Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-13
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
An Interesting Summary Of the
important Occurrences OF
the Week.
A Budget OF News Cleaned From the
Latest Dispatches From Far
and Ne0r.
Apv1cEs. BY TELEGRAM.

THE secretary of the interior has sent
the president tho draft of bill providing
for the revocation of tho withdrawal of
land made for the benefit of the following
named railroad companies: Under section
of the act of March 5. 1865. the st. Paul.
Minneapolis and Manitoba. the st. Paul.
saltwater and Tnylor's Falls. the Saltwater
and st. Paul. the ST. Paul and Northern Pa
citic the Minnesota Central. the Winona
and st. Peter the Southern Minnesota, and,
possibly, the st. Paul and Sioux City; un-
der section 5 of the. act of Nav 2. 1854. the
Sioux City and ST. Paul and the Chicago,
Milwaukee and ST. Paul: under section OF
the act of June 2. 1864, the Cedar Rapid and
Missouri River: under section of the act
of JULY 1. 1896. the Southern Minnesota and
Hastings and Dakota. The act confers
upon the secretary of the interior. when
ever grant of land has been adjusted,
and he deems it advisable, authority to
tina ly close after due notice.
The girls employed at Comhe & Nc
Creary's paper box factory. of ST. Joe. Mo-,
refused TO go to work the other day on ac-
count of Il reduction that had been made in
their pay. The girls claim that this reduce
ton has been in force for three months
past and they have at last been forced to
rebel against it, They say that when they
would finish a lot of boxes they would be
paid the reduction of 10 per cent. instead OF
the old scale. Complaints made to the firm
failed to remedy the evil, and it is said the
foreman is in part responsible.
A Berlin telegram states that the
Warthe and Rhine rivers are subsiding,
but the waters of the Vistula are still
spreading. now covering an area of 300 or
400 square miles. Seventy nine villages
with population of 10000. are submerged
Experts calculate that it will require
months of labor TO drain the flooded dis
tricts. Others are threatening to overflow.
Snowdrifts in east Prussia fifteen 10 twenty
feet high are still unmelted. There will be
no'harvest in the richest land in Germany,
spring cultivation being impossible.
Deputy Sheriff Richard G.. Chambers
was shot and instantly killed at Hemstead.
Texas. recently. by Stephen W. Alchin. a
well-known citizen. The latter wrote a
communication in a weekly paper reflect
ing upon the conduct of Sheriff McDade
and Deputy Chambers. When Chambers
met Achin quarrel ensued, and both
opened fire simultaneously. "A bullet
pierced Chambers heart. and Alchin was
fatally wounded and cannot live. Bothmen
stood we'll in the community.
"A Swealthy stockman named Charles
Bassett. while eating supper in an old
adobe house on the Basset ranch near
Phoenix, A. r.. was inflicted with an acct
dent which will cost him his life. The roof
fell in and buried him under three feet of
debris. He is sixty years old. and was a
prominent member Of the Wyoming legis-
lature few years ago. His fortune is esti-
mated at s750.0Oo and no known relatives.
-EH-Attorney Brewster. of Philadelphia,
is dead. Brewster was Acknowledgement
during President Arthur's administration,
during whose term Of office the famous
star route cases were pushed to conclu-
sion. He had been for some time SUFFERING
with Il disease Of the kidneys. and about a
week ago his physicians discovered paral-
ysis of the bladder had set in, He was
seventy-one ycrrs old.
The grand lodge of templars at London.
has adopted the report of the representa-
tives who attended the session Mt Saratoga
at which II reunion of both sections of the
supreme court was effected