Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-10-23
POINT T. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 49, 1873

ELK PUNE,
THE schooner Eta A. Simpson capsized
OF the New England coast in the great gale
of the 18th, drowning the captain, his wife,
and i've seamen.
THE hoisting works of the Lady Bryan
mining company, at Virginia City, Nevada,
burned on the 18th. Loss 100000. The
men in the mine all escaped through an old
working.
AT Appleton, Wis, on the 18th, in runa.
way accident, Miss SCHNEIDER and Mrs.
Stark were killed by being thrown from q
carriage. Another lady named Roudemacker
was quite seriously wounded.
TWENTY or more prisoners, including
some of the worst burglars in the county,
escaped from the Rochester, N. Y, Jail ON
the 18th inst.
AT Evansville, Ind, mob took from the
Jail four negros charged with ravishing
white women, and hung them in the jail
yard. An old man named Harrison, father
of one of the victims, who shot and killed q
deputy sheriff, who attempted to arrest hi
son, was cut to pieces by the infuriate
mob, and his remains thrown into privy
vault.
A FIRE at Edenburg, Pa, on the 18th, al.
most completely destroyed the town. Loss
$3.50, 600 or $4O0, 900.
THE tug Crusader of Oswego, burned and
sank in the middle of the Straits of Mack
mac on the night of the 11th inst.
In Cincinnati q Jewish pastor named
Jacob L. Levinson, but lately in the cigar
mandatory business, in the same city, has
absconded forger. Amount $1,000
THE house of John Conquest, about two
miles south of Clio, Mich, on the night of
the 9th inst. was burned. The charred re-
mains of Conquest, his wife and child were
found in the ruins. Ii is supposed they
were murdered and the house fred.
PRAIRIE fires in Swift county, Min
country over thirty miles square destroying
many farms with houses, cattle and grain.
There will be much suffering this winter in
consequence.
r. N. MYERS chair factory at New
York city, was destroyed by fire on the 10th
inst. The fire communicated with aud
burned two rows of tenement houses. Lose
$4,000.
THE boilers of the Burns mill, near Hope,
Ark, exploded on the 9th instant, killing
Edward Reem and Sam Langs.on. Several
others were seriously injured.
THE EAST.
THE Vermont legislature on the 18th inst.
reelected Justin j. Morril to the United
States senate.
ARTHUR CHENEY, manager of the Globe
theater, Boston, died at South Manchester,
Conn, on the 18th inst.
THE defaulting mill cashier, George T.
Hathaway, was arraigned at Taunton, Mass,
on the 14th, and sentenced to ten years in
the state prison. The prisoner wept pro-
fusely.
The First National bank of Tomaqua,
Pa, has suspended, owing to the failure of
Chas. T. Schooner, of Phila., who was a
principal stockholder. Assets $150,0OO.
THE most severe storm known for fifteen
years prevailed along the coast on the 18th
inst. Immense damage to shipping attend
ed with the loss resulted therefrom.
SiNCt tuc dIsCoSCIg vi q uuuy uCdt SliNcE
lake, Staten island, the names of no less
than five missing girls have been discovered
through the efforts of the police to solve the
mystery.
A STRIKE of winders and doublers in tn
Dale mill at Paterson, N. j., has thrown
many operatives out of employment
RIGHT REV. THOMAS GOLBERRY, Catho.
lie bishop of Hartford, Conn.,, died at New
York on the l1th inst.
On the 10th inst. a large area OF surface
over the Diamond mine, o. Scranton, Pa,
caved in, completely closing up many
chambers and passages and causing damages
which will require many months to repair.
Between three hundred an four hundred
men will be thrown out of work.
THR association for the advancement of
women began its sixth annual congress at
Providence, r. L., on the 9th inst, President
Kate N. Daggett, of Chicago, in the chair.
Ten states were represented.
THE Grocers' and Producers bank, of
Providence, X. T., has been enjoined, and
receiver appointed.
r. LYMAN POTTER, the wheelbarrow man,
reached San Francisco at noon on the 18th,
having successfully propelled his barrow
across the continent.
s. H. BURKE, stockholder, has entered
suit against the Consolidated Virginia min
ing company and the Pacific mill and min
ing company, to recover $4,000, alleged to
have been wrongfully diverted from the
oe al :r:a
by manipulation of ore and retention Of
failing of the company.
A SEVERE storm prevailed west of the
Rocky mountains on the 18th and 18th inst,
interfering with business communication.
Snow fell at Virginia City, Nevada, and rain
fell throughout California.
A GANG of thirty tramps who encamped
uear Terre Haute, Ind, and were commit
ting depredations, was scattered BY the an.
thorities on the 18th inst, after desperate
Sight.
EUGENE A. CRoNlN, who enjoyed such
notoriety during the progress of the elec-
toral count, died at Portland, Oregon, ON
the 18th inst.
NEssKs. MAsTEN, of the defunct Masten
bank, of st. Louis, have redeemed the
three hundred and fifty thousand water
works bonds held by the Missouri state
treasurer - collaterals for deposits of state
money in the bank.
SENATOR THURMAN is recovering from .
severe bilious attack, at Columbus, Ohio.
THE president has appointed John B.
Wilson postmaster at Belle Plaine, Iowa,
and John J. Steadman at Creston, Iowa.
AT San Francisco, CAL, ON the 10th inst,
Gen. D. d. Cotton, vice president Of the
Southern Pacific railroad, and president of
the Occidental and Oriental steamship com.
pany, died after short illness. He leaves
IN immense estate.
A MAN named I. B. Wilbur died suddenly
at the Delmonico House, st. Louis, ON the
9th inst. A paper Of morphine and bottle
of some kind of drug was found in his room,
but the cause of his death was not certainly
ascertained. No one knows who he was,