The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-11-20
GENERAL. NOTES.

in state of eruption.
Black dlphtheria is raging at Loveland
o., and causing many deaths.
The Northern Pacific railroad has juat
succeeded in floating 6,ooo, 900 loan.
General E. Kneft, of the Honduras
army, was drowned in the Cholma river.
Fire in Koch's lumber yard, Toledo, o.,
caused a loss Of 800, OOo;insurance, ,s75. 900.
William and Henry Thomas were killed
at Venderia, o., by the bursting of q
boiler.
Chicago anarchists held meeting and
denounced the police. They were not dis
turbed.
Two Cinnamon were killed by giant
powder at Butte, Mont. They tried to
thaw it out.
The locomotive engineers on several
western roads are restless and strike trou-
bles are feared.
John e. Thorton at Krebs, I. T., killed
his daughter, a bride of six days. Lynch
ing is threatened.
Fire caused panic in the Grand opera
louse, NcY Orleans, and several persons.
were severely injured.
The jury in the Woodruff case at Little
Rock disagreed, standing six for convic-
tion and six for acquittal
Simon Fields, worthless fellow at Mil
ford, Pa, shot 1. E. Davis. wife and son.
1t is feared they will all die
James Hoey, aged 4 years, and Oliver
Hccy, his grandfather, were killed by u
vicious horse at kenosha, Wis.
Henry Dallmeyer, q banker of Pittsburg,
has died from injuries received from walk
ing out of a window while asleep.
The children's hospital at ST. Louis was
damaged by fire. Two children overcome
by smoke are in a serious condition.
The annual meeting of the general mis-
sionary committee of the Methodist
church is in session at Cleveland, o.
The wholesale cloak house of Louis Ad-
ler of Chicago is i'll the hands of the
sheriff. No statement of assets or liabili-
ties
William Hutchins and Dick Joy were
blown to atoms at Kingston, N Y, in the
Bursh Heap mine by a dynamite explo-
sion'
A Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton
passenger train was wrecked at Lima, O.
The engineer and fireman were badly in
jnred.
The failure Of s. n. Straub of Fresno,
Cal, = breeder Of fine horses, is announced.
His liabilities are sl50,00O, with assets of
100000.
Charles Mette of Moberly, Mo-. shot
himself and died, because his wife pre-
vented him from ruling the family as he
desired.
The American Horse and Live Stock
show has opened at Chicago under the
auspices of the Illinois state board of ag-
-iculture
While trying to escape from Jail at
Conroe, Tex, A. Olson, land swindJer,
fell by the breaking Of rope and received
fatal injuries.
Engineer T. NJ. Smith ana Conductor
y. j. Jones were killed and Brakeman
Musick seriously injured in collision at
| Springfield. Mo.
Nineteen men belonging to an organized
gang of thieves and safe blowers were ar
rested in Chicago. A lot of stolen property
was recovered.
| The body of William P Rarde, a we'll
known lawyer Of Reading, Pa. has been
found in the Schuyikill river He had
committed suicide
John Barber, a farmer, while hunting
geese near Bonham, Tex, shot three boys
whom he took for geese. One Of the boys
Jeff Stevenson, will lose leg.
| Judge Jackson of the United States
court has decided that the city of Cleve.
land cannot by ordinance fix the price at
which = gas company must furnish gas.
Kansas Republican leaders and the state
Republican league executive committee
met ut Topeka and discussed next years
campaign. An early convention was the
general wish.
Fire at Cleveland. O., destroyed $780, ,O0C
worth of property. Captain Grady. a
fireman, was killed, and Michael Hawley
and Charles Ward dangerously injured by
falling walls.
| Surveyors returned from southern Cali
fornia report that the Salton lake is a
permanent fixture in that section Its
waters are now on an average of twenty
five feet in depth.
| Captain T. G. Cushman, now in San
Francisco, declares that Baron Won Pill
zach, chief justice of Samoa, tried to bribe
him to blow up the Apia calaboose in
which were five chiefs.
Turkey has refused to grant Russia's
request for the gathering of the bodies OF
Russian soldiers killed in the Russo-Turk.
ish war at San Stefano, where it was pro
posed to erect q memorial.
A large and enthusiastic meeting, at
tended by many notable people, and pre-.
sided over by Bishop Potter, was held at
New York to protest against the Louis
lana lottery aud to further plans for sup.
pressing it.
A disastrous wreck occurred on the
Illinois Central near Medina, Tenn A
passenger train, south bound, collided
with the north-bound freight. Both en-
gines were completely demolished and
four trainmen killed.
A passenger train on the Grand Trunk
railroad was stopped as it was entering
the United States and the entire train
fumigated. Eight cases of smallpox were
among party ofemigrants aboard. Those
affected were sent back to Canada.
A tramp, who had been refused sup
per. set fire to a straw stack belonging tt
G. A Brillheart, a farmer living neal
Goshen Ind, and succeeded in burning
over 5000 worth of wheat, corn, hay, out
buildings, ETC., but has not yet beer
caught.
Elijor Cloud, aresident of Ivesdale, Ills
made record that is not eclipsed any.
where. His wife died on Monday, he
buried her on Tuesday and married an
other woman On Thursday. The people
gave him and his bride orders to leave
and they left.
Rev Sam Small, the we'll known evange
list, was assaulted in an Atlanta, Ga.
barber shop by Tom Miner, a saloon pro
prietor, who has recently been made th'
object of some very harsh criticisms b,
Small Miner broke the evangelist's eye
glasses and knocked out one Of his from
teeth.
Three life convicts made their escape
from the state penitentiary at Waupun
Wis, through a tunnel dug under tn
buildings and into the street that mus
have taken years to dig, as it passe,
through several walls of stone The me,
were Robert N. West, Jack Slagg ant
Ferd IAnaack.
The National Brewers association wi
meet next year in Chicago. Louis Risch
of Chicago was elected president ar
Louis Hirontonus of St. Louis secretar