Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1881-07-23


as he had sworn he would kill several
prominent citizens, and had already
slain il or Is men.
The kid is native of New York City
and his real name is Mccarthy.
STILL IN THE RING.
New York, July l9.-Tlc Tribune
says of Conkling, who arrived in town
yesterday: Conkling declared he was
not beaten, and that one final determi-
nation must be made to adjourn the
legislature without clecting senator,
bu 1T all hazards, he said. l.apham must
be prevented from reapng the reward
of his periidy by an election to the SEN
ate. Conkling declared to senator elect
Miller, in a sncering way, that he did
| not notice his late supporter, Speaker
, sharp.
THE WHEAT CROP.
Columbus, July l9.-FrOm the official
July estimates from the boards of agri-
culture of Ohio, Illinois, Michigan and
Iowa, received by Secretary Chamber
lain, of the Ohio board, the following
shortages in wheat are reported, ~ com
pared with the crop of 1880: Ohio, -,
0O0OO bushels; Illinois, 37,OOO,0on
bushels Michigan, l4,jOo,0OO bushels ::
and Iowa, 10000 900 bushels. The total
shortage for tie four states is SU,5Oo,OOU
bushels.
ri IILETIN.
Washington, July l9-Our experience
with the drainage tube tonight CON
firms our previously expressed judg
ment that the ball did enter the alb
donlnal cavity and pierced the liver
! believe it passed through that organ.
and is lodged in the interior wall of the
abdomen
RELEASED.
Hartford, July l9.-Secretary Blain
announces the release by. the German
author ties, June Is, of Young man
named Brink. Of Connecticut, recently
impressed into the German military ser
vice while temporarily visiting the
fatherland.
WORSE THAN SIOI'y.
Chicago, July lS.-The loss by the
cyclone at New Ulnl, Mimi, is estimated
at S2j0,000 to S}50,oOO. The track of the
tornado was forty miles long and one
mile wide, ana full of ruin. A list of
the killed and wounded has not yet
been obtained, but about dozen per
sons are now known to be lost.
CHEAP TRAVELLING.
New York, July l9.-The war among
the competing railroads leading west.
ward still continues. To-day scalpcrs
are selling tickets to Chicago for So
Persons purchasing tickets to points
further west than Chicago do not find it
an easy thing to get a reduction on the
old rates. There appears to be no war
on prices within this state, the greatest
reduction being made only on tickets to
Chicago. Many persons are taking adj
vantage Of this war, and are spending
their vacation in western cities.
ALL DEAD
San Francisco, July i3,--The wha,er
Thomas Pope, under Capt. Milard, ar
rived last evening from the Artic
Ocean. She left the straits June 81 and
the day before she left she spoke to the
whalcr Progress under Capt. Barker,
and from her learned that the Indians
near the east cape had found the two
missing whalcrs Vigilant and Mount
Walliston. The Indians found t,.vc
corpscs only one on board the Nir.ilan.,
and from their appearance ii was eyi-
dent they had died in the first year Of
their captivity in the ice. The Indians
brought away from the Nigilant some
money, a spy glass, bomb gun and fowl
ing piece. No one was found on the
Mount Walliston. The revenuc cutter
Corwin has sent a sledge party in search
Of the Indians, to recover the articles
named and obtain further information.
No news from the Jeanette.
NEWS FROM THE NORTH.
Portland, July l6.-The Argus Of yes
terday says: Capt. G.. l.. Hooper, com
manding the cutter Corwin, writes from
Plover bay, Siberia, June II, saying
I'VE reached st. Lawrence island May
2S, and entered the Artic regions on
June I'd. We lost rudder in the ice in
latitude 63, 10 north, and had to steer
several days by jury rudder. The
same day on which the accident occur
red We landed Lieutenants Herring and
Reynolds, one seaman and two natives
equipped with twenty-five dogs and four
/ siv,is, viii. .,v2. -..24arths- ration. arpss.
ammunition, plenty of fur clothing
! tents, and skin boat, with instructions
to explore the coast of Asia as far north
as Jachint, for tidings of the Jeanette
A report has teen received that seal
hunters have seen the wrecks of the two
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