Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-08-21

was received tto Gen Ord asking for in
structions, and Il Eas decided there was n,
lfeas61 'whaeeTsr ~ the former orders t.
the Americans 9ces should not be fully
carried out, and the president directed tn,
secretary of war to telegraph Gen. Ord re-
iterating the existing orders With referenc.
to the protection of American interests
and the prompt pursuit and punishment O
raiding parties.
Z TIE demand for standard silver dollars j,
2eedily increasing. Within the week end
inesthe 10th inst. the banks called for thre,
hunSred thousand. There il little demand
for the certificates for silver dollars, which
have been printed to the extent of nineteen
The q !icitor general, to whom applica
ton for - removal Of Justice Bennett ol
Dakota, vas referred, reports there il nc
case calling for such action. The attorney
general concurs.
The president has commissioned Eugene
J. Ball, of Indiana, as consul at Pesth, Hun.
gary; Asa C. Prindle, now commercial agent
at Balize, Honduras, as United States consul
at Para, Brazil; William Thompson, now
agent at Southampton, England, to be con
sui at that port.
JOHN P. HoYT, of Michigan, has been
appointed governor of Idaho.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
ELLA CHASE, the Indian doctress" fatal.
ly shot herself at Savannah, Ga, on the 18th
instant, while in bed examining her hus.
bands pistol.
CHARLES F. HUME, aged 20, agent for
Boston manufacturers of shade rollers, put
bullet through his brain, at Chicago, on
the 18th instant, his mother and brother be-
ing in the room at the time. He died some
five hours afterwards.
A FREIGHT train on the Great Western
railway ran off the track on the 18th, near
Simcoe, Ont, precipitating eleven cars down
an embankment, and the whole became a
complete wreck.
The town of Shasta, CAL, was visited by
destructive confagration on the 18th inst.
One.third of the village, including some of
the business portion was ruined.
CHRIS. MCAFEE, Pottsville, Pa, miner,
was killed on the 18th inst, by q fall of coal
HERBERT and Edward Beers, brothers,
aged respectively 20 and 81 years, were
drowned at Bridgeport. Conn.,, on the 10th
inst, while bathing.
II. II. ROBINSON, a well known Phila-
delphia stock broker, suicided on the 10th
inst.
"A TERRIBLE tornado devastated the vii.
lage of Wallingford, Conn.,, on the 9th inst.
An old Catholic church, q 900 brick
school house. and some twenty dwellings
were ruined. The number of Killed will
foot up in the neighborhood of thirty, with
about twice that number of wounded, many
of whom will die. Damage to property
estimated at 100000.
BY a boiler explosion at Shamoken Dam,
Sunbury, Pa, ON the 9th inst, three men
were killed outright and three others fatal
ly injured.
BY collision between two steam fire en-
gines at Chicago, on the Sth instant, fireman
George Ray was killed and another named
Shaughnessy, seriously wounded.
VIM. RIvEL, a retired negro minstrel, was
fatally shot in bar room fight at Philadel-
phia, on the 9th instant, by James Lamont,
of the minstrel fraternity.
A COLLISION occurred on the Pittsburg,
Cincinnati & St. Louis railroad between
passenger and freight train at point near
Mingo Junction, Ohio, on the night of the
9th inst. The entire passenger train was
fearfully wrecked, portion of it being
precipitated down an embankment. Fifteen
persons were killed and about fifty wound.
ed. Many of the killed are emigrsnts.
THE body taken from the river at Louis
vile, KY, on the 9th inst, is believed to be
that of John Hall Whipple. son of the Epis-
copal bishop of Minnesota. There was a
pistol ball in the right cheek, and all things
indicate that deceased had been spreeing in
Cincinnati and Chicago.
GENERAL.
In the state lottery drawing at New Or
leans on the 18th, 5S,172 drew the capital
prize of $50, 900, sold at Grayson, Crittendon
county, Ark; $40 drew $4,000, sold at La
Fourch Crossing, Louisiana; 5,247 drew
So, 900, sold at Chicago.
GRENADA, Miss, is terribly afflicted with
yellow fever.
HANLoN won the Eve mile scull race at
Barre, Ont, on the 18th inst.
AT the Alabama state election about S0,-
600 votes were polled for the Democratic
state ticket There was NO opposition.
The standing of each base ball club in the
League, at the close Of the week ending