Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-10-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.

NEWS in BRIEF.
01M11AL To1MoN MOTHS.
A BOAT race for two hundred pounds
took place on the Int, ON the Thames, be.
Cannon and Howdon. The course was
from Putney 70 Nortlake. Hovdon won by
four lengths.
JUDaE WILLIAM KEoGH, Of the Court OF
Common Pleas in ireland, ID dead.
II IL reported that Prince Dondouks
Korzakon, the Russian governor Of Bulge
ria, hes refused 10 recognise the ninstesnth
article Of the treaty Of Berlin sntrussing
the administration Of heAnancss Of eastern
Roumelis 10 the intsrnaional csmmissisn
appointed for the organisation Of that prov.
ince.
IT is ohicially denied that Russia had any
thing 70 do with the Amesrs rejection OF
the BritiSh mission.
QAEEN VICTORIA and the Prince Of
Wales have transmitted letters to Athens
through Hobart Pasha, favoring moderate
conciliatory arrangements between Greece
and the ports.
THE international psacs congress has
adopted resolutions recommending the set-
tlsmsnt Of disputes between nations BY arbi.
tration, and declaring war 70 be bngandage.
On. AUGUsT H1MRIcH PEr1RMAN, q
wsll.known German seographer suffered .
stroke Of apoplsxy and died on the 9th.
ACoNsTANTTN0PLR dispatch reports some
of the leading Russian authorities in eastern
Roumelia openly declare they will resist any
alteration in the administration which they
have established.
A DISPATCH from Airola, Switzerland, ct
the southern mouth Of st. Gothard tunnel,
reports that three cases Of gunpo xder for
blasting in the tunnel exploded on the 25th
inst, and that ten workmen were instantly
killed and several terribly injured.
A DIsPArCH from from Calcutta says
when the British mission was refused pas.
sage, the commandant of Alimusjid told
Major Cavaguari but for personal friendship
he would shoot him on the spot. War be.
tween England and Afghanstan ID believed
to be inevitable.
WAsHINoToN.
TIE commissioner of internal revenue
has ordered the discontinuance of the rein.
spection Of spirits in Cincinnati, Chicago,
st. Louis, Peoria, Pekin, Terre Haute and
Milwaukee, ordered some weeks ago on &C
count of complaints made by certain Chi.
cago distillers. No discrepancies of any
importance have been brought to light BY
the new inspection. The gsugers employed
on this work have been ordered to return
to their proper districts.
The public debt statement for September
shows decrease in the debt for the month
of $S, ,l96, ,534, and following balances in the
treasury: Currency, $l0,0OO, 600; special
deposit Of legal tenders for redemption of
certificates of deposit, $40, 10000; coin,
$2s2, ,659, GAG; including coin certificates,
$34, $40; outstanding legal tenders $780,.
6Sl.016,
DURING religious services at the Wash.
ington Reform school on the evening of the
18th ult, number of the boys were stimuli.
tsneously attacked with violent vomiting.
They were removed to their sleeping apart
ments where they suffered from vomiting
and purging. 1t is thought that the vege.
tables or the meat they ate At dinner was
poisoned. The superintendent was also
similarly anected.
RUSSELL ERRErr, NJ. c., Of Pittsburg,
Pa, is urged a chief of the bureau of en-.
craving and printing.
THE secretary of the treasury ON the 9th
inst. received an anonymous communica-
ton from Boston inclosing 81 500, to be
placed to the credit of the conscience fund.
Gov. HAMPTON having requested that the
state authorities be allowed TO collect United
States internal revenue taxes In South Caro-
lima, on account of the great difficulties ex.
perienced by the revenue officers in the
performance Of that duty. Commissioner
Raum, to whom the matter was referred.
replies that the proposition cannot be en-.
tertained.
The president has appointed Thos. B.
Ellis, Of Brooklyn, Indian agent At Fort
Berthold agency, d. T., l.. N. Kelly, of
Elgin, ILL.,, at Los Pinos agency, Col, and
Jos. A. Stephen, of La Porte, Ind, At Stand.
ing Rock agency.
Hon. ELLIS SPHAR has rendered his resig.
nation ~ commissioner of patents, to take
effect October 81. Secretary Schurz has not
yet formally accepted 1t, bat will do 90 and
grant the usual thirty days leave of absence.
1t ID understood the position has been
offered to x.Congressnan Halbert E. Paine,
Of Wisconsin, but he has not accepted.
THE president has returned from his
western trip. He expresses himself much
pleased over his receptions, private and pub
lie, and is particularly grstiAsd with The
evidences Of the restoration OF prosperity.
o1INns AND oAsuALTIBs.
You've Colder, cashier Of the Providence
grocers and producsrs' bank was locked up
On the list The defalcation will reach
from $4,000 70 $l010O0.
SIMON, the Italian rag picker, Who killed
, boy named 1cCus few months since,
pleaded guilty, and was sentenced BY Judge
Rogers, At Chicago, to IA years in the psni.
tentiaxy.
TIE ferry boat Union waa burned at
N. r., on the list Loss $100, 1000.
Ar Easton, No., on the lst, business
block and the court house were destroyed
b hrs.
FRAHCrs DAILY, while returning in
buggy from Coaticooke, Canada, on The
night of the 28th, was waylaid and knocked
ssnssless BY two msn, who then made q
moose Of the lines and lied him by the neck
% The bugsy, staFttag NE horses ON. When
found hs was quits dead. Two men named
Bowen and Webster have been arrested.
TH1 steamer AdslpAi exploded her boil.
sr q Norwalk, Conn.,, on the 2sth instant
Ten psrsons we're killed outright and twenty
sons fatally II r thoaghk
I A CA1a1AGU was struck BY railway
train a$ : crossing In New York city. OF