Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-08-20

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and defed the sheriff and posse. The gov
ernor has called out three companies o
militia.
The Enterprise Collisry ct Wilkssbarre 4
at stand still, owing to . strike of em
ployss for more pay.
Lands TArewn 0pea % settlenent.
The president BY executive order has 70
stored To the public domain 8,25s,25) acre.
ON the northeastern bank of the Missouri
river, corresponding in general outlines 4
the area Withdrawn BY executive orders oI
Jan. II, and Nay 8, 1876, now revoked
Small sections Of territory immediately ad
joining Grand river, Cheyenne and Indian
Rock agencies are still withheld. It VA
intended when the ordersnow revoked were
tssued to keep the whites from pressing toe
closely upon the Sioux Indians, but in prac
tics Il was feund orders did not prsvent
trespsss by reckless frontisrsmen who
preyed alike upon peaceable whites and
Indians, hence the lands are again thrown
open TO settlement.
The InAians.
A Fort Peck, Montana, dispatch Of the
9th inst, states that Gen. Miles arrived
there, having driven the hostiles into Can.
ada, and capturing all the half breeds be.
tween that point and Wood mountains.
Miles has divided his force into two com
nsnds for the purpose of Watching the Dor.
der.
The Indian agent at Flat Bend agency,
Montana territory, reports the massacre Of
eight Nee Perces BY . party Of supposed
Gros ventres.
A Frighsful TumhIe.
On the 9Th inst, while six masons were
on the sca6olding of the dome of the new
Music hall, corner Of Randolph and State
streets, Chicago, sixty feet above the
ground, the entire scaHolding with
. premonitory crack, fell through
the floors to the ground door,
where Ave hundred pound iron plate,
that was being plac d in the dome broke
through the Hmbers and crushed into the
cellar. Four of the workmen went down
with the frail timber, and were terribly in.
jured. Their names are: Christian Toft,
Franz Miller, John Schultz and Otto Hoss-
mann.
LATBR.-Two Of the injured workmen
died ON the 7th inst The others will re-.
cover.
Steomb0at Disasters.
The boilers ON the steamer Iron Valley
exploded on the evening Of the 9th inst,
when opposite New Cumberland, w. Va,
five miles below Pitsburg, destroying the
entire forward part Of the boat. The pilot,
Wise, the captains son, Thomas Prince and
. Mr.. Prosaer Of New Cumberland are miss.
ing. They were NO doubt killed.
A correspondent of the Stondard at Lis.
bon, reports that an English steamer col.
lided of South Finistere with the Spanish
stsamer Concora. The latter vessel was
sunk. Fourteen Spaniards drowned. Nine
saved.
The steamship Louis David, from Ant.
werp, for Naples, was wrecked during fog
of Ushont, France; ~ persons drowned.
The river steamers Mary Morgan and
Pierpont, came in collision on the night of
the Sth inst, near Chelsea, Pa, and the lat
ter was sunk, but her passengers and crew
were saved. The Morgan had ON board an
excursion party Of several hundred persons.
Her bow was badly broken, and the forward
bulkhead filed, but the remaining water.
tight compartments kept her aaoat.
Stricken Memphis.
DR.. Langstaf, president Of the Howard
association at Memphis, Tenn, telegraphed
ON the 9th instant the following: Total
number of cases of yellow fever to this
hour, within the city limits, officially re.
corded, 10 $40. OF this number, ninety
have died. In addition there has been
about twenty cases and Eve deaths Of Mem
phis refugees, located within six miles Of
the city. The disease has snotcommunicated
to any Of the surrounding towns on account
Of rigid quarantine. The fever has increas.
cd in Memphis very perceptibly in the past
ten days, and 10 spreading from the original
csnters. We cannot hope for discontinu.
ance until FROST At least $1,000 persons
have left, Of which 1900 are located in
camps Father Mathews and Marks, situated
four and seven miles respectively from
Memphis. There have been three Gases In
camp Marks and one death. There are
about $4,000 negroes in the city Who refuse
to 30 into camp, but II 10 thought that BY
Withholding supplies from them that they
will be forced to dee the city. No one but
. Howard visitor or physician knows Of the
filthy novels that these people live in. and
in which they are taken sick, and too fire..
quently die.
The Dsath Rsll.
Maj. william w. Leland, formerly one of
the proprietors Of the Grand Union hotel
SaratogA, died at Saratoga on the 9th inst.
He was on Grants stat during the war.
John Campbell, young farmer, residing
near Stockton, Cal, shot his bFothsr.in-law,
named Brewer, On the etA inst, killing him
instantly. Brewer had intsrfsrsd In Camp
bsll's family affairs.
Major John I. Bssxtoa, collector Of Gus.
toms Of the port Of Norfolk, Va, died on
the 9th inst, Of gout Of the heart
Alexandra Ham, an eminent Frsnch histor-
ical and portrait painter, b dead, aged 7S.
Dr.. D. Adars, one Of the oldest citizens
OF Cairo, H., and we'll known from his con.
nection with important political Offices be-
fore the war, died on the 9Th inst.
Samuel q Foss, 20 ysars old, and propris.
tor Of the Woonsockst lR ~ Patriot, died
ON the 9Th inst
Keith johnson, the leader Of the sxps.
dition 70 explore the head Of Lake Nyassa,
died Of dyssntsry on the 3sth Of June, at
Bsrobsro, 100 miles inland from Dorsssa-
laam. The expedition will b continued By
Thompson, scientific assistant Of Johnson'A
Chas. Feehtsr, the actor, died q Quaker.
town, Pa, on the 9Th inst
D1sa9tRo0o D1Aoeo.
The extensive bending works, cooper
shops and ssw min Of Humphrsy Bros, at
Wakeman, O., burned on the 18th insG.
Loss $4,000; insured for q, 900.
A SsEsjsvo, Bosnia, dispatch reports that
the rscsnt IRE at Inst plaos Destroyed 10