Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-03-24
MATTERS III THE WEST.

eNEETINss OF representatives OF Iowa,
Minnesota and Dakota railroads was held
at the Office of Commissioner Midgeley, at
plan for charging different rates on the vari-
Gus sizes of cars. The railroads now use
cars varying from twenty-eight feet TO
thirty four feet, On cars below thirty feet
81 per cent, of the tariff rate is charged,
and the regular tariff rate on cars above
thirty feet. This system has been found
very faulty, as it gives the roads using cars
of more than thirty feet in length an advan-
tage in carload rates. Hence the commit
tee, consisting of Commissioner Midgeley,
Carman, Falthorn and Ripley, have recon-
mended Il sliding scale.
Mrs. EVA d. FoLGER, while en- route
from San Francisco to Chicago, committed
suicide at Council Bluffs, Iowa, by stab
bing herself in the heart with a pocket
knife. Family troubles are supposed to
have led her to take her own life.
HARLIN p. TRACY, a banker at Elm
wood, ILL.,. has made an assignment. <he
estimated indebtedness is S60,0G0. The
and real estate at Elmwood, Kansas lands,
$4,000 in bills receivable, and stock in
Peoria cattle valued at $4,000.
TIL. dead body Of a young man about %
years old was found in the Des Moines
River at Tamworth, Iowa. The man was
FIVE feet, eight inches high, and weighed AS
pounds. No clue to identity.
THE ChaNpion Malleable Iron Works of
Springfield, Ohio, whose men were re-
Gently discharged and the shops shut down,
gave large order to the Michigan NAL
leable Iron Works, of Detroit. The Knights
of Labor protested, and the Michigan Com
pany declined the order as contrary to the
principles of that order.
OSHKOSH, Wis, was visited by the most
remarkable atmospheric phenomena. Soon
after o'clock in the afternoon quite thick
darkness settled rapidly over the city, Great
ing great excitement. Women and children
screamed, and superstious persons howled
This deep gloom and the attendant excite
ment continued for about ten minutes, when
the darkness seemed to roll off toward the
east in a great wave. A similar phenomena
is reported from several cities west Of Osh-
kosh, showing that the direction of the
cloud was from the west.
A YOUNG man named Henry Plata met
with terrible accident on the farm of his
father, near Mexico, Mo-, which may cost
him his life. Father and son were engaged
in hauling hay, and were on top Of the load,
the father driving and the young man sit
ting in the rear on the handle Of pitch
fork. The wagon suddenly careened, the
fork fell with tines upward and the hay be-
gan to slide off the frame. The son made
an effort to reach the ground in advance Of
the load and in doing SO came directly in
contact with the fork, two Of the tines pass
ing entirely through the lower portion Of
his body, penetrating the pelvic region and
and making frightful wound. The young
man has suffered fearful agony, and his re-
covery is extremely doubtful.
A DISPATCH from Galveston, Tex, says
that band Of eight masked men called At
the house Of 7. 0. Polk and inquired for
Thomas Walters, who was thought to be
stopping with Polk. The latter opened the
door 70 admit one Of the band that be might
search the house for Walters. A. Polk
opened ths door ths mob rushed II. and
ssizfns him, carried him into The yard,
wAers hs wss knocked down with . heavy
club and fevolveis. After dragging the IN
sensible snan some distance feet fosenost