The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-09-25

of Wellmar, Mimi, n large tracts OF
prairiesland is burnt over.
a peculiar disease is playing havoc with
the cattle in some parts of Pennsylvania
Hundreds of cattle have succumbed.
The schooners Venture, Wonderer and
Pioneer have reached Victoria from Beh
ring sea, loaded down with seal skins.
An assignment has been made by the
Hemlandel Publishing company, publish
ers OF a Swedish newspaper, of Chicago.
M. Rouvier, the minister of finance o,
France, was married in Paris to Margn
rite Pommereuel, the widow of DuGuyel
The payments by the treasury depart
the month of September aggregate sc, Isl,
900.
EN- Tate and Everett Moore. rival ed.
itors, fought a street duel at Sulphur
Springs, Tex, Wednesday,. Both were
killed.
1t is reported that fifty workman have
been killed through the collapse Of a tun
mel on the line Of a new railway nea,
Trieste.
The speech Of Emperor William at Err
urt, as reported in the Berlin Post, caused
a heavy decline in all imperial and Prus
sian stocks.
The payments of the treasury depart
ment on account of pensions during the
monthof September, up to date, aggre.
gate s5,555,000
The motion for a new trial in the case O
H. Clay King Of Memphis has been over
ruled and he has been sentenced to be
hanged MOVE
"a coft1or r1r,aJ Nactar1,,-I 80 Nov
Stockholm, Manitoba, while insane,
ter with a broad ak.
Starving peasants in Russia are setting
fire to houses in order to plumber them
Nine villages in the Kieff district have
been burned in two days.
Charles NJ. Miller, who a short time agt
defaulted with s25, 900 of the Deming book
store of Louisville, KY, has returned
$4,000 of the amount taken.
Dennis Sullivan was lodged in Jail a,
Pico, Colo, for being drunk. He set fire
to the building, which was destroyed
while he was burned to a crisp.
William Welsh, aged 10, was instantly
killed by the bursting of an emery whee
in the shop of G. +. Warmers Manufacture
ing company, a New Haven, Conn.
Henry Gross, anew York Shoe merch
at Melville Station sssEIa 81 sas deGSion Pacia,
road, a few miles south of Denver.
A rebellion in the valley of Yang tse
Kiang, China, is imminent. Many seiz
ures CT arms and dynamite consigned t.
secret societies there have been made.
A number of interesting addresses wer,
delivered at the session of the Church
Unity conference at Chicago, and thu
meeting closed with devotional services.
Forty-fve of the seveuty-seven German
cham bers of commerce have voted in fayo
of a national, and sixteen in favor of d,
international exhibition in Berlin, in 1895
Albertson, the Tacoma bank robber, j
still confined to his bed, suffering from TIL,
wound he received when captured. Abou
$4,000 of the stolen money has been re
covered.
Examination Of the books of Major !
Fl. O'T}rien of Chattanooga, Tenn, treas
urer of the Catholic Knights of America,
developers the fact that he is short SCI, 00Q
and possibly $4,000.
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison has sent out
circular to the agents of the National Sc
ClcUS VI duSlICI VI UuC III Sd 4kCSA
luton. stating that a meeting will be hell
in Washington Oct. 5.
Ex-senator Tabor of Colorado has re
ceived an order from the supreme cour
of Mexico giving him possession of til
| Santa Ediwige gold mine, over which b
has had three years litigation.
The supervising architects Office of tn
treasury department. has completed tn
modified plans and accompanying specif
cations for the government building at tn
Worlds Columbian exposition.
In the Michigan Methodist conference
vote was taken on the matter of admit
ting women as lay delegates. After a full
discussion the conference decided in fave
of the ladies by a vote of 149 to "a.
A freight train on the Jacksonville an
Southern railroad went through a bridg
spanning the Sangamon river, near Spring
field Ills. Nicholas Quirk of Columbus
O., was fatally injured in the wreck.
By a decision in the United States di
trict court for North Dakota, the ~railroa
commissioners and wheat inspectors {
that state are p%erpetually enioined fror
interfering with the movement of whea
in transit.
H. uSs OoSCoid A4tAklhE OLAA pdhJ hoo "
elared a dividend of 81 per share, payabI
October, Is. The Napa Consolidate
Quicksilver Mining company has also ii
clared a dividend of 10 cents per sha
payable October. /.
Alexander Robinson was shot at Phil
delphia by the we'll known colored joke
Stoval. Robinson made a sighting r
mark about two white women who wel
with Stoval, and the latter drew a revo
yer and fired, inflicting a wound whic
may prove fatal.
A sensational story comes from Cal
fornia, to the effect that convicts in IL
state prison at San Quinten had ma,
every arrangement to blow the prison u
with dynamite and escape. The plot, hoy
ever, was discovered in time to preyel
the consummation of the convicts' plan
Acontract has been let for a new c
pipe linesfrom the fields near Fittsbnrl
Pa, to Philadelphia, taking in the Q
fields Of Washington and Green Noun,
w. Va. AT the terminus there will be
great independent oil refinery. This is sai
to be in opposition to the Standard Q
company.
The Nails for the Crucffixiot..
In Spain, Trance, Ireland and som
parts of England, a tinker is held j
such adherence by the commonpeop5
as to make it almost impossible for hi,
to get a meal or find lodgings for til
night. The reason alleged is ths
when the blacksmith was ordered I
make nails for Christ's crucifixion h
refused, but the tinker made them an
Christ condemned him and all of hi
race to be wanderers, and never hay
a roof of their own to cover the
heads uutil the worlds end.
Gffsie. Sos.
A pneumatic inner solego i sock II
boots and shoes has been patente