The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-11-13
GENERAL NOTES.

MO-, dSeQ 30.
There was quite a fall of snow in Wash
ington and in parts Of Virginia, the earli-
est for years.
William Little, an Indiana farmer, blew
in shotgun, it exploded and he was in
stantly killed.
The strike in the tin-plate department
of the st. Louis Stamping company has
been declared off.
The assignment of Methodist bishops
has been made. Taylor goes to Africa ard
Thoburn to India.
The Sultan of Turkey ha ordered -1lo
heavy guns from Krupp's for the defense
of the Dardanelles
Tony Hart died at an insane asylurs ut
Worcester, Mass, where he had been con
fined for many months.
Redfield Proctor is at home in Burling-
ton, and says he wrote his resignation and
left it with the president.
The coroner's jury in the Anaconda mire
calamity found the company not to blame.
The cage was overloaded.
The official vote of Stark (McKinley's)
comfy, Ohio, as verified, gives Governor
Campbell a plurality of 154.
The Clipper Gap. Cal, giant power
works blew up, killing three men and
Ernest Schroeder killed himself in ST.
Paul upon keing arrested for the murder
OF his sweetheart, Annie Bree.
a. B. Weyman, colored, was hanged at
Trenton, Ga, for the murder of prison
guards at Cole City, Ca, last July.
The Boston and Montana Mining COM
pany will erect at Butte, Mont, an cleo
trio plant for the reduction of ores.
ToC, I, IoI To
have the remains of her husband inferred
in Hollywood cemetery, Richmond.
Charley Trout has been arrested in
Terre Haute, Ind, on charge of conspir-
ing to defraud insurance companies.
The Wabash and Vanderbilt lines are ac-
cused of violating the boycott and paying
commissions for passenger business.
The Rt Rev. Monsignor Thomas S.
Preston, vicar general of the Roman
Catholic diocese of New York is dead.
Henry Clark, footpad, who has been op-
Grating in Montana several months was
sentenced to forty years in the penlten-
tiary.
Herr Wolff, the head Of the banking
firm of Hirschfield s. Wolff, Berlin, which
failed, was arrested upon charge of
fraud.
The mother of ''Kate Townsend" shot
in New Orleans some years ago, has just
died at Alameda Cal, at the age of 107
years.
Rain has fallen in torreLts in the prov
ince of Malaga, Spain, and the lower
quarters of Cola and Perchal are sub
merged.
Engineer Turnbull, of the San Ridge,
Ont, planning mill, was killed and several
others seriously njured by the boiler
bursting.
Mrs. Emily Beartisley, of Chicago, was
discovered stealing, and she committed
suicide by cutting her throat with a piece
of glass.
The presbytery Of the Cumberland Pres
byterian church Of Kansas City has found
Rev. E. T. Bowers guilty Of gross i'm
morality.
A doctor of Shelbyvllle, Ind, has placed
a patient who is suffering from consump
: tion on diet Of dog meat and says he vii
cure her..
A committee Of ST. Lot:;4 Catholic
knights of America has preferred charge:
of negligence against Supreme Secrets ~
John Barr.
DR.. L. S. Majors, Of Chicago, has hegu1
action at law against Dir. Keeiey TO
having advertised him (Atajors) as a re
formed drunkard.
The Cherokee commission have abou
completed arrangements with the Ponci
Indians to purchase their reservation il
the Cherokee strip.
Asiatic black tongue, a frightful ant
fatal disease, has made its appearance
about kirklin, Ind. Five of one famil.
died in two days.
Harris Pitt a New York tailor, trie'
to fire his house to get the insurance.
would have endangered 100 lives. He wa
caught in the act
The Netherlander-Am steamer
Rotterdam, having on board the passen
gers of the disabled Edam, of the sam
line, reached New York.
The Moore Desk works ct Iudanapoli
with 200, 900 feet of oak lumber and thre
buildings adjoining burned. Loss $1,000
with about s3S, 900 insurance.
Judgment for s125,000 was entere
against the Scranton Steel company o
notes for pig iron furnished by W. +
Hart g. Co. of Philadelphia.
Owing to high freight rates and strike
among the miners the block coal ope
ators have resolved to cease working thei
mines for the present at least.
A man named Window shot and kille
the 7-year-old son of Professor Floy
Bailey near Wilsonville, w. Va, mistal
ing the boys head for an animal.
An unknown British steamer, lade
with oil, burned in the Aegean sea. 81
persons were saved, the others, includin
the captains wife, being drowned.
A train carrying troops was derailed
India. Five British soldiers aud severs
employees were killed and thirtyone Bri
fish and four native soldiers injured.
The congress of Brazil, having refuse
to ratify the plan for a settlement OF tt
boundary dispute with the Argentine X
public, the question has been referred
the president of the United States as
arbitrator.
No notice has yet reached the depal
ment of state respecting the refusal of t.
Spanish government to grant an e.equat
to the United States consul at. Ponar
Caroline islands. The consul is Herbe
L. Rand of Illinois.
A jury awarded Thomas Fortune, t
colored editor of the New York Age, IS
damages in an action which he brong
against the proprietor of a Sixth aven
hotel for being assaulted and refused
drink because of his color.
Annie Bree domestic, while at wo
in the house of her employer in St. Pa
M1nn., WAS luSUduCiy hlltsu ny ooiiio v
shooting at her through the windo
Ernest Schroeder, a rejected lover of t
girl, is suspected of the crime.
With appropriate ceremony and displ
the copestone of the new Chicago Masol
temple was laid. The building NJ
towers to its full height of ninete
stories, 27S feet from ground to coping.
is the highest structure of its kind in
world. Fifteen hundred Masons part
pat ed in the ceremonies.
The government has been informed Il
Paraguay has accepted the invitation
participate in the worlds fair. This
ceptance completes the list of Latin Am
lean republics, all of whom have forma
signitied their intention to participate
the exposition.