Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-09-25
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EAST.
PORTLAND, Sept. 13.-Political excitement
rs intense here and is affecting all classes.
TIE Rev. Samuel +. Pearson, one OF the pro
hibition speakers. SAYS that he had a strange
experience at North Yarmouth. Pearson says
he went there to speak and the pastor II the
Congregational church, the Rev. Mr.. Hoyt.
offered prayer, asking that what he said might
be blessed. He presented the cause OF prohi-
bition aud took his seat. At once Mr.. Hoyt
sprang TO his feet and said with excitement:
"fou have done nothing but abuse my party
and Mr.. Blaine" Then addressing the aud
fence he said: "Hc ought not be allowed to
leave the place. He ought to be given Il coat
OF tar and feathers.' The night was intensely
dark, and after the speaker left the house he
said to Mr.. Hoyt: II only needed a little
rum here to put my life In danger. ! give you
notice that If | am harmed while getting out
OF the place ! shall hold you strictly respon-
siblc." 4 Yarmouth ran said this morning:
nj Hoyt meant what he said. He wanted
TO have Pearson tarred and feathered.
SALEM, Mass, Sept. 13.-Prof. Quincy, of
Harvard college, died at Beverly yesterday
morning, Of heart disease.
SCRANTON, Pa, Sept. 1.-THE Marvin
shaft colliery of the Delaware and Hudson
Canal company was the seen. IL an extensive
cayc-in yesterday, by which ii is feared a num-
Der Of men have lost their lives. How ,nany
1t Is impossible TO say, suppositions varying
from six to nine. There seems to be but little
question of the death of one Of them, he be
No a man named John Shaifcr. 4 number OF
men were cut and bruised by the falling Of
rock in r,aking their escape up the slope.
PIrTsBURG, Pa. Sept. 1.-THE city is
Threatened with an influx Of foreign workmen.
The depression felt in various parts of GreaI
Britain especially, in iron and steel producing
districts is havil ~ the effect of driving this
skilled .abor 10 American fields. Vigorous
opposition To the movement is expected from
the labor organizations of this country.
BUFFALO, Sept. 1l-At 9;l5 this morning
a special excursion train over the Nickel Plate,
from Ashtabula, Ohio, bound to Niagara Falls
with about 300 people, collided with a local
freight between Irving and Silver Creek, y.
Y. within twenty rods of a steep embank.
ment. Both trains were running at a lively
rate. The speed and shock threw a number
of cars from the track. The passengers were
thrown from their seats and many were in
jurcd. Twelve persons were killed and four
teen injured. A special wrccking train with
number OF physicians left here at noon for
the scene of the accident.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Sept. Am explo-
sion at the Xylonte works at Adams, last
night, demolished the building and killed Am
brose jerks and Charles Kimball
New YoRK, Sept 15.-The sensation of the
hour still is the private marriage of james G.
Blaine, jr., and Miss Marie Nevins, last week.
The high contracting parties are aged eight
cen and nineteen respectively. After pro-
curing a dispensation from Archbishop Cor
rigan, they were married September q. Gen.
Mcmahon, counsel for Col. Nevins, said that
the report that the Nevips and Blaine fami
lies were angry at the marriage was false.
MANSFIELD, O., Sept. IA freight train
on the Baltimore and Ohio, at Independence,
truch a horse on the bridge. The shock
broke the bridge In two, the locomotive fall
ing into the creek below, killing tbe engineer
and injuring the fireman. Before the accident
a white dove is said TO have settled on the
engineers cab in the window. He drove it
away several times, after which the crash
came.
BosroN, Sept. lS.-Thc Herald says the vic
tins of DR.. Andrew Grant, the professional
%bigamist, are numbered 10y the dozens and
without exception are highly respectable wo-
men. Dreading nOtoriety, they will not com
plain against him, and no effort has been
made to apprchcnd him. The Herald states
that while Grant was practicing medicine in
Boston under the name Of DR.. Burns, lie made
love TO all Of his female patients. He engaged
himself to three elderly spinsters in one day,
and borrowed money from each.
SANDUsKY, o., SEPT. 1S.-A fire this morn
ing DESTROYED Links wine cellars in Hanscn's
drug store and Gerhis's grocery. The loss is
go 900.