Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1885-12-26
VEST AND SOUTH,

DEs MONIES, Nov. l6.-The Supreme Court
yesterday decided the test case carried up by
the Sta 6 Pharmaceutical society from Har-
lower court, according to which defendants,
who were registered pharmacists, were con-
victed for selling Intoxicating liquors under
the prJhiOitOry laws. The decision IS that the
pharmacy law was repealed by the passage OF
the p?ohibitory law. The case Is that Of the
state VS.. T. BIssell aud z. Lehon, appellants.
This is regarded AS one OF tie most important
decisions under the prohibitory law that has
vet been made. The eff,ct Of IL will require
every druggist in the state who wishes TO sell
LIQUOR for medicinal purposes to obtain a per.
NIT from the board OF supervisors the same AS
any other dealer. The druggists have claimed
that rs licensed pharmacists they could under
the old pharmacy law sell for legitimate pur-
poses without q special permit. They brought
a test case to the Supreme Court with the re-
suit adverse 10 them.
OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 16.-The grand Jury
which re-assem5led to-day, after a recess Of
two weeks, Is expected 10 take up the case Of
John Pitrson, tue state prison convict who re-
Gently confessed to the murder OF Col. Watson
b. Smith, clerk OF the United States District
court In Nov. 81. The confession has of late
been the all absorbing topic and the action Of
the grand jury is anxiouslJ awaited.
Dies MONIES, Ia, Dec. 6.-The Supreme
Court decided the Burlington liquor permit
case this morning, holding that the applicant
must present to the county auditor certificates
signed by a msi Drity OF the citizens OF the
township or ward certifying to the good moral
character OF the applicant. In this case the
applicants were saloonkeepers.
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 16.-Fred J. Stan.
ton, formerly Wyoming territorial @ ologist,
now notary public and attorney for Baker ~
johnson, liver Johnson, OF the firm Of Baker "
johnson, merchants, George ID. Have and
Abraham Baker were arrested Yesterday on
the charge Of consplrirg TO defraud the gov
ornment Of coal lands. They have forty.seven
claims, involving the possession Of about Z, 600
acres In the northern part of Laramie county,
Wyoming, on the lines OF the surveyed route
OF the Chicago d Northwestern railroad across
the territory. The land will be worth about
500 per acre when the railroad reaches 1t,
which will be next fall. The land has from
eight to twenty-five feet thickness OF coal un
derlying.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Dec. lS.-The Right
Reverend France Xavier Krsutbuer, bishop OF
Green Bay, died In this city this morning.
DETROIT, Mich, Dec. l8-Cornelius Flynn,
who was struck by an iron bar In an ~alterca.
ton with q sailor on the night OF December
tn, died at the Marine hospital Wednesday.
While being buried to day the funeral was
stopped by the coroner In the belief that muir
der had been committed.
CINCINNATI, O., Dec. 1S.-Feldskamp Broe.
chair factory burned ut 1 o'clock this morning
Loss, 8 0,000. As the a ,mes were being ex.
tinguished an alarm sounded for fire in Ware'a
Vinegar factory at 295 West Third street.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000. Another
mysterious fire broke out at 6 o'clock this
morning In VOORHEES,, Miller q Rauple's cloth
factory, corner Third and Race streets. Loss,
$4,000. The origin of the fires is unknown.
CHICAGO, Dec. IS -PhillIp Murphy q grain
trimmer, 81 years old, while hclpi1g to make
fast the steamer barge, George Spence, at hel
dock on Eighteenth street this morning, 60,
his head between the dock and the vessel and
vas literally crushed 10 death.