Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-31
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n3ppENYyf,S IN TYIE EAST.

running order correspondent sends
this note OF warning: Americans coming
to the exposition need not make excessive
haste. Although President Carnot cere-
nloniously opened the exposition on the
appointed day is, up 10 this writing, frae-
menrary. The great belts in machinery
palace have not stirred al athe. The move
able railway which was laid in flexible
routes all through the grounds was taken
up on the eve Of the opening to clear the
otflcia! path and lend an air OF complete
ness to the grounds. 1t has not been put
down again. Not one section OF the fine
art exhibition is complete. 1t will be some
weeks vet before the whole will bear an air
of completeness.
"A passenger train on the Grand Trunk
near Bel!ville. Ont, was telescope! by a
| timber train few days since. OF fifty
three passengers IN the rear coach. twenty
one were seriously, and three fatally, in
jurcd.
The conference between the coal oper-
ators. the state executive board and the
miners delegation at Brazil. Ind. ended
! hv the refusal at the operators to submit
the scale difference to arbitration. The
operators demand a reduction from 80 to
20 g, hts on block and IS TO GO on bitumin-
Gus, one OF the largest cnts ever made in
the west. AS the ease stands now, there
seems 10 be no alternative for the miners
i but to accept The reduction or remain idle
A leading Wilmington, Del. paper con-
firms The rumored engagement of eX-sec-
rotary BnyarG to Miss Clymer, daughter Of
DR.. Clymcr. United States navy, Of Wash
incton. The wedding VII occur early in
the summer.
the suit o. Su,zhach Bros. agains. the
estate Of John Edgar Thompson. the Phiia-
dclphia Trust company, and others, for re-
covcry of$amages for non-completfon OF
the Davenport and ST. Paul ruiroud. has
beer. decided in favor of the complannns.
The litigation has been pending for many
years. The court held that Messrs. Su q
bach are entitled to recover the sum which
| this branch road. which was afterwnrd
merged in the Chicago. Milwaukee and ST.
Paul would have been worth if compile ed
ITO Cresco. Me>srs. Su!zhack are to receive
damages amounting to $4,000 net.
\ The patent case OF the Consolidated
Roller Mil company agcins: VIM. A.
Coomhs. which has excited VIDE interest
among millers. has been DECIDED at Detroit
by United States Judge Brown. The BOWL
ing patent device for stirring -four as it
goes into the mill and the X .rmon patent
on II device foc looseninc the belt Of the
counter shaft were declared invalid for
iack cf novelty. The Gray patent. the most
| Il f,r lou
zon.al and vertical. OF the movable roller
OF a mill. was sustained. The case was de-
Tended by Il synd cate OF five manu!actur-
ers. The preparation OF the case on both
sides cost $4,000.
Heavy storms have been prevalent in
the cast the present season. the latest be-
ing reported from Ohio and Pennsylvania.
barns being unroofcd. trees uprooted. and
fl DDS doing much damage. In one or two
instances lightning caused the destruction
of churches and other buildings.
The new Hamburg packet steamer.
Augusta Victoria. from Hamburg to New
York. made her trial trip recently in such
| short time as to give evidence that future
trips will beat the recent remark able record
OF the City Of Paris, and still further reduce
the shortest recorded time between the tw O
continents.
! Among the passengers who sailed for
Havre few days ago on the French
steamer La Normandie. was Mrs. Levi p.
Morton. wife of the e-president, and her
daughter Edith.
The Commercial Bst1ietin announce the
retirement of tho old New York Equitable
Fire Insurance company, Of Wall street.
one OF the oldest insurance companies in
the country.
Tho New Jersey court OF pardons has
Just granted pardon 10 Joseph C. Steward
/ colored. who has been in state prison for
twenty-nine years. having. when lad
murdered playmate in Gloucester county
AT IL meeting OF the Homestead steel
men at Pittsburg the sentiment WAS strong
| ly against accepting the sliding scale post
ed by Carnegie g. Co. Resolutions de-
nouncing the proposed reduction and re.
ferring the matter 10 the head officials Of
the AmalGamated association were adopt
ed. A strike is considered inevitable if the
scale is insisted on. The scale makes
in case of the high priced mon, 10 50 per
| cent.
AT Patterson. N. j.. Steve Brodie re.
Gently leapcd from Points OF Rock ledge OF
| stone which hrncs out over Passaic river,
Il distance Of los feet. into the river below.
He was in an exhausted condition. but not
badly hut. The jump was made for fame.
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