Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-03-17
MATTERS IN THE WEST.

AN express train on the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific Railroad was boarded by
robbers at Joliet, Ill. Kellogg Nichols. the
messenger of the United States Express
Company, was killed, and money and jew
elry valued at $3.50 were stolen. Nichols
attended to his duties at Joliet, but when
the train arrived at Morris, twenty miles be-
yond Joliet, he did not open the door CT the
car. The local agent. VIM. Morris, forced
open the end door and found Nichols lying
dead on the floor of the car, with his throat
cut from ear to ear and his head horribly
cut and crushed. The baggageman was
found bound and gagged in the next car
The safe was broken open and the contents
gone. As soon as the news of the murder
and robbery reached Chicago the officers of
the road held consultation and it was
agreed TO send special detectives ON the
track of the robbers. A reward of 200
has been offered by the company for the
capture of the men.
MASTER WORKMAN PowDERLY declares
Illinois had formed political party under
the auspices of the order untrue. He says
that if such thing were attempted by any
District or Local or State Assembly of the
Knights Of Labor the charter Of the body
would be recalled. The order could not be
turned into political party.
AT Bismarck. Dakota, ex- Policeman John
O'Donnell shot Leonard Stewart, the cause
of the shooting being the revival of an old
feud between the parties. The bullet en-
tered Just below the left shoulder, and the
wound is serious but not fatal. O'Donnell
is now in Jail awaiting the result Of the in
juries.
| The Secretary of the Interior has re-
| jected the selection of some $4,000 acres Of
land, made by the st. Paul, Minneapolis
and Manitoba Railroad Company, within
Dakota. Sections between the six and ten
mile limits were rejected because of having
previously been selected as indemnity land
land by the Northern Pacific Railroad, and
| the Secretary holds that priority of selec-
uon gave superiority OF rlgnt.
| THE President returned to the Senate
| without his approval the bill to quiet the
| title of settlers ON Des Moines River lands
| in Iowa. The President in his veto mes
sage, after describing the nature of the
proposed legislation, says that every ques-
| ton that ought to be revised has been de-
| termined by the highest judicial authority,
and il substantiative point remains un-
settled he believes there is no difficulty in
presenting it to the proper tribunal.
| The bandit known as Junez Gonzalez,
! Cristobal Daize, "El Palitude" tthe long,
bearded), and many other aliases, has been
killed by civil guards stationed at Maja-
gugue, Cuba. He had committed many
murders, and in one Of his pockets there
was found list of fifteen rich and well
known proprietors Of sugar plantations, and
it is believed it was his intention to kidnap
them and hold them for ransoms.
The Secretary Of War has transmitted to
the House of Representatives the reports Of
! Chief Of Engineers Newton and Maj. Hand
bury, Of the engineer corps, in reference "a
surveys for the Hennepin Canal. Maj.
Handbury recommends what is known ~
the Marias d Osier route. He estimates
that The cost Of the canal By this route
| would be e5,sl1, 1857, OF about u ,Oo0, ,00u
less than By other routes. This estimate il
exclusive Of the cost Of the Dixon feeder,
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