Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-12-11
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EAST.

Ing hohongaheA and Yo~ugioghcny river
miners, las addressed a communication to
Richard Barnes, secretary Of the Miners ex-
change, In which the coal operators In the
above named district are asked for an advance
IN price for mining. A com nittee has been
selected wish the hope Of meeting a like
committee Of operators for the purpose
Of trying 10 effect settlement
through the means OF arbitration or concili-
alton. An answer from the operators is ask
ed by December "a, otherwise q convention Of
the miners VIII be called to take final action.
los. Walton president Of the exchange says he
willing 10 discuss the question with his
men; bat clai MS n very unsatisfactory condi-
Ion Of the river coal trade, which will not ad-
nit Of any advance OF wages.
BALTIMORE ov. cs.-A statement has been
telegraphed fro" Washington TO papers
throughout the country to the effect that
Washington was to be made the Catholic
bishopric ser, 10 positively denied by Cardinal
Gibbons today.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. pa general con
vention Of delegates from the local trades
unions viii n held in this city tonight, when
the United Labor parry will formally enter the
field OF politics, with the view OF running a
labor ticket at the spring election when a
mayor, city solicitor and receiver Of taxes are
" he chosen. The leaders Of the movement
claim that the party can commaplfully 10000
votes drawn from both Of the great political
parties. Several hundred delegates have been
elected b tho convention. No nominations
will be made tonight, but plaus will be con
sidercd and adopted for forming a party and
organizing for work in the wards and diyis.
ions.
C~LEvBLASs, Nov. 3.-Sincc last August
Mrs. Garfield, wife Of the late president, has
been greatly annoyed at her country home in
Mentor by the receipt OF letters OF advice,
etc, from a person signing himself ). \. Bod
de. Yesterday he appeared for the second
hmc at the Garfield farm house, and, being
refused permission to see Mrs. Garfield, he
curscd all the members Of the family. He was
followed from the house and placed under ar
rest at gainesville. Bodde is thirty eight
years Of age and "A native of Holland. He
formerly lived nj Fort Wayne, Ind. After an
inquest in lunac", the Judge decided that Bod
dc was not sufficiently unsound of mind to
warrant his Incarceration in an asylum. lie
was, therefore, sent to the county poor house
for safe keeping.
BosroS, Nov. 30.-Byron Somes, a we'll
known newspaper man, died here this even.
ing. He had been connected with various
Journals in Boston, New York, Troy and
other cities, and was "a writer VI marked abil.
lily.
PuILApILrHiA, Pa, Nov. @.-A committee
Of citizens held a meeting at the Continental
hotel vest riay to begin arrangements for the
national celebration Of the centennial ami.
vcr-ary of the Dromulgation Of the c~onstitu-
tion of tie United States, September II, 1877.
In pursuauce oi , resolution adopted at the
meeting ot The governors OF the thirteen orig
inal stale, heli in his city September last, a
comnit'.c # rc'egates from these states will
meet December 2, for the purpose Of adopting
q programme cf events which will figure IN
the centennial celebration. The joint com.
mittce of the council has adopted a resolution
10 defrsy the expenses Of the delegates and
provide for their comfort while they remain In
the city.
BosToN, Mass, Nov. 3O.-George f.. Mcneil
this forenoon informed the committee of the
labor meeting which last evening nominated
him for mayor that he would accept. A telc.
gram was sent to Henry George asking him to
AZ a date for his speech in Boston.
READING, Pa, Nov. 30.-A terrible story
was DEVELOPED at the corOner's inquest here
to-day On the body of Mrs. Frank Kerner, who
was burned ~ death while in bed yesterday
afternoon, her husband being away at the
time, as he said, to bring a physician for his
wife, whom, he alleged, was sick. II was
shown that she was not Ill, but that only
twenty minutes before she was in excellent
health, having visited a ~neighbor. Then she
vent home and another neighbor dropped in.
This woman discovered Kerncr lending over
his wife, who seemed to be unconscious. AS
soon as he saw the visitor he slammed the
door In her face and told her to 20 home. He
then carried the body of his wife upstairs, put
her to bed, and then act 1t on fire to make II
appear that it caught from the stovepipe,
while he ran down stairs and out into the
street after a doctor. When he returned she
was burned to dreth. He seemed greatly sur
prised. The coroner's iurysreturned a verdict
thar Kcrn.r p tie house on fire with the de-
lberaic pu-pusc Of kli.ing bis wife. The dis
trict attorney advised his arrest. kcrner was
then arrested on the double charge Of hoini-
eide and arson.
New YORK, Nov. 30.-Thc coal managers
will meet again to-day by adjournment from
Nov. - to consider the question OF produc-
ton and prices for December. The result of
The meeting is ~anxiously awaited 10y the whole
salers at Chicago, Milwaukee and other west
ern c%entcrs, who expect such action As will
warrant them in still further increasing the
already eXorbltaut prices of fuel IN the west.
~CINCINNArI, o., Nov. W-Shiplcy, Daisy X
Co.. ar, go,,4s iHrtrtinpt', assiEnti TINS
morniug. The IA cts -tr rsiimtud III SiuD,
COO. The liabilities are iaree'y n excess Of
this amount.
NEW YORK. Nov. W.-The Herald SAYS this
morning that two combinations have been
formed by the railroad companies and mine
operators to advance the price Of coal GO cents
per ton and possibly higher. The advance
will be made In a abort time.