Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-05-22
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KATE NORRIS daughter of Gen. ID Il
Morris, was burned to death at Memphis
Tenn, on the lithinst., by the explosion O
a coal oil lamp.
A FARMER named Jason Scribner, Twins
near Augusta, Me-, killed three of his chill
dren on the llth inst, and then attempted
suicide. His wife and oldest daughter es
capped from him.
7 MAN named lIoppenheimer was killed
ON a farm near Leavenworth, KS, on the
10th, by young man named Rupp, with
whom he quarreled. l..s,sa i. ----saA
7 AN explosion Of generated gas occurred
on the steamship Sardinia, as she was enter
ing Lough Fogle, the harbor of Londonder.
ry on the 10th instant. The chip was bound
for Quebec from Liverpool, and ut the time
of the accident had AGO passengers on board
Three we're killed and forty injured in the
forehold. The ship was scuttled, but has
since been raised and taken to Liverpool for
repairs.
| A STRAY shot from William Tell per.
formance in circus at Rockport, Ind, on
the 10th, killed an eght-year-old boy named
Wiegel, who was playing near the tent.
AT Harrisburg, Pa, on the 10th, Daniel
d. Boas, wealthy citizen, was killed by the
upsetting of his carriage.
BY an explosion in the Glendown colliery
at POttsville, Pa. on the 10th inst. Rev.
John Anyl, the superintendent and Thomas
Morgan, laborer, were killed.
A YOUNG woman named Smith, disap.
pointed in marriage, drowned herself and
child at Bath, New Brunswick, on the 9th
instant.
AT the Fert Wayne depot, Chicago, on
the 9th instant, Charles Msnegold, we'll
known miller and commission merchant of
Milwaukee, while superintending the switch.
ing OF some cars, was struck by locomo-
tive and instantly killed.
NJ. HALFPENNY 4 Co.'S wooden mill, at
Lewisburg, Pa, was totally destroyed by fire
on the 7th inst. Loss about $4,000; insur.
ance $4,000
HENRY SPEAKS and Lille Richards, col.
ored servants, quarreled at Baltimore, on
the Sth inst, and Speaks stabbed the girl.
SUSAN A. STEWART, q public school
teacher at Zion church, Norfolk county, N.
", was found murdered in her room over
the school house.
GENERAL.
THE Reformed Episcopal council at New.
ark, N. j., adjourned on the 14th, to meet
at Chicago in 1879.
THE supreme lodge of Knights of Honor
met at Nashville, Tenn, on the 14th inst.
All but seven states were repi esented.
JAMES MEAGHER, a New York builder,
was adjudicated a voluntary bankrupt on
the 14th. Liabilities, 100000, Of which
$780, 900 are secured.
SIX men were publicly whipped in the
Jail yard at Newcastle, Del, on the llth
inst, rsesiving twenty lashes eacL.
The steamship Sardinian Which took fire
and was scuttled in the barbor of Lough
Fogle, Ireland, cost $sOc,o00 and was not in
sured.
FEosT was experienced in New York and
the night of the l1th inst. 1t is thought
that the fruit crop is seriously damaged.
A CUBAN named Aguero, with eleven
followers, recently landed on the southern
coast of the central department in a lighter
from Jamaica, in the belief that the insur-
rection had broken out again. Finding
tranquility everywhere, and everybody op-
posed to disturbance, he surrendered, in.
dignant at being deceived, and guided the
government officers to the lighter. The
vessel contained arms, clothing and about
twenty boxes of ammunition. The general
commanding the department assured
Aguero and companions OF complete pardon.
TIE appellate court of Chicago, on the
9th inst, confirmed the decision of the
lower court that the city scrip issued last
year is legal and may be paid. This de.
cision opens way out of the financial
muddle in whic! the city has been involved,
and presages like favorable decision rs re-
CARDS the validity ofthe scrip subsequently
issued, which question Is now before the
supreme court on an appeal from the city
h TFE tifty-.bird anniversary Of the Ameri.
can tract society was held at New York on
the sth inst, the Hon. Judge W. Strong, of
the Circuit Court. occupying the chair.
The animal report OF the treasurer shows
that there was paid for manufacturing and
issuing publications, $259, 9,12S; colporteurs'
sgencies, northeast branch, SIS, $50. 40: for
eign case appropriations, $500; services
and expenses OF district secretaries for rails
ing funds, $14 $40. a.e