Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-11-03
NEWS CONDENSED.
Items of Interest From all Parts
OF the World.
THE EAST.

IT is estimated at the treasury depart
hnent that the reduction of the public debt
during October amounts to 81, 2,OOO, 900.
The Government receipts ,during the
first four months Of the present year, end
ing Oct. 80. were 1927, 7,S44,377, being $14,-
l6s,s9l in excess of receipts during the
corresponding period of last year. The
expenditures during the same period of
1886 were $S2, 2,254, ,O35, being $ll,9ls. .451
less than the expenditures during the same
period of last year.
The Executive Committee of the Miners
and Laborers' Association held a mass
meeting of miners in Shamokin, Pa, at
which 800 men were present. The entire
body favored a strike for an advance in
wages asked for, and the meeting agreed to
stop work throughout the region, and then
decide the matter finally. The miners
claim that the coal companies are dodging
he.question and have had ample time to
give their decision. They will not force
the issue.
FROM the annual report of Second As
sistant Postmaster. General A. Lee Knott
1t appears that the annual rate of expendi-
ture for railroad transportation on the 3Oth
Of June. 1886, was Sl5,52O, ,19l, as against
Sl4, 4,75s, 495 on the 30th of June, 1885. The
estimates for the next fiscal year are S15,-
s67, ,962, being an increase of only 1912 $50
over the appropriation for the current year.
AN excursion party of citizens Of West
ern New York Travelled on the Lehigh VAL
ley Railroad in a special train bound for
New York, to be present at the Liberty
Statue Inauguration. Among the party
were Miss Lillian Quick and her aunt
Miss Quick was daughter of wealthy pa
rents, living at Ithaca, N. Y. In passing
through the Pattenburg tunnel the smell of
the gases made Miss Quick sick. As soon
as the train reached the end of the under
ground passage Miss Quick went out on
the platform of the car for a breath Of
fresh air. Just then the train gave lurch
as it rounded a curve in the road, and the
young lady was thrown off the platform to
the ground. The train was stopped. but
when the unfortunate girl was reached life
was extinct.
LETTER received from her physician in
New York states that Miss Cleveland's
health is entirely broken down. Unless
there is soon a change in Miss Cleveland's
health, she will spend the winter in the
south of France or in Florida.
THE unwilling of the Bartholdi Statue of
Liberty Enlightening the World in New
York Halbor was the occasion of great
celebration, in which fully million people
participated. The dedication exercises
were opened with prayer by Rev. DR.. Rich
ard &. Stoirs, and Count Ferdinand de
Lesseps then delivered an address on be-
half of the Franco American Union. SEN
ator VIM. NJ. Evart next made the presen-
tation address, following which President
Cleveland formally accepted the statue.
After President Cleveland, came NJ. A. La
Fevre, Minister Plenipotentiary, who spoke
as the representative of the Republic of
France, followed by Count de Lesseps.
The ceremony Of unveiling the Statue of
Liberty then took place and was followed
by salvo from all the guns in the harbor.
The commemoration address was delivered
by Chancey NJ. Depew. The ceremonies
were closed with the benediction, pro-
nounced by Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter, d.
d., assistant bishop of the diocese of New
York. A national salute was then fred
simultaneously by all the batteries in the
harbor, afloat and ashore.
The rolling mill of the Old Colony Iron
Works at East Taunton. Mass, burned,
causing loss of $3.50, 1000; partially in-
sured.
GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT JAMIsoN.
OF the railway mail service, in his annual
report for the fiscal year ended June 80
last, shows that at the close of the year the
railway postofice lines in operation num-
bered 81, occupying 435 whole cars and
1869 apartments in cars. q. +. McDon-
aid. superintendent of the money order
system, in his annual report to the Post
master General showing the operations Of
that service during the last fiscal year,
shows that the patronage of the system
amounted to $l,200,O52 remittances, an in
crease of over per cent.