Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-21

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named Gottlieb Fauth broke into the house
of his divorced wife and cut her to pieces
with an axe and then killed himself.
THE Police Commission of st. Louis on
the 5th deprived the mayor of the control
of the chief of police, placing it in the
hands of the vice-president of tho Police
Board.
JOSEPH WE1zER stabbed and killed Mrs.
Mary j. Lewis in Brooklyn, N. Y, on the
5th and then cut his own throat fatally.
He was insane.
TIE largest oil-producing we'll near
Washington, Pa. was set on fire by light
ming on the 9th, and threw up q flame two
hundred feet high, lighting the country for
miles around. The loss would be over
100000.
Two MORE police officers of Chicago, John
Barrett and George Mueller, died on the
9th from wounds received in the Socialistic
riot, and five others We're in q critical con.
dition. The police raided four or five So
c%ialistic headquarters in different parts of
the city and seized a considerable quantity
of arms, ammunition and incendiary doc
uments, and arrested Gustave STANCE, who
was thought to have thrown the bomb.
The labor situation appeared somewhatim-
| proved, ana luH Stl1llllleHp tllOllS Uue NOIh-
ing-men was generally a peaceful one.
THE whisky dealers and ~saloon-keepers
of Indiana met in Indianapolis on the 9th
and formed a State organization ''for de-
Tense against Prohibitionists and those
favoring high license"
AcYcLoNEsw swept through McHenry Coun-
ty. ILL.,, on the 9th, killing three men and
seriously injuring several other persons.
The destruction to property was great.
TERRIFIC storms on the 9th did immense
damage to crops in portions of Kansas and
Missouri.
ADv1cEs of the 9th say that over three
thousand head of cattle had persisted in the
Pecos (Tex.) valley owing to the drought.
Mrs. JACOBS and her young child We're
drowned in a w~ater-spout on the 9th near
Emporia, Kan.
MAJOR w. P. GREEN, one of the leading
planters of Louisiana, was murdered by a
laborer on the 9th on the Creedmoor plan
tation, after an Interchange Of blows and
shots. The citizens of the parish took the
negro from the Jail and hanged him to a
tree.
CLEVELAND CO., police circles were excited
on the 9th when it was discovered during
the night that the city had been flooded
with a circular, printed in English and
German, calling all workmen to arms to
revenge the killing of some of their num-
Der in Chicago.
The butchers of Baltimore to the number
of eight hundred had a parade and meet
ing a few days ago to protest against the
use of beef slaughtered in Chicago.
GENERAL MASTER WORKMAN PowDERLY
denounces the doings of the Anarchists in
Chicago, and says they arc deserving of
the severest punishment. He states thatif
any Knights of Labor nave taken part in
the murderous work they should DC
promptly expelled from the order.
TIE labor troubles in New York still
continued On the 9th, with no signs of q
speedy settlement.
Two PERSONS died at Milwaukee on the
9th of wound received in the previous
days rioting, and three others were DO
lieved to be beyond recovery. Two An
archists were arrested.
The revival meetings in Chicago wer.
discontinued on the 9th on account of the
labor troubles. Mr.. Moody will return DC
tober 1.
ONE THOUSAND miners along the Pan
handle road, in Pennsylvania, and foul
hundred of Rend's men struck on the 6tl
for al advance.
The citizens Of ~Logansport, Ind, on tn,
9th organized a ~law-and-order league com
posed of the most prominent lawyers
physicians, bankers, merchants and Judges
Lew York, an outspoken Socialist, wa
given two hours in which to leave town
and he left for good.
ADvICEs Of the 9th say that the old EN-
ployes on the Gould lines were being takel
back. with the exception of those who de
stroyed property and created riots.
Mrs. JOHN Duck, aged eighty years, wa
burned to death on the 1th at Edna, Mo.
her clothes catching fire from the stow,
while she was preparing supper.
Tie figure of a policeman in full uniform
was found hanging to u telegraph pole OF
the corner of Paulina and Eighteenth
streets, Chicago, on the 7th. The fund TO
the relief of the families of the killed an,
wounded policemen had reached owe
$4,000.
DISPATCHES state that vast damage wa
done throughout Southern Missouri an,
Kansas by the recent hail-storms and rain
The loss in the vicinity of Springfield, Mo.
was estimated at 500: 900.
, THIRTEEN houses at Henning, Tenn,
= were destroyed by an incendiary fire O.
the 18th.
CHARLES T. WoERNER, a St. Paul CMinn.
druggist, and a domestic in his cmplo
killed themselves on the 18th with poison
The crime was said to be the result of illicj
, love.
t SPECIAL kilograms to Braastreet's on til
7th indicated that the general trade situa
ton throughout the country was very un
favorable, owing, in a large degree, to til
numerous strikes and the determination O
manufacturers not to yield.
TIE Southern Baptist convention met a
Montgomery, Ala, on the 18th, and the fit
general conference of the colored NJ. Z
Church assembled at Augusta, Ga.
, TIE Chicago police captured severa
} more Anarchists on the 18th. There was II,
material change in the labor situation, an,
} but few disorderly acts were reported.
AN immense mass-meeting was held il
/ New York on the 18th to express approval
/, of Gladstone's Irish home-rule measure
Governor Hill presided.
TIE brakemen's strike all along the lin,
!, of the Union Pacific road came to an enc
on the 18th.
NOTICES warning all negroes to leav,
town or be roughly dealt with were nosta,