Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-10-31
LATEST ~ MAIL.

His mind had been dis0rdcrcd for several
weeks through family differences.
G~reenburg, lnd.,-Mn. Eliza Clemous, .
grass widow, formerly Of Xenia, O., commit
ted suicide this afternoon, at the residence
Of her mother, in this city, by hanging her
self from the bar ofths transom. Domestic
trouble was the cause. The mother, Mrs.
Pool, was from home at the time.
Farmer city, nl,-G. w. Wheeler, a
much respected farmer, living two miles
vest of Belletlower, who has been suffering
with q cancel only = few months, ended his
days early this morning by taking NOR
phine.
Ottawa, Ont.,-kate Mathews, q good
looking girl, aged 20. employed As servant
by the sergeant-at-arms Of the house of COM
mons, committed suicide this morning, cut
ting her throat with a butcher knife. Cause,
mental depression. She had been very de-
spondent lately, her parents having re-
moved to England, leaving her in Canada
to provide for herself.
New Bedford Mass,-The barks Ro
man, of New Bedford, and Dawn, of San
Francisco, have arrived at San Francisco,
from the Arctic sea, and report the barks
Three Brothers and w. A. Farnsworth lost
in the ice. The Roman was badly stove.
The whaling fleet averaged seven hundred
barrels Of walrus oil and two whales each.
The ship Wilton, of New Bedford, was bad
ly stove. Both vessels lost were insured for
$40, 900 in Boston and New York offices.
Quebec,-A farmer, Robert Burns, from
St. Patrick De Beaurivage, was found dead
on yesterday, on the road, near st. Nicholas.
He had been driving to st. Nicholas, to
take q boat from that place for Quebec, and
had in his cart two dead hogs and other pro-
duct. When found the cart was over.
turned and smashed and the hogs were
lying over him. When last seen alive lie
was driving along the road in an intoxica-
ted condition.
Pittsburgh. Pa,-J. Il. Mills and Chris
tan Beck were hauled into court to-day,
charged with the crime of sodomy, and
found guilty. They were fined Isl 900
each and sentenced to ten years each in the
p~enitentiary. Beck was the engineer at
the Pennsylvania reform school, and Mills
il we'll known in business circles.
Sandusky, O.,-On yesterday James Har-
rs and Charles Brewer, father.in-law and
son-in.law respectively, got into an alter.
cation. Harris drew q knife and plunged
it into Brewers breast, intlicting a terrible
wound. Harris is in custody.
Z Montreal.-The bark Americas, loaded
by D. Buffers & Co, Of this city, with a car
go Of twenty.seven thousand four hundred
and thirty-four bushels of wheat, dragged
her anchor at Quebec, and, drifting athwar
q temperley steamer, knocked a hole in hel
aide by coming in contact with one Of tn.
anchor 1ukes of the latter. She went ashore
at Cape Blanc, where she 10 lies, with two
feet Of water in her. She is insured for $40,
900 in the Boston, $4,000 in the Orient
Ss,6nO in the Phoenix, $1,000 in the Nor,t
American, $4,000 in the British American
$500 in the Pacific. $4,000 in the Western
and $4,000 in the Transatlantic; total
$4,000.
. Halifax.-C. A. Hutchins, one Of the sur
} vivors of the wreck of the schooner Ortolan
, arrived here in the the steamer George Shat
e tuck. He is still suffering from the effect
of his privations, endured while six days il
the woods, after escaping from the wreck
Ofthe eleven persons on board the Ortolan
four were drowned.
, Sumo ,ok.-Francis Martel, a Frenchman
80 years old, was instantly killed by a fall
ing tree, near this village, this morning.
Peora, Ils.-Employes Of John Krinsey
while picking corn on the Bradley farm
just beyond the city limits, came across tn,
body Of a dead man, with a revolver LYNN
BY his side. One of his hands had a bulle
. hole in it. but there was no evidence Of hi
having killed himself. He was we'll dressed
and had q red moustache. He had appar
emily BEEN dead three or -four weeks.
McLeansboro, Ill.,-Sam, son of Sheriff
Blades, broke his arm to-day while wrest
ling.
, Mason City, Ills.,-A brakeman named
John Donahue, on the Chicago and Altor
> railroad, fell from the top of a moving trair
on some iron, near San Jose mtion this morn
. ing, crushing his skull and killing him al
most instantly. The parents Of deceased
reside at Bloomington.
San Francisco.-The Whaling bark Dawn
from the Attic Ocean, brings news that or
Sept. IL the bark Three Brothers, Captain
l Owens, of New Bedford, was abandoned il
the ice near Point Barrow. The crew es
capped and were distributed among othel
vessels of the feet.
On September IL the British bark w. II
Farnsworth was crushed in the Use, filled
capsized, and sunk in twenty minutes. Tn,
crew were saved.
There is no news Of the crews of the fee
abandoned last season. With the ::excep
ton of two Kanakas from the park Acor