Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-01-31
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ATLANTA, Ga. special: The property
of the Georgia Mining acd Manufacturing
Company, valued at : 5000 600, was placed
i'll the hands Of a receiver. The company
controls the Dade Walker, Georgia, Chat
tanooga, Balow and Castle Rock COM
panies, all operating coal and iron mines
in north Georgia. The bulk of the stock il
owned by the estate of the late Samuel b.
Brown. The mines until recent years
were considered immensely valuable. De-
preston in the iron trade and general hard
times cut off the profits however, and oper-
ations have been conducted latterly at a
steady loss. The liabilities are between
$75O,OOO and $500, 900 and the assets about
S., 900, 900.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, special: One hun
dred thousand negroes will be removed
from the states of Alabama, Georgia and
Louisiana to northern Mexico within the
mex six months. This statement is made
by W. IL. Ellis, manager of the Mexican
Colonization Company, who has just re-
turned from Atlanta, Ga. Ellis states that
the missionary work among the negroes is
meeting with the greatest success and that
the first hundred families will pass through
here this week for the promised land. Mex
lean citizens living in the section 20 be col
Onized by the negroes nave protested to
the Mexican Government against the
scheme.
ST. LOUIS special: The long penang
suit of the reorgani zed Mormon, or nom
polygamous church, against the Utah
Mormon Church, for recovery of posses
sion of certain church property at Inde-
pendence, Mo-, was called in the United
States Court here. This suit is on an APP.
peal from the United States Circuit Court
at Kansas City, which gave judgment for
the claimants, OF the ground that in adopt
ing poiygamy the Brigham Young branch
OF the church became apOstates from the
church organized by Joseph Smith, ST.
MILLDALE, KY, special: Two boys and
a girl, all under IL years Of e. children
OF VIM. Rebach, while alone in the house
attempted to start a fire in the stove. They
poured Oil on the wood, and when the
match was ignited there was an explosion
The children were enveloped in flames
The two boys were burned to death and
the girl was fatally burned.
NEWTON, Miss, special: w. A. Duna.
gin, a prominent merchant of this place,
was cowhided by four women, the wife.
mother and sisters of Eugene Wilson.
whom Dunagin and others thrashed last
summer for the alleged slandering of .
young lady Of this city.
STURGIs, KY, special: The bodies OF
miners killed by an explosion of powder in
a mine were recovered. Their names are:
Albert Hall, James Walthcns, James COT.
fee, Robert Hall, Mino Fitzsimmons.
DEyIsoN, Tex, special: Mrs. Ida Car
roll, aged % years, died in Tishimingc
County, Idaho. She was married eight
times and was the mother of twenty-six
children.
SAN FRANCISCO special: United States
District Attorney knight stated thai he
would shortly recommend to the Attorney
General to dismiss the charges against al
least three-fourths Of the A. X. U. men
now under arrest in this district charged
with conspiracy, growing out Of the recens
strike. lie believes that there is nu chance
Of convicting them. The trials now in pro-
gress in this city have not developed a.
strong a case OF conspiracy as was expect
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