Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-05-19
such bill presented and passed before the

such bill presented and passed before the
adjournment Of the present session.
EDWARD STEWART, aged II, "a SON Of
Gen. Edward A. Stewart, Paymaster in the
United States Navy, stationed at New York,
was thrown from horse at Wigwam, near
Pueblo, Col, and fatally injured. Young
Stewart went to Colorado two months ago,
and has been living on a ranch near Wig
wan.
AN east bound passenger train on the In
dianapolis, Bloomington and Western Road
ran into washout culvert near Newcastle,
Henry County, Ind. The engine, baggage
car and first passenger car plunged into the
abyss. J. v. Trenary, the engineer, and
James Hudson, fireman, and an unknown
passenger, were instantly killed in the
crush and the baggageman and conductor
severely injured. All the passengers were
more or less bruised, but mono seriously
hurt.
NEARLY all the salmon fishermen at As
toria, Oregon, have resumed work, the can
merry men having acceded to the demands Of
IS cents per fish for those caught in can
merry boats and rs cents for those caught
outside the boats. The season opened April
l, but no fish have been caught, as the fish,
ermen to the number Of 5000 have held out
for their wages.
DURING the past month Fields phar-
macy, at Tuscola, ILL.,, has been burglarized
at different times to the amount of $500.
The proprietor has traced the robbery to
four boys, aged from Is to 20, sons of re-
spectacle and well known citizens, but has
thus far refrained from having them ar
rested and prosecuted under the law.
The steamship Acadia, of Baltimore, has
been lost. She sailed from Port Antonio,
Jamaica, April 10, with a cargo of bananas.
A few days ago vessel arriving at Boston
reported passing the pilot house Of a
steamer at sea. The description was much
like that of the Acadia. Shortly after the
Acadia sailed cyclone prevailed in the vi
cinity of the West Indies, and it is pre-
sumed she was caught in it. There were
some seventy four persons on board.
WORK has been resumed in the North
Chicago Rolling Mill company's works at
Bay View, Wis. The laborers, previously
paid $1.10 per day, will now receive $l.40.
The wages of boiler-tenders, formerly 80
per day, will hereafter be $2.65.
TERRIFIC tornado, accompanied by
rain, struck Leavenworth, Kan. The Morris
public school was unroofed. Nine hundred
children were in attendance. The roof Of
warehouse was blown into the street, killing
three horses and injuring the driver.
VERDICT for $1l6,5 500 was rendered by
the Circuit Court Jury at Chicago in favor
of the United States against Gen. John A.
Macarthur and his bondsmen, Thomas s.
Dobbins, James Steel, Carlish Mason, r.
M. Hough, John Ashton, Charles Hopkins
and Solomon keehan. The case was q suit
by the Government to recover money that
Gen. Macarthur was short when, ~ Post
master at Chicago, he surrendered his Office
i6IU75 The dsl1uss w m0E c. -
Arthur deposited The money in ths Cook
Comfy Bank, which soon after went into
the hands Of receiver, who failed to give
credit for the amount deposited on account
of the United States. 1t was claimed by
Gen. Macarthur that he should be credited
with $4,000 for work done on Government
buildings in Lincoln, Neb., and San Fran
cisco. Only the sum of $1,000 of the al
legged effects was allowed by the jury.