Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-09
DOMESTIC.

Q. j. PIERCE was lynched by a party of
men at Asotin City, w. T., on the 10Th, for
the murder of James Curtis, and Joseph
Casey was hanged at Tucson, A. T., for
the murder of Jailer Holbrook.
The entire town of Wadsworth, New,
was destroyed by fire a few days ago.
The Mississippi River was on the 10th
open for navigation from st. Paul to the
Gulf of Mexico.
A REDUCTION of twenty per cent. in
wages was On the 10Th accepted by the
Molders' Union of Troy, N. Y, and two
thousand men would resume work after
three months of idleness.
The United States Commissary at st.
Louis on the 10th sent one hundred barrels
of meat to the overflow sufferers along the
st. Francis River in Arkansas.
A BOILER explosions at Bay City, Mich,
on the 10Th instantly killed William Nc.
Cauley and Xavia Levey, and injured
seven boys, three fatally.
AN UNKNOWN man and woman commit
ted suicide in a New York City hotel on the
10th.
ALL the iron-workers at Newcastle, Pa,
struck on the 10th against a reduction of
wages.
Mrs. ALLEN and her two daughters,
aged twelve and seven years, were
drowned in the Blackwater River a few
days ago, near Marshall, No., by the up
setting of boat.
ADv1cEs Of tue 18th report great scarcity.
'of food in Marion, s. c., owing to the
S .ortage of last years crops, and it.was
Immediately given, deaths from hunger
would result.
ATTIRE at Monroe, La, a few days ago
swept away every business place butthree.
The last gold bank in existence on the
Pacific Coast has removed from San Fran
cisco to Petaluma and r~eorganized on a
currency basis.
S1LAs G. CROSBY, a notorious forger of
Perry Township, Ohio, had for three
years avoided arrest by entering a cave
under his house through a trap.door, but
was captured on the.17th.
The Secretary of the California Agri-
cultural Society estimates the growing
crop Of wheat at sixty per cent. more than
last year.
WASHINGTON advices of the 18th say
that the exports of cotton goods continued
to show a decided increase over all previ-
,ous periods. The excess of the exports for
the first three months of this year over the
exports for the corresponding period Of
last year was 5000 packages.
CHARLES SHENToN, an aged and promi-
,nent farmer of Cambridge, Md, attempt
ed to kill his wife with a knife a few days
ago, when his son Frank seized q club and
struck him on the head, killing him in
,stantly. A Coroner's Jury exonerated
Frank, declaring that the act he commit.
ted was justiiable.
UP to the 18th over twenty-eight hundred
licenses had been issued to Chicago saloon
keepers for the new municipal year, in
surfing an annual income of more than
Isl, 100000.
The following executions took place on
the 18th: Theodore Hoffman, at White
Plains, N. Y, for the murder of a Jewish
peddler; Willis Hodges, at Eastman, Ca,
for killing a colored girl, Il Gabe Turner,
,at Greenville, Ga, for taking the life of
JOIN Schuttler.
A RISE in the river on the 18th flooded
tie lower portions Of Rome, Ca, doing
much damage.
In portions Of Maine and New Hamp-
shire foods were on the 18th doing great
damage.
GEORGE COATES, a colored man, went to
the house Of Jere Green, neal Gadsden,
Ala, a few nights ago, while Green and
his wife were at church, and deliberately
set fire to the house, and four of Green's
children sleeping there persisted in the
flames. No cause was known for the deed.
COLORADO mining towns were greatly
excited on the 18th over the alleged discov-
cry of gold near Pixies Peak. Hundreds
were focking to the scene, and freight and
passenger lines had been established.
Ten "moonshiners" arrested in Casey
and Clay Counties, KY. by United States
officers, arrived at Louisville on the 18th.
II was reported on the 18th that two
thousand Indians had surrounded the vii.
lage of Battlefield, IN the Saskatchewan
River, in the Northwest Territory, and it
was feared that they had massacred the
inhabitants, numbering two hundred. The
Indians, it was stated, had been half
starved during the winter, and were des.
perate.