Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-10-18
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Phnster, jr., won the SIX furlong dash at
Morris Park yesterday, In l;17x.
At the Latonia Park races, Col. Whsatly
won the Ave ~furlong run in l:04I.
Tirberculosis 10 still prevalent among
cattle In Gofstown and Bedford, N. II.
William H.. Huston. OF Iowa, has been
appointed q clerk in the pension Office.
Miss Ida j. Miller, Of Iowa, has been
appointed q clerk In the postofice depart
ment.
Emperor williams grand dream is to
have Germany united and Europe paci-
fed.n
Alice Atkinson, of Nebraska, has been
appointed stenogrnpber In the pension
office.
murdered at Leavenworth, Kan, By her
husband.
The Russian government will immedi-
ately begin the construction OF the Sibe-
rian railway.
The population OF the state of New Yor
IL 5,9s1, 934, an Increase Of 500, 063, or 1879
per cent.
Hon. Isaac Stone, formerly United
States minister to japan, died at DeLsnd,
Fla, esterdny.
The sixth annual meeting Of the Woman's
synod of Iowa began its session yesterday
at Independence, Ia
Frank Slavin and Joe McAulife have
been committed In London for trial for en-
gagipg in n prize fight.
Chicago's percentage OF the western
lumber tonnage has decreased 40 per cent.
In the last eight years..
The Good Templars of tho Humboldt
district ]. o. q. T., held o convention at
Emmetsburg, Ia, this week.
The Judge ordered twenty-one China
men who were illegally in the United
States returned to Victoria, b. G..
Al explosion occurred yesterday In the
pyrotechnic school at Bourges, France.
Ten were killed and many wounded.
Rev. A. Bailey Hill, pastor of the Epis-
copal church Of Pierre for the past three
years, has accepted a Deadwood charge.
Comte de Paris and party visited the
battle fields on horseback, OF Mechanics
Vile, Gaines Mills, Cold Harbor and Seven
Pines.
Madam Bonnet, Of Nancy, France, in
whose possession was found the plans OF
the defenses Of Nancy, has been convicted
and fined and imprisoned.
Harry Sheiiedy, a young railroader OF
Des Moines, was dangerously stabbed by
an unknown person last night and 10 now
living in a critical condition.
Steve Jacobs, the notorious negro des-
perado, was executed yesterday at Lum-
berton, n. c., for the murder Of three
women near there several months ago.
The American Board Of Commissions for
foreign mission, now In session at Minnea-
make Il more democratic and representa-
tive.
BY the accidental explosion of giant
powder at Humboldt mine, Colorado, Mike
Miles, Hugh Morgan and Harry Atkinson
were killed and another man seriously in
jured.
A circular has been issued by the Eng
lish government denying the report that
fever prevails to an alarming extent
among the g~renadier guards stationed Mt
Bermuda.
Captain Peter Foster, the oldest mem
Der Of the Grand Army, died at Mt. Pleas
ant. He was 90 years of age and fought in
the war Of 1912, the Mexican war and the
civil war.
James Clark, engineer on the Kansas
City railroad, was killed at Pacific june
ton. Several cars jumped the track and
Clark was thrown beneath one and in
stantly killed.
at Independence with Guy (2;121S) and
Clingstone (2:l4), to be put In shspe for
tie fall meeting, when Guy starts to beat
the worlds record.
Il. G. O'Connor, at a session OF the Cath
Ollie Young Mems Nation Union, at Wash
ington, he scored the public who say the
American Catholics are not 10y al to the
national government.
]. c. Forsythe, secretary and treasurer
of the Normandale lumber company, and
one Of the best known men in Georgia, was
shot and killed by an unknown assassin
while sitting in his parlor.
The national board Of steam navigation
at its session today passed q resolution
giving local inspectors discretionary power
to license captains and pilots. This will
apply to the whole country.
The grand chapter Of Iowa Royal Arch
Masons concluded its work at Cedar
Rapids yesterday, and adjourned. The
next place of meeting IL Boone, the time to
be the fourth week In October, 1891.
More than 500 silk mill strikers and
their friends took part In q riotous demon
stration at Catasqua, Pa, Friday. They
threw black mud at their recent superin-
tendent.
The annual report of Commissions Of
the General Land Once Croft shows that
the number of agricultural patents issued
during the fiscal year ended June 80, 1890,
was 1l7,247, embracing $3.50, $40 aerar.
Treasurer Peake, Of Kansas City, whom
Mayor Holmes discharged from Office last
summer, charging him with the embezsle-
ment of e22, 900 Of city funds, was indicted
yesterday by the grand jury.
George T. Rawson, a nephew Of the
millionaire banker, Stephen w. Rawson,
will bring suit against his uncle for $bJO,
00o, to recover money held by him in set
Element of his fathers estate,
The acting Indian Commissioners issued q
modification Of the circular of March Q,
In regard to the removal Of stock from
Oklahoma and the Indian territory, sx.
tending the time to November ].
In the Msnominse iron range, near Re.
public, Mimi, Alexander Bsrtlesen, q
squatter, aud his SON were found dead,
riddled with bullets John Nsllis, who a..
serted e claim to Bartlesen's land and had
threatened his life, has disappeared.
1t 10 reported nc Lis bon that the Portu.
guese gunboats have formed . line across
the Zambes river In east Africa 20 ba,
the passage of the British stern-wheel
gunboats II they attempt to ascend the
river.
A conference between the subcommittee
Of the Chicago and Northwestern railway
engineers and fremsn and President
Hughitt came to q close shortly after roos
yesterday. The men were given what thsy
asked for.
The st. Louis east-bound rate war In,
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