Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-12-30
ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Nj. FRANCOIS jules p. GREW. was re-
elected President of the French Republic in
joint vote of the Senate and Chamber Of
Deputies acting in National Assembly. NJ.
Greyy's total majority was 1876.
DURING drunken row in Duus Bros.
saloon ut Scotland, Dakota, Thos. Camp
bell, farmer was kicked in the ribs by G..
II. Singer, a prominent business man of
the place. Sevcra! Of Campbelfs ribs were
broken, and he was seriously injured inter
nally, from the effects of which he died.
Singer has fled the country, and reward
has been offered for his apprehension.
AN exciting glove contest occurred at Chi
cago, between Jack Burke, of Chicago, and
Mike Cleary, of New York, in which the
latter was knocked ont in the third round.
The match was witnessed by fully 1000 peo-
pie.
Two BROTHERS named Matthew and
Walter Evans, sons of Jas. Evans, of Spirit
Lake, Iowa, were drowned in West Okoboji
Lake. They were going to visit brother
in-law on the west side, and skated into q
large seam. Both We're young men, the
younger being 10 years Of age. Matt, the
elder. leaves a wife and five small children.
Both bodies have beed recovered.
REPORTS from st. Petersburg and Vienna
are that the feeling is gaining that there
will he war between Russia and Austria over
the Balkan dispute. Active war prepara-
tons by both countries have been going on
ever since the outbreak of hcstilities be.
tween Seryia and Bulgaria, and the Rrs sian
and Austrian Armies are being actively and
secretly put ON n war footing. Much color
is given to these reports by heavy orde rs for
stores and munitions of war lately placed by
the Russian and Austrian Governments in
London.
CAPT. SAMUEL P. HAvERFIELp, Of Ga
diz. Ohio, a clerk III the property division
in the Second Auditors Bureau. committed
suicide at Washington by shooting himself
in the left temple. He had been suffering
from dyspepsia and it is thought he COM
initted the deed when under n temporary
alteration of mind.
In Floyd County, Georgia, William Craw-
ford was shot ana killed by julius Ward.
The latter, riding in buggy with friend,
began firing at Crawford. The two then ell.
gagged in tisticuff, when Ward jerked out
his pistol and fired. Crawford fell mortally
wounded, and Ward escaped into Alabama.
GOV. CAMERON, of Virginia. has par
doned James Young, of Petersburg, who
shot George Hinton, brother of ex- Senator
and Judge Hinton. Young had served out
half his time.
STRIKE of serious proportions was in
augurated in Maxwell Bros Box Factory,
corner of Loomis and Twenty second street,
machinery into the works. One hundred
and fifty men threw down their tools and
left the place.
AT Gainstorn, Clark County, Ala, Alex
ander Reid. negro who recently brutally
murdered Miss Carrie Boyer at that place,
was chained to tree at the spot where the
crime was committed and slowly burned to
death by crowd of indignant whites and
blacks.
Mrs. LIZZIE SHEPARD committed sui
eide at Plainfield, N. J., by breaking the ice
in Glenbrook and throwing herself in head
foremost. The watey was but three feet
deep. She left note addressed to her hus-
band and mother saying she preferred deatl
t. ping insane.