Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-12-31

oln, 2. The nomination was

HaWley. coln, 2. The nomination was
then ma< tmous. An attack on French
troops 81 70 troops at Lang son, In vio-
| latior az aty, provoked demand from
! France IT bavy war indemnity. The
| cholera r. + appearance In France, many
| deaths uo = ct Toulon and Marseilles.
| The PsprlT 1erian Council was held at Bel
| fast, In General lglesias resigned
con stituti - act of the Legislature
| maktn1 RI tng TO keep gambling house.
| Emrer0e laid the foundation OF the
| new Gerr 1fAmcnt buildings at Berlin.
| Samuel ~ N wrote lettcr tJune III for
malIy De- 4 nomination for the Prcsi-
dencY. lH 6atpr s. G. Pomeroy. of Kan
| sas, nOsnlu 4 for President Of the United
States ~ r kmcrican (Anti Secret Society
3pArty. HGlJrains in California damaged
/ Tho wheat ~ s5 per cent. Capt. Andrews,
% yeaes = -. completed his walk from
South Csrs - Massachusetts,, arriving in
Boston In Sedcondition.
JULY.
The Denaocsstic National Convention was
held ct ChieaR opening on the Sth. W. +.
Villas, OF WlsCnsin, was chosen Permanent
Chairman. Oi the 1lth, Grover Cleveland,
OF New Yosk rs nominaaed for President
on - ssesaa ballct and Thomas S.a. A. henh- lend
put Sppos gtiOh The ballots for President
werG q AS,osSs: First--wholc number ot
bvcteU sxsk y eefHq&as n ~ Gh0oes kA1;.
Thomas y. Bayard, OF Delaware. l6s: TOP
Allan @. Thurman, OF Ohio, So; for Samuel
}. Randall, OF Pennsylvana, a, IS; for Joseph
Carlisle, of'kcntucky, 81; for Roswell p.
Flower, Of New York. 4: for George
Hoadly, of Ohio, 3; for Samuel J. Tiden,
of New York, ]; for Thomas A. Hcnd-
rcks, of Indiana, 1. second-who,e mum.
choice, SAT; Cleveland. issi; Bayari. s1A;
Thurman, i; Randall 1: Mcdonald, I;
Hendricks, 45H. The !. nomination was
then made unanimous. Tho Nation-
al Prohibition Convention met in Pitts.
burgh on the ed, and nominated for
President Ex-Governor st. John, OF Kansas,
and for VicePresident William Daniel, of
Maryland. Congress adjourned on the eth of
month. The President vetoed the Fitz-John
Porter bill. 1t was passed over his veto by
the House, but the Senate sustained the veto.
The President nominated John A. KassOn to
be Minister to Germany, Alphonso Taft to be
Minister to Russia, John NJ. Francis to be
Minister to Austria, Lewis Richmond to
he Minister Resident to Portugal; Ward
McAllister, Jr., to be United States Judge of
Alaska; and John Jarrett TO DO Commissioner
of Labor. The Bartho,dt statue was formal
ly presented to the United States, Minister
Morton receiving 1t in Paris. News Of the
rescue OF Lieutenant A. w. Greedy, the arctic
explorer, and number Of his party by the re-
Cholera ragged Ut Toul0n and other cities in
France. many persons falling victims to the
epidemic. Serious anti-Jewish riots in AL
giers. Gen. Porfirio Diaz elected Presi.
dent of Mexico without opposition. France
an indemnity Sna of t,s ssooG
son affair. Premier Ferry ordered Admiral
Courbet to seize the Chinese arsenal at
the Presidency of Peru, and ordered
general election. General Dfaz was
elected & President r,...s of Mexico. o,. The rae
Fouche0n and hold 1t as security until the
indemnity was paid. The Greedy relief ex-
pedition returns from the arctic regions
with Lieut.. Greedy and six Of his surviving
fellow-explorers. Seventeen others of the
was lost while hunting seals. The corpses of
twelve OF the party were brought back the
remains of the other FIVE having been swept
out to sea BY the Winds Greedy and bis
surviving associates would have per-
ished in foity eight hours but i for
honor OF reaching the farthest known
point to tho northward. China makes prep
arations for war with France. Twenty
horse thieves hanged by cowboys In Montana.
Eon Rafael Zalvidary Lazo, President OF the
Republic of San Salvador, arrived at New
York. Mr.. d. l. Moody, the American evan
gelist, arrived In New York from London.
DR.. barnard, OF Nashville, discovers . new
comet. Near Cheeterton, Nd, 2,000 men en-
gagged in q riot at negro campmeeting. In
which one person was killed, ten fatally In
jured, and a number OF others seriously cut.
The President removes Gen. James Long
street from the Marshalship of Georgia.
The National Prohibition Convention, after a
two days session at Pittsburgh June 1924,
nominated John p. st. John, OF Kansas, for
President, and william Daniel. of Maryland,
for Vice President. The Virginia Court of Ap-
peals declared unconstitutional the act of the
Legislature prohibiting school superintend-
ents from taking part in politics.
AUGUST.
The cornerstone of the pedestal for Bar
tholdis statue of Liberty was laid on Bed
loe's Island, New York Harbor. An earth
quake occurred in thirteen Of the United
States. The shock was felt from Richmond,
Virginia, to Portland, Maine, and from the
Atlantic coast to Ohio. Both houses Of the
Parliament of Holland met in joint congress
and passed, by o vote Of % to 8, bill NAM
ing Queen Emma regent dur ng the minority
of the Princess Wiiheimina. The British
House OF Commons passed the Irish Constab-
uiary bill, and voted credit of ESQ, 900 for
an expedition TO relieve General Gordon.
Henry M. Stanley. the African explorer. re-
turned to England, having completed the
work of esta ablishing satisfactory trading sta
tions along the Congo River from it's mouth
to Stanley Pool. l,4oo miles by river.
| suit in favor of the Democracy. China
refuses to accede to the demands of France.
Queen Victoria commissioned Earl North
brook to proceed to Egypt and report on the
condition OF Affairs in that unfortunate
country. Utah county elections result In the
success of the Mormon tickets all over tho
Territory. Capt. Payne and his band of in
vaders expelled from the Indian Territory by
United States soldiers. Severe earthquake
shocks along tho East Atlantic coast. Cow
boys In Montana make another raid on the
horse-thieves with whom that country is in
tested, and lynch twenty-eight of them. Ad-
miral Lespes, with Ave vessels of the French
squadron, b0mbarded and captured the town
OF kelung, on the Island OF FOrmosa. Charges
OF cannibalism in connection with the Greely
expedition cause sensation In the country.
Hanlan, the oarsman, defeated in Australia
by Beach, for the f1rst time in years. Rob
crt Bonner pays w. H. Vanderbilt $4,000
and becomes the owner OF Maud Q. Excite
ment among stockmen in the West over the
outbreak Of pleuro. pneumonia at several
poosa, with ll0 officers and men on board.
sunk OF Martha.s Vineyard, By collision
with the schooner James 8. Lowell. The
lives OF oil but four persons were saved.
Tho French feet bombarded the Chinese port
OF Foo Chow, and the Chinese fieet at the
place was captured. China formally de-
clared war on France ON tho 25th Of August.
AnttJewish riots reported in Western Ruasia.
sEPTEAlBER.
The Car pardons large number of
Nihilists. Conference OF the German, Rus
sian, and Austrian Emperors in Poland. The
Republican Presidential candidate brings
suis for libel against the Indianapolis Sentt-
mel. The cholera causes great destruction of
life In the Italian cities. Capt. Ellsworth
nominated for President by the American
Political Alliance. Severe earthquake shocks
were felt IN Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana on
the 10th OF the month. Ex-senator James w.
Nesmith, OF Oregon, placed in an insane
asylum. Judge Gresham OF Indiana appointed
Secretary Of the Treasury. From the out
break OF the cholera IN Italy 70 Sept. 30,
IL 22Q persons we're ATTACKED aud N5SOS died.
An election n Axkanoas for 0overn0r and
othsf atate o1scers resAtsd ia the slccsss Of
tho Democrntic tleket ~ more than 20 900
majority. The Vermont el6cttons reeulted
favOrably to the Republicans W 40.OO9 ma
jority. a German sunboat, in the name OF
the German Empire, takes possessiOn Of the
Ewost coaet az Africa, between the lith and
3eth degrees south latitude, except walrisch