The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-07-24
KNIGHTS OF LABOR COLUMNS.
Edited by James II. Wilkinson.
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS,
Beadle county has 10000 sheep.
Sioux Falls has IL school populatlonof,
.1,771.
Madison has appropriated $4,000
for artesian wells.
Pleere is said to be assessed atS6, OOO,-
900.
A Baptist university is being con-
structed at Sioux Falls to cost 100000.
Chamberlain will build a @pontoon
bridge over the Missouri at that place.
Grasshoppers are reported numerous
in parts OF North Dakota.
Missouri river steamers are doing a
good business this season.
A man in Charles Mix county died re-
Gently from u rattlesnake bite.
Sioux Falls claims to haye no open
saloons.
A yeast factory at Centerville is in
successful operation.
twenty-five thousand head OF range
cattle arc reported Oh the reservation.
More than two hundred men are en-
ployed in the quarries at Sioux Falls.
Detroit s~tonecutters won.
New York tailors were successful in
their strike.
Nevada has Chinese miners.
Ohio miners are making an effort to
reduce their days labor to nine hours.
Kansas has Z 5000 alliance farmers.
Demoiness Iowa, bakers want ten
hours.
Key West has 1000 idle cigar makers.
Washington has double decked street
cars.
English agents are contracting for the
Maine apple crop.
Gas is promised at fifteen cents per
1000 in Chicago.
France has 100000 socialists.
Rochester boss tailors have been in
dicted for conspiracy.
Only votors are employed oncity work
in st. Louis.
The trunk makers gained their de-
mands by a strike in San Francisco.
The coopers OF Belleville, ILL.,, lostthcir
strike for an advance.
A Boston union is running q co-opera-
tive hat and cap factory.
American laborers in Central and
South America are working at ~thirty-livc
cents per day.
Experts estimate the CROP yield this
year at over 500, 900, 900 bushels. This
will be the heaviest ever harvested in
this country.
The future outlook for the TIN Dlatein
dustry in England is said to be gloomy
Skilled workingmen will find rcmuncra
tive employment in America.
The universal Postal congress which
has just closed it's labors at Vienna Aus
tria agreed upon u schedule OF low ant
uniform rates Of postage among nearl,
all nations.
It is said that the Louisiana Lotter.
company is flooding Louisiana with Gil
culars Offering to loan the farmer
money at one per cent. This is done t
secure legislation favorable to the LOT
terry company.
James B. Colgate, OF New York ha
given a million dollars for the endov
ment OF a Baptist college at Hamilton
New York.
The costs in the O'Shca divorce cas-
amounted to $1,000. They were PAL
by Parnell.
1t is estimated that the U. S. will e:
port ICE, OOO, 900 bushels OF wheat til:
year.
New wheat in Texas is selling at sixt.
five cents per bushel.
The Ohio democracy oppose Clev
lands silver policy.
The Iowa democracy favor the fro
coinage OF silver.
The Iowa republican convention II
dorsed the Mckinley tariff and til
Blaine reciprocity schemes.
Independent republicans, OF Pennsy
vania, are organizing against "boss rule.
The toast to the prince OF Wales at
recent banquetinNorth Hampton evoke
q storm Of Misses.
Ingalls, says farming is q sedentar
occupation.
It IS thought that Kansas City will /
a heavy loser through the failure OF til
First National bank OF that city.
Coy. Hill has announced that he is
candidate for the presidential nominf
ton at the hands OF his party.
A recent decision OF the U. S. suprcn
court makes it legal to tax railroa
property in any state. 1t had previous
ly been held that it could only be take
IN the state where in c~orporated.
Texas is the greatest pecan producer
country in the world.
The socialists, OF Germany, have pul
lished a manifesto demanding ~uniyers'
suffrage for both sexes, the abolition
the standing army the granting OF fH
medical assistance and other reforms.
The Russian government is taking pr
caution to guard against famine in ca.
Of the failure Of the wheat crop.
The Egyptian cotton crop is reporte
to be very heavy.
The annuities paid TO the royal fami,
now amount to over three million dc
lars. More and more are t~hepeoplepr
testing againstpayingthes e unwarrante
robberies.
1wenty-eight million acres OF land a