Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1893-03-03
IN THE WEST.

CHICAGO special: Jacques Licio Ad.
nit, alias Mueller, was arrested In the
corridors OF the Postoffice by United
States Marshal Hitchcock. The man
is wanted for forging $4,000 in bills
Of exchange on Vienna bank. Adult
is an Austrian. 1t is claimed that Ad-
utt committed the forgeries in Deem
Der last and after securing the money
came to Chicago about Jan. 10. The
fraud was discovered just after he had
| landed in New York, and efforts were
made to locate him, but the detectives
gave up the hunt after q hard search
| Early in the present month Adult be-
! gan to correspond with friends in vi
emma, and the Austrian police authori-
ties inspected" his mail. by this
means they learned that he was stop
ping at the Benedict Hotel. Cons III
CIausennus was at once notified to
swear out a warrant and United States
Marshal Hitchcock was called into the
case. A visit was paid to the hotel,
but Adult had just gone with his bag
gage, leaving word that he was bound
to New Orleans. 1t was found that
Adult had received word that the po-
lice were looking for him, and he had
where he had registered under the
name of Mueller. At his room in the
Palmer House too large trunks were
found. Adult has been living very
modestly here.
DENVER special: Mary Z. Reynolds
and Johanna Daily, owners of the ..Jo-
seph Reynolds No 4 mining claim,
Clear Creek County, have brought suit
in the District Court against the Amer
lean Sisters Mining Company and the
Two Sisters Mining Company for 500,
600 each. Mrs Reynolds is the widow
Of Joseph Reynolds of Chicago. who
died Feb II, 1891. Reynolds during
his life time and for nine years prior to
his death, owned q seven-eighths inter-
est in the Joseph Reynolds No. 4 claim,
and the other eighth was the property
OF plaintiff, Johanna Daily. The charge
is made that the companies, by means
OF the Old Trappers' and Two Sisters
Tunnels, have wrongfully entered the
Joseph Reynolds Lode and have eX-
tractcd, sold, and converted to their
own use, ore OF the value OF the dam
ages claimed.
CANON CITY, Colo, special: Alfred
Packer, 'the man eater" vino was
sentenced from Hinsdale County years
ago for the killing OF q nun Der OF COM
paniOns and for alleged cannibalism,
will have to remain in the peni-
tentiarv. Packers attorneys applied
for Packers release on writ of habeas
corpus on the ground that he had
served eight years, the sentence i'm
posed for the murder of Bell. one OF
the victims. Packer was sent up for
| eight years each on Eve charges of
murder. The attorneys claimed that
! the sentence was irregular and that
! Packer had served the total time In
serving the first eight years. The
court held that it had no right to criti-
else the action of another District
Court and refused the writ. The case
will be appealed.
SALT LAKE special: Don Mcguire,
chief of the mining department for the
Utah exhibit at the Worlds Fair, re.
turned from his trip to Bluff City. Mr..
, Mcguire says that he secured some
valuable relics Of the ancient inhabi
tants OF this country. aud these, to.
gether with what he already has from
other parts, will make the finest col-
lection OF relics that ever came from
| west of the Rocky Mountains, and he
greatly doubts ii any better collection
| was ever brought from Egypt Mr..
| Mcguire says that they expect 10 sur.
I-pass Peru with their relics from the
ruins of the Incas. except that no gold
| or silver has been found in these ruin,
OF the clitf-dwellers in Utah, but IS re.
CARDS mummies the Utah collection will
| be equal to IL not better than the Peru,
Wan.
WATERLOO, ILL.,, special: Last fall
Mrs. Lorenz Zeis cooked . lot Of apple
butter in copper vat None OF the
butter was used until the latter part ol
| December. The first week in January
q daughter OF the family became i'll and
died with what the attending physician
| said was pneumonia. A week after this
| the head Of the family. Lorenz Zeis.
died, aud week later . son. aged q
years, died. Two other memb bers Of the
| family are now seriously I'll. In each
case after death the body was badly
bloated. 1t is now thought that ths
| apple butter was the cause OF death
| aud that it was poisoned by being lcf,
! IN the kettle in which 1t was cooked
over night.
| DENVER, Colo, special: An evening
paper prints the following: There is Il
| be big deal on the Santa Fe system
| OF railroads. Tho entire army Of EN-
| ployes from Chicago to California l.
| laying plans 10 organize vast fedora
i tion. including every order OF Workmer
! on the system. The place selected fol
| the deliberation, which It is hoped viii
consummate the gigantic confedera alton
| Is Wichita, Kan. The boys are quit,
| reticent over the affair and shake thei
| heads when questioned IS to the objec
OF their meeting. They say 1t Is
grand movement al along the line t,
| com bine for protection and to bette
| cope with the management
| PIEpRAs NE8RAs. Mexico, special