The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-10-18

were arrested aud fined and expelled. On
the latest occasion, while w. H. Perry, of
Peoria, Ill, president of the freshman'class;
L. u. Van Arnam, of Boston, and Henry
Hoars, Of Ansonia, Conn, were returning
to the university hall with three young
lady classmates they were set upon by eight
sophomores. The young ladies were
roughly handled and their escorts forced
into two carriages and driven away. The
%sophomores took their victims to q dismal
swamp three miles out, stripped them of
everything but their underclothes, bound
them to trees, and heaped all manner of
indignities upon them. Black paint was
used in decorating their bodies. 1t was
midnight when the sophomore left them
bound to the trees. 1t was some time be-
fore they could release themselves, and as
the night WIS cold they suffered greatly.
They returned 10 the city at daylight.
They recognized some of their prosecutors,
who wore masks, by their voices and cloth
ng. Six arrests have been made.
England's War-Like Preparations
: A Montreal, Canada, dispatch says: An
order has been received from the British
war Office by commanders of the military
districts of Canada directing them as fol-
lows: ION receipt of this communication
you will Immediately take steps to ascer-
tain in your several districts tie fullest in
formation regarding all facilities for the
transportation of troops from one part of
the country to another, giving details as to
the means of transportation by rail and
water, and also to ascertain how many
horses are available on short notice, for
the purpose of military transportation"
By many the order is considered as a hint
that the alleged agreement between Eng
land and the United States on the Behring
sea difficulty has fallen through and that
Great Britain is about to show that she
means business by throwing imperial
troops in various parts Of Canada, but the
officers of the fifth and sixth districts. who
have their headquarters in Montreal, doubt
that the order has any such serious i'm
port.
A later report says: The dispatch from
Montreal stating that the order from the
British VOL Office requiring full informa-
ton regarding the facilities for transport
tation of troops from one part of Canada
to another and indicating a possible rup-
ture between Great Britain and the United
States receives little credence at Ottawa.
It was understood and generally noted in
Canadian newspapers some time ago that
the British government had ordered con-
siderable information from the department.
of railways mud canals concerning Caua-
dian railways and their operations. What
this information was wanted for has not
%transpired, but the Montreal correspond
ent has evidently seized hold of the most
improbable use to which such information
would be put.
Is There Yellow Fever at Key west9
DR.. Porter, agent of the Florida state
board of health. has officially declared
that a case Of yellow fever exists at Key
West, Fla. The patient is the Rev. Mr..
a Methodist minister, who
aas been sick some weeks, but Is now con-
'alescent. The United States marine
surgeon, DR.. Murray, a recogniz-
d yellow fever expert, denies that House
Iolder has the fever and ~denounces Port
RS decision, claiming it not warranted by
he facts. He declares Householder has
he yellow jaundice. Key West is excep-
ionally healthy and the weather is t,o
to fear a spread of the fever.
Eiour Barrels or Cotton Ducking.
A wonderful evolution in flour barrel
making is promised by a patent which has
been granted for the making OF barrels out
ofcotton ducking instead of wood. The new
material is impervious to water, and will
resist fire for a long time. It weighs to
the barrel about fifteen pounds less than
the wood and can be manufactured 10 per
cent. cheaper. The cotton duck barrel
can be rolled up into a small space and re-
turned to the mills for frequent use. The
Hour merchants of Atlanta, Ga, have
given it a fair trial and pronounce it a
success.
Southern settlement of a Trouble-Two
Dead.
The case against DR.. Tett, charged with
completely in the Osyka tragedy of last
year, in which Druggist Vamodo was as
sassinated, was dismissed at Nicholson,
Miss, the other day for lack of evidence.
E. G. Collins, one of the witnesses against
Tett, was heard talking about the matter
outside. Tett gotta shotgun, and finding
Collins still talking, fired two loads of
buckshot into his face, killing him in
stantly. Collins brother-in-law J. w.
Turner, then opened fire on Tett with
a pistol and the doctor was fatally
wounded, dying in a short time.
Killed in n Wreck.
A collision occurred near Bridgeport
o., between a train conveying about
seventy miners to the Wheeling coal works
and a freight. The passenger train and a
portion of the freight train was demol-
ished. David Moore, q miner, was killed.
-Four others were fatally injured and about
twenty more seriously injured. The acct
dent was caused by failure of the engineer
of the freight train to obey orders. He
had been instructed to wait at the mines
until the freight train arrived, but instead
pulled cut for Bridgeport.
State Forces Withdrawn.
The state forces have closed up their
work at Johnstown, Penn, and quit for
good. Three bodies were found the last
morning of the work, by the workmen
while making an opening in the sewer out
let. It seems hard to stop the work at
this stage with the stream full of dead
bodies, hut the orders are that the work
must cease.
The Whipping Post in Maryland.
John ~Eisenburger, OF Baltimore, was