Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-03-07
DOMESTIC.

HENRY CoLBRoTH was killed and several
other men were badly injured by a coast
ing accident at Biddeford, Me-, a few even
ings ago.
AT Winnetka, ILL.,, on the night of the
18th an aged couple, Mr.. and Mrs. James
L. Wilson, weia murdered by some one I'M
known. Mr.. Wilson was nearly eighty
years of age. Mrs. Wilson had for years
been confined to her bed with paralysis.
The venerable couple We're believed to lave
considerable money in the house. Mr..
Wilson was a highly respected citizen, a
native of New Hampshire, and the last Of
a family of ten brothers.
MRS. CARRIE V~ANDERGRIFT, the wife of
a wealthy coal dealer at Burlington, N. j.,
was met in her yard on the 18th by an un.
known man, who threw the contents of a
vial of vitrol in her face, destroying her
eyesight. The cause for the horrible deed
was unknown.
THE body Of Martin Riley, a farmer of
Adrian, Mimi, was found murdered in a
straw-stack on the 18th. His son, aged
fifteen years, who had disappeared, was
supposed to rave committed the crime.
AT Halleck, New, the thermometer reg
istered forty-tve degrees below zero on the
Aooli3 OAS 4oS SNSl h1lO"A III UuuU SCI.
ton.
THOMAS SHEA, whose mind was unsettled,
Informed his mother the other day at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, that in a dream he had
been summoned to Heaven. He then
walked to the high bridge at Nanticoke,
jumped off and was horribly mangled.
THE.mill-owners at Pittsburgh on the 18th
withdrew their order for a ten per cent. re-
duction in the wages Of machine molders,
thus a%verting a strike.
The Bureau Of Engraving and Printing
et Washington on the 18th made the last
delivery of one and two dollar notes war.
ranted by the appropriations, and it was
said there would be determined opposition
in Congress to providing for any more
small bills.
THREE attendants at the State Lunatic
Asylum at Utica, N. Y, were arrested on
the 18th on the charge of causing the
death by violence of Evan D. Hughes. a
patient.
AT Philadelphia on the 18th Barbara
Miner {colored) was fatally shot by Louisa
Powell (colored). Each received a comic
valentine, and each accused the other of
being the sender.
JUDGE DICKEY. of the Illinois Supreme
Court, on the 18th granted a supersedeas
in the case Of Frederick NJ. Ker, the Cal.
cage defaulter, and a hearing will be had
in March.
Two LAD from Berlin, Ont, arrested
recently at Niagara Falls, carried three
loaded revolvers and a book relating the
adventures Of Frank and Jesse James.
GOVERNMENT detectives captured in Ken
lucky on the 135h a band of nine counter.
feiters, some of whom were looked upon as
respectable citizens.
ADvICES of the 18th state that n%on-union
miners were being visited at night in the
district about Shaners, Pa, by masked
bands, after the Molly Mcguire fashion,
and warned to leave. Some of the men
were terror-stricken, and the operators
would apply to the Sheriff to stop the noe.
turnal visitations.
EDWARD GORDON, of B~ellefontaine, O.,
while cleaning arevolver a few lays ago
shot his wife near the left ear, inhicting a
fatal wound.
An overflow of the Trinity River on the
14th submerged a section of Dallas, Tex,
and a rise at Elm Fork flooded the country
for miles between Denton and Dallas. Five
miles of trestling on the Missouri Pacific
Road had been washed away.
By the collapse of a bridge on the 14th at
Weedsport, N. Y, a mixed train was
dropped into the Seneca River, the en-
gineer, fireman and brakeman being
drowned. The passenger car remained on
the track.
The large grain elevator of Fred Nuton's,
at Jonesboro, Ind, was destroyed by fire a
few evenings ago.