Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1889-09-25
SMALLER EVENTS
Various Happenings Told In BrIef Para
graphs.

SOME time early in the morning burglars
entered the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad
ticket office III Cincinnati, located in the
central and best poiced part of the city,
cracked the safe and secured $1,000. To
break open the safe a clamp" was used,
no powder being brought into play. ! here
is no clue to e burglars.
John J. ScANLAS, a Chicago crook
serving term III the j let penitcntiary,
has confessed to killing Policeman MlchB
OBrien April 3, 1887, for which Timothy
OGrady is serving seventeen years SEN
tence, being convicted on circumstantial
evidence.
SECRETARY NOBLE has directed that
the region of country in Colorado contain
ing the RUNS and mounds of the Cliff
Dweliers" be withdrawn from disposal
until IN examination can be made to deter
mine their historical value.
THE long strike at the Columbia rolling
mills, Lancaster, Pa, has been declared
Oft. The strike has lasted nearly seven
months, and most of the strikers places
have been filled with non-unl men.
A GANG of hoodlums in Peoria, ILL.,, set
on an old man named Cowen and beat him
to death because he would not buy the
drinks for them. Three of the gang are in
custody.
The cotton manufacturers of Lam
cashire, England, propose to close all
their mills for fortnight, in hope that
such action will destroy the corner in
cotton.
BY an accident on an electric railway in
Chattanooga, Tenn, fifteen persons in at
tendance at the reunion of Wilder's bri-
gade were more or less injure !, but none
fatally.
THE Tennessee convicts have been
leased to the Tennessee coal and Iron
company, the only bidder. for $1,000 0
per annum, The minimum amount allowed
The marquis of Londonderry, the retir-
ing lord lieutenant of Ireland, in speech
vt Stockton said he believed that twenty
years of coercion would pacity Ireland.
JOHN ALLEN and +. II. Pratt, both of
New York, arrived mt Sacramento. Cal,
having ridden on horseback the whole dis
tance. They left New York May 4th.
CoRvILLAINE, the proprietor of the
Antwerp cartridge factory in which the
recent disastrous explosion oceurre. and
his cr@ineer have heen arrested.
IEo young n.e.. named Mitchell aud
Webber were tax III for moose by party
Of hunters near Halifax, N. S., and snot to
death.
MARSHAL FIELD, the wholesale dry
goods merchant, has subscribed $l10, 900
to the Chicago worlds fair guarantee
fund.
CAPT. FOSTER, who had charge Of the
cereal exhibition, was burned to death IN
the exhibition bull ing fire at St. Joseph.
HEKRIcK LOPEZ, aget l3, was stabbed
and Instantly killed at Wareham, Mass,
by Joseph Lebarron, aged years.
A FAMILY named Zemtl1al, consisting
of parents and ten children, left Boone,
Iowa, for Milwaukee by wagon. On the l
arrival at their destination six of the
children died of diphtheria.
HENRY FITZGERALD, an ex-convict OF
New York, who knocked man down In
the street and robbed him of I3 cents, was
sentenced to ten wears imprisonment a
hard labor.
ALL the books, papers and Office furni-
ture belonging to the National Guard
Army headquarters have been shipped
from Kansas City to the new headquarters
at Detroit.
THE South America, considered the
finest wooden ship afioat, was wrecked in
Sttuy's bay. South Africa.
CHOLERA has made its appearance in
Bagdad. and the disease is spreading in
Western Persia.
AN English cutter has captured dhow
OIL Pemba with 13l slaves on board.
SEVERE snow and hail storms are preva-
lent In Scotland.