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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-16
BIOUSES
JERSEYS-

New styles of Shocked and Braided Jerseys and Jers
for Ladies' Misses and Children prices that fail
, 1889-05-30

Courtesy of Hyo. Archives & H
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-30
Centennial Celehrafinn.

hundred years ago today the Federal
constitution was ratified by North Caro-
lima and the event is being observed
with appropriate ceremonies. The town
is gaily decorated with flags and bunt-
ing and thousands of strangers are
crowding the streets. The formal cere-
monies, consisting of speeches, the read
ing of a n d specially written for the
occasion and patriotic music, are in pro-
grass enato ansom Ia the orator of
the occasion. Hon. Jefferson Davis had
been announced as one of the leading
speakers of the day but his illness pre-
vented his attendance and a reference
to him in n of the speeches was
greeted with sympathetic cheers.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-30
Exempt From Garnishment.

ST.. LOUIS, Nov. 21.-John III. Roberts
and others purchased claims against
several employees of the Wabash Western
railway, and began attachment suits in
Illinois courts, although the parties
against whom the claims were held re-
sided in Missouri. The law of Missouri
exempts a married mans wages from
execution. A Judgment was obtained
against one Jack Sparrow in a Justices
court in Chicago and Sparrow's wages
were garnished in st. Louis. The rail-
way company applied for an injunction
restraining the garnishment, and Judge
Fisher granted it
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-30
The Cronin Trial.

CHICAGO, Nov. 2l.-Just before court
opened this morning in the Cronin case
Judge Mcconnell called Judge Long
checker, Mr.. Forrest and Mills to the
bench and informed them that he had
received a letter from a man who
claimed to have seen Dan Couglin at the
Chicago Avenue station about9 o'clock
the night of May 4. The man will be
:alled as q witness.
Pat Oman was the first witness. He
swore that the white horse now on ex-
hibition in a museum was his own and
only white horse.
Louis Budender, a young man from
Hoboken, \. j., testified he had seen
the horse on exhibition at the museum,
and it is not the one that was driven
TO Conklin's residence. He was
standing in a cigar store on the evening
Of May 4. opposite DR.. Cronin's Office,
and he noticed the horse particularly.
1t was gray, not white. Witness had
seen the horse since; saw it on the
street day before yesterday.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-30
A Procuress Arrested.

NEBRASKA CRY, Neb., Nov. co.
Mrs. Mccoy, the woman accused Of
being concerned in the disappearance of
two Of Frank Runyan's minor daugh-
tiers, returned to the city last evening
from Lincolna and assumed greatindigna~
ton at the report Of her connection with
tas case and threatened dire vengeance
against the newspapers and Runyan.
The latter she would kill. She sings o
different song today, as she has been ar
rested OF the charge of being q procur-
ess and bound over until Thursday for
trial. She then confessed that the girls
were at Lincoln under assumed names,
but that they went of their own accord.
She also promised to make some inter-
esting disclosures ii the case against her
is pushed. Mrs. Mccoy Is said TO be
the wife Of a respectable Burlington and
Missouri employee.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-30
Commission Amounted.

WAsHINGTos, Nov. 21.-The secretary
of the interior has appointed Elephalet
Whittlesey, C. A. Maxwell and ID. w.
Diggs a commission to negotiate with
the Sisseton and Wahpeton Indians in
Dakota for the sale of their surplus
lands. This is entirely a new commits
sion, all the former appointees being
dropped. The instructions will be issued
in a few days. 1t is expected that the
eastern members Of the commission will
leave for the west on Saturday. The
commission will not be given any in
~structxon to negotiate for tho $500, 600
claim OF the Sissetons against the gov
eminent.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-30
A Desperate Attempt 10 Escape.

JACKSON, Mich, Nov. 20.-A ire
mendous dynamite explosion occurred
in a window ledge of the state peni-
Tertiary here at $50 o'clock last even
ing, SCATTERING the three-feet walls and
creating a panic. The aperture made
was not large enough to admit of ready
escape, and promptness by the officials
saved a break of the convicts. Three
convicts, among whom was Irving Lati-
mer, the matricide, were found sneak
ing in cells, the doors Of which were un-
locked, and one of them threw a re-
vQivcr from his coll as tho guard. .p-i
preached. They were locked up in the
solitary cells and a double force of
guards put on. There was great excite
ment among the officials when the ex-
plosion occurred, the report being heard
a mile away.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-30
Suing for a Poker Debt.

ST. LOUIS, Nov. Clone evening last
June Colonel Joe Hickey, a prominent
Missourian we'll known in Washington,
Colonel John 6. Prather, member of the
national democratic committee. and
John S. Elliott, a bank president and
wealthy contractor of Cooper County,
sat down to a poker game in a room in
the Planters house. 1t was a big game
and 1t did not terminate for twenty-four
hours. Colonel Elliott was lucky on
the start and won heavily. Later he
struck a hoodoo and dropped all his win
nings, all his ready cash, and borrowed
81, 100 from Colonel Prather and dropped
that, too. A month later Colonel Pra-
ther assigned the debt to Colonel Hickey
for value received. Colonel Hickey
made a demand upon Colonel Elliott for
payment, but Elliott smiled and said he
didn't owe anything and never prom
ised to pay the debt. Thereupon Colonel
Hickey sued him in the circuit court of
Cooper county and the matter has not
yet been passed upon.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-30
The Jury Failed to Agree.

MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 2O.-Last night
the jury in the Collom forgery trial were
called into court after being out seventy
n hours and reported that they had
been unable to agree and were dis
charged. 1t was feared that the ballot
ing had been eight for acqittal and four
for conviction from the start to the
finish. The couit ldered Collom to APP
pear today, when it will be decided
what disposition will be made Of the
case. 1t leaked out yesterday that al
offer had been made to deliver the vote
Of n Of the jurors. The offer came in
a letter to John Il. Blaisdell. The pros
ecuting attorney admitted that he was
cognizant Of the letter, but refused to
say anything in explanation.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-30
A Convention of the Anti Triangle
Element Opens at Phila-
delphia.
1t Is Predicted That a Reorganiza-
tion of the Clan-na-Gael
Will Take Place.
The Result Is the Outcome OF the
Prominent Part the Executive
Board Has Taken in the
Cronin Affair.
The Uan-na-Gael Reorganized.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 21.-An entire
reorganization Of the Clan-na-Gael will
be the outcome of the convention of the
anti-triangle element of the order that
opened here last evening and the ses-
sions of which were resumed this MORN
ing. 1t is claimed that the delegates
present represent nearly fve-sixths of
the organization. The executive board,
which has figured so prominently in the
troubles growing out of the murder of
DIR. Cronin, is to be dissolved forever
and in the governing body of the future
Luke Dillon, Edward O'Meagher Con-
Ion, the ex-political prisoner; Mortimer
Scanlon, OF Chicago and James Herman,
Of New York, will be the leading and
controlling spirits. The investigation
of the methods and action of the tri-
angle, which was begun by DIR. Cronin
will be continued by a special COM
mittee. A convention of the triangle
element is to be held in Chicago next
month, and the split will be then COM
Dlctc.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-30

One day when the late Chief Justice
Shepley was sitting on the supreme
bench Of Maine, says the Lewiston
Journal, a question of law came up in a
case in which a pompous member of the
bar acted as counsel. The Judge re-
marked that he should rule upon it such
and such a way. But" said the attor-
ney in a manner calculated t. impress
the court, Il should like to arguet that
question before it is decided" II shall
rule so and So" was the judges reply.
well" said Mr.. Pompous, drawing
himself up, 'if that is the case / shall
submit" with much emphasis on the /.
''The court expects you to submit, SIR"
replied the chief justice sternly, and
went on with the business as if the
pompous lawyer did o exist.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-30

News of a singularly barberous duel
recently fought in Taos county, New
Mexico, has reached Albuquerque. An
Indian settler named Waukonsee and a
Mexican cattleman, Juan Verego, were
the principals. The conditions were
that each should submit his hand to his
opponent and have a finger cut Off. the
cutting to be done alternately, and the
man who first evinced signs of pain was
TO be stabbed to the heart. The Indian
won the toss and took off the Mexican's
f~orefinger. There was no squeal, and
the Mexican took off the Indians thumb.
Then the Mexican lost another finger
and the flow of blood was so great that
the MeXican's seconds cut short the pro-
ceedingsby shooting the Indian dead and
covering his seconds.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-30

A little bird flew into Z. r. Hull g.
Co.'S store, at Akron, o., one day last
week, and after fitting about the room
some time perched on a chandelier di.
rectly over the head of David James,
who has charge Of the children's de.
partment. 1t was remarked at the time
that should the bird alight upon the.
head of Mr.. James he would O hear
of the death of a friend. No sooner
were the words said than the strange
little visitor descended directly upon
the head of the salesman and then
darted out into the street and was gone.
In a short time Mr.. James received
word that his little son was dying
and fastening home found the message
TO be true. This incident actually oc-
Cured, and those who witnessed it were
greatly astonished at the notification OF
an old sign. 1t was a strange coinci.
dence.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-30
Charged With Boycotting.

PITTsBURG. Nov. Elk. Representa-
tive John II. Byrne, of the Knights Of
Labor was arrested at Scottdale, last
night on acharge OF conspiracy preferred
by ex-Representative Callaghan. The
information also includes General
Master Workman Powderly and Peter
Wise. a local labor leader. Powderly
will be arrested on his return from
Atlanta, and Wise when found. The
suit grew out of letters Powderly pub
lished in the Journal Of United Labor
last year. Callaghan also alleges that
he was ~boycotted and injured in his
business by the Knights of Labor through
the ~inffaence Of Byrne, Powderly and
Wise.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-30
Iowa Delegates.

Dies MONIES, Nov. 2l.-The governor
has appointed the following delegates
to represent the state at the national
silver convention to be held at st.
Louis, Mo-, November &c, 1889: Addi-
son Oliver, Monona county; David
Secor, W~innebago; John d. Hunter,
Hamilton; VIM. Harper, Des Moines;
w. c. Evans, Muscatine; s.. j. Loughran,
Polk, +. III. Thayer, Clinton; John
Beresheim, Pottawattamie, William
Meyers, Cass; +. j. Gault, Appanoose;
j. j. Richardson, Scott; Lore Afford,
Blackhawk; William IRE. Linn: X. NJ.
Haines, Poweshiek; Joseph Dysart,
Tama; Eugene Crisis, Sac; b. Il. Richards,
Dubuque, and 5. NJ. Leach, Dallas.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-30

the loss to California by forest fires
this year is estimated at S25, 900, 600 in
value of the timber destroyed, while the
decreasing of the mountains works
great harm to the agricultural interests.
The responsibility for these terrible
conflagrations is placed upon the sheep
herders. The states official foresters
and the m-ountaineers, who live in the
high forests, affirm it. The herders
drive their sheep upon land that does
not belong to them. They eat feed
that is not paid for, and requite the SER
vice by burning down the forests
through which they pass and in which
they pasture their stock. The press of
the state is naturally making a loud de-.
mand that this wanton destruction of
property shall be stopped.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-30
Pierre Workmen While Digging a
Cellar Discover Seven
Human Bodies.
Four Of the Remains Identified
as Soldiers and the
Others Indians.
they Were Probably Frozen 60 Death
i'm the Great Blizzard OF jan
uary ~, 1888, and
Found and Buried.
Victims or the Great Blizzard.

PIERRE, s. d., Nov. 20.-Yesterday
while digging a cellar for a house about
q mile north of the town Of Fort Pierre,
and a mile and a half from Pierre, the
workmen made q terrible and CHASTITY
find in the shape Of seven human bodies.
They were in a bad state Of putriica-
ton and four Of them are presumably
those OF soldiers and the remaining
three Indians. Upon finding the bodies
the authorities were at once notified n
the coroner and a number of citizens
Immediately repaired to the Gene. On
four of the bodies were found remnants
Of United States uniforms, with
guns, pistols, etc. A sword was
also found, showing that one OF the
party was undoubtedly a commissioned
officer. Owing TO the decayed condition
Of the bodies it is impossible to identify
them. The coroner states that they
must have been placed there fully six
months ago. On one of them was found
a pocketbook, and in it a letter in which
was with difficulty d~eciphered the name
of Lawrence w. Chandler. The mill
tary authorities at Fort Bennett have
been notified, and it is expected that
they will be able to identify some OF the
bodies. One time last spring a band of
Sioux Indians came through Pierre, and
in conversation with p. =. Robbie, an
Indian interpreter, told him that they
had buried a number of bodies that they
had found up the river and wanted
some of the citizens of Pierre to give
them some remuneration for the same,
but at that time the story was tn ought
to be a fake on the part of the Indians.
The theory is now offered that the per-
sons were probably frozen in the terri
BILE storm of January IL, 1883, and were
afterwards found and buried by this
band OF Indians, presumably some time
in the spring.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-30
Mike Mcdonald Divorced.

CHICAGO, Nov. 21.-A default was en-
tered in Judge Jamieson's court today
in the divorce suit of Michael c. Melon
aid, the millionaire ex-gambler, against
his wife. Mary c.. on the charge Of ih-
proper relations with Father Moysant.
The default was taken by McDonald's
lawyers promptly at the expiration of
the forty days allowed by law since the
filing of the bill in which Mrs. McDon-
aid could file an answer She entered
no answer in the case, and the prompt
advantage taken of this fact by Melon
aid practically refutes the published
stories that the affair has been compro-
missed. Mrs. Mcdonald, it was alleged,
eloped with Father Moysant to Paris.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-30
POLITICS IN IOWA
as to Who win Re Speaker
of the Next House.

Speculations as to Who Will BE Speaker
of the Next House. Z
DIES MONIES, Ia, Nov. 20-There is
considerable speculation going on re-
garding the ~speakership of the next
house of representatives. As each party
has fifty members, the contest will prob
ably result in a compromise, and each
party feels that to win, II must put for
ward its strongest man. The democrats
are talking Of N. b. Holbrook, of lows
county, and Irving b. Richman, Of Mus
catine. Mr.. Holhrook has the advan-
tage of having served two terms in the
house. Mr.. Richman, though quite q
young man, is a great favorite with the
democracy. His speech before the dem
ocratic state convention, as he took the
chair as temporary presiding officer,
won hin a lasting place In the hearts Of
Iowa democrats. The selection of either
Of these gentlemen would insure a good
presiding officer. The prohibition wing
OF the republican party seems to favor
Representative Dobson for speaker.
Captain Head, who was speaker Of the
Twenty-first general assembly, is a can
didate again. Mcfarland, of Emmett,
is also in the field, but 10 is believed
here that ex-Lieutenant-Governo Wal
den, of ~Appanoose, has the lead in the
race. Captain Head was in Des Moines
today sounding the high missionaries
OF the party as to his
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-30
Doctor Peters Heard From.

BERLIN, Nov. 21.-The Emin Pasha
committee has received a cable
dispatch from Zanzibar stating that let
tiers from DIR. Peters, bearing date OF
October 5, have reached Samoa, East
Africa. According &c the letters, the
expedition under command of DR.. Peters
was then at Korkorra and everything
way proceeding satisfactorily. 1t is
argued by the committee that the re-
ceipt of these letters shows that the re-
port of the massacre of DR.. Peters and
the members of the expedition by
natives was untrue.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-30
HARRIET BEEcHER STOWE
Hopelessly Insane and Beyond An Aid Of
Physicians.

Hopelessly Insane and Beyond All Aid OF
Physicians.
HAGTFoRD, Conn, Nov. 2o.-The
friends of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe,
the famous authoress of "Uncle Toms
Cabin" have at length been compelled
to admit that she has finally become in
sane and her end is a matter of but .
short time. She has been now in this
CONDITION. for several months, pus
though thousands saw her daily few
really knew her real condition.
Strange TO say, while her mind
becomes weaker her physical condition
steadily improves, and now, attended
by a nurse who never leaves her for
a moment, she wanders around spend
ing most of her time in pleasant weather
out in the open air in the park. Her
malady is inoffensive save that she ID
constantly haunted by shadows Of her
dead friends, and is constantly whisper
ing TO these visions. believing them
real, which CHASTITY conduct is anything
but pleasant to her attendants. When
not thus engaged she is singing some
old hymn popular fifty years ago, Rock
Of Ages" being her favorite. Her ply
sicians say she is beyond all aid and
will gradually lose all her faculties, dy-
ing, most probably, some time while
asleep.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-30
Object to Removal.

MILWAUKEE,, Nov. 20.--The question
of the proposed removal Of the general
Offices Of the Chicago. Milwaukee and
st. Paul road from this city to Chicago
Is being considered at o conference this
afternoon between President Roswell
Miller and the committee Of the associ-
alton for the advancement of Milwau-
kee. Strong opposition has been raised
to the removal of the Offices, and IL is
thought that tho company can be In
duced 10 allow some Of the departments
at least 10 remain in this city.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-30

GRANT, Neb., Nov. 20.-A Mrs. p. J..
Hill, widow lady Of smooth address
and manner, homesteaded land near
Oxford and subsequently took another
claim near Grant. She laid the Oxford
land of in town lots as an addition to
Oxford, although 1t was rather remote.
from the town proper. She put them
on the market at $40 each and induced
several young girls In this neighborhood
to invest, Miss May SALES and Miss.
Dollle Jones being among the victims.
1t turns out non that the lots are
absolutely worthless. as town property,
and the victims Of the humbug are in
dignant.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-30
Chicago I'm the Dark.

CHICAGO, Nov. 21.-It was as dark i'll
Chicago at 10 o'clock today as it usually
is at 10 o'clock at night. A heavy fog
had settled oyer the city and lights
were burning in every ofice build.
ing, factory and residence. A
signal service man said: Eyes,
this darkness il peculiar. extremely sd1
but / can only say that it is caused ~
the murky weather" An earthquake
may follow, but Chicago people need not
he afraid. At 1 o'clock 1t was consider.
ably lighter.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-30
The western Fair Circuit.

CHICAGO, Nov. 20.-fThe western cir.
cult of state fairs met here last night.
Ex-Governor Furnas, of Nebraska, pre-.
sided. Dates were fixed As follows
Iowa, first Monday in September, 1890;
Nebraska and Minnesota, second Mon
day; Wisconsin and Kansas, third Mon
day; Illinois, fourth Monday. and Mis-.
souri,, last Monday in October. Repre-
sentatives from Illinois urged strongly
that trotting by heats be abandoned and
dashes substituted. Illinois may adopt
the change at the next stata fair to as
certain whether 1t will be an improve
ment IN races of the past. Robert
Furnas, Of Nebraska, was chosen presi-
dent and r. @. Lewis, OF Chicago, secre-
tary. Chicago was Endorsed for the
worlds fair.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-30
Sacrificed His Life for Another.

VALPARAISO, Ind, Nov. 2l.-John
Sharp, a well digger, sacrificed his life
here last evening while ~heroically at
tempting to W. the life Of another.
Murray J. Beach, q farmer, was having
an old we'll cleaned and descended to
the bottom. He was overcome by damp
and Sharp quickly descended to rescue
him, Having fastened the rope around
Beach's body he gave the signal to hoist
and held on to the rope himself. When
half way up he was himself overcome by
the damp and fell to the bottom-break-
ing his neck.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-30
PAPER MANUFACTURERS MEET.
A Combination to BE Formed to Advance
Prices.

A Combination to he Formed to Advance
Prices.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Nov. 21.-A ma
tional conference of paper makers
opened at the Mascot house this morn
ing, the proceedings being conducted
with closed doors. The object OF the
gathering, which originated with the
manufacturers in the east, is to restrict
the production, and while the eastern
members OF the trade are fairly salts
fed with the present outlook, they are
at the same time ready to join with any
combination that will tend toward the
depletion of the supply on the market,
and a consequent advance in prices. 1t
is probable that an agreement will be
arrived at to run the mills on half time,
although a number of delegates favor a
suspension of operations outright for a
period of two months.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-30
Fire in a Telegraph once.

New YORK, Nov. 2l.-Fire in the
eleventh story Of the Western Union
building early this morning caused q
loss of $4,000 to the building and con-
tents. The fire started among q lot Of
old messages stored in the tower and
the fremen experienced much difficulty
in reaching the flames, owing TO the
great height at which the fire was 10
Gated.