Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-20
DOMESTIC.

J. BURGLARS who invaded the Huntington
(Ind.l Post-office the other night were
shot at by Max Baumgartner, night Mar.
shall, one of the robbers being killed. Baum
gartner was fatally shot in return.
CoUCH'S boomer colony in Oklahoma
decided on the 9th to leave the Territory,
and would go to the nearest point on the
a. Kansas line, accompanied by troops.
CoN MURPHY, a native of Illinois, was
hanged OH the 9th near Helena, M. T., by
the Committee of Safety. He was a no.
torious desperate and horse-thief.
CHARLES j. ROGERS, a penitentiary
warden, was hanged on the 2Sth at Port
land, Ore, for numbering another prison
official.
MARYJ j. DRUSE was indicted on the 2Sth
at Warren, N. Y, for killing her husband.
and her daughter, aged twenty; son, aged
ten, and a nephew fourteen years old,
were held for being present and aiding in
the crime.
THE National Board of Trade met in an
tnual session at Washington on the 2sth.
II coolest weather Of the season pre-
vailed on the 2Sth throughout the Central
and Western States.
SOUR wine recently poisoned the Krall
family of seven persons at Bunker Hill,
Pa. IN child had die and two others
were not expected to recover.
ONE THOUSAND delegates were present at
the opening of the National Silver Conven-
'tion at Denver on the 2Sth, the object of
which is to organize a determined opposi-
ftion to the characterization of silver and to
prevent a decrease in the present rate of
silver coinage.
O. TyTCNTC I aIi,,or rh.,sfoioy vi Of Hoc4O,, =,
conference with Mayor O'Brien on the 2Sth,
agreed that the cholera was certain to
make it's appearance next summer, in spite
of rigid quarantine.
THE Opera House and several other
buildings at Rondout, N. Y, were. de-
stroyed by'fre early the other morning.
Mrs. AMELIA B. WHITE, a wealthy Chi
.cago lady, who was married by telegraph
last December to a New York man giving
the name of Henry B. White, arrived in
the lattA' city on the 2sth, but failed to
find her husband, to whom she had adj
.vanced considerable money.
NICHOLAS ARAGoN, the most noted and
desperate outlaw and bandit of the far
Southwest, was captured by a party of
men on the 2Sth near Las Vegas, N. NJ.
and hanged.
A NEGRO known as "Bill" was hanged by
"a mob in Kemper County, Miss, a few days
ago for assaulting a white girl.
THE widow of Judge James L. Cole, aged
sixty mine, was murdered by robbers the
other night at Plaquermine, La. The bur-
glars carried off her jewelry and forced a
diamond ring off her finger.
ANNE NJ. KAUPP, aged t~wenty-four,
ihanged herself the other day at Philadel-
.phia rather than marry a man of her
mothers choice.
THOMAS DAILY, about fifty years old, a
wealthy retired baker of Atlantic City, N.
j., fell dead on the 29th while attending
the funeral of his sister, in-law. His wife
stood beside him at the time.
A RESOLUTION was adopted by the Ma
tional Board of Trade at Washington on
the Goth asking an investigation into the
cause of the enormous waste of the coun-
try's wealth by fire.
e LIEUTENANT ALLEN and two Sergeants
sailed on the Goth from Portland to
Alaska, to devote two years to an explora:-
ttion of the purchased territory.
A revival at Gallipolis, O.,
had on the 18th resulted In the conversion
of one thousand persons. Several saloons
had been closed and business was suffering
from the excitement.
; The railroads in New York, New Hamp-
tshire and Vermont were badly %blockaded
lby snow On the 10Th.