Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06


fear of capture would be worse than the re.
mainder of the term of imprisonment
THE supreme court of Illinois has af-
firmed to decision of circuit court dissolv-
ing an injunction which Judge McAllister
granted restraining the board of trade from
expelling W. N. Sturgis for manipulating of
the markets.
DAVID SlNLoN, of Cincinnati, has added
$4,000 to the 100000 which he gave some
time ago to the Cincinnati Bethel Home.
THE kinsman street railroad, of Cleve
land, the most important line in the city.
went into the hands OF receiver on the
Oath.
GEN. AUGUST WELLIcH died on the oath,
at St. Mary's, Ohio.
INFORMATION has been received that Sit.
ting Bull is at Frenchmen's Creek with over
LOCO lodges, including the escaped Nez Per.
ces and the refugees from the agencies
These last number 800 warriors, and Sitting
Bulls own camp numbers $500, all well
armed. An attack on Forts Peck and
keogh is expected. Gen. Miles has only
300 men.
w. n. SURGRS, one of the heaviest grain
operators in Chicago, was suspended from
the Board of Trade on the 23d.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Miss ELLA GITrINAs, of La Harpe, ILL.,,
Moore House, Burlington, Ia, on the Goth,
from the effects of an abortion. Jacob
Paul, French quack doctor, has been ar
rested for having committed the deed.
A DISPATCH from pittsburg gives an uc-
count of the arrest of Frank Lynch, while
about to commit suicide by jumpiug from
a railroad bridge over the Allegheny river.
After his arrest he confessed to the officers
that on the 18th of December he murdered
his little son, by throwing him into the
river, and that his present attempt at sui
eide was the result of the prickngs of a
guilty conscience.
CDR" CHARLES .. MORTON, who was ar
rested in Toledo, o., about ten days ago,
for the crime of body-snatching, but was
sent to the pest-house on the statement of
several physicians that he was suffering from
smallpox, escaped on the 29th, while the
guards were at supper.
A FIRE on the fourth floors of ll5 and III
Worth street, New York, occupied by dry
goods and carpet commission merchants, in
fiicted loss of about 100000.
J. ii. BATCHELDER, of Rutland, is charged
with uttering forged paper to the amount OF
$50, 600 or $4,000 on the Brandon National
Bank.
SMITH, section foreman of the St. Paul
and Sioux City railway at Wilder's station,
Mimi, was fatally shot by an unknown party
on the Goth.
A GANG of burglars, while at their work
in Cincinnati, on the 25th, were disturbed
by some police. The burglars opened fire
and killed officer kunkcl. The murderers
escaped.
The entire centre block of the village of
Md, was burned on the Goth. Loss $50, 900.
THE barn and outbuildings belonging to
Col. McDaniels were burned at Princeton,
n. j., on the night of the 24th. Loss 2I,-
600.
POSTMASTER TUCKER, of Vaughns Sta
ton, Miss, killed T. Il. Raoul telegraph
operator at that place. on the 25th.
JOHN w. CARR, of Mound City, ILL.,, sui
cided at Cairo, on the 25th.
AT Chicago, late on the night of the 25th,
a fire broke out in the roof of the buildings,
chiefly saloons, on kinsie street, and Nos.
20 and SO were burned, with most of their
contents; loss $4,000. Henry Mueller, aged
l3, was burned to death.
Caldwell, freight conductor on the
Marietta railroad, was instantly killed, on
the 25th, by falling from a moving train,
near Hamden, Ohio.
A CYLINDER containing gas exploded at
he Holiday Street Theater, Boston, on the
night of the gath, and one man was killed
and two others wounded. All were em-
ployes of the theater.
Miss ELIZABETH SAYLOR killed her
seducer, William Liller, of Newell's Run,
Ohio, on the 24th, by cutting his head open
with an axe.
DURING quarrel at Boston, Kansas, on
the oath. between two brothers named
Prather, one shot and killed the other. The
murderer escaped.
AT Milwaukee. Wis, on the evening of
the 23d, as a carriage, the occupants OF which
were Misses Helen and Emma Jacobs,
daughters of Col. VIM. II. Jacobs, and Gustav
Falk, son of Franz Falk, the brewer, was
crossing the railroad track on Reed street,
train struck the vehicle, killing young
Falk and Miss Helen Jacobs, and severely
injuring Miss Emma.
THE oil refinery of l. Warren & Co., of
Wheeling, West Virginia, was burned on
the 23d. Loss, $4,000; insurance about
$4,000.
WAR NOTES.
THE Turkish government is having diff
Guilty to maintain order in the capital.
Among the tens of thousands refugees from
Roumelia, are many armed Circassians;
these have already plundered Suleh, Bour.
gas, Chorlu and Rodosto, and other towns,
and are now fiocking in to Constantinople
laden with booty.
THE concentration of Russians at Adrian
ople continues. Scouts have arrived near
Chorlu. about seventy miles west of Con
stantinople.
A CORRESPONDENT with the besieged in
Erzeroum, says the typhus is raging in the
city, and $50 die daily. There are 1O,OOt
sick and wounded in the hospitals.
Up to the 2sth inst, the Porte had NJ
advice of the conclusion of the armistice
though orders were telegraphed the pleni
potentiaries on The 25th TO accept the con
ditions.
A CONSTANTLNOPLE correspondent, writ
ing under date of the 2Sth, says the Port
has received telegram to the effect that tn
preliminaries of peace had been signed
The same correspondent states that Englan,
has the Porte's permission to enter tn
Dardanelles.
THE peace conditions which were cor
cluded between Russia and Turkey on tn
25th, are stated, on excellent authority, t
include the following: Servia to be indt
) pendent, without compensation; Montenegr
to receive Antivari, Nicsics and Spurz an
a portion of the territory bordering on LAX
Scutari; Russia to hold Batoum, kars an