Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-05-08

receiving stamps for sewing machines sol,
and several indictments have been fount
against him in the United States court TO
defrauding the government Small stopped
| packages, and Kirby obtained his arrest.
TELEGRAPHIc reports from the lowe1
Rio Grande indicate that about twenty per
sons were killed by the recent Indian raid
and $50 head Of horses stolen.
TBE suits against Gen. Phil Sheridan by
owners of plantations in Louisiana for thu
recovery of damages sustained during thu
war has been postponed until October.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Two French lads and young man named
Nngd, who wentoutin boat on the Chico.
peessiver vi sssnkinsvs}les Mass, on the 3o.h
ult., were swept over the dam and all three
drowned.
Mrs. JACOB Posi-, of Detroit, became de-
ranged, on the 3oth ult.. and poisoned her
self and little child.
AT Palmyra, n Y, on the 3Oth, Charles
Torr instantly killed James A. Porter, dur.
ing quarrel over trifling affair.
AT Kansas City, Mo-, ON the 3Oth ult.,
Theodore Hottenbach and wife were mur.
dered, and their little child, eight years old,
knocked senseless. The william or villains
then set fire to the premises, hoping to eflace
all evidence of the foul deed, but the fire
was discovered and extinguished.
ELLA HAWK Es, all estimable young lady,
of Arlington Heights. near Chicago, stepped
on the railway train and had both legs
severed by an incoming train. She died in
an hour after the occurrence.
THE Detroit Free Press was burned out on
the 2eth ult. The loss foots up $40, ,0OO
Louis Berg, engineer, and James Shea, fire.
men, were severely burned. The fire was
caused by the bursting of a gas main.
NICHOLAS McCUE, boy is years of age,
was shot and killed by an Italian named
Luigi Pietro Simoi, a. Chicago, on the Goth
ult. McCue was pursuing the Italian to re-
cover ssme paper boxes which the latter had
just stolen, when the william turned and shot
him dead.
drinking saloon, just before his dea,h few
days ago, confessed to the murder and rob.
berry OF five persons.
AUGUST and Hannah Grisler, an aged
couple who lived near Youngsville, N. ",
have been found horribly mutilated and
dead in the house of the latter. They have
been separated some time, and it is thought
that August killed his wife and then him
self.
A TIGBT-RoPE performer, while walking
backward ove q rope at Chausequa, Pa, on
he 10 fan
feet to the ground. He will sie.
A DESTRUCTIVE fire broke out at River
Falls, Wis, on the 26th ult., totally destroy
ing thirteen business buildings, and render
ing six families homeless.
FIVE persons were injured by collision
between freight and coal train at Clover,
Va, on the Goth ult.
THE Windsor Hotel, at Coburg, Ontario,
haypea ts playground on the e5th. The front
wall fell outSSrd, burying number Of fire.
men, four of whom were killed.
AN atfray occurred at Griffintown,
suburb OF Montreal city, on the night Of the
25th, between Orange young Britons and
Catholic Unionists, in which James Hartney,
a Catholic, was fatally shot by, it is alleged,
a young Briton, Russell, who escaped.
o. C. SELLERS, cashier of the National
Exchange Bank, Tiffin, o., after banking
hours on the night of the 2Cth, absconded,
taking with him s45,50O of the funds of the
bank. The loss is confined exclusively to
the stockholders. The business of the bank
will not be interrupted. The directors ofier
Il reward of S., 900 for the return of Sellers
to the sheriff of Seneca county, Ohio, and
an additional reward Of 5000 for the re-
turn of the money, or an equitable proper
ton for all the money returned.
WM. HEFFNER and Jonas Krell, working
in drift coliery near Minersville, Pa, on
the oath instant, were buried by an immense
Ill of coal and slate. After q search of
several hours, Heffner was found dead. The
position of Krell was not discovered till
evening, when renewed efforts were made
to recover his body.