Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-11-24
ADDITIONAL NEWS.

COPY OF the will OF the late Don
Tomas Terry, tho wealthy Cuban planter,
has been fled in the Surrogate's Office, in
New York, Terry having considerable
property IN that city. The estate is valued
at $50, 100000, of which $40, 00O, 900 is in
vested in this country. Besides the widow.
there are six children to share in this vast
fortune.
ARTICLES Of incorporation for the Chi
cago, Kansas and Western Road were filed
with the County Recorder at Keokuk, on
Saturday last. Capital stock $1,000, 900,
divided in shares OF 800 each. The line
will be constructed from point ON the
Mississippi River in Lee County, Iowa, in
a southwestern direction through Missouri
to Kansas City. This is the proposed To-
peka and Santa Fe line.
RICHARD SwIaERT, of Lexington, KY,
purchased in England, last Monday, by Ca
bic, the celebrated stallion Kingcraft, vim
ner of the Derby in 1880, for $17,5oO. He
is by King Tom, out of Woodcraft.
AN American adventures, named Kate
Bellmond, alias Marquise Rose de Ia Sale,
who has taken refuge in England, has been
sentenced, in default, to two years impris-
onment for obtaining money under false
pretenses by means Of letters purporting to
have been signed by DR.. Coffin, late Bishop
Of Southwark.
Mr.. GEORGE W. CHILDs positively de-
clines to be q candidate for Mayor of
Philadelphia, Notwithstanding the move
ment in his behalf was so popular that
ayowed candidates we're willing to with
draw should he have signifed his willing.
ness to accept the honor.
CONTROLLER EsCHELBY, of Cincinnati,
refused payment to contractors who have
been repaving certain streets with grant,
bccnuss 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, the figures on two items in the sue.
cessful bids were changed from 81 and
$3.50 respectively, to $1.99 and $1.39, by
attaching a straight line to the ciphers.
1t makes difference Of $1,000 on one
street. The Board Of Public Affairs will
Investigate. The change of figures is APP
parent.
DIR. GEORGE BAUER, Assistant Professor
at the Peabody Museum at Yale. was
knocked senseless last Monday by the ex-
plosion of an ostrich egg. The eggs were
shipped to Yale from Cape Town, and owing
TO the delay one Of them fermented, gen.
Grating gas which caused such AN ex-
plosion that the building was shaken.
By the order of Gov. Larrabee, the
State House, at Des Moines was closed on
Monday, in respect to the memory of cx-
President Arthur.
Two wild freight trains collided Sunday
morning near Lacy, on the Central Iowa
road, killing fireman, Martin Ridke, of
Marshalltown.
REIMER BROS, of Creston, Iowa, dealers
in dry goods and millinery, assigned on
Monday last.
In his annual report to the Secretary of
War, Paymasster- General William VI.
Rochester says that a total Of $13,444, 1888
was disbursed to the army during the fiscal
year without delinquency in the prompt
payment of the troops or loss to the Gov
eminent.
NEWS has been received OF dirastrous
fire in the town Of Tondo, on the Pasie
river, in the island of Luzon. the largest oil
the Philippine group. One thousan,
houses were burned.