Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-03-07
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WINSTON, n. G., special: Thirty white
caps vel to the homes of Amos and Wiley
Knott in Yadkin County and beat them
numerically. The brothers were gagged
and tied. Each received over 100 lashes.
Amos Knott is not expected to live. The
white caps charge the brothers with re-
| porting many moonshine distilleries in
Yadkin, where evenue officers nave made
a number of raids recently. The white
! caps gave the Knots two days within
which to leave the country. The brothers
say they will do so as soon as they recover
from their injuries.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, special: Judge Henry
l.. EdmOnds, of the criminal court, has
adopted a rule requiring that all foreigners
who wish to be naturaliZed in his court
must be able to %intelligently speak and
understand the English language. The
causes leading up to this course are many,
but chiefly based on the fact that every
Monday morning when the panel of jury
men OF the weeks service are called there
are from one to twenty who come forward
and ask to be excused, giving as an excuse
that they cannot speak English.
ST.. Louis special: Vice President
Rodgers, of the A. X. u, who addressed
the trades assembly here said: "The pub
lished account Of what was said did me an
injustice in alleging l had declared myself
a revOlutionist and defed the courts. l am
before the courts now under an indictment
and | would not prejudice my case by such
a rash remark. Further than this | am not
and never was a revolutionist. The words
OF Phelan were mistaken for mine."
ST. LOUIS special: A Joint meeting o,
the Merchants Exchang. and Mercantile
Club took action similar to that of the
Chicago Board of Trade, for the relief OF
drouth sufferers of Nebraska, Kansas,
western Iowa and South Dakota. A fund
will be raised to purchase food for stock
and seed, farmers who receive the same to
give notes, to be a lien on the Ext crops.
CHENILLE, Ala, special: Tom and
Dora Meadows left their four children at
home near here to attend a n%eighborhood
dance. When they returned their cottage
was in ashes and the charred remains OF
the little ones, the oldest of whom was IA,
were found. 1t is supposed the house
caught fire and the children were burned
while asleep.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, special: John l..
Sullivan and members of his party left for
New York. Sullivan has no definite plan
for the future. He has received numerous
propositions ranging from posing as a
dreadful example in temperance lectures
to steering an air ship.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, special: b. W. Hiatt
Of Montgomery County, Kansas, is in the
city soliciting aid for sufferers in that Sec
ton. He says the people of western Kan
sas are eating horse flesh, being unable to
get other food.
PHILADELPHIA special: There is some
anxiety felt in shipping circles concerning
the safety of the Belgian tank steamship
Caucase, Capt. Alix, which sailed from
Seville, Spain, on the LIST of February for
this port, and has not been heard from
since. She should have arrived here under
ordinary circumstances not later than the
18th, but no tidings whatever have been
heard Of her since her departure. She was
manned by a crew of twenty seven men
all told, and is a staunch ship in every par
~ticular, built by the Sir William Arm
strong Company Of New Castle, Eng, in
1883.
PEABODY, Kan, special: The Touring
mill OF wilson Bros. burned. The loss is
$4,000