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

of Labor on the 18th warning the assem-
blies thathe had discovered that politicians
will attempt to pack the convention to be
held in October with the object of disrupt
ing the order.
SEVERAL lives were lost during a cyclone
on the 18th in Cook and Denton counties,
Tex, and immense damage was done to
crops and farm buildings.
A FESTIVAL and bali in aid of the Irish
Parliamentary fund took place at Boston
on the evening of the 18th, and nearly
ten thousand dollars were received.
BENJAMIN ZEnNER, an old and wealthy
resident of Delaware County, Ind, was
stung by honey bees on the 18th, and died
within an hou in great agony.
ELI OWENS, who lay in Jail at Hebron,
Neb., on charge of criminally assaulting
his si%ster-in-law, was taken out Il ilynched
by masked men on the 18th.
THE ten-mile bicycle race on the 18th for
tho worlds championship at Lynn, Mass,
was won by John r. Prince in thirty min
utes and eight seconds.
A FREIGHT train OF twenty cars fell
through a trestle near Foxburg, Pa, the
other night, three men being killed and
one fatally wounded.
A FIRE on the 18th In M. T. Antisell &
CO. piano mandatory in San Francisco
caused damage in that and adjoining
buildings to the extent of 100000.
WHILE drilling for gas on the 18th ut
Akron, O., alta depth of 2,4Oe feet workmen
touched a vast lake of very strong salt
water, into which an iron sounder was low
cred 200 feet.
SIXTEEN reports received by a
Toledo (O.) firm from the six principal
winte l-wheat States gave the prospects
on the 18th as favorable, except in Kan
sas and Michigan.
MINNIE AUSTIN, aged eighteen, shot her
self dead at Mingo, O., tho other night be-
cause her mother refused to let her attend
a lawn-fete with her lover.
THE Missouri Car md Foundry Works at
St. Louis were burned ON the 18th, causing
a loss estimated at $500, O00. Seven hun
dred men were thrown out of work.
On the 18th Acting Secretary of the
Treasury Fairchild estimated the receipts
for the next fiscal year at about $685., OoO,
600.
A FIRE on the night of the 18th at Mime
apolis, Mimi, swept away Goodenough's
North Star Saw-mill, causing a loss of
S155,000.
THERE were 100 business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the 18th, against 143 the previous seven
days.
Mrs. ELIZABETH REED, of jackson, Mich,
had up to the 18th tasted for n%inety-one
days. She is afflicted with internal can
GER and takes two s%poonfuls of port wine
daily.
SEVERAL business buildings at Leaven-
worth, Kan, were destroyed by fire on the
18th.
SPECIAL kilograms received in New York
on the 18th from leading business places
throughout the country reported only u
moderate activity in general trade.
EUGESIA KNIGHT, aged thirteen years,
Lena Whitehurst, aged fourteen, and Hat
tie Jones, aged fifteen, were drowned u
few afternoons ago near Temple, Tex,
while bathing.
GRACE BREWER, a colored girl of Vim
cennes, Ind, was the only person gradual
ing from the high school on the 18th, eight
white pupils refusing to appear with her.
She read u creditab.e essay on the difficult
ties of educating colored youth, and was
given a diploma.