Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-10-06
NEWS CONDENSED.
Items of Interest From all Parts
OF the World.
THE EAST.

The Secretary of the Interior has under
consideration proposition to allow certain
tribes of Indians in the West the privilege
of utilizing the grass upon surplus lands of
their reservations by allowing them to take
cattle from neighboring cattle men to pas
ture, the indians TO herd and care for the
cattle and to receive fair and just compen-
sation therefor. but no white man will be
allowed upon the reservations. 1t is prob
able that an order authorizing certain tribes
TO enter into contracts with cattlemen as
outlined above will soon be issued.
JUDGEMENT has been given by Judge
Waters in the United States District Court
Mt Trenton. Nh, in the crse- of The Me-
chanics National Bank of Newark against
Oscar Baldwin, late cashier, who is now
serving term in States prison for default
ing in the enormous som of 50, 79i, the
amount of the indebtedness of the bank,
which is now in the hands of a receiver.
Mrs. MARY FLANAGAN, living on Penn
sylvania avenue, Pittsburg, was filling Il
lighted lamp with oil, which suddenly
flashed up and scattered over Mrs. Flani-
gan, her daughter Sadie, aged s. and in
FAINT, aged Is months. The screams of the
woman and children attracted Hugh Nc
CURE, who succeeded i'll putting out the
flames which enveloped the three victims,
but in doing so burned his hands terribly.
Mrs. Flanigans and Sadie's wounds are
painful, but not serious. The baby will
die.
Acting SECRETARY FAIRCHILD has au.
thorized the reopening of the mint at Car
son City, New, rs an assay Office for the
receipt of deposits of bullion. This action
was taken on recommendation of the Di-
rector of the Mint, and with the full APP
proval of the President. II is intended as
an experiment. rs it is said at tie Depart
ment that it is doubtful whether the de-
post at the mint will warrant even its con-
auction as an assay office. Its future op-
Grafton as n coinage mint will depend alto
gether upon the extent of lis deposits.
A WASHINGTON dispatch says that at
the Treasury Department there seems to be
no importance attached to the report that
the President has offered the Secretaryship
of the Treasury to Senator Mcpherson. 1t
may be stated with certainty that Secretary
Manning in going back to the treasury. He
has decided to remain at the head of the
department as long as his health will per-
NIT him to do so, even to the end of Cleve-
lands term. Those who are in position
to be best informed on the situation, do not
think Mcpherson would be Secretary of the
Treasury should Manning find his retire
ment from active life necessary TO his
health.
H. X. SIMoNDs, President of the Frank
lin County National Bank, at Greenfield,
Mass, has resigned on account of an in
vestigation of the banks affairs by Bank
Examiner Gatchell. Director Sanderson
was elected President pro tenn. II is al
legged that about S34 GOO worth of paper of
very questionable character has come into
the possession of tho bank, mostly that of
Simonds. Simonds is a large stakeholder
in the bank. The examiner states that the
bank is still solvent, aid can continue bust
ness by passing dividends.
w. II. ARRINGDALE, of Baltimore, his
wife and son. Louisa II. Hartley. of South
ampton, n. b.; Martha Z. Kahn, of Has
tings, Iowa; Susie f. Harvey, of Des
Moines, Iowa; Mary b. Lindsay, of Chi
cago, and Fannie Cummings, of Reading,
Mass, formed party of missionaries who
have sailed from New York on the steamer
Auronia for Liverpool. From there they
will go to Africa to join Bishop Taylor, at
Leopoldsville, Stanley Station. The party,
like others sent out to the Bishop, will be
self-supporting.
\ TERRIFIC explosion occurred at the
Ditmer Powder Works, Bay Chester. on
the Harlem River branch of the New York
and New Haven Railway, resulting in the
instantaneous death Of four men employed
in the factory. The explosion occurred in
the packing house, a story frame
building 90 by 80 feet, i'll the center of the
grounds, about 200 yards from the main
factory, large building near the water.
where the bulk of the giant powder and
nitro glycerine used for the aqueduct is
manufactured. The men were hard at
work putting up and packing cartridges.
when suddenly, and without warning. the
| explosion occurred, SCATTERING the building
to splinters and blowing four men TO frag-
ments. The exploding powder, of which
there was a large quantity, shot up into the
air as high as fifty feet, and splinters of the
building were blown over mile distant.
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