Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1880-03-03

Oue-tllr0 OF the DukiueeS pOItiou VI DioWocSi,
N. Y, was destroyed by fire on the night OF the
23d. Loss Sl60. 900: insurance $4,000.
At Cleveland, o., on the 23d. still contain
ing 2. 900 barrels of crude oil belonging to the
Standard oil works, collapsed. The fluid caught
fire and communicated the flames to another
still. The burning oil flowing down kmgsbury
Run. threatened to destroy the Standard works,
but a force of 500 men constructed a dam
across the run and checked the fiery food. Loss
estimated at $50, 900 on machinery and S4,000
on oil.
Hayward's stable, with twenty carriages, ten
horses and large amount OF grain, were CON
sumed by fire at Newport, r. l., on the zzd.
John Shea, an employe, lost his HE III uyine 70
save the horses. Loss $4,000.
The Arsenal Street Methodist Church at
Waterloo, N. Y, burned on the 22d. LOSS
$4,000; insurance $S, 500. .
The Academy of Forest Culture, capable OF
accommodating 300 students, together with q
valuable museum, was destroyed oy hre a' Moe-
COW, Russia, on the 2lst.
Tho Swiss village al Rein, in the Grisons
Oberland. WAS burned on the 18th.
Batesyille. Ark, was visited by disastrous
contiagration on the Goth. A falling wall killed
C. s. Gersuch and injured Thomas Jabln and
r. w. Morfield-the former fatally. Total
loss $75, ,OOO0; about half covered by insurance.
The imperial cotton mills at Dorley, Pa,
burned on the night Of the 18th inst. Loss
$55, COO; insurance $25,OOO:
Al Cincinnati. O., on the Goth inst, . fire
DESTROYED the Roberts block, occupied by Burn
hams paper store and print shop Loss over
$4,000.
corn were licked up by the burning OF Gilman q
Co. g elevator, at Atlantic, Iowa, on the 18th
The large fve-story iron front building, 3Sa
and 386 Broadway, N. Y, burned ON the evening
Of the 9Oth. Losses estimated as follows "U
HAGEN, Todds 4 Co., importers Of silk, s4oo,.
coo; Dickerhofl, Rufiaer 4 Co., taliors TRIM
mings, S25o, 600; James Wilde, Jr. Co., man
ufacturing tailors, $3.50, 600. Loss on the build
ing, $50, 600; insurance unknown.
The spoon factory of Holmes, Booth d nay
den, at Waterbury Conn.,, burned on the 18th
Loss estimated at S82, 600.
Roberts carriage factory at Cincinnati, O..
was consumed by fire on the 18th inst. Losi
$4,000.
The carriage, hub and spoke factory Of Keye'
A Sykes. Of Terre Haute, Ind, was totally DC
stroyed BY fire on the 9Th. Loss e60, 600.
John Harriman's livery and boarding stable
! at Milwaukee, Wis.,, was consumed BY nre on IN
18th inst. A valuable horse, thirty .leighs an sns
| fourteen buggles were destroyed. Iotal los
about Gle, 900; insurance e10, 900.
A Bloody Record
VIM. Penn. aged 50, was stabbed and kille'
| bv An old man named KenAn at noon on IN
2zth, ON Turrel street, Pittsburg, pa. The tw
men were walking together and the murder We !.
| the result Of hot words between them: A.
| though the street was crowded the only wit
| nesses are two school boys.
! Salmon Reed, . railroad conductor, died Z
indianapolis, Ind, ON the 2lst, from wound
received In . saloon fracas with m enginee
named WIN. Dougau
made himself obnoxious to his neighbors by er
forcing the fence law. On the night Of the 19t
his house WAS surrounded by mob VINO keE
up . fusilade until Dozier and acolored man lei
the house by rear door, attempting to escaF
to the woods; The colored man was struck
ball and killed.
Near Linden, Class county, Texas, on the AZ
Mrs. Clark, . respectable married lady, VI
brutally outraged and then murdered. Thrt
men were arrested, when one Of them confcsse
the crime and was horribly mutilatcd BY Il
mob, then saturated with coal oil and set on fr
He was afterwards hung.
0arvin. an ex-soldier Of unsavory reputation
having trouble with Mr.. Kessick, bis site
attempted to shoot hor, but was prevented BY
daughter who received the b0llet in her ow
body, Killing her instantly. 0arvin then sh'
himself through ne heaxt fsseny. J,
boarding house, having missed two Of b
; guests f0r about eight days, broke into the
room and Vas hOFxi6ed to ind =. G. MAfuhal
one oS the missing lodgers, dead upon the bs
With revolver u his I'M hand and boil
hole in the - q - hsad 4 e q burglA
. wcro found n tbs room. Tia thsoy q III p
, | lice = thak tn nnan quAusaed cver the sPol
| end thak MaxshaD was nnrdered ~ NJ paEtnl
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