The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-11-06
GENERAL NOTES.


The general council of the Lutheran
church has decided to issue supplement
book to the old church book.
George Dwyer under arrest Ia East
Vile, Tenn, for murder, has been taken
from the Jail and hanged by mob.
Colonel Joseph e. Palmer of Brooklyn,
N. Y, has been elected national com,
mander of the Union Veteran league.
A tramp was put in Jail at Monticello.
Minn., and, the Jail catching fire. he was
burned to "a crisp before he could be gotten
out
1t Is said that Cinnamon are coming in.
to the United States in large numbers by
way of North Dakota and Minnesota from
Canada
The Evangelical general conference
closed after a session of two weeks at
Philadelphia. The next conference will
be held at Naperville, Ills. in 1895.
Charles Smith. who has been on trial al
Wolsenburg, Colo. for ten days for the
killing of Taylor Sillman, has been fonnd
guilty of murder in the first degree.
The elghty-second annual meeting OF
the American board has closed at Pitts.
field, Mass. A resolution asking that the
worlds fair be closed on Sunday waa
passed.
At Tower, MINI, a drunken Austrian
cut the top of a Swede's head of with an
axe The Swede whose name was Ander.
son, attempted to run a wedding party to
his liking.
Three children were burned to death at
Crewe's plantation opposite Helena, Ark.
Their parents had left them alone in the
house, which caught fire and burned to
the ground.
3 The centennial celebration of the defeat
of Indians by General St. Clair was held
at Toledo, o. Governor Campbell made
the opening address. An immense crowd
was in attendance.
A gang of masked men went to the
house of George Cupps, in Mount Ster-
ling, KY, for the purpose OF whipping
him. He shot and killed John and James
Howard and tho rest ran.
The California Bankers association in
session at San Franctco, passed resolu
tions declaring it as the opinion of the
meeting that the United States should
finish the Nicaragua canal.
General Brooke, commanding the de
partment of the Platte, in his report says
he finds it difficult to enlist Indians TO,
Infantry service, although it is compare
lively easy to get them for cavalry service
DR.. Seymour Bullock, prominent Re.
publican and ex-federal soldier of Mobile
Ala, was shot and killed by Thomas p.
Brewer. an ex-confederate, who with Dr.
Bullock had helped to organize the blue
and the gray in Mobile.
1t is said at the state department that,
fa yryS Sol Sxok
concerned, negotiations with China have
not been broken off and no credit is given
to the report that other governments have
concluded negotiations.
The bodies of 900 soldiers, including the
body Of General Butler, who fell at the
battle of Fort Recovery, o., 100 years ago,
were buried in one immense grave with
fitting ceremonies. An immense crowd
witnessed the reinterment.
A short session of the Pennsylvania sen.
ate has been held, at which rules for the
government of that body during the extra
session were adopted and preparations
made for the beginning of business. The
rules provide for open sessions.
Madame Astle, alias Georgiana Short.
house, the notorious English abortionist,
has been convicted of repeated offenses of
that kind performed at Denver, Colo. She
will probably be given the limit of the
law. which is three years in the peniten.
tiary.
The secretary of the state is informed
that the toll tariffs of Mexico relating tc
wheat and wheat flour have been amended
as follows: Wheat flour or wheat grain
laid for thrashing, s1.45 per 100 kilos;
wheat flour in granule 81. 10 per 100 litres
wheat, 90c per 100 kilos.
j. f. Boyd, editor of the Panama Times
Star, has arrived in San Francisco He
does not think any serious trouble will oc
cur between the Central American repub
lies in the near future, at any rate He
also expresses the belief that the Panama
canal will be completed soon.
The convention of the Brotherhood oil
Railway Trainmen at Galesburg, Ills, re,
elected S. e. Wilkinson grand master; P.
H. Morrissey, first grand master, and w
A. Shehan, grand secretary and treasurer
by acclamation; S. c. Young Of Fort
Williams. Ont, was elected grand trustee
The Chinese government has consented
to pay the sums borrowed fraudulently OF
contracted for by an ex-member of the
Chinese legation in Paris. The relations
Of the ministers of the powers with the
Pekin government have taken a turn
which tends towards more harmonious
state of affairs.
The Canadian Pacific steamer Empress
Of India has arrived at Vancouver. B. c.
from China and Japan. When shor,
time at sea Demetrius Kohoplitky, an es-
capped Siberian convict, was found. He
had been sentenced to sixteen years in Si
berian dungeons, but after serving six
years had escaped.
The medical convention In session
at st. Louis, have selected the following
officers for the ensuing year: DR.. Charles
A. L. Reed of Cincinnati, president; DIR.
T. Hunt Stuckey Of Louisville, first vice
president; DR. G. S. Bond. Richmond, Ind.
second vice president; DR.. 2. S. Mckee
Cincinnati, secretary,
Hon. George w. Stone. now, and for al
most thirty five years past, the chiet jus
tice of the supreme court of Alabama, ha,
called upon President Harrison to urge
upon the president the recommendation
| in his Forthcoming message to congress
the necessity for the enactment of bank
| ruptcy law. The president was yer!
much impressed with the reasons givel
| for the desired legislation.
Gaelano Baregan, an italian lugge
owner of New Orleans has been assassin
ated The affair bears all the marks Of tn
4 Malta. There was game Of cards at al
Ita9inn saloon. "A quarrel stampede
AID rs the victim reached this door he wa
riilalel with bullets. The police have al
res. u the proprietor Of the place and sew
oral others but there Is no positive proc
| sa to who did the shooting,