Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-12-09
TELEGRAPHIC.
Condensed Electric Sparks, Fresh
From the Wires.
DOIN0s AT THE EAST.

AT Pittsburg, Pa, the tow boat Iron
City was wrecked by an explosion. in
which two men were killed and six seri.
ously injured The boat struck the main
which carries natural gas to the iron
works across the river, breaking the pipe
The gas caught fire from the furnace and
an explosion ensued. demolishing the
boat, and instantly killing Engineer Geo.
Ashton and an employe named Johnson.
The boat was insured for $4,000.
THE Atlantic express, Erie Train No. !,
limited, from the west running forty TO
fifty miles an hour. ran of the track at
Sec. Station, n. Y. The baggage cars
and three OF four sleepers were burned
and the locomotive wrecked Engineer
Henry Allen was killed The passengers
were more or less shaken up, but none
were seriously hurt The accident was
caused by misplaced switch,
A PROMINENT physician, who was Mr.
Hendricks friend and attendant for a
longer period than any other physician,
says Mr. Hendricks did not C of hear,
paralysis Several years ago MIR. Hen.
bricks was stricken with paralysis, from
which he never fully recovered, and as
is usual in cases of paralysis clot was
formed that eventually reached the brain
and caused death
THIRD AUDITOR WILLIAMS reports that
during November he made acquisitions
for sic III ,243. Of which 410,97 143 was
for army pensions.
THE commissioner of Pensions has is,
sued an order that after Jan | claimants
will be required, before pension agents
withhold any portion of the attorney s
fees, to make an affidavit stating in detail
the time and manner of payment. The
order is issued in the hope Of expediting
matters SO as to relieve overburdened ap-
peal dockcts.
THE coinage executed at the mint dur.
ing November was ~, 653. $50, of which
81, 500, 600 was in standard silver dollars.
A MAN supposed to be Andrew Cope.
len. of Kansas City, on his way to Eu.
rope jumped from train on the Pitts
burg, Cincinnati and St Louis Road near
Richmond, Ind. When picked up he W as
unconscious and his skull fractured, His
condition is critical.
ALLISON SANDERS, Il l,-year old boy.
suicided at Akron, Ohio, by blowing out
his brains with revolver No cause as,
signed
FIRE at Sharon Springs, \. u, de
stroyed the Empire Block and adjoining
property, including a number Of stores
The loss is $50, 900; partly insured
In collision between two freight
trains near Washington, Pa, on the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad. John Rider
''and Frank Snyder, both train men. were
| scalded to death. Three others John
Morris, j. o. Reynolds and Frank Dean
were badly mangled.
/ The statement of the public debt is
sued Dec. 9 shows an increase for No.
| vember of 81, 4s7, 600
/ DrRiNG the temporary absence of Mrs.
Patrick Fitzgerald, of Providence, H. l.,
from home, her children in some way
set fire to a mattress in a crib in which
the youngest was Sleeping and the three
little ones, aged four, three and one year,
were suffocated
! A WASHINGTON special says that both
Messrs. Morrison, of Illinois, and Ran
dali of Pennsylvania, are drafting tariff
bills TO be presented at the coming meet.
ing of Congress. The features of neither
have been made public.