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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-23
The WOndman Meet

Dies MONIES, Ia, Aug. IL. Despite
the injunction issued by Judge Tuthill,
of Chicago, and which, 1t is claimed,
failed because of the inability to secure
service on the proper officers, the Head
Camp of the Modern Woodmen of Amer
lea opened here today. Fifteen hun
dred delegates are here from the eleven
states represented in the order, which
include Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Wis
%consin, Nebraska, Minnesota, Kansas,
Dakota and Colorado. A formal well
como was extended at the capitol by
Governor Boies. The order was founded
by j. c. Root, at Lyons, Ia, in 1883. 1t
has increased rapidly in membership,
has paid out oyer 81, 900, 900 for the
death of deceased members, and has 1875
camps with a total membership Of
nearly so, 200 in the northwest. For
some time past, however, there has
been strife in the order owing to the
opposition Of DR.. =. l.. McKinnie to
Head Consul Root and his methods.
Suits have been brought in Illinois on
account of alleged c%riminalities in the
head management and the order has
been rent from n end to the other by
disputes and ~antagonisms. 1t is
thought, however, that the result Of the
convention now in session will be the
complete reorganization Of the society
and a renewed activity in its work.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-23
KILLED A FARMER
A Horrible Murder Committed
Near Arlington, Neb.
N. IL. Townc Is Instantly Killed and
His Daughter Fatally Wounded
The Assassin Lynched.

ARLINGTON, Neb., Aug. 10.--N. IL.
Towne, a wealthy farmer whose house
is six miles from this town, was draw,
ing water at the we'll about 6 o'clock
yesterday morning, assisted by his
daughter Miss Hattie, who is q school
teacher. Mrs. Towne and the other
children were in the house. On the
platform beside the pump stood a small
reservoir used in storing the cans OF
cream. While Mr.. Towne was STOPPING
over arranging the milk cans lis daugh-
ter stood beside him assisting him.
While thus employed a man whom the
daughter did not recognize, but who
looked like a tramp, came through the
gate leading INTO the yard and APP
preached within q few feet of the well
and addressing Hattie, said: SIS this
Mr.. Towne?'
Before she could reply Mr.. Towne, on
hearing his name spoken, turned toward
the party, who Immediately fired upon
him with terrible effect, the ball enter
ing the region of tho heart, infiicting a
fatal wound. Miss Towne screamed
anu SVdILcu W run JONdTu INC nOust,
when the murderer turned his wearon
on her and shot her in the back. infiict.
ing a serious and perhaps a fatal wound.
Seeing that an alarm would be given
the family and doubtless f~earingfthat
the hired nan would attack him, tho
tramp did not follow Hattie, but ran.
A farm laborer at Mr.. Towne's Kept
him in sight until a team could be
hitched up to a light wagon, when sew
eral Of the neighbors joined in the pur-
suit. They followed the flying murderer
and overlook and captured him two
miles away from the scene Of the
tragedy. He was recognized as a former
employc OF Mr.. Towne, who had worked
on the farm for q time up to two years
ago. Tho prisoner was put into the
wagon and taken TO the county Jail at
Blair.
The prisoner was later identified as
Charles Pratt. When he was discharged
four years ago by Farmer Towne it was
because he was making love TO Hattie,
who was then a girl of Is. Whether or
not she cared for him does not appear.
Pratt has not been seen since until he
marched upon the premises and de-
liberately killed the father of his for
mer sweetheart and sought TO kill her.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-23
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS.
The Weekly Crop bulletin.

The weekly weather-crop bulletin,
issued by the United States signal Office
for the week ending August s, says:
The weather during the week has
been dry ana some days very warm,
with high winds. All late crops have
suffered from the protracted drought
and hot weather. Local showers have
occurred liz some sections, but in nearly
all cases where sufficient to relieve the
drought were attended by destructive
hail. Hailstorms are reported from
Grant, McCook and Minnehaha coun-
ties. Rain is needed in both states,
and in a few localities reports indicate
that it would now be Of little benefit to
any crop except grass. Stacking of
small grain is in progress in South Da-
kota and harvesting in North Dakota.
For this week the weather has been
favorable.
Sergeant Glenn also adds: I'm view
OF the numerous requests received at
this Office for estimates on the wheat
and oats yield in the several counties,
the sergeant IN charge is considering
the advisability of issuing, late in the
season, a bulletin devoted TO this spe-
cial feature, and to that end respect
fully asks that correspondents please
post themselves as far as practicable on
the average yield of these crops over
their entire county, as we'll as in their
immediate vicinity. Should the special
bulletin be issued 1t is desired to make
it as complete and reliable as possible"
The special bulletin will be Of great
service and will be looked for with in
tprest.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-23
In the Interest of Science.

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. l6.-The meet
ing of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science which opens in
this city on Tuesday next will be the
fifth anniversary of the society's forma-
ton. The sessions of all tho sections,
the officers of the permanent society and
of the local committees, will be held in
the state house. This gathering of the
entire affair under one roof and the
commodious rooms which will be pro-
vided are unusual and will assist in
making the meeting one OF the most
important ever held. During the ses-
sions of the association lunch will be
furnished in the state house, so that
the delegates will not be compelled to
go out of the building during the hours
of the greatest heat. On Monday next
the society for the Promotion of Agri-
cultural Science will hold its eleventh
annual convention, and on the follow
ing day, concurrent with that OF the
Americal Association for the Advance
ment of Science, the American Geologi-
cal society will hold its annual conven-
ton.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-23
The Mine still Burning.

ScoTDALE, Pa, Aug. 16.-Firc still
RACES in the Hill Farm mine, where the
~fire-damp explosion occurred a short
time ago and killed ~thirty-onc men.
The mine was opened Wednesday for
the first time in five weeks and the fire
damp was sc dense as to make an en-.
trance impossible. Two large fans have
been erected, which will be kept in con
slant operation until the fire is extin.
guished. 1t is estimated that the fire
has already done 800, 600 worth Of dam,
ann
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-23

| Ioru,p. Of the United States army, TO ac-
| cept a position in the worlds Columbian
exposition. The resolution was opposed
by Messfs. Rogers, Farquhaf, Henderson,,
of Iowa, and Dunncll. The house refused,
by n vote of % to "a, to order the resolu-
tloa TO n third reading.
The speaker laid before the house the
senate bill for the relief of at Mckay aud
the executors Of Donald Mckay, who seek
compensation for work done uron the
monitors.
Mr.. Springer made n point Of order that
the bill must be considered In commit
tee of the whole.
The speaker overruled the point of order
and Springer appealed.
On sustaining the decision Of the chair,
the vote stood yeas, hSI nays, 2l--no
quorum.
A call of the house disclosed n bare
quorum, which disappeared when the vote
recurred on sustaining the decision Of tho
speaker.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-THE FIRST busl-
ness In order this morning was the vote on
sustaining the decision of the chair over
ruling the point of order made by Mr..
Springer (saying hat the Mckay relief
bill must be considered in committee of
the whole). The decision was sustained.
Mr.. Struble, of Iowa, asked unanimous
consent for the consideration of the Joint
resolution for the aid Of destitute persons
In Oklahoma, but objection was made.
The house then resumed consideration
of the Nat Mckay bill.
The senate concurrent resolution re-
questing the president 10 convey TO the
widow of General Ulysses ). Grant the
desire Of congress that the remains OF
General Grant be removed TO and inferred
in the Arlington National cemetery was
reported favorably TO the house.
IL was soon found that no quorum was
present and the house ad burned.
W%AsHINGToN, Aug. l5.--Senate bill
granting leaves of absence 10 per diem
employees in the customs service failed
to pass, and the house proceeded to the
consideration of the conference report on
the Indian appropriation bill, which was
finally agreed to.
The Nat Mckay bill then came up, the
question being on its reference to the com
mittee on claims. This was rejected, and
n vote was taken on the passage Of tho
bill, which showed nj quorum voting.
Mr.. Cannon, by unanimous consent,
called up the senate joint resolution pro-
viding that the unexpended balance of the
appropriation for the aid of the Missis-
tute persons in Oklahoma. After the adop
ton OF an amendment providing that the
money be disbursed under the direction of
the secretary OF war tho joint resoiut' on
was passed.
At the evening session 1876 private pen.
sion bills were passed.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-23
Ex.President Cleveland.

MARION, Mass, August l6.-Ex-Pres-
ident Cleveland has lost over twenty
pounds of flesh since his s~oiourn here,
and the gray suit which he is the most
partial to in the daytime has begun to
flap about his limbs in the wind. He is
taking life decidedly easy, his favorite
recreation being to go down by the
waves and sit down on a lobster pot and
talk by the hour to the fishermen. Joe
Jefferson frequently m across from
his summer home and the ex-president
and Rip Van Wrinkle have many a chat
together. Cleveland says he prefers
this place to almost any other resort be-
cause he is unhampered by ceremony
and not bothered with interruptions.
He can go to bed when he likes, get up
when he likes, go fishing or anything
else without his every movement being
regarded.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-23
sWITcHMEN STRIKE.
They GUT Work on All Vanderbilt Line
West of Chicago,


BUfFAto. N. Y, Aug. lG--A bnlletir
posted in tho merchants exchange
states that the switchmen on all the
Vanderbilt lines west OF Chicago have
gone on a strike.
Tho strike on the New York Central
railroad vas further complicated this
morning. AT . o'clock tho switchmen
in tho Central yards struck and those
on the West Shore system in this city
followed suit. There arc upwards OF
200 men In tho movement, and q freight
blockade is imminent. The closing OF
the West Shore road for freight cripples
the New York Central's facilities for
forwarding freight.
The cause of tho strike is said to be
that Superintendent Burrows ordered
all union men from the Erie street yard
to take tho places Of tho strikers. The
Nor protested and asked tho superin-
tendent to employ new men as they
were unwilling TO tako the places OF
union strikers.
This the superintendent refused and
tho switchmen on the West Shore
struck. The strike Of the West Shore
men is greeted with great JOY by the
old strikers.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-23

There are forty-six o. p. houses in Siou,
Falls.
The Baptists of Arlington are building G
parsonage.
Miner county farmers cut wheat by
moonlight.
Potter county has an Indebtedness OF
SEQ, S7t.25.
The assessed valuation of Brown county
is s., 1864, ga.
is s., 09O,3I
There is talk of building q wheat palace
at WATERFOWL.
A rostofice has been established al
Nowlin, Nowliu county.
Miner county's assessed valuation is
sl,27i, 944. Exemptions, Sl06, 800.
The South Dakota agricultural college
at Brookings has an enrolment Of 32l.
Helen Cougar says the equal suffrage
amendment will carry in South Dakota.
The wheat crop of MCPHERSON county
will vary from five to thirty bushels pei
acre.
The Times says Springfield is next on
the list for a Portland cement manufac-
tory.
Preparations are being made to open
and operate the Yankton pork packing
house.
Sherman has pe9itioned for a post Office.
IL is proposed to name the new Office Owe
coma.
There Is talk of turning the bottling
works plant at Yankton into q canning
factory.
Sportsmen In various parts of the state
are forming associations for the protec-
tion of game.
Captain Talbot is having two extra
barges made at Bismarck to transport
grain to Sioux City.
The streams of the Black Hills are to he
stocked with trout from the United States
hatchery at Leadville, Col.
Isaac Frantsvag, aged 22, of Sioux Falls,
died of blood poisoning resulting from run
ming a rusty nail In his foot.
From present indications McCook county
Will this season produce the largest grain
crop known in It's history.
There are between 200, coo and 800, 00O
acres of land open for settlement In South
n Sdot u VIC 1AibSOuIl ItNGT.
A farmer near Sioux Falls owns q
clock 1870 years old that keeps as good
time as the trst day 1t went into business.
The wise farmers Of Charles Mix county
shun the deadly rays of the sun and drive
the porkers to market by the light o. the
moon.
Alta Is the name of a new postofice es-
tablished on the Burlington, Cedar Rapids
and Northern railway at Palmer station,
C~odington county.
Hughes county's valuation, outside OF
Pierre, is S47, 092, 900. The county has l..
$40 horses, ash cattle, IA mules and asses,
1918 sheep and 1874 hogs.
The live stock census Of Sully county
makes a very creditable showing. There
are owned in the county Al, 740 horses, 4, lOC
cattle, lis mules and asses, 1850 sheep and
S12 hogs.
The premium list Of the fifth annual fair
Of Clay county is now out. The purse for
sports ia quite liberal. Prizes Of SO for
base ball and S25 for college foot ball are
offered.
Farmers In tho vicinity Of Lakota are
engaging extensively in sheep raising.
Seven thousand road arrived last week
from Montana and more will follow In a
short time.
Cattle for tho Indians will hereafter bs
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-23
Blew Tn the Saloon,

DEADwooD, S., d., Aug. 12.-Barker
& Foley opened up a saloon at Heck
ert's camp on the E!khorn extension
near the tunnel yesterday. BY zoe a
number of the graders were very drunk.
Some person placed some giant powder
at the rear of the shanty and touched
off the fuse. Barker was blown out
into the creek, but was not seriously in
iured. The boards we're scattered to
the four winds ard the hobos stole all
the liquor.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-23
The JOYS of

We may mention the digger" which
deposited its eggs under the ~toenails Of
the most active men, but which at
tackled the body of a ''goeegoee'' and
made him a mass of living corruption,
writes Stanley in Darkest Africa; the
little beetle that dived underneath tho
skin and pricked one as with o needle;
the mellipona bee, that troubled the
eyes and made one almost frantic some
days; the small and large ticks that in
%sidiously sucked ones small store Of
blood; the wasps, which stung one into
a raging fever If some careless idiot
touched the tree or shouted near their
haunts; the wild honey-bee, which one
day scattered two canoe crews and pun
ished them so we had to send q detach-
ment of men TO rescue them; the tiger
slug, that dropped from the branches
and left his poisonous fur in the pores of
the body until one raved from the pain;
the red ants that invaded the camp by
night and disturbed our sleep, and at
tackled the caravan half q score of
times on the march, and made the men
run faster han II pursued by SO many
pigmies; the black ants, which infested
the trumpet tree and dropped on US
when passing underneath and gave us
all a foretaste OF the inferno; the small
ants that invaded every particle of food.
which required great care lest we might
swallow half o dozen inadvertently and
have the stomach membranes perforated
or blistered-small as they we're, they
were the most troublesome, for in
every tunnel made through the bush
thousands of them housed themselves
upon US, and so bit and stung us that /
have seen the pioneers covered with
biisters as from notifies, and. OF course,
there were our old friends the
mosquitoes in numbers In the greater
clearings.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-23
A FEARFUL WRECK.
A Passenger Train Rushes Into n Freight
With Terrible Results.


BATTLE CREEK, Mich, Aug. 16.--As
the east bound north shore limited on
the Michigan Central road was passing
Augusta, q small town nine miles west
of here, at 5 o'clock yesterday after
noon, 1T ran into a standing freight
train while going at full speed, and
crashed through the depot, completely
demolishing it. The engine then ex-
ploded, blowing the fireman literally
to pieces and killing the engineer,
Charles McRobcrts.
One brakeman is missing and it Is
thought he is buried in the debris.
Many occupantsof the forward coaches
were seriously injured and others more
or less hurt. Physicians we're sum-
moned from this city.
The limited did not stop at Augusta,
having right of way, and was running
about fifty miles an hour.
The freight was waiting on q siding
for the express to pass. The switch
for some hnaccountable reason was left
wrong and the express came into the
freight at full speed. Eight cars we're
tossed into tho air and the engine
plowed through the debris md crashed
into the depot.
Engineer Charles McRoberts was
blown twenty feet into Tho air and his
mangled remains were picked up some
distance off.
OF the passengers only nine were in
jured seriously.
Their names could not be obtained at
this writing except that Of George Il.
Murray, of Drtroit, ribs crushed and in
ternally injured.
Both the engineer and fireman lived
in Jackson, Mich.
or the express train the baggage car
and two sleepers were demolished and
how the occupants escaped is a miracle.
A little boy named Clarence Cassidy,
who was playing neal the depot, was
struck by a piece OF from from the en-
CINE and badly injured.
The railroad officials have little to
say on the subject and made every effort
to belittle the accident. 1t was at first
supposed hat seventeen were killed,
but the latest reports confirm tho facts
as given above.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-23
Cut Worms Get I'm Their Work,

FoRr DODGE, Ia, Aug. 16.-Farmcrs
in the south part Of the county, in the
vicinity Of Lehigh and Homer, are
greatly troubled over the ravages of a
new species of cut worm that is laying
the corn low in that section. 1t has
always been thought that corn was out
Of danger from any such source after it
had reached its present growth, and it
would appear that some new and more
vigorous pest is now attacking 1t. Near
Lehigh patches of two Or three acres
have been leyeled to the ground in
single places. The stalk is sawed clear
in twain below the ground and falls
Hat. AS yet the worm has confined its
operation to that vicinity, and 1t is de.
voutly hoped that its work will not be.
come general.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-23
Severe Storm at Ranid CITY.

A terrific storm of rain, accompanied
by thunder and lightning, visited Rapid
City Sunday evening. The storm
broke over the city about 5 o'clock, and
in twenty minutes the streets were con-
verted into rivers. Cellars and base
ments were flooded, entailing much
damage. The chief losers are the
Gate City Mining company, Rapid
River Mining company and the electric
light company. Their losses will ag-
gregate So, 600. Rapid river rose rap
idly, and fifty head of COWS and several
horses were drowned. The hail did
much damage to orchards and corn
fields. Southeast Of town two washouts
occurred on the Elkhorn line, between
Rapid City and Hermosa, twenty miles
south. One up train arrived today. The
section house at Spring creek, ten miles
south, was struck by lightning and
burned. Sanford Clark, of the Eta
mine, was struck and instantly killed
two miles southeast Of town. Clark was
30 years old, and leaves a wife and three
small children.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-23
TRAFFIC IN HUMAN FLESH.
Horrors OF the Slave Trade In south

Horrors OF the Slave Trade in Southern
Seas.
LONDON, Aug. l~6.-lIorrible accounts
are received of the slave labor traffic by
British planters in tho south seas. The
Presbyterian mission synod in the new
Hebrides has passed a resolution to the
effect that Tho Kanaka labor traffic
had to a large extent depopulated the
New llebrides and adjoining islands,
upset family relations among the ma
tives, and has been and is the cause of
much sorrow, suffering and bloodshed.'
A missionary named Patton reports that
he had himself seen white men in thoii
boats taking Kanakas to q labor vessel.
as tho slave ships arc called-forci-
bly, lifting them on board, and when
they tried to swim ashore they were
knocked down again and again, until
they lay stupefied on deck, and were
thus carried out TO sea. Those thought
likely to escape are fastened with
chains on board. A chief was shot dead
by the crew Of one of these vessels
while attempting to protect his daugb.
ter, and n native Christian teacher was
also shot dead. This slave trade is car
ried on under the protection Of the
British flag for tho benefit of planters
in Queensland and the Fiji Islands.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-23
Cluster Chronicle.
JOSEPH KUBLER, = PUBLISHER.

The common pleas court for Mercer
county, Ohio, has an enthusiastic fisher
man for one of its judges. At the May
term there were ~extravagant stories
ahoat about an unusual run of catfish
in the mouth OF the Coldwater ditch,
and so thoroughly had these stories
enthused the court that on a certain
day at 10 o'clock m. the Judge said:
''Mr. Sheriff, adjourn this court until
9 o'clock tomorrow morning while the
court goes ~a-iishing.' Thereupon the
Judge and four others started in a farm
er's team for the locality named, where
they found such an immense number Of
catfish that a barrel was quickly filled
with them, the Judge leaping into the
stream with a basket and catching them
by the score in that way.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-23
Chickens Getting Ripe.

The prairie chicken hunting season
will open in South Dakota on the 18Th
inst. For the benefit of sportsmen il
may be we'll to know that it is unlawful
to kill chickens or grouse between Jan
uary l and August Is, or to Kill wild
ducks, snipe, geese, brant, ployer oil
curlew between May IS and September
!. 1t is unlawful to kill quail at any
time before February 3, 1898. Chicken
shooting has been carried on during the
past two weeks, the hunters reporting
an unusually large number vi birds this
fall
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-23
Harrington viii Get the Cold Shout.
der.

New YORK, Aug. 16.-Anti-triangle
Irishmen in this city and Philadelphia
are not at all pleased with the an
nouncement that Timothy Harrington.
the secretary OF the Irish National
league, will accompany John Dillon and
VIM. OBrien' on their forthcoming trip
to tho United States. Harrington Is
closely identified with the triangle or
anti-Cronin element of the Clan-na-Gael
and National league, and Is suspected
OF having done considerable to break
the force Of feeling created across tho
water by the atrocious murders OF the
Chicago physician. Communications
have been sent to Parnell urging that
II three delegates are considered neccs-
sary some n else be substituted for
Harrington, and II this suggestion is
not complied with ii is promised that
Harrington will get a decidedly cool re-
ception from the rank and fle OF the
loyal element Of the leagpers.