Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-01-30


the United States, convened at st. Louis on
the 10th inst, President Geo. Bingham, of
Pittsburg, in the chair. Over 100 delegates
were present, representing fifty out of the
sixty divisions of the association.
CRIMES AND CAsUA LrIEs.
JACOB and John Huntzeger, late president
and cashier of the Miners Trust Co., OF
Pottsville, Pa, have been sentenced each to
two years solitary confinement, to pay fine
of $500, and to refund to Thomas kerns, the
prosecutor, $4,000 with costs.
ELLA MoRTIER, aged. o years, daughter of
James Mortier, of Palmyra, Wis, was
drowned by falling through an air hole in
the ice on Spring Lake, on the 2lst inst
THE Ontario -four mill at Oswego, n. v,
owned by NJ. J. Cummings, was burned on
the night of the 22d inst. Loss, $50, 900; in
surance, $40 900.
AN incendiary fire at Carrolton, ILL.,. on
the 18th inst, destroyed five business houses.
A brick wall fell on to the roof Of II one
story building upon which some men were
at work battling the flames. Richard Par
ker, Rucker Ennes and Joseph Dickson
were seriously injured and eight others
more or less hurt.
HUGH MCCONNELL was set upon in the
streets of Chicago on the night of the 10Th
inst, by two roughs, and fatally stabbed in
the abdomen. Patrick Sherry and Jerry
Conley have been arrested, charged with
having committed the foul deed.
AN establishment engaged in the manu-
fon nf annptorfait troIa I,11ars az
Philadelphia, Pa, was seized by secret SER
vice officers on the 20th inst.
CHARLES CHAPMAN and George Williams,
two boys, were drowned at Philadelphia, on
the 18th inst, by breaking through the ice.
Four Washington Russell Spen-
Ger Mitchell, Walter Goodall and Jesse
ingham, were carried over dam in skiif
at Huntington, W. Va, on the 18th inst,
and drowned.
A wELL-kNOwN boiler manufacturer of
Cincinnati, +. B. Jones, suicided on the 18th
inst, owing to financial trouble
DANIEL Browns straw works. North
Wrentham Mass, burned on the 18th inst
loss $4,000.
SEVEN freight and one passenger car were
thrown from the track, at Hyde Park, VT,
on the 18th inst. -Four persons were njured.
JAMES JACQUES murdered his mistress,
and then shot himself, at New \ ork or the
10th inst.
Two merchants of Danville, Va, Philip
Grusly and w. p. Robinson, had a discus
sion with revolvers on the 10th inst, which
resulted in both being severely injured.
BELLE TEMPLE, aged Il, was fatally
burned at Columbus, O., on the 10th inst.
She was carrying pan of ashes, when her
clothes took fire from coal.
BY the fall OF a shanty which subsequent
ly took fire, at Wilmington, N. c.. on the
10th, four mea were burned or crushed to
death.
WASHINGTON.
The senate finance committee has
agreed to recommend the passage, with
sundry amendments, of the bill introduced
by Senator Davis, Of Illinois, to remit the
taxes on insolvent savings banks.
SENATOR PLUMB's bill to suppress gamb-
ling in the army by means of an additional
article of war, will, it is thought, be report,
ed favorably to the senate.
ALL employees on the temporary roll OF
the treasury department, numbering ninety
FIVE, have been discharged, as there was no
money to pay them. Congress failed to
make any provision for their retention.
THE Third-Assistant Postmaster General
llazen has prepared for consideration by
congress a bill proposing an important
change in the law regulating the compensa-
ton of fourth-class postmastcrs or all whose
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| 1t provides that the basis of their compensa-
| ton shall be the full value of stamps can
celled in their respective offices instead Of
| the value of stamps sold by them. 1t also
imposes severe penalties for making false
returns and for trafticking in stamps.
| Mr.. VOORHEES, introduced a bill, on the
| 18th inst, to continue the Alabama claims
commission, and to provide for the distribu-
ton of the unexpended balance of the Ge-
neva award.
THE president has nominated George
Williamson as collector OF the port of New
| Orleans.
THE treaty OF commerce and friendship
between the United States and the Samoan
Islands was agreed by the president on the
18th inst.
THE president, on the 10th INST, appoint
ed Geo. A. Halsey and VIM. B. Shippes, New
Jersey, and Bronson Bayless and Peter
Staub, Tennessee, commissioners TO the
Paris exhibition.
AT the sixty-frst annual meeting of the
American Colonization Society, Secretary
Thompson was among the speakers on EN-.
migration to Liberia. He thinks that dur.
ing the coming summer emigration will be
large.
GENERAL.
PHILADELPHIA is agitated over the
troubles affecting the houses in the morocco
trade. The principal house in trouble is f
and A. Stokes, importers of hides and skins
The firm attributes its embarrassment to tn.
fall of Geo. w. HummeI l. Co., who wer,
indebted to +. & c. Stokes over $2OO, 900
The following houses are also reported in
!, solvent: John Deemer 4 Sons, $4,000
/ William K. Stewart & Co., $4,000; Ham
mond 4 Devicer, $4,000; Harvey Linch 4
, Co., $4,000; Stewart Allen, 81, 600; Edwart
Evans 4 CO., $50, 600; c. Bockins, $4,000; !
: G. Baker Manufacturing Company Of Will
, mington, SOC, 900. E. & c. Stokes are credi
: ors for about three-fourths of all the liabili
, ties of the above.named firms.
THE Iowa legislature, on the 2od inst, re
, elected United States Senator Allison.
THE suit of the United States VS.. Samus
J. Tilden, to recover $1,000 back tax, viii
: interest, has been decided in Tiidens favor
OWEN MURPHY, the fugitive excise com
missioner, is reported to be dangerously il
: at Ottawa, and his vile is said to be Insane
!, THE members of the Louisiana re