Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14
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iron, steam, gas and water materials, and
representing $40, o,09) invested in tools
and machinery. formed a union in New
York on the Goth for mutual protection
against the aggressions of labor organiza-
lions.
THREE boys and policeman were badly
kcerated on the 2Tth by q maddog at Pull
man, a Chicago suburb. The animal was
killed.
The brick-yards of Hayt & Alsip, in Chi
cage, the largest in the world, covering
sixty acres, were closed on the 9th, the
proprietors refusing to give ten hours pay
for eight hours work.
THREE THOUSAND molders, clippers and
helpers in the different foundries in Will
ia1nshurg, N Y, struck on the 9th for an
advance Of ten per cent. Some Of the
~foundries decided to shut down rather than
accedet to the demands.
ADy1cEs Of the 9th say that a cyclone at
Akron, Ala, overturned many houses, up
rooted trees and devastated that entire
section of the country. No lives were re-
ported lost.
FIVE coal handlers along the
docks at Cleveland struck on the 9th for
an advance in wages.
In a quarrel at Galveston, Tex, on the
9th 9 a horse John Burke fatally
stabbed his brother Edward and then blew
ont his own brains with a revolver. The
brothers were proprietors Of a grocery, and
well-to-do.
AGENERAL assembly Of the KNIGHTS of
Labor of the United States and the Domin-
ion of Canada has been called to meet in
Cleveland May IS to- consider the labor
troubles throughout the country.
A CATTLE company of st. Louis has
leased over two million acres of grazing
land in the British Northwest territory for
twenty-one years without taxation.
GEORGE b. GRAHAM, the wife-murderer,
was taken from jail at Springfield, Mo-, or
the 9Th by a mob and hanged, and Fritz
Rupin was lynched neal Topeka, Kan, 70,
the murder of Mrs. Freimuth.
The rolling-mil Of Oliver Brothers &
Phillips at Pittsburgh closed down on the
9th owing to strike Of three hundred en-.
ployes, whodemandeda an advance in a
"a FRAME hotel at Butte, NJ. T., was burned
the other night, a little boy peerishiing in
the flames. A robber who set the fire
robbed the mother Of the victim of $500.
The freight and passenger depots Of the
Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan road at
Wabash, Ind. were struck by lightning or
the 9th and entirely destroyed, together
with much valuable freight. The loss was
heavy.
THIRTY persons engaged in boycotting a
clothing firm we're arrested at New York
on the 9th on charges Of conspiracy and
coercion.
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Santa Cruz valley, in Arizona, on the 9th.
Over thirty persons had been killed neal
Casita, ten near Calabasas and several al
other points. The cavalry were in pursuit
of the Indians.
ADvIcEs Of the 9th say that heavy rains
had fallen continuously for thirty-six
hours in the jackson Miss district, and
travel on all lines Of railway was partially
suspended.
HUNDREDS Of families in the mining dis
tricts at Elk Gardcn, W. Va, were on the
9th reported to be in a starving condition,
and aid was solicited.
SEVERAL Of the largest furniture fac
tories in Milwaukee closed on the 9th
rather than pay full wages for eight hours
work.
BARNEY E1sHEN's barn, at Northfeld,
Mimi, Yves struck by lightning and burned
9 few nights ago, and four horses and
thirty head OF cattle were cremated.
The Mississippi levee at Austin, Miss,
broke OH the 9th, causing the inundation
of two counties.
Mn. Brooks, Of Phelps, NY, on the 28th
discovered a new comet in the constella-
ton of Cassiopea.
IT was reported on the 2Sth that through
arrangements by the Citizens Committee
81 st Louis with the knights OF Labor
General Board the strike on the Missouri
Pacific would soon be declared of.
DURIsd the ten days ended on the 18th
ii Mexican horse-thieves were killed in
Duyal County, Tex, while resisting arrest.
q July In the criminal court at st.
Louisson the 18th convicted q Missouri Pa
cifie striker named John Holland Of as
saulting a brakeman, and a punishment Of
thirty days in jail was fixed.
MENDY JONES, a colored outlaw, was
killed by lynchers on the 2stb at Auburn,
KY, for ! criminal assault upon two white
girls. #
IN q labor dispute at st. Louis on the 2Sth1
John Gibbons, q striker, assaulted William
:. Witthers, ansn-union . Tho lstter