Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-01-15
EPIT0ME OF THE WEEK.
Interesting News Compilation.

Interesting News Compilation.
DOMESTIC.
The conscience fund of the United States
Treasury has been swollen by the receipt Of
two halves of a $500 bill in separate letters.
THE issue of standard dollars for the week
ended on the Goth amounted to 743,940,
against 316,497 for the corresponding period
in 1854.
THE Buckeye glass works at Martins Fer
ny, O., which had been idle six months,
started up on the 2Sth, giving employment
to three thousand persons.
The house of Emanuel Dill, near Moberly,
Mo-, was burned a few nights ago., md his
two little daughters persisted in the flames.
His son, aged twenty, was also fatally
burned.
TYPHOID fever was prevailing to an alarm
ing extent in the Albany IN. " Peniten-
tiary on the 2Sth. Ten deaths had occurred.
. THE introduction of nailing-machines in
a Chicago box factory on the 2Sth was
quickly followed by q strike of all the work
men.
AGAR Of the National Fish Commission
left Washington on the 2Sth with carp to
stock the rivers of Illinois.
A FOURTH attempt was made on the 2Sth
by unknown parties to destroy the ancient
dixie protecting fifteen hundred acres Of
meadow at Marshield, Mass.
COMMISSIONER SPARKS on the 2Sth issued
regulations modifying his recent radical
orders as to claims for public lands.
pIcyr.r, n RrYruIpr oroI covoptoop
cadet at the Oxford (Md.) Military Acad-
envy, wa accidentally shot and killed by a
fellow cadet the other morning. Deceased
was a son of Judge Reinhard, of Indiana.
HOMER WILLARD, a prominent farmer liv-
ing near Lamar, Mo-, was kicked to death
by his horse a few days ago.
ALBERT PAINTER, proprietor Of the Wind
sor Hotel at Toledo, o., was shot and killed
on the 2Sth by H. A. Miller, his bartender,
in a dispute over wages.
IT is announced from Washington that
troops are required to protect The Indians
in the San Carlos (Arizona) reservation
from the threatened attacks of lawless
white men.
DURING the eleven months ended on the
Both ult. there were 1850 deaths in Chica-
go. During the first eleven months of 1854
there were 10,62S deaths.
Two YoUNG men lost their lives on the
18th by a boiler explosion at New Provi-
dence, Pa, and forty-seven animals were
roasted alive by the fire which followed.
Gulf City Oil Mills at Mobile, Ala, par
TALLY wrecking the structure and killing
eight men. Six others were seriously
scalded or MANNED.
CONNECTICUT was shaken up on the Goth
by a mild sort of earthquake.
The recent storm off Cape Sable wrecked
five Gloucester (Mass.) fishing schooners,
eight lives being lost. The news of addi-
tional disasters were hourly expected.
The extensive ~cotton-seed oil mill of w.
II. Stead, at Greenville, Miss, and a largo
amount of cotton were burned on the goth,
the loss being s225O,00O.
WILLIAM E. PAGE, agent of the Adams
Express Company at Golden City, Mo-,
took q package containing $4,000, dressed
up in his wife's clothing and fed, but was
captured at st. Louis on the Doth and most
of the money recovered.
By the upsetting of a boat the wife and
three children of James Sanders were
drowned in the Kentucky River on the
Goth, near ~Nicholasville, KY.
SECRETARY MANNING on the Goth issued a
call for S10,000,0 900 three per cent. bonds, in
terest to cease on February l.
Two oRGAS-GR1NDERs in New Orleans
leaned against an electriclight pole on the
29th. One was killed instantly, and the
other had his head burned to a crisp.
The tenth annual convention of the
Northwestern Traveling-Men's Association
began in Chicago on the goth.
The following persons were killed on the
29th during quarrels: Samuel Blake, at
Snow Hill, Md; William Binder, at Rush
Run, o.; John Franks, at New Orleans.
La; Clay Davis, at stackley, Tex. John
Wright (colored), at Pittsburgh, Pa; and
Edgar Hayes, at Lyndonville, vt.
NINETEEN prisoners arrived at Santa Fe,
N. NJ, on the Goth from the northern part
of the Territory. They were charged with
perjury in fraudulent entries of Govern
ment land.
len men were seriously burned on the
@9th by the explosion of a boiler in an iron
mill at Kittanning, Pa.
The weather was so mild at st. Paul,
Mimi, on the both that overcoats were cast
aside, and lawn tennis was being PLAYED in
the open ali. One citizen exhibited a
bunch of pansies that blossomed in his
front yard, and another appeared in the
street clad in a linen duster and straw hat
and carrying a fan. In the Upper Missouri
Valley. near Bismarck, D. T., farmers were
sowing wheat.
SENATOR FAIR has purchased the South
Pacific Coast Railway for s.. 100000.
JON L.. FL1PpEN, formerly Mayor of
Memphis, is now manager of a mine in
chihuahua. While on his way to Parral
recently with two servants, he was robbed
Of $500 in bullion and his teams and ef-
fects.
A JURY in the Circuit Court at Washing
ton recently awarded Frank %Springman
$1,000 for being crippled for life OH the
Baltimore & Potomac Road.
THE house of Justus Brown, q farmer
near Wilson, Niagara County, N. Y, was
burned the other night, and Mr.. Brown
persisted in the flames.
LIEUTENANT JONES, Of the Fourth United
States artillery, having overstaid his leave
OF absence about a week, shot himself dead
at Fort Adams, r. l., on the Both ult. rather
than suffer court-martial.
TWO COLoRED men who had set fire to
wpre takan from, ;,;l ~ C.,-e..,