Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-21
worship OF Mammon is more important to
him than that O: one God.
MATTERS IN CHE WEST.

| Three men are known to have been
killed. one fatally injured and number Of
people badly bruised and shaken up early
Tuesday morning by an explosion Of mea
dust viii n completely wrecked the three.
story brick building on North Halsted
trect. Chicago, occupied by David Oliver
| as IN oatmeal mill. Several adjoining
buildings were also shattered. The explo-
sion. which occurred shortly after o'clock,
| was terrific one. the shock being felt a
mile away. The buildings in the immediate
vicinity were bombarded with flying
| bricks and timbers and nearly every
pane Of window glass within a
radius OF six block, was smashed. Almost
before the rumble Of the explosion died
away flames sprang up from the wrecke d
mill. and tho whole plac, was ablaze in u
few minutes. The fire spread with incred-
ible rapidity. and when the first fire COM
panies reached the scene they found a
block of roaring flames to contend with.
Engines were placed ut every available
point around the blazing patch. and the
buildings that did not take fire at the out
set were saved after the hardest kind of
wind ieni'ed buildings two blocks distant.
and for half IN hour the nremen had
all they could do to prevent half dozen
serious CONGREGATIONS. It was nearly two
hours before the flames were under con-
troll.
The Western Base Ball association met
at Minneapolis last week and reorganized
by electing J. S. Mccormick. of Omaha.
president. and s. G. Morton. Of Minneapo-
lis. secretary and treasurer. The associa-
ton will be composed next year Of the fol-
lowing clubs: Minneapolis. St. Paul. Mil
waukee. Sioux City. Omaha. Des Moines,
st. Joseph and Denver. The Chicago Ma
rooms franchise went to Minneapolis and
the Kansas City franchise went to st. Joe,
Denver being the eighth club. A graded
salary list. giving s2.25O q year to twelve
men. was adopted.
Tho Peoria county grand jury Saturday
indicted Col. w. T. Dowdall. the postmas-
ter. on charge Of assault. and he was
placed under bonds If 81 600 to await trial.
Several weeks ago domest in Col Dow
dalls employ charged him with entering
her room and attempting to assault her,
but the mater was dropped. Therefore it
was surprise to everybody when the mat
ter took on more serious aspect. Pc
oria correspondent says it is generally
thought to have been the work of some
democrats who desire another man ap-
pointed in Col. Dowdalrs place before
Cleveland is succeeded
The private banking house OF Isaac
Lauferty on Calhoun street. Fort Wayne.
in the heart Of the business part Of tho city,
was robbed at noon Saturday Of $4,000 in
currency and coin. Mr.. Lauferty. who
takes care Of the bank without assistance.
went to lunch at his usual time, locking the
light Steel inside doors of the vault. but
leaving the heavy freproof doors op N. AS
his office is connected with the Aveline
hotel office by burglar alarm bells he felt
no uneasiness at leaving the outside vault
doors open. He locked the street door and
was gone but thirty minutes. In this time
the thieves entered the room by means Of
false keys. bored through the locks of tho
steel doors, and quietly opened them. Tho
$1,000 10y on tray in small bills and coin.
for doing business. a much
larger sum being locked up in another part
of the vault.