Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-06-03

A Butte jury has decided shat vltriol
throwing Is no crime Ssss
1t is said in New England that Bath,
Maine, has more ,smekefs stl4n any
other town of ssn,ilarsise III That coun-
try. ~
The members of tasssr ~np.y lvania
Legislature have been lending their
railroad passes to others, and as b re-
suit the passes are being taken un. ),
"A barrel Of cider was stolen in Rip
ton, vt, last January, and out of it
have gfownsfo criminal prosecutions,
\ two men have been confined in jafl ten
days each and $57 has been paid in
lines.
The power Of the Lebel rifle was ex-
hibited at Bercy, in France, recently,
b yvhere q soldier was called on to shoot
an escaping bun. The bullet from the
'riae penetrated the animals skull and
left the body near the tail.
An Albino deer is on exhibition in
Augusta, Me, The deer is practically
white all over and a perfect beauty. 1t
was shot by Ernest G. Lyons, of Cen
Z ter Sidney, insthe fall Of 1895. on Bald
Mountain. The animal is about years
OF age.
Experiments which have recently
been made at the HYGIENE Institute Of
the University of Berlin would seem to
overthrow the theory that bacteria are
indispensable to the existence Of sani-
NAL life, which theory was put forward
by Pasteur.
The increasing wealth of American
colleges enables no less than ten of
them to publish daily newspapers. This
luxury Is INDUCED in by Yale, Cornell,
Princeton, Brown, Stanford, Tulane
and the Universities Of Pennsylvania,
Wisconsin and Michigan.
The health department of Baltimore
has been called upon to look into the
condition of a number Of bakeries re-
ported to be in a filthy state. Nine
hundred and seventy-eight inspections
were made last year, resulting in a de-
cided improvement in cleanliness, a.. ID
There are hard times in 1phan3essi
burg just now. The gold in the Rand e
still there, but the political disturb
ances have depressed trade and th6l
streets are full Of outcasts who sleep I'M
caves in the hills and descend into the
city to pick up garbage in the markets
for food.
Professor Thomas D. Seymour, chair,
man Of the American school at Athens,
announces that this year, on account OF
the ''troublous times" all the archss
geological excavations in Greece which
have been hitherto conducted under the,
auspices of the school will be discon-
tinued.
The police and courts of Paris are,
making determined effort to rid the
city of the scandal Of criminal medical
practice, and two physicians We're RED
Gently sentenced to five years imprison-a
ment, which is regarded in France as,
an unusually severe punishment for the
crime.
The following from q disappointed,
Office seeker in Washington is extremes
ly pathetic: John, old boy, I've seem
the President. He is in good HEALTHY
and doing well. Please send me a railsi
road ticket home, but If you can't do,
that, just send me a pair Of stout shoes,
warranted to walk WELL"
South Africa is anxious to have 81
real university Of it's own. The Cape
university Is simply an examining bodys
like the London university and it is
proposed. to change it into a teaching,
nniv@sity. The boerr 0f sthA Tape
Colony wish the examination to be held
In Dutch as well as In English.
Woman's capacity as wage Garner
can be measured by the fact that the
report Of the Massachusetts, savings
bank commissioners ho wed that in the
year 1894 out Of totaIof 1.D44, 90 a.
positors 4SO,S were women, and out
Faof $74.946,570 deposits that year $685.
469,023 had been deposited by women.
One Of the largest paintings In the;
world, 32x23 feet, witirA frame Weigh
ing over a ton, wassmoved II, Paris the
other day by seventeen men, and chm
veyed through the streets an. ~ double;
chariot to another gallery, where dk AZ.
rived without accident. Tits a gocs
eminent picture, commemorative, the
first holiday OF the present republic.
The antitrust law just enacted in
Georgia is a very comprehensive and
thorough one. 1t is based upon the.
theory that free competition In Am
forms of business is personal right
and a public advantage, ana THAT a
wrong is done whenever it liz. tu1J-l
pressed or DISTRACTED. There sef1ps.1o,
be no room left for the escape Of any
combination designed to control prices
or to interfere with the general laws OF
trade - e,,'s.,i '.on Ynta y
Id Misfortune has overtakena william
Byers, who owned a 600-acre era baapplte
farm of SO. 600 trees near Leavenworth,
Kan. and his place has been seized by
creditors. 1t was supposed to be the
largest crabapplc orchard ID TIE xSlll.
b In the early prohibition times, Byers
planted all the trees he could get and