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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19

LOUISVILLE, Ky, Sept. l2.-President
Phelps, when questioned today about
reports eminating from Milwaukee
that the Louisville and Columbus clubs
would be dropped next year, said:
There is no truth in the matter at all
Louisville and Columbus have stood by
the association through all it's fights
and you may rest assured that the
association will stand by the clubs
now. Both cities will be represented
in the association next year"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19
THE MARKE rs.
Live stock.


Sioux CITY. Sept H.
Hogs-Light, si0OC95.00; mixed, $i75(a
40; heavy, 4.700t4S0
Cattle-Steers, l,l00 TO 1900 pounds,
$3.0013 SO; feeders, s2.30(030 90; stockers,
$20O@250; cows, common to good, 81. .OO,9
2.25; yearlings, $2.0092.25; bulls, SIS
200; veal calves, $s50Qe400
CHICAGO. Sept. Ia.
Hogs-Light, $4.40@5. 90; mixed. S4.5Ot1
b.35; heavy, $i.55(9555.
Cattle-Shippers, natives and extra
beeves, S4.s0(96. 80; stockers and feeders,
e. l093 so; mixed cows and bulls, 81. 500
S.25; Texans, $40 1400
{ Sheep-Natives, $4.75@510; westerns,
t3.9O@4S0; Texans, $3.25(G450
South OMAHA. Sept. IL
Cattle--Choice beeves, &3O0(d5 05; cows,
si.50935o; feeders, &.4o@ii5; bulls,
81. .300l2 TO-
DHogs-Light, sL9o@5O5; mixed, sls5a
500; heavy, $I95@5l5
kansas CITY, Sept IL.
Cattle--Steers, So 25C15.55; cows, sl.75a
2.95; stoclSers and feeders, $.450l3.2a
: Hogs-All grades, S. 25Ql50a
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19
Archbishop Feehan's View.

CHICAGO, Sept. 2.-Archbishop Fee
han Is greatly vexed at the attempt of
Miss Ava to connect him and the
Catholic priests of this city with her
sensational escapade. She called on
him several times and he has received
her as he would receive any one who
calls during certain hours of the day.
She did not say who she was and the
archbishop had no references. "As to
her charge against Fathers Kelley and
Fitzgerald" continued the archbishop,
lit is too ridiculous to command sec
ond thought. On the face of it no one
would believe it, and it is SO absurd
that ! cannot even discuss it." Father
Kelley said Miss Ayas story was a
falsehood.
When the woman called on him
Wednesday evening, as she had many
times before, he listened because he
did not wish to be rude. He took no
interest in her stories because he be-
lieved her to be crank. After re-
naming in Father Kelley's study
few moments Miss Ava asked
his permission to go into
the church through the side
entrance from the parlors. This was
granted and that was the last the priest
saw of Miss Ava Mrs. Bolton, who
accompanied Miss Ava to the church,
said today that the newspaper cuts of
Ann Odelia Diss Debar looked like
Miss Ava and she believed the "spook
priestess" and Miss Ava were one and
the same
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19
south Dakota Valuation.

The board of equalization of South
Dakota has completed its labors and
reported. The total assessed valuation
of the state is S22s, ,3l5, 160, as against
s236, s27, or in 1890 This decrease has
been b~"nght about by the fact that
las. yo r he board increased the assess
ors' retD.ns over SIS, 200, 900. This year
nearly l,00o,0 more acres of land was
assessed than in 1890. But the best
showing is made in the increase in the
number of head of stock. The number
of cattle in the state has nearly doubled
IN the year, and the increase in sheep
has been $4,000, or just double
The report Of the board furnishes
many interesting statistics The in
crease in the state is very marked.
Take these for example:
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19
An American Lost.

ROME, Sept IA dispatch received
late this afternoon from Athens says
that this lost steamer Taormina had ON
board forty-eight passengers and u
crew Of forty-nine men. Among the
passengers was an American named
John j. Oliphak. OF the whole nun
ber of persons on board the ill-fated
vessel only the second officer and
thirty others were saved. The figures
would make it appear that sixty people
were lost
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19
The Halifax Hurricane.

HALIFAX, n. S., Sept. 12.--The crew
OF the bark Camelia lost at Scatterne,
consisted of the captain and eighteen
sailors. There is hardly doubt but
that all were lost. The storm of the
early part of the week caused much
damage to shipping at Arichat.
The schooner Swan Letters hardly
had weather and the Dolphin were
badly damaged and several fish
ing boats were lost. A number of ves-
sells were driven ashore at DeCosse,
West Arichat and Petite de Gras. The
steamer Payter, while leaving for Glace
Bay, foundered when but short dis
tance from shore, while the schooner
Renfrew went adrift and will prove a
total loss
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19
Pcttigrew Posting Himself.

ABERDEEN, S. d., Sept. 1l.-Senator
Pettigrew, of Sioux Falls, passed
through last night for Sisseton and
Wahpeton reservations. lie is doing
the Indian agencies for the purpose of
speaking "by the book" upon matters
when his committee meets. He is of
the opinion that so long as Indians are
located in South Dakota, the state
should have the benefit that may be
derived from money expended for their
education and support In this view
he will have the backing of the
people.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19
Produce and ProvIsIons.

CHICAGO. Sept Il
Flour-Spring patents, s500t95 Is; rye,
$5.45.
Wheat-Cash, 941l9c; December, 9S14c.
Corn--Cash, 62c; October, 56Hc.
Oats--cash, asslc; October, s2s4c.
Rye--Cash, SSc.
Barley--62c.
Flax-$i.00.
Timothy-Sl.
Whisky-Sl.lS
Pork-Cash, tlo.s7I1; October, $40. .02,S.
Lard--Cash. 1872; January, $40
Short Ribs--N. 25G7.y0-
Shoulders %. 25g6.7 rs; short clear. $40,
@S.00 ~
Butter-Creamery 2o@24c; dairy. it@
l0c.
Checse--Fuli cream cheddars, Sli(9Sslc;
fats, Si4Q1Sslc; Young Americas, 50 1py G.
q Eggs Western l611@l694c.
Hides and tallow, unchanged.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19
Arrested for Larceny.

New YORK, Sept. 11.-W. A. Smith,
of w. A. Smith & Co., brokers at 60
broadway, was arrested at noon today
on charge of grand larceny. The
complainant is a prominent merchant
of Poughkeepsie. He charged Smith
with having stolen money given him
by complainant with which to buy
stocks on margin. Smiths counsel
said today that his client acknow-l
edged that he had not executed the
orders OF his customer, but that Smith
would make 1t all right. Smith was
arrested by Policeman Case, of Pough-
keepsie, on bench warrant. He
says the firm is solvent and
the money will be refunded.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19
WHERE GASES WILL BE TRIED
The Department Rules That They Must Be
Tried Where They Originate.

The Department Rules That They Must Be
Tried Where They Originate.
WASHINGTON, Sept 12.-Acting Sec
retary Spaulding has decided that ap-
plications for review of decisions of the
board of appraisers must be made to
the circuit court in the district which
the matter arises in and where
the merchandise was entered and
where the controversy between the
collector and importer originated.
This decision was called for bv the
United States district attorney at st.
Louis, who wanted the case tried in
Missouri and not in New York. The
effect of this decision Is to try in the
circuit court of New York all cases
When goods were imported at New
York and when appeal was taken from
the decision of the board of general
appraisers
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19
A MEAN DETECTIVE.
He Seeks Certain Information and Is Ar
rested for His Inquisitivensss.

He Seeks Certain Information and Is Ar
rested for Ills Inquisitiven sss.
NEW YORK, Sept IA dispatch
from London says: Sidney Fry, mana
ger of one of the biggest detective
agencies of Great Britain, has been ar
rested on the charge of soliciting
Ernest Fear, n clerk empi<yed in the
Maidenhood postoffice, to disclose the
contents of n telegraphic message adj
dressed to lady whom Fry's agency
was watching at the instance of her
husband. The clerk reported the case
and Hon. Edward Kerby, of the conf
dental inquiry department of the post
office, and the government ordered the
prosecution to be instituted. This is
the first case of the kind in the Grim
inal annals of this country.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19

The Loss by the CoIlision.

ROME, Sept. IA dispatch from
Athens says that corrected estimate
of the number of persons drowned as
result of the collision between the
italian Mcssageries company's steamer
Taormine and the Greek steamer Thes-
salia, off Cape Sunium, shows that fifty
persons lost their lives by the sinking
of the former vessel. OF this number
ten were saloon passengers.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19
A SWEDISH DAY.
A Large Celebration OF an Important Event
to the Swedes.

to the swedes.
New York, Sept 12.-In commemo-
ration of the 253d anniversary of the
permanent settlement of the Swedish
colonists on the banks of the Delaware
the Swedish residents of this city are
today celebrating "Forefathers' Days.
at Harlem river park, and are also en-
tertaining many distinguished guests.
The Grafton was delivered this after
noon by Commodore Osborne of the
National Association of Nava Veter-
ans Of the United States, and an ad-
dress was also delivered by Robert Ed
wards, chaplain of the Swedish asso-
citation, and who is cousin of Jenny
Lind. A series of tableaux represent
ing the life of the early Swedish colo
nists was produced on grand and
magnificent scale, and the Swedish
singing society Lyran, several hundred
strong, sang many of the famous old
war songs of the hardy Norsemen who,
on their return from hard-fought bat
ties, made the echoes ring with their
lusty voices
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19
a Utah Murder.

GREEN RIVER, Utah, Sept. 1l.--Cass
White and A. +. Kohler met on the
street yesterday and began to renew
an old quarrel. Kohler with Win
chester shot at White, but missed
him. White drew revolver and shot
Kohler dead besides wounding Frank
A. Drake who was looking on.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19

In no instance has there been fall
ing off in numbers, though the rate of
levy has decreased the total valuation
nearly ss,000,O00.
The counties showing the largest
valuation are Minnehaha, SO, TAG. 223;
Brown, s3,374, 900: Sphinx, s2,62i, ,245;
Beadle, SO, $50, ,327; Hutchinson, 81, ,430.-
962; Lincoln, S2,s2o, $3.50; Brookings,
S2,02l 900; Turner, $2,336,3s and
Yankton S2,04i ,075. The smallest val
nation is Custer, with only Sl14,0s2.
Brown county has the largest acreage,
s43, ,527; Sphinx, 73l, l,943; Beadle, Coz, 334;
Hand, 5T6, Clark, 40i, 10, and Min
nehaha, 43S,322. Custer is again the
smallest, with only 54,750.
This years prosperity will largely
increase the cultivated acreage of the
state over all preceding years, and the
live stock interest will also receive q
great impetus.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19
A Wine Merchant Suicides.

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept a. Charles T..
Umley, a wine merchant at 627 Sixth
street south, committed suicide this
morning by shooting himself. He lived
but an hour and was unconscious until
the last. He had been affected with
an incurable cancer which explains
his action. He was 60 years of age and
well known in business circles
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19
An Eminent Phys.clan Dles

BosToS. Sept 1i.--Dr Peter Pineo,
who was medical inspector-general of
the United States army during the war
and brevet lieutenant-colonel, died at
his home in West Somerville yester-
DAY, aged 66 years. He was a native
Of Nova Scotia and was educated at
Harvard medical college.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19
General Thornton Dead.

BosToN, Sept 12.-General Thorn
ton, pay director of the United States
navy, died in this city last night, of
Bright's disease, after few days ILL
ness. His remains will be taken to his
late home in New Bedford, where they
will be inferred.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19
THE PRIESTESS OF SpOOKS'
She Is Creating Sensation in
Chicago and Cincinnati.
The Queer story She Tells of Abduction at
tho Homo Of Father Kelley, which IL
Not Generally Believed---What Is
Thought OF the Woman at Chicago.

CINCINNATI, o., Sept. 12.-Miss Ava
spent last night at the house of deten-
tion. She told her story to every one
who was willing to listen. There is
scarcely any doubt but that she is the
notorious Ann Odell Diss De Bar, of
Spirltualistic fame When asked II she
was Madam Diss De Bar she waved her
fat arm and dramatically replied:
THAT Is madness, my good sir,
madness; l never saw the woman.
DO / look like her?" The de-
scription of this woman who
calls herself Vera Ava, tallies in every
particular with that of the famous
high priestess of the spooks who
created such scandal in New York a
few years ago. She was taken TO po-
lice headquarters this morning and
told the following story to the super
intendent: Last Wednesday called
on Archbishop Feehan in Chi
go reference to my renounc-
ing the work l had been
engaged in for years and after an un-
satisfactory interview, he asked me to
go to the church of the Holy Family on
west Twelfth street, Father Kelley's
church, as the council would meet
there that evening. j persuaded Mrs.
Bolton, wife of minister of Centenary
Methodist church, to accompany me,
and without changing horses in my
carriage (my own carriage and horses)
we drove Immediately to Father Kel-
ley's church, arriving there at 6:l5
o'clock. instructed my coachman to
turn the carriage to the east and to
wait for me. l stepped into
Father Kelley's study and there found
the council in session. There
were eight or nine of them and among
them were Father Fitzgerald and
Chancellor Muldoon, the others | did
not recognize. After recapitulation of
old business | was asked to renounce
my mission business and the faith OF
DIR. Bottoms religion, Methodism, and
/ was given the ultimatum of doing
this or taking the consequences. Seeing
the American flag outside left from
Labor day, my stalwart coachman and
my friend, Mrs. Bolton, / refused and
felt perfectly safe in SO doing. Then
Father Kelley said, DO your duty
and two big, strong men, one of them
Father Fitzgerald, seized me and
threw a cloak over my head, after
which remembered nothing until !
found myself In Cincinnati. They say
[ went into the church to pray, do
they? Anyone who knows anything
about this church will know that /
could not go from Father Kelley's
study into the church"
Miss Ava was then returned to the
house of detention, where she will re-
main until her friends In Chicago are
heard from
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19
Attached for Debt.

New YORK, Sept. 12.-The sheriff
has attached the property at No. 6
Wall street, the accounts of the West
ern National bank and the City Ma
tional bank at No. SO Wall street, be-
longing to the Mexican National Rail-
raad company to satisfy claim for
Sl05, ,975.l0, in favor of Joseph David
SON
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19

Lepers in India were treated with
shocking inhumanity before Christian
ity entered that country. Many of
them were buried alive The English
rulers have put a stop to this custom,
and for fourteen years there has been
a special Christian mission to the 1885,
900 le pers in India.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19
A Broker shoot, Himself.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 1l.-C. M.
Stokes, broker who trades for Drexel,
committed suicide by shooting himself
at his Office, 42o Library street, this
morning. Stokes was about 60 years
OF age and member of the stock ex-
change. The firm OF which he was q
member represented the Philadelphia
Traction company on the stock ex.
change and did considerable business
for the Drexels. He has been COM
planning OF poor health lately and may
have been temporarily out of his mind.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19
Gone With n widows Cssb

DEADwooD, S. d., Sept. IL. - Sam
Wilson, we'll known broker and
real estate dealer of this city, was yes
terday entrusted by Mrs Esther Slosser
with $500 with which to pay off
mortgage. Wilson has disappeared
with the money. He was last seen on
the Elkhorn train going east. Telc-
grams, have been sent out all over the
country for his apprehension.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19

In the Antarctic ocean the ice bergs
that have been noticed from time to
time rose 400, 500, 700 and even ! 900
feet above the water, and were three
or four miles long. Their enormous
bulk may be imagined from the fact
that the part under water is about
seven times as large as that above.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19

The Fresno Expositor thinks the
Lower California earthquake story is
lone of Colonel Aliens best, and that
1t will ''go ringing down the ages with
the pterodactyls, the Arizona wild
man, the Bar n.ng glacier, San Diego's
lake of ink, the suicides ice cavern,
and lose itself in the Oregon mammoth
cave
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19

The palaces of the rulers of the old
world are built without regard to ex-
penscs. The empress Of Austria's new
palace at Corfu has cost Gl26,0OO. The
bill for the wood carvings in the Pom
peiian suite Of seven rooms, which is
the great feature Of the house,
amounted TO $4,000.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19

Hereafter every soldier on active
service in the British army will have
card attached to his clothing bearing
his name, rank and regiment. This
plan Is to facilitate identification in
long been in vogue in the German
urmy
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19

The other night, at breckenridge,
Colo, some person put dynamite in the
Methodist Episcopal church bell, and
the bell and belfry were blown to
atoms, endangering the lives of more
than 100 people. The deed is supposed
TO have been caused by the ill-feeling
engendered against the pastor because
he wanted the saloons closed on Sun
day.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19

America. 1t was known in England as
early as 1896, but its introduction into
North America is credited to the
French families who were exiled by
the revolution of San Domingo and
settled in the eastern part of the
United States.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19

According to report the amount OF
smuggling in the neighborhood of Su-
mas, Wash, on the Canadian boundary
line, is stupendous, and smuggling is
leading industry there.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19
Snakes are so abundant and troubl

Snakes are so abundant and trouble.
some in the country about Talcott
Mountain, Connecticut, that the farm.
usrs in the vicinity have dubbed to.
gethef to hire man to kill the rep.
tiles. He is paid cents a head, and
manages to make from SO to s. day.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19

ALBANY, N. Y, Sept. 1.-The Thos
Stevens furniture manufactory was
burned early this morning. Loss,
5000; insurance, $4,000. Frank
Lucy, fireman, was struck by fall
ing wall and killed.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19

( The lowest body Of water on the
globe is the Caspian sea; the level has
been gradually lowering for centuries,
and now it is cighty-fve feet below the
level of its neighbor, the Black sea.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19

People who live along the Nisqually
river, Oregon, are compelled to pay SO
cents ferriage for crossing Il stream a.
wider than a street.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19

Out Of fifty-eight leading cities in
the United States only three have Il
larger death rate than New York, they
being Charleston, Hoboken and New
Orleans
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19
CELEBRATING AN EVENT.
An Iowa Town Rejoices Over tho Compile
tion of "A Road

toh Oh u hOau.
BIRMINGHAM, Ia, Sept. 12.-Last
night was made lurid with rockets, red
fire and Roman candles, and the air
was rent with the roar of cannons and
with small arms. 1t was all on account
of the arrival in this city of the first
passenger train over theonew broad
ened Chicago, Fort Madison & Des
Moines railway. The train bore a spe-
cial party of men interested in the
road
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19

The poorest churchliving in Great
Britain is that of Wainfeet, Lincoln
shire, where the parson gets Is ] S4d Il
week for ministering TO 200 people,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19

MINNEAPOLIS. Sept ia special
from Webster, s. d., says the Citizens
bank closed its doors this morning;
liabilities, $4,000; assets, unknown.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19

The payments to bret Harte by his
English publishers last year are said to
have reached a total Of e15. 600. while
in America be was paid only 81,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19

A baby born on train in Tennessee
one day last week has been named
Romulus, after the sleeping car in
which he first saw light.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19
Custer Chronicle.
JOSEPH KUBLER. PUBLISHER.

Mexico has a rock that serves as u
weather prophet by changing color
with every approaching change in the
weather
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19

An Englishman, who recently passed
through New York on his way home
from Australia, whittier he went to
give advice upon the subject of the
rabbit pest, describes that particular
curse as something beyond the imag-
ination of those who have not seen it.
When rabbits descend upon planta-
tion in swarms, as they frequently do,
they leave whole acres bare OF vegcta-
tion. The returning traveller is now
manufacturing 200 miles of wire net
ting per day for use of fencing against
the incursions of Australian rabbits.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19

Africa is now completely cneircled
by submarine cables which make up
altogether "a length of IL. 600 miles
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19

Dltbusiast on the subject states
cad of clover is composed
sixty distinct flower tubes,
ehch Of these contains sugar not
To exceed the five hundrcdth part of
grain. The proboscis Of the honey bee
must therefore be inserted into 5Ol
clover tubes before one grain of sugar
can be obtained There arc 1000
grains in pound, and as honey con-
tains three-fourths OF its weight of
dry sugar, each pound of clover honey
would represent the insertion of the
proboscis into $500, 600 clover heads.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19
MINNnApoLrs. Sent. 4.

Wheat--Close: No l hard, on track,
6StSas91lc; No. northern, Sept, s6kc;
ON track, S7,S@SSc; No. . northern, ON
track, s4@S6c.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19

make a long
tail (tale) short.
A man, after
he has eaten
a good dinner,
r~o. f.o1 x