Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-01-25
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Four masked men, heavily armed, en-
tered the Citizens bank at Limestone, I.
t., and presented a pistol at the head of
the cashier, W. T. REYNOLDS, and demand.
ed that he hand over the cash. While pre-
tending to reply Reynolds slammed the
door of the safe too and turned the lock.
He was at once laid out by a bullet from
the pistol of one of the desperadoes, which
killed him instantly. The robbers then
~recured $2, 800 In the c;ssh drawer and He'd
Pursuit resulted in two robbers being
killed and the murderer Of Reynolds
lynched.
DANIEL DRIscoLL was hanged in New
York recently. The crime for which Dris-
coll was executed was the killing of his
mistress, Elizabeth Garritty. or Beezie
Garritty, as she was generally called, on
the morning of June 26, 1886.
THE grand jury, which convened at Den
ison, Iowa, some days ago, are doing their
best to see if there is any virtue in the
present prohibitory law. They have, up
to the present, indicted nearly every sa-
loonkeeper and every drug store in the
county and are still at work. 1t is ex-
pected that every man in the county who
has handled liquors contrary to law will be
indicted. These cases will come before
| Judge Connor, who is a strong prohibi-
| zionist.
A THIEF visited the hog pens of Tom
Patton, living several miles north of East
| Nebraska City, selected fat porker,
| slaughtered it, cut it in halves, put one
side apart for Mr.. Patton and made away
| with the other.
The following bill has been introduced
in the Kentucky Legislature: Marriage is
| prohibited and declared void with an idiot,
lunatic, paralytic, pauper, vagrant, tramp,
drunkard, gambler, rake, felon, feeble
minded person, or any person rendered
| physically helpless and unfit for the mar
riage relation by malformation, misfor-
tune, accident, age, disease. or any vicious
cause or habit of life, or any person having
violent or ungovenable temper. or any
| person who is, at the time of applying for
license to marry or who has been within
one year next preceding such application,
either the keeper of, or inmate. or visitor
to any house of assgnation or ILL fame. OF
any person who having been once married
has been divorced for any of the causes
| aforesaid. When at the time of marriage
| the male is under eighteen or the female
under sixteen years of age.
| NORRIS X. JEssUp and George j. Frost,
of New York. trustees of S14,O70 of con-
struction bonds of the Cedar Falls and
Minnesota railroad, have attached the
| property of the road on a claim of $492 for
interest due from the 1st inst.
orator at Mound fS City, it, IT, for " 1ie &C CAIRO,
Vincennes and Chicago railroad. committed
suicide by shooting himself through the
head. Dependency was the cause. He
leaves wife and two children.
The hundredth anniversary of the birth
of Byron was the theme or enthusiastic ar
ticles i'll all the Greek papers the 18th,
which expressed in the warmcst terms the
! gratitude of the Hellenic nation, the ines
Unable services of the English poet to the
cause of national regeneration and indie
| pendence. At Mesoboughi, where Byron
| met his death, the statue erected to him in
| the center of the town was covered with
wreaths of spring flowers aud evergreens.
CoMMANDANT BRAssEuR. one of the
heroes of the Franco Prussian war, died
recently at the Invalids. Paris, after
eighteen years suffering. He occupied a
prominent place in De Nueville's famous
picture of lie Bouireget."
In the case of Cathe. Line Z. Crilly against
the Pennsylvania railroad, which was tried
before Judge Finletter in Philadelphia,
Mrs. Crilley obtained verdict of $4,000
for the death of her husband.
THE First National bank Of Albany, N.
Y, has failed. 1t was due 10 mismanage-
ment.