Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-11-27

A SUIT instituted by Peter Marie, Frank
A. Otis, George Fearing, N. A. Cowdrey,
Robert l.. Cutting, Jr., and Jacob Cromwell
against Cornelius K. Garrison, for $780,.
600 damages for the alleged violation of an
agreement by Garrison for the reorgauisa
ton of the Pacific railroad of Missouri, was
argued in the Supreme Court at New York
city on the 18th inst. The Judge took the
papers.
THERE have been no new developments
in the Stewart body robbery case. The po-
lice have discovered no clue as yet looking
toward the recovery of the body.
PROF. EDISON has ceased his experiments
on the New York Metropolitan Elevated
railway, with view to discovering some
means of deadening the sound, and has
also given up his experiments with the
electric light. The professor is suffering
from ill-health.
THE following is the official vote of Penn.
sylvania, for governor: Hoyt, 3ls,567; Dill,
297, ,060; Mason, nationalist, g., 1853; Lane,
prohibitionist, 1858.
The Allentown, Pa, iron company will
temporarily suspend business, commencing
on the 29th inst. The company has four
furnaces in blast, the stoppage of which
will throw ont of employment a large mum.
ber OF men.
THE WEST.
Col. JAMES MADISON STRONG, member
OF the constitutional committee from Mari
posa and Merced district, and pioneer
cotton grower of California, died at Sacra.
mento on the 18th inst.
Hon. JOHN W. MERRETt, formerly editor
of the Springfield, H., Register, Salem Adpo'
cate, and other papers, and one of the oldest
journalists in the west, died at Salem, ILL.,,
on the 10Th inst.
REV. ALEXANDER REED, D. d., well
known clergyman, late of Philadelphia,
died at Denver, Col, early on the 18th.
A. ii. WEBSTER, a prominent lun,berman
of East Saginaw, Mich, has failed. Liabili'
ties $4,000; assets unknown.
COMPETITION in eastward bound passen
ger rates, which it is asserted, have been
secretly cut for three OF four months past,
have finally forced prices down to the low.
est figure known for years. At Cincinnati
on the 18th instant the Atlantic and Great
Western announced New York and Phila
delphia tickets at 81 90 each, Pittsburg $2.75
with fares to some common points in Ohio
at nominal sum. At st. Louis the Van
dalia line cut rates to New York from SIT
to slOand was Immediately followed by the
Wabash railroad.
! AT GAINESVILLE, Ohio, early on the morning
of the l4th instant, a policeman on tn,
bridge had his suspicious aroused at tn,
movement OF patty in wagon and order
ed them to halt, but the driver whipped ur
his horses and escaped. The officer procur
ed assistance and followed them some four
teen miles, when the whole party jumped
from the wagon and escaped to the woods
The vehicle was found to contain the bodies
of four prominent citizens who had beer
buried in Woodlawn- cemetery -durins th'
a pistol wound from the men in the wago'
during the chase.
DopD BROWN Il Co., the collapsed 81
Louis firm, have accepted compromise
52Ilc on the dollar.
THE ninth annual convention OF IN
Womau's Suffrage Association met at In
dianapolis, Ind, on the lith inst, with dele
gates IRON thirteen states present. The pre-
ceedings on the 14th were mainly ola bushes
e character, and reports by state deiegate
/ showing the progress of the work in thel
respectiye localities.