Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-06-12
ELK POINT UNION D.. 7, WEDNESDAY, r. 1s7s

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the residence of Gen. James G. Wilson, h
swooned from fatigue, and in falling struc
his head on sharp corner of the ston
steps, He Immediately became unconscious
and his condition is considered critical
Physicians agree that he is suffering from
conclusion of the brain.
i THE formal presentation of the bust o
Mazzini to the city of New York took plac,
| on the 29th, in Cent trail Park, in the presenc,
of large and fashionable assemblage. TIL,
bust is gift of Italians resident in tn,
uuited States. Addresses were made b,
Mayor Ely, VIM. Cullen Bryant and others
WASHINGTON.
A LARGE delegation of tobacco manufac
turers of the Western and Middle states
favoring reduction in the tax of from q
to 16 cents per pound, met on the 4th inst
and had interviews upon the subject with
various members of congress.
SECRETARY EvARTs announced at tht
cabinet meeting on the 4th, that Russia had
| accepted the proposition of the United
States government to take part in the inter
national congress for the purpose OF fixing a
bi-metallic money standard.
THE senate confirmed John +. Hazelton,
of New York, consul at Genoa, and Chas.
N. Murphy, consul at Moscow.
A COMMUNICATIONS from the secretary OF
| the interior was laid before the house on
the Sd inst, recommending that the revised
| statutes be amended so as to allow execu.
tive departments to pay ordinary advertis.
| ing rates for the publication of all official
| advertising. The rate prescribed by exist
ing laws, namely, forty cents per hundred
words, is, in the opinion of the secretary,
insufficient to secure frst.class circulation.
FROM inquiries made of members of the
Potter investigating committee it appears to
be the general impression that majority
will favor the holding of open sessions, or
at least admitting members of the press
THE president has nominated Crowly B.
Drake, of Michigan, U. S. marshal of Ari-
Zona.
1T is said that Gen. Witcher, of West Vir.
ginia, an ex.Union soldier, is to succeed the
pension agent of Washington, whose term
expires July list.
THE WEST.
PROF. JOHN c. CHRISTIAN, assistant su.
perintendent of public schools in st, Louis,
Mo-, suicided at Denver, Col, on the lst in.
slant, while laboring under a fit of tempo
rary insanity. Prof. Christian is well known
in Cincinnati, having been a member of the
school board of that city for some years.
JUSTICE HARLAN, of the United States
supreme court, was in court in Chicago OH
the Sd inst, and will remain about month
Lawyers and court officials gave him pleas
ant impromptu reception in court.
THE remains of 1870 soldiers arrived at Ft.
Leavenworth on the Sd inst, from TT.
Harker, and were buried in the national
cemetery, with military honors.
A TRRIFIC cyclone passed over Richmond,
Mo-, on the 3lst ult., leveling to the ground
over half of the buildings in the town.
Over one hundred houses were totally de-
stroyed, and the loss to property will reach
$250,000. A whole block was completely
swept away and the debris scattered for
miles. The storm came from the southwest,
passed to the northeast, and was preceded
by heavy rainfall. Trees were uprOoted
and carried through the air like feathers, as
were also fragments of houses, and in fact
everything that the storm struck, Tn Shaw
House, q large brick hotel, was demolished
and the inmates buried in the ruins. Fiji.
teen persons were killed and forty wounded.
THE Bank of Fremont, at Fremont. o.,
owned by F. S. White and VIM. Z. Haines,
tha hap l. Ias rtr uf af tfS hv,si-
ness on the 3lst ult., paying all liabilities on
demand. 1t has done successful business
for nearly twenty-five years.
A BOISE CITY dispatch says: Bannock
Indians, numbering about two hundred war.
riors, under command of Buffalo Horn, the
noted scout, are encamped in the lava beds
between Big Comas prsirie and Snake river,
and have ordered the whites 10 leave the
prairie on penalty of death. They have
already commenced hostilities by shooting
two settlers, wounding both severely.
About ninety mounted troops, under com.
mand of Major Collins and Capt. Bernard,
will leave Immediately for the scene of the
trouble.
ABOUT ten O'Clock on the night of the
Goth ult. a party of masked men boarded the
west bound passenger train just after it left
Percy Station, Utah, entered the middle
sleeping car and proceeded to rob the pas
sengers. They took watch and 800 from
one passenger, and $50 ana tickets from
another, and gold watch and $35 from the
sleeping car conductor. A party of armed
men are in pursuit of the miscreants. The
Union Pacific railway company offers re-
ward of 81 900 each for the capture of the
miscreants.
The Indian Tambago, convicted of the
murder of Alex. Rsden, at Ft. Hall, was
sentenced to be hung at Boise City, Idaho,
on the 2sth of June, by the District Court at
Malad, Idaho.
OWING to the recent contradictory publ.
cations concerning the Rennett-May duel,
Mr.. Bennett telegraphs from Paris his with
drawal of the injunction of secresy imposed
on the seconds. He says that he will be in
New York in July, and if public opinion
deems it just that he should suffer legal
penalties he is perfectly willing to bow to
that decision and submit to the laws of the
land.
THE Sexton-Schaffer billiard match was ar
ranged in all its details on the Sd inst. The
first game is to be played in New York with
in forty days according to the terms already
agreed upon.
In the game of Lacrosse, for the cham.
pionship of the world, at Montreal, on the
lst inst, the Toronto club won, defeating
the Shamrocks of Montreal.
IT is stated that the United States cavalry
recruiting depot, now located at the arsenal
at st. Louis, is soon to be removed to Jetfer-
son Barracks, twelve miles below the city,
and that the quartermasters, commissarys,
engineers and medical departments will be
transferred from the business part of the
city to the arsenal It is expected by this
change saving of some $4,000 per year
will be made in the way of uptown rents,
etc.
The faculty of st. Johns college {Md.)
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