Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-02-10
ADDITIONAL NEWS

.~-THE President has nominated the fol-
lowing postmasters: Jared c. Gregory,
Madison. Wis; E. p. Jaycox, Sandwich,
ILL.,: Isaac d. Lear, Salem, ILL.,. Benjamin
NJ. Tobias, Washington, H.; Willis I.
Grimes, Batavia, H.; T. B. Hanan, New
Hampton, Iowa.
THE Senate has confirmed the nomina-
tons Of Mark w. Sheafe, Register of the
Land Office at Waterown, Dakota, F. M.
Ziebach, Receiver of Public Monies al
Yankton, Dakota.
DURING quarrel at Houston, Texas, be-
tween Carroll Perry, stockman, and Hen
ry Williams, a policeman, Perry shot Will
liams dead Perry was arrested and put III
Jail,
The unemployed mechanics of London
held a meeting at Trafalgar Square, around
Nelson Monument which resulted in a riot.
The proceedings opened with 10000 men
present The police were present in large
numbers. Conspicuous among the leaders
Of the multitude was Burns, who ran as
the socialistc candidate in Nottingham in
the recent election. He delivered an adj
dress to the multitude, and read fiercely
worded resolution denouncing the authors
of the present distress as English and de-
manding that Parliament start public works
to give employment ana bread to the tens of
thousands of deserving men who were out
of work through no fault Of their
own. but because of bed government.
The resolution also demanded the immedi-
ate appointment of a Minister of Commerce
and Minister of Agriculture, and concluded
with the resolve that copies should be for
warlcd to Gladstone, Salisbury, Parnell
and the Board of Public Works. The read
ing of the resolution was accompanied with
fierce comment and short explanatory
speeches by various orators who stood with
Burns. After the resolution had been Of
| fered and seconded, and was about to be
submitted to the crowd for approval the
police ordered the proceedings to be dis
continued on the pedestal and commanded
Burns and his colleagues to come down.
This they refused to do, and the officers
thereupon dragged them down by force and
drove them from the pedestal. The meet
| ing was then abandoned, and the mob soon
became engaged in riot of large dimen-
sions, defying the authorities, attacking
shops, sacking saloons, and smashing win
| dows. 1t is stated that never before in the
| present generation has such disturbance
occurred in London with so little loss Of
! blood Some officials declare that upwards
! of 81, 900 men must have been rioting for at
least six hours, with absolute possession of
every thoroughfare they chose to invade,
yet no loss of life is reported. If the police
had been strong enough to attack the mob
at any point there might have been terrible
records made.
| MIR. EusTIs offered II resolution in the Senate
on the 9Th inst. directing the Finance Committee
| to inquire whether it had been the custom for
| the Assistant Treasurer ut New Orleans to re-
ceiyc deposits of standard silver dollars from the
shippers of said coin, and to issue to their CORE
| spondents at New Orleans receipt for the sill
yer, subject to count and to issue silver eertf-
Gates after the count of said dollars so deposited
had been made, and whether said custom, il it
prevailed had been changed by instructions Of
the Treasurer OF the United States, and the rea-
sons therefor ALSO whether said custom WIS
now in force at any other subtreasury. After
| quite & lengthy debate in which Mcssrs Teller,
German, Sherman, Pugh and Harris participated,
the resolution went over till the following day.
| Mr.. Henderson introduced n resolution in tho
| House of Representatives requesting the Secre-
tary OF the Treasury to submit TO the House his
views as to the limits Of the cost now fixed by
law Of public buildings now in course OF construc-
tion or authorized to be constructed and to state
whether, in his Judgment, the limits now fixed
are such as will enable the Department to erect
suitable buildings. Mr. Springer introduced a
bill to enable the people Of Dakota, east of the
Missouri River, to form a Constitution and State
| Government.