Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-06-12

|""i." Hc"ucTs, l9,ouV, tOtdl numDef un
der instruction, 25,9lO. Larger contribution
are needed to meet the urgent calls from al
parts of the field.
JNo. KELLY, American, contractor OF
the Lachine Canal, of the firm of Jno
Hickler 4 Co., has mysteriously disappeared
with $4,000 of Canada currency on his per
son. Foul play is feared.
SEVENTY thousand dollars worth of deal,
stored at the st. Lawrence dock, Quebec
bured on the Goth ult. No insurance
Wharves considerably damaged.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
HALF of the business part of Rock Hill
was burned on the 4th inst. Loss $1OO, 900
insurance $4,000.
A MAN named Caldwell, living nea,
Americas, Ca, killed his wife, three chill
dren, and wife's sister, with smoothing
iron, on the Sd inst, and finally ended hi.
own career by throwing himself from the
top of a gin house.
CAPT. MCCAMMoN, a Chillicothe, o.,
jeweler failed on the Sd inst, with Liabilities
at 100000. Next day it was discovered that
he had committed folgeries amounting ro
$4,000. McCammon disappeared from his
home. but was found in stable insensible
from dose of laudanum taken with suicidal
intent. He will recover.
THREE men were killed on the Sd inst. at
the iron ere mines near Topton, Pa, by
caving in of an embankment.
AT Florence, Mass, on the Sd inst, Rev.
c. c. Burleieh, the famous anti-slavery
leader, was run over by cars aud mortally
injured.
+. N. SMITH, agent of the Adams express
company, at Fort Worth, Texas, was arrested
at st. Louis, yesterday morning, on a charge
of embezzlement.
THE extensive cork mandatory OF Arm
strong Bros, Pittsburg, was totally destroyed
by fire, on the 3lst ult. Loss 10000; insur.
ance unknown.
JOHN and Stephen Lowering and Stephen
Crabb were drowned in Boston harbor, on
the I'd inst, by the upsetting of a sail boat.
AT Troy, N. Y, on the I'd inst, Vincent
Stills and Ernest and Albert Page were
drowned.
A WIDOW lady named Thompson, about
fifty years old, highly connected and re-
spected, killed her daughter Nettie, about
sixteen years old, while she was sleeping in
her bed, at Springfield, Mo-, on the night of
the Goth ult., and then cut her own throat.
Temporary insanity, OccasioneG by sickness,
is assigned as the cause of the act.
On the farm of Robert Linn, four miles
from Hillsboro, Ohio, on the 3lst ult., a
portable saw mill engine exploded, killing
three men and severely scalding several
others. One man was thrown completely
over tall tree and was found three hun
dred yards distant.
A MOB of about 10000 people who had
to see what they could of the
execution of l.. Webb, the colored murderer
at Mansfield, Ohio, on the 3lst ult, made a
rush, overpowered the guards, scaled the
jail-yard fence, and in few minutes had
torn down the greater part Of the enclosure.
The sheriff had to hang the prisoner in full
view of the multitude in order to prevent
further violence.
A GRAVEL train was thrown from the
aails of the Prospect Park and Coney
Island IN. " railroad on the 30th ult, kill
ing five laborers and seriously wounding
several more. The killed are VIM. B. Raft,
Patrick Cook, Geo. Primrose, John Geor-
CHAM and Geo. Ellis.