Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-02
DOMESTIC.

ESeiSaIo SlilS Oh 81 Louis On Une l4Cn
organized an assembly Of the Knights of
Labor, with a membership of $50.
A GREAT wind-storm prevailed on the
18th at Galveston, Tex. Part of the city
was flooded and much damage was re
ported.
TnK semi-eentennial anniversary Of the
admission of Michigan to the Union at
tracted fifteen thousand citizens of the
State to Lansing on the 18th, where repre-
sentative men delivered addresses from
three stands. A grand barbecue was held
at the fair grounds.
WINFIELD LEE THOMPSON, of Kansas
City, WHO was married June 9, and was on
his wedding tour, shot and killed his young
wife at the Sturtevant House, in New York,
on the 18th and then shot himself. No
cause was known for tho crime. 1t was
thought he might recover.
TwENTY-FoUR miners near Washington,
Pa, who struck and created q riot were
on the 18th sentenced by Judge Hart to
pay a fine of ono hundred dollars each and
eight months imprisonment.
The cooks and walters in the large res
taurants az San Francisco struck on the
18th, compelling the closing of many eat
Lighthouses.
The Supreme Lodge of the Ancient Or
der of United Workmen met in annual
session at Minneapolis. Mimi, on the 18th.
Thirty-one States and Territories were rep
resented.
JOHN j. PREssER, a famous hermit of
Eastern Pennsylvania, was found dead in
a swamp on the 18th near Reading with
$40 in money ON his person.
AT Dayton, O., Arthur G. Frank, a boy,
while playing baseball on the 18th with
sehoolmates was struck by a pitched ball
and killed instantly.
On the Waller farm, neal Newmarket,
Va, two young colored girls nearly beat to
death an aged white man and his sister on
the 18th and fed with $3.50 in money.
TIE banking house of John A. Veach &
Sons, at West Middlesex, Pa, closed its
doors on the 18th, with liabilities of $780,
ON0.
On the 18th two brothers named Ander-
son, aged thirteen and fifteen years re-
spectiwely, were drowned near Indiana,
Pa, while fishing.
MARE ADAMS, of Harper, Kan, daughter
of the editor of the Daily Graphic, was
burned TO death on the 18th while trying to
start a fire with kerosene oil.
TIER were two fatal cases Of sun-stroke
III SRlcaSO on Gne 10Th.
ADvICEs Of the 18th say that a Mexican
named Santos Salano was captured by the
Apaches Near Nogales, A. T., tied to q tree
and hacked to death with knives.
The Westinghouse of Sperry & Barnes,
at New Haven, Conn.,, valued at $500, 600,
was destroyed by fire on the 10Th.
DURING the recent storm at Sabine Pass,
Tex. dwellings warehouses and wharvcs
were blown away. The entire town was
submerged, sNlt no lives were lost.
A SHOWER of fish several inches in length
fell at Wyoming, O., on tho 10th, where
the children gathered them by the pocket
ful.
The Railway Commission of Minnesota
issued an order on the 10th reducing pas.
senger rates to three cents per mile.
MILE returning from church at Hines
vile, Ga, on the evening Of the 10Th u
party of colored persons quarreled over
the tszt, and in the fight which followed
one man was killed and two men and a
woman were fatally injured.
IN the iron and steel mills at Pittsburgh.
IA. the men were on the 18th working
overtime. indicating a prosperous condi-
ton OF the trade.
TEE conference committee Of iron manu-
facturers gathered at Pittsburgh on the
18th signed tho scale of the Amalgamated
convention. thus forestalliug wage troubles
for a year among the mills of the country.
A SECRET circular was sent out by the
General Master Workman Of the Knights