Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-03-03
MATTERS IN THE WEST.

| THE committee appointed TO arrange for
the approaching meeting of the American
! Fisheries Society, at Chicago, has fixed
upon April 49, IA and Is as the dates for
| holding the convention. The committee
/ also decided to give an exhibition of differ
ent varieties of fish of various States at the
Exposition Building. The United States
! Fish Commission will send United States
fish car, and give a practical exhibition Of
the hatching of white fish, while the Michi-
gan Fish Commission will bring its fishing
| apparatus and give q similar exhibition
The exhibition is 10 be free to the public,
as means of popularly illustrating the
processes and purposes of fish culture.
DIR. JNo. II. RAucH, Secretary of the
Illinois State Board of Health, has pre-
sented as result of his recent inspection of
marine quarantine stations. a report Of
''coast defenses against Asiatic cholera"
which subject he considers of the greatest
importance to the people of Illinois and the
United States. He deprecates the past and
prospective expenditure of S77 100000 for
the contingent defense of our sea-coast
against foreign armed enemy and the disre-
gard of assaults from foreign contagion,
which is not contingency, but which has
been an actual recurring event.
THE Touring mill of A. Henshaw 4 Co.,
at Marcus, Iowa, was destroyed by fire.
Loss, $4,000; insured for $4,000. The
fire originated in the engine. room, and
when discovered was under such headway
that nothing was saved except the books.
SENATOR PLUMB, of Kansas, from the
Committee on Public Lands, reported with
an adverse recommendation the bill to re-
sumo to the United States certain lands
granted to the State of Iowa by an act of
Congress approved May -, 1854, and en-
braced in the alternate sections given to aid
in the construction Of railroad from Sioux
City TO the northern line of the State, now
held by the Sioux City and st. Paul Rail-
road Company. The refusal Of the COM
mittee to make favorable report ON this
bill will be great disappointment to the
many thousand Iowans who have repeatedly
petitioned for the forfeiture of these lands.
Two MEN crossing Salt Creek, near Lin
protiuding from the water. They pulled
out the animal, which was attached to q
buggy, and it was soon in condition to be
driven. short distance away the body Of
Lorena George, a young woman, was found.
Her horse had become unmanageable and
jumped over high bank into the creek.
DANIEL LooNEY and Charles Smith,
both of Pierson, Mich, went to n neigh
boring town to attend dance. Two young
men, named Kane and Weiseman, wanted
to quarrel with Looney about o'clock in
the morning. When Looney went to the
floor to dance Kane and Weiseman attacked
him, when he pulled n revolver and fred,
the bali striking James Maloney, by
stander, above the heart. killing him in
stantly. Looney was arrested.
A WASHINGTON dispatch says that Mr..
Day. member OF the Dakota Democratic
Central Committee, and Republican Sena-
tor-elect Moody. Of Dakota, are now pull
ing in the same boat ON the admission ques-
ton. They have given mp hope Of getting
the Harrison bill passed by the House at
this session. and they are now preparing .
bill for the division of Dakota on the 46th
parallel without saying anything about the
admission ct either half as n State, but Mr..
Springer says Dakota shall not be divided
on the 46sh parallel, i every Democrat in
the Territory asks for it.
GEN. s. D. STrR0Is, who has been sta
toned at the Black Hills since Last June a.
Colonel Of the Seventh Cavalry, has arrived
in Washington, on brief visit, accompa-
nies By his wife aud one Of his daughters.
Ths visit il stated 10 be one Of pleasure
only, bnt Il u understood that ~ real OBJ
ject i 70 enlist The support and innuencs q
his friends u behalf * his promotion. Gen.
stufsis Y nm q ysasa q - ~ -