Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-03-10
ITEMS FROM THE SOUTH.

Gov. KNOTT, Of Kentucky, has sent
message to the Legislature stating that
1000 free miners, armed, had appeared be-
fore the State Inspector in charge Of the
couvicts at work in the mines in Pulaski
county and gave him two days in which to
remove the men, saying they would burn
the camp. The Governor has ordered
troops to the place. Companies A, c, d
and E of the State Guard, have been sent
to protect the miners and convicts at Green
wood. The Greenwood mines are six miles
from the Cincinnati Southern road, and are
owned by capitalists in London, Cincinnati,
i Lexington and Danville. gssssS s''s
W. B. HOWARD, editor Of the Hunt
County Chronicle, deliberately shot City
Marshal A. Russell on the street at Kings
ton, Tex. Howard discharged both barrels
of shotgun at Russell. Stray bullets hit
spectator named Overhoh and boy
named Kirk Haley. Howard is an eccen-
tric young editor, who bitterly assailed sa-
loonkeepers in his paper, charging that
City Marshal Russell and other officers
were gamblers. This caused Russell and a
couple Of saloonkeepers to visit Howard's
Office and chastise him. Smarting under
their redress, Howard suddenly issued from
the Office and shot Russell in the back while
the latter was returning from the postofice.
Russell, Overholt and Haley were all fatal
ly injured.
The differences between the Knights Of
Labor and the Denver Watch Case Com
pany, Of Newport, KY, have reached .
final settlement. John c. Denver, Presi-
dent of the company, met the General Ex-
ecutive Board of the Knights Of Labor, in
session at Philadelphia, and articles were
signed by both parties in which they agreed
that the boycott on watch cases manufac-
tured by the company is to be removed.
former employees of the company to be rein
stated, and in the future no discrimination
will be exercised by the company against
the Knights of Labor. 1t is also stipulated
that children under Is years Of age shall
not be employed in the factory.
FIRE broke out in the Alabama ware
house, Montgomery, Ala, and destroyed
the northern half of the warehouse, cover
ing block, and between 5000 and $500
bales Of cotton. The building belonged to
Leshman, Durr & Co., Montgomery, and
the cotton to numerous owners. The total
loss is fully $150,000, all of which is COW
cred by insurance.
AT the term of court now in session at
Edgefeld, S. c., thirty citizens of the
county will be tried for lynching A. ].
Cuthbert last September. The murdered
man belonged to one of the wealthiest fam
lilies in Edgefeld.
AREPoRT from Erlinetpn,n Ky., says $50
coal miners have quit work there. The
trouble seems to have grown out of a recent
organization Of a lodge of Knights Of
Labor at that place. The miners claimed
that their coal was not fairly weighed, and
demanded that the Knights of Labor be np-
pointed to weigh it. To this the operators
decidedly objected and the men walked out
of the mines. The operators say they can
procure other men.
JOHN PEARSON, travelling salesman for
New York drug house, was found dead in
his room at the Planters Hotel, ST. Louis,
and an empty bottle which had contained
morphine pills was found among his effects.
He was 40 years Of age and leaves wife
and two children in England.