Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-11

lie estimation.
THE Austrian ship Miroslav, which sailed
from Philadelphia for home February II
last, was on the 9th given up for lost with
the captain and crew of twenty men.
A FIRE ON the 9th in the hosting works
of the Grand Central mine at Tombstone,
A. T., destroyed all the hosting and pump
ing machinery. Loss, $3.50, 600.
TEE Grand Lodge of the Brotherhood of
Railway Brakemen at its recent session in
Galesburg, ILL.,, affirmed that it did not
sanction strikes as a means of settling diff
~ficulties between its members and their
employers, and meant to do all in its power
to discourage the strike sentiment.
NEARLY two million dollars worth Of
property was destroyed by the recent
storms in Ohio.
The First Methodist Church at Elmira,
N. Y, was destroyed by fire on the 9th;
loss, $4,000.
SEVERAL inches of snow fell in portions
of Northern Vermont on the 9th.
A SALOON, run by a woman named Jen-
kins, at Glendale, Ind, was burned by a
mob the other night.
FoRrY-sEvEN hosiery manufacturers of
Philadelphia, employing over twelve thou
sand hands, organized an association on
the 9th for protection against unreason-
able demands of employees.
In the trial at New York on the 9th Of
Herr Most a witness testified hat Most at
a meeting urged working1nen to arm
themselves, kill the police and then muir
der the capitalists.
A TERRIF1c storm of wind and hail swept
through Bellevue, O., and the western part
of Erie County on the 9th. Outbuildings,
roofs and fences we're carried away, and
in North M%onroeville and Bellevue fifty
houses were badly damaged and four chill
dren were killed.
JOHN BLEv1Ns, aged one hundred and
one years, of Shody, Tenn, was found in a
deep ravine near his home on the 9th with
his throat cut from ear to ear. There was
no clew to the assassin.
The grand jury at Chicago on the 9th
returned twenty-three indictments against
Spies and his fellow-Anarchists.
IT was reported on the 9th that a syndi-
cato was being formed at New York to
buy all tho coal-pits in Southern Illinois,
so as to obtain control of the entire output.
AT TOMS River, N. j., an explosion on
the 9th demolished the drying-house of
the United States Dynamite Company,
two mon being blown to pieces.
FoUn employees of the Pennsyl-
vania Tube Works at Pittsburgh struck on
the 9th because q workman was dis
charged, and the mill was closed down.
AT Fellowship, Fla, three children of
Isaac Kincaid were burned to death a few
days ago, and the father had been ar
rested for criminal negligence.
Miss MAMIE GIDDINGs and Horace Mad.
lem, school-teachers, were drowned on the
2Sth at Bristol, Ind, by their boat upset
ting.
A GAS we'll which seemed capable of
yielding one million feet per day was on
the 2Sth developed at the small town of
Bloomdale, o.
THREE Of a band Of Indians who attacked
Jones Brothers ranch near Hooker's Hot
Springs, A.. T., the other night were killed
n scalped and the others driven off.
MEMORIAL exercises in honor of the Ma.
tion's dead heroes were held on the 2sth in
all the public schools of Chicago.
The whole interior of the Valley City
Mills at Grand Rapids, Mich, collapsed on
the 2Sth, causing a loss of about 500, 900.
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ern commercial firm from the leading bust
ness places in the United States reported
the business outlook greatly Improved
PERSONS sinking an artesian well in the
heart of Denver, Col, struck petroleum on
the 29th at a depth of l, 100 feet, and a big
flow was expected.
OwlNG to a strike Boyd's shoe factory at
Marlboro, Mass, employing one thousand
hands, was indefinitely closed on the 2Sth.
THE Knights of Labor convention al
Cleveland on tho 18th decided to increase
the executive committee from five tc
eleven members, with permanent head.
quarters at Philadelphia.
THERE were ISL business failures in the
United States and Canada during the
seven days ended on the 2Sth, against 16i
the previous seven days.
JOHN H.. DEANE, of New York City,
counsel for the Board of Managers of the
American Baptist Missionary Union, wa
with the board $4,000.
In New York on the 2sth Herr Most and
two of his associates were convicted by a
jury of the charge of misdemeanor. Sea.
tence was deferred.
EXTREMELY hot weather prevailed on the
2Sth in the South.
ANTONIO NARDELLo was hanged on the
2Sth in Washington, ID. c., for the murder
Of Carmine Rotunno.
THE barn Of Frank Stooker, near Ne.
braska City. Neb., was burned on the eSth,
fifteen fine horses perishing in the flames.
TWENTY business-houses at McGregor,
Tex, were swept away by fire on the 2sth.
The Indians were still raiding in South.
ern Arizona on the 2Sth and a reign of ter.
ror existed throughout the Territory. Many
lives had been sacrificed.
The master-masons of Chicago on the
2Sth adopted resolutions declaring the
eight-hour movement a failure.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
GOVERNOR OGLEsBY presided at a mass
meeting held in Chicago on the evening
of the 25th to applaud the efforts of Mr..
Gladstone toward home rule for Ireland.
The recently-elected State officers of
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