Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14
DOMESTIC.

FIFTY firms which manufacture brass,
iron. steam, gas and water materials, and
representing $40, o0o, 0o1 invested in tools
and machinery, formed IL union in New
York on the 20th for mutual protection
against the aggressions of labor organiza-
tons.
THREE boys and a policeman were badly
1Acerated on the 21th by a mad dog at Pull
man, a Chicago suburb. The animal was
killed.
THE brick-yards of Hayt & Alsip, in Chi
cago, the largest in the world, covering
sixty acres, were closed on the 9th, the
proprietors refusing to give ten hours pay
for eight hours work.
THREE THOUSAND moldcrs, clippers and
helpers III the different foundries in Will
ialnshurg, N. Y, struck on the 9th for an
advance of ten per cent. Some of the
foundries decided to shut Town rather than
acccde to the demands.
ADvlcEs of the 9th say that a cyclone at
Akron, Ala, overturned many houses, up
rooted trees and devastated that entire
section of the country. No lives were re-
ported lost.
FIVE coal handlers along the
docks at Cleveland struck on the 9th for
an advance in wages.
In a quarrel at Galveston, Tex, on the
9th over a horse John Burke fatally
stabbed his brother Edward and then blew
out his own brains with q revolver. The
brothers were proprietors of Il grocery, and
well-to-do.
A GENERAL assembly of the Knights OF
Labor OF the United States and the Domin.
ion Of Canada has been called to meet in
Cleveland May % to consider the labor
troubles throughout the country.
A CATTLE company of st. Louis has
leased over two million acres OF grazing
land in the British Northwest territory fol
twenty-one years without taxation.
GEORGE E. GRAHAM, the wife-murderer
was taken from Jail at Springfield, Mo, OF
the 9th by a mob and hanged, and Frit;
Rupin was lynched near Topeka, Kan, TO
the murder of Mrs. Freimuth.
TIE rolling-mill of Oliver Brothers &
Phillips at Pittsburgh closed down on tn,
9th owing to a strike of three hundred en-
ployes, whodcmandeG an advance in wages
A FRAME hotel at Butte, NJ. T., was burnet
the other night, Il little boy perishing il
the flames. \ robber who set the fir,
robbed the mother of the victim of 5000.
The freight and passenger depots of thu
Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan road a
Wabash, Ind. We're struck by lightning OF
the 9th and entirely destroyed, together
with much valuable freight. The loss was
heavy.
THIRTY persons engaged in boycotting
clothing firm were arrested at New Horl
on the 9th on charges of conspiracy ant
coercion.
The apache Indians were raiding in tn,
Santa Cruz valley, in Arizona, on the 9th
Over thirty persons had been killed neal
Casita, ten near Calabasas and several a
other points. The cavalry were in pursui
of the Indians.
ADvicEs of the 9th say that heavy rains
had fallen continuously for thirty-si.
hoursi in the Jackson CIiss.) district, an,
travel on all lines of railway was partially
suspended.
HUNDREDS of families in the mining dis
tricts at Elk Garden, w. Va, were on tn,
eth reported TO be in u starving condition
and aid was solicited.
SEVERAL of the largest furniture fac
tories in Milwaukee, closed on the 27tl
rather than pay full wages for eight hours
work.
BARNEY EIsnEN's barn, at Mortified
Mimi, was struck by lightning and burned
a few nights ago, and four horses ant
thirty head of cattle were cremated.
The Mississippi levee at Austin, Miss.
broke OH the 9th, causing the inundatiol
of two counties.
Mi. Brooks, of Phelps, n. Y, on the 2stl
discovered a new comet in the constella
ton OF Cassiopea.
lT was reported on the 2Sth that through
arrangements by the Citizens Committee
OF st. Louis with the knights of Labor
General Board the strike on tho Missouri
Pacific would soon be declared off.
DURING the ten days ended on the 2Stl
five Mexican horse-thieves were killed il
Duval County, Tex. while resisting arrest
A JURY in the criminal court at st
Louis on the 2Sth convicted a Missouri Pa
citic striker named John Holland of as
ssulting a brakeman, and a punishment of
thirty days in Jail was fixed.
MENDY JONES, a colored outlaw. was
killed by lynchers on the 18th at Auburn,
KY, for I criminal assault upon two white
girls.
In a labor dispute at st. Louis on the 2Sth
John Gibbons, Il striker, assaulted William
/. Witlers, a ~nou-union man. The latter