Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1888 — THE WESTERN STATER [ARTICLE]

THE WESTERN STATER

The Wisconsin Supreme Court, through Justice Cassiday, in the case of Paul Grottkau, of Milwaukee, appealed on a writ of error, has affirmed the judgment of the Milwaukee Municipal Court, and directed the execution of the sentence. By the judgment of tho Supreme Court Grottkau will be forced to go to jail for one year, according to the decision of the trial court Henry Schmidt, who murdered Miss Peek, was hanged at West Union, lowa, on the 13th inst. In his speech from the scaffold the condemned man said that Elison T. Smith instigated the crime, and had also offered him SSOO to kiH Abram Leonard. Schmidt’s father, it is said, committed a murder in Bavaria, Germany, where he now lives. General reports from Dakota show the recent storm to have been the worst ever experienced in the Territory. Many persons are missing in different parts of Dakota and Minnesota, who started for their homes. An Omaha dispatch says: “The indications are that tho present blizzard has resulted in more damage, suffering, and loss of life than any which has visited the State for a number of years.” Two stock trains arrived at St. Joseph, Mo., with every animal frozen to death The snowfall was so heavy at Superior, Wis., that some of the inhabitants had to tunnel out of their dwellings.