Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-11-20

nfSs OIL ten dollars ON nlllng the petlu0n snN
thS fs1A6 @GS Swhs5F n 3tration is granted
Heretofore the fun amount has been rs.
apired upon the rsception. of -the applica
ton, the petitioner taking the risk Of losing
be whole fec In case Of nnfavorable action.
THn annual report Of Gen. Thos. J. Brady
second assistant postmaster general, for the
fiscal year ended June 30th, 1873, has been
prepared for the postmaster general. 1t
appears that the cost of inland transporta.
ton for the year was $l6,0s4,O2l. The in.
creased number Of railroad, steamboat and
stage routes over the previou. year was 6S3,
n aggregate length 9l46 miles, and an AZ
nual cost of 649,126. The aggregate esti-
mate for mail transportation and items incl
dent thereto during the next fiscal year 10
$2O, 600. Total amount appropriated for
the current year is about 81, ,0O0, 900 less.
SECRETARY SCHURz has decided that n
portion of the money appropriated by con.
gress for public surveys during the present
year can be used for the purpose of tracing
the former surveys in the field to aid in the
investigation of depredations upon public
tiX6sf lands, etc. He holds there II no
warrant for to add to the amount granted
by congress for the prosecution of that in.
vestigation, the appropriation for it having
been specific and definite. ea.
oRIkss AND cAsuALTI ss.
Miss KATE CuRREN died near Franklin,
Tenn, ON the 10th inst, from the effects Of
an over-iBjection of morphine, accidentally
placed in her arm by Samual Pointer, Esq,
late candidate for governor OF the state.
FLOYD SMITH and his wife Mariah, both
colored, were lynched by mob near Her.
nando, Miss, on the 4th inst Both were
incarcerated, charged with the murder of
six-year-old white girl, who had been left in
their care. Rumor gives a. . reason for the
murder of the child, that the negroes were
instituted by the mother, who would inherit
"a large property estate on the death of her
offspring. 4'. - s..--~.z.s,.
A WINGFI1LD, Wis, dispatch says that
three young children, named kaschorick,
during their parents temporary absence,
were burned to death BY the house burning
down.
The Minnequa Springs hotel, At Canton,
Pa, burned on the 18th inst. Loss $4,000;
insurance $4,000.
THREE men, two brothers, Aertin and
John Murray, and james AcAsgh, were
killed in colliery At Pottsville,, Pa, by
car which shot down the incline, having
become sdesaehed shrsssA se<sas In the
81 &. nigs. of..he iath inst, Harry
Younger, Of San Jose, Cal, aged Is, was
fatally shot by Elton Moody of about the
same age, in quarrel.
AT West Chenango, N. Y, ON the 10th,
two brothers named Taber became involved
in q quarrel on their farm, when David
knocked James down and stabbed him in
the chest with pitchfork, fifteen or twenty
times. David then repaired to the woods
and blew bis brains out
BHRGNHR 4 AuGER's brewery, at Phila
delphia, containing 10000 barrels Of amber
liquid, vanished in smoke ON the 9th, en-.
failing loss OF about &200, 900, which falls
on the insurance companies. Cause Of fre,
careless handling of candle in the vicinity
of yarnish.
A CHARLESTON, w. Va, dispatch says
the United States court, in sessieDvthere,
has 1871 indictments agAinst nnUunshiners
before II. There il likely 10 be three orfeur
hundred Of these Indictments before the
close OF the session. The Illicit dAtillers
are said to be terribly demorslised.
MRs. RICHARD BARRY, residing near San
Francisco, was found murdered on the
morning of the 7th inst. Her head was
chopped IT, pieces with hstchet.
VIZ. n. ASD1Heo1, { DsllAss Tsaas,
sheriff. Attempted Is tfrest ~fn. oslll8s, one
of the train robbers, at Pembina, Dakota, on
the 9th inst. Collins resisted, and the men
sKehsee q 6ss With fatal eject, hpA drop
pAdgd1diAsv pinit3Xf al II
JoHssox'S Jewelfy store, Eighth avenue,
New York city, was robbed of 5000 worth
Of stook IN hnead day light, On ths 8th inst,
by HzsNss Nho fihsblsed the iptets Glass
windows and bagged the plundsr.. While
they wsSs| tAns ocsupied two I6s,npanions
with drawn revolvers intimidated the pass
ers.by. 81
EUGENE KAUFMAN, travelling agent for q
Chicago tobacco firm, suicided at Denver,
Cal, on the, 7th inst, BY shooting hinasslf.
Cause, loss of some of his employers' money
by ssmbliAs. est
JOHN AcHEY, who murdered George Leg.
gift st ladianspolis. Last spriAs, waa on the
7th inst. sentenced 70 be hung.
FIVE two-story brick tenement houses in
st. Louis burned ON the 9th Inst. Christ.
Mueller was very badly, and Mrs. Kitterine
fatally bursed, and . little boy belcnging q
the lattsr nearly sufiocated.
Ar Brotherton, Fond du Lac county, the
night before election, IN Indian killed Z
rival for the favor Of dusky belle, by
msshing his head with stick of osrdwood
At Mount Calvary, same county, on election
day, Anton Nett stabbed Jacob Litzen
Cause, political di1elsnces.
~ TIN 1AsT.
i TIE creditors Of the st. Albans, (vt.
iron sad steel works have closed the estab
lishment undsr writs Of attachment La
bilities upwards Of $780,
SESAfot BGAllsa res chosen ~hattplAu, o.
the fgth inst, of the Maine Repd01lcsA Cen
trail Committee, for the twentieth time.
D. c. GRIewOLD 4 Co., Wholesale dr.
goods dealers, Boston, Mass, have failed
Liabilities reported from 100000 TO $3.50
oo0, tho greater past Asing due 70 Nex YoE
pAxtiea Aests mot 4veu. al A
/ sJUDs1 1BA1RE1r, ef NswY@k hasSefuse
. ssandcmus to compel the comptroller
pay another million dollars Of the city
mspsy tpwaad the sonpictipn sftAs Dyool
. lyS ksldeS, - H aadthatsieAS Aillion
y voted BY Brooklyn and New York hsv
] been already paid.