Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-22
DOMESTIC

Il Methodist Church and the Caledonia
National Bank at Danville, VT, were de-
stroyed by fire on the 22d.
Mrs. WILLIAM HALL, of Elkton, Nd,
driven to desperation by poverty. and too
proud to ask for assistance, gave her six
children arsenic on the 23l, and then took
a dose herself. When discovered the
mother and youngest child were beyond
help, but it was thought the others would
recover.
Tom FAIRBANKS and Edward Monahan
quarreled in a saloon at Haskins, O., on
the night of the 23d, and during the fracas
Monahan was literally cut to pieces by
Fairbanks, eighty-three wounds being
found on his body.
JOEL FOWLER, a noted desperate, and
said to be worth 100000, was taken from
Jail by citizens at S~ocorro, n. NJ, on the
night of the 23d, and hanged to a tree.
EDWARD j.. MEANY, of Brooklyn, Treas
urer of the Molders' Union Of North Amer
lea, disappeared on the 23d with $50, 900 of
the unions funds II was said he lost the
money on horse-racing.
JOHN JOHNSON (colored), who killed
Stephen Alexander in a Chicago gambling
house a few nights ago, was acquitted by a
SOlOlS1 , Jury vi UQS SJu, OH CQG ground
of self-defense.
A RAFT was drawn into a whirlpool on
the 23d in the upper Cumberland River
near Carthage, Tenn, and nine man were
drowned.
GEORGE A. WHEELER was hanged in San
Francisco on the 23i for stran Cling his
sister-in-law, Adele j. Tillson, in 1880.
FOURTEEN new cases of smallpox were
developed at the Jail in indianapolis, Ind,
on the 23d, and twenty-five cases prevailed
at the p%est-house.
AT Fenton, Mo-, a few nights ago Louis
Boedeck and wife were murdered by un-
known parties. They had no money, and
occupied two rooms in a log house on a
rented farm.
THE destruction by fire on the 29d of a
block at Wood Haven, L. l., rendered
twenty-five families destitute and home.
less. A fireman, in rescuing a child, was
fatally hurt.
The fumes of gasoline suffocated two
men at Saratoga, N. Y, the other night.
CORNELIUS VAN ScHAAcK, a Chicago at
torney, confined in the Insane Asylum at
gainesville, O., escaped from that institu-
ton, and his dead body was found under a
railway bridge on the 23d.
CATO j. jerks, a merchant of Apex. N.
c., has deserted his sick wife and three
children to elope with the thirteen-year
old daughter of his clerk.
In a quarrel at Portland, Me-, a few DAYS
ago John Flynn stabbed his brother
Charles, who died at midnight.
THREE Gloucester (Mass.) fishing schoon-
ers, carrying crews of forty.six men, were
on the Oath given up as lost.
ELEvEN business houses at Dallas. Ore.
valued at 10000 were destroyed by fire
on the oath.
The northwest portion of Minnesota was
swept by a terrible blizzard on the 9th,
which confined every one to their houses.
At Superior Junction and other points the
thermometer indicated fortv-four degrees
below zero.
NJ and Edward Shadwick, boys aged
thirteen and fifteen years, of Marietta, Ca,
who gave information which caused the
arrest of moonshiners, were on the 9th
said to have been murdered by friends of
the moonshiners.
THE City Treasurer of Bayonne, N. j.,
was on the Oath said to be a defaulter for
3d. 900.
THOMAS VALLEY, of Petrolia, Pa, while
carelessly handling a revolver on the oath
gave his six.year-old sister a fatal wound
IN the brain.
By an explosion on the oath in the Colo
RADIO Coal Company's colliery at Crested
Butte, COL, ifty.seven men were supposed
to have lost their lives. The engine-house,