Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-04-09
DOMESTIC.

The strike of fOur thousand employees of
the National tube works at Mckeesport,
Pa, was settled on the 23i.
OvER one thousand morocco-workers at
Wilmington, Del, struck on the 23d for
higher wages.
DIVERS visited the wreck of the steamer
Oregon at Fire Island, N. Y, on the 23d
and recovered u sachel containing dia-
monds valued at $4,000.
FIVE THOUSAND coal miners in the Rey-
noldsville IN. W district struck on the 23d
for an advance in wages.
THE presidents Of the anthracite coal
companies met in New York on the 2Sd and
decided that the total output of coal this
year should not exceed 33, 500, 600 tons.
TIE Missouri Pacific road made another
attempt at st. Louis on the 23d to resume
freight traffic, but c~oupling-pins were
pulled and switches thrown until the loco
motive was ordered back to the shops.
There was no change in the strike at other
points, all bushes being at a stand-still.
A HUGE bald eagle undertook on the 23d
to carry an ~eight-year-old boy from the
farm of Joseph Davis, at Mannheim, N. Y,
but was foiled by laborers.
A L swept over Belmore, O., on
the 23d, destroying a large amount of
property and seriously i%njuring several
persons.
WHILE firing ut a target on the 23d at
Waverly, Ind, a lad named Mckenzie shot
and killed his mother.
SIX horse-thieves were killed bycowboys
on the 23d one hundred miles north of Bis
marck, d. 7.
+. S. HoYT, Luke Hoyt and William
Perry were fatally injured on the 23d by
the explosion of a boiler i'll a Single mill
at Tionesta, Pa.
SUIT was commenced by the Government
in the United States District Court at Co.
aumbus, O., on the 23d against the Bell Tele-
phone Company. The bill filed alleges
that Bell secured his patent by fraud and
false representations, and the Govern
:lnent demands hat the patent he declared
void. The defendants are cited to appear
June /.
SEVERAL Chinese wash-h ouses at Port
land, Ore, were blown up by dynamite on
the 23d.
THE steamer Rapidan, with a crew of
twenty-five men, bound from New York to
Costa Rica, was reported lost on the 23d.
THREE negroes, Halp Wade, Alexander
North and Henry Shaw, were hung by a
NOo - ~AoouI IL N.Y. q IL" O5iyS ago LOT
an attempted assault upon Miss Cora Day,
daughter of a prominent citizen.
INDIANS set fire to the prairie bordering
On Clark's Fork, in Montana, and the
flames spread rapidly, covering miles of
country on the 24th. 1t was feared that a
number of sheep and cattle would be de-
stroyed.
AN attempt to run a freight train out of
tho MjscGyr 1o,n;Ee ,,n,l,r4 Ga -.
the 24th resulted in IL collision between the
police and strikers, during which several
persons We're injured. After much trouble
a train was enabled to leave the city The
Governor Of Missouri had called out the
militia to protect railroad property. Tho
strike of the switchmen at Kansas City was
settled.
THE Secretary of the Interior rendered a
decision on the 24th which takes from the
Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Company
2,45l.2N acres in California and restores
them to the public domain.
A sTABLE at Hastings, Neb., was de-
stroyed by fire on the 9th, and five horses,
one of them valued at five Thousand dollars,
persisted i'll the flames.
A LUMBER train went through q trestle on
the 24th near Kildare, Tex, and four men
were killed.
ELEVEN business houses at Glendive,
Mimi, were destroyed by an incendiary
fire on the Gath.
MRS. PAUL True, aged ninety-fve years,
of Pittsfield, N. H., was down with the
wh%ooping-cough OH the 9th, but expected
to be about with her work again soon.
a sELF-srYI.ED prophet, Samuel Tell
marck, is preaching the "end of the world
in 1855" at Corydon, Ind.
THE mammoth barn at the Hopkins stock
farm in East Providence, r. l., was totally
destroyed by an incendiary fire on the 18th.