Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-04-16

the Slst ult., seven thousand persons re-
Stunning work.
The floods in North Carolina, Tennessee,
Kentucky, Alabama, Virginia and Georgia
still continued on the 3lst ult., and great
damage had been done ut various places IN
the States named.
AHRAvY fall of damp snow occurred on
the 31st ult. in sections of Illinois, Wiscon-
sin, Michigan and Indiana, the storm in
some places being the severest of the year.
BETWEEN four and five thousand persons
were thrown out of employment by the re-
cent fire at Key West, Fla.
LAURA MAY POTTER, an abandoned wom-
an of Memphis, Tenn, on the 3lst ult.
killed a travelling salesman named Al Ben
nett, with whom she was living, and then
fatally shot herself.
TUE richest silver ore ever discovered in
the United States was on the LIST said to
have been struck at the Iron Hill mines in
Dakota. 1t was asserted that much OF it
would assay 5000 ounces to the ton.
ABOUT $500 miners on the Baltimore &
Ohio road and it's branches struck on the
1st for an advance of one-quarter of a cent
per bushel.
IN UuS upper poAiAlSuAAO III NAASAA6 OLA oAuSSA
and traffic were suspended on the LIST,
owing to q snow blockade, and work in the
pineries had been abandoned.
The Secretary of War on the LIST received
a dispatch from General Crook confirming
the reports of the surrender and subse.
quent escape of Geronimo and part of his
band.
On the 1st there were ia, 700,9S5 silver
dollars in the Treasury at Washington, an
increase of nearly s3, 1000 900 since March 1.
A TnuNDERBoLT struck East st. Louis, Ill.,,
on the LIST, in the shape of indictments
against nearly all of the prominent city
officials and politicians, charging them
with corrupt and criminal acts.
w. C. MITCHELL, of Galesburg, s. c., re-
Gently found on his land q crude diamond
which has been estimated by the State
G%eologist at 100000.
NONE of the striking employees of the
Missouri Pacific returned to work on the
LIST, and 10 word was sent out by Chairman
Irons which would give effect to his order
of resumption by fixing an hour at which
such resumption would take place. On the
contrary a serious hitch existed between
the executive committee and the railroad
officials regarding the terms on which the
knights We're to be taken back, and from
present Appearances the strike was as far
from settlement as ever.
The public-debt statement issued on the
LIST shows the total debt to be 81, S04, sos, 463;
cash in treasury, SIG, 3S1, O99; decrease
during March, sl4,0 s7,S S4; decrease since
June 80, 1885, $685. ,4o9.
HIGH water on the 1st at Berlin, VT, and
at Lancaster, N. H., was doing great dam
age to property.
The steamship Gulf of Akaha, from
Spain for New York with iron ore, and
carrying a crew of thirty-five men, was on
the 1st given up as lost. Vessel and cargo
were valued at S220,OO0.
HIGH water in the South continued to
cause heavy damage on the LIST. In Ala
bama several villages were submerged. A
portion of Richmond, Va, was ten feet
under water, and at points in Tennessee
and Maryland the floods were causing
great destruction Of property. Dayton,
Tenn, was seven feet under water, and at
Chattanooga several hundred houses stood
in ten feet of water.
AT Henrietta, Tex, Valentine Sanford,
aged fourteen years, was OF the 1st found
guilty of Numbering his mother and sem
fenced to life imprisonment.
A BROwNBACK five dollar counterfeit,
purporting to be issued by tho Central Ma
tional Bank of Norwalk, Conn, was in
circulation on the 1st. 1t gave the charter
number as 404, while the genuine charter
number is 9 ,342.
TIE Pacific Mail Line at San Francisco
on the I'd raised the passenger rates for
Chinese from s25 to $50 per head for the
purpose of stopping the exodus now in
progress.
JEFF" Wilson, a negro murderer, was
hanged at Lexington, Mo, on the I'd. His
victim was a girl named Jennie Sanford.
THERE were 200 failures in the United
States reported to Bradstyeet's during the
seven days ended on the I'd, against l91 in
the preceding seven days.
THE situation of the railway strike re-
manned unchanged ut St. Louis on the Cd,
IL there seemed no prospect of a settle
ment until the differences between the
Knights and the railroad officials regarding
the unemployment of all the strikers were
adjusted. AT other points work was being
resumed, except at Parsons, Kan, where
the militia were ordered out Il quell the
disturbance.
WILLIAM E. ROBERTSON, with six French
laborers, was crossing a bridge near Reads
boro, Vt, a few evenings ago, when the
structure gave way and the men and horses
were precipitated into the river. Mr.. Rob-
ertson and three OF the Frenchmen were
drowned.
b. B. CRANDALT, a real-estate agent of
Buffalo, N. Y, committed suicide on the I'd
by leaping into Niagara river above the
falls.
THE Connecticut at Hartford, Conn.,.
was very high Oh the I'd, and houses along
the river front were flooded.
The floods in the South were still doing
great damage on the ed. In Alabama
twenty-five persons We're drowned, and
thousands of horses, mules and cattle per-
ished. In Georgia the loss to property was
estimated at over $500, 600. At Chat
tanooga, Tenn, over five thousand people
were homeless. Two-thirds Of Charleston.
w. Va, was under water INC much prop
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