Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-28

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great havoc had also been wrought
A CYCLONE on the 18th in the ~Conenaugh
CPa.) valley injured several persons, killed
many cows and wrecked houses fences
and trees.
NEARLY all the boot and shoe manufact-
urers of Chicago, having tried the eight
hour system for two weeks, met Oh the 18th
and resolved to return to the ten-hour
schedule, and not to knowingly employ an
Anarchist or Socialist.
ApoLIcE lieutenantin Pittsburgh crushed
a strike of seyenty-fve school-boys on the
18th against afternoon sessions by arrest
ing the ringleader.
GOVERNOR OGLEsBY, of Illinois, in a Dec
Grafton Day proclamation issued on the
18th, suggests that Saturday, the Goth, or
Monday, the 3lst inst, be observed, as may
best suit the convenience of the public.
ALL but two buildings at Wilkinson, Ind,
were destroyed by a cyclone on the 18th.
Two persons were killed, and probably a
dozen others were mortally injured.
THE strikers in the Chicago lumber yards
had nearly all returned to work on the
18th, except the leaders of the strike, who
the employers refused to employ undo
any circumstances
SHORTLY after four O'Clock on the morn
ing Of the 18th fire-fiends attempted to
burn the Madison Street Theater, in Chi
| cago. but the fire was discovered before
much damage was done.
ARTHUR ]. GROVER was hanged on the
18th at Columbus, o., for the murder of
Granville G. LOOMS.
FoUK miners were fatally injured on the
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explosion of a blast.
The condition of spring wheat in Illinois
was on the 18th reported by the State
Board of Agriculture as above an average
and better than for any year of the past
five.
FURTHER advices of the 18th say that
the recent storm at Xenia, O.. swept from
their foundations nearly one hundred
buildings, and caused the loss of twenty
four lives. The Miami river inundated
fifty acres of houses in Dayton, and cut OFF
railroad communication.
IN the recent storm at Attica, Ind, one
person was killed. five fatally wounded
and five seriously hurt. The property loss
was $500, 600 and seven hundred people
were homeless.
NEAR East Lynn, Rossville and Potomac,
ILL.,, a cyclone early on the morning of tho
18th wrecked several houses and caused
the death of five persons. Heavy rain,
which followed the cyclone, deluged the
country.
A PASSENGER train on the Bloomington
& Western road ran into a culvert on the
18th near New Castle, Ind, killing the en-
| gineer and fireman and q passenger and
severely injuring the conductor and bag
gageman.
A r. cyclone devasted a large sec
ton of country a mile and a half in extent
O few miles north of Jacksonville, ILL.,, or
the evening of the 18th. No lives were re
ported lost.
A MOB at Prescott, Kan, lynched F.
Lfles on the 18th for numbering Minnie
Grimes because she refused to marry him
The cities of Indianapolis, Lafayette
Logansport, Richmond and Cambridge, i,
Indiana, suffered great damage by a rail
and wind-storm on the 18th, and severa
lives were lost.
The grain commission house of Tyson &
Brothers, of Baltimore, failed on the l3tl
for 100000.
THE cutting departments of all the
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closed on the 18th for an indefinite periot
on account of u strike Of malo and female
tailors for better pay.
NEAR Bloomington, ILL.,, G. P. Orendorf
had forty-eight sheep killed and one hun
dred and thirty-fve wounded by dogs
few nights ago.
JONAS DRuRY, of Springfield, O., who pre-
dicted most accurately the recent storm
in that State, based upon records TO.
twenty years, issued a similar warning OF
the 14th for June ID and IA.
LOUIS LINGG, aged twenty-five years
was arrested in Chicago on the 14th on TIA
charge of throwing the bomb which killet
and wounded so many persons recently
The police are confident that he is til,
man.
The grand jury of Washington County
Pa, OF the 18th returned true bills ..agains
ninety-one of the striking coal miner
charged with conspiracy.
TIE Erie Railroad Company has organ
lied the Erie Express, which will take til
place of the United States Express on al
the lines and branches of the road.
A FIERCE storm ragged on the night of til
18th in Wabash County, Ind. The Wabasl
river was out of its banks and flooding til
country. Timber was leveled and whea
fields destroyed.
A CONTRACTOR in Pittsburgh used an i'm
mense charge of dynamite on the 18th il
breaking up an anvil weighing ten tons
The explosion wrecked three houses an,
seriously injured several persons.
TILE mayor of Attica, Ind, reported o.
the 18th that the recent storm doprive
fifty families of their homes. The In
dianapolis Board Of Trade had decided t,
send at once a carload Of provisions ant
bedding.
DURING the last year the American Bibl,
Society received s523, 90; expended s4s9,
99s, and issued 1,43z,44o Bibles, testaments
etc.
DURING the regent storm in Xenia, o,
the Morris family, seven in number, AM
the Powell family, six in number, were al
killed. The total number of deaths was o,
the 14th estimated at thirty-four.
THREE surveying parties of six men eact
were on the 14th reported to have bee,
killed near Ell Paso, Tex, by the Apaches
OVER eighteen thousand sewing girls ii
Chicago We're thrown out of work by the
closing of the wholesale clothing shops
and on the 18th there was no prospect of
settlement. They asked for an increase O
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