Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-20


will put an end to the conflict between
church and state.
POPE Plus lN breathed his last at 3 p
NJ, on the 9TH inst. At 8 o'clock on the
night OF the 9th, the Pope felt a sudden
suffocation. He rallied several times, ku,
said to his physician "Death wins this
time" His last moments were lucid. lie
said: "Guard the church love so well and
sacredly."
1T is officially announced from Cuba that
the insurgent, Col Benjamin Ramierez.
with Is officers and 1O3 men, surrendered
in the neighborhood of Bayomo.
WAR NOTES.
A DISPATCH dated Vienna, the 18th. saws:
1.-Two of the embassies here have received
information that twelve Russian battaliops
Will enter Constantinople tomorrow"
The Grand Duke Nicholas has expressed
his satisfaction to Vefk Effendi at the non.
admission of the British fleet.
A CORRESPONDENT at Berlin says the En-.
peror William received the presidents of the
| Reichstag on Sunday, the 10th, and it is re.
ported that he said "The situation is in.
| deed serious. but l nevertheless still hone
that the maintenance of peace is possible"
1T is announced that Prince GOrtschakoff'
| telegraphed the powers stating that the in.
| telligenee that Great Britain and other DOW.
ers had determined to send ships to Constan-
tinople for the protection of their subjects,
obliged Russia to consider the proper means
| for protecting the Christians whose lives
and property might be threatened. For
this purpose the Russian government had
been obliged to contemplate the entry of
portion of its troops into Constantinople
On the 10th inst, the Turkish forces
evacuated Widdin, Rnstchuk, SiIistria, Bel.
gradischik and Erzeroum, aud have with
drawn from the Bujouk. Chekmejeh lines.
The lines from Krijuk- -Chekmeieh to Ak
bunar, in the neutral zone, is twelve miles
broad.
A SPECIAL from Berlin says that Prince
Gortschakof has nstifed the powers that
since the English cabinet have resolved to
send their fleet to Constantinople ostensi. |
bly, to protect Christians, Russia also con-
templates occupying Constantinople from
land with the same object.
A DISPATCH from Constantinople dated |
February 9TH, via Syra says: "The Rus
slams have occupied Chataldia, Silvria, on
the sea of Marmora, and Osmanli. Suleiman
Pasha has gone to Larissa, the capital of the !
province OF Thessaly. There is u cabinet
crisis in consequence of parliamentary
criticisms of the governments abolition of |
the grand vizierate, without consulting
parliament, and of the contemplated policy
nf A hupn Of IL. =
of the council of minister's
A SPECIAL from Constantinopie, Febru.
ary l, by way of Syra, says it is stated that
the Russian Grand Duke Nicholas and staff
will come to Constantinople during the
armistice,
A TELEGRAM from Timora states that the
Russians are receiving large reinforce.
mcnts. The Russian troops in Roumalia
have been ordered to hold themselves in
readiness to march at a moments notice.
THE correspondents at Andrianople relates
an interview with Server pasha, who de-
clared that Turkey had been mised and en-.
couraged to fight on the promise of English
support. He particularly excused Lord
Beaconsfield and Minister Layard of en-
couraging this belief, and said he had docu.
ments to support this which he would pub.
lish. He declared that he had now become
partisan of the Russian policy and al.
lance. Server Pasha's colleagues at
Adrianople confirmed his statements.
NEWS was received in London on the 7th
inst, that the Russians had quietly taken
possession of Constantinople.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
AT Cincinnati on the 11th inst, while
police ficer Hill, was conveying to the
station house a colored man named Levi
Carpenter, the latter Knocked the former
down and took to his heels. The officer not
succeeding in stopping him by calls, fred at
Carpenter, the ball passing through his
brain.
THE Slater Manufacturing Company's
cambric mill, at Webster, Mass, burned on
the 18th inst. Loss 100000.
OWING to Jealousy, Thomas alias Buck"
Taylor, fatally stabbed Maggie Rogers, at
New York. on the 1lth inst.
FIVE large business houses on Texas
street, Shreveport, La, were burned on the
11th inst.
CHAs. BAKER, a saloon keeper at Balti-
more, shot his wife twice on the 9th inst,
and then killed himself. The widow may
recover. Jealousy was the cause.
THE Times building, Troy, N. Y, took fire
at IL P. NJ, on the night of. the 10th, aud was
destroyed. The loss on building and con.
tents will not fall short of $780, 900.
Two men, in Jail at the village of Grant,
Wilson, county, Tenn, chaged with incen.
diarism, were taken from the Jail, on the
night Of the 5th inst, and hung.
BURGLARS entered the house OF o man
named Amson, in Philadelphia, on the sth
inst, and on Amson attempting to drive
them away, one of them turned and shot
him IN ho loft hr~ast sUA;ct;uO fatal |