Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14
then drew his revolver and shot Gibbons

for eight hours labor.
INDIANS We're reported or the 18th to
have attacked a ranch twenty miles south
west of P%antano, A. T., killing eight per-
sons.
SEVERAL hundred feet of the levee a mile
below Austin, Miss. had been swept away
on the 2sth, increasing the ~inundatlon III
Tunica and Coahoma Counties. A general
break up in the Arkansas levees was re-
ported, the gaps ranging from one hundred
feet to half a mile in extent.
ALI. the p~laning-lnills at Milwaukee save
two shut down on the 29th in preference to
paying ten hours pay for eight hours
work.
TELEGRAMs of the Goth say a mysterious
and fatal disease has broken out in Rowels-
burg. w. Va. The victims are first seized
with a severe pain in the head and are dead
within twelve hours. After death the
bodies become spotted.
GEORGE PARKS, of kirksville. Mo, an old
Union soldier, who left a leg on the battle
field, met with an accident in a sausage
factory on the goth by which he would lose
his other leg.
TIE championship season of the National
Baseball League opened on the Goth.
NtEAI udllldSe WIS QOie cjSuU IllliCS
north of Mississippi City, Miss, on the
both by a cyclone. 1t moved in Il path
three-quarters of a mile wide Large
quantities of timber We're blown down and
lofty pines were uprooted.
THE Bank of Marietta, O., has failed with
liabilities of over 100000.
IHEmachine manufacturers and foundry
men of Chicago stated on the 18th that they
were opposed to giving ten hours pay for
eight hours work, and so were the parlor
furniture manufacturers.
The report that eight persons had been
killed by Indians near Pantana, A. T.,
proved on the 29th to be unfounded.
TIE Lower Mississippi was above high
water mark on the Goth and still rising.
THE freight-handlers employed in Chi
cage by the st. Paul and Northwestern
roads presented demands on the 29th for
eight hours labor and ten hours pay.
THE Treasury Department at Washing
ton on the Doth decided that Chinese sea-
men may be allowed to land on our shores
without a certificate for the purpose OF
shipping on a return voyage as soon as
possible.
A HURRICANE had on the Goth prevailed
for t%wenty-four hours in Nebraska, the
wind being SO heavy that trains We're re.
tarded. The effect on young stock, it wa
feared, would be disastrous.
GEORGE EDWARDS, the last of the gang of
forgers wanted in several of the large
cities throughout the country, was arrested
in New York on the Both ult.
KEYSTONE, a., was visited on the soil
ult. by a fire which destroyed the post
Office and ten other buildings. The chic
portion of the business district of the tow
was consumed.
TIE Third Avenue Railroad Company a
New York had cowboys from the Soutl
and West to run its cars on the Both ult.
THREE boot and shoe factories and
hotel at Natick, Mass, were destroyed b,
fire the other morning, the loss reaching
$50. 1000.
THE Advance elevator at Kansas City
Mo-, containing $1,000 bushels Of grain, wa
destroyed by fire the other night. Los
slOO,0J0
TIE safe in the private bank of 0. S
Laugan, at Blutfton, O., was blown ope
by burglars on the Both ult, and nearly fv
thousand dollars in money and severa
thousand dollars in securities were stolen
Tie eight-hour agitation in Chicago hat
on the Both ult. resulted in closing all tn
furniture and box factories and in the sus
i. pension of work at most Of the iron an
brass shops, throwing a total of 25,0 COZ me,
out of work.
, TIE floods in Arkansas were on the BOT
/. ult. causing great suffering among til
people, many being without food.
TIE business failures occurring through
! out the country during the seven day
? ended on the Both ult. numbered for til
T. United States 1S9, and for Canada IS, OF
total of 201, as compared with a total {
1874 the previous seven days. The total fai
9 ures from January l to date number 3 ,9S
against 4,G4G, during the same time in 1SSi
A DIFFICULTY which arose a few day
l ago in the Office of the county clerk {
i Williamstown, KY, resulted in the deaf
of W. W. Wainscott and the fatal vounc
ing of Turner Holbrook and Clay Wilson
e LOUIS %SoMERFlELD and Richard j. L.
(colored) We're executed at Washington
i D. c., on the Both ult. j. M. Arlnstron
was hanged at %Perryville, Ark; Jane
Walker was executed at st. Augustine
Fla, IL George Carroll paid the e,
IRENE penalty at Searcy, Ark. All ha
been convicted Of murder.
l -. ~ ILcSS " W. > LOulOnS ana Wnlt
goods establishment at Baltimore VIZ
Quilted by fire the other night. and adjoil
ing buildings were badly damaged. I'll
+ total losses would aggregate $500, 900.
t Il grand jury at New York returned
t presentment on the Both ult. condemnin
boycotting as a ';cursed %eXotic,'' and III;
5 ing the press, the bench, the bar and I'll
Legislature ito aid in eXterminating I'll
l hydra-headed monster.n
A LOSS of $4,000 was the result of a fiji
on the Both ult. at San Francisco in th
furniture store of L.. q E. Emanuel and til
publishing establishment of A. l.. Ban
!, croft & Co. a spectator was killed by
falling wall.
In summarizing the labor troubles on til
/ 31th ult. BradStyut's said that eight hou]
: had been granted to 81, 600 employees; tia
10000 persons had petitioned for eigl
hours, and that 100, 900 men would strike
| 50, 600 for eight hours and &c, 900 for mir
l hours.
T., PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
/ THERE was held at Toledo, o., on th
9th a reunion of the survivors of the wrec
l of the steamboat S%ultana, which occu1rc