Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-10-20
ADDITIONAL NEWS.

A DESTRUCTIVE nre occurred on uOeTck
street, between Sixth and Stanton, New
York. Six factory buildings owned by ex-
Alderman Kehr were totally destroyed, be-
sides the fve-story brick workshop of the
Kerr Desk Manufacturing Company. The
buildings on Goerck street were occupied
by l.. Altman & Co., table manufacturers,
and by Steinberg and Unger, cigar box
makers. Loss, 100000.
CANON BLANCHINI, while leaving St.
Marks Cathedral, in Venice, was stabbed
TO The heart by a man, wlo cried Behold
thy victim" The assassin was arrested,
and proved to be Signor Vianelli, formerly
a deacon, whose conversion TO Protestant
ism caused futter among Catholics a few
years ago. On examination, Vianeli de-
posed that he came to Venice with the in
teniion of ayenging himself on Canon
Blanchini, whose chicanery had driven him
to apostasy AND ruin.
THE French Government has demanded
that China shall not restrict the trade in
opium in Yum Nan and Tonqun.
HON. EDMUND G. Ross, Governor of
New Mexico, in his annual report to the
Secretary of the Interior, refers to the
plans suggested in his last report of stor-
ing the surplus water, and adds: "A sys-
tenn of storage basins at heads of the sew
eral streams, especially the Rio Grande, for
which numerous canons and aroyes are ex-
cellently adaped, would save a vast amount
of water, sufficient to irrigate, not only the
river valley proper, but also the mesas or
uplands practically to the foot of the
mountains on either side running parallel
Herewith. This, he says would reduce to
cultivation many acres of productive land
now barren and desolate.
The President has appointed Dabney H.
Maury to be United States Envoy Extraor-
binary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the
United States of Colombia.
The President has appointed the follow.
ing postmasters: At Evanston, ILL.,, Geo.
W. Hess, vice John A. Childs, suspended;
Sterling, ILL.,, VIM. A. Mcclure, vice C. M.
Worthington, suspended, and at Leon,
Iowa, Edward X. Pittman, vice w. J. Sulli-
van, suspended.
The town of Salisbury, Nd, was nearly
destroyed by fire a few nights since. Sails
bury is the county seat of Wicomico
County and has been once before de-
stroyed by fire. 1t is the principal lumber
trading point of the eastern spur of Mary
land and for many years has done pros
porous business. 1t is the stated head of
navigation of the Wicomico River, which
extends up to the pine and cypress regions
of lower Delaware. Eleven firms were
burned out and a large number of buildings
destroyed, in which the loss in each case
will fall below $4,000. The loss is now
estimated at fully $l.OO0,0O0. There are
but two stores left and many people are
without food and places to sleep. The DIS
tress is very great.
WoRKMEN who We're digging in Kearney
Township, near Newark, N. j., yesterday,
discovered strong box buried under
ground. 1t was found 10 contain $50, 900
of cancelled bonds of Kearney Township.
About ten years ago Charles Smith, the
Township Treasurer, was accused of rob-
bing the township ont of $25,0O0. He de-
c!ared he had refunded $25, 1000 worth Of
bonds, but the cancelled securities had been
stolen from his Office. Proceedings were
begun against him, but they were discon-
tinued. An investigation will be made. 1t
is expected that Smith will be exonerated
from the charges made against him.