davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-11
LunnpY Jaw.

PEORIA, nls., Nov. 16.-The interest
in the suit of the Whisky Trust against
the Live Stock Commission for. ''tank-
ing" 1875 head of cattle supposed to be
afflicted with lumpy jaw is unabated.
Cattlemen are here from all over the
country, some as witnesses and others
because they have deep interest in the
matter. If the decision should be that
lumpy jaw is contagious and infectious
il would make an enormous difference
in the cattle trade. So far the burden
of the testimony, Of course, has been
introduced by the trust, and has gone
to show that the disease is not conta-
gious and that the meat is perfectly
l s.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-11
Stock Holders Meeting.

The annual meeting OF the stock
holders Of the Black Hills Union Publish.
ing company was held at the Union office
Saturday Dec. 5. The report OF the
Secretary WAS received and placed on
file. The following board OF directors
were elected for the coming year. E. B.
Reed Frank Sucker s. d. Reed III. M
Leedy Manley Dunckel Lew MCGEE and
Joseph Foreman. Forpresident Manley
Dunckel Of Meade county was reelected
Levi McGee, vice president; +. B. Reed
secretary; Frank Sucker, Treasurer.
At the close OF the annual meeting the
directors convened and adjourned un.
til next Saturday Dec. 12, at 4 p. m.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-11
Custer County Alliance.

EDITOR UNIoN-The quarterly meet
ing OF the Custer County Farmers ALI
ance and Industrial Union was held at
the Lame Johnny hall on the fourth in
slant. EARLY in the forenoon the solid
farmers and their families began
to arrive. Although the morning
was quite cold, by eleven O'Clock
every seat in the large hall was filled.
The meeting was called to order by the
president, Joseph Dove. The address
OF welcome by the president, was fol-
lowed by the reading OF the Ocala
demands, after which the meeting adj
journed for dinner.
Two tables nearly the entire length OF
the hall were quickly erected ind the
contents OF the many well filled baskets
which the ladies' Ead prepared, was
tastefuly arranged thereon. Without
any attempt at the spread-eagle style
OF describing a dinner, we will just say
there was enough and to spare OF the
best the land affords. The house was
called to order at 2 p. nj. Judge Sprague
was called and spoke for one hour ane
q quarter upon the Banking System
Free Coinage OF Silver and the Ocalt
Demands. This address is pronounced
by all to be Il master effort, sound, log
ical and unanswerable.
The next speaker called WAS r. A
Emery who spoke at some length upol
the oppression OF the people and the cor
ruption existing in high places. He helt
his audience as'if spell-bound, exceptln
the intervals when It's enthusiasm woul
find vent by making the hall resoun
with the widest applause.
The next speaker called was Rev. Wn
McCready, who, being quite i'll at tn
time, made short address upon til
power OF money to bribe and the dangt
OF corporations that menace the libe
ties OF the people. AS Mr.. McCready a
ways breaches sound doctrine and Il
delivery being eloquent, it may be take
for granted that his address was high
entertaining and instructive.
The meeting closed about sun-dow
Immediately after which preparation
began for the grand ball which had be'
announced for the evening and IN whi
about fifty people were lively parti
nants. The music was furnished
Profs. Kinsey and Smiths string ban
which IS u guarantee that it was p
excellent. The dance went melrily
until midnight when a bountilul SUPP
was spread in the same manner TIL
dinner was served. After supper dal
ing was again resumed and continu
until 2:3o a. IN, when all seemed sat
fled and quietly departed for tn
Not Il word OF dissatisfaction W
heard during the day or night. ltN
pronounced by all to be q grand $
cess. May the good work go on.
ANEYEwITNEss
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-11
IiDpey Executed.

SING SING, N. Y, Dec. 7.-Lippey was
electrocuted in the prison here at 1908
D. m. The execution was secret, no
members of the press being admitted.
Those present were physicians from the
prisons, Chaplain Law of the Tombs and
Chaplain Edgerton Of Sing Sing prison.
Mr.. Edgerton was the first man to
emerge from the prison. He declined to
give any particulars. but said the execu-
ton was similar to the four of last July.
There was no suffering and no scene.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-11
PROHIBITION IN IOWA.


Judge Conrad Renders Decision I'M
favorable to the Law.
Dies MONIES, Nov. 11.-In the district
court Judge Conrad decided the case of
the application of J. A. Harvey of the
Temperance Alliance for writ of man
damls to compel the secretary of state
to certify to him certified copy of the
constitution of Iowa and particularly
the constitutional amendment relating
to the prohibitory law. Judge Conrad
sustained the secretary of state, holding
that in view of the supreme courts rul-
ing the secretary could not be compelled
to certify the constitutional amendment,
A notice of appeal was given.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-11
THE DEATH ROLL.

Rt. Rev. EDGAR P. WADHAMs, Roman
Catholic bishop, at Ogdensburg, N. Y.
Dom PEDRO, ex-emperor of Brazil, at
Paris.
Judge RUFUS P. RANNEY, leader of the
Ohio bar, at Cleveland.
Ex-Chief Justice LUTHER S. DIXON OF
Wisconsin. at Milwaukee.
BURIED IN THE RUINS.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-11
The Grip In Topeka

TOPEKA, Dec. 9.-The grip epidemic
has struck this city in full force. The
local board Of fhealth estimates that there
are at least {, 1000 cases. There is hardly
an offic or business house in the city
which has not been affected by the epi-
demic. Tuesday morning sixty-fve men
from the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe shops were treated at the city dispen-
Sarv -a.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-11
St. Paul Building Suddenly Topples

A St. Paul Building Suddenly Topples
over, d arying Gang of Laborers.
ST. PAUL, MINI. Dec. G.-The most
horrible accident that sver occurred in
st. Paul took place shortly after p. m.
when the center wall of the west section
Of the Shepard building recently occu-
pied by Farwell, Ozmund & Kirk fell in,
burying the workmen beneath the ruins.
Eight men were killed and ten in
iured, one so severely that the physi.
clans at the ground stated that he could
not live until he reached the hospital
The Cause of the Accident,
as near as can be learned, was the wall
which WIS much weakened by the fire
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-11
Death of Edwin e. Pratt.

CHICAGO, Nov. 17.-Edwin E. Pratt,
for over twenty years connected with
the A. N. Kellogg Newspaper company,
died suddenly at his home, 1926 Cornell
avenue, Hyde Park. The immediate cause
of death was given as heart failure, but
Mr.. Pratt had been ailing some time
from the results of an attack of the grip
| last winter.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-11
The Dead
Young MCBRIDE Again in Trouble.

ST. LOUIS, Dec S.-Paul Mcbride, son
of J. J. Mcbride, the well known at
torney, and the slayer of Frank LOTUS,
the ex-freman, ,slashed Joacquine Daniels
across the left cheek from the base of
the ear to the point of the chin, with a
pocket knife, at her residence, No. $40
Madison street. The cutting occurred a
few minutes before midnight. The vic
tim is about 40 years old, and the mother
Of large family. She has been on
terms of intimacy with Paul Mcbride
f,r the mast two wears,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-11
VOI2 Q.
County Alliance. !.

There wa /, fair attendance at the
county alliance meeting last saturday.
The union store business was discussed
at length and IA committee appointed to
investigate the matter. Local alliances
were urged to seud full delegations to
the next county alliance at which time
officers will be elected fer the ensuing
vaop
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-11
st. Louis, million Dollar Fire.

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 1s.-The Famous
dry goods, clothing and boot and shoe
house, and Sonnenfeld's millinery and
Penny & Gentle's dry goods house, on
North Broadway, were burned at 4 a. m.
The loss foots up over a million dollars.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-11

To Prevent Building New Water Works.
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 8.-Charles Sooy
Smith of New York filed an injunction
suit in the United States court to re-
strain Kansas City from issuing the
$2,000,000 bonds to build new water
works and to cancel any that may be
cold
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-11

One Hundred and Eighty Killed
ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. S.-A dispatch
from Nifks, Russian-Poland, says col
liery explosion has occurred there re-
s11lting in the loss of 1S0 lives.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-11
Sugar Bounty Payments.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-The treasury
department has begun the payment OF
slgar bounty.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-11
FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS.

BTF@RS the
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-11
TERRIBLE GAS EXPLOSION.

Three Men Killed and Half Dozer,
Others Badly Injured.
BALTIMORE, Dec. S.-An explosion of
gas occurred at the works of the Mary
land Steel company, sparrow's Point,
and several men were injured. -Four
Of the victims have since died. An
other is not expected to live. Four
others are badly injured, but they are
not believed to be fatally hurt.
The Dead.
ARTHUR NJ. AUSTIN, 90 years old, of
Baltimore, unmarried.
GEORGE BRAIDWOOD of Baltimore,
married
JOHN LYNCH of sparrows' Point, un-
married.
The Wounded.
ARTHUR PUGH of Highlandtown, very
badly burned and internally injured
WASHINGTON SAP, brakeman of a sitting
engine struck by flying debris
THOMAS MILLER, colored, aged 90, of
Linwood, N. c., face and hands burned.
AUGUST BELL, face and hands burned.
WILLIAM TUBMAN. aged 80, right hip
broken and burned
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-11
a ME +" SUIT.

visit DEAN SALMON co. before uchang % we we
and
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-19
HUNTSVILLE. ALA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10. 1891.

ernment after September l, 1891, was therefore
So, 500 200, consisting of $50 22, 800 registered
and Sll ,666 900 coupon bonds.
Nearly S26, 600 of the registered bonds were
deposited with the treasurer of the United States
as security for circulation and public moneys
and many of the banks to which they belonged
would be obliged to replace them with other
bonds at great cost or go into liquidation when
ever it should be necessary that the AZ per
cents. be surrendered. 1t was apparent, there
fore, that an unqualified call for the redemption
Der, would project disturbing element
INTO the finances Of the country
at q time when its resources are
usually severely taxed by the move
ment of agricultural products In the desire to
avoid monetary disturbance during this critical
period, and i'll the hope that the volume OF
money in circulation might be increased at an
opportune time, through the cooperation OF
the banks, the holders of the bonds were offered
their choice of presenting them for redemption
with interest to September2, 1891, or Tor con-
tinuance at the pleasure of the government with
interest at per cent. per annum after that
date. Under this proposal there were presented
prior to September for continuance $23, ,OOO,
OF which S20,007 100 were deposited with the
treasurer of the United States security for
circulation and 81, 600 for deposits. But it
was found that some owners OF 4i2 per cent.
bonds who desired their continuance were un-
able to take the necessary steps to that end
within the prescribed time, and an extension OF
the time to September so was therefore granted.
On that day the total amount of bonds which
had been presented for continuance was S25, ,4l2,
200, leaving for redemption s25, ,457 900. of which
Sl7 $40 100 were presented and paid during the
month of September. There were also re-
deemed in that month, to correct error made
by the owner, S47,700 continued bonds, and the
amount now outstanding on interest at per
cent. is So, 1854, 500.
CIRCULATION.
The amount of money in circulation has been
very largely increased since the close of the ifs
cal year. The amount July l, 1891, was 81, ,497,-
440, 707 and the amount per capita was S23. IL.
The return of gold to the United States, the
operation of the silver act Of July A. $780, and
disbursements by the treasury on account OF
the 412 per cent bonds, pensions etc. have en-
larged the volume to 81 577 262, ,070. and the per
capita amount to S24.3S. The amount of each
kind of money in the United States, including
bullion in the treasury and the amounts in cir
culation December /, 1891, are shown in the
subjoined table:
December l, 1891. Population, e4,6S0,0OO; cir
culation nor farita eo1 32
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-19
New ideas In Odds and Ends.

A number of the new models show
deep frills of lace or silk at the top of
the sleeves, which are often of satin
soleil, royale, bengaline or brocade for
general wear, and chiffon, crepe or silk
muslin in evening gowns. Sleeves cover
the wrist. Long sleeves may be worn
with a low-necked gown, but short
sleeves can not be in gown cut with
high neck. A drapery from the seams
Of sleeve near the top is brought TO
the outside of the arm and knitted
there. New skirts still dip" in the
basl1, and the front is an inlaid panel,
plain, or broken by easy folds running
diagonally into the belt. French skirts
are frequently unlined, having only
facing at the lower edge and bale
yeuse of silk on the inside. A few of
the new skirts show the fronts gored at
the top; others have five cores, but
most of them retain the regular or
modified "belr' shape. A bias back
gives the full fan flare at the bottom,
and no unnecessary fullness at the top.
All goods wide enough for the purpose
are made up crosswise to avoid all
seams, fitting the top with darts. Less
than three yards width make such a
skirt too scanty for grace. Ladies'
Home Journal
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-19
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

THE ravages of la grippe in Cincinnati.
are becoming very alarming. There are
s. ZOO cases reported.
THE Treasury Department had up to
the 18th paid out 81, 900, 900 on account Of
pensions.
THE sugar crop of Texas will be about
/ Is, ,OOO 600 pounds, not including about
6, 200, 900 made on the State convict
farm. The average per acre has been
about 1900 pounds.
THE South Carolina Legislature on
the 14th passed the anti-free railroad
pass bill 1t prohibits the receiving or
issuing of free passes on railroads te
any member of the Senate or House, or
State or county official
THE net gold holdings of the Treasury
Department on the 14th were S131, 125, :
5S7, an increase of about 81, 900, 900 since
the 1st of the month and an increase Of
nearly S14, 100000 since June last.
A CALL has been issued for conven-
tion of the farmers of the cotton-grow-
ing States for the purpose of considering
the expediency and practicability of de-
creasing the acreage of cotton in the
South.
THE drouth in Mexico has caused
such distress that appeals for aid have
been sent out from various points in the
States of Durango, Coahuita, Nuevo
Leon, Tamaulipas and San Luis Potosi.
The Mexican Congress has temporarily
removed the local tariffs of these States
on grain and food products of various
kinds in order to cheaper their cost to
the starving.
WARNER X. MOREHEAD, for the
Worlds Fair, on the 14th uncovered in
the ancient mound near Chillicothe, O.,
on which he has been working, five
skeletons of men of great size; also a
forty-pound copper ak, fifty-seven small
axes, 100 copper plates, 10000 beads and
several meteoric iron implements.
Hon. JOEL B. MAYEs, principal chief
of the Cherokee Nation, and Hon. Henry
Chambers, second chief, are both dead.
Chief Mayes died on the 14th and Cham
bers on the 18th, both of pneumonia or
la grippe.
EDWARD NJ. FIELD, son of Cyrus W.
Field, was arrested at New York on the
14th charged with grand larceny in the
first degree.
THERE is growing excitement in Chill
over the situation between Chilli and the
United States, and the local authorities
are taking precautions to prevent any
renewal Of insults or injury to Ameri
cans.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-19
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

On the 9th the greater portion of the
business section and twenty-five dwell
ings of Ardmore, /. T., were destroyed
by fire The losses will aggregate $780,
600. on which there is an insurance of
about $50, 900.
On the 10th terrible explosion took
place in the Friekings- Hoffnung pit at
Hennersdorf-in-Se Seifen, Saxony, killing
twenty miners and severely wound;ng
a number of others.
HENRY MILLER. a son of Joaquin Mil
ler, who robbed a stage in the north
ern portion of California last month,
acknowledges his guilt and VS. he
was driven to crime because of the
failure of his father to remunerate him
for work performed. He has been
taken to San Francisco for trial.
On the 18th two armed and masked
men compelled the Wells-Fargo express
agent at Shingle Springs, Cal, to sur
render the keys of the office safe, and
took a watch and about 500 and es-
capped.
The New Hampshire supreme court
has denied the application of murderer
Sawtelle for new trial on the ground
that the killing of his brother was done
in Maine.
Soon after the Italian steamer Calab-
ria left Genoa for Naples on the 18th,
her boiler exploded, and the vessel sank
In a few minutes. She carried only SIX
passengers, but it is not known how
MANY lives were lost.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-19
GEN NERAL.

Two strange fish were recently cap
tured on La Have banks. While fish
ing in three hundred fathoms Of water
two of the crew Of the schooner Mil
dred V. Leen pulled up a curious-look-
ing specimen, for which none of the
bank fishermen can find q name. 1t
is little more than four feet in
length, of nearly the same breadth, and
has five fins of reddish hue. The body
is covered with silvery scales. The
flesh is red and good to eat, and the
fish weighs one hundred and twelve
pounds. The other curiosity was cap
tured at the remarkable depth of five
hundred fathoms by the schooner Bes-
sic M. Wells Is is about six feet long
and shaped like mackerel. The skin
is of q dull brown color, and is thickly
covered with small white spots, from
each of which protrude two sharp, nee
dle-like bones. These bones are invis-
ible to the naked eye, but are easily de-
tected by the touch when the fish Is
rubbed toward the head.
-"When | came home last week"
says housekeeper, ''my piano, which
had been covered with a cambria cover.
was loaded with dust that had sifted
through the sleazy cloth. The dust was
too thick to be wiped off; it should have
been blown and lightly whisl1ed off
first but this my maid did not do, and
in consequence the CRIME was wiped in,
for all know, with a damp cloth. A;
all events, the highly-polished surfaco
was clouded over almost to gray, and
was in despair till friend suggested
a remedy She advised me to wiring as
dry as / could piece of chamois from
out basin of water and rub the piano
until the chamois was bone dry. This
have done and completely restored the
polish. IN. Y. Sun.
The University Marine Biological
association has established laboratory
of marine biology at Sea Isle City, N.
j. The purpose of this association is tc
aid at the same time both science and
industry. 1t is national in character
and constitution, and its affairs are
watched over by the trustees of the uni
versity of Pennsylvania without any
charge upon its funds, so that the whole
of the subscriptions and donations re
ceived are devoted absolutely to the
support of the laboratory and the
prosecution of researches by aid of its
appliances France has established
eight biological stationf, England three,
Scotland, Sweden. Holland and Austria
two each, and Germany, Italy and Bel
gium one each,
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-19
NUMBER 3.

crease Of S11 PAT 116 over the value of imports in
the corresponding months of the preceding
year. OF this total the value of free goods was
1897 352, ,l07 an increase of Sis 092 1856 over the
value of free imports during the corresponding
months of the previous year. The proportion OF
merchandise admitted free was A.. lS per cent or
the total Importation as against 81. ~ per cent
for the preceding year, thus exceeding the pro-
portion of free goods under any previous tarI1
for corresponding period. -.
For the six months ending September ~ losl,
during which sugar has been admitted free' the
proportion of free importatlons was oo.oi PER
cent as against 1921 per cent for the correspond
ing months of the preceding year.
For six months ending March 81. 1881, wnen
sugar was dutiable under the new tar1H; Jne
free importations were 406S per cent and Tor
the corresponding period OF the preceeulile
year, under the old tariff, they were 55.lo per
cent of the total importations.
The receipts from customs for the year ehu 4
ing September 80, 1891 during the last SIX
months of which sugar was free, were Sl96'2i9,-
65460 as against S2S 7S4 929 Il for the preceding
year, decrease of S42, sos 275.1.
During the twelve months ending September
so. the value of our exports of merchandise was
1923 09l l38, against $3.50 III ll5 for the pre-
vious twelve months, an increase OF S62,9lf,El
IMMIGRATION.
After an extended analysis of the imports and
exports for the fiscal year the secretary notes
the increased commerce due to the reciprocity
treaties and then passes to immigration.
The following table shows the number and
nationalities of immigrants arrived III the
United States during the years ending June W,
1890 and 1891;
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-19

PRESIDENT HARRIsoN's illusions to
.ne incident of the Baltimore's men in
discussing Chilian affairs in his annual
message were promptly cabled to Chill,
q aaa our pugnacious little neighbor is
slowly but reluctantly getting the idea
through her head that we are in earnest
~ demanding reparation, albeit we
press s our demands in quiet and digni-
Heo manner. Chilli must yield. We
.an !: not recede an iota from our posi-
.lon without loss of self-respect and the
.ospect OF other nations, and graceful
aae ~ u, courteous acquiescence on the part
" Cnlll will conserve her own interests
''r better than arrogance or vaccilation.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-19

The present extremely low price of
cotton is bringing bad results in the
south in the form of frequent mercan-
Tile failures. The planters find it hard
10 pay with seven-cent cotton debts
contracted in ten-cent cotton times,
and the merchants who advanced
money to them are in many cases una
Ole to meet their obligations. The
worst experience on this subject will be
10 the early spring when the planters
want money with which to purchase
supplies for the next crop. Merchants
Will be unwilling to make advances at
presenprices
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-19

That the political education Of the
average American politician is merely
superficial was neatly proven recently
when the st. Louis Globe-Democratse sent
us interviewing corps to the national
tapltol with series of questions in
american political history printed on
cards which the several senators, repre-
9entatiVes and other public servants
we're asked to fill out with the answers
Vn hand. The blind chaplain of the
mouse and the superintendent of the
uoeument room answered them; but the
senator's and representatives, where
We're they? Not in it.