Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1893-09-21
SOUTHERN SUMMARY.

| oANANNAH, Ga.. special: A dispatch
| from Brunswick says: eleven new
cases of yellow fever have developed,
| and an epidemic is declared" Such
was the announcement made by Col.
| Goodyear at the Board of Health most-
| ing, sending thrill of horror through
the grief-stricken residents of Bruins
wick present. With heart-breakinr
sorrow, hundreds rushed to the trains.
and it will need no military force to
depopulate the city. There are poor
in Brunswick, for whom the Govern.
ment and the people CT the country
must think. Work has been COM
menced on hospital buildings. During
the hurry and hustle of leaving many
nailed up their stores and then fled.
The change in the weather is unfavor-
able, and the worst may be expected.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, special: Benia.
min jackson, colored, was lynched near
Quincy. About a year ago jackson and
Ihomas Woodmeyer, prominent citi-
zen, quarreled. The fight so frightened
Mrs. Woodmeyer, who was in a deli
cate condition, that she died. jackson
swore he would six" Woodmeyer. A
Few days ago the negro threw rat poi
son into Woodmeyer's we'll. Three OF
the Woodmeyer. children died from
drinking the poisoned water. Wood
meyer himself is dying. Thirty neigh
bors visited the family and drank of the
poisoned water, and many are not ex-
pected to live. Jackson confessed his
crime before being put to death.
TOPEKA special: A letter was re-
ceived by the State Board of Railway
Commissioners from the county officers
OF Stevens County, making an earnest
appeal for assistance for the destitute
farmers OF that section and indicating
that it was question of help or star
vation. Crops this year were an en-
tire failure in every line of agriculture,
The people are unable to leave the
country, as they are without funds and
many OF their teams are mortgaped.
They want seed wheat and all kinds of
provisions, and ask the state board to
give them the privilege OF soliciting
aid in Eastern Kansas and Northern
Missouri
New ORLEANS special: The gen.
eral commanding the United
Confederate Veterans has issued an
order fixing Monday and Tuesday, Oc-
tober 3 and 4, as the dates for holding
the reunion at Birmingham, Ala, and
the date OF the unwilling of the Con-
federate Monument at Chicago for
October !. This is final and
no other change or pOstponement will
be made. At Chicago w. G. Breckin-
ridge Of Kentucky will he the orator
OF the day. and Gen. j. B. Gordon OF
Georgia will preside on the occasion
as commander in chief of the United
Confederate Veterans.
BRISTOL, Tenn, special: News has
reached Bristol to the effect that the
miners at COeburn, Va. are in a starry.
ing condition. A few days ago the
coal mines at Coeburn shut down.
throwing number OF men out of EN-.
ployment, and leaving them without
money to buy transportation to some |
other town, or even to buy bread. |
They will steal anything that will serve |
~ food for themselves and suffering |
families, and people in and around Coe. |
burn are guarding their cornfields and |
gardens with shotguns.
ELBERTON, Ca, special: The ar.
'est Of twenty-three men scattered /
through jackson and Ebert Counties.
charged with wholesale counterfeitinr /
II silver dollars, has stirred np the I
whole country. The plan adopted was
70 make the dollars in large quanti.
les, when the cOunterfeiters would
'catter all over the adjoining towns.
cent articles and getting
,ack % cents In good money. Twelve
mem vera arrested In Danielsville,
ltne IN this town and two in Jefferson.
NAsHvILLE special: The convicts
rho refused to wore In the Lone Rock
nine at Tracy City have come out Of
he mine. Their supply of food BE-
anne exhausted and thly Aoucluded u
All Il quiGt,
TAoo1dA, WASH, spectal: 70 dis
courage VaGrAncy and 70 drive away
z anttcipatad winter swarm of tramps,
IlD0 10 prevent pe1tfi tfiUnce among nris.