Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-04-17

HlLA IOlIN l. .
ant presiding. Nearly two hundred persons
were present. The hall was beautifully
decorated.
A BILL amending the existing liquor law
I was debated At length by the Massachusetts,
house on the Sd inst. The Moffett register
was adopted, and the number of licenses to
be granted in any city or town limited to
one for each one thousand inhabitants.
WARRINGTON.
GEN. FIELD, the newly.elected door.
keeper OF the house of representatives.,
took possession of his Office on the 9th. He
was soon besieged by place hunters. It is
not supposed that he will make many
changes. Donovan, assistant doorkeeper
under Polk, has resigned.
THE postofice department has received .
report stating that the officers engaged in
trying to arrest the robbers who stopped
the train on the Houston and Texas Central
railroad and robbed the express and mails,
have had skirmish with the outlaws, who
are in force. The assistance of the state au-
thorities have been invoked to effect cap
ture.
THE president has nominated Justin E.
COleburn, of Vermont, United States consul
general At the City of Mexico. Mr.. Colburn
has been the chief Washington correspond.
ent Of the New York Times for year.
THE secretary of war has sent to the sen.
ate communication from the adjutant gen.
eral, recommending an appropriation of
$50, 200 to continue the work of the correc.
ton and payment of the bounty due colored
soldiers and sailors to Jan. l. 1879.
The Indian Office has ordered the trans
fer of the Apache Indians to the southern
Ute agency.
! AT the request of the Indian Office, the
secretary of war has ordered the release of
the Cheyenne and other Indians imprisoned
at st. Augustine, Florida. They will be sent
to Fort Gill.
The secretary of the navy has issued in
structions to the commander OF the United
States man-ofwar in the North Pacific
ocean to seize all United States merchant.
men engaged in the Coole trade, and such
vessels will be taken to the most convenient
port aud delivered to the proper United
States officers, to be dealt with according to
law.
FoR several days the exchanges at the
treasury of silver dollars, new coinage, have
averaged beyond one hundred dollars day,
exclusive of applications for banks. Only
two shipments have thus far been made
from the mint to the treasury, aggregating
$4,000. There are still $4,000 of this in
the cash room vaults.
SENATOR BOOTH was taken suddenly i'll in
the senate chamber on the afternoon of the
Sd inst. He was carried to the cloak room
and medical attendance summoned. Later
accounts state that he fully recovered from
the attacks.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
FIRE at Lancaster, N. H., on the even.
ing of the 9th inst, destroyed about half the
business portion of the town, including
eight stores, q number of dwellings and the
Office of the Republican. Loss, $4,000; in
surance, $4,000.
! THE body Of a woman was found in the
river at Beddeford, Me-, on the 9th inst,
with no clothing on save a chemise, and
rope around one ankle. The remains were
identified As those of a young lady named
Rose Vincent A Frenchman named Fred.
erick Savage was arrested, and confessed the
murder, saying Oh, loved her SO much"
THE small steamer Sandy Fashion ex
ploded her boiler on Sandy river, near Cat
lettsburg, KY, on the Sth. She had forty
passengers on board. Joseph Newberg, a
merchant, A. Osborn, pilot, and others,
names unknown, were killed. Several 9TH
ers were injured, none seriously.
JAMES DORIAN died at Winghsm, Ont,
on the night of the 9TH inst, under the in.
auence Of chloroform administered by sur.
geon for the purpose of performing an
operation.
ONE of the buildings of the Steuben
county, New York; poorhousc, At Bath, WAS
destroyed by fire on the 9Th inst, fifteen of
the inmates perishing in the flames. L. c.
Ford, an insane pauper, fired the building.
FOUR men were killed and three injured
by the explosion of boiler in q stamping
works at Cambridge, Mass, on the 9th inst.
On the morning of the 5th inst, an oil
train ran into freight train on the Lehigh
Valley railroad near Statington, Pa, ex.
ploding the engine of the oil train and
burning several oil cars and several small
bridges ON which the cars were standing. |
Soon Afterwards the oil tank exploded, scat
tering oil in all directions, bur ming three
men fatally and ten severely. A foundry
and machine shop was also destroyed. The
total loss will foot up 100000.
THE boiler in japanned ware factory, in
Rochester, N. Y, exploded on the 9Th, and
three men were killed by the falling roof.
On the night of the Sd inst. the safe of the
treasurer Of Eatontown Branch railroad. at
Eatontown, "a, was robbed Of II, 600 in cash
and so, 900 in notes and mortgages.
THOMAS CONRoY, foreman of the PenOb-
scot mine, at Helena, Montana, fell down
the shaft, on the End inst. receiving injuries
from which he died during the night.
JAMES KEARNEY fatally shot John vii.
son, on the 4th inst, at West6eld, Mass.
Cause: Both drunk and jealous.
HENRY CROUCH, his wife and two chill
dren, were drowned by the cap.izing of a
boat at Augusta, Mich, on the Sd inst
THE WEST.
On the 9Th inst. telegram was received
from the proprietors of the Lick House, San
francisco, addressed to Mrs. Vance, of Gin.
cinnati, stating that her husband, Exon
gresham J. L. Vance, who mysseriously
Disappeared short Tins ago, is there, and is
insane.
The governor of Ohio. ON the 9th inst,
appointed John C. Fistir, of Cashocton, Lew
A. Harris, Of Himilton, and Robert Cum.
Minis, of Lucas. to be state commissioners of
fisheries.
ARRANGRAENTs have been perfected by
which the English and German bondholders
now controlling the Oregon and California
railroad, the Oregon Central railroad and
Oregon steamship line, will divide the prop
erty. The Englissmen will take the 0. c.
r. r., and the O. 8. 9. Co., and the Germans
the O. and C. r. r.
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