Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-30

ton of $500 900 wol+h of property at Great
Darlington, Mass.
THE Polack Church riots were renewed
on the 18th at Toledo, o., incendiaries set
ting fire to st. Helwig's Church, which was
entirely destroyed.
was taken from the Jail at Monroe, La, on
the 18th and hanged by a mob.
MRs. JOHN Nipple, a wealthy lady of
Wabash. Ind, fell dead ut the supper table
on the 18th. Her malady was heart-dis
ease.
AT alt Lake, Utah, on the 18th three
Mormons found guilty of illegal cohabita.
ton We're fined three hundred dollars and
sentenced to six months imprisonment.
AN explosion Il few days go in n dwelling
at Tangiers, Va, caused by trying to start
a fire nth kerosene oil, killed two children
and daa serously manned or burned five
oth>4..
THOMAS NJ. JACKSON (colored), who died
on the 18th from the effects of exposure in
his cabin near Reading, Pa, was one hun
dred and four years old.
A CnlNAMAN suffering with leprosy was
discovered in Waterbury, Conn, on the
18th.
AT Nicolaus, Cal. on the 18th q mob of
masked men compelled the Chinese resi-
dents, forty-seven in number, to leave the
town.
EIGHT s~heep-herders on the ranch of Sol
onion Luna, on the Little Colorado river in
Arizona, We're killed by Apaches on the
18th. Two parties of mounted men were in
pursuit.
JOE BURNS (colored) was taken from Jail
at Martinsburg, w. Va, on the 18th 10y a
mob and hanged for criminal assault upon
a white woman.
EIGHT prisoners escaped from the Car
thage (Mo.l Jail on the 18th through a n
mel which it took months of labor to dig.
JOHN BELL, aged siXty-tive years, was de-
coyed into a 'bunco" room at Pittsburgh
on che 18th, knocked insensible and robbed
of two thousand dollars.
REPORTS reached Little Rock on the 18th
that a negro recently murdered the James
family of six persons in u remote section of
Faulkner County, Ark.
DAVID SnoLTY, a wealthy lunatic living
on a farm near Bloomington, Ill, shot Levi
Sholty and his wife and daughter on. the
18th, fatally w%ounding the two first men
toned, and fired a barn and its contents,
valued at $4,000.
THREE masked h~ighwaymen on the 18th
entered the office of the station agent at
Montvale, Tex, and, at the point Of a pis-
tol, compelled the agent to surrender eight
hundred dollars.
TELLER HENDERSON, of the La Crosse
wis., National Bank, on the 18th discov-
cred a counterfeit silver dollar that was
pronounced by bank people absolutely the
most dangerous ever seen. 1t is q standard
silver dollar of the coinage of 1881. The
outside is silver, and the die in every sub
stantial particular as clear as the original,
but it is short in weight.
ATToledo, O., on the 18th two of the
Poles engaged in the church riots last sum.
mer were sentenced each to six years i'm.
prisonment.
TIE Celestials at Snohomish City, W.
T., were fired upon on the 18th and their
buildings damaged by dynamite, but they
refused to leave.
A vALIsE containing notes, deeds and
bonds valued at s125,0o 0 was stolen at the
union depot in st. Louis on the 18th from
II. d. Armstrong, of Kildare, Tex, repre-
senting the Settler and Texas Land Com
pany.
AT New Haven, Conn.,, the insane wife OF
Prof. Waldo, of Yale College, escaped from
her keepers ON the 10Th and killed herself
by jumping from a cliff forty feet high,
She was thirty-five years old, and leaves
two children.
DAVID SnoLTY, who recently attempted
Fthe lives of his brothers family neal
Bloomington, ILL.,, was burned to death on
the 18th in the barn which he set on fire.
TIE development of natural gas at Nash
vile, Tenn, has led to the organization OF
a company with 500, 600 capital to furnish
heat and power.
HE business failures occurring through.
out the United States during the seven
days ended on the 10Th numbered for the
United States PSI and for Canada thirty.
five, or a total of $50, against 275 the pre-.
vious seven days. The total failures from
January l to date is 2.O33.
SMALLPOX was on the 10Th declared cpl
demic at Fort Worth, Tex, and the mayor
of DaSSas had proclaimed quarantine.
Four men caught in the act of counter.
feiting money We're placed in Jail on the
18th at Anoka, MINI.
IT is announced that nearly three hun.
dred Mormon elders are at work in the
Southern States, and on the 10Th seventy
five converts from Georgia, Alabama
North and South Carolina and East Ten
nessee left Chattanooga for Utah.
THE siXty-fve hundred coke-workers or
a strike near Pittsburgh, Pa, resolved OF
the 18th not to compromise. The strike
has been i'll progress thirty-three days, the
railroads are losing freightage to the ex
tent of three hundred carloads daily, anG
the miners are losing daily ten Thousand
dollars in unearneG wages.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Il Iowa enate on the 10Th passed a bill
to provide a home for $50 veterans of the