Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-27

The world at 2o,WV,VOU nOrSes.
THE New York health authorities
nave begun criminal proceedings against
, prominent builder for carelessness in
by which the houses have
been converted into nests of disease.
The New York legislature is holding
its hundred and first session, the New
Jersey Legislature its hundred and sec
Dnd, and in March the Vermont legisla-
ture will celebrate its hundredth ami
The champion farmer of Georgia is
James H. Booker, who raised, last year,
the largest crop produced by any one
man since the war. He raised sixty
bales of cotton, 1900 bushels of corn,
500 of potatoes, 1000 each of oats and
wheat, and fattened twenty-five hogs.
The Liverpool water board, by ef-
fecting more economical use of water
by the citizens, have produced saving
of $250,OO0 a year in the revonue,-
enough to pay the interest on the cost of
the new scheme for obtaining water
supply from Wales.
4 WAsHINGToN's tomb at Mount Ver.
non has been connected with the man.
sion on the hill by an electric burglar
alarm, that his sacred bones may be safe
from the molestation by vampires such
as recently attempted the plunder of
Lincoln's tomb.
Mrs. MARY CLEMMER, the well-known
Washington writer, is scarcely thirty
five years of age, and is tall and elegant
in person. She has a handsome home on
Capitol Hill, in Washington, elegantly
furnished, allearned and paid for by hel
own industry. Her father and mother
live with her, and are tenderly cared fol
by her.
The salaries of the various city off
cals of New York, which now amounts
in the aggregate to $1,000, 900 annually
are thought by the central organization
of Taxpayers of that city to be at leas
25 per cent. too high, and the Legislature
has been memorialized to provide 70
their reduction all around in that pro
portion.
The Gloucester, Mass, fishermen hav
suffered great losses by the determine,
hostility of Newfoundland fishermen
The latter intimidated crews and des
troycd seines. One captain kept tn
Observation-Disclosures at bay with revolvers
and loaded his vessel with fish. Onl
two vessels secured cargoes. The mat
ter will be laid before the government
DR.. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN while min
lister to France bought clock, which
now being exhibited in Detroit. In tn
excitement of the fire which destroye
Detroit in 1905 the clock was throw
into the river, but some adventurou
boys tished it out, and it did service fo
many years at the Indian agencies a
Fort Gibson and the Sault, at whicl
latter place its present owner found it.
The bill to prevent pool-selling whicl
has passed the Massachusetts house o
representatives provides one years i'm
,,riuoun,onf mr. los, Hpo mt nynool
ing $1,000, for people who sell or regi.
ter bets or wagers, or sell or buy pool
upon the result of any trial or contes
of skill, speed, or endurance of any maj
or beast, or upon any political nomins
ton, appointment or election, and tn
same for any persons leasing their build
ings for any of these prohibited pu1
poses.
1T is feared that the atmosphere Q
London will soon damage the surface Q
Cleopatras' needle. The Luxer obelisl
erected in the Place de la Concorde i
Paris in 1885, is some 3, 400 years ole
having stood with another still large
one before the great temple of Thebe'
The stone is syenite granite, of brown
ish red color. Thirty-six years exposul
to the atmosphere of Paris has affecte
the stone more than the same number {
centuries exposure to the purer air (
Egypt.
A STRANGE threat was made recent
by persons who wrote anonymously
the banks of Osceola, Mo. They d
manded that each of the bankers shoul
furnish certain amount of money, Il
entire collection to be done up in pac
age and dropped by the mail-carrier
the open prairie between certain point
The penalty of refusal is the burning
the town, but the bankers have simp
put the officers on the watch, and lock Z,
more securely than ever.
DURING the battles in which the PA
commune expired, there were taken wi
arms in their hands $50 children of 81
teen and less, 237 of sixteen, l26 of for
teen, II of thirteen, q of twelve, IL
eleven, of ten, of eight and
seven. About l2,5OO gamins had tax
part in the insurrection. Eighty-sev
were brought to trial, of whom six1
FIVE were found guilty. Thirty-six
them had been known to the poll
Thirty-six were sent to houses
reformation and nine only were ct
dcmned.
The commissioner of the general la
Office at Washington has under conside
ton bill to authorize .. w. Woz
craft and his associates to irrigate
"desert" west of Fort Yuma, in C'
fornia, which is said to contain about
100000 acres. The bill provides u
the company shall be allowed ten ye
to supply this tract with water from