Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-09
WEEKLY NEWS SUM MARY.

an increase of "a. 257 since 1880.
Pittsburg, Pa, has four Deaconess
homes, and Buffalo has opened one.
The ~postofice at Newport, r. l., has
been robbed of 81, 900 worth Of stamps.
The indications are that the wheat
crop of the northwest will be an average
one.
The North Dakota republican conven'
ton nominated Captain Burke for gov
ernor and Roger Allen for lieutenant
governor.
The democrats OF the Second district
OF Georgia have renominated Henry c.
Turner for congress.
The main part Of the Morey & Bros.
foundry at Hastings, Neb., was burned.
Loss, $40, 600.
o. III. Gilmore, OF Illinois, has been
appointed a member OF the board OF
pension appeals.
Lewis I. Baxter, OF Nashville, Tenn,
was nominated for governor by the state
republican convention.
The Turkish summer resort at Pendik
has been totally destroyed by fire. Sew
eral persons were burned to death.
The remains of Rev. Robt. Laird Coll
yer, whose death occurred at Salisbury,
Nd, were taken to Davenport, Ia, for
burial.
The Michigan prohibitionists put
grange and labor men on their state
ticket to catch the votes OF those organ
izations.
The Belgian senate has ratified the
bill providing for the granting of a loan
of 5000, 600 francs by Belgium to the
Congo state.
The Second district republicans in
the convention held at Hastings, Neb.,
nominated n. V. Hardin, Of York
county, for congress.
The cholera is diminishing in Va
lencia, Spain, but there are still from
ten to fifteen new cases daily, about
half Of which prove fatal.
The two men who robbed the train
between Arabia and Valentine, Neb.,
were captured neal the latter place and
lodged in Jail.
AT Summit, Pa, Miss Jennie Hart
man was bitten by a pet dog ten days
ago and shot herself dead. Fear of
hydrophobia had unsettled hcr mind.
Four hundred of the Armenians who
took part in the riotous demonstrations
against the patriarch in tho Armenian
cathedral in Constantinople have been
arrested.
Gov. Hovey, OF Indiana, has written
a letter to Col. +. Il. Lee, OF Monticello,
ILL.,, declining to be a candidate for
commander-in-chief OF the Grand Army
of the Republic.
In the republican state convention
held at Grand Forks, n. d., July 80, NJ.
n. johnson was nominated after a hard
fight to succeed ii. G.. H~ansbrough in
the mex congress.
The big warehouse on the Brooklyn
water front, New York, known as Wat
sons store, and leased by Messrs. Bart
lett & Green, was badly damaged by
fire. Loss 500, 900.
lie Grando Scafford, a lumber con-
tractor for a firm in Pennsylvania, has
been arrested at his home in Utica, n.
Y, charged with cmbezzling Sc, 00O
given him TO pay employees.
Ernest Woefel, one of the trustees OF
the Harmony society, died at Economy,
u ds lOlh Nit tHtCbS vi du tltClTlC
shock received while examining a tell
tale" or watchman's dial.
The Omaha Republican, which has
been running a daily edition since 1863,
has suspended publication. The secured
and unsecured claims mount to over
$40, 900; assets less than Sl5, 1000.
VIM. j. Bryan, of Lincoln, was nom.
mated for congress by the democrats of
the First Nebraska district. G. ii. Van
Wyck was nominated for congress by
the independents OF :hesame district.
Texas fever has made its appearance
among the cows near the city limits. in
a portion Of the Twenty-eighth ward,
Chicago, and about twenty OF them
have died from the effects of the dis.
ease.
A Lake Shore freight train was at
tackled by tramps near South Bend,
Ind. Brakeman Charles Miller was
killed, but not until he had slain his
assailant. The name of tho latter is
unknown.
Mrs. Charles Il. York and her mother,
Mrs. julia McClelland, living at Ben.
gis, Md, were murderously assaulted
with an AK by James II. Meeks while
they were asleep. They were badly in.
tired, but will o
Edward Hake. a young man Of q
years and married, who has been en-
ployed as clerk and collector in his
fathers commission house at st. Louis
for years, has left the city and with
him disappeared $4,000 from the safe.
After taking $40 ballots without max,
ing q nomination the republican con
tention of the Tenth Ohio co ngressionaI
district adjourned sine die. The last
ballot stood: Wallace, G7; Doan, 50;
Burst, AZ; Lyle, go.
Postmaster Yancott, of New York,
has been advised by the postal authori
ties at Washington that Tolstoi's
"Kreutezer Sonata" has been excluded
from the mails, but he refuses TO make
public the departments letter o n the
subject.
Gas has been struck at Kingston,
Ont. and the flow is now estimated al
90, 600, 600 cubic feet a day. The roar 1.
de afening, and when the vein was
struck the drills were thrown hi oh In
the air, and for ten minutes rocks and
dirt came out.
The Salzach river in Austria has
o%veriowed its banks and inundated the
surrounding country. The railway sta.
ton at Bischofshofen is flooded. MANY
persons along the line of the river have
been drowned and their houses de.
stroyed.
The United States Despatch has lef,
the Brooklyn navy yard with Secretary
of the Navy Tracey on board bound
upon IN eastern cruise. The secretary
vas accompanied by his daughter, Mrs,
Wilmerding. and his granddaughter
Miss Alice Wilmerding.
At Uniontown, Pa, twenty three Dun
bar widows have entered suit against
the Dunbar Furnace company for dam
ages for the death of their husbands il
the Hill Farm mine.
All through New Mexico, Arizons
and some parts of Colorado, and also II
Old Mexico, no rain has fallen fol
months, and thousands of range cattle
are lying dead In tho parchcd valleys
and thousands more are dying for wan
Of grass and water.
The Maryland prohibitionists held
their state convention al Baltimore and
made the following congressional nom
nations: First district, G. w. Coying'
ton; Second district, Edward Higgins
Third district, w. j. Gluck; Sixth dis
trict, Mr.. Moulton, of Montgomery.
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