Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-07-16

, d. T., WEDNESDAY
A FIRE at Irkutsk, Russia, burned -four
hundred houses. Oficiels Of Tux have re-
csived letters threatening the burning o.
that town.
Hayden advicss are to the effect that Por
au Prince has been burned. Business Il
entirely suspended, the custom house hav
ing closed owing to the revolution.
At Norwood, N. Y, on the 7th inst, the
butter tnb factory and dry house Of the
Norwood lumber company burned. Losa
$50 600.
The packing house of the Jennings com.
pany, Of Oswego, Kansas, burned on the
night Of the I'd inst. Loss SIC, 900 partially
insured.
At Trenton. N. J., on the 4th inst. the
Third Presbyterian church was consumed
BY 6rs-' Severed nrsmen were severely in
jured. Loss $4,000.
The Rialto building, at Boston, Mass,
was damaged to the extent Of $50 900 by fire
ON the I'd inst.
At Virginia City, on the I'd inst, FIRE
started in the Yellow Jacket mine, but was
extinguished with slight damage. Three
bullion miners are missing, John Crocker,
Window Perry and D. O'Donohue. They
were at work in the bullion incline and
were probably sufocsted.
Measures Passed by Congress IT the
Late Extra session.
Summing MP the routine work of the
extra session, the following are found to be
construction of . refrigerating ship, and
for the disinfection of vessels to prevent
the introduction into the United States of
contagious diseases; changing the law 70.
lating to vinegar factories; the army appro.
priation bill (vetoed); to prevent military
interference at elections (vetoed); the leg.
islative appropriation bill (vetoed); to ex.
change subsidiary silver coins for legal
tenders, and to make them legal tender to
the extent Of $50; to authorize the District
OF Columbia to redeem certain funded
Indebtedness not 365s in s per
cents; to procure . site for . post.
Office in Baltimore; the legislative sppre.
priation bill; the judicial expenses bill
(vetoed); the army appropriation bill; to
provide for the appointment of Aissis.
sippi river commission; the judicial ex.
penses bill; additional postofice appropria-
ton bill; providing for filling vacancies in
the United States engineer corps; the
marshals' appropriation bill (vetoed), and
to authorize the release of certain lands Of
the United States to the state of New York.
Among the joint resolutions adopted the
following are important: In relation to
the Australian international exhibition in
1879 and 1880; authorizing the secretary Of
the navy to place vessels and hulks ct the
disposal Of the quarantine commissioner.
Congress passed ffty-six public acts, twenty.
four joint resolutions and eight private acts.
Criminal Happen1ngs.
Recently negro named Mort Lee out
ragged lady in Fayetts county, Va, and
succeeded in escaping arrest until the 9Th
inst, when he was arrested at Parksburg.
Officers from Fsyette county took charge Of
the prisoner and started heme, bat on their
arrival at Coalburg Lee was taken from
them and hanged by the mob who had
gathered to the number of nearly 1900.
Alex. Kinney, colored. aged 26, was
assassinated at Cynthiana, KY, on the night
of the Sth inst, while going to q well for
water. The murderer is not known.
Lewis Baker, q wealthy citizen of La.
fayette, Ind, died suddenly a week ago.
His stomach was analysed and shows death
from poison by strychnine. The case causes
intense excitement
Two colored brothers named James and
Prince Jones, residing ct Chicago, ended .
feud Of long standing by pistol melee on
the Sth. Prince put three shots into his
brother, mortslly wounding him. About q
year ago the murdered man shot and killed
his brother Eugene.
Kate Webster has been found guilty oi
the murder of her mistress, Mrs. Thomas, a
Richmond, Englsnd, and sentenced TO death
1t was aseertained Mrs. Thomss' body Wal
boiled and thrown into the Thames, and the
head destroyed by burning.
The body of Lewis N. Libby, missina
since June 2Sth, was found in hole in the
woods near Pennington, Me-, on the I'll
inst. The belisfis that Libby was murdered
Joseph Atkins, fruit gardener, few miles
from Gresnsburg, Westmoreland. Pa. shot
and killed instantly his wife ON the 9Th inst.
and after telling his nearest neighbor tha
he had killed the old woman placed tht
muzsie Of the gun under his chin and free
and killed himself. The trouble ID believei
to have arisen from . quarrel about ittl,
piece of property where they lived.
James H. Croft snd Chas. G. Wofroth, ar
rested ct Alamosa, COL, recently, for th,
murder Of VIM. Syock ON the 25th inst, il
New Mexico, were taken from the Jail o,
BY 100 citizens and hanged to . cottonwood
They hadconfsssed.
Ars. Annie Brown died ct New York Of
the 5th inst, from injuries inflicted BY he
husband, Chas. D. Brown, while he Va
under the Influence Of liquor.
i A negro who outraged Mis- Edwards nsa
Lindals, Texas., ON the Sd inst, after bsin
idsnti tiAedby he victim. was literally hacket
to pieces BY mob. The body was foun'
disGgursd beyond recognition.
| Mary E. Sanford, aged n, was shot an
fatally wounded BY her husband. Jne. San
ford, ct New York, ON the 9Th inst
, John F. Seymour, cousin and brothsr.in
, law Of Bishop Seymour, dean Of the Epii
copal seminary in New York city, was foun'
dead near small grove Of trees In th
, grounds BY his wife, ON the morning Of th
eth instant His breast bore . pistol-bal
wound, and the body was cold and stiA
having been dead for some hours. 6synou
left the house during the night to ejec
from the grounds man and woman whoz
he discovered ont under the trsss. Net n
turning, search was made, with the abov
|, result.
At Newport, KY, ON the 9Th inst Georg
Black was shot and instantly killed BY Wn
Phillip Parry. A quarrel over The rent Q
10 house.
j On the 9Th inst Bernard Hines, Of Alder
n. T., killed his wife and himself. Bot
were agsd people.
4 Gen. BoSgss and Louis Carrico got Into
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