Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-04-23

SIX thousand miners neal Pittsburgh,
Pa, threatened on the Sth to strike unless
Their wages were increased.
A CONSPIRACY by New York burglars to
| rob the mint at Philadelphia, which con-
tains over $40, 0o0, 900, was discovered on
the Sth. A house near the mint had been
rcnted by the cracksmen, and it was their
| intention to tunnel under the street to the
mint
The other day two horse-thievcs, having
six stolen horses in their possession, were
| shot to death by q sheriff and his posse
near st. Augustine, Tex.
UNITED STATES Deputy Marshals, cen
forced by o strong sheriff's posse. We're on
duty at East st. Louis on the Sth, but no
mobs appeared, and there was. no inter
ference with the movement Of trains. Re-
ports were current that arms were being
secretly distributed among the strikers in
st. Louis. At Laredo, Tex, troops had
been stationed to keep order.
AN unknown schooner, supposed to be
the Chanticleer, was wrecked the other
night off Southwest Harbor, Me-, and the
entire crew of six persons persisted.
A FIRE on the Sth in the Academy of
Fine Arts at Philadelphia burned many
valuable pictures and damaged several
pieces of statuary.
NAVIGATION on the Hudson river between
!! Albany and New York has been resumed.
In the Mill Greek valley, near Cincin-
natl. hundreds of acres of growing vegeta-
bles had on the Sth been destroyed by the
overflow of the Ohio river.
A CAR on the Lake Shore road, carrying
| eleven pouches of mail from the West for
all points east of Toledo, was burned OF
the eth near Oak Harbor, o.
AT East st. Louis on the 9th nine dcpu-
ties appointed by the Louisville & Nash
vile road, afterevadfng u shower of stones
from the strikers at the yards, fired into
the mob, killing five men and n woman
and wounding fourmen. Governor Oslesby
had ordered to the scene eight companies
of militia. At midnight fires broke out in
the railway yards, which the strikers pre-
vented the tiremen from stopping. At
Little Rock. Ark, q deputy-sheriff was
fatally wounded by the strikers. Eight
strikers were sentenced at Ell Paso, Tex,
by Judge Turner in the United States
Court, seven of the men getting ninety
daysin Jail and one thirty days.
LIE area ScGuGu III "l1tcf "llCdU III Uut
United States this year is three per cent.
less than that seeded in the fall of 1854, but
fourteen per cent. greater than that
harvested last summer.
SOME miscreant at Erie. Pa, poisoned a
family of six persons on the 9th, three of
whom were not likely to survive.
SIXTY employees of the Central branch
railway shops at Atchison, Kan, quit work
on the 9th, in response to formal appeals
from the Knights of Labor.
THE report that railroad engineers of the
Southwestern system would strike because
of sympathy with the Knights of Labor
was denied by the brotherhood on the 9th.
Ten stores at Socorro, N. NJ, were burned
on the 9th, entailing a loss of $4,000. Mr..
G. E. Ward, an old citizen, persisted in the
flames while attempting to save his little
dog.
In a foundry at Miles Grove, Pa, q
shower of sparks fell on the 9th upon
Frank L. Nelson, the foreman, burning'out
his eyes.
THERE were al business failures in the
United States and 26 in Canada during the
seven days ended on the 9th, against 200 in
this country and IS in Canada the previous
| seven days. The total failures in the
United States this year to date number
$3.50, against 4, 0S5 in a like part of 1885.
A ARG number of American newspa-
pers indorse the Irish policy outlined by
MI. Gladstone in his remarkable speech
on the sth. The comments of English and
Irish newspapers are varied in character.