Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-27
DOMESTIC.

AHHEE loHE.Uerm cOnVlcJS escaped from
the parish prison in New Orleans the other
night by saving the bars off their win
7dows.
IT was estimated on the Sd that the dam .
age to winter wheat in Ohio from severe
freezing would reach twenty-five per cent.
From reports received by S. w. Tallmadge
of Milwaukee, he estimates that the yield
of 1885 throughout the country will fall
largely below that of last year.
r. CALHOUN, of Marion Center, Kan,
wes on the Sd sentenced to forty years.
imprisonment for criminally assaulting
fourteen girls of tender years who were
members of the Sunday-school of which
lie was Superintendent. He is forty years
old, and has a wife in Indiana.
AS result of a domestic m%isunder.
standing, DR.. Morris Richter shot and
killed Prof. S. Clark Smith, a public school
principal, at Middleville, N. va few days
ago.
AFTER eating oysters at a church social
In Silver Mills, o., the other night, fifteen
persons We're taken violently ill, two of
whom died in a few hours. A physician
declared it to be a case of arsenical poison
ing.
SERENADERs visited Joseph Merrill's
house at Coshocton, o., on his wedding
night recently, and began firing recklessly,
one bullet wounding Merrill rs he lay in
bed, causing his death. His wife would
also probably die from the fright she re-
ceived.
SIX convicts escaped from the Michigan
Penitentiary at Jackson on the evening of
the Sd through o tunnel forty feet in
length, on which they had probably worked
a year. They cut through twelve feet of
solid masonry, forming the base of the
prison wall.
. A LARGE encampment of Oklahoma boom.
ers was on the 4th pitched near Arkansas
City, KAN, and reinforcements were con-
stantly arriving. Captain Couch and
twelve other leading officers of the BOOM
ers We're arrested. The Captain told his
comrades to await his return before at
tempting the projected invasion of the ter.
ritory.
The safe in the post-ofice at Ozark,
Ark, was blown open the other morning
and robbed of $500.
THREE sailors who deserted from q Ger
man steamer were found dead in a Balti-
more boarding house on the morning of
the 4th, having been suffocated by gas,
which, it was surmised, they blew out up.
on retiring.
IT was reported on the Ath that jackson
Daniels, q wealthy farmer of Wyoming
County, w. Va, refused to take care of his
aged and crippled mother in his residence,
but built her u pen in the yard, where she
received no better care than the horses and
cattle. During the recent intense cold
rrynofhax o1,n Lo~oaI oIr,;,,;-- 81 A.
house, but was refused, and was found
frozen to death the next morning. A mob
had organized to lynch Daniels aud tar
and feather his wife.
STEPHEN CoUsE, supposed to be INSANE,
shot IL killed his brother on the 4th and
h shot himself at Slick, Lincoln
County, No.
. WHEAT stocks throughout the country
embracing the visible supply, We're on the
9th placed at POS ,0o0,0 COG bushels, against
1884, 0 900 bushels ut the same time last
year..
DURING February the fire loss in the
country reached $40, 0O0, 900, and during
the first three months of the year the prop
erty destroyed aggr >1eted in value $751;
10000.
LEE SLATER (colored) was taken from
Jail at Monroe, N. c., by . mol the other
morning and hanged for assaulting a little
girl.
DR.. ALBERT F. GoERsRN, who poisoned
ais wife five years ago, was hanged on the
9th at Philadelphia.
BY the premature discharge of a cannon
at Tompkinsville, Staten Island, recently, |
q dozen men were seriously injured.
Joseph Judge lost his eyesight.