Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-10-23
continue to arrive at FL Paso TO the effect that

continue to arrive at Fl Paso TO the effect that
Mexico is verging on another civil war. Seri-
Gus disturbances, Ii is said, have already oc-
Cured. The first report was that ex-Presi-
dent Gonzales had been assassinated. This is
not confirmed, however. Next comes the
rumor that Romero Rubio, President Diaz'
father-in-law and minister Of the interior. had
disappeared. He was driving in the suburbs
OF the City OF Mexico, and was supposed to
have been kidnapped by Insurgents. The
government had twenty persons shot 4 few
DAYS ago at Thesuillo, Zacatecas, for conspir-
ing against the government. The customs
officer II Paso Del Norte, all last night was
receiving cipher bulletins. Imminent danger
is expected. The government is trying to
keep everything in the dark As much as pos
sible.
GLASGOW, Oct. l6.-Ths barque Leyiotlale,
from Cardiff, has been wrecked on the Cars
marth bar. Nineteen men, including the cap
tain, left the wreck in a boat, but the sea Was
SO heavy that all were upset and seventeen VI
the party were drowned.
LONDON, Oct. l6th.-Ths practice on the
part OF country justices OF suspending sen
tence on pauper criminals on ondition that
they quit the country and betake themselves
TO the United States was supposed 10 have
been pretty thoroughly squelched after the eY-
| pose OF the custom which took place a couple
~ years ago. Recent Developments, however,
indicate that it is again being resorted to on
omit. an aytanctya scala bp1v N opp,la ~
weeks ago "a woman named Baker, the widow
Of aburglar who was executed at Carlisle for
the murder Of a policeman, was pardoned
from the Middlesex Jail, where she had been
imprisoned for sboplifting. on condition that
she should leave the country, and the dctec-
tive department at Scotland Yard is now al
visei that she will settle in the United
States. A still worse case is report
e' from Colchester in Essex. A man
named George wilkins, was charged with at
tempting TO murder his wife and six children
and with attempting To commit suicide. The
evidence showed that he bad been driven TO
the deed by desperation, and destitution Of
the worst kind, and that but for The most he
role efforts on the part Of his wife he would
have accomplished his purpose Of cutting all
their throats with a razor. The newspaper
| publications OF the facts in The case resulted
in several small sums being received by the
mayor for the relief Of the family, and when
the case came up on remand the mayor an
nounccd that the family Of eight would be
| sent To America "wherc they could find
work" Several similar cases where emigra-
ton TO the United States has been substituted
for punishment of riminal oirenses are re-
| ported from different parts OF the United
Kingdom.
| LoSpoN, oct. t6 "A dispatch from Reddltch
| saws that considerable feeling has been ere
ated by the announcement that the queen,
upon the advice Of the home secretary, has re-
fused 10 pardon a girl namde Edith Jennings,
aged fifteen; the daughter Of highly respecta-
tie parents, who at the Gloucester Assizes
was sentenced to five years peual servitude
for setting fire ~ two hayrick5. The evidence
adduccd upon the trial poiuted very strongly
to the fact that the fires were due TO accident
rather than malicious design, and the child's
innocence was SO generally believed in that
Lord Windsor, the whole of the local magis
t~ratcs, the farmer whose ricks were consumed
and over one thousand local manufactures
signed the petition for "A pardon.