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Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02
True to Her Name.

WiSNIpEG, Man, Oct. a5.-A Calgary
special to the Free Press says: Some
timo ago Robert Scott, q general mer-
chant ut Mercy, forty miles west Of
here received information that q woman
named Mrs. Tough, who resides here
and alleges that she is Scott's wife, was
going to make an attempt on his life.
Scott notified the police. Last night
Mrs. Tough got off the west-bound train
at Morey, dressed in mans clothing, and
started for SCOTS store, policemen fol-
lowing. When she was about to dash
vitriol on Scott she was seized from be-
hind and h~andoGffed. On her person was
found a bottle OF ether, q bottle Of Wit
riol, a gag, two razors and two self
cooking revoivers. 1t was her intention
10 burn out his eyes with vitriol and
then trim of his ears and nose.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02
Passenger Train Derailed.

LAFAYETTE, Ind, Oct. 25.-The east
bound passenger on the Wabash road
was partially derailed late yesterday
afternoon near Kellars. The express
messenger, engineer, fireman and bag
gagemaster were severely but not
dangerously injured. The passengers
escaped with o shaking up.
There is a heavy grade where the acct
dent occurred and the train was running
forty miles an hour, when the engineer
saw the switch was partly thrown. He
Immediately applied the air brakes, but
there was no time to check the train.
After the accident an investigation
showed that the switch lock had been
broken by train wreckers, the boulder
with which the lock was pounded being
found near by.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02

The public-school system of cram
ming blank minds with uncorrelated
facts says the Washington Post, pro-
duees occasionally results as startling
as ] fyou fed corn on the ear into a
shelling-machine and ground out pea
a young lady ON Fourteenth
street nstouished her parents by her fa-
miliarity with English history.
'-Oh. yes" said she Il know all
about Henry VIII. He got a divorce
from Anne Boleyn and the pope sent a
big, red bull to butt him off his throne.r
The same young lady was Boosting
the antiquity CT her family.
They are very ancient" said she.
They date back to 400 b. G. But
what does B. {. mean, anyway?n
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02

There is more in a ton Of coal than
most people are aware of. Besides
gases a ton of coal will yield /, 500
pounds of coke, 20 gallons OF ammonia
water, and lao pounds Of coal tar.
Destructive di~stillation OF the coal tar
gives 69.9 pounds of pitch, IL pounds
Of creosote. IL pounds OF heavy oils,
30 pounds Of naphtha yellow, 6.S
pounds OF naphthaline. 4.75 pounds Of
naphthole. 2.25 pounds of nlizarin, "a
pounds solvent naphtha, LIS pounds of
phenol, l.2 pounds of aarinc, IL
pounds OF a~niline. ~ pounds OF
toludine, .46 pounds of a~nthracine, and
9 pounds of toluene. From the last
named substance is obtained the lately
discovered product saccharine, which Is
said to be 223 times swceter than sugar.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02
Cinnamon smugg,e Opium.

uIsparcn from Spokane Falls says a re,
markahle state of affairs is reported
from the United States custom house at
Osooyoos Lake, on the British Columbia
border. No collector has been stationed
there, and now Indians have taken pos
session of the log structure formerly oc-
cupied by a representative OF this gov
eminent. just across the line her mai
esty's government has a fine custom
house, conducted with all the precision
usually found in the British outposts.
Cinnamon and opium are constantly
crossing the border without restraint.
1t is reported that an organized band Of
thieves have despoiled stock ranges in
southern and central Idaho of a large
number Of cattle and horses during tho
past season. Depredations seem TO have
commenced last May. Recently FIVE
men were arrested, but it is thought that
many are still engaged in thieving, and
that it is systematically organized, and
the stock is evidently being sent to dis
tant points for disposal.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02

A gentleman who was walking
through East street yesterday morning,
Gays the New Haven Pdttadium. saw q
sight which amused him very much,
and he related the incident as follows:
"A man and his wife came down the
stree.. one carrying a bouncing baby
and the other what looked like a ten
quart milk-pail. The man had tic
,hiid and had become tired of holding
4. He took the pail from his wife and
put the child into 1t. Then sshe took
hold Of one side of the pail, and OF they
trudged with the weight Of the child
divided between them"
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02

The pet of the Alley family, in New
York, is a venerable parrot of surpris-
ing intelligence and l~oquacity. The
parrot was presented to John 3. Alley
twenty-five years ago by a sea captain.
1t can call the members of the family
by their first names, and can repeat the
habitual expressions used by these per-
sons. Many of the Alleys are now
dead, but the bird continues to repro
duce the words and phrases it picked
up from them in their lifetime. On
this account and many others the
Alleys hold the parrot in great afrec-
ton.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02

Near Waukeenah, Fla, stands an A
NJ. f. church, known as the ''old Spring
field church" 1t was built by a former
generation when Indians were numer-
Gus in Florida. The savages were very
hostile, but gave no trouble till the
house was up and the ceiling placed
overhead, when they furiously came
from a swamp and massacred three or
four OF the mechanics engaged in the
work, and while the remaining two es-
capped and fed for assistance, the In
dams dipped their hands in the blood OF
their victims and entirely covered the
ceiling. Although this occurred many
years ago the prints of the red mems
hands are still plainly to be seen.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02
A Bank Robber Suicides.

LoyDoS, Oct. 25.--At Didsbury, Lam
cashire, an unknown man entered the
bank and engaged in conversation with
Allen, the manager, pretending he
wished to open an account Suddenly
he drew a revolver and shot Allen and
then fired at the clerk, but missed him.
The man seized ESQ and ran out Of the
building, but was o o~vertaken. Find
ing all Of escape shut off he shot
and killed himself. Aliens wound is
not necessarily fatal.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02
Peters Pence.

New York, Oct. 25.-The Catholic
clergy throughout the country have
been requested by tho spiritual heads
of their respective dioceses 10 endeavor
to make the annual collection Of Peters
Pence, which takes place ON Sunday,
the largest on record. In this diocese .
special pastoral letter on the question
Of the pope's temporal scvorignity will
be read after the mass
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02

One Of the oldest cases on record has
lately been occupying a Justices court
at Lacrosse, Wis. An elderly German
with a young wife was the plaintiff. A
young man Of the neigbborhood sought
to pursuade tho youthful wife that her
husband was too old for her, and
promised to spend 100 marks in the pur-
chase of prayers for his death in cas-
she would take up with him afterward.
Her husband demonstrated and was
hustled. He sued for prospective and
implied damages from the adverse
prayers and direct damages from the
assault. After hearing many witnesses
the court fixed a fine sufficient to carry
costs, and the young man promised not
TO pay for the prayers.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02
Held Up by Highwaymen.

TAnLkauEHA. 4. T., Oct. 2S.-Yester-
day afternoon - Colonel Ross, treasurer
OF the Cherokee nation, was returning
home from town, a mile distant, with a
large amoun of money, three masked
men attacked him. Colonel Ross, after
a desperate struggle, s~uccecdedin break
ing away from his assailants and escap-
ing. He returned to town and q posse
Of 200 volunteers immedialy started in
pursuit OF the robbers, but up to a !ato
hour had not captured them.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02

This is a pen-and-ink sketch of an
American girl as given in an English
comic paper: Baron ron Smallpumps:
Titles. wealth. position-all these I
offer. Why, thon. loveliest of Amelias,
will you not be minep' Miss Wander
tromp: Why, barn. I'm ready TO
marry one-half of ye tcrmorrer. for
them feet Of yourn arc just lovely.
But, as things stand. I've got to take
your hand into the bargain. and I
cayn't bring myself to swaller that
nohow.m
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02

The state of Montana was settled in
1862. 1t did not have a judicial hang
ing until 1874. But Judge Lynch
opened court on Alder Gusch within ff-
teen months after the first settlement.
AT that first term of this popular tribu-
nal there were twenty-seven hangings
in fifty days. Vigilantes inflicted the
death penalty whenever 1t was deemed
necessary for more than ten years.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02
Ke,lermann Kills Himself.

WATERFOWL, Wis, Oct. s5.--Louis
Kellermann, who shot and fatally
wounded his wife yesterday, concealed
himself in the loft OF his mothers barn
after the shooting. Hearing his young
ing the officers had discovered his hid
ing place, he sent q bullet through his
" brain, dying instantly. Mrs. KEEL
hermann is still alive, but very low
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02

Camden prohibitionists the other day
swung from their headquarters a trans
parency on one end Of which is the
legend: Local Option is To Local and
To Optional"
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02

When John Orr got home ip Camden
from a trip TO Wilmington. Del, his
wife asked what had become Of his son
Charles. Then he remembered that
he had forgotten the boy. who was
found some time on Friday night By
philadelphia police.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02

A full grown coyote was helping him
Self TO George Osborne's chickens at
Ochoco, Ore. Last Friday morning his
s-year-old son loaded a shotgun and hid
in the barn about daylight. The coyote
came along o after and was shot dead
by the plucky boy.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02

A Maine man is mad because his lost
trunk is found. He had presented a bill
of S77 for the lost box when a railroad
employee found it in the Bangor depot,
and the box contained q peck of peanuts,
a monkey wrench, and a jack for lifting
wagons-oniy these and nothing more.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02

Edward Rausing, of Lancaster, Pa,
has sued the Western Union Telegraph
company for 5000 loss through an error
of the company in the sending of a tele
gram concerning the sale Of six carloads
of potatoes.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02

The Dictionary of Fossils, issued by
the state Of Pennsylvania, contains
thirty four pages in small print correct
ing statements found on the other 40j
ma uns.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02

DAVENPORT, Ia. Get. s5.-Wm. Bown-
tain. . Chicago, Brs..ngton and Quincy
brakeman, was caught in . frog in the
Rock Island yards yesterday and cut TO
pieces by the cars he was coupling.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02

There is a growing demand in Eng
land for human skin leather.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02

An Aurora, Me-, man, early the other
morning found a fine 4-year-old buck
roaming his yard. He shot the intruder
and found it weighed 2O4 pounds.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02

At the rate OF increase in the past few
years the wool crop of Colorado Will
soon exceed in value the output Of her
silver mines.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02

A Philadelphia school teacher has
been forced to resign her position for
alternating the affections of Mrs, sallle
Smiths husband"
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02

One of the new Partisan ~follies, fresh
from the exposition, is silk socks dyed
in the colors OF the French flag.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02

A i~orty-pound drumfsh caughtat Cape
May o couple Of days since had half a
dozen soft she'll crabs in its stomach.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02

wn TIE fiatka5sttI RtAaFdt Sh H4 rGye city, IN g49Tes
tickets and small change.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02

A crazy negro in the Milwaukee jail
labors under the impression that he is q
telephone.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02

J.. C. SIMPSON, Marques. w. Va, says:
"Halfs Catarrh Cure cured me of q very
bad case OF ca.arrh.'' Druggists sell Il. 75c.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11

The chartering of traction company for
the Southside is in line with the suggestions Of
THE DISPATCH a few weeks ago, that that
was one of the best openings for rapid transit
in either city. The population is large enough
to support such road IN magnificent style, and
there is no doubt that it would be profitable
from the beginning. Rapid transit is doing 8
good work for Pittsburg
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11

Northwest This afterward was changed to
that the Chicago. Burlington and Quincy was
to put in its 80 per cent of the stock and the
other roads were TO supply the capital TO ur-
chase the remainder of enough stock to secure
control. The story had a stimulating enect
upon the speculation, and there was not only
q marked increase in the amount OF
business done. but prices advanced rapidl.,
with Burlington, Atchison, st. Paul and New
England in the lead. Sugar Trust also became
quite a feature. and felt the stimulus OF the
recent decision, moving up "a per cent. New
England was strong on the lease OF the DERBY
Railroad to the Housatonic. Chicago and
Alton, however, began to feel the effects of Its
policy, and sold to-day at lbs, loss of per
cent from its last recorded sale. In the after
noon the market again settled down, and real
izing sagged the list of from the best figures,
but the close was dull and steady, with mate
rial gains for most of the list. The active list
is higher this evening, and st. Paul preferred
Is up 2%. the common ~. Wheeling and Lake
Erie preferred ~, Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy ~, Northwest l1s and others smaller
amounts.
Railroad bonds were dull, the sales reaching
81. 1000. while the only feature of the deal
ings was Texas Pacific, second increase which
furnished Sl37, 900. The market was steady to
firm, but the fluctuations were made within
narrow limits, though there were few marked
changes among the inactive bonds. Chicago,
ST. Paul and Minneapolis rose 81 to lN.
The following table shows the prices of active
stocks on the New York Stock Exchange
Corrected daily for THE DISPATCH by Whit
ney q Stephenson, members of New York
Stock Exchange, 81 Fourth avenue;
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11
By TeleRraph.

NEW wYoRK-Beeves-Receip $500 head, in
cluding 6S carloads for the market, 100 car
loads for expectation and 81 carloads for city
slaughterers direct; the market opened with a
fairly firm feeling, but long before the finish an
easier feeling prevailed, and the market closed
dull and tirmer; poorest to best native steers
sold at IS 50@14 60 per 100 pounds; bulls and dry
cows at 81 25G3 25. Calves-Receipts $500 bead:
barely steady at 81 25@5 so per 100 pounds for
veals S. 5064 90 for mixed lots. and 81 3003 00
for buttermilk calves. lSheep-Rcceipts, 10, GOO
head, and 1000 were carried over yesterday;
sheep ruled frmer and higher: lambs weaker
and lower: sheep sold at So 5035 6213. with a
few selections at S5 75: lambs at S6 00l7 25 with
three carloads up to 81 81. Hogs-Receipts,
1000 head: none offered alive; nominally firmer
at s. 7OG5 10.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, July l0-Cattle, receipts.
240O; shipments. l,300 Market steady; choice
heavy native steers, s. S044 20; fair to good do.
So l593 80: stockers and feeders, fair to good.
s. 20d3 10: rangers. corn fed, 81 1903 so; grass
fed, 81 OOQ2 go Hogs-Receipts. $500; ship
butchers selections, 81 2O@4 40; packing, me.
dium to prime, 81 1904 40; light grades, ordi.
nary to best, 81 4Od4 So Sheep-Receipts,
24O0; shipments, zoo. Market dull, fair to
CHIcAGo-Cattle-Recei Il, 900 head; Ship
ments, 5000 head: market slow; Texans, l0c
higher; beeves, So 4O04 Is; stockers and feeders,
s2 299S 80; cows. bulls and mixed,
satIe e geS 81 % soas 81 Hog. 4O9E osi M
600 head; shipments, $500 head; market slow
and sc lower; mixed. 81 25@4 so; heavy, 81 Is
a 45; light, 81 3OQ4 90; pigs, SO 60@4 As.
Sheep Receipts. 5000 head; Shipments 1000
head; market strong; natives, S. 60G5 10:
IS 0O66 25
BUFFALo-Cattle - Receipts, 160 carloads
through;2 2 loads on sale: demand fair at un-
changed prices Sheep and lambs-Receipts.
IL carloads through; loads on sale: good de-
mand; good to best 81 75@5; fair to good, 81 5O0
%: common, 81 25G4 50; lambs. good to best,
% 5OQ7: fair to good, % 25Q6 so; common, sea
Q 70. Hogs-Receipts, IA loads through; 10
loads on sale; 5@l0c higher on pigs and Workers;
mediums, 81 65; Workers and pigs, 81 S0@4 IS.
CIScINNATI-Hogs easier; common and
light, So 7564 65 packing and butchers, 81 $50
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The President has appointed William B:
Ellis postmaster at Franklin, Ind in place of
p. p. Brown, removed
John Kelly, convicted of the murder of
Eleanor O'Shea, near Geneva, N. Y, November
9, 1888, was hanged at Canandaigua at noon
yesterday.
Robert Redberry, aged Is years, and Willie
Wise, aged II years, were drowned Monday
The father of young Wise met with a similar
fate about week ago.
Yesterdays bond offerings aggregated
s270. 800, follows: Registered As, 500 at 12S;
$50 900 at 12S7z; coupon As; 5000 at l2s regis
SlOO. 900 at 1061S The following were accepted:
Registered AS. sss5ooo at lO67s; registered As,
The north.bound train for Montreal on the
Central Vermont Railroad was ditched by a
washout mile north of Brandon, VT, early
yesterday morning. About a dozen passengers
are injured, but none seriously. The train
hands all escaped; The engine and five cars
AT Basco, a little town south of Carthage
ILL.,. Monday night, Mrs. Henry X. Gronewald,
wife of a German farmer, became suddenly de-
girls in a horrible manner and then beat them
over the head with a log chain. The woman
then threw herself into well, but was rescued
by the neighbors. 1t Is feared the children
will die.
"A dispatch has been received at the Navy
Department from Admiral Gherardi, at Port
au.Prtnce, saying that aua1rs at Hayu are
quiet and that there Is no fighting of moment.
He also reported that there had been no change
in the political situation since his last report
Legitime holds Port-au-Prince and Hippolyte
remains outside of the town. The Ossipee has
now been at Hayti longer than was intended,
and the department will relieve her as soon as
another vessel can be fitted out.
The provisions of the United States stat
utes against the importation Of contract labor
ers are tolerably well understood throughout
Europe by this time, and circulars have been
dispatched by the steamship lines to emigra-
ton agents In the interior, to instruct prospec-
tive passengers as to the answers they must
make to important questions propounded by
the authorities ON their arrival at American
ports. 1t is safe to say that the law will be
cessfuIly evaded henceforth. The lines run
ming to Canadian ports anticipate largely in
creased business in the future, and many who
were refused landing at New York and
Boston have taken this indirect route to the
States. The principal increase to their traffic
will. however, come from assisted emigration,
which IL assuming serious proportions. The
undesirable classes sent away from Ireland and
England by poor law guardians and the socie-
ties formed for that purpose are directed to
Quebec, and thence across the line, thus evad-
ing any inquiry - to their status
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11
PROPERTY CHANGES HANDS.
Hot Weather Fails TO Knock Out the Real
Estate Business.


Estate Business.
Allies & Bailey, 164 Fourth avenue, sold for P.
Gallagher to George W. Acklin, No. SO Marion
street, second house from Locust street, a nice
brick dwelling of six rooms and improvements,
lot 24xl03 feet, for SO, $50 cash.
W. A. Heron & Sons sold lots Nos. Is and l6
in Annie R. Aspinwan plan, Homewood, 29xl50
and l5x150 for 81, $50.
Black & Baird, No. 95 Fourth avenue, sold for
Andrew MCLEAN to Robert N. Barbin, lot on
Ward street, Oakland, in size 25xl65 feet. for
81, 900 cash.
Reed B. Coyle Co., 134 Fourth avenue, sold
to H. T. Grover for A. c. and E. H. Watkins,
lots Nos. AZ and 4S in the Watkins place plan at
Wflmerding. for $500.
c. H Love- No. SO Fourth avenue sold for R.
B. Koerner to Mrs. James Little, fine resi-
dence property on Federal street extension,
near Linden avenue, Second ward, Allegheny,
lot 95x16o feet, with two-story modern frame
house, price $1,000.
Samuel W. Black & Co., 90 Fourth avenue,
sold two lots on the Blair estate, Twenty-third
ward. having front of SO feet on Second ave-
nue. and extending back about 100 feet to a 20
foot alley, for 81 800. This plan of lots is on
the line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
and the Second Avenue Electric Street Railway
now building, and only ten minutes ride from
Smithfeld street; and the price paid for them
is considered very reasonable
w. A. Heron Sons sold to DR.. B. Franklin,
of the Etna Life Insurance Company, a new
frame house on Claybourn avenue, Shadyside,
six rooms and finished attic, with all modern
convenieuces, lot S0xl30 for $4,000
Reed B. Coyle Il Co., l31 Fourth avenue, sold
to Mr. Bond for E. NJ. Laveen, a house and lot
on Sheridan avenue, East End, for 81, 400