Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-03-31

Removal of distractions. 75,eoo
FRANK MULKowsKI was executed at
Chicago on Friday for the murder of Agnes
Kledsick Aug. % last. On the evening of
that day the husband Of the dead woman
returned from his work to find his wife
lying dead on the floor, her head beaten into
an unrecognizable mass. A few days after
Mulkowski was arrested and identified az
the man who had pawned, sold, and given
away articles from the house. At the time
of the murder these with other circum-
stances pointed to his guilt and secured his
conviction.
Gov. HUGHES. of Arkansas, has issued
proclamation expressing the regret of all
good citizens at the condition of affairs pre-
cipitated by the strike, which has caused
the suspension of freight traffic over the st.
Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Rail
road throughout Arkansas.
A. N. KELLOGG, President of the A. n.
Kellogg Newspaper Company, of Chicago
and New York. and one of the originators
of the auxiliary system of printing news
payers, died at Thomasville, Ga, after a
lingering illness, principally caused by
overwork.
lNthe suit of the Chinese expelled from
Eureka, CAL, to recover $4,000 damage to
property and S57 900 for loss of business,
Judge Sawyer, in the United States Circuit
Court at San Francisco, granted a motion
to stdke out the latter claim. This practi-
cally ends the suit, as no property was in
jured by the expulsion.
FIRE broke out in the Windsor Hotel
at Sahda, Col, and it was completely de-
stroyed in twenty minutes, the guests hav-
ing only time to escape alive, and leaving
all their Effects in the burning building. A
strong wind was blowing at the time, which
spread the fire TO an adjoining building,
and as the entire block was composed of
frame houses. in spite of the heroic efforts
Of the fire department, twenty seven Of the
principal business houses and over half the
contents we're destroyed. Loss, $120,000;
insured in Eastern companies for $45, 900.
A FIRE broke out in the blacksmith shop
of the State Prison at Lincoln, Neb., but
made slow progress and was extinguished
in about an hour without much loss. The
convicts worked with great order and eff
cheney. The amount of damage is not
known.
4. A. TALMAGE, General Manager of the
Wabash Railroad at st. Louis, has received
a telegram from Springfield, H.. stating
that his application to the United States
Circuit Court for the protection of the
property of the Wabash Railroad had been
granted, and Marshal Weber and force of
deputies have arrived at East st. Louis to
take charge of the yard and property and to
protect its employees in the operation OF
trains, which, with their aid, will be run on
regular schedule time hereafter.
THE action of the Charles w. Allen Com
pany, IN extensive tobacco manufacturing
concern at Chicago, in voluntarily reducing
the working hours Of its employees to eight
with ten hours pay. has created sensation
in labor circles in that city, aud is regarded
as an indication that the employers realize
that the eight hour movement is bound to
develop into an accomplished fact. 1t is
rumored that several other extensive en-
ployers Of labor in Chicago will take sim
liar action Immediately. Under the new
time schedule the employees of the Allen
Company commence work at 7:3O a. N. and
quit at p. IN.
PETITION is being circulated for sigma
lures among employees in the Chicago, Mil
waukee and st. Paul Railroad shops and
yards in Milwaukee asking Manager Miller
to reduce the working time to eight hours,
and pay the same price as now paid for ten
hours. The petition asks also that time
and a half wages be paid for overwork and
double wages for Sunday work The cir
cnlation Of the petition is causing good
deal Of uneasiness.
A CONFERENCE between the Committee
Of Engineers and Vice President Potter, of
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rail-
road. is being held at Chicago. The en-
ployes seek reduction in the number Of
working hqnrs and an equalization Of wages.
The company is willing to concede the bulk
Of the demands, but viii not consent to pay
the engineers on the branch or non-remu-
nerative sections Of the road the same seal
paid the main line engineers.
Two NEW appropriation bills have been
reported from the Committee on Military
Affairs to the House Of Representatives
making appropriations Tor the rebuilding Of
military pests and the completion Of im-
prosements on posts already tegun. The