Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-11-04
TELEGRAPHIC.
Condensed Electric Sparks, Fresh
From the Wires.
DOINGS AT THE EAST.

FERDINAND WARD, OF the bankrupt
firm of Grant & Ward, New York, re
Gently convicted of swindling. was SEN
fenced by Judge Barrett TO ten years i'm
prisonment in the Sing Sing Penitentiary.
GEN. GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN died sud
denly at his residence at st. Cloud. on
Orange Mountain, n j., of rheumatism
of the heart He had been under his
physicians care for couple of weeks,
but his illness had not been considered
serious. He died surrounded by his fam
lily.
ELLEN FINN plead guilty at Cincinnati
to making false atfidavits in support OF q
pension claim, and was sentenced in the
United States Court to one year in prison
therefor. She continued to draw the
pension after she married the second
time.
THos. FLETCHER, aged 40. was arrested
at Cahoes N. Y, for assault on his l2-
year old ward, Hattie Ellin. The affair
has caused great excitement in that To-
cality.
THE Coroner's jury in the inquest on
the victims of the recent collision on the
Pennsylvania Railway, which occurred
on Newark Meadows recently, rendered
verdict censuring the road, and hold
ing the fagman, Howard Rhodes, of the
emigrant train, and Operator Pratt re-
sponsible for the accident. Rhodes and
Pratt were locked up on charge OF
manslaughter.
A WASHINGTON dispatch referring to
the coming Presidents message, says:
"The administration will take very posi-
tive ground upon financial questions.
Jordan and Manning will recommend in
their reports the suspension of silver
coinage and the President will indorse
their views"
IT Is estimated that the decrease Of the
public debt during the month of October
will amount to $13 500, 900.
THE annual report of Gen. Drum, Ad-
iutant General of the Army, just fur
nished for publication, says it affords
him much pleasure to state that the
number of desertions from the army dur
ing The past year has s,nsibly decreased,
being 754 less than the number stated in
his last report.
DIR. NOAH PORTER, for the past thir.
teen years President of Yale College,
has rendered his resignation to take ef-
feet from the next commencement No
reason for resigning is given.
The Postoffice Department has rem
dered decision directing that postal
affixed shall be Immediately delivered tho
same as letters with the extra stamp.
THE widow of Gen. Grant has been
greatly grieved and panied by the public
discussion of the domestic affairs OF her
daughter, Mrs Nellie Sartors The Phil
adelphia Ledger has been authorized to
say that all reports TO the effect that Mrs.
Sartoris has applied, or contenplates ap-
plying for divorce or separation from
her husband are entirely without founda-
ton and are cruel words to her feelings
THE Gates Steel Works, at Johns
town, Pa, have been ordered closed for
an indefinite period Five hundred men
are affected.
THE jury in the Ferdinand Ward case,
on trial at New York, rendered a verdict
of larceny in the first degree. The pen
atty is ten years within the discretion of
the court The case will be taken to the
Court Of Appeals. The jury first stood
eight for conviction and four for acquit-
tai. On the second ballot it was ten for
conviction. and on the third it was
eleven to one.
THE Surveyor General of the Marine
Hospital Service has received report
from Surgeon Murray, in charge of the
gulf quarantine station at Ship Island.
that there are three cases of yellow fever
at that station. They were taken frosn
the schooner Indianola, which had Just
arrived from Havana 1t is expected that
two of them will be fatal.