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

There were no evictions at West Newton
En-, The threat frightened the strikers
and most Of them returned to work.
The potato crop in northern Hungary
been a complete failure and fears are
entertained that a famine will result.
Governor Francis of Missouri has grant
ed a respite until November in the case
of Charles Seaton, who was to be hanged
at Mount Vernon.
Millionaire James l.. Flood and party
have made the trip across the continent
In 4 days, - hours and 80 minutes, the
fastest Jiine ever made.
A number of prisoners broke Jail at
Jasper, Ala. The chief of police at Birm-
ingham has been t~elegraphed to furnish
dogs to aid in the pursuit.
Two men were killed by q cave in the
~embankment of the Roanoke and South
ern road near Martinsville, Va. Three
others were dangerously wounded.
Senator Quay has entered suit for Grim
inal libel and a suit for $4,000 against the
Beaver, Pa, Star. The civil suit against
the Pittsburg Post has not yet been en-.
tered.
The Governor of Texas has offered a re.
ward of 81, 900 each for the arrest and con.
viction of the parties who burned a negro
murderer to death in Cass county, that
state, a few days ago.
In its final report the St. Louis grand
jury found Indictments against Jail
Guards John Fitzgerald and Michal Walsh
for alleged completely in the noted Jail
delivery which occurred Oct. 2.
The marshes and peat beds along the
upper kankakee valley in Illinois are
burning fiercely and hundreds of tons of
hay have been destroyed and many farm.
ers have lost their entire crops.
The Yale faculty has decreed that the
class Of 1914, the members of which SO
roughly handled a couple of hltors recent
ly, shall not, asia class, take part in any
athletic exercises during the class year.
DR.. and Mrs. NJ. j. Hammond of Johns
town Pa, have entered suit against the
Southern Pacific railroad, asking IS, 900
damages for injuries received in the terri
BILE disaster on that line on November IL
1890.
The State Farmers Alliance of Illinois
before adjourning elected the following
officers: President, H. M. Gilbert, Henry
county; vice president. w. Wallace, Knox;
secretary and treasurer F.. D. Stout; Nor
gan county.
Ostrander and Trumpbour, wreckers of
the Ulster County, N. Y, bank, and Dill,
who helped break the First National bank
of Clearfield, Pa, have been indicted and
will have to explain their conduct to a
judge and jury.
Advices fromssTunis state that the force
of the recent storm was sharply felt on
the southern coast of the Mediterranean.
Alarge wall in the city Of Tunis, which had
been undermined by the flood, collapsed
and buried thirty natives.
Captain Thomas H. Wackman, a South
ern Pacific Waterman, was killed at Oak
land, Cal, by a train. Captain Wackman
was one of the pioneer railroad men of the
country n was one of the first engineers
who ever ran out of Chicago,
The ladies of Texas organized a state
Ladies Worlds Fair association, and
elected Mrs. G. Tobin of Austin president.
Mrs. Potter Palmer, the president of the
lady managers Of the worlds fair, was
present and addressed the meeting.
In a published interview with a St.
Louis reporter General Beauregard states
that he is not connected with the Louisi-
ana State Lottery company; that he only
watches the drawings with General Early
to see that they are conducted fairly.
Representatives from the colleges Of
North and South Carolina, Virginia,
Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi and Ten
nessee, have met at Charleston, S. c., for
the purpose of forming a monumental 30
ciety to erect q monument to jeff Davis.
A fly wheel exploded at Kimberly's roll
ing mill, Greenyille, Pa, tearing, a large
hole in the roof and injuring five men.
Their names are: Michael Shoemaker,
Fred Bolivar, John Clifford, Michael
Spring and James Edwards. Two of them
will die.
A New York butcher received among q
consignment Of meat the carcass Of q
sheep that had died from some disease.
The meat had been inspected and bore an
official certificate to that effect. It was
so rotten that it was really dangerous to
handle.
The American Institute of Architects
has decided to hold q convention In Chi
cago during the worlds fair. Officers were
elected as follows: President, Edward n.
Kendall of New York; secretary d. K.
Adlerof Chicago; treasurer, S. A. Treat Of
Chicago.
Government experts who have been late
~ experimenting at San Diego, Tex, in
an effort to produce rain, state that the
bombardmennt which they directed at
the clouds resulted In copious ~rainfalls
land that the experiment Was a complete
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