Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-23

factories OF Pittsburgh, Pa, has during
the past year done away with the con-
sumption of lS9, 600 bushels of coal q day,
and has thrown about 5000 men out of
work in that region.
FouN Mormon converts We're
landed in New York on the Sth from Eu-
rope. They are S~candinavians.
SIX boilers in a c%ollicry near Plymouth,
Pa, exploded on the 6th, scalding two
mon, wrecking the boiler-house and dam
aging many buildings in the n%eighbor-
hood.
AN ice-house two hundred feet square,
located on au island in the Hudson river
four miles below Albany, N. Y, was de-
stroyod by fire on the Sth, the loss being
$10O,0 DOC.
DURING a heavy gale which prevailed a
few days ago off the Columbia river, near
Astoria, Ore, seven fishermen were
drowned.
MRs. THERESA TURPIN, who lived near
Princeton, Ind, cut the throat of her sew
en-year-old daughter on the sth, hanged
her baby daughter, and then went to the
barn and hanged herself. She was tenn
porarily insane.
FOREST fires in the Erie (Pa.) district
were oil Uuc SUu ucSUIOS lltS OIluScS, AcuCcS,
buildings and lumber.
IT was believed on the Sth that arsenic
was placed in the ice-cream which poi
soned 175 persons at a church festival at
New Germantown, N. j., juno II. IN of
the suspected persons had disappeared.
GREAT fires were raging on the 9th in the
pineries north of Eau Claire, Wis, and the
loss would be heavy.
THERE were 159 business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the 9th, against 157 the previous sever
days. The total in the United States from
January 1 to date is 5,5SS, against 6,431 in
1885.
A HALr-DozEN stores at Haverhill, Mass,
were burned on the 9th, the loss reaching
$1,000 An incendiary fire, started at the
same time, swept away property valued at
$ $4,000.
REPoRrs on the 9th from thirty counties
in Nebraska INC Western Iowa showed
that the drought and c~hinch-bugs we're do
ing extensive damage in both grain and
corn.
WIND and hail-storms on the 9th at Ben
son and Sleepy Eye, Mimi, wrecked build
ings and destroyed crops. Freight-cars
were blown from the tracks and thousands
of acres of grain were ruined.
JACK LAMBERT, a printer, vas executed
at Charleston, N. c., on the 9th for the
murder of Dick Wilson; Miguel Chacon, a
Cuban negro, was hsslged in New York for
killing his paramour, and Sam Archer was
executed at Shoals, Ind, for the murder of
Samuel A. Burch, thus ending the career
of the fifth of a gang Of desperadoes who
had been guilty OF many crimes.
VICTOR and Eugene Fountain, seven and
nine years old, were drowned at Lowell,
Mass, on the 9th. Fabyan DeMarrer,
eighteen years old, tried to rescue them
and was also drowned.
Mrs. MARY THOMAS, of Avondale, N. j.,
climbed n cherry-tree OF the 9th, and slip
ping from a branch was caught by the
neck and %strangled to death.
On the 9th 104 saloon-keepers at st.
Joseph, Mo-, were indicted for violating
the Sunday law.
FIFTY-FIvE railroads earned during June
SIS, 90S, 1862, an increase over the same
month in 1885 of So, 133', 99S.
MISS EVA JOHNSTON, aged seventeen, liv-
ing near Patricksburg, Ind, hanged her.
self on the 9th in the woods near her
fathers dwelling.
RoBrIRs invaded the post-ofice at Min
neapolis, Mimi, early on the morning of
the 9th and carried off $40, 600 in money
and stamps.
MARTIN CoNKL1N, one of the proprietors
of u p%laning-mill at Lancaster, O., was
crushed into a mass of jelly OF the 9Th by
being caught in the betting.