Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-07-18
SOUTHERN.

WACO, Texas, special: The remains
found half eaten by buzzards in a corn
field near McGregor were those of Capt,
Stephen Blake, who was exiied from Cuba
for writing a letter in 1868 to New York
parties, intimating that a filibustering
party at that time might be successful.
His property in Cuba was confiscoted and
he came here and earned a living as a me-
chanic. He was making his way across
the country on foot to Crawford, where a
home had been offered him, and, becoming
lost, was in a furnishing condition and de-
vOured green corn raw, which killed him.
Letters found among his effects show that
he was recently in correspondence with
the Cuban annexationists.
CAMDEN. Ark, special: At Hampton.
thirty miles east Of here, two negroes
were mobbed by eighty-five men. Two
weeks ago a white man by the name of
Martin was killed by three negroes. Two
OF them were arrested and confined in Jail.
A mob OF determined men marched to the
Jail and demanded of the sheriff the sur.
render OF the murderers. 1t was useless
to resist U . force with but q handful of
men to summon to his aid, so the keys
were delivered to the mob. The c~ulprits
were carried to the neighboring forest and
hanged to trees. The men were not
masked and made no effoat to conceal
their identity.
Ell PAsO, Texas, special: News has
reached here from Mamipi, Mexico. that
Bill ELI, the negro agitator, who duped
500 negroes from Alabama and Georgia
into going to Tiahuila, Durango, for farm
work, where they have become practically
enslaved, has been sent to the colony to
conduct b negroes back to the American
border where they were turned loose. The
negroes have been dying 70 fast and have
proved 20 unruly from i'll treatment that
the colony managers have resolved to get
rid Of Them. The colony is regarded as q
failure.
SEDALIA, Mo-, special: An exciting
scene was witnessed in Scherer's billiard
room. Mrs. Herb Collins, the wife OF .
well known local turfman, entered the
place and without any preliMinaries cOm.
menced raining blows with an umbrella
upon the head OF E. s. Lyons, manager OF
the place. Lyons escaped from the infu-
rated woman by running through . door.
Mrs. Collins claims that Lyons circulated
i'll reports about her, hence the assault.
JACKSON, Miss, special: Deputy Mar.
shals Vardaman, Yerger and Gardner re-.
turned from Simpson County having under
arrest Joe, Jim and Howell May, j. N.
Dow, Charles Read, Tilton Benton, Willis
Wamack, Faunt Dye, John and George
Tallas and Jim Jones, oil charged with
Illicit distilling, except Howard May, who
IL charged with timber depredattons. They
are al highly connected.
Fort SMITH, Ark, special: Mary A.
Kittenring, George Washington Frazier
and Richard Calhoun were sentenced in
the United States court to hang October /.
All three werc convicted In the United
States court here in June AZ the murder Of
Andrew J. Kittenring IN Indian Territory.
On the same day Frank Karner, John Al
lison and Eli Lucas are to be executed,
ST.. Louis special: The Lancaster
barbers' Sunday closing law has been sus-
tanned In the court OF criminal correction.
. ans Of - being assessed against Barber
Chas. Stoetzer for keeping open on Sun
day, June =. The case wa bitterly CON-
tested and m appeal was taken.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, special: A dispatch
from Birmingham says that an advance Of
IL per cent. In wages will go into effect.
and that this advance relates to 100 miners
and 100 coke drawers employed by the
WOODWARD Iron Company Of Woodward,
Ala,