Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-07-12


preme Court of Utah.
During the session Of Congress Just ter
minated, i27 bills and 46 joint resolutions
were introduced in the Senate, and 2 1896
bills and 119 joint resolutions in the House.
WEST AND SOUTHWEST.
At conference meeting of members of
the National Board of Health, members of
the Mississippi Valley Sanitary Council, and
representatives Of the railroad and river in
terests, held at Memphis on the I'd, rules and
regulations presented by the National Board
of Health, as applied to railroads and steam
boats, were approved. The recommenda-
ton OF the Mississippi Valley Sanitary
Council, that stations of inspection be estab-
lished every summer on the Mississippi
River at vicksburg, Memphis and Cairo,
was indorsed. The Tennessee State Board
Of Health has adopted bylaws containing
the following section: "Upon satisfactory
information of the approach or transit
through the State Of Tennessee of infected
persons or goods, it shall be the duty of the
President to cause the same to be stopped
at the State line, or IL found within the lim-
its of the State, to cause said persons or
goods to be removed from cars, boats and
other lines of transit and securely isolated" )"
John Crocker, VIM. Perry, and ID. 0'Don-
ohue, three miners, were suffocated by fire
in the Yellow Jacket Mine at Virginia, New,
on the night of the 1st. The damage to the
mine was small.
A large delegation of Arkansas editors on
the 1st started upon an excursion North
ward, taking in st. Louis, Chicago, and 9TH
er points Of interest. They were very hos
pitably entertained at both the cities men,
toned.
A disastrous tornado passed over portions
Of Dakota Territory, Northern Iowa, Min
nesota and Wisconsin on the night of the I'd.
At Elkhorn, d. T., number of buildings
were blown down and several persons badly
injured. At Vasa, Goodhire County, MIMI,
seven persons were killed and thirty injured
by lightning and falling buildings; other
towns In that section also suffered severely,
and crops were badly injured by rain and
hail.
The wife Of Emanual Berry,, prosperous
farmer of Brown Toa nship, Kent County,
Mich, who had been for some time afflicted
with mild form of insanity, but was not
considered dangerous, on the I'd killed her
three young children and then took her own
| life with a revolver, which she had obtain
ed without the knowledge of her husband,
while he was out working in the cornfield.
Upon his return to the house he found them
all dead.
Lieut.. S. Fl. Soder, Seventh Infantry, COM
mitted suicide at Fort Benton on the 9Th.
He shot himself in the head while sitting in
his tent. Soder's parents reside in Jersey
City. He had shown great bravery in fight
ing the Indians, but was unfortunately ad-
dicted to drink.
The Iowa Prohibitionists will hold State
Convention at Cedar Rapids on the 10th, to
nominate full State ticket.
The Semple & Birge Manufacturing Com
pany, st. Louis, hardware dealers and man
ufacturers, suspended payment on the 5th.
Liabilities about $50, 900, due mainly to
manufacturers of agricultural implements
in Ohio and Pennsylvania; assets not stated.
Prof. s. w. Colgrove, accompanied by a
lady, Miss Emma Allison of the New York
Graphic, made a balloon ascension from
Woodward's Garden, San Francisco, on the
5th. The balloon came down in the bay, on
account of rent in the bag, and the occu-
pants were dragged nearly two miles
through the water at terrible speed, but
finally thrown out upon the shore, badly
bruised, but not seriously injured.
Mrs. James Pross Louis, on the 9TH
shot and fatally>SS SundedAer s-months- old
baby, while carelessly handling a revolver.
She did not know it was loaded.
James III. Craft and Charles G. Wooroth,
arrested at Alamosa, Col, for the murder
Of VIM. Lyock in New Mexico, were taken
from Jail at midnight on the 5th by 100 citi-
zens and hanged to a cottonwood tree. They
confessed.
Jose Cordova, a Mexican, was hanged at
San Antonio, Texas, on the 7th, for the muir
der Of Robert Trimble in July, 1877.
Gen. George C. Bingham, ex-Adjutant-
General of Missouri, an artist of some local
celebrity, died suddenly at his home in
Kansas City on the 7th.
Capt. FL. Wilkerson, well known in river
circles, committed suicide at Vicksburg on
the 7th, shooting himself through the right
temple with a pistol. Cause, financial
troubles.
A new express company, to be known as
the Union, has been organized in Louisville,
with Frank Guthrie, President. The COM
pany will control the express business on
the Louisville and Nashville and Great
Southern Road and its branches.