Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1877-11-28


A DISPATCH from Wyoming says that the
Utes have gone peacefully to their camp at
Cherokee Springs.
THE EAST.
JUDGE GEORGE GRENNEL, of Massach,l-
setls, member of congress from 1873 to 1883,
died at Springfield, Mass, aged 81,
Col. HENRY 4. SIBLEY, convicted of
forgery at Boston, Mass, was sentenced to
four years in state prison, and one days
solitary confinement, on the 21st inst.
julius kIRCHER, owner of paint factory
in New York city, crematcd the body of his
infant son in the furnace of his factory on
the llth. He took this means of settling
quarrel with his wife over the disposition of
the remains.
The reported outbreak of leprosy in the
Chinese quarters of Baxter street, N. V, is
officially contradicted by the board of health
THE Peoples Savings Bank, of Newark
N. j., has suspended. About $4,000 due
depositors will be paid in if the full amount
of the assets is realized.
CONRAD PAPpENHUsEN, late owner of the
Long Island railroad, has failed. Liabilities
So, ,500, 600; assets S7,250,O0O.
ROBERT l.. CASE, president of the Security
Life and Annuity Insurance company, was
convicted at New York, on the 10Th inst,
of perjury in swearing to an annual state
ment for 1875, and remanded for sentence.
THE Reading Savings Bank, the leading
banking house in the county, the Dime Saw
ings institution, and the banking firm of
Bushong Bros, all doing business at Read
ing, Pa, suspended on the 10th inst. Bush
ong Bros. had deposits to the amount of be-
tween $500 900 and $4C0,OOO
Mrs. ELIZA MILLER, of New York city,
who claims John Young's estate, in Vir-
, ginia, West Virginia and Kentucky, also
valuable property in Philadelphia and Alex
andria, Va, valued at $50, ooo, ,oo0 by the esti
mate of a lawyer, appeared before the com
missioner of deeds, at New York, on the
/ 10Th inst, and signed documents prepare
/ tory to bringing suit in the supreme court
! for the recovery of these lands, some of
which are now occupied by several large
coal and iron companies.
| THE striking engineers on the Boston and
Maine railroad have all been found guilty of
conspiracy and obstructing the mails.
GENERAL.
The total liabilities of Mulholland 4
Baker, the hardware merchants, are $780,.
900. The Consolidated bank, the larges,
creditor, has claim of 0,00O, of which
$l55, 900 is secured The assets are not YET
definitely known. The liabilities of John
Frazer, dry goods dealer amounts to $s9, 900
i HARRISON P. THOMSON, of Clark county
KY, cattle dealer, has filed petition ir
bankruptcy. Liabilities $27S, sol assets MOI
stated. The creditors are mostly Kentuck,
banks.
THE National Woman Suffrage Associa
ton will meet at Washington, d. c., on tn,
sth Of January next.
. THE grand jury ut Pittsburg made the
special presentment on the July riots ON tn,
10th. Indictments against one hundre,
persons were returned. The jury charac
terized the military operations as a blunde
D from first to last.
HoN. GRO. s. BANGS, at one time U.
+ sub-treasurer at Chicago, and who acquire,
fame through his connection with the fas
, mail service, died at Washington on the 18th
, Bright's disease of the kidneys was the cause
Carl. MCMILLAN, Pension Agent for tn
s consolidated southern district, reports iron
D New Orleans that there is now money O
+ hand to pay up the current pension claims
J. l.. EAingham is expecting the position G
IS Collector of Customs for New Orleans.
e The whaling bark Cleone, of New Be,
l. ford, parted her cables in St. Lawrence ba,
e Arctic ocean, and went ashore. The ere
n were saved and distributed among the otht
e vessels of the feet.
g Mr. PRICE, the owner of Lorillard, deni,
that he has challenged Ten Brock, b,
& states that he is willing to venture $o5, 900 @
II a race of two and half miles between Pa
,f ole and Ten Broeck and will allow the latt
'. $4,000 for expenses; the race to occur
e, Saratoga.
d. New FoUNDLAHD advices state that Il
1t schooner Rose, of Carboneer, is missin
V. She had fifty persons ON board--men, W
O; men and children. About forty days ha
ii. passed since she left the Labrador coast.
!, C1IxEs AND CASUALTIES.
he DURING . family quarrel at versaill,
IN Morgan county, No, Geo. Staples shot Al
At killed his father. It seems that the ED
ut Staples came home drunk and began
id abuse his sons wife, and also attempted
ma shoot his son, when the latter drew rev
at yer and put three balls into his fsthe
Of breast, killing him instantly.
lai THE postolice At Grand Island, Neb., v