Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1890-04-02
EDDIE Al TIE HELM.


and Edwin, will remain at home to
look out for the family's millionaire
interests. The confidence which Mr..
Gould feels In the business capacity and
judgment OF his sons is shown by the fact
that during his present extended trip
through the southwest aud Mexico, his o.
year old son Edwin has been in full charge
of the Gould railway affairs.
This means more than the transaction
OF meie routine business. Such impor-
tant interests were probably never before
committed so fully to one Of Edwin
Gould's years. He is credited in Wall
street with having drawn one check the
other day for something like 100000.
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
MANY British Indian subjects are i'm
prisoned at Mozambique.
THE coastiug steamer Ethel Gwendoline
foundered of Rattray Head, Scotland.
Seven Of her crew were drowned.
IT is reported in Vienna that Gen. Ca
privi, Count Kalnoky and Premier Crispi
will have meeting at an early date.
TIE Servian cabinet has been reorgan :
lied. NJ. Gruics has been made prime
minister. minister of foreign affairs and
minister Of war.
GOV. HILL has appointed Maj. Gen.
Daniel E. Sickles sheriff of the city and
county of New York, in the place of James
Flack, resigned.
THE Canadian government has decided
to expend $4,000 more, or $50, 900 in all,
in purchasing seed wheat for northwest
farmers.
CHI. WHITAKER 4 Co., Wholesale hard :
ware merchants of Toledo, O., have made
an assignment. Liabilities, 800, 900; as.
sets unknown.
JAMES S. HYDE, a New York ticket
speculator. shot and fatally wounded
another ticket speculator named Stambull
during quarrel. Hyde was arrested.
JOHN SINCLAIR has decided to resign
his seat in parliament for the Ayr district.
He is an advanced liberal and q strong
supporter of Mr.. Gladstone's Irish policy.
PRAIRIE fires are raging in southeast.
ern Colorado on the Kansas border. Al
ready 1h0, acres have lbeen devastated
There are no facilities for fighting the fire
iHE season of German opera at the
Metropolitan, New York, has closed. The
total receipts Of the seventeen weeks was
500, 900, and the total attendance l69, ,537.
WILLIAM JONES. driver Of Chemical
company No. l, a victim Of the Bowen
Merrill 3mpany disaster at Indianapolis,
has died, making the eleventh fireman
killed.
A GENERAL strike in building trades at
Boston during the season Of 1890 seems
very probable The Carpenters and Build
ers' association has voted not to grant the
eight. hour demands.
JAS. p. DAVIS, alias VIM. 8. 6hackle-
ford, was hanged at Pittsboro, N. c., for
the murder of John Horton. He con-
fessed that he murdered his own children
several wears ago.
THERE is an agitation among the stu
dents at Petroffskote, near Moscow, similar
to and in connection with the st. Peters
burg movement. In a fight with gendarmaa
900 of the students were arrested.
JOHN A. DAVIS, the defaultipg city
treasurer Of Rochester, N. Y, who embez.
z'ei $50, 1000 of the city's money, pleaded
guilty to the charge Of grand larceny in
the first degree and was sentenced to five
years in prison.
Two thousand miners at Hon. VIM. L.
Scott's mines, in the vicinity Of Mount
Carmel. Pa. have been idle three months
Mr.. Scott has sent his check for $1,000 fol
their benefit aud promised speedy re.
sumption of work.
In Voluntown. Conn.,, Ira E. Briggs was
attacked by Samuel r. Green, his fathers
hired man. with knife. Briggs drew re-
| volver aud fred four shots at Green, the
last one killing him instantly. The coroner
reported il as case Of justi6abls homi-
eide.
A SENSATION has been caused in Paris
by the disappearance OF Saint Ssets, the
composer. He failed TO attend the FIRST
performance of his new opera 'Aocanio,
on Friday last, and has not since beer
soen. rumor Of his death was current
last night, and another report Was thst h
had been placed In mad house.