The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-09-04
GENERAL NOTES.

IL is reported That fD,UUU negroes are TO
~colonize in California with the assistance
of Senator Stanford.
George Wieman, a farmer Of st. Clai1
county, Illinois, was held up by three
masked men and robbed of $3.50.
The little son of James Morris of Burl-
ington poured carbolic acid in his baby
brothers. ear. The little one died.
Princess Zeka, the ~favorite daughter OF
the sultan, is ill with a probably fatal dis.
ease. The sultan is inconsolable.
The treaty defining the boundary be-
tween Mexico and Guatemala has been ex-
tended for two years by a convention just
negotiated.
The police of Vienna nave arrested a man
and his wife on the charge OF numbering
and robbing in succession q number of
servant girls.
The American Steel Barge company of
West Superior, Wis, is preparing plans
for floating grain-carrying "whalebacks'
on the Mississippi.
The tenth annual reunion of the Iowa
Union ex-Prisoners of Wal association
will convene at the state fair grounds in
Des Moines, Sept. l and 2.
The Glenion company of Boston. en-
gagged in the lumber trade, failed. Their
official statement last March was: Debts
S2lO,S43, nominal assets s43l, $50.
James H. Belens Of Indiana has received
s., LOCO from the Lake Shore railroad com
pany in liquidation Of claims for injuries
sustained in the R%avenna disaster.
American enterprise has constructed
water works for the city of T~egucigalpa,
Honduras, and other cities are soon to be
supplied by the same contractors.
Seven horses nave been killed in cars in
Cass county, Illinois. within a week, be
cause of CHAMBERS. Precautions to prevent
the diseases spread are being taken.
The Standard Plate Glass works at But
Ter, Pa, passed into the hands of a receiver
as the result Of an anlicable arrangement
to save the plant from sale by creditors.
William Armstrong, who it is sid was
the oldest living Odd Fellow. died at Sa'
lem, Ore, aged SO years. He was initiated
into the order at Buffalo, N. Y, in 1924.
The Atlantic Trust company of New
York fled a bill at Chattanooga, Tenn,
for the foreclosure of a mortgage of $685. t
against the South Tredgar Iron company.
The engagement is announced of DR.
Paul Thorndyke, formerly of Milwaukee,
but now OF Boston, to Miss Rachael Sher
ittA NS'' "a LIN ALtt 'St-Si
man.
Tho inquest over the victims of the
Grand Rapids and Indiana railway wrecl
was finished at Portland, Ind, and re
suited in the exoneration Of the railway
employees.
The Pacific Athletic club Of San Fran
cisco, has offered a purse Of $3.50 for
finish fight between Bob FitZsimmons ant
Tal pr;+aLarl tha LnrIiSh ,,iISJoN-aiyh
? champion.
, Bishop Golfer Of Winona, Mimi, has re
ceived a cablegram from Cardinal Ram
polla at Rome conveying Pope Leo's bless
ing to the Catholic Total Abstinenc
union of America.
1t is now believed the total liabilities O
VIM. L. Schmertz Of Pittsbprg will reacl
100000. The cause of the failure was al
tributed to a heavy decline in Charter
Valley gas stock.
Ezra Chapman, q wool goods manufact
: urer at Northboro, Mass, las been at
tached by Boston parties. He has beef
running the mill and storing the produc;
in New York all season.
Commander-in-Chie Palmer has an
nounced the appointment of Colonel Fred
: erick PEisterer, the present assistant ad
yuldIS SCISidl VI tHC Stltc, DIS tIJlIttL
general of the G.. A. r.
I The family Of Charles Misener of Mon
mouth, Ills, after a breakfast of fresj
beef were taken violently i'll with all TIL
, symptoms of the prevailing cattle disease
Mrs. Misener is still in a critical cond!
ton.
The National Association of Journey
men Stonecutters in session at Cleveland
, adopted a resolution protesting agains
the competition of convict labor with FREE
> labor. The convention will meet mex
! year in Denver.
l 1t is said that Acting Secretary of Wa
L.. A. Grant has approved Major Genera
j., Schofield's recommendation that Genera
Miles shall command such regular troop
i and national guards as may take part ii
the dedicatory exercises Of the world
fair.
The suit against the late controller O
: California to test the constitut ionality Q
u law appropriating $500, 900 for the Cal
II fornia exhibit at the worlds fair was al
:. gued before the state superior court. TIL
q attorney general thinks the law constitu
tional.
John Tregoning, alias Smith, and jaime
u Berry, convicted of the murder of Georg
n B. Henderson, manager of the Clay an
S Forrest Cattle company, in October last
were sentenced at Cheyenne, Wyo. TIT
coming will be imprisoned for life an
y Berry for twenty years.
= Edward A. Wilkins has been appointe
h receiver for the National Capital Saving
Building and Loan Association of Mort
. America, which failed at Chicago. A nun
Der of people in Los Angeles were victim
lied by this concern, The loss in Cal
fornia will reach 5000.
u The first suit in the new United State
g court of appeals at San Francisco wa
d filed. 1t is an appeal of the United State
e district attorney at San Diego from the d
IS cision releasing the schooner Robert an
O Minnie, which was libelled for transfer
4 ing munitions Of war to the Chilia
steamer Itata.
Two hundred molders in the stove foul
: dries of Thomas White and Comstocb
n Castle & Co., at Quincy, Ills, who hav
!e been on a strike for full pay for casting
D. spoiled by defective iron, have returned
g work, the proprietors agreeing to pay fC
sr castings which led to the dispute. III
employees, however, say they do not yiel
the principle, and another strike is pr
! bable.
- The second Ecumenical conference wi
assemble IN Gne metropolitan ldetnoui
IS Episcopal church at Washington, Oct.
s, and remain in session two weeks. II
Dr. first conference was held in Londo
G. England, in 1851. The October conferenc
is which. will represent the 45,0G0,000 Meth
.. dists throughout the world, will be 9
tended by 500 delegates. Three hundr'
will represent America.
1e The papers report that Philadelph
IS banks are refusing to allow the gra
10 dealers of that city the use Of mon,
" when they offer grain as q collateral, al
es consequently the grain merchants a
seriously hampered in their bushes
ne Only fosr of all the banks in that gre
73 city are reported as showing a dispo.
&c ton to aid the dealers in moving Il
er. grain which they could handle if mont
70, could be gotten. Business is thereto
q leaving Philadelphia and going to Nc
York and Baltimore.