Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-31

elaborate treaty, TX one Is desired, but he ex-
presses the opinion that the new treaty will
not be necessary.
CHEYENNE, July GA cloud burst sixteen
miles north Of the city Tuesday on Grow creek
with a heavy fall of hail. A wall of water six
TO eight feet high came down the creek but
spent much OF its force before reaching Chey.
enne. Happening before dark, tie people
along the creek were Informed in time to save
their children and animals. On the flats In
the city the water reached the doors. In
out all night watching the Hood. Mines are
flooded in the Silver Crown district enough TO
delay work in some of them several days. A
large supply Of groceries IN camp were flooded
and ruined. The gardens between Silver
Crown and Cheyenne are destroyed, and LOO
feet Of heavy grading on the Cheyenne and
northern was washed out. Loss, $4,000. Da-
FoCr hundred feet Of lume, twelve feet above
the creek, were carried ava, by the food.
The body of William Hardcster, a cowboy,
drowned with his horse while attempting to
ford Green river, was found yesterday seven
miles from Green river station.
A cloud burst near Laramie Yesterday and
flooded a large area. Robert Burhardt was
caught in the storm and nearly drow ned. A
! dog following his team was droW I'D. The
water came down the hillsides eigbt feet high.
OTTAWA, Ont, July 22.-Dispatches from
st. Johns, N. r., indicate great suffering
! arnnpy flo ,,nnr m tho Na,~ En,p}Ia,2 and
Labrador &C; st3. On the northorn coast of
| New Foundland over 500 families are starving
and in Labrador AZ least 200 families are in
a terrible state Of restitution. One hundred
and twenty people have died so Ear. The
thermometer on July | stood al zero. From
Cape Bould, n. f., to Cape Muncefo:d, Labra
dor, there is a solid barrier Of ice and no iisn
ing is possible; nor have crops been grown.
A large number Of starving fishermen from
Indian Harbor and sandwich Bay have just
arrived, imploring relief from the government.
Unless help is Immediately offered, the proba-
biiity Is that thousands will die before an
other month. The government, il is believed,
will send relief.
CHICAGO, July 22.-In the anarchists trial
this morning w. II. Williamson, a reporter,
testified that he knew the defendant and re-
membered the occasion OF the opening Of new
board of trade and was present at the social
lists procession that night. The procession
carried red flags. He was present at the
meeting afterward, when spies, Parsons ami
Fielden spoke from the window Of the Arbei-
ter Ieitung office, Parsons criticised the ac-
ton Of the police that night and called them
blood hounds and servants OF the robber
classes. He called on the mot to follow him
in an attack upon Marshall Fields and other big
dry goods esta lishments. Fielden said the
same about it in advising the plundering Of
the rich and said the robbers should be killed,
The witness stated that he was IN the Office of
the Zeitung that evening with ParsOns and
others. They showed him a dynamite cart
ridge and said they hsa enough to blow up all
the capitalistic buildings in the city. He said
they had bombs, dynamite rifles and revol-
vcrs, and stated il was their intention To use
them when necessary.
COLUMNS, Kan, July 2A-Hugh Calvin,
postmaster, has been found guilty OF having
been associated in a conspiracy to blow up the
county court house, to destroy the records of
certain land frauds. His bondsmen have
taken charge OF the postoflice. Several other
oonspirators await trial.
CHICAGO, July 2.-The exodus of veterans
and their families To San Francisco, where the
annual enc|ampnlcnt Of the Grand Army of me
Republic assemblies two weeks hence, has fair
l., I.r,, ouJ n;,,o, u-b,.alau rf,J+ a., e,~o.t.
which connect the depots on the east and
west sides have been traversed by numerous
delegations from various sections OF the east.
The Michigan delegation, 100 strong, left last
night over the Milwaukee and st. Paul road.
The New England delegation, 600 in number,
arrived here this morning shortly after z
o'clock and will leave at s this evening In a
special train of twenty-seven cars, in three
sections, over the Omaha Short line of the St.
Paul road. During the past twenty-four hours
eighteen car loads Of delegates and friends
from New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Washington have started for the coast. The
Illinois delegation viii start at high noon to-
morrow in a special train OF thirteen hotel,
sleeping and smoking ears, over the Burling-
ton road, In charge Of General Travelling and
Passenger Agent Col. S. Reed.
CHICAGO, July 14.-The Republican con
gressional convention OF the Fourth district
met at the north side Turner hall at 2 O'Clock
this afternoon and unanimously renominated
Congressman George w. Adams. There had
been more or less opposition to this course,
but bis opponents found 1t impossible to cor
~centrate ON any other candidate.