Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-06-13
WESTERN.


County, Oklahoma, reached this city with
pitiable story Of restitution among the
settlers of Oklahoma, and bear letters
v0uching for them from Gov Morrill, of
Kansas and others equally well known.
They come as committee sent out by the
people Of Grant County to solicit aid for
the destitute and hungry. Owing to
dr0ughts sinOe the Cherokee strip sWas
opened in 1898, no crops have been raised.
Settlers have no resources to exist on, and
to make the situation more desperate and
hopeless they cannot get away. The ter
ritorial government has no money to assist
them. The suffering people want pfovi-
si0ns, flour, seed, food, ;clothinE4n thing
In fact that will cover nakedness and that
will fight of hunger. The stories the two
messengers tell Of restitution are affecting
in the extreme. --s
CHICAGO special, Poisoning nearly
caused the death of The entire family Cd
August Christianson Of Evanston. Seven
members of the family and Samuel
Wright, guest, partook of dinner OF
Frankfort sausages and shortly after the
meal all were deathly sick. A physician
was hastily summoned. When he arrived
Herbert Christianson, aged 4, and Della
Christianson, 5 years old, were dying and
nothing could be done for them. All the
others who had eaten the sausages were in
critical condition, and il was only by
working desperately f0rseveral hours that
the doctors were finally able to declare
them out Of danger. 8
Topeka, Kan, special: Taylor Cook, m
Osborne County man, who wassent to the
penitentiary for life for numbering his
wife, has written letter to the governor,
in which he asks the governor to sign his
death warrant and order the warden to
hang him. Cook says he has been con-
fined in the insane ward, but that if he
was responsible when he killed his wife
he ought to be executed, and if he was in
sane he should have been sent to the asy-
lum instead Of the penitentiary. Governor
Morrill, said that he would not issue the
order. sA
WALLA WALLA, WASH, special: Fifty
masked men, heavily armed, took Joseph
Fossati and Robbie Allen, a colored
woman who runs house of i'll fame, and
applied to them coat of tar and feathers
and ordered them to leave the city. AL
though Fossati is the son of very re-
spectacle family, and having more than
the average advantage in life, he has per-
sistently lived with this woman and re-
Gently they were married. The mother of
young Fossati is Frustrated with grief and
is in aprecariOus condition.
DENVER special: The Rocky Mountain
News says editorially that the gold re-
ceipts Of the Denver mint have fallen off
heavily the past month in spite Of the in
creased production. 1t accounts for it by
saying that the shelters have been selling
the product to agents of the KOthschilds
and others interested in the recent bond
sale 1t slight advance over the mint
price.
Los ANGELES, CAL, special: Patrick
Conley, villainous looking tramp, 80
years old, was arrested charged with as
saulting Minnie Prairer, a lO-year old
school girl, who was terribly mutilated. A
boy witnessed the assault and gave the
alarm. A mob tried to lynch him, but he
was rescued with great difficulty by the
police. .8E
JoL1Er, ILL.,, special: The Lockport pa
per mill has closed down, all the men
haviag gone out on strike The men
think the wages altogether inadequate
and the mill management claims that with
the competition and close prices no higher
wages can he paid. A satisfactory adjust
ment Of the differences, therefore, seems
dificult.
CHICAGO special: A South Chicago
electric car, drawing trailer, crashed IN.
to q wagon containing Ave persons al
Seventy -ninth Street and Yates Avenue.
The wagon was demolished, one woman
was killed, another woman probably
fatally injured and third slightly injur-
ed and two young men slightly hurt.
ASHLAND, H.. special: John B. Greed
late city marshal, was killed in this city.
He was working at the bottom OF we'll at
the residence of e. A. Blentor, when the
bucket slipped off the hook, falling about
twenty-five feet, striking him on the head.
Death ensued before his two helpers could
get him ont.