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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-06-27
SHORT BITS OF NEWS.

The dock laborers' strike at Swansea,
Wales, is ended, the men having resumed
work at a slight advance in wages.
A Cd1cAGo paper says that the census
supervisor gives the number of people in
Chicago approximately at ], 1850, 600.
The State Paper company, capital S.
600, 0OO, has been incorporated at Spring.
field, Ill. 1t is thought that it is a paper
trust.
IN Crete a number of Christians am
pushed and shot three Turkish soldiers
and a Cretan Mussulman. A body of
Mussulmans in revenge killed q Christian
and threaten further reprisals.
The Junior Order Of United American
mechanics, in session in Chicago, refused
10 join forces with the parent organiza-
ton. Future conventions Of the associa-
ton will be held at Cleveland, o.
NINE. TscHBR1KoyA, whose recent let
ter to the czar protesting against the sys-
tenn of government prevailing in Russia,
led to her arrest, has been removed, to-
gether with fifteen others, to the village of
Yarensk, In the remote northern part Of
Yologda.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-06-27
A Pointer for Western Farmers.

Secretary Blaine has received a telegram
from the chairman Of the national milIers'
convention at Minneapolis, saying the
millers were greatly agitated over the re-
port that an additional duty of 80 cents per
barrel was to be imposed upon American
fonr in Cuba. thus prohibiting the Ameri-
can -four trade, and asking information.
Secretary Blaine replied that he had re-
ceived no official advice, but if correct the
advance would make q duty of $5.31 per
barrel, evidently intended by Spain to be
prohibitory He added: 1T has been
constantly said here for the last six months
that western farmers demanded the uncon.
ditional repeal of the sugar duty. 1t is
within the power of the western farmers,
by encouraging a system of reciprocity, to
secure, in exchange for the repeal Of this
duty, the free admission of their bread
stufs and provisions into the markets of
40, 0OO, 900 people including Cuba. In my
opinion this is the most profitable policy
for the western farmer"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-06-27
THE PINE RIDGE SCARE,
Indians AS Badly Frightened Ovor thu
inc as tho Whites.

Rumors as tho Whites.
During tue latter part of last week set
tiers who reside on the borders of Pine
Ridge reservation became greatly alarmed
relative to m Indian outbreak; and those
who resided nearer to Chadron hurried to
that place with their families, while the
settlers residing east Of that point in Fall
River county, bundled up and came
into Oelrichs. Capt. Mills, who is
in command of troops "A md B Of
the Eighth cavalry, temporarily located
here, at once commenced to investi-
gate the cause of the scare, which proved
utterly groundless. 1t seems that after
the beef issue of last week the Indians re-
paired to Tepee creek, at q a point some
eighteen miles from here, for the purpose
Of INDUCING in a feast, dance aud horse
race. Twelve different Lands we're repro
scented, about 400 lodges in all, and up to
Saturday evening they were having a gen.
eral, all-round good time. That evening
they learned the whites had gained an idea
that the presence Of SO many Indians to-
gether meant an outbreak, and they at
once pulled up and lit out for their several
camps.
Monday American Horse, o Sioux chief,
came iu for the purpose Of having a talk
with Capt. Mills. He said it was their in.
tention to have remained in camp several
days longer, but as soon as they learned OF
the scare among the whites they at once
dispersed. He deeply regretted the idea of
such a rumor of q Threatened outbreak eve,
having been started, and anxiously inquired
as to the father of the canard.
American Horse states that the rumor Az
to couriers having been sent here from the
Northern Choyennes for the purpose of at
tempting to get the Pine Ridge Indians to
leave the reservation is utterly false, as
none of the northern Indians have been
on the Pine Ridge reservation this sum-
mer.
These annual Indian scares are becom.
ing very tiresome, and it is to be hoped
settlers will, in the course of years at least,
learn to place no credence whatever in
such rumors as this portion OF the country
has been treated to during the past few
days. The Indians have no desire to 20
Oh the warpath and could not if thew
did. All they ask is that the government
live up to its agreement with them in the
matter of rations and they will be content
to remain on their respective reservations.
A great deal of stuff that has found it's
way into print relative to the Indians de-
string to escape q food that is to drown al
the white folks ig the veriest rot imagine
| able,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-06-27
BY HAIL.
A Damage of $4,000 Done in the Vicinity

A Damage of $4,000 Done in the vicinity
of st. Charles.
A great 1ailstorm commenced at st.
Charles, Mimi, OF $3.50, and extended
over five miles southeast through the
townships of st. Charles, Saratoga and
Fremont, and varying from one-hslf to,
tHo miles in Width, dong great damage to
oil kinds Of crops, utterly destroying nearly
all the wheat, oats, barley, flax. Corn and
potatoes may perhaps make half a crop.
This storm was Immediately followed by
the heaviest rainfall in ten years, register
ing 2.15 inches in eighteen minutes Many
farms that were already stripped oy hail
were washed of everything movable, in
Guiding fences and bridges. A bank Of
hail on tee farm of James Wise measured
two and one.half feet deep. No accurate
estimate can yet be given of the damage,
but the most conservative put it at $751;
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-06-27
Horrors Of = baby Far,1.

Considerable excitement has been created
uvef what appears to be shameful neglect
st infants at the "baby farm" Of Mrs.
Hamilton, 261 North Mississippi street,
Indianapolis. The makes a bust
ness of taking care of the infants of women
who attempt to conceal the fast that they
are mothers and professes to find homes
for the children left in her care. Last
week one Of these little ones died and SOW
eral Of the neighbors went in to attend
the funeral services 1t is said that
the mother of the dead child came
from Ohio, while its father is a molder Of
Indianapolis and employed at good wages.
During the funeral services some Of the
neiehbors eDtereed the kitchen aud there
found another infant with d raging fever,
while the fire in the kitchen stove was
burning and the room was as hot as an
oven. Mrs. Hamilton was charged with
cruelty to the infants aid An investiga-
tion is on foot and may end in her prosecu-
ton. The baby farm" is a squalld, dirty,
little house of three rooms, and Mrs.
Hamilton is said to have had as many as
four infnnts at q time under her charge.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-06-27
viii Not Please the CIearmakers.

There will be another disappointment
and surprise among cigarmakers when
they learn that at the last moment the
senate committee on finance refused to re-
duce the duty fixed by the Mckinley bill
upon leaf tobacco used for wrappers. The
Mckinley bill liked the duty at So o pound
for unstemmed and $2.75 for stemmed
tobacco. This was done ut the instance of
the growers Of Connecticut tobacco and is
o movement against the use of surnatra
wrappers, which form the outside Of nearly
all our domestic cigars. The senate com
mittee promised to strike out the increase
proposed by the Mckinley bill and leavethe
duty as at present, and the delegates from
the ciearmakers' unions in Key West, New
York and other cities returned to their
homes some weeks ago believing that there
would be no increase in the duty on Suma-
ira wrappers. For some unknown reason
the senate committee at last agreed to let
the duty remain as fixed III the Mckinley
bill, and thusit will become q Law. The
senate committee struck out all Of The re-
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-06-27
soMHwHAr SENSATIONAL.

1s.NG w y M III ENrA
The Minnesota Farmers, AIixuSs tss.ss i
Pronunciamento Denouncing the su-
prone Court.
Thes Official sensation in Minnesota
Is this pronup6iamento issued BY the
State Farmers alliance, Which 40 IL the
field az an independent political factor.
This declaration includes q violent attack
upon the integrity of the supreme court ~
follows: "Very recently a United States
judge invaded q sovereign state, accom-.
panied by an assassin who murdered q citi-
zen Of that state. The supreme court
stepped in and testified this assassip, de-
claring that in such cases the laws OF the
state against murder was Of no avail. The
state Of New York condemned a murderer
to death according to q law enacted
by the Legislature, a Judge Of tho
supreme court Of the United States
reached out his hand and took that crimi-
nal, that murderer, under his protection,
and. dytlating tHat q statS cculd not pun
ish its own murderers except BY PERMITS
sion and the manner prescribed by q fed.
eral court. The state of Minnesotu Gre
ated a tailtoad commission to stand between
people and the roads to prevent tho latter
from e~xacting extortionate rates. These
roads are the creation of the state, yet this
same supreme court has decided that these
creations are greater than their CREATORS,
that d part is greater than the whole, that
a state which made the fSads has no power
to regulate and govern them until
they get permission from the auto
crat tribunal OF the American re-
public. In the. case OF the law
prohibiting the sale Of the dressed beef
which your legislature passed to pfotsct
the public health this same court has
enacted the role of the schoolmaster and
descended to administst a lecture to your
Legislature, charging them with insincerity
and lying in that they justified the Law on
the ground of protecting the public health
when in reality the object of the law was
something. else. The dred Scot decision
rendered the name Of fancy infamous ffof
the reason that it made slavery national
and compelled freemen to become slave
catchcrs. These judges aspire to even q
greater sublirdity of infamy, because
their decisions contemplate the ehslave-
ment of the whole American people,"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-06-27
Tarred a Mormon Elder.

David Breckman, o Mormon elder, who
has been enticing people away from Glas-
cock county, Ca, to Utah, was terribly
whipped near Gibson the other night. A
party of masked men surrounded the house
of a recent convert and called on him to
surrender the elder. The victim was found
crouching in the loft of the house. He
was denuded and whipped. A coat of tar
and feathers was then applied, when he
was ordered to leave the country forever.
He started on his trip at once.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-06-27
Tho Prison Congress.

The International prison congress, nov
in session at St. Petersburg, has adopted
a resolution declaring that in future
treaties between nations the general prin-
cipal of extradition should be recognized
and an agreement arrived at as to the ma
ture of cases to be deemed exceptions
of the rule; that an i~nterna-
tional association should be organized
to assist discharged prisoners and their
families and that sellers of alcohol should
be responsible for crimes resulting from
their serving drunken men, and that the sale
of liquor on credit or to children should be
prohibited. Randall, of Michigan, will ad-
dress the congress on the subject of
Young OFFENDERS"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-06-27
Mt. Shnsta's Penk Gone,

New York Tribune special from Colo
RADIO says that n of the PEAKS of Mt.
Shasta has disappeared. The top appears
to have been cut short off and to lave
fallen into the crater below, the depths of
which have never been penetrated by the
eye Of man. 1t is thought that the alb
sepce of this old landmark may indicate
further demonstrations of q volcanic ma
ture. Fire has long been known to exist
: the crater and the lava formations of the
valleys and ridges below it give rise to the
question, MAY not the commissions Of
ages past be repeated?" An attempt will
be made as soon as possible to explore the
mountain
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-06-27
River and Harbor Bill Increases,

Among the more important increases
made by the senate committee in the river
and harbor bill are the following: MiBsis-
sipi river from head of passes to the mouth
of the Ohio, 1888, 900 ISL, 600, 1000 of
which passed the house by a joint resolu-
ton, and was therefore stricken from the
house bill and restored by the senate COM
mittee, not having been taken in on the
house joint resolution). Missouri river,
$3.50. 900.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-06-27
Heavy Storms in the south

Severe electric storms, accompanied BY
much rain and heavy winds, prevailed Thurs
day in northeastern Kansas and western
Missouri. At Atchison the rainfall was
especially heavy. The water forced itself
into the water mains, several of which
bursted and flooded cellars all along Com
mercial street.
At st. Joseph, Mo-, the rain fell in tor
rents and flooded the streets and bursted
several sewers. Joseph Q. Combs, while
attempting to keep an inlet closed, was
overcome by the force of the water and
carried into the sewer.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-06-27
Emit Of a Family Quarrel.

win j. Hammer, q young dentist of
Gfeensburg, was shot by his wife, to
whom he had been married only fifteen
months. For some time the young couple
had not been living happily together, and
they engaged in a violent quarrel, which
ended in Mrs. Hammers returning to her
fathers house and urging him to return
with her aud effect an amicable settlement.
Mr.. Sell and his daughter found DR.: Ham
mel in his Office and i'll q short time the
quarrel was renewed. DR.. Hammer struck
the old gentleman and Mrs. Hammer,
thinking her father was in danger, fred
twice at her husband, missing both times.
She then ran out and summoned assist
auce and on her returning to the house
fred a third shot, which pierced her hus-
bands right lung. The wound is con-
sidered fatal. Mrs. Hammer has not been
arrested. All parties to the tragedy are
wealthy and G%reenburg is greatly excited
in consequence of the affair.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-06-27
The Gas Trusts Money.

The trustees of the Chicngo Gas Trust
in New York city and Philadelphia have
signed Oh order directing the Philadelphia
Trust company to pay all money to Re-
ceiver Davis. He will distribute it among
the stock holders as soon as checks are
made out.
The directors of the Chicago, Rock Is-
land and Pacific railroad company have
declared the usual quarterly dividend Of l
mar cenf-
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-06-27
Will Mako q "Packare'' of Him.

The Kansas Chautauqua assembly has
been in session at Ottawa, Kan, for the
past two or three days. No sooner had it
got in good running order than q Kansas
City liquor dealer opened an original pack
age saloon. This incensed tho temperance
people of Ottawa to such a degree that
they met and formed a defense league. A
fund OF $4,000 was subscribed to pay the
leagues expenses and a resolution was
passed providing that o committee should
capture the original package dealer, tar
md feather him and ship him back to Mis-
souri, labelled IAN original package from
Kansas for Missouri"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-06-27
Quarreled When Before the Altar,

A quarrel over the education of pros
pective children broke up q wedding at st.
Michaels church at St. Louis. The in
tended groom was not a Catholic. As the
priest went to put on the vestments the
groom and bride got into q discussion. He
said that he would not consent to give the
bride the control of the religious training
OF the children. She then refused to allow
the ceremony to proceed.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-06-27
Western Pork Packing.

This weeks Cincinnati Price Current
says: Packing operations in the west have
been only moderately reduced the past
week in the aggregate, and show q slightly
larger number of hogs in comparison with
the corresponding period last year, the
weeks total being BIC, 1000, against 800, 600
o year ago, making an aggregate of $780,
600 since March /, against 1850, 600 last
year. The leading places compare as fol-
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-06-27
Another Protest Against White,

Word has reached Rapid City that
Thomas H. White. whose commission as
deputy United States mineral surveyor was
revoked on petition Of the people of the
Hills, hos received an appointment to COL
lect mineral statistics in this district in
connection with the census. Aprotest will
be made to the authorities appointing him.
White has done much through the London
Financial News to retard investment of
capital in Black Hills tin. Copies Of the
old petition for the revocation of lis
commission, containing names Of many of
the best people of the Hills, will be for
warded with the protest.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-06-27
DAKOTA NEWS AND NOTES
Arc. Of tn. Bl.es nm. I'm Bolt.

The Black Hills tin belt somewhat re-
sembles a semi-circle in shape, with Har.
ney peak in the center, and includes an
area Of about thirty miles in length and
five miles in width. Tin bearing lodges
are found throughout this belt which are
generally continuous, we'll defined fissurs
veins of mica shiss. the country rock being
a silicious slate. The ore occurs in the
form Of cassiterite crystals, from a Moro
ucopic size to those that weigh 100 pounds.
These crystals are sometimes found near
one wall and sometimes disseminated
through the ledge matter. The lodges vary
from q few inches to ten feet or more in
width.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-06-27
Predictions Of Indian Prophets.

1t has rained OF Brltton, S. D., more or
less every day for . week. The ground is
thoroughly saturated. Indians in the
Sisseton reservation have, during the past
year, stoutly maintained that 1889 was the
last of seven dry years, and that 1890
would usher in a series Of wet years, and
that the numerous coolies and lake beds
aboundlng in this section, which have
been gradually dryingout for several years,
would this year fill up. Through the OK.
tremely dry spring their predictions were
recalled with incredulous smiles, but the
steady, heavy rains Of the past month now
give color to their assertions, and the be-
lief is Becoming prevalent that plenty Of
moisture will be found in this country in
the future. All grain 10 growing in o mar
yelous manner
A CROW bar-P4tting q muzzle q :
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-06-27
Mobbers Get worsted,

During the progress of an election at
Kalocza, Hungary, a mob made an attack
upon the voting station but was repulsed
by the gendarmes. Three of the attacking
party were killed and eight others
wounded.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-06-27
The La Blanche-Mitchen Fight on

The fight between La Blanche and
young Mitchell, which was to have occurred
last Friday, has been declared off. The
cause most generally assigned is the re-
cent declaration of the chief of police that
he would arreet the principals and seconds.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-06-27
Will Remove the Export DUTY.

Congress having amended the tariff bill
reducing the duty on lumber to 81, per
1000 feet, board MEASURE, the dominion
government will now remove the export
duty on saw logs rs soon as the United
States tariff bill becomes q law.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-06-27
COlliery on Fire,

The inside workings of the Pennsylvania
colliery, the largest in the Mount Carmel
region, was discovered on fire. A large
force of men is fighting the flames with
homes of succ esa.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-06-27
Carpenters Quit Work.

About 600 union carpenters il Worces-
ter, Mass, have quit work on their de-
mand for shorter hours and no reduction
of wages being refused.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-06-27

ductions Of internal tau upon tobacco,
which were very light, in the Mckinley
bill, embracing al, they did only the special
stamp features: Retailers and others are
to ply present licenses andtaxes under the
kanata hill.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-06-27
COURSE,
How the Faculty Propose to Shorten 1t
Materially.

How the Faculty Propose to Shorten 1t
Materially.
The question Of shortening the course Of
Harvard college will be brought up for
discussion at the next meeting Of over.
seers. In q general way the proposition
has been made public, but in such garbled
form as not clearly to state the methods of
shortening the course, which the faculty
sets forth as follows:
That the number Of courses required for tho
degree Of bachelor OF arts be 16. That when a.
student enters college there shall DO placed to
his credit toward satisfying the requirement of
16 courses, first. any advanced studies on which
he has passed. N his admission examination
beyond the number required for admission, and
second, the other coll y st dies that be hes
anticipated. That q ttldy may bs recon-
naelded for th degree 10 tho middle as we'll az
at tn end of tho academic V. ar.
III case tie measures proposed should be
adorttd, it is the purpose of the faculty to
encourage thu antic patton of college
stu lea by students at the time of their ad-
mission, IN | to facilitate tho attainment of
degr,c Of bachelor OF arts in less than four
Yeas. The faculty further proposes to nd
vic parents and teachers that l8 years is a
suitable age for entering H award college
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-06-27
Indian Massacre I'm TEXAS

A cowboy has arrived at Separ, q station
on the Southern Pacific road, 100 miles
wet of Ell Paso, with report of an Indian
mass cle. The cowboy says that he and
ton other men who we're encamped on q
70 :ch ten miles north Of separ, were set
upon on Monday night, by q band Of
twenty-five Indians. The Indians fred
into the camp. and the cowboy who brings
tbs information says he saw three 81 his
companions shot dead, and he thinks that
all except himself vera killed. He man
aged to eluds the Indians, and made his
way tn Separ. Bands of armed men have
left Demiog and Lordsburg in search Of
the mgyderQgs sayages.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-06-27

a CROW bas-Pgting . muzzle On )
rooster.