Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-01-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.
GENERAL FOREIGN NOTES.

ter at st. Petersburg, handed the emperor
his letters of recall on the 18th inst, ant
MIR. +. W. Stougbton presented his creden
tials.
NJ. RAsPAIL was buried in the cemeter,
OF Pere La Chaise, Paris, on the l4th inst
Il is estimated that 100000 were present
No disturbance occurred. NJ. Louis Blan,
delivered the Grafton at the grave.
THE marriage of King Alfonso and tn,
Princess Mercedes is now fxed for the I'd O.
February.
A DISPATCH from San Domingo states tina
the revolution in the northern prov
inces continued. The insurgents, led
by ex-fresident Gonzalez, surround Porte
Plata. The community is IN danger OF
being ruined.
KING HUMBERr l. of Italy, has ordered
the Italian court to go in mourning six
months.
On the llth inst, Prime Minister Conovas
Del Castello read the royal message to the
Spanish congress announcing the approach.
ing marriage of King Alph0nso.
/ A MAN committed suicide on the lItb
inst, by leaping from the whispering gal.
Y ASAy Va NV L auA SuIuCuIui, lLOHuOn.
THIRTEEN persons have been arrested at
Berlin for completely in the Bishop affair,
and other arrests are expected. 1t is said
that Bishop attempted to secure plans of
the existing Notifications of Metz.
VICTOR EMANUEL, the king of Italy, died
at 2:3O o'clock on the afternoon of the 9th
inst. Prince Humbert was Immediately
proclaimed king of Italy, and confirmed.
the present ministers in their posts.
WAR NOTES.
SPECIAL from Belgrade says Servia in
tends to claim the following peace condi.
tions: Independence of the principality ;
the cession Of old Servia and indemnity for
Turkish deVastations in the last war
A SPECIAL from Constantinople reports
the Philippopolis is completely evacuated,
and the Turks ordered it burned.
CORRESPONDENT at Pera says it is cal.
cnlated that 10000 fugitives arrived in Con.
stantinople from Roumelia during one week.
A train crowded with fugitives ran off the
track near Tschataldja, and about fifty were
killed and wounded.
THE Turks claim that their feet has bonn
barded and destroyed the ports of Eupatoria
and Yalta, in the Crnea
GREAT decentralization exists at the Turk.
ish capital. 1t is believed that no effective
resistance can be offered to the Russian ad.
vance against Constantinople. The Rus
SLAMS have already cnt off the retreat of the
forces stationedat philippopolis and Tartar
Bazardjek, without which the porte has not
sufficient troops to adequately man an ex-
tended resistance.
A SPECIAL from Constantinople says the
Russians have occupied Eski Saghra and
Yeni Saghra, cutting off the Turkish army.
THE Servians have captured Niseh, with
its garrison OF 5000 men, 90 cannon, $4,000
rifles and number of flags
No armistice has yet been effected. 1t is
said that the whole Russian army feels the
hardness and almost injustice of armistice
proposals, coming just when final triumph
ia in view.
General Radetzky, after desperate fight.
ing, on the 9th inst, captured the whole
Turkish army defending Shipka Pass
consisting of forty-ene battalions, ten
batteries and one regiment of cavalry. The
victory was the result of a combined move
ment by Radetzky and Skobeleff through the
Shipka and Trojan passes, respectively.
A CoNsTANTINOPLE special, dated the
9th. says: "Mehemet Ali has started fer
Roumelia, commissioned to conclude an
armistice, if he judges continuation of
war impossible. A special from Pera states
that Mehemet Ali has gone to arrange the
armistice. The correspondent understands
the porte has agreed to propose six weeks
armistice on condition that the belligerents
maintain their present positions, and peace
negotiations will begin rs soon as the ar.
mistice comes into operation"
THE EAST.
ON the 18th inst, Gov. Mcclellan was in.
augurated at Trenton, N. j., with great
pomp and ceremony.
AT Albany, N. Y, on the 18th inst,
Whitelaw Reid and Leslie w. Russell were
nominated for agents of the University by
the republican caucus.
AT Lynn, Mass, on the 14th inst, most of
the shoe operatives who were requested to
withdraw from the Crispin Organization or
quit work, adopted the latter alternative.
~ 10 tltouSht tuS VIC sdthc Will UGCOme gem
eral.
On the l4th inst, Day, Ioagland l. Stiger,
wholesale dealers in drugs, New York city,
made an assignment. Liabilities $4,000;
assets unknown.
AT Buffalo, N. Y, on the 18th inst, at
meeting of bankers, it was unanimously re-
solved to cooperate with the hnnts of Na-
York in sucn actlon as they may take in op.
posing the Bland silver bill now before the
senate.
ST. JOHN, Jesuit college, Hamilton college
and Syracuse university have withdrawn
from the intercollegiate Literary Associa-
ton.
II. H. HoLLEsTRY, prominent member
| of the New York stock exchange, suspended
on the l1th inst. Liabilities estimated at
$l75,OOo.
HEAVY snow storm occurred in Duchess
county, N. Y, on the night of the 11th inst.
Snow fell to the depth OF two feet, pros
tratiny telegraph lines.
| AT meeting of the Western Nail Asso.
citation, held in Pittsburg, Pa, on the 10th
inst, the card rates on nails were advanced
to $3.50; terms sixty days. ten cents per keg
of, in two hundred keg lots two per cent.
Of for cash in ten days. A further stoppagc
of mills To reduce production was agreed to.
SEVEN CREDITORS of the firm of Francis
Tones 4 Co., New York city, military goods
importers, filed . petition on the 9th inst,
TO have the frm declared bankrupt. Liza.
bilities $246, ,824; assets $124,74l.
THE Connecticut legislature met on the
9th inst. C. II. Briscoe was elected speaker
of the house, and Oliver Hoyt pro tenn. OF
the senate.
THE WEST.
On the 18th inst, J. F. Weare & Co., ol
Chicago, dealers in paints and oils, suspend
ed. Liabilities $l50,0O0.
/ MRS. LOWELL, notorious woman o.
Deadwood, claims ownership in the Mother
Mint Mine and fred upon operatives on tn,
18th inst, creating u great row. She il
under arrest.
In the nineteenth district court, at Sal