Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-11-17
NEWS CONDENSED.
Items Of Interest From all Parts
OF the World.
THE EAST.

smallpox are reported at Cleveland, Ohio.
Two deaths from the disease have oc-
CURED.
HEAVY snow-storms are reported from
various New York cities and other Eastern
points.
THE residence of S. H. Bake proprietor
of the Pennsylvania car works at Latrobe,
Pa, was destroyed on the 11th inst, by
the explosion OF natural gas in the heating
furnaces. The family narrowly escaped.
IT is stated that the internal revenue off,
cials are surprised at the magnitude of the
receipts under the oleomargarine law, and
that the figures for the week it has been IN
cQsls indicate that the revenue for the
full fiscal year will be $l,0Oo,oOo to
81, 500, 900.
THE report that the Pennsylvania Rail-
raid surplus Of 800, 1000, 600 would be used
for acquiring controlling interest in the
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad was
without foundation.
JESSE H. LORD, a well-known editor,
fatally shot himself, last Wednesday, on
the grave of his wife at Hartford, Conn.
The magnificent st. Peters Roman
Catholic Cathedral, in Allegheny City. Pa,
was totally destroyed by fire on Friday
night last. The edifice cost $l75,OO and
was expensively furnished, the organ cost
ing $4,000, and the altar, with its furnish
ings, $4,000. The loss is estimated at over
100000; fully insured.
The decree of the Baltimore Catholic
Council, prohibiting, or at least deprecat-
ing, the solomnization of Roman Catholic
marriages after sundown, will be rigidly
enforced, and Bishops and Archbishops
throughout the west and northw west will in
struct the priests to impress the decree
upon their congregation.
FRANCIS MCCABE. one of the Doodle
aldermen of New York, who was recently
adjudged insane, has been turned over to
the custody Of his family under $4,000
bonds.
LIEUT.-GEN. SHERIDAN reports to the
Secretary of War that the army of the
United States, at the date of the last re-
turns, consisted of 2,1O2 officers and o.
946 men.
| NEWLY designed two dollnr silver certi-
ticates will he issued from the Treasury
Department in few days. They will soon
be followed by an issue of five dollar ceri-
ticates, the design for which has just been
adopted.
MRS. NELLIE JONES, aged 80 years, said
to be the Oldest member of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union in the United
States, died at Smyrna, Del, Sunday, the
9Th inst.
The total collections of internal revenue
from the time the present system was or
ganized, July /, 1862, up to June 80, 1886,
were 80, 43S, 800, ass.
A DIsHATCH from Philadelphia states
that special committee of prominent di-
vines appointed at recent meeting of the
Methodist Ministerial Association has is
sued an address to the pastors of the vari-
GUS churches in that vicinity requesting
them to raise funds among their parishon-
oners for the prosecution Of the murderers
Of Rev. George c. Haddock, the Sioux
City Qowa) divine who lost his life in the
cause of temperance. The funds thus OBJ
tanned will be turned over to the Methodist
Council Of Sioux City for such use as it
may deem best in the prosecution.
The annual report of Commissioner of
Customs McCalmont to the Secretary of
the Treasury shows that during the past fis-
cal year there was paid into the Treasury
from sources, the accounts relating to
which are settled in his office, $l94, ,3S4,-
500, of which $780,, 1897, ,S4a was received
from customs duty.
FIFTH AUDITOR EICKHoFF, in his an-
nual report to the Secretary of the Treas
ury, shows that during the last fiscal year
l0,S35 accounts were settled in his Office,
involving $S10,5SS,2l1. In the consular
services the expenditures were 5000, sos,
being $19,035 in excess of the receipts.
The amount of consular fees collected dur
ing the year was 1881. $40, an increase over
the previous year of $780, 1924.