Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-06-26

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THR net profits of the Western Unio
telegraph company for the quarter endin
June 80, are estimated at $S67, 7,Ols. A div
dend of N per cent. has been declared.
! THE Combination Rubber companyof Ne,
York, has failed. Liabilities $4,000.
WIN. CULLEN BRYANT, the venerable poe
died at New York on the 1lth inst, fror
the effects of prostration BY heat at the un
yelling of the Mazzini statue at Central park
CRIMES AND oAsUALr1Es.
JOHN FAHRI, sailor, being assaulted a
Boston, on the night of the 18th instant
fatally stabbed Thomas Ward, aged 26, on
of the assailants, and seriously wounde.
another. .s.....
Gus HARRIS, colored, United States depu
ty.marshal, was killed at Edgeville Cour
House, South Carolina, on the 18th instant
by Brooker Toney.
A FIRE at Akron, O., early on the morn
ing of the 18th instant, destroyed the acad
emy of music building and commercial
block. The loss is estimated at between
$15O, 900 and $2OO,O
THOMAS WILLIAMSON, of Locke, Cayugs
county, N. Y, killed his wife and himself
on the 10th inst.
X. HOPKINS, young man working in the
Marsh Harvester works, at Plano, ILL.,, was
instantly killed and horribly manglea on
the 18th inst, being caught in the belt OF
the main shaft and whirled around with
lightning rapidity.
A. J. WILLIAMS and Matt Beck were
killed in the Maizo colliery, Pottsville, Pa,
on the 10Th inst, the rope Of cage in which
they were descending having broken.
JAMES A. ABBOTT, agent for the Adams
express company at GoIconda, ILL.,, was con.
fronted in his store, on the night of the 14th
inst, by four men who demanded an $500
express package supposed to be in Abbott's
possession. The package had not arrived
but they robbed Abbott of about $40 which
he had on his person. Then three of them
forced him into a skiff, and after proceed.
ing down the river few miles, threw him
into the river with the remark that /" dead
men tell no tales" Abbott fortunately
reached the shore, returned and gave the
alarm.
The walls of two large brick stores in
Rochester, N. Y, fell with terrific crash,
on the 14th instant, burying a number of
people in the ruins. Four were recovered
alive, but badly injured. One of the build
ings was occupied by Graves candy factory,
the other by the United States Express
company, printing offices, etc. The express
employees all escaped. Colonel W. II. Smith,
q printer, was seriously injured.
WHILE workmen on the Brooklyn bridge
were lowering into place one of the large
cables, on the l4th, the tackling at the an.
chorage on the New York side parted, and
Thomas Blake and Henry Supple were kill.
ed, and Peter Arbergh and James McGrath
were dangerously wounded.
LIEUT.. TorrER who was graduated in
1865, at West Point, was instantly killed on
the 14th, by being run over by the St. Louis
express at Cold Spring, nearly opposite
West Point
A BOHEMIAN living on Nineteenth street,
Chicago, named Jacob Villinger, aged 56,
killed his wife, two years younger, on the
night of the 18th inst, by shooting her
through the heart and then brutally beating
and strangling her. He seems to have been
crazy with drink, rage and suspicion at the
time, and accused her of infdelity when
questioned as to mis- motive.
ARNOLD SIMON, an Indianapolis brewer,
suicided On the 18th inst. by shooting. He
was unmarried.
WALLACE C. WHITE, a "scslper," of Bal
timore, convicted of conspiring to defraud
The Pennsylvania Railroad companv has
been Sentenced to two years Imprisonment
and pay u fine of $500. 7
INDIANS captured the Idaho stage near
Summit, on the llth. The driver was killed,
and only one passenger escaped on one OF
the horses. He gave the alarm to settlers
along the road, and they are all crowding
into camp McDermot. =
THE boiler in saw mill at Buffalo, N. Y,
exploded on the 18th, killing the proprietor,
named Wolf, his son, and another man, be-
sides wounding several others.