Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-08-15

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criminal has reached here. Jam.s
Burns about two years ago killed Frank
Render on account Of jealousy Of =
woman. He escaped and for two years
has been In hiding. Yesterday he was
discovered In o swamp near here and a
pose Of deputy sheriffs started out to
oanture him. In the battle which fol.
lowed Burns received IL bullets In his
body and died soon after.
New YoRK-Hon. james Stevenson
Ewing, envoy extraordinary and min
lister plenipotentiary to Belgium, and
Mrs. Ewing, sailed on the Friesland
for Antwerp today.
WAsHlNaToN-John B. jackson.
charge d. affairs at Berlin, has in
formed the state department that the
chamber of commerce Of the city of
Cassel has requested the Prusian min
lister of commerce to consider means
for the prevention Of the creation of a
monopoly Of the petroleum trade of
Germany by the German-American
Petroleum company STANDARD Oil
company
WAsHINGToN-In company with her
father Miss Elizabeth Flager appeared
in court today and gave bond In the
sum of Of $4,000 for her appearance
before the grand jury In September to
answer to the charge Of shooting young
Gen MacFeeley and Col. John Cassels.
KANSAS CRY, Mo.-Four prominent
men were lodged in Jail here last night
charged with robbing the Brookfeld.
Mo-, postoff1ce of $1,000 In February,
1894. They were w. s. Day, who was
assistant postmaster at the time of the
robbery; Harry Strobe, j. r. Havely
and August Zeverely.
LoNDoN-Chief Pearce, of the Lon
don Missionary Society, has cabled as
follows: kilograms from Annoy state
that all is well. Canton is quiet.
LoNDoN-It is reported that a com.
pany has been formed with Sir w. +.
Lewis as chairman, to establish q reg
ular line of steamers to run between
Cardiff and New York. The line will
carry both passengers and freight.
Sir w. T. Lewis is the chief coal mine
owner of South Wales.
MADRID - Thirty three thousand
troops will 90 to Cuba this month and
twenty thousand more will be sent in
October il they should be necessary in
Quelling the rebellion there.
BuENos AYREs-Six hundred Span.
iards have enrolled themselves at the
consulate here for service against the
insurgents in Cuba.
WAsHINaToN-The p~ostof1ce depart
ment has instructed postmasters that
ordinary letters addressed to any for.
eign country except Canada and Mex
leo, must be forwarded whether post
| age is prepaid or not. All other mail
able matter, however, must be prepaid
at least partially.
OrrUMwA, Iowa-The mamoth whole
sale establishment of George Haw i
| Co., doing business throughout Iowa.
Missouri and Nebraska, was robbed
early this mornsng. Money and goods
valued at $500 were taken.
BALTIMoRE-A special to the Manu-
facturers' Record says that the con-
tracts secured by the Admission, Ala,
Pipe and Foundry company for iron
pipe to be shippedt to Yokohama, Japan
AGGREGATES thirty thousand tons. 1t is
the largest contract for iron for for
eign shipment ever secured by an Am
erican house and was secured in com
pitition with leading manufacturers of
Europe.
BosTON-The repair shops of the Bos-
ton Revere Beach and Linn Railroad at
Orient Heights, with four locomotives,
were totally destroyed by fire last
night, ~entailing a loss Of $4,000.
BERLlN-Among the regiments which
took part yesterday in the celebration
IN commemoratlon of the German vic
tories in the Franco Prussian wal was
the forty-eighth (Brandemburg) regi-
ment which celebrated at kuestrin, II
miles northeast Of Frankfort, the bat
tie Of Spichern.
TULSA, /. T.-Last Tuesday. 20 miles
southwest of this place in the Creek
Nation, two women and two girls were
assaulted by six negroes. Yesterday
one Of the girls died from the effects
OF injuries received and the other is
not expected to live. One hundred
and fifty armed men are now in pur-
suit OF the Williams and no doubt is en-
tertained but that they will soon be
cap tured.
OGDENsBuRa, N. Y.-Fire broke ont
IN n OF the lumber yards Of the Skill
~0St ~AoAAOy 0A0 06lA6 AUuU6E COm-
pany In this city at 3 O'Clock this morn
ing and consumed about 100000 feet
Of lumber. Loss, $4,000.
PHILADELPHIA-At q meeting OF the
distr. ct council of the textile workers
last night, it was reported that the 200
weavers OF George Campbell's wooden
mill at Thirty fifth and Reed streets
had gone out on q strike for an ad-
vance n clay worsted goods.
JACKSON, Miss-A special from Bran
don. the county seat Of Rankin county,
says that q difficulty occurred ON the
street there this morning between b.
A: Dinkins aud Dabney Marshall, in
which the former was shot and killed.
KANSAS City, Mo.-In~ Kansas City.
Kan, late last evening 80 Texas steers
being driven from the stock yards to
Armour's packing house, stampeded
rushed pell NELL down James
street. Fortunately nobody was hurt.
Many OF the steers ran into the Kaw
river and were drowned. The others
we're rounded up In shortfashon with
out doing much damage. =
CONsrANTINOPLE-Advices receiyed
here from Tarsus, Asia Minor. says !,
thIt q mob has attacked the American