Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-06-19
ELK POINT, UNION COUNTY, WEDNESDAY, 1s7s

bonds of the United States authorized |
the refunding acts of 1870 and 1877.
The cabinet on the 7th inst, hs
nnder consideration the subject
American citizens supplying ships an
munitions of war to the government
Russia while that government and Englan
are engaged in controversy which ms
develop in war between the two nation
No decision was reached.
The president has approved the act to r.
peal the bankrupt law.
MAJOR WIN. J. MCDONALD, for the la,
twelve years chief clerk of the senate, die
on the 9Th inst.
The secretary of the treasury has issued
call for the redemption of five million 5;2
bonds OF 1865, consols of 1865.
THE WEST.
GEN. MERRITT, with eight companies {
cavalry, has left TT. McKenney, Wyomin,
for Clear Fork Creek.
The American rifle team will correspon
with Chicago with reference to holding th
next international match there.
MRS. SARAH Ross CoRwIN, widow of Gen
Thomas Corwin, of Ohio, 6ied of apoplex,
on the 10th inst.
HUNTS HOTEL, Cincinnati, o., C. b
Hunt, proprietor, has failed. Liabilitie
80, 900.
AT Omaha, Neb., on the sth inst, tn,
Union Pacific railway company purchase et
sufficient number of guns to arm all the
employees on the oveland passenger train
for protection against train.robbers.
The German editors from Chicago, Mil
waukee and Detroit, en- route for Colorado
met with slight detention at Plattesburg
Mo-, on the Sth inst. The baggage car O
the express train on which the party were
was thrown from the track near that sta
ton. No one hurt.
The Illinois prohibition convention in
Decatur on the 7th inst. had about one hun
dred delegates. G. F. Simpson, of Carroll
ton, was elected president, the Hon. Jerome
K. CONN, of Decatur, was nominated foi
state treasurer, and the Rev. w. s. Posi-, OF
Belleville, superintendent of public iustruc.
tion.
THREE companies of the Fourteenth in.
[antry, leave Salt Lake for Fort Halliday,
On the 7th inst. News has been received
there by scout from Csmas Prairie, con.
irming the news of an Indian outbreak and
On the 9th inst, the body of James w.
a well-known young Milwau-
keean, was found in Lake Michigan. The
young man left his home in the morning
in good health, and the cause of
his sudden taking off is a source of deep
mystery.
MANCEL TALCoTT, a prominent Repub-
lean politician, and an old citizen of Chi
ago, died on the 9TH inst.
DISPATCHES received from Gen. Crook,
confirms the late news of the revolt of Ban
rock Indians, but aggregates the number of
avages at four hundred.
THE EAST.
VIM. CULLEN BRYANT, the venerable poet,
lied at New York on the 11th inst, from
he effects of prostration by heat at the un-
'eiling of the Mazzini statue at Central park.
REV. GRO. F. SEYMOUR, LII. d., of the
General Theological Seminary, was conse-
rated bishop of Springfield, ILL.,, at Trinity
;hurch, N. Y, on the llth instant. Over
so clergymen, the faculty OF the theologic-
! seminary, nine bishops, and vast con-
regation assisted at the ceremonies.
DENNIS alias "Bucky" Donnelly, the
chuylkill county Mollie Mcguire, was
anged at Pottsville, Pa, on the 11th inst,
or the murder of Thomas Sanger, a mine
oss, in 1875. The execution had been
vice postponed by the governor.
MURPHY, the temperance advocate, con.
erted 672 people in eight days, in Worces.
er, Mass.
THE examining committee of Plymouth
hurch, New York, met on the 10th, and re-
,lved to drop the name OF Mrs. Tilton from
le roll.
JAMES ROWLAND & Co., doing business
5 the the Kensington iron and steel works,
Philadelphia, Pa, have called meeting
their creditors with view to the arrange
Ient or winding up of their affairs.
Two men sailed from Boston, Mass, on
lie 7th inst, in boat 10 feet, inches long,
nd 6 feet, inches beam. They are bound
'r Havre, France, and carry 90 days pro.
isions.
GRO. T. HATHAWAY, late OF the Border
ity Mills, New Bedford, Mass, was ar
aigned ON the 7th inst. ON an indictment
" embezxlement, perjury, etc, and pleaded
OF guilty. Bail fixed at 100000.
AT Philadelphia, on the 7th inst, Alex. B.
aver was found guilty of the murder Of his
life in November last.
GOVERNOR PREsCoTT, of New Hamp-
hire, WAS inaugurated ON the Sth inst, and
elivered his annual message.
Tan New Hampshire legislature began its
nnual session at Concord on the 5th inst.
ugustus A. Woolsen was chosen speaker
the house.
THE trustees of the Rhode Island Institu-
,tion for Savings have been authorized by
le court to wind up their business.
GENERAL.
THE Quebec strikers are doing great dam.
ye to shops and factories, not even sparing
lose that pay the full prices. Nearly every
nc nus Occn cA0seO Oy tne moo. II
DURING fire at Cairo, Ill, on the 1lth
lst., Miss Annie Good, coiored, died from
light.
THOMAS WILLIAMS, the Baltimore mil.
onaire and Russian railroad contractor,
led at his residence in Baltimore, ON the
III inst. 8g s.eas I
The British bark. Athelson, which arrived
San Francisco on the 10th inst, from
Iewcastls, boarded Japanese junk, found
eating in 40 north latitude, IA " I. S, long.-
ade. Those living were three sailors aud
ne passenger, found alive but helpless.
III others, Is In number, died Of scurvy and
tarvation. The junk left the Island of
asso on coasting voyage, Oct 25th, was
lown seaward by gale, November 18th,
nd dismasted, since which she had been
rifting about the ocean.
The standing Of each base ball club in the
league. at the close of the week ending
une sth, can easily be seen from the fol-
owing table:
Games
Clubs. Won. Lost, played.
Nm cin n aG