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

The ministers Of Cleveland, O., headed
by Bishop Bedeil Of the Episcopal Church,
were on the 22d preparing T boycott the
Sunday secular newspapers.
TIE levee on the Mississippi river, six
teen miles below Helena, Ark, broke on
tho 22d, flooding q million acres Of fine cot
ton land. The loss would be very heavy.
In obedience to anorderfrom the Knights
of Labor five hundred employees ofithe Mis-
souri, Car & Foundry Company at St.
Louis stopped work ON the 22d.
An unknown man wrecked a train the
other night by placing q tie on the track
near Silver Creek, Ga, n man being
killed and another fatally injured.
WHILE Mrs. Albert Nef was planting
vegetables i'll her garden ct 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 e.
Remington & Sons, at nion, N. Y, on the
ed placed its affairs in the hands of re-
ceivers.
JAY Gou1p, in opening his testimony be-
fore the Congressional Labor Inquiry
Committee at Washington on the ed,
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 took forcible posses
sion Of the railway and of eight cities on
lifeline. He declared that he had always
been in favor of arbitration, and had
given no secret instructions to Vice-Presi-
dent Hoxie.
The furniture manufacturers from Hi.
nois, Wisconsin, Michigan. Ohio. Indiana,
Minnesota, Missouri and Kentucky met in
Chicago on the 23d and concluded to adopt
the eight-hour system May 1 and raise the
price Of furniture ten per cent. at once.
THE strike OF six thousand men in the
sugar ~refineries o Long Island was fol-
lowed on the 29d by ariot at Green Point, in
which three policemen were injured. Sew
eral wagon-loads Of sugar were dumped
into the street.
THE strike Of the Lake Shore freight
switchmen in Chicago still continued on
the 22d, and no freight trains were running.
The last stone in the Bartholdi pedestal
atNew York was laid ON the 22d. The In
auguration Of the statue will take place
September s..
ALI. the street-cars in New York City
were again running on the 23d except the
Third Avenue line.
While attempting to cross the river al
Defiance, O., on the sd 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 fo~rty-three wears,
took a dose of rat poison on the 23d, and
then attacked her children with an axe;
killing a little girl aged four years. and
mortally wounding q boy of thirteen and 8
girl o feleven.
The business failures throughout the
country for the seven DAYS ended on the
23d were 1859 in the United States and, 25 il
Canada, a total of 194, against a total OF
1S2 for the seven previous days.
AREvIsED list on the 23d showed that
the recent cyclone in Minnesota resulted
in seventy-one deaths.
The strike In the Lake Shore freight
yards at Chicago ended on the 23d
through compromise, and all the switch.
men resumed work.
Ate meeting OF. Socialists in New Yorl
v 00AN O4@O ~
time Tor revolution had come, and that
workingmen could only protectthemselves
with arms He said they must seize the
armorles and arsenals and use them in
their wn defense, SOFAS to put down the
capitalists politicians.
on the * to Bradstreet's from
leading trade centers showed moderate
gains IN the movement Of general
m~erchandls Inc genera industrial stu
atlon was more aggravated, there beinga 2.
least IS, 5000 strikers reported, against 31,0O
the previous week.
iHE grand Jury atst. Louis on the 8t
indicted nine sboycotting bakers, charged
also nine deputy sher .ifs. for m~anslaughtel
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