Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-04-30
DOMESTIC.

goth indicted thirteen men on the charge of
boycotting and annoying Mrs. Gray, who
keeps a bakery.
Mrs. DoLlINGER and her mother were
burned to death ina prairie fire on the Goth
at Lyons, d. T.
SIXTY pupils in the South Boston (Mass.)
public schools struck on the goth for a sin
gle session, and stoned one of the teachers.
LENA Roth, a domestic, was burned to
death at st. Louis on the Doth WHIT trying
to kindle u fire with kerosene oil.
A DEPUTY SHERIFF at Little Rock, Ark.
who was badly beaten by the strikers while
guarding property of the Iron Mountain
road, received Jay Gould's check for $500
on the Goth.
DEFAICArIoNs amounting to $4,000, to-
gether with a number of heavy losses,
caused the suspension of the City National
Bank at Williamsport, Pa, on the Goth.
STAFFORD & SARGEANT, dealers in hides
and leather at Boston, made an assign
ment on the Goth, owing 5000, 900.
SHOTS We're fired at sentries in the East
st. Louis railway yards on the Goth. The
soldiers returned the compliment, but it
was not known that anybody was hurt.
The sentences of five Indian Territory
murderers, to have been hanged in a few
days, were on the Goth committed to impris-
onment for life.
AN open switch wrecked a freight train
near Harmarville, Pa, on the Goth, and
three men were fatally injured.
CHARLES r. CRocKER, the California
millionaire, was probably fatally injured
in New York City on the goth by being
thrown from his carriage.
GREAT forest fires were prevailing on the
Goth in the mountains near Tamaqua, Pa,
and the air was dense with smoke.
THE Secretary of the Treasury on the
Goth issued a call for three per cent. bonds
to the amount of 5000 .Oo9, maturing
June 1.
THE street-car strike in New York City
came to an end OH the both except on two
branches of the Third Avenue line.
THE village of East Lee, Mass, was in
undated at six o'clock on the morning of
the goth by the giving away of a dam at
Mountain lake. Eleven persons were
drowned, and several factories were
wrecked, including two paper-mills.
ABouT seventy-ive furniture manufact-
urers of Chicago, employing four thousand
men. met on the 21st and organized to re-
sist demands by workmen.
THE explosion of a lamp caused a fire the
other day which destroyed the Merchant
Mill, valued at s15O,010, at Harrisburg, Pa.
LIGHTNING struck a school-house on the
21st at Freeland, Pa. killing an eight-year-
old girl and probably fatally injuring
three other girls.
Fort Worth, Tex, on the 21st. Traffic had
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the Southwest.
II fifteenth nnual convention of the
Presbyterian Women's Board Of Missions
OF the Northwest met at Indianapolis on
the 21st.
II annual encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic of the State of New
York began at New York on the 2lst, with
1872 posts represented. There was an in
crease of 5000 in the membership the last
year.
A PORTION of the building known as Lib
by Prison, at Richmond, Va, fell on the
'2lst, causing a loss of 500, 600 to the storage
company which occupied it.
SIX THOUSAND sugar refnersin New York
City struck on the 21st for higher wages.
A BOAT containing two men and a boy
went over the dam ut Hadley, N. Y, on the
21st, and all were drowned.
SOME twenty-five servant girls at Tarrv-
town, N. Y, struck on the 2lst for higher
wages, leaving their mistresses to manage
affairs as best they could.
A STRIKE on all the street RAILWAYS in
New York City was again ordered on the
E2lst, to continue until the companies took
back all the former strikers and dis
charged all non-union men.
The river suddenly o%verfowed its banks
at Trinidad, Col, on the 21st, destroying
many dwellings and driving the occupants
in their nightclothes to seek places of
safety. One man was drowned and much
property was destroyed.
The line Of the Third avenue road in New
York was guarded on tho 21st by five hun
:dred policemen. The directors had resolved
to yield to none of the strikers, but to run
their cars at all hazards.
The Chicago typographical Union on
the 22d decided to advance the rates of
Icomposition from forty to forty-fve cents
on morning papers, and from thirty-seven
ITO forty cents on evening papers. The
union also reduced the working hours from
seven to six. Elk.