Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-04-25
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O, l.. PRUDEN, assistant private secre-
tary to the president, has been before the
house committee on printing to explain the
circumstances connected with the binding
of President Cleyeland's marriage certifi
cate at the government printing office.
Pruden said that the certificate had been
gotten up by himself and taken to the pub
iic printing Office, where it had been bound
in elegant covers. The president knew
nothing Of the binding until recently,
when be had been told about IL by RICH
ar1son, chairman of the committee on
printing. Pruden further said 1t had been
customary to have the private work for the
president done at the government printing
office during the past administrations, but
when President Cleveland discovered the
fact he had ordered the practice discon-
tinued.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern railway will build into st. Paul and
Minneapolis in the near future. The Green
Bay, Winona and st. Paul and the Winona
and Southwestern, upon which the prelim-
mary surveys have been already made. are
under the control of TIE Lackawanna COM
pany. The forme- line runs from Green
Bay to Winona. Mt which point it connects
with the latter line, which offers communi-
cation with Omaha.
A REDUCTION of 30 per cent has been
made on freight rates on all lines running
west from New York, Chicago, st. Louis
and other cities east of the Missouri river
to common Colorado points This reduc-
ton was agreed upon by the recent Kansas
City meeting of managers. the object being
to meet the competition OF the new Fort
in,
ton with the Morgan Steamship company
at Galveston, made through rates from
New York to Denver about 25 per cent.
less than those of the transcontineRtal
routes.
MISS MoLLIE LARRIMoRE was found
dead in an out house at Sedalia, Mo. Her
death was caused by an overdose of tansy
to commit abortion. She had lain on the
floor some hours before she was discov-
cred and badly bloatea.
JOHN HoRDT brought suit at st. Joseph,
Mo-. for $4,000 against DR.. c. l.. f. Web
Der for malpractice, which the petitioner
claims resulted in the death of his wife
about six weeks ago. 1t is alleged that
Webber attempted to perform an abortion.
Webbers case was investigated by the
grand jury, but no indictment was found
agaiI st him. The verdict of the coroner
jury at the time of Mrs. Hordt's death was
due to criminal malpractice produced a
great sensation.
JUDGE BREWER, of Des Moines has sus-
tanned the motion for temporary injunc-
ton to stop the collection of the tax
against the Pullman Car company levied
by the executive council this winter The
Judge says that he felt constrained to fol
low the decision of Justice Miller in simi-
lar cases. Judge Brewer N the case de-
cision last year held an opposition opinion,
but has not held to it this year. The state
will undoubtedly appeal from this decis-
ion, as the decision on motion for Il per-
manent injunction will doubtless be the
same.
THE Cologne Gazette says that large
quantities of Russian securities, including
6,O0O, 900 roubles of the first oriental loan,
are arriving i'll Berlin and that it is pre-
sumed they are to be used in realizing
funds with which to pay the Russian
coupons next due in consequence of the
failure of the loan negotiations.
FREDERICK MIX, a single man employed
as a carpenter at Duluth, fell from a
scaffold Oh the Ohio coal docks, distance
of eighteen feet. breaking his neck and
causing instant death. He has relatives in
Milwaukee.
SAMUEL PHILLIPS. the young son of a
prominent merchant of East Saginaw.
Mich, while playing on some logs in the
river fell in. Englehart Reidlinger. aged
"a, jumped in to save the boy. but the
little fellow cl,mg to his neck and both
were drowned. Re.dlinger leaves widow
aud one child.