Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-07-03

large boilers on the 25th. Chambers Bowe
master, foreman, was instantly killed, anG
Henry Neis, John Hess, George Frank and
John Herrick badly injured.
A DKsTRUCTIvE FIRE at Faribault, MINI.
early on the morning of the 25th, burned
over the principal business part of the city
comprising nearly all the buildings on Main
and Elm streets, between Second and Third
streets. Theloss will probably exceed $780,.
900; insurance $S5,0OO.
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clerks in the tax collectors Office in Brook.
lyn, were fatally injured on the oath by an
explosion of gas in the Office vault. The
vault was ruined and the Office furniture
and fixtures demolished.
SANGIKR CHACE, defaulting treasurer of
the Fall River mills, pleaded guilty on the
gath and was sentenced to twelve years in
state prison.
The American brig Harriet G. has been
wrecked on the coast of Coro. A steam
! tug which twenty men from Maracaibo, sent
to her assistance, foundered, and seven men
were drowned.
THE steam Touring mill of Smith, Shick.
ley d Smith, of Keoha, L., caught fire on
the ed, and was burned to the ground
Loss SO, 900; insurance $4,000.
DANIEL CRAWFORD, colored, a dweller
ON Beech Islands, s. c., killed his wife and
himself one night recently; and the follow
ing morning, white man, named Ferrie,
killed woman with whom he cohabited,
and then himself.
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Judge Isaac G. Wilson, Of Chicago, suicided
at Geneva, ILL.,, on the Goth iast., by shooting
herself. The death of her mother some
months ago, and her own i'll health caused a
deep melancholy, in a fit of which she com.
mitted the fatal deed.
AT St Joseph, NO., on the 2lst, in broad
day light, the First National. bank was
robbed of $4,000. 1t was at first supposed
that the package had been mislaid, but a
thorough search was made without success.
YOUNG man named John Grimwell, was
kicked to death by an Indian pony, at
Yankton, D. T., on the 2lst inst.
AT SYLVESTER, ten miles from Monroe,
Wis.,, on the Goth, Frederick Ohm, Ger
man farmer, was Drutally murdered by some
unknown person. 1t is supposed he was
defending his property from a thief or a
tramp when he was murdered.
AT Harrisburg, Pa, on the Goth, John,
Isaac and Peter Hawn, old men, were at
tackled in their house by tramps, and John
and Isaac fatally beaten. The house was
robbed of s., 900 in bonds.
FRANK H. Voss, an old German, was bru.
tally murdered by a young man named Rede-
meyer, at s t. Louis, No., on the Goth. |
Cause, an old grudge.
PEARSON and Sadler, who were in jail at
Springfield, Tenn, charged with having
outraged Mrs. Graves at Mitchellville, some
time ago, were taken from the prison by
armed and masked men, on the night of the
10th, and hung. Both protested their inno-
cence.
GEORGE TAPsCorr KNOTT, of Springfield,
No.. received the Larned scholarship prize
at Yale College, and VIM. Everett Waters,
of Cincinnati, Ohio, the Clerk scholarship.
SENATOR B. X. BRUCE, of Mississippi,
and Miss Josephine B. Wilson, of Cleveland,
were married on the evening of June Gath,
at the residence of the BRIDES parents.
The senator and his bride left for Europe
Immediately after the ceremony.
AT meeting of the new board of direc-
tors of the Michigan Central railway on the
oath, the following officers were elected;
VIM. H. Vanderbilt, president; Cornelius
Vanderbilt, treasurer; and Edward d.
Worcester, secretary.
The standing of each base ball club in the
League, at the close of the week ending
June 22d, can easily be seen from the fol.