Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-01-23
WEST AND SOUTH.

TO secure the influence of Rev. MIR. Bits, the
rector, in obtainin new trial. After con-
sultation with his attorney and the rector, and
being informed that rehearing would MOI 10
granted he obtained chloroform with which be
| ended his life.
New ORLEANS, Jan. 3.-Sunday morning
he body of Emms Mcmillan. OF iberia, was
ound In the graveyard at Jeamenette, fright
ully mutilated and nearly nude. The coroner
is investigating.
CHICAGO, Jan. 13.-This morning the Cont.
mental warehouse, q five-story brick building.
overed to be on fire. The flames on the upper
cor gained such Roadway Tat the iremen
ould do nothing but protect the adjoining
opertl. The premises were occupied by
commission and manufacturing firms, and
with their contents were destroyed. The loss
S S250,00O. 1t Is reported that several fremen
were injured by falling walls.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Jan. 13.-Miles Stanton, q
railroad engineer, was ehot dead by Mike Gil
more IN a saloon fight this morning. Gilmore
was arrested.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, Jan. 1.-THE residence
OF Rufus Williams was burned last night. His
eight year old boy persisted In the flames.
CHICAGO, Jan. IA meeting Of the com
mittee appointed to organize a branch of the
Hendricks Dument association is in pro-
gress here this afternoon. 1t is proposed to
issue an appeal for public subscriptions and
the committee is sanguine II can raise al least
ten thousand dollars. A dispatch from st.
Louis says that Il meeting OF a similar com
mittee In behalf Of the state Of Missouri viii
be held there tonight.
CHICAGO, Jan. ia little girl OF 10 years
with a tab reading "For Cheyenne, with care"
attached 10 her breast by a strip Of blue rib
bon passed through Chicago last night en-
route for Denver. Her name Is Katie Erb,
and she halls from Newark, N. j.. Her mother
Is a notorious woman OF that place and the
Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty to Chi
dren learning that her father Was a well-to-
do resident OF Cheyenne, acquainted him with
the facts, and received from him O promise to
receive and care for her.
SCHUYLER, Neb., Jan. 15.-John Degmon,
sheriff OF Colfax county, was struck on the
head with u club In the hands Of q prisoner
yesterday morning and killed Enthusiastically.
The murderer's name is Lapour, and he Is a
Bohemian, arrested on a peace warrant.
Degmon was elected 10 office last fall and was
universally liked. Excitement over the affair
is almost without bounds. Degmon's brother
has been appointed to fill the vacancy. La
pour was taken from the jail the same night
by Il mob and hanged In the court house yard.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Jan. 16.-Chas. Wilson, con-
victed of the murder of VIM. A. David, mate
Of the steamer Fannie Tstum, last July, WIGS
hanged here this morning at 80
JERSEY, Mich, Jan. 16.-A $4,000 fire oc-
Cured here last night. The Blodgett block,
postofiice, Sweets saloon and the Hcrsey
House were entirely destroyed. A defective
nue In the postofice is supposed to have been
the cause.
NORFOLK, Va, Jan. 16.-The brig Alice, Of
Baltimore, which sailed from that port on the
9TH inst, bound for Rio Janeiro, was cut
through with Ice this morning in Hampton
Roads.
CHICAGO, Jan. 16.-A serious riot occurred
this morning at Congress and Green streets,
between the Maxwell factory strikers and q
number OF men going there to work. About
sixty men were engaged and but for the
prompt action OF the police a bloody encoun-
ter would have followed. But one man was
dangerously hurt.
CHICAGO, Jan. 16.-Frank M~ulkowsky, the
ex-galley convict from Poland, who was con-
victed last Decep Der of the brutal murder OF
Mrs. Agnes Kleidziec, should have expiated
his crime upon the scafTold this morning, but
the action OF Gov. Oglesby {who on Tuesday
granted him q fespite) has increased his days
on earth by a couple OF months. Mulkowsky,
who had given Up hope and expected TO GO to
the scaffold to day, was In high glee when he
arose this morning and expressed HIS inten ion
of celebrating his good fortune by haviD a
gala time all to himself. Although thel VI
dence at the trial was overwhelming, ne per-
sists in declaring his innocence, and hatters
himself that he will never die by the rope.
B~ELLEvILLE, H., Jan. 16.-Worth Merriam,
the condemned wife murderer vas hanged this
morning. He Was calm on the gallows until
the sheriff was about TO spring the trap, when
he broke down completely, and became as
limp as a rag. He had to be supported By sew
eral deputies while the trap was sprung, when
the trembling wretch dropped through the
aperture. The fall barely broke his neck.
His death was slow and horrible, by strangu-
lation.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 1S.-The four-story building
% South Fourth street, occupied mainly by
the Texas and st. Loui railroad offices and
Caferatta Sons IL Co, was burned at an
early hour this morning. Loss about $4o,-
600.
CHICAGO, Jan. 1S.-A number Of Michigan
ders arrived on this mornings trains to attend
the wedding Of Miss Carrie Gruby, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Gruby and Mr.. Eli j.
Palmer, a prominent resident Of Detroit, which
takes place al 5 o'clock this afternoon at the
Fourth Presbyterian church.
WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.-The President to-
day sent the following nomination OF pos.mas.
tiers: