Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-09-15

ton a few days ago demanded the discon-
tinuance of the practice of making on
victs work for railroads and corporations
for no pay. They also declared that no
state officials should accept rail way passe'
and requested hat a railway commission
be formed.
A Bloomsbury, Eng, baker when lcav
ing bread opened the gate of a customer
and his dog ran out and was lost. The
baker sued for his bread bill, $12. so, and
The customer sued the baker for $25, the
yalue of his dog. The court held that the
,aker was not supposed to take care Of
he dog, and decided in his favor.
On the Volga river in Russia, the
longest stream in Europe there are 1000
vessels at work. and 200, 600 men work on
il handling 5000, 600 tons Of merchandise
per year.
During the height Of the scare Of the
yellow fever epidemic at Jacksonville IA
New York life insurance company tele.
graphed is agent TO continue to insure
all corners.
Omaha expects to be supplied with oil
from the Wyoming fields before two
years. just as the stuff IS now being piped
from Lima, o., 10 Chicago, nearly 300
miles.
The BARRIERS Union Of New York city
has committee on inducing other unions
not to allow their members to ~patronize
any but union barber shops.
Many former knights of Labor ar,
among the men who have taken the places
Of the striking employees at Singer 81
Nimick's Pittsburg iron mill.
The grindstone q%uarries along the
shores of the Bay Of Fundy are developed
when the tide is down. The best material
is down low in the bay.
Al Jersey City, n. j., the Working
m%n's Sick and Death Benefit association
has .,een organized Of exclusively mem
bers &, labor unions.
Two thousand employees Of Blackburn
England mills have struck because the
carders we.c refused an advance Of 10
per cent. IN %ges.
Some El6to\Md.) stone cutters have
struck against Nle employment of men
who have not PAID their dues in the
union.
The Nut and Bolt manufacturers asso-
citation met at Clevelai.d the other day,
and, among other business, fixed prices.
The largest lumber mill "a the Pacific
coast is at Port Blakely. Wy. = Its out
put at present is 1906 feet peT..ay.
Memphis, Tenn, the greatest saland
cotton market in the world, handles ''om
'00,0 900 10 I 600. 600 bales per year.
The entire output of a Libson N. H
peg mills 600 bushels for the past sea
sons shipped to Germany.
The tinicst OF screws 90 in watches.
The smallest is 100 of m inch in diam
cter.
The rice planters and receivers who or
ganizcd at New Orleans TO fight the mill
ers' combination have already purchased
n factory.
Two hundred East Saginaw, Mich, log
drivers, who make from $2G to $50 per
month, have struck .or an advance of s.
per month.
The largest china vase in the world is
eleven feet high. is valued at so. 900,
and it took eight years to make il tat
Hanlcy, England.
Many Martins Ferry, o., iron workers
who went TO Alabama have returned
home because OF the climate. 1t made
them sick.
The cedar shinglc mills Of Oregon and
Washington territory have combined.
The production is worth $4,000, 900 per
year.
A rose al Hc!drshicm has been known
since the year 1913 This perfume pur-
vcyor IS no doubt the Oldest rose in the
world.
At Bcrcsford, Fla, twenty families
have established a private telephone sys-
TEN.
Al NorfoIk. Neu q co operative coa)
yard has been established by the Knights
Of Labor.
At Chicago the Scamcn's union has add
vanced pay to 50 from 81 80 per day.
Montana received 10, coo head of cat
tie from Texas in two weeks recently.
A Des Moines DO butcher was fined
s.. IS for killing on Sunday.
Taxpayers union is a Santa Barbara
(Cal.) society.
Scamen at Toronto make from 81 to
81. 80 per day,
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Wouldn't Suit Her.
A well known theatrical managerint the
city, says the San Francisco Chronicle,
has just gone to housekeeping. He has "A