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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-11-25
MARTIAL LAW IN CHICAGO
After I a. M. People Must Teli
Why They're Out.
The Saturnalia Of Crime In the Lake City
Makes Extreme Measures Necessary.
Suspect Arrested for Rookery
Robbery-.Not the Man.

CHICAGO, Nov. Recommending CO.
night Chicago will be between the
hours of | and 6 a. m, practically
under martial law with the police force
as a garrison. Every person found or
the streets, outside the few street.
where business is carried on all night
will be halted by officers in plais
clothes and requested TO give an
account of himself. He will be
asked his NAME, residence and the cause
of his being on the street at SO late az
hour. Every person SO ~accosted VINO
will give the required information viii
be allowed to proceed. Persons who
refuse 70 answer the questions or shall
act in a suspicious manner or have
weapons or tools hat might be used 10
burglary in their possession Will bt
placed under arrest.
by this rigid method it is hoped that
many Of the midnight providers whc
have committed SO many murders and
ourglaries recently will be captured OF
frightened away from the city.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-11-25
STEAD RIVALS KELLEY
The London Editor Has a Drunkard Cure
OF His Own.

LONDON, Nov. 10. - Editor w. T.
Stead Of the Review of Reviews, who
attained world wide fame some year
ago by publishing in the Fall Mali Ga
zette the details of the Cleveland street
scandal and who has since identified
himself with many unique plans for the
social amelioration of mandind, before
his departure for Chicago, where
he has been ventilating his ideas dur
ing the present week. secured eight
representative drunkards. and placed
them in the hands of n physician for
treatment of ~alcohlism. -Four of the
patients were men, three of them mar
ried or widows, and one IA spinster, all
of whom were yesterday announced as
cured with the exception OF one of the
women who had not followed
the directions. Mr.. Stead first
became interested in the medical
treatment of drunkenness through the
keeley treatment, but he considers the
method adopted in his experiment SUI
pcrior to that advocated by DR., Kelley.
The exact nature of the remedy has
not been disclosed, but it is said TO be
a powerful tonic of extreme bitterness.
During the first two days it reduces the
patient to a condition of extreme mis-
cry, with sickness. headache and fever
ish ague after which a reaction takes
place resulting in the complete annihi-
lation of the desire for alcoholic stimu.
lante
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-11-25
REJOICE.
The r allure OF Amer ans 10 Manufacture
Tin the Cause.

LONDON, Nov. 1s.-There is in many
parts of Wales what might almost bc
termed a national jubilee over two
events which affect the industrial con
dition of that district and its trade re.
lations with the United States. The
first occasion for felicitatlon was the
decision on the part of Messrs. lore
wood & Co., who are among
the largest manufacturers of tin
plate in Wales, TO transform their
works at Elizabethport, y. j., into an
esta Adjustment for the manufacture of
corrugated iron, and to bring back to
this country the Welsh tin workers
whom they had sent to America imme-
diately after the passage of the McKin-
ley act. Over "A score of these tin work
ers returned to Cwnbwrla, Wales, yes
terday. aud were accorded a hearty re-
ception by their countrymen. who re-
garded the event as an evidence of the
failure of the Mckinley law to render
the coating of black plates in America
profitable, and as an augury of the APP
proach of better times in Wales.
The second stroke of good fortune
which has fallen TO the lot of Wales,
and II which for the past two days
has been the subject of editorials in all
the leading Welsh papers and in many
journals throughout the united king
dom, is the consummation of contracts
for the shipment of 500, 900 ons Of
anthracite coal annually from Wales TO
the United States. Negotiations looking
to this end have long been in progress
between Messrs. Il. A. Cleeves K Co.
Swansea and an American syndicate
consisting of large dealers in eastern
cities, which is represented by Colonel
j. w. Sutherland. There is no import
duty in the United States on anthracite
coal, it having been thought up to this
time that hard coal could not be i'm
ported at a profit. 1t is claimed,
however, that Welsh coal can
be landed in the United States
aid sold at least 25 cents per ton
cheaper than Pennsylvania coal. Ar
engagements are already under way for
the construction of n line of whale
back steamers for this trade and for the
requirement of adequate ~dockage, stor-
age and landing facilities near New
York city.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-11-25
THE NEW TARIFF BILL.
Voorhees, Says II viii Not Be Rusheo
Through, but There Win Be No unnec.
Aeraru nalan

ess'ry Delay.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Nov. 1s.-Sen'
ator Voorhees,, who has been home for
two weeks between sessions of con
gress, said to n United Press reporter
that he expected the house would send
holidays. The bill is now being pre-
pared and the senator is confident the
measure will not be delayed in the
house. 1t will be feferred TO the com
mittee on finance of which he is chair
man.
When asked IL affected interests
would be given a hearing by the com
mittee, Mr.. Voorhees, said that ample
opportunity would be afforded to all.
There would be no effort to rush the
measure ~recklessly. Undoubtedly
there would be final action
taken on the measure mt
this session. 1t was imperative
that there should be no unnecessary
delay. The senator expressed regret
that there should be frequent legisla'
ton on the tariff because it was hurt
full to the industrial and business in
terests of the country. lie regarded
the tariff as taxation and believed 1T
should be adjusted so as to least dis
turb the business interests OF the
country.
The senator was unwilling to express
an opinion on the Hawaiian situation.
Assuming the facts to be as stated by
Secretary Gresham he Endorsed the ac-
ton of the administration.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-11-25
"A GAtGTY GIRL"
E~ngiand's Play Censor Changes the Name
OF a Character,

england's Play Censor Changes the Name
Of Character.
LONDON, Nov. ls.-One of the most
absurd exercises OF the power OF the
government to expurgate objection
able" passages from plays or operate
productions that has been inflicted on
theater goers for many years has
marked the production of "A Gaiety
Girl at the Prince of Wales theater.
One of the young ladies in tights who
takes part in this operctta has hitherto
been known rs ''Sir Francis May.
Judge of the Divorce Court Now il
so happens that Sir Francis Jeune
pronounced June) presides over this
department of her majesty's judiciary.
and it was thought by Mr. Piggott, the
government examiner of plays,
that it was little less than
treason TO name a comic opera star
Sir Francis May, when one Of the
judges OF the realm was named after
the following month. The gravity Of
the offense was added TO by the fact
that the prefix "Sir Francis" was the
same in 9TH cases, and by the further
fact that tie blonde young lady was
attired in robes bearing some similar.
ity to those of the eminent juror. Be.
ginning with tonight's performance,
therefore, she will be known as Sir
Charles Grey instead of Sir Francis
May.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-11-25
TRIPLE MURDER AND SUICIDE
Awful Crime Committed by a Black Hills
Italian.

lIdildU.
DEApwooD, s. D., Nov. ls.-The most
horrible crime ever committed in the
HiNs was perpetrated at noon Thurs
day by Joe Thas, an Italian miner. Inc
crime was fiendishly planned and de-
liberately executed.
Some time ago Thas' wife left him
owing to his dissolute habits and went
TO live with her cousin, Jacco Tannitta
and his wife. Thas has on numerous
occasions tried TO make his wife live
with him, but co no purpose.
At noon he called at the house and
shortly afterwards the neighbors heard
four shots at intervals of IL few mo-
ments, but nothing was thought of it.
At . o'clock n pcddier called at the
house and hearing grOans entered,
thinking somebody vas Sick. A horri'
bic sight elet his gaze. Lying in the
woodshed was Joe Thas gasping, with
a mortal wound in his head and a 3s'
caliber revolver III his hand, uncon-
scious.
On the kitchen floor lying cold in
death was Jacco Tannitta, Mrs. Jacco
Tannitta and Mrs. Joe Thas, with
blood streaming from their horrible
wounds inflicted 10y Thas' revolver. In
addition to tho bullet wound Mrs.
Tannitta had been struck in the head
with an AK.
Playing on the floor were Mrs.
Tannitta's two children, one an infant,
and curled up on Mrs. Thas' dress were
two puppies.
That Thas went to the house with a
murderous intention is not doubted as
the doors were locked on the inside
evidently by him and the shots were
fred almost instantly after he entered.
a month ago Thas exploded n bomt
under Tannitta's house, wreclSing it
This last act of his was not surprising
to the neighbors as he was a Preacher
Gus and murderous fellow. lie annoi
live.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-11-25
u DAKOTA NEWS.
May Solve a P~erples'ng Question.

CHAMBERLAIN, ). d., Nov. ia tax
case which comes to trial before Judge
Smith in Douglas county on the esd
will probably dispose Of n perplexing
question. During the recent annual
tax sale in Douglas county an injunc1
ton was served on the treasurer re-
straining him from selling the lands
which had been advertised for personal
taxes, and only the tracts advertised
for 1892 personal taxes were sold. The
taxes on account of which Judge Smith
issued the injunction are personal taxes
for the years 1884, 1855, 1886, 1887 and
1883. which the treasurers failed TO coll
lect at the proper time. Many Of the
parties owing these taxes have left the
country and their real estate has passed
in many cases into the hands of inno-
cent purchasers. The law says these
taxes are a lien against the real estate
of these parties, and in order to clear
his books the present county treasurer
advertised and proposed TO sell the
lands against which these taxes were
liens.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-11-25
The Yankton Treaty,

CHAMBERLAIN. 8. d., Nov. ia
special agent of the interior depart
ment was at Yankton agency last week
for the purpose Of finding cat whether
or not the Indians at hat agency arc
In favor OF n ratification OF the treaty
made with them last winter. At the
time the treaty was negotiated there
was strong opposition among the In
dians, but since the appropriations
have become exhausted and the rations
are all gone, a great change has taken
place, and it is reliably reported that
they are now unanimously in favor of
the treaty as 1t now stands. The treaty
will be ratified at the coming session OF
congress and the reservation will bo
opened for settlement next spring.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-11-25
CLEW TO ROoKeRY ROBBERS
Chicago Police Furnished a Pointer by a

Chicago Police Furnished a Pointer by a
New;boy Who wv the Thieves.
CHICAGO, Nov. l7.-lt Is announced
that the police have obtained a slight
clew to the identity of the two mer
who robbed Treasurer Drake, of thu
Illinois, Indiana and Iowa railway OF
over 10000. A newsboy was found
who said that in making his rounds he
saw I'VE men hurriedly emerge from
the Rookery building where the rob
berry took place about the time of the
assault. From the description given
by the boy the police professed to think
they would be able TO apprehend the
obber
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-11-25
VOTING FOR POSTMASTER
Richmond, Indiana, Democrats Settling II at
the Polls.

RICHMOND, Ind, Nov. ls.-As a re.
Gratis of this city decided some weeks
ago to submit the selection Of n candi-
date for postmaster to a popular vote
of the party, and in accordance with
this decision local democrats are today
casting ballots for an officer whose
position is lot elective but appointive.
1t is thought, however, that President
Cleveland will defer TO the wishes
of the voters and appoint the candidate
who receives the largest number OF
votes. 1t is believed hat this is the
first time that a question of this nature
has been submitted TO "a party vote.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-11-25
Trouble ia Argent ne Republic.

BERNE, Nov. ls.-Considerable ex.
element has been caused here by the
receipt Of news from Rosario, Argen-
tine Republic, to the effect that q
Swiss family living in that province
had been massacred. The Swiss
colonists in the province banded
together and lynched the criminals.
Then the police arrested those who had
taken part in the lynching. Forty of
the colonists, all OF whom went out
from Berne, were thrown into pri-
son, where they still remain. The
Swiss minister TO the Argentine Repub-
lie Is away from his post on
leave of absence and the Swiss govern
ment, will, it is said, apply to the gov
eminent Of the United States to in
struct its representative to intervene in
behalf Of the Swiss.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-11-25
Army NsWs.

WASHINGTON. Nov. 1s.--A reassign
ment of assistant adjutant generals o
the army was made today by a genera
order issued by the war department
Lieutenant Colonel NJ. v. Sheridan
stationed at Omaha rs assistant adju
tant general of the department
of the Platte, Is transferred to the head
quarters of the department of Dakot,
ut st. Paul in the same capacity.
Major Theodore Schwan, assistan
adjutant general Of the department o
Dakota, goes from st. Paul to Omaha
taking Lieutenant Colonel sheridan
place.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-11-25
A
Torpedo Boat Built at Oshkosh That Clides
U,dsr Water Like a Fish.

" SNakO 1IhO a TIsns
OSHKOSH, Wis. Nov. 1s.-The Daily
Northwestern publishes q full descrip-
ton Of n new submarine boat just com.
pleted here and which has been under
trial for the past few days with com.
plete success. The boat is u steel she'll,
cigar shaped, 80 feet long and s feet in
diameter, with "a dome in the center,
which is Theoretically sealed when in
operation. Electric machinery by stor.
age batteries propeis the craft,
lights it and raises and low
ers it in the water. There are
also machinery and chemical apparatus
for manufacturing air for twenty-four
hours. A %, 1000 candle power search
light swings in the dome, which has
lenses on all sides. All the machinery
works automatically and the craft
rises and falls and speeds under water
like a fish. Much of the apparatus
came from France. Several people
here have been down in her during
her successful experiments the last few
days and the boat is pronounced a mar
vel OF inventive skill by all who have
seen it. The inventor and constructor
is Richard Raddatz, a young man OF
this city who has spent years OF study
and work upon 1t.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-11-25
HoKE SMITH. FIRM BREAKS UP
The Secretary of the interior Gives Up His
Law Pr,ctice.

ATLANTA, Ga, Nov. 1s.-Announce-
ment has been made that the law firm
of Smith. Glen & Smith has been dis
solved. Hon. Holse Smith, secretary OF
the interior, is the head of the firm,
the other principals being Colonel John
7. Glenn and Mr.. Smiths brother. 1t
Is the general belief here hat this
means that Secretary Smith will, in all
probability, not rcturn TO active prac-
tice at Atlanta. His friends here re.
gard it a. probable that he will go on
the United States supreme bench. II
not il is considered certain that no
will either enter politics as a candidate
for Gordon's seat in the senate or will
remove to New York to practice his
profession. Secretary Smith is not
here and the other members Of the
firm will not talk.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-11-25
ARTESIAN WELL LOOSE.
A Spouter Near Huron Shoots Seventy Feet
Into the Air.

~
Into the Air.
Huron, 5. D., Nov. ls.-The leak in
the stand pipe at the Risdon artesian
well has not yet been stopped, and an
immense stream of water continues to
shoot up 20 feet in the air. Experts
have examined the break but decline to
make any repairs without orders from
either Mr.. Risdon or the parties in
Lima, Ohio, who claim TO have posses
sion of the well. AS the question of
ownership is to be settled in the courts.
no one feels ut liberty to make the
needed repairs without the expense of
the work be made good by some re-
sponsible party. The water is
rapidly covering the low lands in
the vicinity of the well and un-
less bitches are opened to carry the
water into the river n big bill for dam
ages sustained by the people living
near by will have to be met by some
one. The well has several times before
become unmanageable. AS it now APP
pears the sight is grand. Crowds OF
people visit it daily. Passengers on in
coming trains have a view OF the col
umn of water for n distrance of three
miles or more before reaching the city
and describe it as u most beautiful
sight.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-11-25
State Interest Fund,

SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Nov. 1s.-Thi.
county has received from the state &
warrant for s., 9s4 as its share of thu
state interest fund. Accompanying
tho remittance is a letter from Coe /.
Crawford, attorney general, in which
he says hat Major Ruthland commits
sioner, declares that he has made the
apportionment as early as could reason
ably have been expected under the cir
cumstances. As a matter of fact the
remittance has been due since July,
and the school officers of this county
had to lodge actual complaint with the
attorney general before they could gel
any satisfaction whatever from the
commissioner.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-11-25
LOST IN THE FROZEN NORTH
Relics Of the sweds h Explorer Fiorling

Found b. ths Wh7ler aurora.
DUNDEE, Nov. 19.-Captain Mackay
of the whaling vessel Aurora, describ-
ing the discovery in the Arctic regions
of the relics of the Swedish explorer
Bjorling, says he had forced his way
through Melville bay and entered
Smith sound when, on June
II, from the masthead of his
vessel the wreck of a schooner
was described on the southeast
coast of Carey island. He SEN a
searching party ashore in charge Of DIR.
Allen and they found the schooner was
the Ripple. She was lying broadside
to, almost encased in ice. In addition
to the cairns which were found the
party came across a trunk, which con-
tanned instruments, notes and diaries,
AL of which were forwarded to the
Swedish authorities. There was also
found n letter addressed TO Rev. DIR.
Harvey of Newfoundland, which vas
forwarded to that gentleman.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-11-25
SAYS THE CLERK Is SHORT.
Public Examiner Meyers Makes Charges
The Clerks r. ply.


The Clerks r. ply.
Sioux FALLS, 5. d., Nov. 1S.-Public
Examiner c. ii. Meyers has reported to
the chairman of the county commits.
sioners that Albion Thorne, clerk OF
the courts, is short about $1,000. The
exact amount is not known as the re.
ort has not yet been formally pre-
sented before the board. The clerk in
an interview says the examiner has
done his work in a careless sort of way
and that when an investigation is made
the report will be found to be incorrect.
On the matter of equity cases the clerk
is reported to be short on 70 cases
amounting to $3G5, when as IA matter OF
fact, as his books show. he has reported
all but 81. These he has not reported
on because the clerk himself has no.
yet been paid the fees on them. o.
these causes the clerk claims to have
paid on 80 or 40 for which he has "a
yet received nothing, SO that in
stead of being short on these items heis
In reality out. The most interesting
part of the report is thas upon final
land proof as it brings up a questiNn
which will be of large interest over the
state. Clerk Thorne is charged with
5000 for final entry fees. The clerk has
never turned these fees into the county
and it is understood that no clerk in
the state has done SO. To make then
final proofs is not one of the statute
duties of the office and the clerks re-
garding it as extra work have claimed
a right to the extra pay. The exam
liner on the contrary claims that these
fees belong to the county. Clerl
Thorne says he will test the question
in the court before he will turn owe,
these fees to the county. The amount
involved with all the counties in The
state is about $4,000, Mr.. Thorne eX
plains to the entire satisfaction OF tn,
public the other items IN which
shortage is claimed.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-11-25
Frank P.,eIp, Murder CASE.

ALEXANDRIA, S. D., Nov. 1s.-Court
will sit hero November e with the
Frank Phelps murder case first on the
docket. The murder of which Phelp.
Is accused was committed in Lyman
county last spring. AS the county wa.
unorganizcd the case was ordered tried
in Hanson county. 1t is laid that about
sixty witnesses will be called on t.
testify.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-11-25
SPAIN WILL BE SEVERE.
Anarchists viii Be Shown No Mercy In the
Land OF the Don.

MADRID. Nov. 14-The procurator Of
the supreme court has issued n circular
addressed to all judges in Spain direct
ing them TO deal severely with ali
teachers of anarchy, whether they con
duct their propaganda in newspapers
or elsewhere. Since the explosion in
the Lyceum theater at Barcelona l03
arrests of anarchists have been made in
that city. Seditious documents were
found upon two of the prisoners.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-11-25
Mss GOULD TO WEDAN ACTOR
Harry Woodruff Of the "charley's Auntie"
Coynp,pv the P,iz, Winnor.

Wy
CHICAGO, Nov. 1s.-A special to the
Post from New York says: Helen
Gould. the ~2l-year-old daughter of the
late wizard of Wall street and heiress
of $40, 600, 900, has chosen n life
partner from the stage. The for
tunate mar is Harry Woodruff,
IA young actor and now playing in the
''Charley's Aunt company at the
Standard theater i'm this city. He has
handed in his resignation. to take ef-
feet next Saturday night, and upon his
retirement will go 10 Yale college to
study law for two years preliminary to
espousing Miss Helen in wedlock.
George Gould has consented TO pay all
his expenses and is said to have given
the young nan Sl0,0 to keep his
mouth closed until the expiration of
the two years of probation.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-11-25
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.
A Paris Shoe Maker Slabs the Servian sps.
cl 4 Envy.

PARIS, Nov. 14.-Last night NJ.
Georgevich. special envoy of servia TO
France. was dining in q restaurant in,
the Avenue de rOpera when q would
be assassin stabbed him. The
man was seized, knife In hand, by
two gendarmes. 1t has been learned
that he 10 y shoe maker named Leo
Lanthier. He In 10 years old 1t To-
believed hat he IL insane. NJ. George
vich In addition to being a special en-
voy 10 charge d'affaires of the Seryiap,
.eget'on' he was removed TO q hospi-.
,ai immediately after the attsnpt upon
ms lie. II Is said this morning that
MS condition has become worse.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-11-25
alsmarck Replls, 10 WEN wi,hsrs,

EERLIN, Nov. l7.-Prince BISMARCK
has cent a telegraphic reply to a mes
sage received a few days ago from hi,
admirers in west Prussia, expressing
the hope Of his speedy and full recov
cry from his illness. The prince in hi
message said: "sMy recovery pro
crosses slowly though steadily. Will
Gods aid ! hope In the course Of tn
winter to regain my former health.