Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-05-02
OOUTHERN.

4loCSlONS ACAuS, oRCCiuls DAs i Z.
Simmons, a family physician, was called
to see a sick child at the residence of Mrs.
Robert Owen. He had written the pre-
the medicine. when Owen entered and
without saying word put a pistol to Sim
mons breast and pulled the trigger. DR..
Simmons staggered back and pulled his
pistol, but fell dead before he could use it.
Owen then shot his wife and left She house.
Going to a hotel he blew out his own
brains. Owen was stockman and had
been married about eighteen months. In
January he came here from New Orleans
and week ago he and his wife separated.
Mrs. Owen will recover.
WAsHINGToN special: Secretary Ores
ham has received dispatch from the
United States Minister at Madrid assuring
him that Spain would accede to the de-
mands of the United States in the Allan
ca affair, and that the captain of the Span
ish gunbOat, Condo de VeneditO, will be
tried for firing on an American vessel.
Dupuy de Lone, the new Spanish Minister
to the United States, stopped at Havana
on his way to Washington to investigate
the affair, and it is presumed the action OF
the Spanish Government was influenced
by his report.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, special: An old feud
between Marshall Chambers and Harry
Myers, prominent Green County planters,
was wiped out in blood. Myers was going
home from Eutaw and met Chambers.
There were no witnesses, but persons liv-
ing near by heard shots, and upon investi-
cation found Myers lying in the road dy-
ing with five bullets in his body. He lived
1Ov,rp nsvrvh IN <nl1 h. llnA
him. Chambers is in Jail.
GUTHRIE, Oklahoma, special: A sensa-
ton was created by the arrest of w. H.
Bronze, president of the leading investment
company: O. c. Seeley, prominent con-
tractor; VIM. Knowles and Frank Thorpe
negro pOrters of notorious resort, all
charged with implication in the murder of
Frank Ledgers, a young Englishman.
whose body was found in the river last
September. The motive OF the murder is
alleged to be robbery.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, special: Gold has
been discovered in the neighb0rhOOd of
Raleigh, suburb of this city. Several
specimens Of dark brown rock, in which
could be plainly seen the glittering min
eral, has been brought to this city for
analysis. The examination has extended
sufficiently to give assurance of gold be-
ing present in a paying quantity, and the
presence of platinum being even more
strongly marked.
WHEELING, w. Va, special: The pro-
posed Democratic State Convention to COM
NIT the party in West Virginia on the sill
yer question will not be held, owing to the
strong opposition that has developed
among the party leaders in the state to the
proposition. A declaration on the ques-
ton either one way or another In advance
Of the National Convention of next year is
considered as unwise from party stand
point.
NEW ORLEANS special A meeting Of
prominent citizens was held for the pur-
pose Of taking steps to secure the assembl-
Ing q the National Democratic Conven-
tion in New Orleans. A committee was
appointed to take charge Of the matter.
Every effort will be made to accomplish
the object in view.
OZARK, Ala, special: News from Dale
County IL that Bill Boiling, wealthy
farmer. was assassinated, presumably for
giving information to fed eral officers Of
moonshine stills.
CHARLOTTE, N. c., SPECIAL: Ex- Cashier
Holland who swindled the Merchants and
Traders National Bank has disappeared.
His shortage il between $4,000 and SzS,-
900.