Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-12-01
ADDITIONAL NEWS.

ANDREW EGATHER, at Buffalo, N. T.,
against whom an indictment was found by
the grand jury in connection with the al
legged grain steal has been admitted to bail
ia the sum Of $3.50. The crime alleged
in the indictment against Egather, Elmslie,
Kennedy and Campbell, said to have par.
ticipated in the alleged steal, Is grand lar
ceny in the first degree, and receiving
stolen goods. Grain amounting approx
mately to 10, 900 bushels, taken in the years
1871, 1854 and 1886, and valued at rs cents
q bushel, is the amount which the indict-
ment states was stolen by the indicted men.
The president on Saturday appointed the
following named postmaster George
Paul, at Iowa City, Ia, vice Jacob Ricord.
suspended. John NJ. Startzman, at Savan-
nah, ILL.,, vice Charles L. Howe, suspended.
Frederick B. Smith, at Columbia, ID. r.,
| vice John b. James, resigned. Frederick
NJ. Mead, Mt Marengo, Ill, vice John Q.
Adams, commission expired. Henry j..
Dane, at LeSueur, Mimi, vice John NJ.
Farmer, commission expired.
TWENTY-FIVE sacks containing mail
from England to Germany, Russia and the
east, while in transit on train in Belgium
last Saturday, were cut open and plundered
| Ct all the registered letters. Other letters
were not touched. The robbery was dis
covered upon the arrival Of the train the
Ostend express--at Verviers. Letters
from America containing money and dia-
/ monis 70 the amount of E4O,O00 were
stolen. It Is supposed the authors of the
robbery are thieves who were implicated in
the recent thefts Of the English mail.
| LAST Saturday afternoon at Cleveland
Ohio, Coroner West returned 10 verdict in
| the Weller murder case. Mrs. Weller, the
murdered woman, was 86 years old and was
| worth $500, 600. Her husband, BENZ, Wei.
Ter, is 81, and he claims that his estate /,
still larger than his wife's. In summing
up, the coroner says: Il therefore find that
Jane Weller came to her death at 46 Eagle
street, on November IL at about $40 p. M,
by being choked to death by her husband,
Benjamin Weller.
THE municipal council of Paris has re.
quested United States Minister McLane IL
intercede with the governor of Illinois il
behalf OF the condemned anarchists OF
Chicago.
| ACTING SURGEON GENERAL BAXTER
Of the army, has submitted his annual re.
port to the Secretary of War. The report
shows for the army year Of exceptionable
freedom from disease, although it has beer
one Of unusual hardships and activity fol
troops stationed on the southwestern from.
tier. Men Of Irish birth furnish the high
est mortality. The rate Of English stood
next and Germany third.
FROM the report of the Board Of Com
missioners of the National Soldiers Home
IL is shown that there are now 1874 regular
aud fifty-two temporary inmates at thu
Home, larger number than ever before nc.
commodated. The cottage formerly occu.
pied by the President as summer resi-.
dence has been assigned to inmates Of the
Home.
]. & s. B. SACHS, boot and snoe manu-
facturers, I Cincinnati, have assigned to NJ.
J. Beck. Assets estimated at 100000;
liabilities, 100000. The failure causes
much surprise.
THE headquarters of the Anti SaloonIRe.
publican National Committee were last Sat.
urday formally moved from Chicago Il
New York, and established at Nos. 80 to 3,
Fast Forty third street.