Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-15
BRIEFS.

Pennsylvania coke mar u ,acturers have ad-
vauced prices about 10 per cent.
Ann Z. Green PHILIPPE, widow OF the late
Wendell Philips, died Saturday evening.
A Georgia man WAS fined slSl for buying
cotton after shutdown and before sunrise.
English farmers are talking Of growing to-
baccoin lieu OF food crops that are no longer
profitable.
The dominion government has decided to
dispatch another expedition 10 Hudson's bay
this spring.
Rabbit hunts, recently organized in Tulare
county, California, have resulted In the killing
Of s 900 animals.
The crop outlook in California is reported
IN be looking better than ever before known
at this season Of the year.
Massachusetts congressman are unanimous
in the belief that Lieut.. Gov. Amcs will be
nominated fer governor this year.
solomon Whitney, United States district
judge for the western district OF Michigan,
dice at San Diego, California, yesterday.
j. II. Pickett, Of Ames, Iowa, has been ap-
pointed member Of the pharmacy commission,
succeeding Mr.. Crawford, term expired.
Overjoyed at the success OF prohibition In
the last election, the ministers OF Rhode
Island are preparing TO crusade against Sun
day papers.
The senate committee on public lands de-
cided unanimously to report adversely upon
the nomination Of Dement, TO be surveyor
generyl OF Utah.
Judge David Davis, OF Bloomington, Ills, is
said to be seriously III. A c~arbuncle has made
its appearance on bis neck and his friends
are much alarmed.
George f.. Graham former Illinois preacher,
paramour OF Mrs. Malloy and Cora Lee, who
killed his wife In Missouri, was hanged by q
mob Tuesday night.
The village OF Knox, Fremont county, Iowa,
was visited by q tornado Wednesday after
noon. No lives ere lost but considerable
damage to property was done.
About 2 p. m. Wednesday afternoon, one of
the wallis OF the Bracket block In Minneapolis
fell burying a dozen or more workmen be-
meath the ruins. Four persons were taken out
dead and ten wounded. All the wounded will
recover.
The cotton mill men Of Georgia have been
presented with q list of the concessions the
Knights OF Labor would Ike 70 have made, and
thereupon they issued q circular entirely ig-
noring the order, but state that they will listen
ID the operatives as employers.
Mont Somery Alabama gave JEFF .rson Dav,s
. grand ovation on the occasion of his visit to
lecture for the confederate monument fund.
The United States Gag was flying on all sides
and old JEFF must have thought he was back
in the days of his Mexican war popularity.
The Chicago city council have unanimously
adopted resolutions that the mayor and city
council view with pleasure the comprehensive
and equitable scheme for Irish self-govern-
ment by Premier Gladstone. A copy Of the
resolutions were cabled Gladstone and Par
nell.
A circular was Issued Monyay signed by G.
o. Collins, secretary OF the National Barbed
Wire Manufacturers association reducing the
price OF bsrbed wire IS cents per 100. It is
claimed that the WAshhum faction is trying
10 crush out the Atty other manufacturer g, and
confne the trade OF the entire country to the
twelve combined wlre-drswing and barb wire
! establishments.