Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-07-24
oss, including personal effects, will reach

loss, including personal effects, will reach
$4,000.
GOVERNMENT officers on the 10Th instant
seized the tobacco works Of p. N. Guarrant,
in Galloway county, Kentucky. The gov.
eminent claims that large shipments Of
tobacco have been made without payment
of taxes.
OK the morning of the 18th inst, ut Gales-
burg, ILL.,, Mrs. Spaulding, divorced wife OF
Martin O'Connor, shot him dead, and then
fatally wounded herself. Cause, Jealousy.
WHILE james Clifford, john Driscoll and
John Roscoe were removing distractions
from the tunnel leading from the Cohoes
county canal to the Mohawk river, at Co.
hoes, N. Y, on the 18th inst, immens.
volume of water suddenly swer Assaghthe
tunnel, carrying them to the river be-
thirty feet below, killing Clifford and prob
bly, fatslIy injuring Driscoll and Roscoe.
The storms of the 11th inst. did great
damage in Iowa. A break of seven miles ON
the Illinois Central road was caused, three
or four bridges and five hundred feet of
track being washed away. Atseveral points
not far from Dubuque, four or five lives were
pletely demolished.
The brig Kremlen, from Cienfuegos, with
sugar, was sunk by the steamer Golden
Grove, near Lewes, Del, on the l1th, and
the captains wife and . seaman were
drowned.
RAPIDS CITY, place about 40 miles from
Deadwood, was struck by waterspout on
the evening OF the 9th inst, which raised the
river at that point fifteen feet in an hour
and half, deluging farms and carrying
away bridges. Two men were drowned in
the food.
GoaDoS's elevator at Port Perry, Ont,
containing 10000 bushels of grain, burned
on the morning of the 10th inst.
HEzEKIAH SHAYLoR, of the firm of
Sheldon Il Co., publishers, New York, was
killed by lightning on the 10th instant, at
Hartford, Conn.
On the 10th inst, lightning struck the
spire of the new church on Fifty.seventh |
street, between Seventh avenue end Broad. !
way, New York, killing Edward White and |
Bernard Gray, who were at work laying
brick. White fell to the street distance of
sixty feet and was terribly mangIed.
BROOM factory, nearly completed, was
by hurricane which swept
through Amsterdam, N. Y, on the 10th
inst Nine workmen were buried in the
ruins, and Robert Bergen, Frank Hart and
Patrick Egan, of Amsterdam, fatally and
the rest severely injured. Several other
were damaged.
JOHN HANCOCK, in charge of herd of
cattle Ell route to the north, was killed by
lightning about three miles from Camp Rob.
inson, Neb., on the 10th inst. His horse
was also killed at the same time.
The unveiling of the monument to Ste.
phen A. Douglas, took place near Chicago
On the izih ;-st ------------TrTr-'t-
Denver, Colorado, has become the property
of Hon. VIM. H. LovelAnd, and hereafter
it will be Democratic in politics.
A PETITION to the president asking the re-
moyal from Office of Chief Justice Michael
Shaafer is published at st. Louis, signed by
most of the lawyers in the city. The peti.
ton alleges ignorance or disregard OF law
and precedent, even of his own previous
rulings. that the clerk of the court, his
brother.in.law, and his son are managing
the clerks Office in such a manner as to
bring the court into contempt
IT is understood thot the government has
appointed Hon. Edward Barron Chandler
lieutenant governor of New Brunswick, in
place of Tilley, resigned.
THE standing of each base ball clab in tht |
League, at the close of the week ending |
July 18th, can easily be seen from the fol- |
lowing table: