Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-03-06
POINT, COUNTY, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1878

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church, on the oath inst, Senator Ferry, O.
Michigan, presiding, and making the open
ing address.
MRS. IsABELLA DEECHER HOOKER had {
hearing before the senate committee OF
privileges and elections on the 22d inst, in
behalf of woman's suffrage.
The president sent to the senate on tn,
2lst inst, reports of the general Of the army
the quartermsster and the commissary gen
eral, relative to the cost of the late war will
the Sioux Indians, and the number Of mer
killed in that war. The report shows tina,
the estimated cost of the war is 4o,3l2,6Sl,
and the whole number OF persons killed II
officers and 267 enlisted men. There were
two officers and 123 enlisted men wounded
S0UTHwIcK GUTHRIE, cashisr Of til
United States treasury, hes resigned, to take
effect March l. Guthrie has been connect
ed with the treasury fifteen years. Assist
ant Cashier Whelpey is performing the
duties of cashier temporarily. 1t il under
stood that Guthrie's resignation was desired
although no charges have been preferred
against him.
THE WEST.
Two libel suits-one for $4,000 and the
other for $4,000 damages-were begun
against the Omaha, Neb., Bee, on the 26th
inst.
THE Red Ribbon temperance club, of
Evansville, Ind, was presented, on the 26th
inst, with lot valued at $4,000, by Mrs.
Salita Evans. The club is to erect q hall
thereon.
THE anti-railroad bond movement is cre-
ating considerable excitement in the interi.
or of Missouri At q mass meeting in Rollo
county declaration was signed by those
present setting forth that the so-called rail-
road debt of Rollo county was in direct vio.
lation of the constitution of the state of
Missouri, and of the expressed will of the
people of Rollo county, and is just, frsudu.
lent and oppressive. The signers pledged
themselves "never to pay any tax that may
be assessed against our property in said
county for the payment of interest on the
principal, or any part of said pretended and
fraudulent debt"
Col. S. w. Goulding, editor Of the A,,ka.
de,phid Standard, Little Rock, Ark, died on
the 23d inst.
AT Oakland, Cal, on the 23d inst, DIR.
Carver, with rife, broke $50 glass balls out
of thousand, tossed from a point twenty
feet distant. The time, including all stop
page, was three hours and three minutes.
THE Pennsylvania residents in Atchison
county, Kansas, had grand reunion at
Atchison, oh the 22d inst. About 900 ma
tives of the old Keystone state were present.
The maximum rates of the Missouri rail-
roads will be put in effect next month. The
law reduces the rate from four and half
and five cents mile to three cents on main
lines and four cents on branches.
LUM BlNG, prominent Chinese mer.
chant of San Francisco, and connected with
officials of high rank in his own country
has recently returned from China. He
states that IN three or four months a Chi.
nese war vessel, with American officers and
Chinese crew, will visi: San Francisco,
bringing as passengers the Chinese consul
and large number of Chinese army officers
of rank, who will make tour of observa-
ton through the country.
SACRAMENTO, CITY, Cal, was saved from
the food, but at the expense of the sur.
rounding country. On the Goth inst,
Vallejo presented the appearance of vast
lake. Except in the flooded districts, agri-
cultural prospects in the state are good.
CRIMES AND cAsUALrIHs.
Tuu 0nod -, Cao..u,anto oouu.,, c.rs
MIA, still continues. Water covers the whole
face of the country. The damage aggre.
gates millions of dollars.
CHARLES WEAVER and Edward Dries.
bach, of Bethlehem, Pa, have been arrested,
and confess participation in plot to wreck
railroad trains.
WILLIAM GREELY, colored, of Indianapo.
lis, who killed Ida Kersey, colored, last
Christmas, has been found guilty. The jury
affixed the death penalty.
DURING quarrel at Norfolk, Va. on the
25th inst, in low house of resort for
negroes, VIM. Watson was killed and others
were severely beaten and stabbed. Several
persons have been arrested.
In railroad accident on the oath inst, on
the Richmond 4 Fredericksburg railroad,
w. c. Msinwaring, of Baltimore, was killed;
Frederick Faulkner, Of Richmond, La,
lsg amputated below the knee; J. +. Don
nelly, Charlestown, w. Va, both legs crush.
ed and anputated, and John w. Aldredge,
of Fredericksburg, injuries not known. No
others were severely hurt. The accident
was caused by the sleeping coaches becom.
ing detached on down-grade, when the
locomotive stopped and the detached
coaches crashed into the rear car of the
stationary train, catching the four men on
the platform, with the result stated.
CHAs. HAYWARD, a photographer at
Bourbon, Ind, shot and fatally injured his
wife and then shot himself in the head,
causing instant death, on the 23d inst
The ferry boat James Fisk, Jr., and the
schooner Josie Crowley collided in North
River, ON the 23d inst, in fog. Chas. II.
Ebert, New York grocer, was killed, and
several others badly injured.
AMBROSE CUMMINGS and John Mullen,
of New Haven, Conn.,, coal-heavers, went
out in boat, on the night of the 2lst inst,
to intercept = schooner, so as to get a lob.
Next day the boat, with their dead bodies
attached to it by the painter, came ashore
at Milford.
A HousE situated near the river, in Osha-
wa, Canada, was swept away by the food,
ON the 22d inst, and young lady and child
were drowned.
J.W. NCGIBLEY committed suicide st the
lunatic asylum, at st. Joseph, No., on the
22d inst.
GKo. w. ABBOTT, of Abbott 4 Co., money
brokers, San Francisco. has disappeared
with $50.0 600 of the firms property.
A DISPATCH from New Orleans saws that
during blow on the night Of the goth inst,
. fleet Of ten coal laden barges, lying near
Carrcllton, were swamped and sunk. About
5000 bushels Of coal was lost. The total
loss will foot up in the neishborhood Of $s5,.
O00.
CHARLEs BAILEY was arrested, at Boston,
on the Goth inst, for rihing letter.box.
He had eventy.four letters.
ON the night OF the 10Th inst tha Sh.