Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-08-07
NEWS in BRIEF.
GENERAL FOREIGN NOTES.

A LARGE cotton mill at Tourconig,
France, burned on the 30th ult. Loss 5000.
600.
THE Turks offered nominal resistance to
the Austrian forces which crossed into
Bosnia at Bod, refusing to strike their flag
or evacuate the guard houses until the Aus
trians threatened to fire.
THE little craft Nautilus, from Boston, 45
days out, passed the Scilly Isles on the 3Oth.
All well.
AUSTRIAN troops crossed the frontier
into Bosnia on the 29th ult. without encoun-
tering any difficulties. Archduke John
Salvador of Tuscany, at the head of brig.
ade, has entered Derbend.
A VIENNA dispatch reports Montenegrins
are dissatisfied with the decisions of con-
gress and that 5000 have joined the Herze-
govinian insurgents.
CAPT. BoGARDUs won a pigeon shooting
match at London, over the English expert
Captain Shelly. Shelly retired at his S9th
bird, having killed only "a, while Bogard-
us had bagged II. Bogardus' continued,
killing "a out of 100. The highest score
ever made in England.
THE Marquis of Lorne win succeed Lord
Dufferin as governor-general of Canada.
THE Russian authorities have categor.
ically ASSURED the porte that spe imperial
guard will en- park and the other forces will
retire as. sdona as Varna is surrendered
THE Spanish war steamer arrived at
Havana from Santiago de Cuba, on the 26th,
with one hundred and twelve Cuban exiles
from Jamaica. -Four hundred Cubans re-
main in Jamaica, awaiting transportation.
Gen. Martinez Campos has ordered that all
carts, oxen, and other equipage no longer
aeeded in the army, shall be distributed
among poor persons engaged in agriculture.
ALL the powers, except the porte, have
ratified the treaty of Berlin.
ADvICEs from Batoum state that the Lazis
are preparing to resist the Russian occupa-
ton of that place.
SOME Turkish refugees having returned
to the village of Sinikoe, the Bulgarans
massacred the men and outraged the women.
THE great fires in Thessaly, supposed to
be incendiary, continue to devastate the
country.
THE duke of Cumberland, on the nth in.
slant, informed the German sovereigns that
he maintains his rights to the throne of Han.
over, although for the present he will only
bear his ducal titles.
THE WEST.
THE Union bank of Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
with a capital of 500, 900, has decided to 90
into liquidation and close business.
Ex-Gov. CAREY, of California, died at
San Francisco, on the night OF the Goth,
after a prolonged illness.
DR.. WIN. j. SNEID, of Nashville, entered
suits in the United States courts at Cinciu.
natl on the goth ult, against the Cincinnati
Enquirer for $4,000, and against the Com
mercial for $4,000 damages for alleged libel
in publishing an article stating that Sneid
eloped with the wife of a citizen of Nash
vile.
A SAN DIEGO, Cal, dispatch of the Goth
ult., says: A telegram from Campo, last
night, says a runner arrived from Lower
California with news that Pedro Badillo had
attacked the officials at San Rafast, killing
one soldier and wounding another, and that
the whole frontier is up in arms.
1HE rendezvous for all unfriendly In
dians, both in Oregon and on the Washing
ton territory side, is at the foot of Poest
Rapids, where they are collecting in great
numbers. Chief Moses says he cannot con-
troll his young men, and warns all settlers to
look out for themselves
A HEAVY rain storm prevailed in por-
lions of the state of Illinois on the night of
the Goth. According to the guage of the
signal service observer at Chicago, over four
inches of rain fell. The damage in the city
Of Chicago on account of flooded easements
cannot be calculated. Among the heaviest
losers are Carson, Pieria & Co.'s West Side
dry goods house. Their basement was food
ed and goods are reported damaged from
$4,000 to $4,000; of this amount $4,000
was on carpets.
J. P. DAVIS, dry goods dealer of Ironton,
Ohio, has made an assignment. Liabilities
$50, ,0O0 assets nominally the same amount.
THE Republicans of the third Illinois dis
trict. on the oath inst, nominated Gen.
Grout for congress.
GEN. HOWARD has formed a junction
with Col Forsythe's forces, and is pur-
suing the fleeing hostiles in the direction of
the Malheur agency.
THE EAST.