Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1907-05-02

Three persons were drowned IN the
Delaware river fsw miles below
Chester, Pa, by {. ;apsixing OF the
schooner Eben.
Peter Frazer, q brakeman on the
Copper Range railroad, fell between
two rock cars and was ground to
pieces at Houghton Mich.
The fishing tug Searchlight of Har
Dor Beach, Mich. is missing and is be
lieved to have sunk in Lake Huron
with her crew OF six men.
A three-story brick building, occn
pied as pattern shop and store
house at the navy yard at Kittery. Me.
was ruined by fire. Loss, $150.000.
Two children are dead and one is
dying as the result of fire which de
stroyed the home of Charles Bradwell
in Mystic, mining camp near Ottnm-
wa, Iowa.
The pulp mill of the Lake Superior
corporation. located in the Canadian
500. across the river from Sault Ste.
Marie, Mich, was burned. The loss
will be about 100000.
Walter Beverly, a horse trainer of
Mason City, Iowa, was attacked by a
vicious horse. His arm was man
gled and his body was trampled SO
badly that he may die.
THE Zoeller Packing company. oc-
cupying two acres Of ground on
Spring Garden avenue, Allegheny, Pa,
was totally destroyed by fire. causing
an estimated loss of about 100000
Three young women employed at q.
C. Wheaton & Co.'S glass factory at
Millville, N. j., were killed by the cob
lapse of a smokestack which crashed
through a room in which they wers
working.
A. G. Hunt of Elizabeth, N. j., was
instantly killed near State Center,
Iowa. In company with III. B. Bachus
he was riding in an auto car OH the
tracks of the Northwestern railroad.
The car was struck by the fast mail
and both men were hurled a distance
of 100 feet. Hunt was dead when
picked up, but his companion escaped
serious INJURY
Foreign.
Prayers were offered in all the
churches throughout the island OF
Cuba for rain, which has not fallen in
six months.
A band Of Servians defeated band
Of Bulgarians at Isver, near Uskab.
killing and beheading ten of their OPP
ponents.
Severe volcanic eruptions continue
in the southern part of Chile. The
town of Valdiva is covered with ashes
and overhung with clouds.
Prince lbrahim Pasha, an uncle of
the khedive of Egypt. while driving a
motor car at Naples, ran over woman
and child, mortally injuring both OF
them.
Recent earthquakes in Northern
Portugal have revealed a cave on the
coast containing valuable treasures.
including old coins, ,jewelry and an
tique arms.
While maneuvering during a night
attack outside the grand harbor at
Valletta, Island of Malta, the British
torpedo boat destroyer Ariel collided
with the breakwater and sank. One
man was drowned
The British admiralty has issued or
ders forbidding any naval band to play
selections from Sullivan's "Mikado'
during. the coming visit to England of
Prince Sadueru Fushimi, a cousin Of
the emperor of Japan.
According to an evening newspaper
at Madrid the ministry of marine has
received telegram from the captain
general at Cartagena saying the
plague is raging at that port and that
800 persons have been sent to hospi-
tails
The Swedish cruiser Fylgia, COM
manded by Prince Wilhelm, duke of
Sodermanland, King Oscars grandson.
will visit the jamestown exposition
for week during July and then will
go to New York, Boston and other
American ports.
Antonio Infante, negro, died at
Santiago, Cuba, at the age of $50
years. Despite his great age. the
greatest recorded in modern times, he
retained his faculties unimpaired to
the end He was born in 1857, nine
teen years before the beginning Of the
American revolution.
Domestic.
Jack London's sailboat, the Shark.
started from San Francisco last week
for Honolulu, the first port to be
touched, on six-year cruise around
the world. t.
Wolfram C.. Fuchs, an expert in the
use of X-ray. died in Chicago of can
Ger, which he contracted three years
ago through coming in contact with
the X-ray apparatus.
Harry Loupe, sixteen years old, who
| has been missing from Monmouth,
Iowa, for three years, was found at
Tulsa, I. T. He was thought to have
been Kidnapped. but says he ran away.
About 200 carriage drivers are idle
at Toronto as result OF the employ
ers refusing to grant their demands
for an advance Of So a week, % cents
an hour overtime and closed shop"
A. f. CARPENTER general merchant