Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-03-26
DOMESTIC.

JOHN, Martin and Thomas Archer, three
brothers. accused of murder, were taken
from Jail. on the 9th at Shoals, Ind, by a
mob and lynched.
CASES of semi-starvation were reported
on the 9th from Green Hill, a village near
Lafayette, Ind. Speedy distribution of
food saved many lives.
THE strike on the Gould Southwestern
railways remained unchanged on the 9th.
Virtually traffic in Missouri, Arkansas,
Kansas and Texas was paralyzed, while
the strike was growing i'll extent.
Miss EMMA FRENCH, aged twenty-five
years, in demonstrating at Toledo on the
9th how suicides act, accidentally dis
charged a revolver, the bullet killing her
instantly. 1t was limited that the shooting
was premeditated, owing to an unhappy
love affair.
Mrs. JOHN T. EvERuARr and her aged
mother, living near L~ickingvale, Pa, were
murdered OF the 9th by having their threats
cut, the assassins then robbing the house of
three hundred dollars.
Six miners in the Huntingdon
(Pa.) district struck on the 9th for ten cents
per ton advance in wages.
II funeral of Jacob Bixby was held on
the 9th at Mount Carmel, Pa. He weighed
over five hundred pounds, and the services
of twelve strong men were necessary to
carry his coffin. At the grave a female rel
ative fell dead.
ANOTHER five-day billiard match for the
worlds championship, between Schaefer
and Vignaux. was commenced in New York
City on the 9th.
A DISPATCH of the 9th from Ashland, KY,
asserts that it can be conclusively proven
that Neal, Craft and Ellis were innocent of
the murder of three children, for which
they were executed, and that the real per-
petrators were about to be arrested.
THE Territory of Utah owes the General
Government nearly $500, 00o, and Comp
troller Durham on the 9th advised the Sec
rotary of the Treasury to withhold all pay
ments to the Legislature of that Territory
until a settlement was made.
AN anti-Chinese convention, composed
of delegates from all parts of California,
met at Sacramento on the 10th md adopted
a resolution MISUNDERSTANDING the illegal
expulsion of Cinnamon.
The two little daughters of Frederick
Reed, of Bakersville, Mass, broke through
the ice on q pond on the 10th and were
drowned.
The wife of George Hankins, of Chicago,
was robbed in New Orleans on the 10th of
diamonds valued at S12, 600.
HANDY WOODWARD (colored), who at
tempted to outrage a child, was taken from
Jail on the 10th at Russellville, KY, by
masked men and hanged.
THE Ohio Legislature has adopted q res
'olution for the celebration of the centen-
NAL anniversary of the first permanent
settlement in the State by an exposition on
the fair grounds in Columbus in Septem-
Der of next year.
FIVE men were killed on the 10th by the
explosion of the boiler of & Boston tug
boat.
A SHORTAGE Of nearly $4,000 was on the
10th discovered in the accounts Of S. S.
H~ollingvorth, the late treasurer of Knox
County, Ind.
TILE spinners in the Cohoes IN. W knit
ting mills, about five thousand in number,
we're ordered out by the knights of Labor
on the 10th.
THE Southern Pacific road on the 10th
made the fare from Los Angeles to Chica-
go ten dollars for first-class passengers.
j. Z. BIAU and NJ. Z. Grace, prominent
New Orleans citizens, killed each other in
an affray at the district court on the 10th.
The Missouri Pacific officials on the 10th
notified the strikers to leave the company's
premises. The shops at st. Louis were
guarded by ~thirty-five armed detectives.
1t was the intention of the superintendent
to send out several freight trains, and if
the strikers interfered the Governor would
be asked for a military guard.
candy WOODWARD, a negro who as
saulted u little girl, was on the 18th taken
from the Jail in Russellville, KY, by
masked men and hanged.
A NEW oil well was struck on the 18th
near Washington, Pa, that was said to be
good for one thousand barrels daily. There
"as great excitement in the county.