Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-09-11

ELK POINT,
were elected for the ensuing year: Presi
dent, Rev. Hugh Roe O'Donnell, of Boston
hrst vice president, Rev. James Aulholland
of Philsdelphia; second vice president
Rev. Aug. Bessonels, of Indianapolis; treas
hrer, Rev. J. d. Bowles, of Ohio. The
convention adjoarned to meet st Detroit
Michigan, Wednesday and Thursday of the
third week in September, 1879.
/ The third annual session of the Sunday
School Assembly Of the northwest, At Cleal
Lake, In, closed triumphantly on the 9th.
The closing addresses were made by E. w.
Allen, Jr., B. Berry, Nn. J. Ellen Foster,
A. A. Abbott and others. Superintendent
Worden was unanimeusly reelected for next
year.
oRIk8s AND oAsuALT1Es.
DURING . quarrel at Boston, on the Sd
inst, John Lane, aged twelve, stabbed his
brother Tim, aged fifteen, causing death in
| short time.
ISAAC ROBINSON, colored, murdered his
wife at Mount Vernon, N. Y, ON the Sd
inst, and then killed himself. Jealousy
was the cause.
A BUYER for st. Louis dry goods house,
named O'Neill, killed himself at his hotel
in st. Louis, No., on the Sd inst.
GEO. BURKE, . school teacher living near
Ohio Furnace, Scioto county, was killed at
that place on the 1st inst, BY man named
Craighmeyer. Burke had secured the ill.,
will Of the latter by paying attention to
Miss Craighmeyer.
| AT Detroit, Nick, on the I'd inst, John
Chosen, an aged German farmer, was mur-
dered in bed by Christian Crietenback, his
grandson, aged seventeen. After plundering
| the body OF $50 secreted upon it, the
youth fed and is still at large. 1t is sup
posed he crossed the river to Canada.
MARSHAL JONES, aged 40, was instantly
killed at Pittsburg, Pa, on the 1st inst,
while placing machinery in the exposition
building, by an iron fly wheel, weighing six
thousand pounds, falling upon him.
TIE cable OF a freight elevator in the fac
tory of Kingsland, Ferguson Co., st. Louis,
parted on the 3lst ult, precipitating the
freight and human occupants to the base
ment, killing R. w. Murphy of the firm of
Murphy 4 Son, Geo. Foster and Frank
Callahan.
ALLEN G. WooD, aged IA, jumped from
the hurricane deck of the steamer City of De-
troit, into Lake Erie on the 1st inst, and was
drowned. Young Wood and a party of
friends were bsntering each other into the
lake, when without warning the boy jumped
and sank beneath the waves.
glycerine occurred at Negaunee, Mich, on
the 30th ult., by which Andrew Sullivan,
Stephen Day and Stephen Reapus were in
stantly blown to pieces. All were married
men.
A YOUNG man named August Winters
was literally ground to pieces by being
drawn into q threshing machine, near Osh.
kesh, Wis.,, ON the 30th ult.
THE Put.in-Bay House at Put-in.B Bay, O.,
was destroyed by fire on the 3Oth ult.
THE explosion of the boiler of steam
Minn., on the 2Sth ult., killed August
SchneliDg, Michael Wimire, George Law
renee, Charles Schneider and boy named
Otto Fritz. G. Winderline was mortally
wounded.
A MAN named Sprague was instantly
killed by lightning at Wacousta, Mich, on
the 2Sth ult., and another named Massey SO
badly hurt near Grand Ledge that he is not
expected to live.
CHARLES CURTIS shot and mortally
wounded Ed. Burgen, then shot and killed
= u Al
tbs, one hour before the shooting, had been
struck by Burgen.
MOSES KRAMER, q well.known local poll.
tician Of Cincinnati, committed suicide on
morning of the 2Sth. Domestic troubles are
the supposed cause.
THE building at Washington and South
Division streets, Buffalo, occupied by Gels
4 Co., lithogrrphers, Housman 4 Burrows,
printers, and Geo. w. Hysrd, grocers, was,
with contents, damaged by fire on the night
OF the 2Sth. Loss 100000; insurance 49,.
coo.
A SERIOUS accident 10 an excursion train
ON the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad
occurred near Lockwood, Mich, about noon
on the 2Sth. When running At a rate of
thirty miles per hour the three passenger
cars jumped the track, and the two rear cars
went over an embankmeut twelve feet high.
About forty of the passengers were cut and
bruised more or less severely. No one was
killed, and but ona person, Mrs. Hurgleson,
of Ludingten, fatally injured. She was
brought to Cedar Springs, where she died
from broken skull.
oENERAL.
The treasury department has issued q
circular intended to encourage the circular
ticn Of standard silver dollars, which can
now be issued in multiples of 1000 not ex-
ceeding 10000 ~ provided by Law.
GEN. LEW WALLACE, of Indiana, has
been appointed governor Of New Mexico,
vice Axtel suspended.
FREDkRICK GRRIKKN, proprietor Of the
st. lawrence Hall Hotel, Montreal, has
failed. Liabilities $3.50, 900; secured claims
$S75.000. Difficulties are from real estate
speculation.
REPoRrs in Texas papers Of revolutions
In Mexico, are untrue; the country never
was freer from anarchy than now, and NO
President has been 20 universally popular or
20 strong ~ Por6sio Dias.
The treasury department directs the col.
lector of customs At New York to levy du.
ties At the rate of three cents per pound ON
locomotive tiers or parts thereof hereafter
imported or withdrawn from warehouse for
consumption, whether composed Of steel or
iron.
TIE standing Of each bass ball club In the
League, at the close Of the week ending
August 3i.t can easily b. seen from the fol.
lowing table:
Games
Cluba Won. Lost played.