Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-01-01

EARL s. GILLETr, u veteran bank cashier
of Fonda, N. Y, lost his life ON the 10th by
a dose of aconite given through mistake by
his wife.
Four dynamiters who belong to the Ger
mar branch of che Anti-Coolie League
were arrested at San Francisco on the leth,
upon the charge Of plotting to kill many
prominent citizens.
SEGRo living near Gainesville, Ga,
was caught by a train the other evening on
the high bridge spanning the Etowah Riv-
er. To save his life, he jumped ninety feet
to the recovered water below, and es-
capped unhurt.
AT Springwells, a Detroit suburb, fire
early on the morning of the 10th destroyed
the dwelling of Frank Knoch, who, with
his wife and two children, persisted in the
flames.
THOMAS ROBINSON (colored), who Grim
inally assaulted Mrs. Joseph Brown, a
white woman, at Pekin, Tenn, was dubbed
to death by q mob on the 10th.
A RICH vein of silver, covering nearly
two acres, was discovered at Leadville en-
the 10th, and great excitement prevailed.
JERRY BARDwELL (colored) left his house
at S%tarkville, Miss, on the 10th and locked
the door, his three children being inside.
The house caught fire, IL the children
persisted in the flames.
WHILE laboring under religious excite
ment Joshua Troup, a wealthy farmer
living in the Clear Spring District of Wash
ington County, Md, committed suicide on
the 10th by shooting himself.
Mrs. MINER, an insane person residing at
Long Prairie, W. T., fired her house with
%coal-oil on the 10th, destroying herself and
four children.
A PAcK1NG-uousE in Chicago reports nav
ing slaughtered 500 hogs on the 18th in ten
hours.
H explosion Of a grease tank on the 18th
in the packing-house of Hart & Hensley, ut
Nashville, Tenn, caused the death of three
employees.
DURING q quarrel in the Beaver Creek
William Parsons killed three men. This
made eight men Parsons had killed. within
a short time. He made his escape.
AN Irishlnan who was years ago be-
friended in Maine by the father of Richard
Golden, the comedian, recently left $4,000
to the latter.
IT was determined on the 18th that the
recent burning to death of Frank Knoch,
his wife and two children, in their home
near Detroit, was the work Of murderers,
bullet holes having been foundin the heads
of Knoch and his wife. There was 10 clew
to the perpetrators.
FLAMES on the 18th which originated on
the dock at Jacksonville, Florida. destroyed
business houses valued at $45o,00O. One
fireman was killed and three others were
badly injured.
JAMES GUNTER assaulted his wife on the
18th at Big Laurel, N. c., and for the act
was shot dead by their little son, eight
years old.
SAM WILSON, a negro, murdered Celia
Per1yman and her two children on the 18th
at Laurel, Miss, and attempted to burn the
bodies by firing the dwelling. He was
speedily captured and lynched.
JouN HARMON, aged twelve years, who
for the third time attempted to commit sui
eide at New York by hanging rather than
go to school, was on the 18th consigned to a
corrective institution.
The business failures throughout the
country during the seven days ended on
the 18th were 225, against 2i7 the previous
seven days.
AT Mckenzie, Tenn, a few evenings ago
Edward McGhee, a student, aged sevea
teen, while illustrating to Miss Jessie Clark,
sixteen years old, how a Mississippian once
killed his sweetheart, discharged what he
supposed to be an unloaded revolver, kill
ing Miss Clark instantly.
Owing to q dispute over taxes the Singer
sewing machine factory at Elizabethport,
N. j., shut down on the 18th, throwing
three thousand operatives out Of employ
ment.
Two MuEDERERs at Carrollton, Mo-, being
dissatisfied with q sentence of imprison-
ment for life, secured a new trial. The Jury
convicted them on the 18th of murder in the
first degree, and Judge Davis fixed March
u as the day of their execution.
In a quarrel on the 18th in q sc%hool-yard
at Westfield, Ind, John Carver, son of
Judge Carver, struck Henry Steed on the
head with a stone, killing him instantly.
The murderer is sixteen years old, and his
victim was about the same age.
A NINE of the Susquebonna Coal Com
pany at Nanticoke, Pa., was flooded on the
18th by water which broke in from the Sus-
q%uehanna River. Most of tue miners wer.
warned in time and escaped, but it was
feared that thirty miners who were in the
lower levels were drowned.
The deficit In the Ohio Penitentiary at
for the past year is $152, 6OO.77 in
a total expenditure of s:254, LIZ. IA.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.