Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-11-13

lire upon real estate mortgages. The nation
al bank examiner, now In charge, states that
It is probable the depositsts will be paid in
full.
TIE president has issued d proclamation
setting apart Thursday, November 2Sth, ~ a
day of thanksgiving and prayer.
The president officially promulgated
through the state department convention
which has been ratified between the United
States and all the nations of Europe, ex.
cept Great Britain, together with most OF
the South American republics, providing
for the Establishment and maintenance at
Paris of An international bureau Of weights
measures.
CLARK, ADAMS 4 CLARK, one of the
largest importing and jobbing crockery
warehouses in Boston, Mass, has suspeD dsd.
DANsrAN, small New York stock oper.
atof, announced his suspension ON the 4tb
inst.
RoBERT A. PRDRICK, who defrauded bis
employers, Bernhard L Hutton, importers Of
cloths and silks, New York, of $10s, 200, and
by means Of forgeries swindied the customs
of duty amounting to $4,000, sent con.
fession through the mail of the Associated
Press. Hesayshis wrong doing was brought
about by speculation in stocks.
A CHILD aged IL years died at Pittsburg,
Pa, on the End inst, from fright occasioned
by beholding the beheading trick in
Humpty .Dumpty. A young woman named
Mary Sharp was similarly affected On the
same occasion, but recovered on being taken
home.
ACCORDING to a dispatch from Port Jer.
Wis, the people around Thompson, Pennsyl-
vania, are earnestly searching for two
tramps, who entered the village school after
the children had been dismissed, seised the
teacher, Alice kennett, and grossly assault
ed her, and then, to prevent her telling the
story, cut out her tongue. The young Won.
an managed to reach the blackboard, wrote
the circumstances of the terrible affair and
of the scoundrels, and then
died.
IT is alleged that James H. Wheatley,
proprietor of the sugar refinery of Brook
lyn, 10 missing with nearly quarter of q
million of trust funds.
DETwILER 4 WELSH, owners of the Mar.
ket street -four mills, Philadelphia, have
failed. Liabilities about 100000.
A MEETING of prominent New York mer-
chants and others was held on the 3lst ult.
to consider the question of inviting dele
gates from all the states to assemble in New
York on the 3oth of April next, the nine.
tieth anniversary of the Inauguration of
Washington as president of the United
States, and also proposition for holding the
of industry of oil nations in New
York city in the year 1880, or sooner. An
executive committee of ten have taken the
matter in charge.
SIX hundred delegates we're in attendance
at the thirty.second annual convention. of
the American missionary association at
Mass, on the 3Oth. The annual
report showed receipts for the year, $685..
col; expenses, $1SS,O79; balance, 1882
current receipts not equal by 81, 800, $40 to
the preceding year. The falling of is main.
ly in legacies. The debt which two years
ago was $93 900, has been reduced by gifts
and pledges to scopes.
L. d. SMELL d Co., provision and cheese
New York, have failed. Labil-
tiles, between $15O,OOO and $2OO,OOO, of
which $S5, 600 is secured.