Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-08-11

MATTERS IN THE WEST.


tional to the trustees of the Parliamentary
fund in London. This makes e2O,O00, or
100000, remtted by the League within
the last few days.
TERRIBLE forest fires are raging along
the line of the Detroit, Mackina and Mar
quette railroad between st. Ignace and
Marquette, Mich. At Newberry $4,000
cords of wood belonging to the Vulcan
Furnace company were burned, and the
furnace will probably be shut down in con-
sequence. Everything is very dry and the
fire runs through the woods with fearful
rapidity. Trains are delayed and crops are
burning up for want of rain. All vegeta-
ton at Cheboygan Is perishing for want of
rain. For several weeks drouth has pre-
vailed, and in many places young fruit
trees are dying. The mercury got up to
107, the hottest ever experienced in North
en Michigan.
PARDEE, Cook & Co.'S saw mill, at
Gun Lake, Mich, was entirely burned with
800, 900 feet of lumber and seven cars owned
by the Flint, Pere and Marquette Railway;
also an adjoining store aud contents. Loss.
$50, 900; insurance, 100000.
THE Farmers National Bank of New
/ Lisbon, Wis, has made an assignment.
The assets amount to $4,000. The liabl-
tiles are not yet known. Much surprise is
expressed at the small amount of assets.
The bank is a copartnership firm, consist
ing of II. E. and w. ID. Macomber and o.
b. Chester.
THREE children of VIM. Hauck, living
three miles from keosauqua, Iowa, n
name Of st. HanGk s,s apd wsSa !Y GbafFn f RX
Moines river and five of them went bathing.
and one getting into deep hole in the
river the others tried to extricate the strug
Cling child and all five were drowned. The
bodies have all been recovered. The chill
dren were aged from ) 10 II years.
Gov. LARRABEE, of Iowa, has issued
| proclamation Offering reward of $500 for
! the arrest and delivery to the proper au-
,horities of the person or persons guilty of
| the murder of Rev. Geo. c. Haddock, at
| Sioux City, the said reward to be paid only
| nron conviction.
A TELEGRAM received from Topeka,
| KAN, states that cyclone struck the town
| of Hartland and demolished twenty houses
and caused great damage to growing crops.
| Sixteen cars were blown from the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe tracks and telegraph
| wires prostrated for two miles west of town.
! The extent of the damage is not yet learned,
but the dispatch stated that no one so far
as learned had been seriously injured. The
storm reached other towns in the vicinity
| Of Hartland, but its effects could not be
| learned.
GRAVE alarm exists throughout the min
ing districts Of Montana over the rapid de-
cline Of silver. The Inter Mountain esti-
mates that $4,000 people in the Territory
are dependent on the mining industry and
other enterprises, fl,cluding merchants,
farmers and mechanics. The recent de-
probation of 10 cents per ounce in silver
repsesents the profits of the mining CON-
panies, which will have to close down un-
less reaction occurs. The lead and cop
per mines, in which silver is an importan'
i-product are also seriously affected
! REPORTS Of the existence of Asiatit
cholera cases have been sent out from Mad
ison, Chippewa Falls and Miladore, Wis
At Miladore eight people have died from
the alleged disease. None Of the reports
are from official sources and the Stats
Board of Health is inclined TO doubt theil
accuracy, while admitting the possibilt,
that cases exist
JOHN f. SMITH was hanged at Gallatin
Mo-, for murder. He ascended the scaffolt
with a firm step and made short speecl
in which he protested complete innocenc'
of the crime. His neck was broken and h
| died without Struggle.
JOE KEssLER and Nat Freeman quar-
relied at Huron, Dakota, and in the igh
which followed Freeman was worsted. AT
, ter the quarrel Freeman went mp town, go
a revolver. and returning to the barn re
, newed the row, which resulted in his shoot
| ing Kessler. The ball entered the left sid
| OF ms neau ABOVE Me ear, uLtklnS u uan
cerous wound, from which he cannot re
, cover.
II CAPT. HALL, formerly chief Of the Unite'
( States secret service in Chicago, was sho
, dead by woman. The tragedy occurre'
at No. 476 Wabash avenue. No other de
] tails have been given. Capt. Hall la
i lately been stationed at st. Louis, but re
sgned a few days ago and went back +
Chicago.
VI The Court House, Jail and several stores
saloons and the Exchange Hotel burned q
Baldwin, Mich. Loss, go. 900; insurance
) $l6,O0O.
$ TIE Chicago manufacturers OF butterin
aud oleomargarine met in conference I
j | talk over the recent action Of Congress re
. parding their industry and agree upon
) plan to test the validity Of the oleomargs
! rine bill. Eleven Chicago factories ver
] represented. G. NJ. Sterne, Of Sterns
! pasis. presiding. The bin We discussed