Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-07-10
by for Official fniieonduct, has been ac-
quilted by the senate.

ny for Official fniseonduct, has been IA,
4 quilted by the senate.
4 FOLLOWING is the list Of the killed an,
wounded in Colonel Bernard's recent figh
with the Indians at Curry Creek: Killed
Theodore J. Schultz, company F; w.
Marriott, company F; II. Gransinger, com
Pany A. Wounded-J. George Foster
company L; George +. Hanson, company
g., all Of the First Cavalry. A citizer
named Meyers was killed.. ~
The Arkansas Supreme Court has decided
that the levee bonds issued in 1869 and 1870
are unconstitutional and void. This deci
sion affects about $4,000, ,0o0 in bonds.
The Northern Pacific railroad is com
piete to Oneida, 1870 miles north of Ogden.
1HDICAT1ONs leadsto the belief that the
Indians in eastern Oregon intsnd TO ds
| their worst this summer. Even the Warn
Spring Indians heretofore very friendly t
the whites exhibit growing hostile feeling
PAwNEE reservation lands, 27S, 600 acres
will be sold at Central City, Merrick county
Nebraska, July Is. Lands appraised at
$3.50 per acre and upwards.
PLACER gold diggings have been found on
the Upper Sweetwater, near South Pass II
is claimed miners are making eight dollars
a day.
THE president has appointed Melville d.
Howard, of Nebraska, registrar of the land
office at Grant Island, Neb., and P. w. Robb
to be collector of internal revenue for the
district of Nebraska, vice Newman, sus-
pended.
The secretary of the navy will soon make
tour Of inspection of all navy yards and
stations along the Atlantic sea board.
REPRESENTATIVE POUND, of Wisconsin,
has departed for home, with the assurance
that an engineer would be detailed to survey
the head waters of the st. Croix, Chippewa
and Wisconsin rivers to determine the
practicability of erecting reservoirs tor
navigation purposes.
THE order formally issued authorizing
military pursuit into Mexico after cattle
thieves will be more vigorously enforced
irrespective of Mexican protests, on the
ground that Mexico, by herself preventing
incursions, can obviate an invasion of her
soil by our troops.
REV. DAN. P. YOUNG, prominent minis.
ter of Kentucky, in the Presbyterian faith,
died at Louisville recently.
MAJOR WILLIAM TwININGER, of Indiana.
has been detailed as commissioner for the
District of Columbia from the U. s. engineer
corps.
Ex-LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR HAHN, of
Louisiana, will be appointed superintendent
Of the New Orleans mint.
THE internal revenue receipts for the
present fiscal year, to June 81, aggregate
$l00,6O0,742. 1t is expected that the re.
ceipts for the year will fall about eight
millions below the estimate.
HENRY RUGGLEs, of Connecticut. has
been appointed United States consul at
Malta.
THE EAST.
THE Fall River print works have sus.
pended. Liabilities about $l5O,OOO; as.
sessed valuation of property 100000.
The Manhattan Club, N. T., gave a recep-
ton to Hon. Samuel J. Randall on the
evening of the I'd inst.
AN advance of Is cents per ton has been |
decided on by the Lehigh, Pa, coal opera
tiyes. 4E
THE Wappinger's Falls Bank, at Pough.
keepsie, N. Y, will be closed for want of
business.
The failures for the month of June, in
New York city, numbered fifty.four, with
liabilities amounting to 81, 100000.
The assignee of Green 4 Cranston, a
r. L., banking firm, which failed
,ver year ago, has announced his readi-
less to pay all claims, principal and interest.
CREDITORS of the Border City Mills, at
Fall River, have decided to wind up its af-
airs and have placed it in the hands of
rustees for that purpose.
B. L. SOLOMON 4 Sons, furniture, New
fork, have made an assignment Liabili.
les, a million. 1t was the oldest house of
he kind in America.
THE board of officers in the Fitz John
Porter case are in session at West Point.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
In fight at park in Toronto, Canada,
m the LIST inst, between two drunken
policemen and citizens, one man was killed
md several severely wounded.
Two men entered the brokers office OF
irsnt & Aulls, at Philadelphia, on the I'd
nst., and while one occupied the clerks
ime, the companion grabbeda package con-
aiming $4,000 in government bonds. The
'obbery was not discovered until both
escaped.
The nitro-glycerine works at Preakness,
7. j., exploded on the I'd inst. A number
II persons are reported killed.
A HEARr-RENDING accident occurred at
he residence of Mr.. C. A. Fish, at Racine,
Wis, on the I'd instant, by which one of his
win babies was fatally and the other seri-
'usly burned. A servant girl and Mr.. Fish's
SON were also seriously burned. The acci-
lent was due to the carelessness of the boy,
who attempted to fill burning alcoholic
amp.
THK steamer Capitol City, with the eleya.
or ut which she was lying, were burned at
Memphis, Tenn, on the I'd instant A Mr..
Ewing, an aged passenger, and lame deck
hand, were lost. Some 20 bags OF govern
nent mail were destroyed. Estimated loss
. quarter of million dollars.
in the night of the 30th ult. Peter +.
Stephens, who thought he possessed proof
Of his wife's in6delity, shot her in the head
Ind left shoulder, and in quarrel Thomas
)'frien, ofthe Mccormick reaper works, in
iicted a pistol wound in his wife's breast.
It is thought that botho the women will die.
AT Elmira, N. r., on the LIST inst, Col.
Alvah Buckbee, . prominent resident,
atally shot his wife, his mcther-in-law, and
hen blew his own brains out, dying in.
family. f'la'5
An American express messengers bag,
,O0O-twenty thousand fcr
Warren, Ohio, and one thousand for Barton. /
Ohio--was stolen from the wagon while
Irving from the Office to the depot ct
Painesville, o., on the ist inst. I
A FIRE It Ssnford's Corners, Me-, ON the
night Of the first inst, destroyed the Con-
church, Baptist church, Prescott
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