Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-04-18
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AT general election held in Rochester,
N. Y, in 1886, Lucy Barber and number
OF other women accompanied their hus-
bands to the polls and sw6re in their vote
No action was taken for nearly year,
when Mrs. Barber was arrested for illegal
voting, it being the intention to make it a
test case. She was found guilty and SEN
fenced to one days Imprisonment in the
county Jail. She appealed from the sem
tence to the next higher court. and de-
cision has lately been rendered sustaining
the conviction. Mis-. Barber has not as
yet served her sentence.
CASTLE GARDENS iniquitous railroad
pool, says New York special, stands in
imminent danger Of being swept out of ex-
istence. Several of the railro IDS consti-
tuting it have Withdrawn and are now
openly fighting it, and offering liberal in
ducements to runners and other persons
who will secure them immigrant passen-
gers outside of the pool. Until recently
cordial relations have existed among the
railroads, but finally the yoke fastened
upon the lesser railroad corporations by
the New York Central and the Pennsyl-
vania, who We're monopolizing the biggest
percentage of passenger traffic, became un-
bearable. the result being the present con-
dition of affairs. The presidents of the
various railroads forming the immigrant
clearing house have been in consultation
several days trying to devise some means
to prevent the collapse of the pool Tllis
has failed, however. and the question now
is, "how long can the pool withstand the
assaults of its enemies?"
CHARLES +. BLESSING the desperate.
on trial ut Sedalia, Mo-, for shooting
Officer james Gossage in December last,
during the progress of the trial repeate dly
cursed the witnesses. jury and Judge. The
court ordered him gagged if he persisted
in his Interruptions. The jury were out
five minutes and returned with a verdict of
guilty. He was given ten wears. He will
now be tried again for shooting Joseph
Gossage. and will probably get another
and similar sentence. He is % years old
and has served in the prisons of Indiana.
Illinois and Missouri.
ANOTHER railroad suit of great import
ance to grain shippers has recently been
decided in Dakota court. The Northern
Pacific has persistently Disseminated
against certain wheat shippers who en-
tered into competition with the railroad
companys elevators in a small town. and
in order to freeze them out the company
refused to furnish cars. suit was
brought to compel the road to furnish
proper transportation, and II decision has
just been handed down in favor of the
plaintiffs, who will be awarded damages in
each case where they failed to get ears as
demanded This will be good news to
grain shippers all through the west against
whom the railroads have Disseminated in
order to build up elevator monopolies at
the expense of the people.
LoNDoN special states that the Brit
lsh steamer Bella from Antwerp. had her
bows stove in and was afterward seriously
damaged in collision off Deal in a fog.
with the steamer Vena. from Balboa. The
Vena sank and siNt en- of the persons on
board of her lost their lives
MATTHEW ARNOLD, the noted poet.
scholar, critic and theologian, whose re-
cent article on Civilization in the United
States attracted marked attention. died
very suddenly at Liverpool the other dav,
of heart disease.
THE court at Malaga, Spain, has SEN
fenced Senior Villa, Spanish pastor, to
t"cntN -clSut HoHtHS imprisonment 1Of
publishing pamphlet condemning Roman
Catholic dogmas.
SHosHoNE, Idaho, dispatch says:
kilpatricks Brothers & Collins, the rail-
road contractors of Beatrice, Neb., have
closed contract with the Oregon Railway
and Navigation company 10 build two
branch lines in Oregon. The Eureka Flat
extension, near Walla Walla. and the vii.
low Creek branch, near Arlington, a dis
tance OF eighty miles