Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-07-17

- rAHAH ~ A~AscIpfiscy MISb.S Vu buc OH
inst, destroyed twenty-four business houses
: 4 Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
u j. D. BOTHWRLL's house at Columhus
: vile, Mich., was burned on the 9th inst
One son, aged eight years, perished in th,
flames. Another was dangerously burned
All the family were asleep when the fir
broke Out.
\ THE boiler of Sewell's saw.mill, three
miles east of Queen City, Texas, exploded
on the 9th inst, killing three men and
wounding another.
AT Independence, Iowa, ON the night oi
the 9th inst, Clarence Shaw shot and killed
Miss Matte Sherwood, daughter of proni.
neut citizen md then suicided by shootipa
himself. Jealousy.
/ JoHNsScAHT1lN, sAaltmher, was brutally
murdered with beer mallet by hotel
keeper named Fisher, at Evansville, Ind, On
the Fourth.
JAMES GILMORE, an employe of the U. 8.
Express company at Cincinnati, is missing
with $l5, 600 in money packages.
HARLOW F. COY, a prominent Chicago
real estate dealer, has been detected in a
number of forgeries by which he has vic.
timized D. B. Gray, Of Boston, out of be.
tween six and seven thousand dollars.
Two boys, Isaac and Eddie Marks, 9 and
years old, were drowned in Pope Creek,
at K:met's mills, three miles south Of Aledo,
| ILL.,, while bathing on the 9th inst.
SCHENCK's mammoth warehouse, together
with its contents, at vevay, Indiana,
was burned on the eth inst The loss is
! 100000. f5 s4.e- - @1 sa49 e-s-
THE Central house, depot, together with
telegraph Office and private Office 1t Petro.
leum Centre, Pa, wss burned on the 4th.
The fire was caused by careless handling of
fireworks. Loss $35, 900. ~ a'' .
WHILE bathing at Skowhegan, Me-, on
the 4th, Osgood Wiley attempted to rescue
his son who had got beyond his depth, and
both were drowned.
Two daughters of J. A. vandervoost were
drowned while bathing at Sterling, Ont, on
the 9Th inst.
THE house of Ahner Connor at Sandy
creek, a few miles from Pittsburg. Pa, was
carried into the river by food occasioned
by the storm on the 4th, and Connor, wife,
child, Ira Long, and a man named Boyd,
were drowned.
Two girls, Wilhelmina Hammond and
Mary Morton, were drowned while bathing
at Huntsville, Ont, on the Sd inst.
A DISTRESSING accident occurred at New
London, Conn.,, on the I'd inst, little son
of Col. Chas. NJ. Colt fell overboaod from
yacht, when Colt and man named David
Trumbull jumped after him. The yacht was
hove to and the child picked up, but both
men were drowned. Trumbull rowed mum.
ber seven oar in the recent Yale Harvard
race on the Thames, and Colt was treasurer
of the Chelsea savings bank, Norwich,
Conn.
A VIOLENT storm swept over Pittsburg
and Allegheny, Pa, on the 4th. A -four
mill and stables at Pittsburg were fired by
lightning and destroyed. Several washouts
and it is a.s. .ss .... PenasElXaSiis were were
drowned. At German Lutheraa pie-aic !
at Ross grove few miles from Allegheny, a
large tree fell on party who had fed TO it |
for shelter, instantly killing ten and seri. !
ously niuring fifteen, four or five of whom
will probably die. The Vesta oil works
at Neghy's Run was struck by lightning and
instantly destroyed.
JAMES M1LLARs, aged IL years, amusing
himself with pistol at Philadelphia, on the
Fourth, shot his father dead.
AT Avondale, Ind, on the Fourth, Miss
Hutton, while sitting on the porch at her
home, was instantly killed by stray bulle
THERE were five fatal cases of sunstroke
at Boston on the Fourth.
MICHAEL ROACH, yard master at the Van
dalia railroad yards, East st. Louis, caught
his foot in frog on the Sd inst, and was
run over by train and instantly killed.
WASHINGTON.
DURING the twelve months ending June
80, 1873, the issues of ordinary postage
stamps by the postoffice department
amounted to 19,46S, ,6l0, as against lS,i8l,-
$40 the preceding year. Issues of news
paper stamps increased from 1000, ,605 to
1,O93,S45 Issues of stamped envelopes and
wrappers from 4,6l6,932 to 1905, 5,774; and
the issue OF postal cards from about no.
600 900 to zoe, ,O63, 600. The total amount of
inersSe In issaes for saleto the public was
$l,975, 1859 or ~ per cent, as compared with
the previops year, Wf Tst &&fbs
on the sth. instant John A. Mcdowell,
brother of Gen. Mcdowell, was appointed
superintendent of construction of the Chr
cago custom house.
THE English government has subscribed
for one hundred and fifty volumes of the
Polaris Arctic Expedition reports.
ATTORNEY GEHxRAL DEvENs will act a.
secretary Of the navy during the absence
OF Secretary Thompson ON his tour of in.
spectionsof the navy yards.
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consul At Pangies; Morocco, to cooperate
With representatives. of Other governments
in using thsir god offices. IN behalf Of op-
pressed Israelites.
THE balance'iin the United States treas
ury is about s200, ,000, 900. and 10 steadily n.
creasing. Secretary Sherman says he has
not decided to announce The resumption OF
specie payments in advance Of the fstv Ol
January, the time fixed by Law.
THE report Of the board Of visitors to the
annual examina alton at the naval academy il
very Aattering. The board recommend the
employment of school ships, fitted in q way
to impart more practical information OF ths
duties of naval officers while ct sea.
THE war department will push recruits ID
, the portion Of the country disturbed by th,
!, Indians, with all the haste practicable
Belief is almost universal among the arm!
officers that there will be general IndiaE
war in the sections were the hostile Indian
have presented themselves.
Q The following special agents for the in
ternal revenue service have been appointed
!. Conrad Cuberick, of Ohio; Horace kellogg
. Of Ohio; g. w. Atkinson, Of West Virgins
!, oEMYRAI. s
n BENZ. HAYWOOD, proprietor Of the Pal
n Alto iron works, at Pottsville, Pa, died o
l. the 9th.
D In the city court Of Richmond, Va, o
!, the 9th, decree was entered distributin
d $i59,l72 proceeds Of the recent sale of tn
70 Chesapeake 4 Ohio railroad, among partis
entitled 10 interest ON the bonded debt
o. the Virginia central railroad, which was
'e first lien On the property Of the Chesspeal