Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1881-07-30

W ashlngton, July 3O.-lhe preslden
is doing spiendidly oday. He has .
good appetite and his food digests. tn,
wound continues to drain thoroughly.
AT ALBANY.
Cheyenne Leader.
Albany, July 22-At 3:35 this after
noon the republican conference assem-
bled in the assembly chamber. Senator
Mccarthy in the chair. The roll was
called and u senators and 90 assembly
men answered. Skinner renewed the
motion of this morning, that the roll be
called and that each member should rise
in his place and name his candidate for
| United States senator; carried. The
roll was called and Elbridge G.. Lapham
was named by 81 members Conklng by
y, Woodford by ! and Evarts by /. The
vo;e is the same as that cast in the Joint
convention. On motion Of Senator
Winslow, Eldrigc G. Laphams noniina-
ton was made unanimous amid three
cheers. In the Joint convention lap
ham was elected as United States sen
ator to succeed Conkling, he receiving
the full republican vote, while the dem
ocrats passed a solid vote for Potter.
QIon. Elbridge g. Lapham, who sue
ceeds Roscoe Conkling, was born in
Pennington, \. Y, in 1914. Was raised
on a farm and educated at the Canaan
daigua academy. where he was class
mate of the late Hon. Stephen A. Doug
lus. Studied civil engineering and
worked Il while on the Michigan South
ern road. He abandoned his profession
for that Of law, and has been practicing
since 1914. lie was elected to the 44th,
10Th, iGth ana 47th congresses, from the
9th district Of New York, comprising
the counties Of LivngSton Ontario and
Yates.
He is IN administration republican
and has always been opposed to Conk-
ling. So bitter has been the feeling be-
tween them that Conkling declared
Lapham should never be elected to sue
ceed him, so long as 27 men would vote
! for Conklirg But the die is cast against
Roscoe and his political doom is sealed.
Ed. Leader
WORKING A BOOM.
Fort Laramie, Wy, July %. The ex-
Cl'cnent over the newly discovered
mines on the Platt river near this place,
is undated. Experienced miners de-
clare these discoveries to be genuine
bonaNzas. The new town of uartvl!e
gives promise Of rapidly assuming met
ropo!tan proportions.
HUNTING A FIGHT.
New York, July 2G.-Peter b. Rouse
q burlv miner from Colorado, six feet
high and weighing 100 pounds. q motor.
ious rough and tumble fighter, issued q
challenge to John L. Sullivan, Of Bos-
ton, anu Paddy Ryan of Troy, to fight
either, catch weights, according to the
rules of the London prize ring. for from
$4,000 to 5000 a side and the heavy
weight championship Of America. Fight
to be decided l.! Wyoming. Dako ota or
Utah six months from signing articles
Should eastern champions decline the
chanllenge is open TO all comcrs, bat the
stakes must be $4,000 and a forfeit OF
$500 must accompany the challenge.
RAILROADS IN THE UNITED STATES
New York, July 2l.-Post says: The
total number OF miles of railroads in the
United States in operation at the close
of 1850 was 93,37l miles, an increase for
the year Of 7,l74 miles, against 2,77l
miles the previous year and 26o7 miles
in 1879. Gross earnings of roads for
1880 were $615, 405, ,93l, against $529, ,Ol2,-
999 in 1879, and net earnings 1886, l93,,
436, against s2l9,9l6724 in 1879 Divi
dends paid aggregated S77,ll5,41l
against $6l ,6Sl ,47O in 1879. Gross earn.
ings reported on railroads in the south
ern states sis, S,3l6,754, against $43, ,0l7 ,2S4
for 1879.
THE ALARMING CONDITION OF RUSSIA.
London, July l5-Advices from well
informed correspondents in st. Peters
burg report that Russia is fast driftin,
into anarchy. The Car still keeps him
self close prisoner al Pe;er}of. Oc
casionally when business of state re
quires his presence at the capitol ht
leaves his fortresa, enters st. Petersbur.
almost by stealth and returns as quietly
The new Ministry under Ignatief ha
abandoned the promised refosms and il
crushing out py the most autocratic ant
high-handed measures the aspirations o
the people for representative govern
ment and the reconstruction Of th'
, municipal system upon broader an'
freer basis. The peasants, although th'
crops promise fairly well, are in ter
rible plight. The officials, from tn
highest to the lowest, are sunk in cor
ruption, the priests of the Orthodo:
Church are not much better, and milli