Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-03-12
DOMESTIC.

A FIRE in st. Paul on the 23d damaged
the ~dry-goods store of Manufacturer Bros. to
the extent of Sl5O,00o.
A TRAIN on the Reading road jumped q
switch near Tamaqua. Pa, on the 23d, in
juring twenty persons more OF less Sc
verely.
A CABIN IN n plantation near Columbus,
Ga, was burned early the other morning,
and an old negro ana his wife persisted in
the flames.
A LITTLE girl named Rooney, residing at
Spring Mill, Pa, was burned to death on
the 23d, her clothing being playfully ig-
nited by an older sister.
GENERAL Crook left Tucson on the 23d
for Mexico to meet Geronimo, with whom
he expects to make terms for the surren-
der of all the hostile Apaches.
DURING the week ended on the Goth
BOG, $50 standard silver dollars were issued
from the minis.
THE employees of five shoe manufacture
ing firms at Milwaukee struck on the 23d,
owing to Il disagreement with the proprie-
tors on the wages question.
THE report that the Chinese Consul Gen
eral has advised Cinnamon to quit Amer
lea and return home was denied OH the
23l.
JAMES R. WINTERS killed himself on the
Esd at Reading, Pa, by fastening a rubber
hose to a gas-burner, placing the other end
in his mouth and turning on the gas.
TIE brothers Hermance arrived al New
Orleans on the 9th from Livingston, M. T.,
distance Of forty-five hundred miles, in
canoe in which they embarked last July.
They reported having had some unpleasant
adventures with Indians and billiards.
THE First National Bank of Kansas City,
MO, capital, S25O,000, was authorized on
the 2tE to business.
GEORGE SMITH, a colored depot porter at
Independence, Mo, recently sent a note
containing loving epithets to the thirteen
year-old daughter of M. G. Williams,
white. On the 9th the father and others
took Smith to a barn, and administered
one hundred lashes with a cowhide.
THE Government clerks at Washington
v organized Il clerks beneficial league.
the object of which is to pay two hundred
dollars to any of its members upon dis
charge or removal.
Nj ~Hungarians marched from Brad
ford, Pa, TO Summit, i'll tho coke regions.
ON the 18th, fired several shots and COM
PEELED all coko-drawers along their route to
quit work.
HEEEf Is. CHASE. eDbe of an extensive
lumber finn at Minneapolis, was killed
near Aitkin on the 18th.
InE citizens of Whcatland, Cal, drove
the Chinese laborers from three ranches on
the 18th and burned their quarters.
Ten colored doctors were graduated on
the 25th from the medical department. of
Central Tennessee College at Nashville.
ARCHBISHOP HESS, of Milwaukee, on the
25th advised the priests of his diocese to
use their e~ndeavoTs to restrain Catholics
from ~affiliat.ng with the knights of La
Eor.
The exports of California wine during
1888 reached 4,5O0,000 gallons-neaXly one
million gallons in excess Of the shipments
OF the previous year.
IN a quarrel in New York CITY on the
"5th Thomas Laughlin threw vitriol in his
wife's face, destroying her eyesight and
otherwise terribly burning her.
TIE two little twin daughters (aged 81 y
years. of Il man named Lille were caught
an a shaft at a mill in Shamokin, Pa, on
the 25th and whirled to death.
DONALD MCCLELLAN, at the age of one
hundred and twenty, is living in Detroit in
INDECENT circumstances His grandfather
was a follower of the famous Rob Roy.
THE school Cor Indian boys and girls. zeal
Steamburg, Pa, was destroyed by fire on
the 25th, teachers and pupils narrowly es-
Gaping with their lives.
TIE nailels Of the North Chicago rolling
mill at Bay View, Wis, who nave lost
Dsventy-fve thousand dollars in wages