Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14
hon drew his revolver and shot Gibbons

then drew his revolver and shot Gibbons
dead.
AT a meeting on the 18th the furniture
manufacturers Of Chicago resolved to
close their shops should q demand be made
for eight hours labor.
INDIANS were reported on the 2sth to
have attacked a ranch twenty miles south
west Of Pantano, "A. T., killing eight per
sons.
SEVERAL hundred feet of the levee a mile
below Austin, Miss, had been swept away
on the 2sth, increasing the humiliation in
Tunica and Coahoma Counties. "A general
break up in the Arkansas levees was re-
ported, the gaps ranging from one hundred
feet to half a mile in extent.
ALL the planing-mills at Milwaukee ave
two shut down on the 29th in preference to
paying ten hours pay for eight hours
work.
TELEaRAMs of the goth say a mysterious
and fatal disease has broken out in Rowels
burg, w. Va. The victims are first seized
with a severe pain in the headand are dead
within twelve hours. After death the
bodies become spotted.
GEORGE PARKS, of Kirksville, Mo-, an old
Union soldier, who left a leg on the battle.
field, met with IN accident in q sausage
factory on the Goth by which he would lose
his other leg.
The championship season OF the National
Baseball League opened on the 10Th.
GREAT damage was done eight miles
north Of Mississippi City, Miss, on the
10Th by a cyclone. It moved in q path
three-quarters Of q mile wide. Large
quantities of timber were blown down and
lofty pines were u%prooted..
THE Bank of Marietta, o., hasfailed with
liabilities of over 100000.
T~HEmachine manufacturers and foundry
men Of Chicago stated on the Goth that they
were opposed to giving ten hours pay for
eight hours work, and SO were the parlor
furniture manufacturers.
THE report that eight persons had been
killed by Indians near Pantana, A. T.,
proved on the Goth to be unfounded.
The Lower Mississippi was above high
water mark on the Goth and still rising.
THE sfreight-handlers employed in Chi
cago by the st. Paul and Northwestern
roads presented demands on the 10Th for
io1SAu uOuI6 1dOOE duu D6n uOuES.s pay. yEea4s
The Treasury Department. at Washing
ton on the Goth decided that Chinese sea
men may be allowed to land on our shores
without q certificate for the purpose of
shipping on q return voyage as soon as
possible.
"A HURRICANE had on the Goth prevailed
for t~wenty-four hours in Nebraska, the
wind being SO heavy that trains were re-
tarded. The effect on young stock, twas
feared, would be disastrous.
GEORGE EDwARps, the last of the gang OF
forgers wanted in several of the large
cities throughout the country, was arrested
in New York on the soth 5ult.
KEYSTONE, Ia, wa visited on the 3Oth
ult. by a fire which destroyed the post
Office and ten other buildings. The Chief
portion; of the business district of the town
was consumed.
The Third Avenue Railroad Company at
New York had cowboys from the South
and West to run its cars on the Both ult.
THREE boot and shoe factories and q
hotel at Natick, Mass, were destroyed by
fire the other morning, the loss reaching
$4,000.
The Advance elevator at Kansas City,
Mo-, containing 5000 bushels OF grain, was
destroyed by fire the other night Loss
500 oO.
The safe in the private bank Of o. 8
Laugan, at Button, O., was blown open
by burglars on the 30thault., and nearly fv.
Thousand dollars in money and several
thousand dollars in securities were stolen.
The eight-hour agitation in Chicago had
on the Both ult. resulted in closing all the
furniture and box factories and in the sus.
pension of work at most Of the iron and
brass shops, throwing q total of %, GOO men
out of work.
The foods in Arkansas were on the 3Oth
ult. causing great suffering among the
people, many being without food.
The business failures occurring through
out the country during the seyen days
ended o n the Both ult. numbered for the
United States 1S9, and for Canada IS, or !
total of 2O7, as compared with a total O
1874 the previous seven days. The total fail
ures from January 1 to date number 3,9S6
against 4s64G, during the same time in 1885
"a DIFFICULTY which arose a few dayi
g in the Office of the county clerk q,
Willianstown, KY, resulted in the deatl
Of w. w. Wainscott and the fatal wound
ing OF Turner Holbrook and Clay Wilson
LOUIS S~oMERFIELD and Richard j.. L.
!(coloredl were executed at Washington
D. g, on the Both nit; J.. NJ. Armstrong
was hanged at Perryville, Ark. James
Walker was executed at st. Augustine,
Fla, and George Carroll paid the OK
IRENE penalty at Searcy, Ark. All had
been convicted of murder.
S.FW. Floss u Co.'s notions and white
goods establishment at Baltimore wa.
Quilted by fire the other night, and adjoin
ing buildings were badly damaged. The
totallosses would aggregate 100000.
The grand jury at New York returned q
presentment on the 3Oth ult. condemnine
boycotting as a.scursed exotic, and urg
ing the press, the bench, the bar and the
Legislature ssto aid in exterminating the
hydra-hended monster,
a LOSS Of $4,000 was the result Of a fire
on the Both ult. at San Francisco in the
furniture store of L. & E. Emanuel and the
publishing establishment Of A. L. Ban,
croft & Co. spectator was killed nv q