Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-06-27
ELK POINT, UNION COUNTY, Da
The family happened to be absent. Tho
thieves dined handsomely before they left
the house,


The family happened to be absent. The
thieves dined handsomely before they left
the house.
Captain Andrews starts on His "Trip.
The little Dark Secret, Captain Andrews,
sailed for England from Nantucket, where
she had been waiting several days for fair
wind. This is the smallest craft that rides
the ocean.
Death Of Mrs. Lisls Lester.
Mrs. Lisle Lester died at the Sturtevant
house, New York City, Of pneumonia, at
the age OF ffty-one years. She was a
widow. Mrs. Lester was ell-known in
newspaper ofhces in San Francisco and
Chicago, having been identified with jour
nalism and magazine work for some years.
In accordance with her own request her re-
mains will be cremated at Fresh Pond,
Long Island.
Fnshtsned to Death by Her Brother.
MISS Josie Carroll, young school
teacher It Birds Eye, Ind, was killed by
fright recently near that place. Her brother
and eome boys made up o ghost, which
they placed ing Asr path AZ she returned
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killed by . saw-SGin Explosion.
Hogge's saw-mill in London township,
about twalve miles below Ramsey, ILL.,,
blew up. instantly killing two men named
King and Lagne.
Undoubtedly Insane.
A woman named Mrs. johnson, living in
q tenement in Allegheny City, Pa, gave
poison to her three children and then took
some herself. Two of the children and the
women died and the other child is not ex-
pected to live. No cause is known for the
deed.
The Grant Homestead.
The old Grant homestead, Of st. Louis,
located four miles from the city limits on
the Gravois road, was sold recentlyby
Chauncey NJ. Depew to satisfy mortgage
held by W. H. Vanderbilt. The farm con-
sisted of $50 acres, and was mortgaged to
Vanderbilt at the time Of the Grant h
Ward failure. II was bought by L. H.
Conn, Of st. Louis, for $1,000. He pro-
poses to make fine stock farm Of it. The
farm originally belonged to the Dent fam
lily, and 1t was here Gen. Grant did his
counting and his woodchopping, end ex-
perienced his greatest adversity. He lived
on the farm five years before going to
Galena. The Grant family evidently did
not care to preserve the homestead.
What an Omaha Man Proposes.
Geo. A. Joslyn, Of Omaha, announces
through the press that he will gratuitously
aid any one who has been imposed upon
by unprincipled quack doctors or medical
institutes Of that city in obtaining return
of their money or in otherwise recovering
satisfaction, and requests all who have
been duped to communicate with him.
kentucky Hanging.
William Patterson was hanged at Louis
vile, KY, in the yard Of the jefferson
county Jail. He was colored man and
was convicted with another colored man,
Albert Turner, for assaulting and fatally
beating Miss Jennie Bowen, on April %,
1887. Patterson protested his innocence
on the scaffold.
Stanley I'm Danger.
A dispatch from st. Paul de Loandasays
several deserters from Stanley's expedition
have reached Camp Yambunga. They
that that after traversing Aruwumi Stan
ley struck into rough, mountainous
country, covered with dense forests. The
natives, who were excited by reports spread
by the Arabs, disputed the passage Of the
expedition and there was continuous fight
ing. Stanley was severely wounded by an
arrow. He was compelled several times to
construct camps in order to repel the at
tacks and were obliged to use the reserve
provisions that were intended for E,nin
Bey. The Soudanes attached to the force
had all died or disappeared. The deserters
intimate that the caravan lost one third Of
its men and say many of those remaining
we're ill, including the Europeans. Stan
ley was encamped when the deserters left.
He was surrounded by hostiles and was
unable to send news to Emin or directly to
Yambunga. Major Bartellot has returned
to Yambunga where he was awaiting the
men that Mr.. Ward was collecting to form
powerful expedition to go to the relief Of
Stanley. In the sickness ut Yambunga
only eighty of l25 Zanzibars survived.
Tippo Tib received 625 men to form two
caravans and started for the interior about
the end Of January. Ward left Roma on
May 30 for Leopoldville, whore he was to
embark men and provisions in the Congo
state steamer Enavant for Aruhimi.
Had Bls Sun Crsv1nnNed.