Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-11-06

ELK POINT
bridges, barns, fences and other propert,
The flames were more destructive 20 mile
southeast of Sioux City, in Iowa, along tn
North Platte, Niobrara and South Plat
rivers in Western Nebraska, and in Rusl
Ness, Ellis, Trigo, Cove, Wallace, Decatur
Graham and Rocks counties in Kansa'
Many persons perished in the flames.
The Paris and Danville railroad was sol
at Paris, ILL.,, by the master in chancery
Charles Ridgely, for 1901 900. 1t is SUI
posed it was bought in the interests Of tn
| Wabash and Cairo and Vincennes corporl
tons.
THE EAST.
DEpOsIToRs thronged about the Manha
tan Savings Institution of New York city o.
the 2Sth, and were informed that thei
money was all right and would be paid
needed 1t the end Of 60 days. Circular
have been issued setting forth the number
and other particulars Of the stolen bonds
No arrests have yet,been made.
The Harvard and Yale crew are to roy
IN eight cared four mile race sosn.
APLor was discovered on the 2Sth, for ,
wholesale release of Prisuaers from tn,
state prison at Concord, Mass. A discharged
officer was arrested for carryiM;, things K
the prisoners without . permit. :, It is sus
pected he IL the chief mover in the plot.
BILLINGS, indicted tor the murder of hil
wife, At Ballston, N. Y, has given $5o. o.0O(
bail. g..
c. L. HARTwELL, conductor, who il
charged with having caused the accident Al
Wallaston, Mass, on the Old Colony rail
road, has been adjudged guilty of man
slaughter, and held in SIC, 900 bail for trial in
December.
Hon. JOHN s. CARLILE, formerly United
States senator from Virginia, died at Clarks
burg, that state, on the Oath.
CHARLES w. PONIES, formerly a policy
clerk in New York life insurance com.
pany, has been jailed in default of $4,000
bail on the charge of completely in the $64,.
600 forgery in the Union Trust company.
The Ocean mills at Newburyport, Mass,
were sold at auction on the 23d inst. for
$105, 900.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
ARNoLD's morocco factory at Salem,
Mass, was destroyed by fire on the goth.
Loss $4,000.
THE refinery of consolidated Oil Co.,
No. 2. at Canton, Pa, formerly Brown &
HamwelPs, burned on the Goth. Robert
Hinsmere, VIM. Smith and Stephen Lebnur,
employees, burned to death.
THE sash and blind factory and lumber
yard of the Sierra Flume company, at Chico,
CAL, burned on the 2sth. The fire caught
from sparks from an engine. Loss various
ly estimated from q quarter to half million
dollars, probably nearer the latter figures.
The state Normal School building at EN-
poria, Kansas, burned on the Goth. Loss on
building $685. 900: no insurance.
EARLY on Sunday morning (the 27th)
masked burglars entered the Manhattan
savings bank, New York city, and after
Handwriting the jsnitor, extorted from him,
under threats of instant death, the safe COM
bination, riHed the vault. They stole secur.
tiles to the amount of $2,757, 200, of which
81, sos, 700 are registered in the name of the
institution and not negotiable, $16S,OO0 are
made payable to it, $4,000 are in coupon
bonds and $ll 900 in cash. For the purpose
of protecting depositors no payments will
be made without 60 days notice.
HENRY w. TYLER, q well-known desper
ado of Parkersburg, West Virginia, shot
and killed his wife on the 25th, and then
put bullet through his own head, dying
few minutes after.
THE iron steamship City of Houston, of
New York, 1875 tons burthen, foundered
off the coast of Florida in the recent gale.
All on board saved. On the same day the
steamship General Barnes, foundered of
Hatteras. Passengers ana crew saved.
The barge Van Shack, sank off Yonkers
on the 25th, and the captain and his wife and
two children were drowned.
BOILER explosions: At Carlinsville, H.,
on the 25th, in saw mill, killing James NJ.
Thomson and badly scslding Willis Turner
and Dave Falkinton. At the Otsego fork
handle works, Rome, Iowa, killing George
McKinxel, and seriously injuring two men,
and totally destroying the building.
JOHN d. VACELAT, his wife and two sons,
were murdered at their home near Vincen.
mes, Ind, on the night of the 23d.
Pierce Provost, hired man, is suspected
and under arrest.
LEARNED, proprietor of the Learned ho-
tel, Cookshire, Quebec, was shot dead by a
tramp, to whom he refused whisky, on the
Gath instant.
DAN DEMAND, ,one of the gang of train
vnkh ~k4 Ia ,,.1o
was captured q day or two ago, was over
taken by detective Light, of the Kansas
Pacific Road, fifteen miles from Ellsworth,
Kansas, ON the night of the 22d inst, and in
the struggle which ensued, Light shot and
killed the robber.
The schooner Algerine, laden with iron
ore, went ashore at Springfield, Pa, on the
Esd and became . total loss.
oxN1RAL.
MAUD s., the fouryear-old that trotted q
mile over the Lexington, KY, course, re-
Gently, in 2:17X has been sold by Capt
George N. Stone, KY, to w. H. Vanderbilt
Of New York, for $2l 900. Capt Stone paid
$3.50 for her.
THE officers of the Supreme Lodge of the
World Knights Of Pythias met At Colum.
bus, O., on the 26th, to take action in per-
fecting and promulgating new uniform
rank which was adopted by the Supreme
Lodge.
The Arctic schooner Florence, Captain
Tyson, supposed to be lost, arrived at Pro-
vincetown, Mass, on the 26th, leaking bad.
ly, having experienced extreme hardships,
All ON board well.
THR special agent of the treasury, Kinds
at Chicago, on the 25th inst, seised mail
package containing 924 precious stones,
mailed at Ceylon to . party in Keokuk,
Iowa The package contains some very
valuable jewels including 696 moonstones
and valuable semi-aacred gem Of India.
They have been turned over to the appraiser,
G. H. Ham, like Ill matter sent through the
mails in violation TO the custom laws, in
order that valuation may be fixed.
A. BRONSON died ON the Esd inst. AGED GO