Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-04-03

Seduen capsized IN snow squall off Dun
rose Head, on the oath. Out of over 3Ol
souls, but five were saved, and three of thes,
died of exposure soon after they were res
cued.
SEVERAL tobacco factories, a Baptis
church and six tenement houses wer,
burned at Danville, Va, on the 22d inst
Over 100000 pounds of leaf tobacco ant
$1,000 pounds of manufactured tobacco wers
lost. Total loss $4,000; insurance $50, 900
THE steamer James w. Gaff sunk in tht
Ohio river, few miles from Connelton
KY, on the 22d. She was valued st go, 600
and insured for $22,50O. Ninety passenger
were on board at the time. but no lives were
lost.
AT Foster, r. L., on the night of the 2ist
VIM. lde returned home drunk, and badly
beat his wife. who had been drinking. After
the husband fell asleep the wife took .
double.barrelled shot gun and killed him
A FIRE at Cleveland, on the 2lst inst, en-
tirely destroyed the works of the Republic
Oil Refining company. Loss, 10000; in
surance, $4,000. George Burgess, an EN-
ploye, was burned to death.
THREE men named McFadden, one Moo.
dy, and colored man, were drowned while.
Patterson's landing, on the 2lst inst.
Two residence buildings on the Hem epin
county, Minn., poor farm were burned on
the night Of the Goth inst. All the inmates
escaped except blind, demented German
woman named Dora.
A RIO JANEIRo letter says that the Brit.
ish steamer Aslarte stranded on the Castillos
on the 3lst of January. Captain Bayne
and thirty Of the crew persisted, only two
men being saved, VIM. Parsons, first mate,
and Donald Campbell, third engineer.
GENERAL.
Up to late hour on the night of the 26th
nothing had been heard of Vance, the miss.
ing ex-congressman. His friends are almost
certain that he has been foully dealt with.
Col. Vance has case pending in the
Supreme Court, growing out of the imprison.
ment of certain West Virginian during
the war. This man has frequently uttered
threats against Vance's life, and an opinion
prevails that he has at last put them into
execution.
SIxTY-THREE bodies of victims of the
Huron disaster, are on their way to
Annapolis for burial.
THE police commissioners of New York
city have dissolved the police athletic club,
in consequence of a disgraceful fight, on
the 23d, in front of the club rooms, Detec.
tives Muldoon and Adams and Prof. Miller
being the participants.
THE examination of accounts, notes. coin
and bullion in The sub-treasury, at New
York, by Secretary Sherman's commission,
has shown an excess of thirty-four cents in
fractional notes. The amount of gold coin
sealed up in the vaults, exclusive of loose
gold and bullion, is $97, 100000.
THE Delaware and Hudson canal compa-
ny has fixed the price of Lackawanna coal
for April as follows: Furnace. lump steam
er, lump CRATE, aud chestnut, $3.50 each;
egg $500, and stove $3.50.
RICHARD c. MCCORMICK, United States
commissioner general to the Paris Exposi-
ton, sailed on the 2eth inst, in the steamer
France, for Havre, accompanied by Lieu
tenant Rogers, of the army, and Lieutenant
Buckingham, Of the navy, detailed by their
respective departments.
JOHN PHELAN LACTINE, a canal contrac.
tor, of Montreal, has absconded, leaving a
large number of creditors, and $50 work
men in arrears.
RETURNS from all the towns in the state
foot up rs follows: Prescott, 1887; Nc
Kean, s7,s63; Kendall, 25l; Flint, s3; scat
tering, 80. Prescott's plurality in 1,5l4;
GAL. The house will stand, Re.
publicans 205 Democrats los.