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

ADvIcEs of the 10th say that in Choctaw,
Marriage and Sumpter counties, in Ala
bama, violent earthquake shocks were re-
Gently felt. In some places the ground
trembled, houses were damaged and cattle
were thrown down.
THE damage by the recent flood to the
cities of Albany and Troy, N. Y, was Oh
the 10th estimated at 100000
AN incendiary fire on the 10Th at Green
bush, Wis. caused the death of James Ehle,
his wife, father and three children, and
Miss Kinney.
q. ii. MCCORMICK suspended operations
in his leaperfactory at Chicago on the 10th,
after yielding in the matter of wages, be-
cause the discharge of five non-union men
was demanded by the worklnen. The num-
Der of persons thrown out of employment
is fourteen hundred
AT the school of the Holy Trinity in st.
Louis Sister Euphrosnia threw herself
from a fourth-story window on the 10th
and was killed. She was suffering from
dementia.
FLAMES on the 10Th destroyed two stores
at Whitehall, N. Y, valued at $780, Oo, and
twelve buildings at Shalpsburg, Pa, worth
$4,000.
SEVERAL of the fleet of Governmentboats
at st. Louis were sunk by floating ice on
the 10th, others were badly damaged and
many were missing, but might be picked
up at points down the river. The loss was
placed at 100000.
ApvICEs Of the 10Th say that owing to the
floods in the East there We're more than ten
Thousand people homeless in Boston and
vicinity, and the property damage would
foot up from s. ,000,0 900 to $4,000 900 in the
Boston inundation. The loss elsewhere in
Massachusetts was roughly computed at
-Sl,W0.NO0; Connecticut, s2OO,00O, and in
New Hampshire s175,O00. 1t would require
many months to repair the damage lone to
dams and mill and factory interests.
Ar New S~traitsvillc, O., James Nixon
and A. Spencer were shot dead while at
tempting on the 10th to break into the sa-
loon of Thomas West.
TIE fire-brick manufacturers of the coun-
Try met in Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 10th to
organize a National Protective Associa-
ton.
A LARGE number of miners at Besier,
Mo, struck on the 10TH against a reduction
of two cents per ton in the price of mining
coal.
The leaders of the anti-Chinese riots at
Olympia, W. T., We're arrested on the 10th
and imprisoned. Every thing was guiet,
but the Cinnamon were gradually leaving
for Portland, Ore.
NEAR Wheeling, W. Va, a passenger
train on the 10th went through a trestle
into the kanawha river, and several per-
sons were drowned and others were seri-
ously injured.
MEMBERS of the Horse-Thief Association
at Parsons, kan., captured q tramp on the
18th who had been stealing horses and gave
him twenty-five lashes and a warning to
leave the country.
A NOTORIOUS colored criminal Damed
James was hanged by a mob Oh the 18th
near Beauregard, La.
THE strike of brakemen and freight
handlers on the Morgan railroad in Louis
lana was spreading on the 18th all along
the line of hat road, and business was sus-
pended.
TIE extensive nail-works at Cresce~t,
Pa, We're burned a few days ago, the l. IS
being very heavy.
DETECTIVES in Brooklyn on the 18th
captured Michael O'Connell, the incendiary
whose acts last summer caused the destruc-