Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-12-02
TELEGRAPHIC.
Condensed Electric Sparks, Fresh
From the Wires.
DoINGs AT THE EAST.

LETTERS OF administration nave been
granted upon the estate of John McCul-
Tough, the actor, to the Guarantee Trust
and Safe Deposit Company, of Philadel
phia The property Is valued at $45 600
Of which $4,000 is in personal eaects.
Mr.. Mccullough died intestate.
THE trial in New York of James T.
Holland, the Texan, for the murder of
Thomas Davis has been indefinitely
postponed.
THE New York weekly bank statement
shows reserve decrease of $196, coo,
Banks now hold sa7,00o.OOO in excess of
legal Requirements,
Af!1sfEr- E0Hys' shirt factory and Kline
Bros gents furnishing store. Baltimore,
burned Loss, $4,000; insurance not
known.
JAY Cooks residence at Chiffon Hill,
Pa, was entered by burglars and robbed
of diamonds and other valuables valued
at S2j 600
AT Washington. ID. c., r chard Lee,
coored, while in jealous fit, shot and
killed his wife. He was arrested and
lodged in jail
Two OLD gentlemen named Hendrix
about tc buy land near Shclbyville. Ind,
were robbed of 81, 600 at the hotel where
they bunked. A man named Marshall
was arrested on suspicion, and the prop,
erty was found in an clubhouse
A PRIZE fight occurred at Boston be-
tween JAS. Driscoll and Henry Rourke
for $3.50. The former won in the thir-
teenth round, after desperate contest
in which both men were terribly pun
ished
DvRISG October, %, 91S immigrants ar
rived in this country, a decrease of G,179
compared with October, 1884.
WILLIAM BRADBURS, of Chicago, and
{ William Gabrig, of Pttsburg, fought
three rounds with hard gloves for q
purse Of $500, on a boat on the Monon-
gahela River. Bradburn had everything
I his own way.
I In the Supreme Court at Washington,
in the case Of Moffatt and Field against
( Stephen Kurtz, appealed from the Su.
pcrior Court of the City and County of
+ San Francisco, the decision of the lower
/ court was reversed The effect of til S
j decision is that neither Il police officer
j nor private citizen, in his capacity as
such officer as citizen. can lawfully ar
rest without warrant or order of IN @litary
authority dcserter of the United States
Army.
Mrs. LOUISE SrEGER. in fit of tenn
! porary insanity, jumped from fourth
/ story window with her babe in her arms,
at Jersey City The little one was
dashed to death on the pavement. anG
the oman received probably fatal in
striking on an iron railing. When hel
husband discovered what had been done
he tried to cut his throat, but was pre-
vented by the police,
( CHIEF CLERK YouMANs, of the Treas
ury, who has general charge of the pur
chase of supplies for public buildings
under the Treasury Department has de
termined that contracts for such sup
plies must be made at regular market
rates, and that where proposals for such
supplies are in excess Of such rates pur
chases shall be made in the open market
THE Superintendent of the burned In
sane Infrmary at Sandusky, Ohio, In,
discovered that three of the four inmate
supposed to have been saved are still
missing. Whether they escaped ans
wandered into the country or burned tc
death is unknown
THE name of Frank j. Park, of Mar
tinsburg, w Va, has been sent to til,
President for his approval as Chief O
the Division of Public Lands in the Gen
eral Land Office in place of nj. +. n
Howell Gen Sparks. the Comm s
soner. states that he intends soon to re
place Messrs. Clark and Walker, chief
of the other divisions, with new men
-Four chiefs of divis on in that depart
ment will then he new men.
THE monument erected al Noun
Hoyse Cemetery, Boston, in honor o
Edward Kelly. the Irish leader. sen
fenced to lie hanged, drawn and quar-
tered in 1867. has been unveiled
IT is said at the Navy Department tha
the new steel cruisers Boston and AT
lantic will be ready to receive their off
GERS and crews about March /. and tha
the cruiser Chicago will be lauuche,
about Dec 1. but will not be ready 70
service before the end of next year