Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1877-11-21
mitteed the deed. The affairs Of the bank
have been examined aud found to be in good
condition.

have been examined and found to be in good
condition.
1 AT Franklin, ILL.,, on the night of the liti
inst, q man named John Duncan, vi no had
been refused liquor at adrug store, returned
when the store was closed. entered q win
dow, and spreading the contents Of keg Of
powder about the premises set the store on
fire. An explosion occurred seriously in.
juring the drunken fend. The building
were destroyed. Loss $4,000 insurance
5000.
The schooner Berlin of Buffalo, struck 4
reef at Grindstone City, Mich, during the
recent gale. The captain and cook were
drowned and the captains son and seaman
died from exposure. @
| HENRY HousMAN shot himself and three
children fatally, At New York. on the 18th.
Cause, intcmperate wife.
THE steamer Tom Morgan exploded her
boiler at Greenville, Miss, on the 10TH The
captain and owner, DR.. Howell, of Coving.
ton, and the engineer, were killed.
The schooner Magellan laden with 10000
bushels of corn, was lost with all hands off
Two Rivers, Wis, in the gale on the night
of the 9th inst
A SPECIAL to the Nashville Amer,can says
Boot Alexander (colored) murdered white
man named Thomas Doughty, near Reddy
Mill, Rutherford county, Tenn, on the Sth
inst, and escaped. A posse Of citizens have
gone in pursuit
JOHN +. CRAMBIIT, an aged and well.
known citizen Of Des Moines, was run over
by farmers runaway team and instantly
killed on the 9th inst.
THE carriage works Of Charles s. Caffrey,
Camden, N. j., were burned on the 9th
inst. Loss. $l05, 200; insured for $sl, 200.
THE press in the powder mill at Platte
vile, Wis, was destroyed by explosion on
the Sth inst The building was badly
wrecked and the machinery damaged, but
no lives were lost. The operator was in
jured, but not seriously. Loss, 5000.
A FARMER named George Martin, living
in Delta, ingham county, Mich, was buried
in sand-pit in which he was digging on the
Sth inst. and was in some time before he
was exhumed. He was alive when rescued,
but died shortly after. He left q family.
GENERAL.
THERE was a meeting of the Geneva COM !
mittee of the Missionary Society of the NJ. |
r. Church, in New York, on the 14th inst. |
The receipts from the Eastern Conference |
for the year had been $4O3, lO2, and from the !
Western Conference, $lsl ,0S6. The associa.
tion has debt of $S2,S24. The appropria- |
tions for the next year are to be $66S, 800.
SAN FRANCISCO wishes new postofice |
and wants government appropriation.
THE Nashville, Chattanooga 4 St. Louis
Railroad has leased the Cumberland and !
Ohio Railroad.
On the 18th inst. the situation at Keeh's |
mine, Deadwood, remained unchanged. The |
workmen are stillin possession in defiance of /
the authorities. The sheriff has telegraphed |
to the governor of the territory for soldiers |
to assist him in executing the law.
AN engine with saloon and three empty I
freight cars plunged through an open draw
which the engineer did not see in time, into /
the Piscatavuis river, at Portsmouth, N. H.,
on the 18th inst. Mo one killed.
THE case of Mrs. lie Bon, who sues to re.
woke the will of Cornelius Vanderbilt, came
to trial before Surrogate Cofyin, at New
York, on the 18th inst. The amount she
claims is 81 10000
LIEUT.. BULLS, with small scouting
party, who crossed the Rio Grande near the
mouth of the Pecos river, was attacked by
body Of 500 Indians on the 18th inst, and
compelled to re,reat. Col. Young has left I
Fort Clark with 200 cavalry to reinforce
Bulls.
BENJAMIN GROOM, cattle-desler of Clark
county, KY, filed q petition in bankruptcy
IN the 9th inst Liabilities, 17s.54S; assets,
;130,270 in lands and cattle. The various {
,anks in Lexington, Frankfort, Paris. and
II through the Blue Grass Region are
mong the creditors. 4
The Neses' San Antonio special says that ,
hat on the 10th Of October a party of Mexi-
ans, eighty-seyen in number, had a battle in :; ;
Texas near the Guadaloupe mountains, with
party of Indians who had been depredat-
ng in Mexico, near Chihuahua, killing six q
'ucks, capturing six squaws and sixty-eight
lead of stock stolen from the people living =
,ear San Diego, in Mexico. The scalps , /,
we're taken to Del Norte, in Mexico, as was !
he stock, which was identified by the own /;
RS of the animals. Ii