Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-23
DOMESTIC.

AT Alphabetical, Fla, q fierce gale q few
days ago wrecked houses and leveled trees,
causing a loss of $4,000. Six persons were
drowned in the bay.
A FIR on the 9th at Denver, Col, de-
stroyed the Academy of Music and other
property. Loss, over 5000, 900. Thomas
tEnright, an aged man, persisted in the
flames.
TIE thermometer in Chicago on the 9th
registered IS degrees in the shade, and four
persons we're sun-struck. At Cheboygan,
Mich, the mercury touched 107, the highest
point ever experienced there, and at Des
.Moines, Ia, the mercury indicated 104 de-
grees, the highest point since the signal
station was established there.
FOREST fires were raging on the 9th be-
tween Marquette and st. Ignace, Mich.
Thirty thousand cords of wood belonging
to the Vulcan Furnace Company had been
destroyed.
DIR. VALENTINE MOTT, of New York. on
the 9th performed upon the son of a Jer-
sey City physician the first incubation
for the prevention of rabies.
DURING June the fire losses in the United
States and Canada aggregated SO, $50, 900,
being fifty per cent. greater than the aver
,0SO AOSS uIlC al ScNCIdl SodlS.
SEVENTY persons were poisoned on the
9th at Coulterville, ILL.,, by eating picnic
ice-cream, four of the victims dying a few
hours later, and others were in q precari-
GUS condition.
f G. BETzLER, a prominent business
man of Carrollton, Mo-, was accide ntully
shot and killed by his brother, E. A. Betzler,
on the 7th.
NEARLY one thousand painters in Brook
lyn struck on tine 9TH against a return to
the ten-hour day.
TEE Kansas State Board of Agriculture
on the 9TH estimated the winter wheat
yield at 100000 bushels, or one-half the
usual average.
SEVERAL dwellings were demolished by a
cyclone in the vicinity of Harold, Tex, on
the 9TH. Two lives were known to have
been lost, and farm property and growing
crops suffered great damage.
AT New Richland, MINI, the othernight
Miss Mary Discher refused to marry Henry
Young, whereupon Young shot her through
the heart and Immediately sent a bullet
through his own brain.
SEVEN men, who were boycotting a
bakery at Cincinnati, were on the 7th held
to the grand jury in one thousand dollars
each on a charge of blackmail.
John WARNER, of New York City, shot
his fourteen-year-old son on the eth and
then killed himself. No cause was known
for the crime.
TIE people of Shackelford County, Tex,
were on the 9TH said to be in a starving
condition from the almost total failure of
crops, and cattle were rapidly perishing.
No rain had fallen for fourteen months.
The settlers in that region were mainly
from the Northern States.
Il criminal court at St. Louis on the
18th overruled the motion for a new trial
for Maxwell, the murderer of Preller. An
appeal would be taken.
IL numbering hamlet of Romeo, Wis,
was destroyed by fire on the 18th, the loss
being $4,000.
a FIERCE rain, hail and thunderstorm
swept over the Scranton pa section on
the eth, wrecking windows, l~eveling trees
and fences, unrooing houses and destroy
ing crops.
j. N. THOMAS livery stable and dwelling,
the National Hotel and other structures at
Mnncie, Ind, were destroyed by fire on the
7sh. entailing losses estimated at s95, 600.
SYNDICATE was formed in ST. Louis on
the eth with a capital of IS. coo, 900 to con-
troll the coal mines of Southern Illinois.
ABOUT s35, 000, 900 i'll gold has boon ex-
ported since January /.
THE official figures of the general exccu-
tive board of the Knights of Labor showed
on the Sth that the cost of the recent strike
on the Wabash system was sl0o,0o0 to the
board and $1,000, 600 to the strikers. The
cost of the strike to the railroad
was placed at So, 500, 900.
T. J. Cregei, who had sworn out war
rants against kukluxers, was ambushed
Il assassinated near Mount Vernon, KY,
on the eth.
SOME European mail which reached Chi
cage on the eth was lost from the steam
ship Oregon off New York last March, and
was found in the sand at Cape Hatteras,
having drifted four hundred miles.
THlETY-TnEEE employees OF the Armour
packing house at the Chicago Stock-yards
were on the Sth discharged for refusing to
load Lake Shore cars.
The use of natural gas in the manu-.