Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-02-17
WEDNESDAY,

Congress called to meet there 8 Id pass a
resolution calling on all perso., employing
Chinese to discharge them. If at the end
of thirty days the Chinese should be yet
employed, the Anti Chinese Associations
will boycott such employers, and also all
persons patronizing such employers.
A CoNFLAGRATIoN at Chicago destroyed
the four-story and basement building at No.
IS Lake street, causing loss Of $69, 900 on
stock and $4,000 on building. The
first and second floors were occupied
by the Chicago Screw Company and the
basement and third and fourth floors by
Perry Bros, Wholesale dealers in stoves
The building belongs to the Cyrus H. Nc
Cormick estate. Both building and stocks
were covered by insurance.
CONGRESSMAN WHITE, of Minnesota,
who takes an active interest in all legisla-
ton touching the agricultural interests Of
the country, says that from the indications
he has been able 10 gather among members
of the House, bill is likely to become
law which will made it obligatory upon the
manufacturers Of oleomargarine, butterine
apd ntheE sahstitntes for tha genuine hptteK
to brand all packages 50 that pufc6asefS
can know just what they are getting. All
attempts to tax this product out Of existence
by National enactment will be abortive, and.
in the opinion Of Mr.. White, the only REM
edy for the existing evil that can he hoped
for is that mentioned above.
A. koELTER, n track walker on the
Northwestern Railroad at Carroll, iowa,
was torn to pieces by the cars six
miles west of that place. 1t is supposed
that he stepped from the track to avoid a
train. and was drawn under the cars by the
suction of the wind and train. He leaves q
wife and one child
AT n recent meeting of the Senate Com
mittee on Public Lands Senator Van Wyck
was instructed to report back favorably bills
introduced by him TO create two new land
districts in Nebraska, one to be known as
the Northwest District and be taken from
the Preston Valentine District The other
is to be taken from the North Platte, an
be known as the Sydney District.
SPECIAL from Olympia, Washington
Territory. says that an organized party call
ing themselves the Anti Chinese Assoca
ton. went through the town notifying the
Chinese to pack up and 60. The Sheriff,
backed by the Law and Order League, prom
ises the Chinese protection, but does not
discourage them from going. The Chinese
generally are anxious to go. Should they re-
main beyond the time of notice, there will
be trouble, as the Sheriff states his deter
mination to protect them and has sworn in
l00 deputies.
BY the explosion of feed mill boiler at
Oshkosh, Wis. Walter Follett and John
Reinhod were instantly killed and several
other persons seriously injured. The body
of Follet, who was one of the proprietors Of
the mill, was blown through the building
nearly block beyond and frightfully mu-
tiated. Several men and boys who were
near at the time of the explosion. which
shook the whole city, received broken arms
and limbs.
SENATOR DAWES, from the Committee
on Indian Affairs, has reported favorably
Van Wyck's bill authorizing the Secretary
of the Interior, with the consent of the
Winnebago Indians in Nebraska, to cause
to be surveyed and appraised in folty-aere
tracts about $4,000 acres Of the Winnebago
Reservation, and to sell the same to set
tiers, and allot the remainder of the Reser-
vation. except that portion sold to the Chi
cago, st. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha
Railway Company, to Indians in severalty.