The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-07-31
GENERAL NOTES.

sixteen workmen
Messrs. Butterworth, Lindsay and Bull
lock, the Chicago fair commissioners, have
eft London for Paris.
The mines of the Deer Crlek Coal COM
pany at Glen Rock, Wyo., are on fire. It
has been decided to food the mine.
| Two freight trains on the Omaha road
-an into each other near Rice Lake, Wis,
'lemolishing q locomotive, caboose and
,ox car. Loss, $4,000
The Colored Peoples Benevolent order
convention ended in Chicago. P. F. Hill,
the grand master of Tennessee, was given
hearing and reinstated.
The Vienna Nueu Freie Presse says that
Prince Ferdinand of Roumania will visit
England with view to his betrothal with
the daughter of the prince of Wales.
While sailors were painting the sides Of
the steamship La Gascogne at Havre, the
raft upon which they were standing cap
sized and two of the men were drowned.
Near Fairplay, Colo, two miners were
smothered to death, a fire near the breast
Of the tunnel in which they were
employed driving the air into the work
lngs.
EX-Chief of Police Beck, for twenty
years previous to 1882 the head of the Mil
waukee police department, was arrested
in a raid by the police on a gambling
house.
A material train on the Atlantic and
Danville road collided in deep cut half
a mile east of Boydtown, Va, with hand
car. Three laborers were killed and four
badly injured.
Geonge Anderson, saloonkeeper of
East St. Louis, shot and killed Dennis Ry-
an. another saloonkeeper of the same
place, and then blew out his own brains
The reason is unknown.
AT Vienna, Austria, house in which
wedding festivities were going on was
struck by lightning and destroyed. Two
4 of the party were killed and about eight
more or less severely injured
The Chilian cruiser Pressidelte Ezra
sueras leaves without the crew which she
expected to ship at Lisbon, the govern
ment and foreign consuls preventing the
programme from being carried out.
The Citizens bank of jefferson, Tex,
has assigned to secure depositors. The
recent embarrassment of some of it's
heaviest customers is the cause The
assets are largely in excess of liabilities
The French naval estimates committee
of the chamber e deputies have approved
of the scheme for placing torpedoes in all
the principal ports of France and greatly
increasing the squadrons in home waters.
Mr. John M. Com stock, the new chief of
the customs division of the treasury de-
partment, has rendered his resignation as
a member of the board of civil service ex-
aminers for the customs service at New
York.
The sheriff of Fayette county. Texas, has
been indicted by the United States grand
jury for. unlawful interference with the
mails. 1t has been the Gus; ON of the sher-
iff to open all mali matter of prisoners in
his charge.
While a heavily loaded street car was
going around a curve at Decatur, Ills., it
jumped the track. Miss Hattie Lock
wood of Elgin was thrown under the
wheels and instantly killed. Several 9TH
ers were injured.
At Springfield O., the entire force of
yard switchmen, night and day men, on
the Big -Four, fifty-three in number went
out on strike. The strike is occasioned
by the refusal of the superintendent of the
Cincinnati division to advance the wages
; to the Cincinnati scale.
The bureau of American republics has
information that the department OF pub
lie works in Mexico has granted to Mr.
Romulo Virasau concession for the col
oniZation of the island of Guadaloupe, in
the Pacific ocean, the contract to run for
, twenty years.
The Russian government, it has been
learned, has made large purchases of corn
and is storing the grain for future sup
plies. The rise in the price of corn in Ger
many, it is alleged, is partly due to the
; wholesale buying of this cereal by the
Russian authorities.
Baron Erwin Won Schonstein, formerly
a millionaire of Bucharest, has just died
in hospital there. He was victim of
financial ruin and had been reduced to the
greatest poverty being obliged to work as
q tram-car driver until seized with the i'll
ness through which he became an inmate
of the hospital.
A change will be made in the Office of
, chief clerk of the treasury department
September /, on which date the incum-
bent, Mr.. Fred Bracket, will be trans.
ferred to another part of the service. His
successor has not been named, but it is
said Mr.. Charles Hedges of Indiana will
receive the appointment
At Pine Bluff Ark, n terrific explosion
of gas occurred in Fred Schneidcr's tailor
, ing establishment, houses over large
| portion of the town being rocked and win
, dow panes being broken in the vicinity.
Three of Schneider's workmen were badly
, hurt, one fatally. The entire building was
demolished.
, Signor Crispi has an article in The Con-
/ temporary Review in which he defends
, Italy against the recent attacks of the
| French press. He says that France mas Oi
late years opposed any reconciliation be
tween the papacy and the Italian govern.
ment and has exploited the Vatican in or
der to create difficulties for the quirinal
The first heavy ordnance 12-inch rifle
gun designed for coast defense and made
in New York was fired at Sandy Hook fol
the first time with satisfactory results
3 With $50 pounds of powder it hurled q
l 2,0OO-poupd shot five miles. The gun will
use 440 pounds of powder and throw q
, 20O0-pound shot twelve miles.
: Allen w. Swan. the bicyclist who left
New Bedford, Mass. eight weeks ago for San
Francisco on a safety, after passinga week
in Manitou and Colorado Springs, Colo.
; left for the west via Ute pass. He follows
the Goodwin and Eagle rivers to Salt
Lake. He is brown and in good condition
Counting all stops his average has beer
forty-fcur and one-half miles day.
The trial of the Rev. Henry E. Suther
land of Hazelton, Pa, charged with send
: ing obscene circulars through the mail
! began at Erie, Pa. The circulars were
! derogatory to the name of the Rev. Joh1
a Donahue, the presiding elder, and in a re
/ cent libel suit, the Rev. Mr. Donahue was
: awarded $1,000 damages. The Rev. Henr!
| Sutherland, on taking the stand, ad
mittcd sending the circulars.
Commissioner Carter of the general lane
office has directed the register and receiver
at Lewistown, Mont, to receive minera
' applications and allow mineral entries il
the abandoned Fort Maginnis militar,
reservation in Montana. under the s. IA
conditions as when they are made fol
Q other public lands. The same rule vii
r apply to the abandoned Fort McDermot1
: military reservation ip Nevada.
EX-PREsIDENr CLEVELAND.
He Has Not Been Asked to Take tn,
A Stumpin in Ohio.