Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-08-21
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LONDON, Aug. "a Belfast dispatch says
that al least n dozen persons were killed in
last nights rioting. Stone-throwing was Of
the most marderous description, missiles fall
Ing in showers on the heads Of the police. 1t
is said that there lie scarcely a house on the
Shank Hill road not containing from one to
half \ dozen wounded rioters.
BALLAST, Aug, 9-NooS.-The riotlng was
renewed this morning and desperate fighting
between the mob and the police assisted by
the military la. been going on since an early
hour. At this hour the lighting is fierce and
assuming large proportions. The rioters are
showing no mercy, and the police are firing
into the ranks and remor.ely shooting them
like wild beasts. - far over thirty persons
have been brought 10 the hospital for treat
ment and many more have sought refuge else
where. The police reports show eleven killed
and fully 100 wounded. Twelve hundred
soldiers have arrived 10 reinforce those
here.
BHLvAsr, Aug. 11.-Comparative quiet
reigned throughout The city last night. No
DISTURBANCE occurred. The wounded are pro.
crossing favorab.y. A petition has been pre-
sentsi to the mayor requesting that a royal
commission be appointed with power TO hold
inquiry as ct the causes Of the disorder.
LONDON, Aug, lS.-Quite a stir has been
created in medical AMI aristCcratic circles by
the publication Of a treatise by Professor
Haeckel. the eminent German scientist, In
which, anent the death Of the king Of Bavaria.
he points out that mental disease is much
moro frequent among the higher and highest
classes of society than amo1g the common
people. IN the chapter which has created
the greatest amount Of comment the learned
professor says, among other things:
"Mental diseases are remarkably ~freGlent
among sovereigns. The proportion Of luna
ties in reigning families as compared
with that of the population of their
country is as 60 to !; that is 10 gay that
lunacy occurs sixty times as often In reigning
families as among ordinary ~inortals. If sim
liar statistics were taken as to the frequency
OF lunacy among the nobility it would at once
appear that this class also furnishes a much
larger contingent Of lunatics than non-aristo-
~ \ hti'ih'llt' bt a'sS ~ tifS 10 tHt uh-
natural or one.sided education Of the priyil-
eyed classes from the rest OF their fellow crca-
lures, watch separation causes many dark
sides OF human nature to become particularly
deveioped-artifcially trained, as il were, and
ny the laws OF heredity they are more strong
~ developed in every succeeding generations"
LONDON, Aug. 13.-It is understood that
the war Office has decided TO order an inquiry
into the action OF the band OF the Fourth
drsgoon guards which, when giving a concert
In st. Stephens Green, at Dublin, on a recent
Sunday, omitted TO play God Save the
Queen at the close of the performance. II is
said that this ie the first time in the annals OF
the British army that the national anthem has
been eIpusned by 8 military band, and it is
claimed At the war office that the bandrnASter
purposely omitted IL to please a disloyal
crowd.
Lo,Do,, Avg. ia fearful explosion oc-
CURED Al Wood End %co'licry at Leigh, in Ian
csshir., near Bolton. Many miners were
shockinsly burned. Thus Ear fort, are re-
ported dead. Full particulars are not yet OBJ
tainable.
BELpAs., Aug. 1s.-The excitement Of the
past few DAYS. which had greatly subsidized,
was renewed to-day over \ report Of an out
rage said to- have been committed by Orange
men last evening. A Catholic, named John
son, while returning from work, was seized,
and tarred and feathered. The Catholics are
exasperated and threaten vengeance. Five
hundred additional police reached Belfast to-
day and every precaution win ne taken by the
authorities against a fresh outbreak. Since
Saturday five hundred persons have been seri-
ously wounded, aud received treatment az the
hospital. Two hundred others are being
treated at private surgeries and probably three
hundred more have been taken 10 lheir homes
and cared for th,re.
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