The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-11
GENERAL NOTES

Director General Davis, Of the world's
fair, is seriously i'll.
The volcano Of Colin, Mexico, is agaia
in state of eruption
Black dlphtheria is raging at Loyeland,
/ o., and causing many deaths.
The Northern Pacific railroad has juN
succeeded in floating &c, ,OOo, 600 loan.
General E. Kneft, of the Honduras
army, was drowned in the Cholma river.
| Fire in koch's lumber yard, Toledo, O.,
caused loss of 800, reinsurance, ,S75, ,OOO
William and Henry Thomas were killed
! AZ Nenderia, o., by the bursting of
boiler
4 Chicago anarchists held meeting and
denounced the police They were not dis
turbed
Two Cinnamon were killed by giant
powder at Butte, Mont. They tried to
thaw it out.
The locomotive engineers on several
western roads are restless and strike trou-
bles are feared
John e. Thorton at Krebs, L T., killed
his daughter, a bride of six days. Lynch
ing is threatened.
Fire caused a panic In the Grand opera
louse, New Orleans, and several persons
We're severely injured.
| The jury in the Woodruff case at Little
Rock disagreed, standing six for convic-
t1on and six for acquittal.
Simon Fields, worthless fellow at Mil
ford, Pa, shot l. E. Davis, wife and son.
It is feared they will all die.
James ioey, aged years, and Oliver
Eoey, his grandfather, were killed by
vicious horse at Kenosha, Wis.
| Henry 10 ii m ayor D;k &,b,,.,
has died from injuries received from walk
ing out of a window while asleep.
The children's hospital at St. Louis was
damaged by fire Two children overcome
by smoke are in a serious condition.
| The annual meeting of the general mis-
sionary committee of the Methodist
church is in session at Cleveland, O.
The wholesale cloak house Of Louis Ad-
Ter of Chicago is in the hands of the
sheriff. No statement of assets or liabili-
ties.
William Hutchins and Dick Joy were
blown to atoms at Kingston, n Y, in the
Bursh Heap mine by a dynamite explo-
sion.
A Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton
passenger train was wrecked at Lima, o.
The engineer and fireman were badly in
jnred.
The failure of S. N. Straub of Fresno
Cal, a breeder of fine horses, is announced.
His liabilities ere sl50,G00, with assets of
100000.
Charles Mette of Moberly, Mo-, shot
himself and died, because his wife pre-
vented him from ruling the family as he
desired
The American Horse and Live Stock
| show has OF
auspices of the Illinois state board of ag-
riculture.
While trying to escape from Jail at
Conroe, Tex, A. Olson, land swindler,
fell by the breaking of rope and received
fatal injuries
Engineer f. NJ Smith and Conductor
II. J. Jones were killed and Brakeman
Musick seriously injured in collision at
Springfield, Mo.
Nineteen men belonging to an organized
gang Of thieves and safe blowers were ar
rested in Chicago a lot Of stqlsp nsoqegEttfE
known lawyer of Reading, Pa, has been
found in the Schuylkill river. He had
committed suicide.
John Barber, a farmer, while hunting
geese near Bonham, lex, shot three boys
whom he took for geese Que of the, boys,
JEFF Stevenson, will lose leg.
Judge Jackson of the United States
court has decided that the city of C]eve-
land cannot by ordinance fix the price at
which gas company must furnish gas.
Kansas Republican leaders and the state
Republican league executive committee
met at Topeka and discussed next years
campaign. An early convention was the
general wish.
Fire at Cleveland, O., destroyed 100000
worth of property Captain Grady, a
fireman, was killed, and Michael Hawley
and Charles Ward dangerously injured by
falling walls.
Surveyors returned from southern Cali
; fornia report that the Salton lake is a
permanent fixture in that section. Its
waters are now on an average of twenty
five feet in depth.
Captain T. G. Cushman, now in San
,, Francisco, declares that Baron Won Pill
zach, chief justice of Samoa, tried to bribe
!. him to blow up the Apia calaboose, ir
which were five chiefs
Turkey has refused to grant Russia's
request for the gathering of the bodies o1
Russian soldiers killed in the Russo-Turk
sh war at San Stefano, where it Was pro
= posed to erect memorial.
A large and enthusiastic meeting, at
s tended by many notable people, and pre-
10 sided over by Bishop Potter, was held al
e New York to protest against the Louis
< lana lottery aud to further plans for sup
l. pressing it.
- A disastrous wreck occurred on tn
% Illinois Central near Medina Tenn.
~ passenger train, south bound, collide'
!, with the north bound freight. Both en-
- gines were completely demolished an
a. four traiumen killed.
A passenger train on the Grand Trun
er railroad was stopped as it was enterin
or the United States and the entire trai
ID fumigated Eight cases of smallpox wer
among party of emigrants aboard. Thos
affected were sent back to Canada.
A tramp, who had been refused SUI
ch per. set fire to a straw stack belonging
Il. G. A. Brillheart, farmer living nes
70. Goshen, Ind, and succeeded in burnin
over s., 900 worth of wheat, corn, hay, ou
buildings, etc.. but has not yet bee
caught.
ry Elijor Cloud, a resident of Ivesdale Ills
nf made record that is not eclipsed an.
where. His wife died on Monday,
buried her on Tuesday and married a
other woman on Thursday. The peop
gave him and his bride orders to leay
ISL and they left
1s1 Rev. Sam Small, the we'll known evang
TX list, was assaulted in an Atlanta, G'
be barber shop by Tom Miner, saloon pr
ed. prietor who has recently been made t
5he obiect of some very harsh criticisms
ers Small. Miner broke the evangelist's e!
The glasses and knocked out one of his fro
laI teeth.
JUS Three life convicts made their esca
nee from the state penitentiary at Waupu
zen Wis, through tunnel dug under
'eh buildings and into the street that mi
no l have taken years to dig, as it pass
"a ti through several walls of stone. The m
'Cly were Robert n. West. Jack Slagg a
Ferd Knaack.