Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-11
DOMESTIC.

MRS. G.. D.. ALsoP, residing near Louis
vile, a few days ago gave her four children,
by mistake, opium for powdered rhubarb.
Two Of the little ones died and the others
were past recovery.
ADv1cEs of the 10Th state that the num-
her of hogs packed in the seven leading
packing cities of the United States during
the last winter was 3,s67,4s5, against 1885,
$40 during the winter Of last year.
Tom WARREN, an escaped %lunatic, crept
quietly up to the house of Clay Brown, a
resident Of Bell County, Texas, the other
night, shot Brown and his wife dead, and
escaped.
AFTER the explosion of a still on the 10Th
in the oil works of Merriam & Morgan, at
Cleveland, O., the escaping fluid sub
merged three employees, who were quickly
burned to death.
CHICAGO merchants on the 10Th reported
a scarcity of seed-corn in the northern
parts of Indiana, Illinois and Iowa.
WILLIAM DANE, a love-sick school-teacher
OF ~Bentonville, Ind, having failed to kill
himself and a six~teen-year-old girl by
means of %laudanum, shot and killed himself
Oh the 10th. The girl was seriously sick
from the effects of the drug, but would
probably recover.
Mrs. GEoRGIANA B1FFIN, a member of q
prominent family, was apprehended at
Erie, Pa, u few days ago as she was about
to elope with a negro, leaving her infant
child behind. The negro escaped the fury
of the crowd by getting ON a passing train.
ADvICES of the Goth state that great ex-
element still prevailed over the discovery
of gold in Ceur D. Alene, in Idaho, the
rush was immense, and over a thousand
buildings were going up. Several claims
were yielding handsomely.
THE police of Boston on the Goth captured
fifteen members of a gang of thieves rang.
ing from twelve to sixteen years of age.
Their meeting-place was an old cellar, and
they had almost perfected a distinct Ian
guage.
mixed train ran off tho track, a passenger
coach turning over three times, severely
injuring six persons.
SEVERAL new breaks in the Mississippi
levees occurred near New Orleans on the
goth, flooding railroad tracks and suspend
ing travel. Other breaks were expected,
as the water was'gradually rising.
THREE negro robbers who had created a
reign of terror on the Illinois Central and
Cairo Short Line Roads between East st.
Louis and Belleville, ILL.,, were captured on
the Goth.
The Josephine Hotel at Hot Springs,
Ark, was destroyed by fire on the night
of the Goth, and many of the guests lost all
Of their clothing and valuables.
NEAR Salem, O., early on the morning
of the Goth the Chicago limited express
train rushed into a landslide, which de.
rallied the cars, the locomotive plunging
down an embankment and Immediately
exploding. The engineer and fireman were
killed, N three persons were seriously
end twelve others Slightly injured.
The striking lasters in the shoe factories
1T West Midway, Mass, have resumed
work at the former rates.
The Gill Car Manufacturing Company,
1T Columbus, O., made an assignment the
other evening, having $500, 900 liabilities
and $780, 600 assets.
CHARLES BARRETT, of Ashburnham,
Mass, having outlived the mortality table
pf a life insurance company, was recently
sent a check for his policy and the divi-
dend for the year.
MRS. GEoRG1ANA GRIFFIN, whose elope-
pent with q colored h%od-carrier at Erie,