moderate
gains in the movement of genera
merchandise. The general industrial stu
alton was more aggravated, there being al
least 43 5000 strikers reported, against 81 N
the previous week.
THE grand jury at st. Louis on the go
indicted nine boycotting bakers, charged
with conspiracy, blackmail and robbery
also nine deputy sheritfs for manslaughtel
in killing Thompson in the railroad riots.
TIE gallows at Fort Smith, Ark, was OF
the 23d used for the seventy-first time il
the execution of James WATSON and JOSEPH
: Jackson, two murderers. Robert Fowle.
: was hanged at Morganfield, KY, for thu
murder of Miss Lydia Burnett, who hat
refused to marry him.
II was announced on the 23d thai tn,
owners of cotton and WOODEN mills in tn,
New England States had perfected a leagu,
l for domestic protection, and to assist mar
ufacturers who.were unfairly treated b,
their employees.
DURING the last war 7. j. Fuller,
Y wealthy farmer near Jackson, Tenn.
buried Sl6,0 0 in gold i'll his front yard. H
allowed it to remain there ever since TO
safe-keeping, but discovered a few day
ago that it was gone. job Boyd (colored
was arrested ON the ODD for the theft.
FEAR of a cholera epidemic induced tn
I Ohio Legislature on the 23d to create
l State Board of Health.
GEORGE DAuT, of Philadelphia, in a Fl
: of jealousy on the 23d fatally shot his wifi
, and then killed himself.
, PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
JULIAN S. RUMsEY, who died in Chicag,
on the Goth, had been a continuous resideu