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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-05-26
STORM ABATING ON THELAKE
Michigan Waves Not So High, but
Still Dangerous.
Four Men Lose Their Lives In an Attempt
to Rescue the Crew Of n Distressed
Schooner-Severa Vessels
I'm Danger.

CHICAGO, May l9.-Thc furious
northeast gale which swept over LaRe
Michigan yesterday carrying death
and destruction before it was consid
erably abated this morning. The wind
still blew with terrific force and dashed
the waters into gigantic waves, but
when day broke il was seen that those
OF tho fleet anchored of this city
which had survived yester-
days storm were still hold
ing their own. Thousands OF people
lined the shore and watched the ships
tossing about in the angry sea, expect
ing every minute to see one OF them
tear away from its anchor and drift
helplessly on the breakwater. Tugs,
however, had been working from an
carly hour bringing the endangered
craft to safe nsoorings inside Ia harbor
and it is believed no more disasters will
occur to the ships in this fleet.
Following are the vessels wrecked In
the vicinity of Chicago: Evening Star,
schooner {. e.. Mixer, schooner Myrtle,
schooner Lincoln Dali, schooner Jack
Thompson, schooner j.. Boomis Me-
Laren. schooner Mercury, schooner
Rainbow.
The number of lives lost is known TO
be ten. The list is as follows: Antoe
Gunderson, Manistee, Mich. sailor on
Lincoln Dali, drowned at Giencon;
John johnson, cook on schooner
Jack Thompson fell from life
lines and drowned; J.. Poland, mate
schooner; j. Loomis McLarcn, killed in
midlake by falling spar; Thomas Sidlo,
tailor, of Chicago, swept from govern
,aant hpaalyuuatar nn1 Euptnin Wilson
Of the schooner Myrtle and five I'M
known.
A schooner supposed to be the Good
man went ashore at Thirteenth street
this morning at 2:3O and at ) o'clock
she was drifting onto the Illinois Cen
trail pier. There are seven men on
board. A life saving crew is e%ndeavor-
ing TO rescue the imperiled sailors.
This IN orning the lake view crib was
| still standing. The flag of distress
was no longer visible City Engineer
Artingstall decreed that another at
tempt must be made to discover
whether the men on the crib were still
in danger and accordingly the city tug
Viola was at 9 o'clock Sent to the res
cue
Vessels Struggling I'm the Storm. +,
Inc lake snore continues 10 De tho
center of attraction for thousands OF
people who visit it to look at the work
of the storm. The McLaron is being
pounded to pieces, fifty yards from the
shore at Twenty-seventh street we
boats are rolling in the breakers at
Twenty-ffth street. The Thompson
is standing the strain fairly we'll
and will not be broken up. The
shattered Mercury is rapidly
going to pieces and will be
a total loss. Half u mile from Twenty
second street two vessels are laboring
in the sea. One is thought to be the
ID. /. Austin manned by n crew OF six.
The vessel is weathering the storm and
will escape the beach. About 200 yards
farther another smaller schooner is
riding out the storm. She is water
logged.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-05-26
A NAVAL r
Portfolios 10 the Cruiser Coiumbia Placed
In the Wrong Position.

Portfolios In the Cruiser Coiumbia Placed
In the Wrong Position.
WASHINGTON, May l9.-There has
been much interest in the navy depart.
ment in finding out who made the mis-.
take on the Columbia in placing the
portfolio plates Of the four pound guns.
Il was found that these guns could not
be elevated, the tube being damned
against the top of the portfolios. Com
parison OF the plans, or templates,
Us the patterns of the plates are called,
how that no error has been made In
measurement. The explanation accepted
ns most plausible until a more extensive
and practical examination ri be made
Is that the officers who placed the
plates in position reversed them SO that
the bottom came where the top should
be. This was n natural mistake to
make in each Of the four plates. IL the
error was made in placing the first one
in position. and there might be no way
OF discovering the error until the mug
zle of the gun was showed through the
portfolio. From the reports received
the experts in the navy department be.
lieve that the mistake a be easily
corrected by turning the plates around.
This change, of course, can be mex.
peusively made.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-05-26
IOWA NEWS.
Third Congressional District Editors

Iowa FALLS. Ia, May l9.-The ed
itors OF the Third congressional dis
trict will hold a convention at Water
loo July II and 10. The following has
been issued by the committee on pro
gram:
Editorial Page and Booming Candi
dates-W. II. UT, Times, Dubuque.
County Correspondence; Does 1t Pay
and How to Secure TT IL. Wiley, Bul
letin-Journal, independence.
Local Page; How to Make 1t Attract
i've and Protitable-O. }. Smith, Phone
graph, Ackley.
The Conduct of an Ofice-L Van
Metre. Tribune, Waterloo.
Do Premiums Payi-W. II. Tyrrell
Republican, Waverly.
collecting Subscriptions-H /. Rand
Press, Manchester.
Securing job Work and Prices-J. s
Ross. Herald, Eldora,
Business and electing officers.
Afternoon.
l:3 p M.
Foreign Adv rtising-Walter Elder
Democrat, Clarion.
Charging for Notices OF Home Enter
tainments-E. E. Schrack, Eclipse. Park
e%rsburg
Plates VS. Patents-L. b. Ray mond, r
corder, Hampton.
When end How Should Settlements Be
Mndel-Clfford ID. Ham, Herald, Du
buque.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-05-26
SENATE TRADITION SHATTERED
New Members Need Not Now Serve TIVE
Years Probation Before Speaking.

New Member Need Not Now Serve Two
Years Probation Before Speaking.
II was probably with a solemn shake
Of the head that ex-Senators Thurman
and Edmunds read OF Mr.. McLauriI
making q speech in the United Stated
senate after being but a few weeks q
member. 1t was not 80 in their day,
Then such an action as hat Of Mel
Laurin's-a speech made SO soon aftef
the senator had settled into his seat
would have been received with a stony
stare and the atmosphere would have
got so cold after his first word that
he would have shriveled up and
frozen in a corner. 1t would have
been no p~alliation, says the WASH
ington Star, that 1t was not much
of a speech anyhow-only a little
one; he would have been frowned down
and only years of silence. sackclotli
and ashes would nave restored him to
grace. When the eloquent Blackburn
of Kentucky, after talking his way
through the house and drawing teara
by his orations over the graves of con-
federate dead, was lifted up into the
senate. he for two years put a bride
upon his tongue ana spoke not, though
iC IN iauSh ut dhy mail oh cor vi tnC
loved To talk. Older men than he, and
far more famous, each in his turn Of
elevation TO the senate, sat silent as no
v~itiates during the solemn months OF
their probation. All Of them. take the
whole list of them now ~revered--all Of
them have been thus on probation, and
then, in their turn, have upheld the
rigid custom.
Wolcott was the first to trample upon
the sacred etiquette OF the senate. lie
came into hat body in SO, with rever!
ence for nobody, and has not acquired
any since. 1t was ne who first shocked
Edmunds and gave him the warming Of
the approaching change. which took
from the senate all attraction to the
Vermont sage. lie broke into the ring
at the first sign of a fight, and elbowed
his way about in a manner most shock.
ing to the senatorial notions of de-
corum. The cold atmosphere had no
effect upon him. When some of the
old men had sufficiently got their
breath they began 10 ask what manner
Of maj he was, and to show some in.
terest to know IL any more OF thai
Ever since then there has beer
u btSbuy anu RioWiuk Nioiotioh VI ocud
torial etiquette, until not even a look
of protest posses over any face. MOI
only that, but such young men "a Du
Bois, on the republican side, and Fauik
ner, on the de mocratic side, are recog
nized as ~ g 'rnders, and such men o.
compare, " y ,uth or s%hortness Of ser
vice, as AlarIch, Lodge, Dixon, VOL
colt, Gray. Hansborough and Smith are
counted as Of commanding influence,
Aldrich has charge Of the republican end
of the tariff fight and Dubois is one oil
the republican steering committed
whose advice is never disregarded and
is most often followed as against thai
OF older men of vastly longer service
Faulkner occupies a similar position on
the democratic side Of the chamber
After this why may not the enate hope
in time to shake off some of it's dignity
and elaboration and become u progress
sive legislative body.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-05-26
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS


WASHINGTON, May lin the senate to.
day Mr.. Morgan, dem, Alabama, offered
n resolution OF inquiry rs to whether any
action had been taken by the department
of justice against the sugar trust II
went over until tomorrow.
The house bill for tho admission oil
Utah rs a state. with amendments, was
reported from The committee on terrific
ries by Mr.. Faulkner, dem, West 'Vir'
GINA, and was placed on the calendar.
The Lodge resolution offered yesterday
for an investigation of the attempted
bribery of senators to vote against the
tariff bill and OF the alleged contri'
cratic national campaign by the sugar
trust was laid before the senate and
adopted. The latter part OF the resolution
was materially amended so as to include
the fact whether or not tho sugar trust
has made any contribution for any cleo
ton purposes by any party or TO secure on
defeat legislation on the tariff bill The
last amendment was offered by Mr.,
Allen, pop, Nebraska, aud authoriZs u
the committee TO investigate whcthei
any senator had been specializing u
sugar stocks during the tendency Of thu
bill in the committee. The resolutiol
was passed without taking a vote. Thi
committee will consist of five senator's. Al
effort was made by NJ. Quay to MAKE
the scope Of the committee so broad hal
ali charges relating TO the conduct Of AM
senator, past or future, In regard to legit
~lation, might tie referred to IL, but thi'
was Withdrawn after a brief discussion. 4,
The tariff bill was taken up at moo AMI
Mr.. G~allinger, rep, New Hampshire,
spoke against IL.
WAsHISGToN, May iS-The resolutiol
offered yesterday by Mr.. Morgan, dem
Ala bams, calling on the attorney general
for information as to civil or criminal
suits against the sugar trust was taker
up and agreed 10. Also the resolution
offered last night by Mr.. Harris, dem,
Tennessee, for the daily meetings of this
senate on and after Monday next Al
ID q. m.
The discussion was closed with a franb
notice to the democratic side OF the cham
Der by Mr.. Chandler, rep, New Hamp
shire, not to act upon the theory that u
had been decided by the republican side
either that they would or that they woult
not flibuster against the passage OF the
bill
At 12:l5 the consideration OF the lari6
bill was rcsumed.
WASHINGTON, May a-The tariff bill
was taken up and Mr. Gallinger, rep.
New Hampshire. proceeded 10 deliver tn
third portion Of his speech against th
bill and concluded at | p. m, and then tn
regular consideration Of the tariff bill
was begun.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-05-26
THE MATTER OF REVENUE.
Experts Figuring on the Amount the Pre-
posed Bill VIII Produce.


posed Bill Will Produce.
WASHINGTON, May la.-For more
than a week experts have been estimat-
ing the average tax imposed by the
amended senate bill. Ii must be under
stood that this average is an ad valorem
made upon the import returns OF 1898.
That Is to say, the amount of revenue
received under the Mckinley law is
placed opposite to the amount of inn
ports passing through the custom
houses, and the I'D valorem ratio of one
to the other is obtained. The customs
tax collected in 1893 under the McKin-
ley law amounted to As per cent OF the
value of that years imports. Under
the Wilson bill 1t was estimated that
this same tax would be 25 pc. cent.
Owing TO the fact that several sched-
ules of what may be called the Jones
tariff bill are yet incomplete, it is SO
far impossible to say just what general
rate Of taxation 1t will impose. Sena-
tor Jones said hat a fair estimate of
the percentage of the forthcoming fig
ures would place the average at about
375I per cent.
Expert ~Schoenhof, who Is here TO as
sist in the expert examination and COM
putation, estimated that the new sem
ate bull would bring in 81, 600, 900 more
revenue than the finance committee
bill. In the many little tariff stories
told about the construction of the bill
there is one involved in the clause re-
lating 10 Hawaiian ugars. Ever since
The treaty Of 1873 with Hawaii la
waiian ugars have been received free
Of duty. This was the subject of much
speculation and manipulation until tho
Mckinley bill placed all raw sugars on
the free list. The senate bill. of course,
Imposes a tax upon raw sugar, but 1t -
not in the power of the finance ON
of the senate, in passing a rev.
enue bill, TO sbroEatc IN international
treaty. II the pending bill goes into
effect there will be n duty upon raw
sugars from everywhere excepting Ha-
waii. These sugars, it is said. through
q combination of the Claus Spreckels
interest, would Immediately come into
the hands OF the sugar trust. The free
dom of their entry would have no eff
tect upon the market price of sugar.
This has raised a violent storm Of oh
lection, especially among southern
sugar planters. The Texas delegation
IS in receipt OF a number of letters from
Texas sugar planters urging that some
effort be made to prevent this discrimi-
nation in favor of Hawaiian sugars. A
member OF the finance committee said
that 1t was the Intention Of the demo-
Gratis of the senate, as Dor as the pend
ing tariff bill is passed, 10 bring IN a
bill abrogating the sugar clause of the
Hawaiian treaty, but such a thing could
not be done at this time, as 1t would
not only divert the attention OF the
senate from the tariff bill. but would
also give opportunity for the %reopening
of the old Hawaiian question and pro-
vide an excellent means for partisan
display and partisan obstruction.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-05-26
REFORMING INDIAN SERVICE
Portion Of the Agents to BE Placed Under
Civil Service Rules.

Portion of the Agents to BE Placed Under
Civil Service Rules.
WASHINGTON, May 19.-One of the
provisions of the Indian appropriation
bill is said to have the effect of placing
Indian agents under civil service regu-
~lations. The bill contains the provis-
ion that the commissioner of Indian
affairs, with the approval of the secre-
tary Of the interior, may devolve the
duties Of an Indian agency upon the
superintendent of the Indian training
school located upon such agency. Super
intendents are already under civil ser
we regulations. SO that the effect OF
the provision, II carried into effect, is
TO extend the civil service over such
agencies as have a superintendent serv-
ing as agent. Efforts have long been
made by those interested In reforming
the Indian service to have the agencies
placed under the civil service, but thus
far the effort has been in vain. The
present provision in the bill Is said TO
be a step forward TO q reali cation OF
this reform.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-05-26

This is the story that Il retail iewcler
on Broadway tells; "A man came in
here the other morning and took out a
magnificent stone which he put on the
counter and asked me what ! thought Of
it. Well, thought it was a ruby worth
about 500 or $500. The color was a
deep pigeons blood, and while a mag
nifier showed little spots like bubbles in
the stone they didn't interfere with its
transparency or br Ihtness. What's it
WORTH said l.. 'S.Xty dollars a carat
said he. | looked at him in amaze
ment. Then it's paste, said |. Nota
bit of it, said he. | tested it for hard
ness, and it was all right. Then the
man explained that, while il was a real
ruby. it was produced by artificial
means. A French chemist made it. Very
few of these stones have come to this
country so far. and in most of those that
have there was no material that could
be used for jewelry, the crystals were 50
small. This puts a different phase on
the business.
Artificial crystallization of alumina
was accomplished several years ago.
The color in the resulting mineral was
superb, but the individual crystals were
80 minute that a microscope was needed
TO distinguish their angles. They We're
united by their bases to a crust Of
amorphous alumina, and sparkied like
tiny red stars whenever the light played
across them. The natural ruby doubt
less took years, and, likely, centuries
TO form. The chemical ruby, which 10
precisely the same as the natural ruby,
is made in a few weeks. 1t is almost
pure alunina-the earth of the metal
aluminum-the red color being due to u
fraction of / per cent of iron. The
sapphire is the same as a ruby, except
for its coloring matter, and it has quite
a range of color-yellow, purple, pink,
gray, and white. Corundum is the com
mon variety of alumina and is much
used in the arts, emery being its common
commercial form.
"The ruby is the most costly OF all
gems, a stone of deep color far outrank-
ing the diamond in value, so the dis
covery that it can be made in q labora-
tory is disquieting TO the people who
deal in this esteemed mineral. 1t has
got into the courts of France already,
in a suit TO recover the money paid for a
ring. The decision was that the
chemical product had no right to be
considered as a ruby IN spite of the fact
that in crystal, form, weight, hardness,
color, and chemical composition it is a
ruby. Artificial means are employed
to produce it, but it is nature, assisted
by the chemist TO be sure, that shapes
and colors and hardens it. 1t would he
absurd to say that machine-made ice is
not ice because il is not taken from the
surface of a pond. The artificial ruby,
TO allow the term, is rs beautiful and
durable as the best product of the Bur-
nah mines, and it is only the magni6er
that SHOW vs. the little bubbles in it. 1t is
the only II of the precious stones that
is manufactured, although science may
duplicate the others in future. The re-
port that diamonds had been chemically
produced is authoritatiyely deuied."-
". \. San.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-05-26
Grain IN ~rroVSio1s.

CHICAGO. May 81.
Flour-Sprlng patents, $3.2J33 %; win
ter patents, 81. sO93.0o.
Wheat-Cash, 5SAci July. $500
C~oru-Cash, 3651c; July, 374c.
Oats-No. 2 white. 35s!Y3J1lc; No. 8
white. 3b&936c.
Rye-4bc.
Barley-NOminal
Flax-$l. 3S.
Timothy-s4.l5 per cwt
Whisky-$l.l2.
Pork-Cash, sll.75; July, siIS5.
L~ard-Cash. G.20; July, $6.s1x.
Ribs-Cash, % i7T; July, 81. Is.
Shoulders-$5. 76Qo.00
Short Clear-$6. o2H87.7h
Butter-Cresmeries, i24l6c; dairiss,
9@!2c.
Cheese-Cheddars and flats, S9Sxc;
Young Americas. SH@sHc.
Eggs-9hc.
Hidss-Light and heavy green sailed,
fully cured, S4c; green hides, 231c; green
sailed calf, 6Hc;. dry flint. CSC; deacons,
each, &c.
Tsllow-Unchanged; Nc. 1, 4s1c; No. 2.
&c; cake, &c.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-05-26
A Colony of Southern Russians.

PIERRE, ). d., May l9.-Anton Mern
. repr esentative Of q colony from
southern Russia, has located land for q
colony of about fifty families, on the
coded lands about twenty-five mile,
from this city. Mr.. Merr came te
Anne RIGA in July OF last year as a rep
resentat i've of a colony and has beer
travelling most of the time since leok
ing up "A satisfactory location. lie
visited Texas and New Mex
leo and the coast country
but was not suited. Arriving here he
looked over tho coded lands and de
cided to locate in Willow creek where
good locations with plenty of waite,
were secured. Part Of the colony il
nov OF the road and the rest will start
as soon as they hear from Mr.. Merr
The ~colonists will all be supplied with
means To go into stock raising and
farming and will be a valuable acquisi.
ton TO this part OF the country.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-05-26
Ice at Cherokee.

CHEROKEE. Ia, May ia heavy
frost this morning did serious damage
TO the gardens in this vicinity. Hardly
a garden in town escaped injury, al!
green stuff being ruined. Corn, some
of which had reached the height OF
three or four inches, vas bitten and
killed to the ground, which will delay
crops about ten days. Ice formed this
morning half an lnch thick.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-05-26

A voluntary tribunal Of al b~itration.
similar TO that Of the chamber of com.
merce and that organized by the corpo-
ration of London a year or more ago,
which has had great success, has just
been esta blished by the chamber of
commerce of Melbourne, Australia.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-05-26

Australia Is now sending large sup
plies of poultry and game to the English
markets Several experimental con-
signments of chickens, ducks. wild
ducks. teal and curlews have made a
success and there is promise Of the do.
velopment of q considerable trade.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-05-26

New Zealand has seemingly suffered
little or none at all In the financial
storm that SO badly crippled the neigh
boring Australian colonies. Her affairs
were in good shape during 1892 and
financial reports of last year show 0
net surplus Of over 81, 900, 600 after pay.
ing 81, ESQ. 900 put of the revenue 70,
public works during the year.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-05-26

The Italians are growing SO fierco
against the French that the representa-.
tive of France In the ballet of Excel.
sior," in tho Scala theater of Milan, was
one night Kissed off the stage, and the
second night the demonstration was SO
savage hat the character had to DO
taken out of the ballet.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-05-26

One of the easiest and most trust,
worthy modes OF determining whether
a supposed diamond is genuine or false
is as follows: Pierce a hole in a card
with a needle or pin, and then look at
it, using the stone as u lens. If the
supposed diamond is genuine you will
see but one hole: if false, two will APP
pear. With an imitation stone You
may also see the lines on this skin o!
your finger; with the true gem you can.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-05-26
A new sect in Russia Is known as the

A new sect in Russia Is known as the
Underground People. lately organized
In Saratog. When a person falls Ill the
elders come In and baptize him anew.
Then they carry him down into an
underground labyrinth where he Is left
to wrestle with death alone, After q
week the elders come to inspect the
sick man, and, II dead, he Is duly
buried.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-05-26

UNION STOCK YARDS, CHICAGO, May 81
Hogs-Quotations: Heavy, H7od4.9);
mixed. A6514S5; light, "a 70a4SJ;
rough heavy. sit5G4.7 20.
Cattle-Quotations: Beeves, s. 7034.35
cows, IL 1898 50; stockers and feeders,
~. S0Gl4J0
Sheep-Natives, Z .0093.50; Texans,
ii. BOA 500; Westerns. SotOa3.9 4
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-05-26

The cradle Is fast becoming q curio,
especially In Its earlier hooded form.
The modern American baby IL not
Graded and not carried, but taught To
content itself with q mattress like any
one else. sd that the phrase ''the hand
that rocks the cradle rules the world
refers to q custom almost obsolete.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-05-26

The skull of u man who has died
from delirium tremens contains an
alcoholic gas. A small opening in the
skull, soon after death, permits this
gas to escape. and 1t can be ignited
and burns with q blush flame.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-05-26

An innocent French patron who pro
vides pleasing open air entertainment
opens his twenty-fourth season with
the somewhat questionable announce
ment that his is 1.-The best shady hotel
in the vicinity Of New York"