Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-02-11
THE LATEST IN GENERAL.

NEAR Creston, IOWA, a ~wcst-bound
passenger train on the Burlington and
Missouri River Railroad struck a broken
rail as 1t approached a bridge. which
caused the ent'rc train. including two
couches and a sleeper filed with passen-
gers, TO be hurled down the e~mbankment.
The following were killed: Robert
Brown and son G. Ii. Brown, of Mount
Pleasant, Iowa; Mrs. w. G. Carroll, San
Sache, Col; Mrs. VIM. Powell, New AL.
bany, Ind; Mrs. M. Farrell, Prescott,
Iowa; Isaac Waterman. Corning, Iowa.
A large number Of the passengers were
injured, some probably fatally.
THE machine shops and engine house
of the Burlington and Western Narrow
Gauge Railroad at Burlington, Iowa,
were destroyed by fire. Three locomo.
tives and other machinery were ruined.
A HARD glove fight between Ward and
McCartin for $500. at Milwaukee, Wis,
was won by McCartin in two hours.
Twenty-seven rounds were fought.
EDGEL Sc1DMoRE, while switching in
the Wisconsin Central yards at Stevens
Points, Wis, was instantly killed by fall.
ing under the cars.
THREE boilers exploded in the Fern
Mich Starch Works at Peoria. ILL.,, the
building being totally demolished, caus.
ing a loss of over 500, 600. Ephraim
Doolittle and Andrew Besier, employees,
were killed by the explosion.
ATTIRE at Helena, Ark, destroyed John
X. Coleridge & Sons saw-mill. Loss,
$25, 600.
THE labor crisis in France is causing
great alarm. All efforts for relief by the
Government appear to be futile. There
are 10000 idle men in Paris and at least
a million more in the provinces,
San FRANCISCO dispatches state that a
disastrous explosion occurred in the gun.
powder works at Fatshan, China, four
teen miles from Canton. Two hundred
and fifty employees are reported killed
LEE LINN, editor of the Wabash, Ind,
Courier, shot and killed VIM. Hickey.
Linn claims hat he acted in self defense,
as Hickey had threatened to take his life.
JOHN MONAGHAN, q prominent business
man of Detroit. and heavily interested
in lumber enterprises at Alpena, Mich,
has made an assignment. Liabilities,
$4,000; assets, 5000.
A FIRE in an annex of the Signal Ser
vice building at Washington, destroyed
or damaged a number of valuable meteoro-
logical records and almost ruined some
of the finest instruments in the Office.
The officials say the records destroyed
cannot be replaced.
ODoNoyAN Rosa and Mrs. Dudley
are both in daily receipt of threatening
letters from all parts Of the country.
BILLS passed the Senate Feb. 8 increas-
ing the appropriation for public buildings
at Quincy. ILL.,, to $500. 600; Peoria, ILL.,,
to $245, 0Oo. Mr.. Van Wyck received
unanimous consent for the consideration
of the House bill to prevent the unlawful
Enclosure of public lands, better known
as the fencing bill. The House amend
ment to the Senate bill was %concurred in.
The nnti-silver coinage bill was taken up,
and the Senate then went into executive
session. The House of Representatives
went into Committee of the Whole for
consideration CT the postoffice appropria-
ton bill. Mr.. Townshend explained the
provisions Of the bin, and said it was the
most important postal appropriation bill
ever reported to Congress. Mr. Hoar op-
posed the provision of the bill which
changed the methods Of compromising the
railroads. Pending further debate the
committee rose.