Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-03-21
DOMESTIC.

V1G1LANTEs at Spearfish, D. T.. on the
9th took from the hospital u wounded des-
perado named Harry futile and hanged
him to a tree.
AT Toledo, O., a few days ago Robert
Bailey (colored) was convicted of marry
rying a white girl contrary to the statute
of 1910, and was sentenced to three months
impr isonment and 500 fine-the full pen
atty.
The Cunard steamer Cephalonia on the
9th ran down and n the tug Glen Island
near New York, and the engineer and a
deck-hand were drowned.
EDWARD RERcEN, of Minneapolis, Mimi,
was foundf frozen to death in his door.yard
on the morning of the 9th. He had been
drinking. He left a wife and nine children.
The Government has put a stop to the
gliding of the recent issue of the fve-cent
nickel by cheap jewelry manufacturers.
ROBERT CRAIGHEAD, a well-to-do farmer
of Fulton, No., was assassinated a few
nights ago by an unknown person who
called him from his house ostensibly to as
sist a stranger out of a mud hole with a
heavy wagon.
i A REDUCTION of twelve per cent. in a
was announced on the 9th in nine hat
factories at Reading, Pa, employing
about one thousand hands, tho reasons
given being competition and %exorbitant
duty on wool.
In a recent quarrel in Randolph County,
Ala, between Wyatt Pate IL William
Iittlefield, both were killed.
DURING a fire in New York; on, the 2sth
Mrs. Cornelius Van Ripper, aged thirty.two
years, was killed by leaping from a win.
dow, and her husband, aged forty, and
three children, Jennie, aged ten, Albert,
aged seven, and frankie, aged two, were
burned to death.
A HEAVY snow-storm in New York and
Massachusetts OF the 2Sth wrecked tele-
graph wires and delayed railway trains.
ADvIcEs Of the 2Sth from the recently
soverflowed sections state that at Paducah,
Ky, the distribution of rations continued,
lover 1000 people being provided for. Hun
,d1rds of people were suffering who were
igetting along after a fashion before the
cold snap. The banks between Memphis
and Evansville, Ind, were lined with peo-
pie, who were housed in open barns, out
houses, etc., and with the mercury down to
zero much suffering must ensue.
News was received on the 2Sth at New
London, Conn.,, of the death by drowning
or starvation of seven men of the crew of
the schooner Sarah W. Hunt while search.
ing for seals near Campbell Island, in the
Pacific Ocean.
The citizens of Medina County, Tex,
had, up to the 2Sth, hunted down and
lodged in Jail t%hirty-nine fence-cutters. A
detachment Of rangers was stationed at
Castroville.
ABOVE and below Shreveport, Ia, for a
hundred miles, the country was a shallow
sea on the 2Sth. The planters would lose
heavily in fences, stock and horses, and
the colored population were in great dis
tress. "
FIFTEEN D coal-miners in the
vicinity of Pittsburgh, Pa, struck on the
28th for an advance of wages.
IT was reported on the 2sth that the
Apaches were again on the war-path in
Sonora, Mex. Near Chipua they killed
two men and stole several horses, and the
dead bodies of several Mexicans were
found on Mexican soil near the border.
Large numbers of cattle had been stolen
from Los Piedras and De Lumbre. A Fed
eral force wa in pursuit.
The business portion of Iredell, Tex,
was destroyed by fire the other night.
The cedar-works buildings at Richmond,
Va, and the shuck factory of G.. B. Stacey
were destroyed by fire a few days ago, the
loss being 500, 900.
WIZ. MCDOWELL, q murderer under sem
tence of death, escaped recently from Jail
at San Re%rnardino, Cal, and reached Mex
iican territory on horseback.