Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-29
one-third are In the section visited by the

One-thlrd are In the section visited DY the
drought.
Cattle are dying By the thousand for want OF
water and grass. There is very little grass
any where near water and that little is 80 dry
and dead that IT does not contain enough sub
stance To 10 cattle any good. The cattle are
very thin and getting thinner every dsy, and
II no rain comes within thirty days the cattle
business In west Texas will he ruined. People
are very gloomy over the outlook. The
drought extends east as far ss Big Springs.
No clouds have been seen In months. Even II
It should rain now cattle would not get fat
enough for market this year. A rough esti-
mate places the rate Of mortality by thiret and
starvation at go head per day. Fully 5000
carcasses cover the plains. The stencil as one
passes along on the Texas Pacific Is said TO be
terrible.
CHICAGO, May t7.-At Pullman this morn
Ing about 600 men resumed work at the
shops. This pra :tically ends the strike there.
In the lumber district OF this city this morn
ing the yards were all open, but working
very small forces. The men appeared to DO
scared by threats OF q stock yard crowd II
they attempt to resume on the ten hour basis.
Fears Of fresh outbreaks are entertained.
CHICAGO, May IA special dispatch from
Neillsville, Wis, SAYS that Mrs. Wright, who
has been several days in jail on suspicion of
having, a week ago, poisoned her husband,
confessed last night 10 the murder. Daniel
Allen, her alleged paramour, was Immediately
arrested a. an accessory. The womaL's state
ment was: She and ALLEN tad been intimate
for nearly two years; that she was TO kill her
husband with poison; afterward Allen was to
murder his wife In the same way then after
waiting 0 suffi time the partners in crime
were to be welded. Mrs. Wright gave her
husband q dose OF poison, but 1t was so large
that he threw It up. Two wee h later Allen
fixed a potion for Wright that killed him. The
townspeOple are greatly excited and there are
many threats Of lYnching.
DIES MONIES, May 1.-THE city council this
morning ordered three and one-hslf miles OF
paving TO be laid this season.
II is reported that a new National bank with
$780, 600 capital is soon to be organized here,
with Simon Cassidy as cashier.
II. l[culS, Mhf it-btIl Nittt, u UTunkcu
losfer, last night entered the house Of Samuel
letters and tiled to drag letters, who Is phr-
lyzed, out OF bed. Cora letters, aged Elk
teen, shot Vleet through the temple and he
died this morning. The girl is held pending
an examination.
CHICAGO, May l8.-Hearings are being had
this me ming before several magistrates in the
cases Of some twenty anarchists, Germans
and Poles. who were found In the pos. eesion
OF dynamite or other explosives after the re-
cent riots. In nearly every case SO far heard
the prisoner has been held TO the grand jury.
MILWAUKEE, May 1S.-The special grand
jury empanDeled TO take action regarding the
socialists and rioters now under arrest and
others suspected OF conspiracy and seditton
convened at the court hous3 this morning.
The seventeen members of the body are al.
men of high business and professional stand
ing, the IN )st conspicuous member being Hon.
John Black. There are twenty cases TO be con-
sidered, and 1t is reported on good authority
that over one hundred people, including mauy
we'll known persons will be indicted for com
plicity in ls~.fomenting the riOte. The cases
Of the ring leaders will first he consideIei
These are Paul Grottksn, the noted Che go
anarchist, who came here q few weeks ago up
on invitation IN encourage the socialists,
Frank Hirth, Carl Simon and Gustav Kosser.
The indlc,m snt submitted to the grand jlry
for approval charges them with unlawiully
conspiring TO provoke a riot, and with con-
spiracy TO M-tIest, kill and murder divers well
disposed persc=s Of this city.
WABASH, Ind, Nay l9.-This morning ac-
ton was brought by Reuben Swsnk, the a.
legged wife beater, WHO was last night dragged
from his bed In North Manchester by a mob Of
men, beaten and ridden on q rail, against
prominent and wealthy citizens for $4,000
damages. The complaint alleges that these
parties are members Of a vigilance committee.
The feelirg against Swank is very bitter.
Probably further trouble may grow out Of the
affair.
MILWAUKEE, May ~ -Judge Malory's
charge to the grand jury to Investigate the
late labor riots creates q sensation. The Judge
declares boycotting indictable and advises the
jury to INVESTIGATES the character and nature Of
The labor organizations IN Milwaukee.
sT. LOUIS, May 49, One Of the largest dele
gate conventions Of coal miners In the history
OF the country opened here to-day, al dele,
gates from all the coal mining points are ar
irving In large number on every train. A
total atten lance Of nearly one thousand is
expected, while the number OF skilled coal
miners who will be Represented Is placed at
10000. The principal object OF The conven-
ton Is the formation OF q national federation
OF coal miners similar TO the organization IN
England. Of which Mr.. Burt, the miners rep
resentative In the house Of commons, is the
head.
ST.. LOUIS, May 20.--The employees In all the
planning mills, numbering seven hundred,
struck this morning on account Of q decisio q
of the bosses to go back TO the ten hou sys
an. The men declare they will resist 1t bit
terly.
ST. LOUIS, May 90. In the Max we'll trial to.
day John b. Armour, q barber, testified thai
he shaved eff Maxwell's whiskers and cut his
hair the evening after the murder. Maxwell
was In a great hurry, and asked II he could be
recognized. George J. He's, q pawn broker
testified that Max well call, d q few days prio,
to the date of the murder and wanted to Dor