Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-18
DOMESTIC.

THE employees of three street-car lines IN
Pittsburgh, Pa, struck on the 3lst ult. for
shorter hours.
THE furniture dealers, carpenters, paint
ers and various other branches of business
iii Chicago decided on the 3lst ult. that
their employees must return to the old ten
horr day, and The eight-hour movement
in the city was admitted to be a failure.
GEORGE McNA1R, a negro, nineteen years
OF age, was hanged at Jacksonville, N. c.,
on the 1st for criminal assault upon a
Waite girl nine years old.
DISPATCHES of the 1st from Cars
ranch, l. r., report the murderby unknown
persons OF DR.. George W. Pyle, his wife,
two children and a hired man and a widow
woman aud her son. No cause was known
for the murders.
MR. EZEKIEL, for the past twenty-five years
chief engineer of the fire department of
Syracuse, n. Y, was killed on the LIST by
being run over by a hook and ladder truck.
Two Mormon proselytes landed
at New York on the LIST from Europe, under
the charge OF Elder Pratt.
THIRTY structures at Pensacola, Fla,
were burned on the LIST, and several other
buildings were blown up to stop tho pro-
gross of the flames. Scores Of families
were rendered homeless.
One thousand Goa miners in the Broad
Top region, near Pittsburgh, struck on the
LIST for an advance in wages.
T. W. HOOPER, judge of Monroe County,
Ark, was on the lst placed in the peniten-
tiary of the State for forgery.
THE pubiic-debt statement issued on the
LIST shows the total debt to be 81, 474 $40, Sg.;
cash in the treasury, SIC, 1851; decrease
during May, S.. So, $50; decrease since
June 80, 1885, SOC, 40, 1863.
REPORTS on the 1st to the Agricultural
Department at Washington say the wheat
crops Of India, Australia and South Amer
lea, already harvested, e:e 80, 900. OOo bush
els less than last year, while the product
of the United States promises to exceed
last years yield BY fully 100, 900, 600 bush
els.
AT an immense meeting in Portland,
Me-, on the LIST. in favor of home rule for
Ireland, James G. Blaine was the principal
speaker. In the course of his remarks he
said that home rule was what every State
and Territory Of the United States enjoyed,
and that Ireland did not enjoy, and he Bit
terly denounced Lord Salisbury, the leader
of the Tories.
The Illinois State Labor Association
convened in annual session at Decatur on
the LIST.
THE California sugar refineries on the LIST
reduced the prices of all sugars ~one-quarter
of cent per pound.
THE National Assembly of the Knights
of Labor in session at Cleveland on the I'd
adopted a rule disappearing of strikes or
boycotts by local assemblies of that order
unless the same shall have been previously
ordered by the Executive Board of the Ma
tional Assembly.
THE United Presbyterian Assembly, in
session en- the I'd at Hamilton, O, settled a
long-standing fight by voting in favor of
instrumental music in church worship.
THE boycott instituted ut Milwaukee
against two cigar factories resulted on the
I'd in the indictment and arrest Of
seven member of the Executive Commit
tee of the Knights of Labor, on charge of
conspiracy.
Two LITTLE children, a son and a daugh-
ter of a widow named Richards, of Spring
field, Mass, attempted to light a fire with
kerosene on the I'd and were burned to
death.
The Amalgamated Association of Iron
and Steel Workers met in annual conv en-
ton OF the Cd at Pittsburgh, Pa
AT Erie. Pa, on the 81 the family of
William Harper. comprising eight persons,
were probably fatally poisoned by eating
rhubarb.
NEAR Owego. N. Y, on the Sd Harry
Dunham killed Mrs. Austin Waite and him
self with a shotgun.
A FREIGHT engine exploded on the % ut
Bellaire, O., killing three railway en-
ployes and partially wrecking a dwelling.
EAMUE1 WALLACE, cashier of the Ex-