The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-11-27
GENERAL NOTES.

GENERAL NOTES.
It is understood that Bismarck willtake |
up a permanent residence in Berlin ard
attend the reichstag regularly.
Ed. Jett, a teamster at Decatur Ills,
cut his wife's throat and then committed
suicide. His wife will recover.
Burglars relieved Charles Holback, at
Catasauqua, Pa, of $500 in gold, consider
able jewelry and $4,000 Of bonds.
/ The cases against the ex-trefsurers Of
Wisconsin are being tried. Ex-Governor
Hoa.d has been summoned as a witness.
The memorial asking for the completion
Of the Panama canal by the French gov
ernment has been referred to the ministry
By the explosion of a gasoline stove at
a Pittsburg, Pa, fair panic was raised,
and several persons were severely burned
and hurt
Two sleepers and dining car on the Lake
Shore limited were derailed five miles
west of Elkhart, Ind. Several passengers
were injured.
John L. Mccormick, Jr., q prominent
politician and farmer of Peru, Ills, COM
mitted suicide. Disappointment in love
was the cause.
| The American schooner William L.
| Bradley has been abandoned at sea. Tha
entire crew, with the exception of captain,
has been drowned
| The bullion blockade, which has been in
effect at Tampico, Mex, has been raised
and 12 400 bars which had acc cumulated
there have been shipped.
| William Fizzle was hanged at Abilene,
Tex, for the murder of his wife. The
murder for which he was executed was
committed last January.
The seventeenth annual convention oe
the Railway Passen ger and Freight Con-
ductors' Mutual Relief association has
been convened at Chicago.
A fast freight train of perishable goods
ran into runaway freight train near Bur
| gettstown, Pa, on the Panhandle. No
one was hurt. Loss, sl50,GO0.
The grand jury at Auburn, Cal, has in
dicted AL Roberts on charge of wreck
ing the Pacific overland passenger train
near Colfax, Cal, last October.
Leon Lait of New York, who did bank
ing business with the Russian Foles of
that city, Las skipped out, taking with
him about $1,000 of their money.
Garzia with large body of we'll armed
followers, is moving along the Mexican
side of the Rio Grande. He is within
twenty miles of Neuva Laredo.
Testers boot and shoe factory at Leces-
tershire. N. H., was badly destroyed by
high g;lle. a number of employees were
painfully hurt. Pecuniary loss heavy.
No trace has been found of the yacht
that was seen to capsize in Lake Michigan
Sunday evening off SiXty-seventh street,
Chicago, one of the men clinging to it's
keel.
AT Telluride, Colo, J. A. Mercer, the ex-
press messenger shot Oct. 21 by his mis-
tress, Mrs. Watson, who sucided few
minutes later, died from the effects of his
wounds.
A reward of 81, 900 has been offered for
the7arrest and conviction of the murderers
of Banker Meade of Waupaca, Wis, who
was murdered in his bank by unknown
parties one night in 1882.
Charles Wagatha, paying and receiving
teller of the New Orleans branch of the
Traders bank, will be arraigned as de-
faulter to the extent of 5000. Wagatha
belongs to an old and honored family.
The bodies Of Zulrc and Jose Castillo,
: brothers, have been found horribly mutil-
ated, floating in the Rio Grande 1t is
thought they had been murdered by
orders of the Mexican, General Garzia.
Henry Sevies and Benjamin Harrison
both editors of jackson, Fla, newspapers
have been arrested and placed under $40,
, 900 bonds to keep the peace. Both were
!, arrested just as they We're leaving town tt
fight duel
B. c. Weller, postmaster at Glasgow
Mo-, has been compelled by three 70 bbers
in broad daylight, at the point OF a revol
yer, to turn over ali Sae vaiughies i'll hi:
possession, amounting to nearly $1,000
| and they escaped to the woods.
, The dead bodies of John Whalen snt
, James Walsh We're found in an uppe
room of the Manitoba house, St. Paul
, The police suspected foul play at first, bu
: the coroner's jury decided that the caus
of death was excessive drinking.
w. 7. Roberts, convicted of murderin!
Henry Kappella, a friend of Roberts wife
has been sentenced to be hanged at Canol
I City, Col, during the week of the Goth O
+, December. The supreme court is now in
3 vestigating the case on an appeal.
i. A small sized rebellion is threatened al
: Alaska. The people there are weary 0
f the way the laws have been administered
and threaten to elect their own judicia
, officers and resist any process issuing from
:. officials who receive their power by ap
!, pointment
. The formal change of residence O
Bishop Fink from Leavenworth to Kan
o sas City, Kan, was made the occasion O
: an elaborate celebration by Catholics a
: the latter place. A parade with 5000 i
J. line was followed by addresses of welcom
and a reception.
Y Sixteen heirs of Charles Durkee, at on
a time governor of Utah, have begun suit il
- the United States circuit court at Chcag
: to recover over s51O,000, because of tn
. fraudulent action of Franklin H. Head G
g that city, and Harvey Durkee, the hal
9 brother Of the deceased.
e By vote of thirty to nine the cit
Q council of Chicago decided to refer to tn
Z committee on police for action the IT
8 monstrance of the trade and labor assen
+ allies denouncing Mayor Washburn an
p Chief OF Police McClaughrey for breakin
:, up the anarchist meeting.
. Miss Nettie Sitgreaves of Winnsbor'
S. c., and John Still, the agent at Roc
r Hill, had mock marriage performed la:
- August which now proves to be legal, I
: the performer was a notary. AS Miss ST
:, greaves has since been married there
h CONSERVATION in the family.
: Harry f. Hutchinson. Canadian, wt
i arrested by United States Marshal ALLIE
/ at McCoy's hotel Chicago, on charge
smuggling opium into the United State
Hutchinson's trunk was seized and S
curely packed in the bottom of the trun
were l2o half-pound packages of smokir
10 opium.
DIS The. Yioghiogheny express struck
ch wagon at the crossing, demolishing tt
st vehicle, and instantly killing three
,d the four occupants Their names al
,a William Calvin, aged 80 years; Jam
~ Welch, aged 26 years: Johnnie McCai
40 aged years; Willie Mccain, aged veal
. fatally injured
s A delegation Of Arapahoe Indian
ae headed by Chief Scabby Bull, is on
at way to Washington for the purpose of {
he manding that the forthcoming insta
ce ment of 100000, due the tribe as part
81 the purchase money for land sod
#. government be paid them in cash, inste