Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-12-27

ST. LOUIS special: Up.to the time
the grand jury adjourned forty-four
indictments were found against per-
sons alleged to be guilty Of election
frauds. Among them was Police Ser
geant George I. McNamee OF the Gem
trail District. Bench warrants were
issued and served on the following
persons: Alex Landau, a prominent
commission merchant: Charles L. Me-
Cormack, bailitf of the Second District
Police Court and manager of the
Standard Theater and Saloon; Ed
Boyce, Thomas Haley, James higgins,
Patrick O'Donncll, John j. LOpnihan,
George Miller and Sylvester Powers.
They were all released on bail. Alex
Landau and Mccormack are said to be
charged with illegal voting, while the
others are alleged to be reporters.
RICHMOND, Va special: Congress-
man w. l.. Wilson, without his knowl-
edge or consent, has been figuring
conspicuously in the fight Of Richmond
College students against their newly
cleo ed president Prof. Boatright.
President-elect Boatright was hung in
effigy. Among the most conspicuous
placards which greeted citizens who
were up early enough to see the figure
suspended WAS n reciting the fact
that w. L. Wilson was elected to the
presidency three years ago and de-
clined, while Boatright accepted.
Richmond College ia the leading Ba :
fist institution in the south. The
newly elected president is only l6
years old.
NEW ORLEANS special: All OF the
cotton labor on the levee was suspend
ed owing to the resumption OF the
conflict between the white and colored
levee laborers' organizations. The
colored men submitted q proposition
to work for 40 cents an hour, the
whites charging 81. The agents Wiz
tually accepted the offer. The ship
agents now propose to recommence
loading their ships with colored labor,
and thus break up the two viii Q orr
CARNATIONS, and they are promised
ample police protection from inter-
ference.
Ell PASo special: Theodore Huston,
United States Consul at Juarez, Mex,
died at the American Consulate at
years old. Huston formerly lived a.
Malcolm, H., and was appointed Con-
sui at Juarcz by President Cleveland
. AARSSA i" wv AA9
leaves a widnow aud three young sons,
who are now IN Juarez. The remains
will be taken to Illinois for burial.
The flags ever the Jnarez and III Paso
Custom Houses are at half mast in re-
spect OF the dead Consul.
LOUISVILLE special The executive
council Of the G. A. r Mt a meeting
decided that the twenty-ninth annual
encampment Of the g. "A. II. would be
held here during the week beginning
Septem Der 4. The exact date has not
been fixed, but the encanpment will
probably begin about the llth. This
will be decided later. The dedication
Of the Chattanooga battlefield occurs
September 10, and it was decided TO
fix the date OF the oncampment so the
two trips could be taken together.
NEW ORLEANS special: George
King, y desperate negro, was lynched
just outside tho city. He had difficult
ty with some butchers, a saying that
he would not be blnited went and got
u shotgun, Constable Guerre tried to
arrest him, but the negro escaped 10 a
barn. from which he fired into the
crowd, w%ounding the constable and
hall q dozen others. The barn was
barned down and the negro wa forced
into the OPEN. where he was shot and
then dragged to = tree and hanged.
ClAREMoRE, !. T., special: The
French banI OF outlaws, headed by
Jim French and Cherokee Bin, made
a raid on the town OF Nowata, about
Twenty-Five miles north OF here. Sta
tiOn Agent Bristow was cove red By
four guns and compelled 10 open the
safAa The rOhbpi.s rot 0b0nt MOO