Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-05-05

MATTERS IN THE WEST.


Cicero, H., requested an advance in wages
and the adoption Of the eight-hour system.
The officers of the company after fully
considering the request, have declined to
grant it on the ground that the business of
the road did not Justify such expenditure.
General Manager Hughitt hopes for an am
icable settlement.
THE House Committee on Territories has
ordered an adverse report on the Senate
bill to admit the southern half of Dakota
Territory 10 the Union. The report will
not be made until action is taken on other
bills regarding the admission of Dakota.
SEVERAL Of the largest furniture fac
tories at Milwaukee, Wis, closed, in conse-
quence of the strike by 500 or more furn-
ishers and wood carvers, whose demands
for ten hours pay for eight hours work were
refused.
Two HUNDRED AND SEVENTY -FIvEcab-
inetmakers and furniture workers at Roth
childs Sons factory, Chicago, went out on
strike. They demanded ten hours pay for
eight hours work, which the firm concluded
they could not meet. The strike is the out
come of the one at their factory at Cincin-
matt.
A DISPATCH from Helena, Ark, says the
river is above the highest point reached in
1882. but is now ut stnndstill. All efforts
TO hold the remaining parts of the levee
have been abandoned and the water is now
sweeping through numerous places. The
break of 100 feet to half mile wide in the
levee below Austin has swept away for sew
eral hundred feet. This will result in the
overflow of large PORTION Of Tun;ca and
Coahomn counties. The loss will be great
because all crops have been planted and
were growing.
HENRY PATTEE. travelling salesman for
Poole, Gillian & Co., Of Dubuque, COM
mitted suicide at Fort Dodge. Iowa. He
had been employed by that firm eighteen
months and was well known and highly re-
spected in Dubuque. The supposed cause
of his act was small Jhortage in his ac-
accounts, which seems TO have prayed upon
his mind.
WOLF h LoFMAN, shoe manufacturers
in Cincinnati, have assigned to Samuel
Wolfstein. Assets. $4,000; liabilities,
$4,000. The failure is attributed to the
strike throughout the country.
The employees of the numerous planning
mills in st. Louis recently made demand
that the eight-hour system be adopted. In
reply to this demand notices were posted in
the mills that those who desired to work
eight hours for eight hours pay could do
SO. but the machinery would be kept IN
motion ten hours, enabling those who
wished to work longer time to do so. The
men are dissatisfied with this action and
will strike.
A SPECIAL from Tombstone, Arizona,
says the casualties in the late bloody raid
by the Apaches, SO far as known to date,
include nineteen killed, several wounded,
| one girl prisoner, q vast amount of prop
erty destroyed and great number Of stock
carried Off
souTH-BouND passenger train on the
Chicago and Alton Road was stoned by sew
eral miscreants at Lamont, III. Nearly
every window on one side of the train was
smashed, but miraculously no one was se-
riously injured.
The Cincinnati, Washington and Balti-
more Railroad meets the eight hour prob
lem by issuing notice that they will pay
fixed compensation for each hours labor
performedlat one- tenth the sum previously
paid per day.
The body Of L. Plat, stock buyer, was
found in pond near Jesup, Buchanan
county, with bullet hole in his head. He
had not been seen since last week. He was
supposed to have large sum of money on
his person.
AT Houston, Tex, w. Gerkey, charged
with the murder Of Ella Evans, a woman Of
ill-fame, was tried in the Criminal Court.
The jury brought in averdict Of murder in
the first degree, and assessed the punish
ment at confinement in the Penitentiary for
| life.
A LARGE iron lard tank in Tobey i
Booths packing house at Chicago exploded.
The cause is unknown. The concusson
was terrific. Flying iron tore up the floor,
| ceiling and wills. Every one in the room
was injured BY the debris or hot oil. james
Sanford was instantly killed, Pat Muldoon
and Matte Sanford seriously injured, and
six others more or less injured
The Postofice and ten other buildings at
Keystone, Iowa, we're destroyed by fire.
The fire spread rapidly, and it was with
great trouble that the postofice records and
mail matter were saved. Much destroyed
was unimportant mail mstter. The fire e1-
pended itself after destroying the business
portion Of the town. The loss is estimated
at from $4,000 to $4,000.
Ar ST. Louis, William Withers, scab
switchman, was set upon by three mer,
who beat him severely. He drew revolt
yer and Ared, killing one Of his assailants,
named Gibbons, . striker. Withers was
arrested. The other men escaped.
GEO. Orr, sash, door, and blind manu-
facturer q Davenport, iowa. has made an
assignment Liabilities. el56,c56: assets,
nouinally. $IsASes. OTIS principal cred
itors ~ lumber frms u Chicago. BE also
Cwes ccrpi eahas sups 10 parties n Ohio,
Psrns1 1sAaxA Esw y6gk and Wisconsin.
IL4 expx1ox1, FARMER living
nssr HSAkalts 0ty, Est., srd wtts, hsvs
tess szrsIiSa ~ ~ murder u ihoir child.
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