Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-05-29

penditures of their departments.
THE senate in executive session on tn
18th instant, ratified the treaty betwee
France and the United States, providin
for convention at Paris the present sun
lner, with view to the adoption of a me
rical system of weights and measures.
THE WEST.
The fortieth session of the Missouri gran
lodge of Odd Fellows was held at st. Loui.
Reports show u membership of Is, ,O5O; revt
nue., So, $50; assets, $37l, 1893.
The first new wheat of the season arrive
at st. Lsuis, Mo, on the Goth, from nea
Dallas, Tex. 1t graded No. and sold a
anction at $l.25.
The Sah Francisco chamber of commerc
has appointed committee 10 aid in secur
ing commercial treaty with France.
THE Dime Savings Bank of Sacrament
has suspended. 1t proves to have been
sham affair, never incorporated as supposed
but run by the firm of Joseph Davis & Co
in connection with pawn.broking busi
ness. The deposits are about $45, 900; asse is
stocks to the nominal value of about $40, 900
but worth much less. A great portion O
the depositors are children. Much indip
nation is manifested.
DANIEL WILCOX, Esq, proprietor of the
Quincy Ill.) Wing, and at one time connect
ed with the Milwaukee Sentinel and James.
vile Gazette, died at Quincy on the 18th
inst.
Bora workingmen's conventions con
tinued their sessions at San Francisco on
the 18th. Nine of the country delegates
have joined the county committee party
twenty.three have joined Kearney, and the
remainder have refused to affiliate with
either wing, and left the city. Both con.
ventions adopted platforms to-day, of the
same anti-Chinese and monopoly and cap.
ital and reform tone. Each faction will
carry on an Independent campaign.
The mystery concerning the fate of John
NJ Buckley, prominent parsonage, and at
one time attorney general of the United
States under Johnson's administration, was
cleared up on the 18th inst. by the discovery
of his body floating in Lake Michigan, about
five miles south of Milwaukee, Wis. Binck-
ley disappeared from that city on the 4th
inst, and when last seen was laboring under
severe fit of melancholy, the result of
domestic infelicity.
The trunk line freight agents met at Chi.
csgo on the 10th, apd fixed the rate on
grain to New York at 20 cents. Seeds were
allowed to be put in with fourth class
freight.
THE Ohio Democratic state central com.
mittee have issued call for convention
to be held at Columbus on the Goth of June.
On the 18th inst, both branches of the
Ohio Legislature adjourned till next Janu-
ary.
CRIMES AND CAsUALTIEs.
AN explosion of gas occurred on the 2lst
inst, in the new wing of the Sydney mine
at Halifax. Six men were taken out dead,
including Mr.. Greenwell, chief overseer.
A PARTY of revenue men have Just com.
pleted a fifteen days raid in Hickman.
Perry, Hardin, Wayne, Giles aud Lawrence
counties, Tenn. Nine illicit distilleries
were destroyed and several arrests made.
A HEAVY hail storm visited sections of
West Virginia on the Goth inst, doing much
damage.
The Corning, Cowanesque and Austrian
railroad car-shops at Corning, n. Y, burned
on the Goth. Loss 0,OO0; insurance, S25,-
900.
AT Mitchellville, Ky, on the 18th inst,
two white men entered the house of John
Groves, ESQ.,, a prominent citizen, overpow-
l,
The populace are out en- n,asse securing the
TENEYCK. of Pitts6eld, Mass, has been
found guilty of the murder of Mrs. Still
man and sentenced to be hanged, August
10th.
A FIRE AZ Paris, ILL.,, on the 18th inst, de-
stroyed several buildings. Total loss $l6,.
600.
On the 18th inst, as a farmer near Cedar
Rapids, Ia, named J. 5. Berry, was telling
trees, his wife and child standing near by,
a large tree fell suddenly, killing Mrs. Berry
and child.
JEFF DAVIS, who was to have been
hanged at Abbeville, s. C., OH the 18th. was
respited until June IA.
JOSEPH SPARKS, a young hemian, shot
and killed Michael Dewitt, an Irishman, at
at midnight on the 10th inst. Five
bullets took effect on Dewitt's body, one
penetrating the heart, causing instant death.
Domestic troubles was the cause of the
bloody deed.
AT Memphis, Tenn, on the 10th, st.
Agnes academy was destroyed by fire, to-
gether with valuable library, all the effects
of the pupils and large portion of the fur.
niture. No lives lost.
r. w. EVANS 4 Co.'s oil tank at Brad
ford, Pa, burst on the night Of the 18th.
Loss q, 900 barrels.
THE picker building attached to the Ports.
mouth Manufacturing companys cotton
mills, in South Berwick, Me-, was DESTROYED
by fire on the 18th inst, causing a loss of
$50, 900; insured.
GEO. F. MILLER, clerk for the assessors
Of the poor at North Adams, Mass, has ab.
scohded, defaulter.
TIE EAST.
HARVARD stadepts have been recently
discovered by college authorities to have
Of examination papers before
regularly issued, and two members of the
junior class have been expelled and one or
two employees removed.
The Brooklyn arnories and police stations
are being connected by telegraph, in fear of
REV. SAMUEL s. IsAAcs, editor of the
Jewish Messenger, and the oldest Jewish
minister in the country, died ON the night
Of the 10th, aged "A years.
LETTERS of administration ON the estate
Of the late VIM. Orton, president of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, were
applied for to the Surrogate, At New York,
on the 18th instant, by VIM. Orion, Jr. 1t
is stated in the petition that the personal
estate does mot exceed $4,000. The parties
to receive under the will are the widow and