Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-09
DOMESTIC

A CARLOAD of fine watermelons from
Southern Georgia (the first of the ~season)
arrived in Chicago on the 22d, II sold
readily at seventy cents each.
THE National Association of Saddlery
and Harness Manufacturers was organized
on the 22d at Pittsburgh, Pa, the object be-
ing protection against strikes.
The Irish Parliamentary Fun Commit
tee of New York had on the 22d raised
s9s.663 to send abroad.
GOVERNOR WOLF, of the Chickasaw Ma
ton, l. T., issued a proclamation on the
22d ordering the immediate removal Of all
cattle from the nation.
THE photographers of the United States
and canada commenced their seventh an
nual convention on the 22d at st. Louis.
A HAIL-sToRM early on the morning of
the 22d in the southern portion of Eau
Claire County, Wis, seriously injured
crops, wheat and potato vines suffering
severely.
The strike of street-car drivers at Mime
apolis closed on the 22d, the use of seats
being conceded.
HE discovery was made ON the ED that
the practice of graveyard insurance was
in vogue in New Hampshire, and that the
companies had been swindled out of large
sums.
AFTER a strike lasting four months the
stove-molders of Troy, N. Y, returned to
work on the 22d on the manufacturers
terms. Five thousand ,co%llar-girls, who
had been idle six weeks, also returned to
duty at the old rate of wages.
ADv1CEs of the 22d say that in the vic;n-
ity of Alexandria, La, the people were al
most r11jDad hv tho vacant Hoods ond Z,
saw starvation staring them in the face, as
the corn and cotton crops were ruined.
The loss of stock was also considerable
THUNDER and hail-storms in the Hutch
inson, Shakopee and Winona sections of
crops The storm became a tornado at
Hutchinson, but no loss of life was re-
ported.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., celebrated the 250th
anniversary of it's settlement ON the I'D
In several towns near Detroit, Mich,
black diphtheria had become epidemic on
the 23d. Children were taken sick without
warning, their thrbats swelled, and in d
few hours they died in great agony.
AS A result of the recent wholesale pois-
oning at a picnic in Pottersville, N. j., by
eating ice-cream in which arsenic had been
placed, six persons were dying on the 23d,
and physicians said that fifty others could
not live.
THE wholesale dry goods firm Of Riegel,
Scott d Co., of Philadelphia, failed on the
23d for $500, 900.
On the morning of the 23d William
Kelaher, alias freddy" killed City Mar
shall John Convey at Detroit, MINI. Kel.
aher was taken from Jail at night, hanged
to a tree and riddled with bullets.
BATTLES cat~tle-sheds at st. Louis were
burned on the Odd, twenty-five COWS per-
ishing in the flames.
THE Lake Shore switchmen in the vicin-
ity of Chicago quit work. on the 23d because
eight n%on-unlon men were not discharged.
Miss MAuDE JETToN, of Galloway County,
KY, who was bitten by a mad dog eighty
days ago, died on the 23d of h~ydlophobia.
A FIRE, followed by an explosion, de-
stloyed the works of the American Forcite
Powder Company at Eopatcong, N. j., the
other afternoon, entailing a loss of 500, 600.
FoR permanent disability occasioned by
rheumatism contracted in the army, a pen
sion of sl2,22S1 was on the 23d paid to Ma
poleon Mcpherson, residing in Lake Coun-
ty, Inc.
HARVESTING commenced in Virginia on
the 23d, and alphabetically large crops of
wheat and fruit were being gathered.
The titst fast fruit-train ever sent from
California to the East left Sacramento on
the Gath. 1t consisted of fifteen cars.
TEE Share Emets Synagogue at 81
Louis on the oath deposed Rabbi S. H. Son
neschein for abandoning Judaism for
Unitarianism.
GEokGE PHILLIPS, a pensioner of the war
OF 1872, residing at Oneida, N. Y, shot
himself through the heal on the 24th be-
cause of an impression that he was a bur-
den to his family.
HEAVY rain and hail on the Gath ruined
fields of wheat, corn n oats in the outh-
ern section of Macon County, III.
A BoILER exploded in Il mill near Atkins,
Ark, on the oath. killing three men and
fatally w%ounding two others.
In a hospital at Buffalo, in the case of a
woman with a tumor in her throat, an
opening was made into the stomach on
the oath, through which food was passed
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