Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-06-26
WEST AND SOUTH.

CHICAGO, June l4.-Sixteen hundred car
penters and joiners working in sixty-ive
shops are expected to strike to-day. They
represent the shops which refused to reduce
the hours Of work to eight with eight hours
pay
DHs MONIES, June 15.-The senate decided
this morning to print the arguments Of csun-
sci In full. The landladies testified what Vail
actually paid for board. l.. f.. Ayers, formerly
Browns clerk, testified concerning fees.
KANSAS CITY, June 15.-About six o'clock
last evening DR.. Morrison Mumford, editor OF
the Kansas City Times, was shot and seriously
wounded by w. ID. Garlic, an attorney. Car
lille fred at Mumford in a crowd and fatally
wounded another person. The Times had
stated that Garlic was crininally intimate
with a lady named Sallie Crute, and that she
had made two trips with him to California.
One OF the stray shots hit a man named Hale,
who is reported to be fatally wounded. An
other shot slightly wounded a Miss Streeter.
Garlic was at once arrested.
OsK ALoosA, Ia, June 16.-W. II. Hupber
wasnominatcd for congress by the Republican
convention of the Eighth district on the first
ballot at Charlton this morning, the vote be.
ing % to 2.
MARsHALLTowN, June 16.-City Treasurer
East this morning sold the $25, 200 new five
per cent. city bonds at a premium Of s.. 95 and
accrued interest To Chicago bidders.
The Old Settlers annual picnic at Camp
bells grove is largely attended.
LENox, Ia, June l6.-William Morrow, a
young school teacher, charged with stealing a
COW neaT mere, tried to hang himself i'm Bed
ford Jail this morning at 3o'clock. His strug-
giles aroused his cell mate, who cut him down,
but the would-bc suicide then attacked his
rescucr and broke a chair over his head. No
one could be aroused until daylight, and the
rescuer had hard work to escape the fury of
the other, who is thought to be insane.
CHICAGO, June 16.-Captain Bonield, who
ranks second in command of the Chicago pc
lice force, left for New York a few days ago,
and it has leaked out that one Of the objects
of his visit Is to purchase several Of the new
destructive weapons known as the ''riot gum
which, with its rapid and scattering discharges
of buckshot, would dccimate a mob in two
minutes. 1t is said that Mayor Harrison will
have two guns mounted on each patrol wagon
and that a supply will be kept at headquarters
for an emergency.
CHICAGO, June l6.-"So Joseph Mcdill and
family have suddenly decided upon a Euro
pean tour said a prominent society lady at
a very select North Side gathering last night.
eyes, and | know Why" responded a lady
who is equally as prominent as the first
speaker.
A few moments thereafter there was quite a
circle of fair gossipers AT the other end of the
hall room, the lady who knew why being the
central figure. Her listeners pricked up their
was a chorus Of sob, my's''
and ''Did you evers'' as the lady proceeded to
whisper that there was likely to be a brilliant
wedding in London or Paris in the near fu-
ture, and that the most interested parties
would be Miss Josephine Medill and Mr..
Walker Blaine, son of the ex-senator. The
attachment between the two young people has
been known in society circles here for some
time, and the little affair Of the heart Is sup
posed to have had not a triie TO do with the
hoisting of the Blaine banner by the Tribune
in the last presidential campaign. Gossip has
il that had the son of Maine been successful
there would have been a brilliant wedding In
the white house before the date Of the Cleve-
land Folsom n~uptials, but as the verdict OF the
people frustrated the plans of the happy pair
he scene Of the nuptials is to be shifted to