Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1877-12-26

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embezzling $1,000 from the Odd Fellow
lodge at Wilkesharre.
THE grand jury at New York has foun
an indictment for fraud against Sherma
Broadwell, president of the Clalrmont Sa,
ings' Bank of New York city. Broadwe
was arrested at Jersey City on the 14th ms
THE late Gardner Chilson, of Boston, VIII
left the American Baptist Home Missionar
society $4,000, gives also an additions
500, 900 at the death of his son.
THE Newark, N. J. savings institution
with 81, ,000, 900 of assets and deposit az
count of $l1 ,0o0, 900, has gone to the wal
and its affairs have been taken charge of b
the state chancellor.
AT meeting of the Western Nail associs
tion, held At Pittsburg, Pa. on the 18th lnat
the price of nails was advanced to 2.32 pc
keg; 200 keg lots 10 per cent. of, and pc
cent. off for cash.
| TEXAS w. MEXICO.
| ADvICEs from Austin, Tex, received OF
! the 18th inst, say that there was fighting al
day Thursday at San Elizario, in Ell Pas,
county, Tex, between Mexicans from boil
sides of the Rio Grande, and the Texa
state troops.
Gov. Hubbard telegraphed to Presiden
Hayes for help, there being but 20 stat,
| troops at San Elizario, and no other STATE
troops within several hundred miles.
The governor of Texas has telegraphet
that six Texan and one of the United State.
soldiers have fallen in the fight on the Ric
Grande, and immediate assistance from the
president is asked
Mexican troops continue to march to the
Rio Grande. More than 1000 cavalry are
between San Luis Potosi and Saltilo, and
others are following in the same direction
Several battalions of infantry are on the
road to the same point, and LOCO infantry
and some artillery will be sent by sea from
Vera Cruz to Matamoras.
A dispatch to the governor of Texas from
the sheriff of Ell Paso county, says that the
state troops surrendered to the Mexican
mob on the 18th inst, as their ammunition
was exhausted. Three of the prisoners were
shot by the Mexicans.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A DONKEY engine on the steamer Lessie
Taylor, exploded at New Orleans, on the
18th inst. One deck hand was killed and
several were hurt. The upper works of the
boat were badly damaged.
AN oyster pungy was capsized on the
night of the 18th inst, off Baltimore, and
the captain and four men drowned.
A COAL oil train on the Erie road took fire
at Paterson, N. j., on the 18th inst. The
tanks burst, flooding the streets with burn
ing oil, and communicating the flames to
dwelling houses, some of them half mile
away. Many families were made homeless.
A YOUNG servant named Annie O'Neil
suicided by taking poison, at Madison, Wis,
on the 9TH inst, because she had been sus-
pected of theft.
THE body of man about 80 years of age,
medium height, with dark whiskers was
found near Fl. Atkinson, Wis, on the 18th
inst. His head was terribly mutiated with
an axe, and there were other evidences that
the man was murdered. On the body was
found $40 and a paper on which was writ
ten Milwaukee ave. 34l, Sd floor, J. Chris
tianson"
EARLY on the morning of the 18th inst,
mob surrounded the Georgetown, Col,
Jail, took out Schamme, a notorious outlaw,
and hung him.
A SOLDIER of the Third cavalry, named
Kennedy, attempted to assassinate Sergeant
Schaffer, near Cheyenne, on the 18th inst.
He went to a tent where he supposed Schaf-
fer would be found, and, opening the flap,
fired at the first man he saw, killing him
but instead of Schaffer, it proved
to be John A. Van Mott, first sergeant of
the company. Kennedy was placed under
arrest, but some time during the night the
guard was overpowered, blanket being
thrown over his head, and at daybreak next
morning the body of Kennedy was found
to the ridge pole of the guard
tent, by the neck.
ALBEIT JONES, aged ~, murdered his
own daughter at Newark, O., on the 18th
himself up, giving as his reason for the un-
natural act that he suspected the girls
chastity.
JOHN L. ANDERSON, engineer on the Gin.
cinnati Southern railroad, while running a
train near Mason Station, KY, was struck
on the head by stone thrown by party
unknown, on the 18th inst, and it is thought
will die.
THE Royal hotel and block containing
the principal part of the town of Newcastle,
Ont, bnrned ON the night of the 18th inst.
JAKE HORN and Fritz quarreled over a
dog at the United Stock yards, Cincin-
natl, on the 18th inst, and Horn was stabbed
by Fritz and died in few hours.
THE passenger train, No. 8, from Cleve-
land, struck Michael G9tz and his wife near
the stock yards at East Toledo, on the night
of the 18th inst. Getz is not seriously in.
iured. He was able to walk home, but his
wife sustained severe and perhaps fatal in
juries.
WASHINGTON.
THE postmaster.general has ordered an
examination of the clerical force of the
postofices of all large cities and report if
they can be reduced without interfering
with the necessary business Of the Office.
Two sailing ships and a steamer will sail
in February and March, under the direction
of the secretary of the navy, with goods for
the French international exposition.
Gov. MCCORMICK, commissioner.genera
to the Paris exposition, is overwhelmed
with applicationsfor positions, from associate
commissioners and clerks to laborers of
every description. The governor explains
that very few clerks will be needed on this
side of the Atlantic. His Office will be
opened in New York soon.
IT seems that the official entry made on
the 18th inst, in the senate proceedings, re-
garding the affair between Senators Conk-
ling and Gordon, il the first entry Of the
kind that has been made since the
action was taken in regard to the celebrated
affair between Senators Poindexter and
Forsyth, which was similarly arranged by
the agency Of Henry Clay, over forty years
ago.
The bill toregulate letter-carriers' salaries
nrNsented in the hOuae on the lAth inst