Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-12-01
NEWS CONDENSED.
Items OF Interest From all Parts
Of the World.
THE Fast.

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sefused payment t. contractors who have
i,een repaving certain streets with gran it,
because he has been informed that after
The bids for the improvement were SUBJ
mitted TO the Board OF Public Works, and
before they were computed by the en-
gineer, tile figures on two items in the sue
cessful bids were changed from 81 and
$3.50 respectively, 10 $1.99 and $3.50, by
attaching a straight line to the ciphers.
II makes ference Of S7,0O0 on one
street. The Board Of Pull lie Affairs will
Investigate. The change Of figures il APP
parent.
GEORGE e. Mcneil, Chairman OF Dis
trict Assembly 80, Knights of Labor, agrees
to run for Mayor of Boston rs the labor
candidate at the coming municipal election,
If 1000 names are secured TO II pledge in
which the signeis agree to vote for him.
Between 1900 and 5000 had been obtained
up to Saturday night.
EASTERN coal operators report a number
of mines along the Monongahela valley,
aud also along the railroads, which are not
running full because Of the scarcit, Of mi
ners. Many of those digging have become
discouraged at the low wages and frequent
strikes, and have left for other coal re-
sions, or accepted employment in the mills
and with natural gas companies.
THE main building and three annexed
buildings of the Newburgh Wooden mills
burned on the 22d inst. Loss estimated at
81, 1000; partly insured. O1e hundred aud
twenty persons are thrown out Of employ
mcnt.
The number of business failures in The
United States and Canada for the week
ending November 20, was 210, against 24a
the week before, and 23l the week before
that.
In his annual report to the Secretary of
War, Paymasstcr- General William IL.
Rochester says that total Of Si3,4A4, 733
was disbursod TO the army during the fiscal
year without delinquency in the prompt
payment of the troops or loss to the Gov
eminent
|. The Commissioner OF the General Land
Office has sent to the officers Of the Senate
and house of representatives. copies of a
map of the United States recently prepared
under the direction of the general land
Office Each Senator will receive for dis.
tribution about thirty copies. and each
Representative about ten copies.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS died on
Sunday morning last, at his home in Bos-
ton For some time he had been mental
and physical wreck, the result OF over
taxing his brain i'll literary work. He was
70 years of age. His funeral took place on
Tuesday.
THE wholesale Cheese. Butter and Egg
association, of New York. endorses Senator
Warner Miller for re-election on account OF
his work in behalf OF the oleomarsarine
bill.
THE will of the late ex- President Arthur
which was made in March last. was fled
for probate on Wednesday. II directs the
disposal of about S25o,Go0 of real and
| personal property. The requests, excep:
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in one or two instances, in which charitable
, institutions are benefited, are of u privat,
| nature.
F. r. MORSE T. Co., stock brokers, OF
| New York, a firm which has done "A hea W
business for the past thirty years, All
| nounced their failure last Wednesday.
Liabilities $lSS,000. with assets somewha,
| in excess of that amount. Their Gre litors
may grant them extensions, in which even:
the firm will resume business.
The boiler Of the tug boat Sunbeam OK
ploded Thanksgiving afternoon at the foo
of Ninth street, Fast river, sinking the tug
and instantly killing five men, Prom whn
can be learned it appears that while the tus
was making fast to schooner her boiler
blew up with terrific report, instantly
killing four Of the tugs crew and knocking
overheard aud drowning William Hogkins
one of the crew of the schooner.