Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-08-26
TELEeRAPnIC NEWS.
Condensed Electric Sparks, Fresh
FROM the Wires.
DOINGs AT THE EAST.

FRITZ FIEN and Julius WOlh, sailors
belonging to the German bark Mozart.
from Hamburg. fought ON board the ship
at New York. Fien stabbed Wolff with
his sheath knife. Wolff in turn opened
wound a foot long across the abdomen
of his assailant, killing him instantly.
Wolf will also die
THE expense of Gen. Grants funeral
will reach as high as $4,000. Mr.. Nor.
ritt, the undertaken, says he does not
think the public will ever know the ex.
act cost. Mrs. Grant employed him to
bury the General, and he said it was 70
her he would send the bill He said \
would be at least two months before he
could get the bill ready.
TUE Issue Of standard silver dollars
from the mints during the week ending
Aug. Is was $500, ,461.
COMMISSIONER THoMAN, OF the Civil
Service Commission, thinks the messen-
gers to be selected for the delivery of
the special 10 cent stamp letters, will be
appointed under the civil service law.
AT Nanticoke Pa, Andrew Andra, q
miner, shot at the wife of Joseph Towski
because she would not elope with him.
and then killed himself The woman
was unbarmed.
COMPLAINTS having been received al
the Department Of Agriculture that the
sorghum seed distributed this year failed
to grow, samples of it were tested in the
gardens of the department. and it ha.
been found that only about 10 per cent
Of it would sprout.
MARY GALE, who for fifteen years ha!
been domestic in the family of Mr.
Casey, of Union. N. Y, burned his barn
with its contents, because he would mo-
let her go to circus:
THE case of alleged cholera at Cam
den, N. j., proves to have been cholers
morbus, induced by green apples.
THE Boston Manufacturing Conf
of Waltham, has shut down its cotton
mill for an indefinite period, thereby Civ
ing about six hundred employees q forced
vacation.
The Secretary of the Navy reports
thirty nine vessels as the serviceable
navy. There are 1,l42 officers to run
them.
M. J. FITZPATRICK, Charles Ortiz John
Kay, Herman Gross, and NJ Wise, EN-.
ploycs of A. r. Borland & Co, whole
sale boot and shoe dealers of Pittsburg,
have been arrested on charge of plum
dering the firm of $4,000 worth OF
goods.
ELLA MORRISON, young lady i'll with
typhoid fever at Huron Street Hospital,
Cleveland, left her room during the alb
sence of the nurse and fell or jumped
over the railing in the upper hall She
fell distance Of thirty feet, striking on
a steam heater. Her skull was crushed
both arms broken, and death soon fol
lowed
In Cleveland, Ohio, Mary Robinson
pushed Hannah Stokes, who was intoxi
Gated and abusive, down a flight of stairs,
breaking her neck. Death was almost
instantaneous.
WILLIAM CARLETON, aged SO, the we'll.
known actor committed suicide in New
York by turning on the gas and shutting
off all ventilation in his ROOM His re-
mains were taken in charge by the
Actors Fund Society
THE Ohio Democratic State Conven-
ton met at Columbus and renominated
Gov. Hoadley. The remainder Of the
ticket was made up as follows: For Lieu.
tcSant Governor, G. Warwick; Judge OF
the Supreme Court Chas. ID. Martin
Treasurer, Peter Brady; Attorney Gen
cral, Jas. Lawrence; Member of the
Board of Public Works, Henry Weible
THE schedules in the assignment OF
Edward w. Sadlicr, of New York, show
liabilities of 1914, 175; nominal assets, $4S,
10S; actual assets, $43, 800.
THE dead body of LYDIA Burnett was
found on the roadside near Boxville, Ind,
with the throat cut. Medical examina.
ton proved that the unfortunate girl had
been outraged A farm hand living in
the vicinity has been arrested on suspi
cion.
In regard to the allegation that the In
ternal Revenue Bureau had discovered a
large number of counterfeit beer stamps
in use, the statement is made that some
seizures of stamps were made in New
York, Missouri, and Arkansas, and that
in each case when submitted to experts
they were pronounced genuine.
THE Treasury Department has pur.
chased 2O0, 900 ounces of silver ore fol-
delivery at the Philadelphia mint fol
coinage into standard dollars. 1t is
learned at the department that there is
now quite a brisk movement OF silver
dollars all over the country. The issue
averages about 100000 a week more
than during the same period Of last year,
and is slightly in excess of the regular
monthly coinage Of $4,000, 600.
THE Postoffice Department has been
informed that q shortage has been dis
covered in the accounts of the Postmas-
ter at Chico, Cal. II has been made good
by the Postmaster, but he has been sus.
pended and his sureties have been re.
quested to esgnate somebody 10 take
charge of the Office until new postmas-
ter 10 appointed.
Ar Vincennes, Ind, Will Clark stabbed
and killed Jacob H. Voves. with whom
he had trouble about woman. Clark
escaped.