Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-04-16
DOMESTIC.

iof Erie, Pa-, who had lately lost a large
fortune, moved his family out of a costly
mansion On the Goth, and then hanged him
self.
A REVIVAL in the Brazil (Ind.) mining
district, conducted by j.. E. Martin, has re-
suited IN fifteen hundred miners signing
the temperance pledge, and several saloons
have been closed owing to che conversion
of the pFoprietoTs.
SEVENTEEN buildings, with t~wenty-eight
horses, mules and COWS, were destroyed by
fire at Columbia, Mo-, a few days ago.
A CYCLONE on the Both ult. destroyed a
negro church, in which funeral services
were being held, in Bullock County, Ala,
four persons being killed and ten wounded.
ABuu1B1No in New Orleans containing
cotton valued at $4,000 was struck by
lightning and burned, with Its contents, on
the 30th ult
OWING to lack Of coal, Leggett & Myers
tobacco factory at st. Louis shut down on
the 30th uft>, rendering $50 men idle.
THE Union Pacific road on the Both ult.
cut passenger rates of both classes to five
dollars net from the Missouri river to San
Francisco, with q guarantee of a return
ticket at the same price within thirty days.
The Baptist ministers of Chicago at a re-
cent meeting adopted resolutions cordially
approving b eight-hour movement. This
is said to be the first step formally taken
by the clergy in this direction.
4 FIRE which broke out in the San
Carlos Theater, at Key West, Fla, early
ON the morning of the 30th ult. was not ex-
tinguished until late in the afternoon, the
principal portion of the city being de-
stroyed- Fifteen or twenty persons were
injured by falling walls. The financial
loss was placed at 81, 500, 900.
In a bar-room fight on the Both ult. at
Ranger, Tex, three men ware killed.
THE two leaders and seven of the mob
who drove the Chinese out of Oregon City
recently were on the Both ult. indicted by
the United States grand jury at Portland.
HEAVY rains in sections Of Alabama,
Tennessee and Georgia had on the Both ult.
caused freshets which swept away a num-
Der of railway bridges and flooded valua-
BILE property. Railway traffic was entirely
suspended. Rain was still falling heavily
at midnight, and the loss up to that time
was estimated at 50, 600, 900.
A STEAMED. collided with a bridge at New
Orleans on the Both ult. and sank, three
men being drowned. Another steamer,
which was aiding in tho rescue of the crew,
exploded her boilers, four persons being
killed.
A NUMBER Of boys who had engaged in q
stone-thIowing conflict were brought be-
fore Judge Fitzgerald, at Cincinnati, on
the Both ult, who ordered that each of the
lads be spanked by their fathers, and that
reports be made to the court April 6 wheth-
err the order had been executed.
THE great mill strike at Cohoes, N. Y,
ended on the Both ult., over five thousand
employees returning to work.
The exposition at New Orleans closed on
the 3lst uIt
A BosToS paper published an article on
the 3lst uh., copied from an anarchist
organ, declaring that Herr Most and his
faction were preparing to burn buildings
and commit outrage in New York City.
On the 31st ult Mr.. Powderly ordered he
Knights of Labor on the Gould railways in
the Southwest to return to work, and it
was thought that the end of the strike was
at hand. Trains were moving from vari-
Gus points
REPORTS on the 31st ult. from Illinois and
fruit-shippinag points in the South indicated
a backward season, but vegetable prospects
We're equal to those OF former years.
EyER one Of the seventy-five trade or
labor unions in Chicago has declared for
the eight-hour system.
IKE anti-orgrn faction Of the United
Presbyterian Church adopted a resolution
at Pittsburgh on the 3lst ult. declaring that
ltwould Withdraw from the church if the
next general assembly Of the church failed
to forbid the use of organs in church build
ings.
lN deciding al anti-ChiDese case at San
francisco on the 3.st ult. Judge Sanger
said that if the United States statutes re-
lating TO conspiracy to deprive persons of
the equal protection of the law YVES valid
then 'boycotting'' was criminal.
Tie collections of internal revenue re-
ceived at Washington for the first eight
months of the fiscal year ended June 30,
1856, amounted to sI5, 15S, go, an increase
of s3,4lO,3SS over the receipts for the cor
responding period Of the last fiscal year.
A FIHE on the 31st ult. destroyed the Mer-
chants Hotel at Carver, Mimi, in which
two men lost their lives.
A VEIN Of petroleum, flowing two hun
bred barrels per day, was on the 3lst ult.
deyalOwei at Lake CharIaS La