Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1889-01-23

against their enemies, which viii probably
last for three years.
Died with Their Beots On.
The death at Stamford, Conn.,, Of Gage
Ramsey, who was shot last week by John
Blackerby, removes the last male member
of the family. There were six brothers,
and every one Of them died in hurry.
Jasper was the first TO die. He shot three
men and was hanged BY . mob in Ken
killed by man named Atkins. Smith,
the third brother, waylaid Atkins, killing
him and his father, and was afterward shot
to death by detail Of militia, sent to
suppress the Lincoln county wer. Arch
was killed by Sam Williams and Clay
Powell. in a bar room fight at Houston
vile. Corn, tho fifth brother, was shot
in general street fight at Moreland.
Cage, who is now dead, has been shot
eight times by ~ many different men.
An In.iisn Dsspssado Killed.
Advices have just been received from the
Greek nation that Wesley Barrett, half
breed Creek Indian desperate who mur-
dered United States Marshal Phillips and
later killed Nose Mcintosh, of the Greek
police, and wounded two or three others
during the past year, was ambushed and
killed Saturday bv Wallace McNoo, one of
the Greek Indians. A large reward had
been offered for Barrett either dead or
alive.
A Frishtfui Wreck.
frightful wreck occurred in the New
York, Pennsylvania and Ohio railroad near
near Tallmadge, o., on the morning of the
18th, passenger train colliding with one
section of a freight train which had broken
in two.
Eight persons were killed and dozen
injured. The list of killed is as follows:
ROBERT HUNTINGTON of Gallon, O.. pas
william WALTERS Of Gallon. passenger
j. I. RusHFORD. of Gallon freight brake
man.
WILLIAM LUNDY. Of Salamanca, N. Y. ex-
press messenger
Three Cinnamon.
NARY ANN LYON. Of Idaho aged Q. tioketed
second class to Cherry Greek, N. Y.
Four OF the injured are in . precautions con
dition.
Think They Have the Ftend.
The police of Tunis have captured .
gang Of robbers and assassins. Among
the gang is man who is believed to have
perpetrsted the recent murders Of num-
Der Of women in the Whitechapel district
Of London. The British consul has for
warded to his government all the details
connected with the arrests. II is supposed
the Whitechapel murderer is charged with
having committed in Tunis murders SINH
lar to those committed in WhitechRpel.
The man confessed that he recently lived
in Whitechapel.
Prisoners Bu,chersd In the Streets.
A dispatch from Zanzibar says that in
pursuance of the sultans orders five ma
tives who were awaiting trial for murder
were horribly and cruelty executed in the
streets of the town, their heads cut OF and
their bodies left where they had fallen, ca
posed and unguarded. until the evening of
the day Of execution. The sultan has also
ordered thAt twenty -fonr prisoners. in
cluding one woman, who have been sem
fenced for life imprisonment, be put to
death in q similar manner during the next
week. . few to be executed each day. The
British consul has vainly protested against
these atrocities.
Ship Burned At Ssa.
Three shipwrecked men arrived at Rock
land Me-. Wednesday, bringing terrible
tale of loss of life and property at sea.
They are the captain and two mates of the
British steamer Almirs, from Birming-
ham, Eng, to New York, via. Halifax.
On board the vessel were twelve sailors,
Capt. Smith, his wife and two children,
cook and two mates. December 8,
when eighty-fve miles OF Halifax, the
vessel burned, and the captains wife and
two children and the twelve sailors per-
ished. The captein, two mates and the
cook took to the boat and we're picked up
three days later, with the exception of the
cook, who died from exposure. by
schooner and brought there. Owing to
the combu.tible nature Of the WOODWORK OF
the vessel it was enveloped in flames al.
most in an instant after the fire started.