Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-10-08

UNION COUNTY, d.
The Russian official messenger states tina
| 1887 fires occurred in Russia during An
gust, causing damage to property to til,
amount of 20, 0,G00, 900 roubles.
The greater portion Of the business cen
tire of Carroll, Carroll county, Iowa, wa
wiped out by Ere on the 25th. The Masoni,
hall, Odd Fellows hall and forty bushes,
houses were destroyed. Loss from $3.50, ,00(
to $780, 700.
The Marsh harvester factory at Plano, ILL.,
was almost entirely consumed by fire on
the night of the Gath.
During the past ten days four fires oc
cured at Astrakbau, Russia. One stsame,
with twelve barges, loaded with naptha
burned on the Volga, and naptha train
was burned ON the 2Sd.
The recent fre in Belfast, Ireland, de-
stroyed the places of business of the follow.
ing named firms: Delvin 4 Co., druggists
and grocers; Mortimer & Sons, umbrella
manufacturers; McGonigal & Mack, and
Young & Anderson, wholesale warehouse
men. The aggregate loss is estimated al
$4,000.
The dwelling of ex-senator Howe, at
Green Bay, Wis.,, was entirely consumed by
Ere on the oath. Loss about $4,000.
The works of the American Carpet and
Lining Co., at Watertown, Mass, were burn.
ed ON the Gath. Loss $3.50 %; insured.
The Red Devils.
Major Thornburg's command OF U. 8.
troops, while en- route to the White River
agency to protect the whites on the Ute
reservation, was attacked by hostile Utes,
ut Bad Canon, one mile south OF Milk river,
Colorado, on the 29th ult. The troops,
finding themselves surrounded, Thornburg
ordered charge, which he gallently led in
person. They succeeded in reaching the
wagons and forming barricade, but Major
Thornburg was killed in the charge. Capt
Payne took command, and the battle was
ca,Iied on until s o'clock P. N. he troops
using the wagons and animals as breast.
works. The cssulaties were about as follows:
Major Thornburg,. Grafton Lowry u scout),
thirteen enlisted men, Wagon Master Nc.
Kinstry and one tesmster killed, Captain
Pay ne, Captain Lawson, Surgeon Grimes,
Lieutenants Paddock and Wolf and thirty.
FIVE men wounded. Captain Payne had
fortified his position and thought he could
possibly hold it until the arrival of rein.
forcements in case they were sent promptly.
killed by the Indians.
1t is now reported that Agent Mecker and
family and AZ employees Of the Ute agency
have been murdered and the buildings de-.
stroyed, but this report lacks confirmation.
Gen. Shel idan has ordered six companies
from Fort Smelling, near st. Paul, Minn., to
be sent to Rawlings station, on the Union
Pacific road, which is 200 miles from the
scene of the massacre. Colonel Merritt is
msrching to the relief of Payne with $50
men.
A Silver Reef special reports that party
OF twenty eight prospectors who started on
an expedition two months ago, have been
massacred by Indians nesr the eastern
boundary Of Utah Territory.
Intelligence from Hillsboro, Texas, dated
September IA, gives particulars Of fight
between the Indians and party of young
sportsmen from Dallas and Fort Worth the
Thursday previous, IN which seven whites
were killed. The details are meagre, but
the information is reliable, coming from
w. Carnes, one OF the companions OF the
killed.
Murder0us Der IL.
John Kennedy, deputy sheriff and keep.
er in parish prison, was killed at New Or
leans ON the 30th ult., by a sailor named
Jim Barringer, near Magnolia bridge. He
knocked Kennedy down aud stamped on
his head, fractu,;ng his skull.
Ellen Deering, an insane inmate OF the
aims house at Erie, Pa, choked her infant
daughter to death on the 30th ult
Henry Won Geritschen was fatally shot by
John Sheehan in New York city on the 3Oth
ult. Sbeehsn then shot himself mortally.
The former had been unduly intimate with
Sheehan's wife.
Moore of Crab Orchard, shot Col. N.
Louis Clark, Jr., president of the Louisville
Jockey club, at the Gait house, Louisville,
on the Goth ult. 1t is not thought that Col.
Clark's wound is fatal. The trouble had its
origin at the jockey club ground in the after.
noon.
Mr.::and Mrs. Henry Morris of Volinis
township, Cas- county, Mich. were mur'
dered by persons or thieves with the object
Of obtaining money received from large
wheat sale made recently by Mr.. Aorris
The body Of Morris was found ON the back
steps of his house on the morning of the
goth, with two bullet holes through hii
neck, and that Of his wife in the bedroom
closet, shot four times in the breast Nc
clue to the perpetrators of the deed - yet
Edward Decourse was shot dead by hi.
brother at the village Of Lambton, Canads
ON the 9th ult. Toe brother then poisoned
himself. Both had been drinking, and
quarreled.
Near Dubuque, Ia, on the 9th, Thomaa
Grimes, . afs-mer was nysteriously murdersi
ON the highway.
Justice L. Mum was murdered on tn,
night of the 25th, in his home at Bridge
water, Conn. His son 10 missing.
Benjamin Williams shot snd instantly
killed his stepmothsr, Mn. Osborne, nsa
Shelby, N. c., ON the 26th. He had diff
Guilty with his father about horse, ant
committed the murder out of spite.
A farmer named Robert Chamselain, ~
siding on farm near West6eld, Pa, W.
shot dead ON the 26th BY hidden foe, whel
. few rods from his door. No clue 10 tn
murderer, but suspicion points to his father
with whom he WAS on bad terms.
Rev. David L. Lounsbury, rector Of Chris
church, Stratford, Conn.,, was shot dead Of
the 24th, by his wife, ~ he lay aalssp. Tn
woman vas temporarily insane from sick
| ness.
David Trimley, . huckster doing busines
At Wheeling, West Va, and reading nea
Beallsville, Monroe county, Ohio, was mur
dered and robbed on the evening Of the I'D
about three miles from his homo. He W
found in HE wagon BY daughter and nsph