Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1880-01-28

Charles Dunond, treasurer of the Massa-
chusetts Home Missionary society, was ON
the Goth put ON trial in Boston for the EN-.
bezzlsment Of $55,000.
J. H. Rochrer, for many years cashier Of
the savings bank at Louisville, KY, il de.
faulter to the extent of $67 900. The bank
IL to be closed and the the affairs wound mp,
but it is stated that depositors will not lose
anything.
work Of the Planes.
Boyd's pork packing establishment, at
Omaha, Neb., was totally destroyed by FIRE
ON the evening OF the 18th, together with
stock of provisions valued at $213, 900. The
buildings were valued At $50, 900. Insurance
on stock, $4,000 building, $25,00O.
About dozen business firms in Carthage,
No., were cleaned out by fire on the night
of the 18th. Loss 1900.
The Riverside oil works, at East Cam.
bridge, Mass, were destroyed by ere on the
night of the 10th.
At Philadelphia, Pa, on the 14th instant,
Fuckers furniture factory was burned.
Loss al, 900; insurance $4,000.
The fur factory OF Mason 4 Kalexi, Brook.
lyn, N. Y, burned ON the 14th. Several
fremen were more or less injured by falling
walls.
Nominations and COD0Fmot10ns.
The president has nominated James Rus.
sell Lowell, of Massachusetts,, envoy extra.
ordinary and minister plenipotentiary to
EnuIauA. Tnhu A Eostop ~ t.
lister to Russia; Lucius Fairchild, of Wis
consin, minister to Spain; Philip A. Morgan,
of louisiana, minister to Mexico.
The senate on the 10th confirmed the fol.
lowing nominations: E. J. Conger, of Hi.
nois, associate justice Of the Supreme Court
of Montana George w. Hazleton, OF Wis.
consin, district attorney for the eastern
district of Wisconsin; E. c. David, of
Wyoming, surveyor general of Wyoming;
J. J. Henry, of Colorado, register of the
land office at Lesdville ] ohm A. Wright, of
Maryland, agent for the Indians At Fort
Hall agency, Idaho, and several postmastsrs,
including Frank Hatton, of Burlington.
Trouble In Hungary.
Serious disturbance occurred in Pesth on
eho AVeA 0Au AHsu AAct0.S An consequence VI
a duel between Baron Maithenyi and Herr
Verhovay, member of parliament, in which
the latter was mortally wounded. Ver.
hovay's friends claim that it was " put up
job" in order TO silence him, because he
was very distasteful to the aristocrats.
Maithenyi is said to be a professional duel
ist, and the best shot in Hungary. On the
night of the 14th, q mob of students and
workmen filed the streets in fashionable
quarter and stoned the windows of the
Casino club rooms. The police were re.
peatedly repulsed by the rioters, but the
malcontents were finally dispersed by two
battalions of infantry with fixed bayonets.
Two rioters were killed, according to one
report, but another states that upwards OF
ffty.fve we're killed and wounded in the
melee.
Ex-Governor Westcott, Of Flovida, Who
has lived in Canada since the outbreak OF
the late war, died ON the Goth, in the Goth
year Of his age.
Jules Favre, the eminent French states.
man, died on the night of the 10th, aged n.
]. Winthrop Taylor, medical director Of
the United States navy, died suddenly of
heart disease in Boston on the 10th.
Mrs. Margaret Tuny, 20 years of age,
died at her home in Cincinnati, O., on the
18th. She had subsisted q month without
food, having been the victim of hallucina.
ion that she had no stomach.
Charles W@chter, the German lawyer and
legal writer, is dead.
l.
diplomast, il dead.
Richard Sullivan, . well.known writer
and journalist, and brother of the present
editor of the Dublin Nation, died in San
Francisco on the 18th inst.
A West InAtan Horror.
News has just arrived of terrible foods on
the Island Of St. Kits ON the 1lth inst, by
which 200 lives have been lost, property to
the extent of $25,O0O destroyed, and the
whole island devastated. The temperature
had been unusually high for the time of the
year, the wind blowing from the south ct
early morning, but toward noon it changed
to the northwest. aAd the temperature fell
suddenly. The streams on the mountain
side rapidly became torrents, filing the
rose over their banks and poured down up
on the arabic lands in Q resistless stream.
The whole population Of the island docs not
exceed $4,000, and of these two hundred
perished, and many of the rest arc home.
less. St. Kits has known no such calamity
since 1922, when terrific hurricane nearly
destroyed the whole island. But it il sin.
gular that on July ., 1867, Basseterre was
destroyed by FIRE, all the business portion
of the town and most of the churches and
dwellings being reduced to ashes.
Terriae stern.
Oregon and Washington territories suf.
tered severely from violent storm which
swept that region ON the 9th instant. The
damage to property in Portland, Oregon,
viii not fall short of $76,0o0. Several per.
sons were injured by being caught under
the ruins of demolished buildings, and one,
Harry r. Heinrich. was instantly killed.
From the interior Of the territory reports
indicate that the gale was unusually vio-
lent It 10 not possible to estimate the
value Of the property destroyed, bat IL will
certainly be great, and the obstruction of
the roads will, in great many localities
for long time stagaate al busj.
ness. Owing to fallen timber and
the damage to railroad bridges, railroad
trains win be delayed considerable. The
lines between Portland and Dallas are
buried under fallen timber 20 deep that new
lines will have 70 be constructed. Two
men, named Mason aud Rundls, wers frossn
to death on the night Of the 10th near
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