Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-08-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Condensed Items Of interest
From all Parts Of the
World.

PHILDELPHIA-The armoured cruiser
on the stocks at Cramps
is rapidly being advanced
the launching period but no
day has yet been fixed for putting the
vessel overheard.
WINNIPEG, Man. - Vice President
on his way to Alaska, wa
by several Illinois friends
who now reside In Winnipeg. The
vice president declined to talk poll
tics, but ventured the assertion that
Cleveland would positively
decline q denomination for a third
term.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo.-The county court
Of Green county will appoint Mrs.
Stewert, widow of the late Sheriff Dan
P. Stewart, to succeed her husband as
sheriff.
DUBLIN = The Freeman's Journal
states that the Hon. Edward Blake,
formerly prime minister Of Ontario,
who represents the south division OF
LongfOrd in the house of commons,
will start almost Immediately for his
home in Toronto. After speaking q
short time in Toronto he will proceed
to New Zealand where he will act as
umpire in an arbitration case.
SoF1A-Tufektchiof, who was ar
rested on suspicion of having muir
dered ex-Prime Minister Stambulof,
has been liberated on bail. No others
have been arrested in connection with
the assassination.
MADRID-The members of the reserve
who have been called out for service
in Cuba, continue to mobilize. Many
of the men at Corona and Taffalla OBJ
ject to going to Cuba and have pro-
tested against being sent on this SER
vice. Their protests, however, have
not led to serious incidents. At Mat
arc, about Is miles northeast of Bar
celona, the reserves refused to march
and the gend' arms fred a volley into
the air to enforce decipline.
FREDERICKSBURG, Va.-Count Gas
toe Dadhemore, chevalier of the Leg
ion Of Honor, member of the French
Geographical Society and inventor Of
the telephone system used by the
French government has leased the
historic Moss Neck farm near here
and with his family will live here in
the future.
WAsHINarON-Miss L. Huntington,
the young lady who entered the bank
at Indianapolis yesterday and threat
ened that If she was not given $4,000
she would return to her hotel and cut
her throat, was formerly a clerk In the
census Office here.
SAN FRANcIsco-The schooner Ur-
ANGUS brings news that the sealers
have reached Behring Sea and are in
eminent danger of seizure by the rev.
enue cutters. This mean q great deal
to the owners Of sealing vessles and to
those interested in sealing ventures.
The instructions under which the cut
ters are boarding vessels this year are
to seize all seal skins.
OAKLAND, Cal.-George T. Loher and
T. G. Cornell have left for a trip
around the world on their wheels.
They will go direct to Portland, Ore,
and thence by way Of Minneapolis to
New York, where they begin their
journey across the European CONT
nent. They expect to be absent two
years.
CHICAGo-All Chinatown is worked
up over the death of Gee Sing at the
county hospital, and the announce
ment that it will be necessary for the
coroner to hold q post norton examin-
alton before the body can be buried.
Prominent Cinnamon say that II the
post-mortem examination is held it
will forever debar the dead man from
associating with his fellow men in the
next world, and they propose to in
woke the aid Of the Chinese consul at
San Francisco to prevent the opera
ton. Before Sings kinsmen will see
the ~dissecting knife used on the body
they declare they will call on the gov
eminent for protection.
RIVERSIDE, CALI. Davidson, alias
Kimbxll who murdered Donneily in
Hamburg. Iowa last September, is in
Jail here awaiting the arrival OF the
sheriff Of Sidney county, Iowa, who
will take the prisoner back to the
scene Of the crime.
SAN FRANcIsCO-Local holders of
irrigation bonds hove decided to an
peal from the decision Of Judge Ross
in which he declared the Wright IT.
rigation law to be unconstitutional.
New YoRK-Fourteen thousand Jacket
and pants makers went on strike this
morning. Besides these LOO other
workers classed as unskilled workers
are thrown out of work. The jacket
makers demand q new 50 hour q week
agreement and q wage scale.
SAN FRANcIsco-According to a local
paper the indictment against G. p.
Huntington, presidential the Southern
Pacific, for violating the interstate
commerce law by issuing q pass, will
be dismissed today. Judge Morrow
will be asked to dismiss the indictment
on the recent ruling Of the New York
court in the case. Huntington is Ak
pected to arrive here this week.
GRAND RAPIDS, Minn.-One Of the
supposed victims of HI. II. Holmes. the
insurance swindler, is alive and we'll.
and practicing medicine in Grand
Rapids. His name is DR.. T. Russell.
The Chicago papers recently stated
that q Dr. Russell had disappeared
from Englewood in 1892, and it was be-
neved that he had been murdered in
the Holmes castle. The person re-
ferred to settled in Englewood in 1892
and rented rooms in the Holmes castle.
and remained ~ months, when he