Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-01-06
ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Hon. JOHN b. RAYMOND, ex-Delegate to
Congress from Dakota, died at Fargo on the
4th inst, after short illness from typhoid
pneumonia. Mr.. Raymond was born in
New York State Dec. S, 1874, removed to
Illinois with his parents when years of
age, and at IL enlisted as private in the
Thirty first Illinois Infantry under Col.
John A. Logan. After the siege of Vicks-
burg he was promoted to the Captaincy.
After the close of the war Mr. Raymond
settled in the South. and published the
Mississippi Pilot, at jackson. until 1877,
when he was appointed United States Mar
shall for Dakota. He was elected Delegate
from the Territory to the Forty eighth Con-
gress. receiving 39,100 votes against 5000
for Judge Brookings.
THE Secretary of State has Just received
and sent to Ericsson, the distinguished in
ventor, the Grand Cross Of the Order of
Naval Merit recently conferred on that gen.
tleman by the late King of Spain.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank NJ. Westerfield of
Chicago, who have been suffering from
trichinosis, but were thought to be recover
ing, have had n relapse and are now in a
critical condition.
IT has leaked out in Annapolis that sew
eral days ago Naval Cadets Welch Waters,
Gillespie and Steber went into the room of
Cadet Lewis Deggs. for hazing whom Cadet
Wiley was recently dismissed, and gave him
a threshing. Deggs made statement of
the affair to Capt. Ramsay and the belliger-
ent cadets will have to face a court martial.
Baltimore Judge Morris granted perpetual
injunction restraining the Maryland Over
land Telephone and Telegraph Company
from using four patents issued to Alexander
Graham Bell in 1876 and lssa for improve
ments to the telephone. The suit was
brought to determine Bells right to protec-
ton and only nominal damages were asked
and granted.
ADvICEs from Cairo say that the Arabs
lost 600 men in the battle with the British
forces which was fought near koshea re-
Gently. The Arabs are reported to be flying
in the direction of Dongola
A REPORT is current in London that
number of Mahdist fanatics penetrated the
British lines at Suakim and attacked the
soldiers in the streets of the town. 1t is
stated that furious fighting ensued, in which
wounded. The Government, it is said has
suppressed the report of the affair and the
British loss cannot be ascertained.
J. w. MCCARTHY, of San Francisco,
Clerk of the State Supreme Court, sailed a
few days ago for Honolulu. without men
tioning his intended departure. The State
Controller, who has been investigating Me-
Carthys accounts, finds deficit of over
$4,000.
Mrs. CHARLES V. APPALL. JR.. COM
mitted suicide at Lamar, Mo-, by drowning
in well. When the act was performed
she is believed to have been temporarily
insane, owing to the recent death of her
6-months- old child.
THE State of California has fled with
Secretary Lamar complaints of the General
Land Office for not preparing patents for
lands granted the State of California by
Congress, and subsequently confirmed to
her in special act, and approved to her by
Secretary Browning in 1866, and certified to
the State by Commissioner Joseph S. Will
son in the same year, and which Commits
sioner Sparks has recently decided may be
still further contested by any one desiring
to claim them under other laws.