Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-25
DOMESTIC.

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ford, Conn, was destroyed by fire on the
Sth, the loss being S225, 900.
IN a quarry near Youngstown, O., a
dynamite blast, which was being rcdrilled,
exploded on the Sth, killing two men.
Four Italians were arrested in New York
on the Sth charged with making counter
felt silver money.
TnE striking furniture-workers in Chi
cago on the Sth declared tho eight-hour
system a failure, and signiied their will
ingness to return to work at tho old hours.
RAwIEY SrNINGs, Va, a summer resort,
was almost wiped out by fire on the sth,
the Baltimore House being the only resort
left standing. The loss was $780, 900.
ADvIcEs from Fort Davis, Tex, say
that the ten months drought in Preside
County, the ~sheep-growing section of that
State, was broken on tho Sth by heavy
rains. Countless thousands of sheep per-
ished during the drought.
HowARD REMPls, aged six years, and
Artie Addick, aged four years. got into a
quarrel on the Sth at Akron, o., and How
ard went into the house, got his fathers
pistol and shot Artie fatally.
THE trustees of Columbia College, at
New York. have decided to admit women
in future on the same footing as men.
WARRANTS We're issued at Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the Sth against Master Workman
Richard Campbell, of the knights of Labor,
and three others for conspiracy and intim-
idation in connection with the recent
street-car strike.
ADvIcEs were received in Washington
on the 9th from General Miles stating that
for thirty-siX days the troops had been
pursuing the hostile Apaches aud that they
would be given no rest until captured.
Since they entered the United States ter
ritory the Indians had killed thirteen per-
sons.
A GREAT flood prevailed on the Sth at Ar
kansas City, Kan, owing to a rise in the
Arkansas river. The whole country was
overlooked, and the damage to crops would
be immense.
In reference to the charge that Chicago
aldermen had been bribed by the North
Chicago City Railway Company, Mayor
Harrison said on the 9th that he had known
u case where $780, 600 was distributed
among the aldermen, and that he himself
could have made $50,0 900 from the Western
Indiana Company and $G5,00O from the
Chicago Il Evanston.
H. D. DAVIS, local master workman
Knights of Labor, was convicted at Union,
Mo-, on the 9th of o~bstructing the track
during the railroad strike, and sentenced
to two years in the p~enitentiary.
A wATER-srour burst over Marshall, N.
g., on the 9th, and a f1ood followed. which
wrecked houses, drowned cattle and ruined
the crops.
Mis-. WILLIAM SLOAN. of Stanford, Vt.
on fln OH Ip,u-,nJ L,- fo,, .1 .-
as she confessed, to spite her husband, of
whom she was i%nsanely jealous. The shock
made Mr.. Sloan insane.
A DISPATCH of the 9th from Sioux Falls.
d.. T., stated that the heat in that section
compelled farm laborers to abandon their
work.
THE wheat harvest was in progress on
the 9th in Southern Illinois, Missouri and
Kentucky. The crop was above the
average.
Com was discovered on the 9th on the
farm of Amos Burrows, near Erie, Pa.
The master-buiders of st. Louis, e1a-
ploying II thousand men, decided on the
9TH to discontinue the eight-hour plan in
nugurated May l. The employees declared
their intention to strike.
JOHN CoAKLEY, a deputy sheriff of st.
LOUIS, IcCclSeu Il 4eIU6f on the SCl Offering
him SlO,G0 if he Woul permit the escape
OF Maxwell. the murderer of Preller.
Possibly the first man ever arrested in
Kentucky for playing poker was Elias OPP
penheimer, of Louisville, who was capt
ured on the 9th under tie new State law
making gambling Il felony.
BY the ditching Of a freight train the
other day near Elkhorn, Neb., three tramps
stealing their passage were Instantly
killed.
AT Tonawanda, N. Y, the No Fart Thea
Ter, a saloon and a dozen other structures
We're destroyed by fire on the 10th, and a
man persisted in the flames.
IT was reported on the 10th that blood
hounds would probably be used to pursue
the hostile Apaches.
A wATERsPoUT on the 10th at Marshall,
N. G., devastated property and DESTROYED
crops.
AT the session of the International Tvpo-
graphical Union Mt Pittsburgh on the 10th
the Committee IN Strikes presented q re-
port amending the laws SO that all strikes
shall be investigated and arbitrated by an
executive council composed of the presi-
dent, chief organizer and vice-presilent or
State deputy.