Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-04-17
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ST. LOUIS, April 5.-Nearlv all the teamsters
who returned to work Saturday, with some
new men yielded to the re quests OF the strikers
and this morning quit work. Nothing is do
ing at any Of the freight houses, except the
G. B. 81 q. The action Of the executive board
Of the Knights of Labor revoking the
order to 60 to work causes enthusiasm.
Contributions of money are pouring ip, the
men receiving assurances that money will be
furnished without stint. Prominent Knights
declare that the reports which induce Gould to
believe that he has conquered are circulated In
order to conceal the true state of affairs. He
has not taxed their resources at all. The
Knights insist that they are stronger to-day
than ever because the world now fully under
stands that the battle is between the people
and the railway monopolists.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, April 5.-Isadore Setden-
baum, eighteen years OF age, shot and killed
Annie Rosenstein, aged fifteen, at 2 O'Clock
this morning In her brothers. house, corner OF
Vliet and Sixth streets, and then put a bullet
through bis heart. The cause of the tragedy
Is On unexplained mystery.
ST.. LOUIS, April 5.-A telegraph operator
named Frank McKeighan was arrested TO-DAY
and made a confession which will create quite
q sensation here. He says he entered into An
arrangement with Thomas Furlong, chief of
the Gould system secret service, whereby Mar
tin Irons, A. G. Coughlin and other prominent
members Of the Knights Of Labor were to be
arrested. A room was engaged In the third
story OF 1929 Market street, past the window
Of which ran a telegraph wire, on which He
M. Hoxie, first vice president of the Missouri
Pacific railway, was In almost constant
communication with Jay Gould. Nc
Keighan engaged another operator named
Nichols. The wire was tapped and an instru-
ment was soon at work. The arrangement
was TO have Irons, Iouglsn and others In the
room interceptihg the messages between MIN
and Gould, when the police would make @
descent on the place and capture the whole
outfit. The signal for the descent was to be
q lamp placed In one Of the windows. On Fri
day the detectives and q squad OF police were
ready and a lamp appeared in one Of the win
dows Of the second floor. A rush was made
for the room, and a poor woman running o
sewing machine was all that was found. The
raiders found that they had struck the wrong
room, and ascending to the third floor Nc
Keighan vas found alone. Chief Harrigan
heard of the matter aud McKeighan's arrest
followed.
LITTLE Rock, April 9.-At / o'clock this
morning F. b. Darbin, a leading member Of
the Knights Of Labor, was arrested by Deputy
Sheriff Williams for interfering with the force
of deputies guarding the round house of the
Iron Mountain road. Some conversation fol-
lowed between Williams and the crowd of men
near the round house, resulting In q fusilade
between the deputies and assailants, in which
Williams was dangerously wounded. The
men then fled. Tires men were arrested and
held for the crime.
CHICAGO, April 9.-Hon. Roswell P. Flower,
OF New York, who a couple Of years ago was
prominently mentioned as an available candi-
date for the Democratic presidential nomina-
ton and also for the governorship Of New
York state, Is spending a week In Chicago with
his family. He has just returned from a pro
longcd visit to Mexico and in an interview
this morning he expressed the opinion that II
favorable commercial treaties could be entered
into a large and profitable trade market fer
American products ard manufactures could
be St cured In the sister republic. He believes
thatthe hands Of the American minister to
Mexico should be strengthened and that the
creation OF O United States commissionership
In that country would be productive Of much
good. Regarding the political condition of
the country he Gays that President Disz is
fully equal to the control CT the revolutionary
elements that the building Of q railroad from
Mexico to Brazil is not altogether an i'm
possible feat, and that such an enterprise
could not fail to enhance the rcial ed.
vancement Of all the countries concerned TO q
tremendous extent.
DETROIT, April 6.-Tbs worst snow storm
for years struck this city last night and is still
raging. The street car traffic IL wholly inter
rupted and down town business ia at O stand
still, entsiling q loss OF fully a half million In
trade to business men. Trains are late arriv-
ing. The railroad ire ic throughout the state
is badly interrupted. The snow Is eighteen
inches on the level and drifts In many places
are louI Iect deep.
ST. FRANCIS, Ark, Apri! 7.-William Elias,
q IaboriLg man from Illinois, attacked bis
wife Oh Sunday with a Winchester 20. and
killed her and her babe, which she was carry
ing in her arms at the time. ELIAS iIa drunk
On brute and had been abusing her. SLe start
ed out to obtain protection. He followed and
shot her a. stated. He was arrested and hur-
RED of to jail at Birdsville to prevent lynch
ing.
LA CROSSE, Wis.,, April Fire again broke
ont at 3 o'clock this morning in the Colbert
block, the largest in La Crosse. Tn fire de-
partmenti is crippled. The citizens talk Of Or
ganizlng a vigilance committee to patrol the
streets to protect the city from dre bugs.
CHICAGO, April Capt. John Johnson,
we'll known around the lakes, suicided this