Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-03-17
DOINGS AT THE EAST.

AN official examination of the books of
County Treasurer Hollingsworth at Vim
cennes, Ind, has disclosed an approximate
shortage against the County Treasurer of
S7S,27S.33. Everybody is dumbfounded at
the expose. Hollingsworth was prosper
Gus and wealthy farmer when he took pos
session. What he has done with the inn
mense sum of money puzzles everybody.
The conjecture is that it has been squan-
dered in margin gambling and in woman
affairs. Ex-County Treasurer W. W. Berry
has been installed in charge Of the Treas
nrer's office.
THE tug John Markell exploded her boiler
in the harbor at Boston, wrecking the craft
and instantly killing the crew of five men.
SECOND COMPTROLLER MAYNARD has
settled an important question arising from
the act of April %, 1872, which directs that
every volunteer soldier who enlisted for
three years prior to July %, 1861, under the
Presidents proclamation of May, 1861, and
orders Of the War Department issued in
pursuance thereof, and was actually mus
tered into the service for three years before
August 6, 1861, and who was honorably dis
charged shall be paid the full bounty of
500, unless already paid. The Second
Comptroller holds that the bounty is paw
able to the heirs of every deceased soldier
who, il living, would be entitled thereto,
whether he died before or after the passage
of the act.
Mrs. b. II. BREWSTER, wife of ex-sAt-
torney General Brewster, and daughter Of
the late Robert J. Walker, ex- Secretary Of
the Treasury, died at her residence in Phil
adelphia, after brief illness.
WASHINGTON newspaper publishes
what purports to be an authorized publica-
ton Of a friendly interview between the
President and Senator Eustis, Of Louisiana,
in which the President is quoted as saying:
''1f it be true that any of my appointees are
unworthy, hope they will be rejected. II
is the Senate's function to see to this Sen
ators are my coadjutors and advisers. They
cannot be too exacting for my taste. want
no improper men in Office.
The doors Of the Dime Savings Bank,
at New Brunswick, n. j., have been closed
by order of the Secretary of State. The
directors refuse to give any information as
to what the trouble is. 1t is rumored Ar
thur G. Ogilvie, Secretary and Treasurer,
is short in his accounts amounting to $780,
600.
THE boycott which has been running in
Philadelphia for eighteen months on the
stoves and ranges manufactured by the
Fuller & Warren Company, Of Troy. N. ",
has been lifted. The firm pledged itself
not to discriminate against the knights OF
Labor in the future and to reinstate dis
charged employees.
The Committee on Foreign Affairs Of the
House Of Representatives has under con-
sideration the Morrow bill to suspend for
twenty years the operations Of the Burlin-
game Chinese treaty MIR. Rice, the Re-
publican member OF the SUBJ committee,
to whom the bill was referred, presented
minority report adverse TO the adoption OF
the measure, and it was considered in con-
nection With the majority report in favor Of
the bill prepared by Messrs. Cox aud Nc
Creazy.
ex-senator JEROME B. cHAFrER, Of
Colorado. died Of acute meningitis. at Pur-
dys Station, Westchester County, New York.
A HORRIBLE double murder and robbery
was committed at the farmhouse Of John
T, EverhAst, near Licking yaie, v ths