Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-05-31
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.
Victoria has q cold.

n Chlnese elegrRp line Is opened.
Three wife murderers will swing in
Memphis June "a.
Recent heavy rains will do wonders
for Kansas crops.
Several persons were killed in a labor
riot at Ravenna, Italy.
Norfolk, Neb., has granted a franchise
to a gas light company.
Union carpenters warn their brethren
to stay away from Chicago.
The village Of Milford, Ut, was al.
most entirely destroyed by fire.
The Mexican campaign against the
Yaqui Indians has been successful.
All window glass manufactures will
shut down June IA for the summer.
The Logan silk mills at Auburn, N.
Y, have been closed on attachments.
+. j. Lehman, the well-known Chicago
business man, has been declared insane.
Sioux City now stands at the head Of
the Western association OF base ball
clubs.
A tramp was literally ground to pieces
while trying to board a train at OF
tumwa.
Oscar husky was fatally hurt by a
blast in the lngle coal mine at Evans
vile, Ind.
Frank Slavin declines to meet Joe
McAuliffe, as the latter has been whip
ped by Jackson.
Two Michigan young men recently
won a wager by each eating Ave pounds
of honey at a sitting.
There has been organized in Atlanta,
Ca, the first negro land company in the
world, capital $40, 900.
Lou Bulling was sentenced to death
at st. Joseph, Mo-, for the murder Of
his wife two years ago.
The executive committee OF the re-
publican national convention will meet
at Washington May 20.
The shortage Of City Treasurer Peake,
of Kansas City, has increased to s21, oo6.
His bondsmen will settle.
The house judiciary committee re-
ports in favor OF a woman suffrage
amendment to the constitution.
jeremiah Clay, q well-to-do farmer of
Willow. 10 Davies county, Ill,
committed suicide with q pistol.
The large freight depot OF the New
York Central at Albany, n. Y, burned.
Loss sl75,000; insurance, 500, 900.
Warm rains throughout the north
west have done inestimable good and
were worth millions to the farmers.
The grand jury at Chamberlain, S. D..
will indict all violators Of the prohib-
itory law, gamblers and prostitutes.
Mrs. VIM. Reinking, wife Of a farmer
living seven miles from Storm Lake,
was struck by lightning and instantly
killed.
Mayor Campbell, of Des Moines, is
making war on Joint keepers" Orig
inal package houses will not be dis
turbed.
Tie appointment of John /. Nesbitt
as register OF the land Office at North
Platte, Neb., has been confirmed by the
senate.
Farmers in the vicinity OF Indepen-
dence, Ia, will have to replant much OF
their corn on account Of continued cool
weather.
Miss Dell Day, daughter OF one of the
most prominent citizens of DAYTON.
Wash, eloped with a horse jockey and
was married,
The engine house, boiler house and
blacksmith shop of the Christy mine,
four miles from Des Moines, we're de-
'troyed by fire.
Colonel Jack Mccall, Of Lexington,
Neb., a prominent candidate for gov
ernor of his state, is in Washington
fixing his fences.
An excursion of Washington and Bal
timore business men visit Lincoln and
and are entertained by her board OF
trade and her citizens.
The Old Settlers association, of Hum
boldt county. Iowa, will erect an old
fashioned log house in which to hold
their annual meetings.
General Manager Kenyon, OF the Bur
lington, says the rate war can be stopped
by an agreement between roads TO di-
vide the traffic ~equitably.
T~hirty-fve acres of land have been
purchased Q a Little Rock, where a
home for INDECENT and disabled confed-
crate veterans will be erected.
Two trains on the Pittsburg and Lake
Erie collided near Pittsburg, Pa. The
engineer, Thomas Rogers, was killed,
and W tralnmen badly injured.
Freeport, ILL.,, Catholics have decided
to replace their present church, which
was built in the fifties, with a new
edifice and a parochial residence.
+. w. Miller, who was found dead in
q Philadelphia park two weeks ago, is
said TO have been short in his cou
to the firm Of c. 7. Triumph a. Son.
Mason City, which has had an unenyi-
able reputation for the enforcement OF
the Iowa prohibitory law, now has two
original package houses in operation.
Harmon j. Kneeland, q weil-known
lawyer and politician of Birmingham.
N. Y, attempted suicide by cutting his
throat with a razor He will recover.
George w. Hyatt, a leading Fort
Dodge democrat, has been appointed
deputy oil inspector of that district 10
succeed j. b. Swinburne, OF Humboldt.
Joseph Doan, of Yardley, Pa, has
been convicted OF selling liquor to In
! boys OF the Carlisle school,. lie
was fined $1,000 and given six months
in Jail.
Gus Forsman was killed by an cleo
trio train at Omaha while attempting to
alight while the train was In motion.
The conductor and motorman were ar
rested.
The fioater found in the lake at Chi
cago hes been identified as Captain John
*. Harding, q mail agent of Freeport.
Ill. 1t 10 thought he was murdered for
his money.
At the municipal elections through
out Virginia the democrats were sue
c~essful In Alexandria, Norfolk, RI. an
mond, Danville, Lynchburg and Peters
burg. Republicans elected mayor at
Roanoke.
The genuine divorce suit of Mrs.
Mary A. Flack against Sheriff Flack
was tried before the supreme court at
New York. The fact Of the marriage
was proved, also Flack's adultery. De-
cision was reserved.