The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-02-26

A drying room in a powder factory at
Pressburg, Hungary, caught fire and the
building blew up, fatally injuring three
workmen.
Thu national Democratic committee has
appointed Colonel Bright of Indiana ser
geant-at arms of the national Democratic
convention.
At Salton's Mill, Ark, while a number
of persons were at the mill getting grain
ground the boiler exploded, killing four
persons outright.
The Universal Banking association of
Boston has closed its doors. 1t was one Of
the short term orders, and first certificates
were about to mature.
Captain Schley of the United States
steamer Baltimore was given a dinner at
the Shoreham, Washington by James B.
Montgomery of Oregon.
Italian and Irish employees of the street
sseaning. department Of New York City
engaged in a free fight. Two Irishmen
were cut with stillettoes.
The Law and Order league has succeed
ed in convicting several Pittsburg news
dealers for selling papers or Sunday. Ap-
peals have been taken in each case.
Boomers have commenced focking to
the Cherokee strip, and large numbers of
them are already on the border awaiting
the proclamation opening it to settlement.
The rice mill trust has been formed.
The deal between the syndicate and Lou
isiana mill owners has been contaminated.
Every one of the rice mills has Joined the
trust.
The suit against John Hoey, ex-presi-
don't nf tha A 1nvnc Nyrracc. oo,-~onr Lnc
been dismissed. The suit was brought to
recover 100000 claimed by Henry C. Sher-
burne. E.
The committee of fifty appointed by
President Smith of the New York Cham.
Der Of Commerce to raise funds for the
relief of the Russian famine sufferers,
have already raised $4,000.
The steamer Culver from Santos and
St. Lucia, which has arrived in New York,
reports that while in port at Santos six Of
the crew were sent to the hospital with
yellow fever, two of whom died.
The committee having in charge ar
engagements for the meeting of the ma.
tional Democratic convention at Chicago
will erect a wigwam for it to meet in. 1t
will have a seating capacity of $4,000.
At Cedar Grove, Tenn, John Parteet
shot and killed Frank Langdon. Sheriff
Fusett and a posse went tt arrest the
murderer and in the fight that ensued
the sheriff and Parteet were both killed.
Mrs. Barnaby's will, known as the
"Worrell WILL" has been filed for probate
in Providence, r. /. DR.. Graves is named
in the will as executor. This is the ONLY
| provision in the will that will be pro
| tested.
BY the explosion of an engine at Read
ing fUad, in tfs upper part of -Ffhiffadefi
phia, George Rousch and two unknown
boys who were stealing a ride, were in
stantly killed, and five men injured, one
fatally.
II. Gloster Armstrong is in Chicago
negotiating with the worlds fair officials
for five acres of space on which to repro.
duce the historic lower of London. The
proposition is favorably received by the
officials.
Fred Needeck, aged SO. a tanner of Mil
waukee, quarreled with his wife over
money matters and killed her witha razor.
He tried to kill his 12-year-old daughter,
but she got away. Needeck closed the
tragedy by severing his jugular vein.
G. G. Lincoln, formerly cashier of Ora
locks bank at Hill City, who absconded
nearly q year ago, was apprehended 8
short time ago at Pony, a small mining
camp sixty miles south of Helena, Mont
He has been brought back to Hill City.
The principal business of interest in the
proceedings OF the New York State Med
ical society was a report from q specia,
committee on the abolition or Non
Abolition Of the Death Penalty.n The. re
port takes the ground in favor of abolish
ing the death penalty.
Patrich Hurst, a laborer Of Chicago
Ills, attacked hiswife with a knife while
she was sickin bed, stabbing her agar
and again, until he had slashed her thirty
eight times. Many of the cuts were in
f1icted after the woman had bed tt
the frighful hacking. Hurst has been ar
rested.
Emin Pasha, writing from Msua, con
firms the story Of cruelties practiced by
the slave hunters. Emin says THAT he pur
sued one hunter for six days, during
which ~he.counted ~ffty-one bodies of slave
who had been recently killed. The bodice
of all were worn to skeletons and tn,
skullspf thirty-nine had been beaten in
The house committee on territories lis
tened for an hour Thursday morning Il
an argument by Delegate Smith of Arizo
m in behalf of the admission Of that ter
Titoryto the union as a state. Delegata
HaryeysOf Oklahoma also addressed Thu
committee briefly on his bill for the ad
mission into the union OF Oklahoma AND
the Indian territory as one state.
Lee S.sI3ynch, special commissioner d
the worlds fair for the South Sea islands
has started for a francisco and viii
sail by the first steamer for Yokohama