Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-07
DOMESTIC.

! The grand jury in New York City on the
f90th indicted thirteen men on the charge of
iboycotting and annoying Mrs. Gray, who
keeps a bakery.
Mis-. DoLLINaER and her mother were
burned to death ina prairie fire on the Goth
at Lyons, DIT.
SIXTY pupils in the South Boston (Mass)
public schools struck on the Doth for q sim
gle session, and stoned one of the teachers.
LENA RoTH, a domestic, was burned to
death at st. Louis on the Goth whit ) trying
to kindle a fire with kerosene oil.
"A DEPUTY sHERIFF at Little Rock, Ark,
who was badly beaten by the strikers while
guarding property Of the Iron Mountain
road, received Jay Gould's check for $500
on the Goth.
DEFALcATIoNs amounting to $4,000, to
gether with a number of heavy losses,
caused the suspension Of the City National
Bank at Williamsport, Pa, on the Goth.
STAFFORD & SARGEANr, dealers in hides
and leather at Boston. made an assign
ment on the Goth, owing 100000.
SHOTS were fired at sentries in the East
St Louis railway yards IN the Goth. The
soldiers returned the compliment, but it
was not known that anybody was hurt.
The sentences of five Indian Territory
murderers, to have been hanged In a few
days, were on the 10th commuted to impris-
0nment for life.
AN open switch wrecked a freight train
near Harmarville, Pa, on the Goth, and
three men were fatally injured.
CHARLES R. CROKER. the California
millionaire, was probably fatally injured
i'm New York City on the Goth by being
thrown from his carriage.
GREAT forest fires were prevailing on the
90th in the mountains near Tamaqua, Pa,
and the air was dense with smoke.
TIL Secretary Of the Treasury on the
10th issued a call for three per cent. bonds
to the amount Of $10,0OO,O00 maturing
June1.
Tn street-car strike in New York City
came to IN end on the both except on two
branches of the Third Avenue line.
The village of East Lee, Mass. was In
undated at six o'clock ON the morning OF
the goth by the giving away Of a dam at
Mountain lake. Eleven persons were
drowned, and several factories were
wrecked, including two paper-mills.
ABOUT seventy-fve furniture, mmanufact-
uners Of Chicago, employing -four thousand
men. met on the 21st and Organized to re-
sist demands by workmen.
The explosion Of q lamp caused a fire the
other day which destroyed the Merchant
Mill, valued at $4,000, at Harrisburg, Pa.
LIGHTNING struck school-house on the
2lst at Freeland, Pa. killing al seighteyear-
old girl and probably fatally injuring
three other girls.
STRIKERS ditched q freightrtrain near
Fort Worth, Tex, on the 21st. Traffic had
been generally resumed on all tho lines in
the Southwest.
The fifteenth annual convention OF the
Presbyterian ,Women's Board Of. Missions
1lof the Northwest met at Indianapolis on
the 21st.
\ The annual encampment of the Grand
Army Of the Republic Of the State Of New
York began atNew York on the 2lst, with
t92 posts represented. There was an in
crease Of 5000 in the membership the last
year.
a PORTION Of the building known as Lib
lby Prison, at Richmond, Va, fell on the
fe1st, causing q loss of 100000 to the storage
company which occupied it.
Six THOUSAND sugar refners in New York
City struck on the 21st for higher wages.
Q containing two men and q boy
went over the dam at Hadley, N. Y, on the
21st, and all were drowned.
SoME twenty-five servant girls 1t Tarrv-
town, n. T., struck on the 2lst for higher
wages, leaving their mistresses to q
affairs as best they could.
A STRIKE on all the street RAILWAYS IA
New York City was again ordered on the
2lst, to continue until the companies took
back all the former strikers and die.