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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
Carl Sohurz Addresses the National Civil
Service Reform leagus.

Service Reform league.
New YORK, April 2s. - Hon. Carl
Schurz addressed the members of the
National Civil Service Reform league
at the annual meeting in the Madison
Square garden, In beginning his
speech he paid high tribute to the
memory of Hon. George William Cur
tis. All that the reform aspires to was
exemplified in his personality. Mr..
Schurz then went on to say that civil
ished in spite of the bitter hostility Of
an overwhelming majority of congress
sional politicians in both parties. 1t Is
the application of common sense and
common honesty to the public service.
tbs the restoration to full power of hon.
orable and patriotic motives In our po-
litical life. Therefore the people will
insist upon the general application and
enforcement OF civil service reform
principles in the same measure as they
recognize how sensible and honest and
patriotic thu principles are. Mr..
Schurz denounced the ''spoils" system
and claimed that the American people
are heartily disgusted with it. The
classified service covered by the civil
service law was referred to as a "quie.,
peaceable island, with civilized, in
dustrious population, surrounded by a
bowling sea-" The present classified
service covers about AZ, 200 positions, or
about one-fourth OF the entire civil SER
vine. While this showing is encourag-
ing to the league 1t still demon
strates that one-fourth Of it's work has
been accomplished. Mr.. Schurz ridi-
culed the idea that the spoils system is
necessary TO hold political parties to-
gether or to create an interest in pub.
lie affairs among the people. He
claimed that civil service reform was
not only right, but also good poll.
tics" The ravages committed by Mr..
ClarlSson in the postal service during
Mr.. Harrison's administration called
for more severe criticism than those
committed by Mr. Stevenson before
HIM; and fifty removals made by Mr..
Maxwell now, whatever explanations
may be given, caused a far greater SEN
sation than 500 removals made by Mr..
Clarlxson four wears apo
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06
A GIRL SPIRITED AWAY.
Ella Day. Of Kansas City, Olsappsars..Ap
Interesting story.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May 1.-The
lawyers and officers who have been
called upon TO investigate the mys-
terious disappearance of Ella Day, who
Is missing from her home at No. 2020
Bales avenue since last Saturday. are
under the impression that Kansas City
has again been visited by kidnapers.
The girl, who is 10 years old, left home
with no extra clothing whatever and
nothing has been seen or heard of her
since that time. The present kidnap-
ing or disappearance is the sequel to
a double kidnapping case OF thirteen
years ago, and IL is believed to be a
part of that crime. Ella Is the heress
to three farms left by her grandfather,
and it is supposed that designing rela-
tives have abducted her for the purpose
of getting hold of the property. When
Ella was little over years old she
was living with her grandmother and
one afternoon she was spirited away
and all clew to her lost. At the same
time little girl named Maud jackson,
S years old, was taken from her home
in Wyandotte, and the two children
were hidden SO completely that nothing
was heard of them until about a year
ago, when the detectives found both OF
the girls in Catholic conyen. in Lead
vile, Colo, where they were held for
$500 each for expenses claimed by the
managers of the institution. When
they were found 1t was discovered that
they had been carried about the coun-
try by gypsy woman. who used them
for begging purposes. When this wo-
man treated them too cruelty in Colo
RADIO they were taken away by officers
and placed in the convent. where they
all the time the distracted
parents were searching for them. When
1t was announced that they were found
Mrs. Jackson, who had spent years in
travelling over the country, in the guise
of a book agent, in search of her
child, dropped dead from the shock.
Her child still remains in the con-
vent, but Ella Day was taken by her
and brought to her home
in this city about year ago. From
that time To this there has been no
trouble and the girl showed a very
studious disposition and Stunned COM
pany. Last Saturday she went out for
a walk on some slight errand and has
not been seen since. From stories let
drop by the girl it appears that she
knew several secrets of a bad gang OF
outlaws, and 1t rs feared that either
this gang has got possession of her to
silence her, or else some of the rela-
tives on the fathers side had taken her
TO get possession of the property which
will eventually belong to her.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06
WRECK ON THE 3. AND O.
Plttsburg Flyer co.lldss With a Freight.
Several Severely Hurt

PITTsBURa, April 29.-At $50 o'clock
this morning the Union and Pittsburg
s'Hyer" train No. on the Baltimore
aud Ohio railroad. coilided with q
freight train at Griffin station, near
West Newton. Conductor Hunt, OF
the passenger train, was seriously in
jured. Fireman Neville, OF the freight,
also received painful injuries. A
passenger namedJ. NJ. Hill, of Dawson,
Pa, had one of his feet badly crushed
Both trains were badly wrecked and
the tracks blocked several hours.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06
PHILLIPS BROOKS SUCCESSOR
Bishop w. HWs, OF South Dakota Is Nomi,
nlt,dfor the Postio,.


Sioux FALLS, s. H., April as.-A tel.
egram was received here at noon from
Boston stating that the conservatives
had chosen bishop w. Hare. of this
city as their candidate for the Phillips
Brools' vacancy as bishop OF Massachu-
sets. Later the bishop received a for.
NAL notification of the nomi.
nation. To your correspondent the
bishop said: ~ cannot see
how can leave my work in South Da-
kota, where l have been for twenty
years and where large interests are de-
pendent upon me. The college here
and FIVE Indian schools in the state are
almost entirely dependent on me- per-
sonally. Had the divorce law remained
unchanged l should have cheerfully
left the state, hut now that the state Is
relieved from that disgrace l
feel must stay. am
not insensible to the high
honor given. but cannot now say that
wall accept" The bishop did not pos.
itively say that he would decline, but
strongly intimated that such would be
his action. AT late hour tins after
noon the bishop telegraphed an answer,
the exact wording of which he did not
disclose.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06
sav.nys Bank closss rs Doors.

LANsINa, Mich, April es.-Thc Ing
ham County Savings bank closed its
doors Thursday. 1t Is the bank ON
which the run begun about April 10.
About that time Bank Commissioners
Sherwood made a speech which caimed
the excitement for the time. The
closing Of the bank IL due TO its In
ability to realize on securities. The
directors attribute the banks difficult
ties TO the unsatisfactory condition ?.
the money market.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06

vessel in the feet manned yards and
and rails and once more fired a salute
of twenty-one guns, following the Dol
phin's lead. Then tho presidents flag
was lowered by the Dolphin and the
public ceremonies of the day were con-
sidered over
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06
An ordinary houselly has 5000 eyess
dragcofy. 2S,0oo eyes.

Little Mamma. I was playin'
with your o'clock tea set while Won
were away, an when you bring it out
Tor company You'll be awfully mortified
cause you'll think one of the Guns bas
hair in it, but it isn't a hair. Mann
ma-What is it? Little Dot--It's only
u crack--Good Ne,cs.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06

A telegraph operator at Sedro Wash,
who has grown very tired of answering
foolish questions, has posted the fol-
lowing, written on typewriter, just
outside his Office window: Notice
Yes, your message Will go at once. 1t
will be sent Immediately. In fact, we
send all messages as soon as we can.
We know you wish your telegram sent
1t once, otherwise you would write.
Special Notice-The supreme being only
IAN inform you when you will receive
reply"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06

Many of those family names ending
In ington" are of Teutonic origin and
their formation proves that they run
back into the infancy of German his
tory. The ling" in such cases is
2atronymic and the ham is merely
''heim," meaning home. The double
,uffix indicates the swarming off of
family or tribe from the original settle
nent The subtribal settlements are
written all over the map Of Europe
wherever Teutonic people are or have
been
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06
Custer Chronicle.
JOSEPH KUBLER, PUBLISHER
An "art;st" Mt the Moulin Rouge Is

An artist" at the Moulin Rouge is
delighting Partisan audiences by his
performance of drinking eighty books
of beer, about five gallons, nightly.
An eating man is doing turns with him
In a Viennese music hall, and his ordi-
nary nightly meal is eight eggs, sew
eral loaves of bread, some pounds of
meat, raw cabbage and various side
dishes. London managers are trying
to secure the couple, and expect they
will be great attraction after the glut
of fasting men.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06

Down in Edgefeld, S. c., chicken
raisers are advised to bait their chick
ems with strychnine in order to destroy
hawks. A paste of strychnine the size
Of pi. bead is placed on the head of
chicken and then the fowl is turned
out where the hawk may have free
chance at the prey. To seize chicken
so baited usually means death to the
hawk and as there are more chickens
than hawks this is esteemed an eco
nomcal way of destroying the latter
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06

In Table Rock, Neb. the wife of the
present republican postmaster, whose
term has about expired, has appealed
TO the administration to let the Office
remain in the family because she is a
stalwart democrat. Her case is not un-
like one that attracted some attention
in England recently. The occupant of
desirable postmastership there was
about 10 be retired because of having
reached the age limit, and his wife ap-
piled for and obtained the place.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06

A branch of those Carmans for whom
the ancient village near Washington
Heights was named were tories dur
ing the war OF independence, and
as such they fled to Canada. They still
live there and one of them recently on
visit to New York proved to be an in
tsnseiy British person, with an odd
fondness of proclaiming himself an
American, and of disputing that title
with the people of the United States in
behalf Of all native Canadians.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06
THERE'LL BE NO SORROW THERE
Baron Flurscheim and Othsrs to Put Into
practices Their Theories.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May l.-Barop
NJ. Flurscheim, the German writer and
reformer, is in this city and next Mons
day will attend q meetingat Ellsworth,
Kan, where the Kansas Simaloa COM
pany at Topolobampo Bay, Mexico,
will be reorganized.
Flurscheim and others will devote
all their money and energy to show
that complete cooperation oan be es.
tablished and that II will Danish all ills
Of the body polite. The Swiss referen.
dunn will be introduced. The Simaloa
company Is the $, &C ,ssor of the Credit
Foncier of Paris. II controls 100, 900
acres.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06
AFamouy o.d Hos tlery.

NEw York, May i.--Sweeney's ho-
tel, at Park Row and Duane street,
once . famous resort for Roman Catho-
lie clergymen and Irish leaders and for
many other noted men. went under the
hammer today and will be razed to the
ground. Its collection of registers will
probably bo sold to some numisniatist
society. Among the names they con.
tain are those OF Generals Grant, Mo
Clellan and sherman.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06
IOWA q. A. r. ENCAMPMENT.
Adl'urnmsnt OF the Meeting at ksoxuk.,
Council Bluffs ths Nsst Placs.

Council Bluffs ths Nsxt Placs.
kEoKUK, Ia, April 2s.--The second
day of the Iowa department cncamp.
ment, q. A. r., was devoted wholly to
business Phil Sohaller, Sac City, was
elected department commander; Thos.
He'll, Fairfield. senior vice-president;
j.. s, s. Trouse, West Mitchell, junior
vice commander, and Rev. @. X. Hoover,
Davenport, chaplain. The next en-
campment will be held at Council
Bluffs.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06
A Plunger.

Senior Partner -"Send for an expert
and have our cashiers books exam.
ined at once"
Junior Partner-"Bless us! WHAT'S
happened?'
Senior Partner-"lIe asked for
day of TO take his girl out slcighing."
~, T. Iyeekiy.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06

another use has been found for elec.
tricity. In Ceylon experiments have
shown that IL Is more economical To
dry leaves by its agency than by the
old method and extensive plants have
been erected for that purpose.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06

A A curiosity Of journalism is estab-
shed on the top Of Mount Washing
46n. the highest peak of New England,
where an enterprising printer has built
an office. from which he periodically
issues newspaper named. with much
truth, Among the Clouds.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06

The business Of colonizing Africa
with white people goes on apace. An
expedition left England some weeks
ago for Mozambique rs advance party
of settlers. who are to colonize some
900 square miles of territory between
,the rivers Zambesi and Sabi.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06

A quaint illustration of French pru-
aence and delicacy and of prevailing or
approaching French fashions is con-
tanned in the notice recently issued to
the police VINO patrol the bathing beach
at Dieppe for their guidance in the
coming season. 1t reads: THE bath
ing police are requested when a lady is
in danger of drowning to seize her by
the dress, and not by the hair, which
oftentimes remains in their grasp"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06

A pistol duel has taken place be-
tween two ladies near Berlin, four
other ladies acting as seconds. The la
dies were not amazons, and owing to
their awkward handling of the weap-
ons the incident had no evil conse-
quences, but it illustrates the progress
i've spirit of the time for women thus
heroically to avenge their wrongs.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06

From base to summit of mountain
of dark red sandstone, 800 feet high, in
Weber canon, Utah territory. there Is
said TO be smooth white floor, with
all tho appearance of slide, reaching
from the top Of the mountain to the
bcd Of the Weber river.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06

Wisdom may be compared 70 water,
% water leaves the height and gathers In
the depths; 20 is wisdom received from
on nigh snd preserved bya lowiy soul -
Tslmud.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06

Residents of Dodds' Ferry, n. Y, are
sired Of that euphonious name, and in
tend having the name changed. The
name is derived from the fact that Jer-
emiah Dodds. Swede, who was fish
erman and lived at Willow Point, near
the southern line Of the village. added
to his meager income prior to and dur
ing the revolution by ferrying occa-
sional travellers across the Hudson.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06

The prevalent idea that commissions
IN the British army are still the privi-
,lege Of younger sons Of the nobility Is
altogether erroneous. Among the stu
80 ats. numbering nearly COO. at Sand
s,.d., there are only four sons of peers
W of baroncts.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06

A new order of things has lately
come about in Siam, and the young
men are getting great and unusual
share in the government of the coun-
try. From the king downward" says
traveller just back from that country,
there is scarcely single minister
VINO is above the age of Al, and many
are much younger,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06

The doctors from ali over the United
States and parts of Canada in attend
ance upon the recent quarantine con-
gress- were impressed with the ineffect-
-iSeness of the quarantine regulations
OF the United States. taken as q whole.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06

why destroy present happiness by .
distant misery which may never come ut
all. o. you may never Iiveto see II. Every
oabstantisl grief Shasl twenty shadows,
snA most Of them shadow of our own
spahing. IS dney Smith.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06

Delaware has curious collection of
odd surnames. There is a family of
Colts in Kent county. The Peppers and
Mustards have long lived neighb bors in
Sussex, and there are Peaches in New
castle county, inauspiciously settled
north of the peach belt. One man
named his three sons for the several
counties of the state, and Delaware is
an occasional christian name.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06

Ideal beauty 10 . fugitive never TO bs
located. Mime. SevIgne.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06

Unfortunately, Elizabeth's keenness
Of insight was not combined with any i'ro-
found concern for serious things. She
was without the intellectual emotions
which give human character its consis-
tency and power. One moral quality she
possessed In an eminent degree; she was
supremely brave. She had proper con-
tempt also for idle luxury and indulgence;
She lived simply, worked hard, and ruled
her household with rigid economy. But
her vanity was as unsuitable rs 1t was
commonplace. Her entire nature was
saturated with artifice. Except when
speaking some round untruth Eliza beth
never could be simple. .-Froude.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06

None but direct villains are capable
Of willful ingratitude. Pope.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06

Young love-msking, that gossamer
web! Even the points IL clings to-the
things whence les subtle inte rlacings are
swung-sre scarcely perceptible; momen-
tsry touches OF finger tips, meetings OF
rays from blue aud dark Orbs, unfinished
phrases, lightest changes Of cheek and
lin, faintest tremors. The web itself Is
made of spontaneous beliefs and undefin-
able Joys, yearnings OF one life toward
another, Visions of completeness, indefin.
ite trust George Eliot
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-06-14
Seventeen Cases Yesterday.

In tho mayors court yesterday
Georgia Frank and Nellie White were
fined $50 and costs each for keeping
houses, and the eleven inmates and
visitors in their houses s. and costs
each. All paid. Harry Hill paid S.
and costs for assault, Robert Norrington
81 and costs on the Same charge, and
Annie Stevens, whose case was post
poned from the day before, 81 and costs
as an inmate Of the house, the fact that
she was nursing sick girl being con-
sidered mitigating circumstance.
Joseph Kegel went to tho hill for fifteen
days in default of fine OF 81 and costs.
A warrant was issued for =. II. Hig.
gins, a butcher, for throwing oGal in
the back river.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-06-14
FOR THE PARADE.
wheolmen Meet Friday Evening to Com
plete Arrangements.

wheelmen Meet Friday Evening to Com.
plete Arrangements.
The wheelmen OF tho city are called
to meet at the chamber OF commerce
rooms Friday evening for the purpose
OF completing arrangements for the
bicycle division in the big street dem
onstration on the Columbian Fourth Of
July. Every wheelman in Wheeling
who intends to take part in the parade
should attend Friday evenings meet
ing, and no one riding wheel should
fail to be there, as all the arrangements
for the wheeling features of the days
celebration will be completed. From
present indications it looks as though
thero would be two or three hundred
wheels in line; the boys are all taking
great deal OF interest in the affair.
Matters in connection with tho road
race will also be discussed at the same
meeting, and if possible lantern parade
for the evening Of the Fourth will be
arranged,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-06-14
ELKs, REaIsTER.
wheeling Lodge Is Right in 1t and Makes
Good Showing,

Wheeling Lodge Is Right in 1t and Makes
nGoOd Showing.
John +. Richardson, secretary OF
Wheeling lodge, 3. 2. o. Elks, has re-
ceived an advance copy of the much
looked-for Elks' Annual Register, which
is issued for the first time since the
organization Of that order The works.
ably edited by Allen o. Myers, the
grand secretary, at Cincinnati. 1t con-
tains q complete history of tho order,
also the name OF every officer and men,
Der of the grand lodge and each sub.
ordinate lodge. There are over 10000
Elks in the country, Two pages and q
half are devoted to the order in Wheel.
ing, one full page fine illustration OF
the Elks' first minstrel parade passing
down Fourteenth street, This Is tol-
lowed by brief history OF the lodge,
which was instituted June -, 1884, by
members OF Pittsburgh lodge No. II,
The frat officers that served We're Ed,
Larkin, exalted ruler; Capt. i. b,
Dovenor, esteemed leading knight
Albert A. Franzheim, esteemed loyal
knight; Oscar seeley, esteemed lectur-
ing knight; Charles B. OFT, secretary;
Thomas Fl, B. Haase, treasurer, and
Camden Sommers, tiler. The trustees
were DIR. George ]. Caddle, Charles
Howell and Walter Rinehart
In 1889 tho charter and all lodge
room records were destroyed by fire in
the G. A, r. hall, and since then new
charter has been taken out, and over
$50 members have been enrolled, At
present there are 2l2 active members.
All the names OF these are given, The
work Is especially valuable as book OF
reference and is full OF interesting in.
formation. Among the portraits Of the
noted Elks OF the country il one OF
Gov, w. A. MacCorkle, OF this state,
Secretary Richardson was one OF the
FIVE prize.winners Of the country for
his promptness in sending in his lnfor'
nation. He says every Elk IN the
country ought TO have one, 1t is a
thing OF beauty, bound in black morocco
and illuminated in fine gold tracery,
and is full Of illustrations,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-06-14

There has always been something
lacking in the Wheeling bands, and that
ia the gay and pompous drum major at
the head. At last Wheeling is to have
one. The Opera House Band has &C.
cured IN artist in that line, and has or
dered stunning outfit for him, consist
ing oftheregulation shaco and agorgeous
uniform with lots OF gold about it. lie
will appear for the first time in the O.
W. /. Club parade and outing at the
Park next Tuesday. The whole band
Of twenty-one pieces will appearin their
brand new uniforms.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-06-14
nnlIronh omclnl Chnnres.

W. II. Chatten, Wheeling & Lake
Erie agent at Steubenvllle, has resigned
to accept position under j. Z. Terry,
in the general freight service of the
Cleveland, lorain & Wheeling road,
with headquarters at Cleveland. Mr..
Chatter has been very popular with
shippers and the travelling public, and
his departure will be regretted. He
will be succeeded by NJ. q. Gillett,
union ticket agent at Wheeling. Mr..
Fowler, heretofore Mr.. Chatten's as
sistant, succeeds Mr.. Gillett here.