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

TIE ministers of Cleveland, O., headed
by Bishop Bedell of the Episcopal Church,
were on the 22d preparing to boycott the
Sunday secular newspapers.
THE levee on tho Mississippi river, six
teen miles below Helena, Ark, broke on
tho 22d, flooding a million acres of fine cot
ton land. The loss would be very heavy.
In obedience to an orderfrom the knights
of Labor five hundred employees of the Mis-
souri, Car & Foundry Company at st.
Louis stopped work on the 22d.
An unknown man wrecked q train the
other night by placing a tie on the track
near Silver Creek, Ga, one man being
killed and another fatally injured.
WHILE Mrs. Albert Neff was planting
vegetables in 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 We're
fatally burned.
The rifle and sewing-machine firm of e.
Remington & Sons, at Ilion, N. Y, on the
2od placed it's affairs in the hands of re-
ccivers.
JAY Could, 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 took forcible possess
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 nc secret instructions to Vice-Presi-
dent Hoxie.
TIE furniture manufacturers from Hi
nois, Wisconsin, Michigan. Ohio, Indiana,
Minnesota, Missouri and Kentucky met in
Chicago on the 22d and concluded to adopt
the eight-hour system May l and raise the
price of furniture ten per cent. at once
TIE strike of Six thousand men in the
sugar refineries 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.
THE strike of the Lake Shore freight
switchmen in Chicago still continued Oh
the 22d, and no freight trains were running
The last stone in the Bartholdi pedestal
at New York was laid on the 22d. The in
auguration of the statue will take place
September 3.
ALL the street-cars i'll 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 23d Fred Hillman anc
his wife and two children were drowned
by the capsizing of the boat.
NEAR Keyport, N. j., the insane wife Of
r NTo-,oo Cu,;+t, oooJ Govt %Irao ,,
took a dose of rat poison on the 23d, anc
then attacked her children with m axe
killing a little girl aged four years, ane
mortally wounding a boy of thirteen and
girl of eleven.
THE business failures throughout thu
country for the seven days ended on thu
23d were 1863 in the United States and IS il
Canada, a total of 1914, against a total o
1S2 for the seven previous days.
A REVISED list on the 23d showed tina
the recent cyclone in Minnesota resulted
in seventy-one deaths.
THE strike in the Lake Shore freigh
yards at Chicago ended on the 23e
through a compromise, and all the switch
men resumed work.
AT a meeting of Socialists in New Yorl
City on the 23d Herr Most said that til,
time for revolution had come, and tina
workingmen could only protect themselve
with arms. He said they M seize til
armories and arsenals and use them il
their own defense, 80 as to put down tia,
capitalists and politicians.
TELEGRAMs on the 23d to Brad$trcet's from
leading trade centers showed moderat
gains in the movement of genera
merchandise. The general industrial stu
alton was more aggravated, there being a
least AZ, 900 strikers reported, against 31,0O
the previous week.
THE grand jury at st. Louis on the %
indicted nine boycotting bakers, charge
with conspiracy, blackmail and robbery
also nine deputy shcrifs for manslaughte
in killing Thompson in the railroad riots.
The gallows at Fort Smith, Ark, was O
the 23d used for the s~eventy-irst time i
the execution of James WATSON and Josep
: Jackson, two murderers. Robert Fowle
was hanged at Morganfield, KY, for tn
murder of Miss Lydia Burnett, who ha
refused to marry him.
IT was announced on the 23d that til
owners of cotton and wooden mills in tn
New England States had perfected a leagu
for domestic protection, and to assist mar
ufacturers who were unfairly treated b.
their employees.
DURING the last war T. J. Fuller,
wealthy farmer near jackson, Tenn
buried $4,000 in gold in his front yard. H
allowed it to remain there ever since fo
safe-keeping, but discovered a few day
ago that it was gone. John Boyd ~(colored
was arrested on the Esd for the theft.
FEAR of n cholera endemic in6uca1 III
Ohio Legislature on the 23d to create
State Board of Health.
GEORGE DAuT, of Philadelphia, in a f
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 reside1
since 1885, held a Board of Trade member
shin since 1S4S. was one of the fnundare n