The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-09-27
IN THE WEST.

lHICAGO SpGcldl. AIlcuEV IiCi-It
yards are SO badly blocked with load
ed cars that it is almost impossible to
move anything in them. The block
ade is as severe as ever existed there,
though the traffic of the roads is very
much below what it has been in some
previous years. The laden a + for
the most part contain grain for which
no forage can be found. The eleva-
tors a.e all full to overlooking and
consignees are. for the time being.
forcing the roads to transform their
cars into storage warehouses. 1t Is
estimated there are 5000 cars loaded
with grain on the tracks in and around
Chicago, delivery of which cannot be
taken at present. The roads most in
co~nvcnienced are the Wabash, Illinois
Central and the Chicago and Eastern
Illinois.
SAN FRANCISCO special: The steam
er Oceanic. from Singapore. brings
advices of a peculiar wreck and loss OF
life in Naraminta Straits. The steam
cr Namyong. in the Indian trade. ran
on a reef. The steamer l%ngraban
hauled her oil. apparently. but little
damaged, Il proceeded. Several
hours later the Namyong sent out dan
yer IOChtN- anu l4lC LIZ az A3Ch
10 her assistance. bat was unable to
discover any trace of her. She has
not been seen since and has undoubt-
cdly sank. the result Of some unno;ed
damage when hauled off. Tie vessel
was in charge of six white officers,
with eight white ana fifty Malays be-
fore the mast.
ST. PAUL special; In the cOnven-
ton Of the Catholic Total Abstinence
Union the first business was reports Of
societies not connected with the
unions. Wonderful growth was re-
ported from many sections. In the al
ternoon Secretary Doyle of New York
submitted the report of the numerical
strength OF the order, in which he
says: "We have added sixty-eight
new societies with a membership of
1858 to the roll of national unions,
making a total OF 7G3 societies with a
membership Of 55,445."
EARLVILLE. Ill.,, special: Henry y.
Chase died of cancer, aged Il. He
was highly respected and had a re-
markable history in office. with a lO9
years of public service to his credit.
He was justice OF the peace thirty
seven years, notary public tweuty-four
years, city clerk nineteen years, tax
collector twenty-threc years. super
visor two years. oVerseer OF poor two
wears. and town clerk two wears. all in
Mari Township. La Sale County.
ROCKFORD. H., special: George
Schweinfurth has for some time been
entertaining a brother from Jackson.
Mich. With the exception Of his sis
ter, Marie. who makes her home at
the Weldon farm. and is the chief
angel Of the place, the family of the
pseudo christ has refused to believe in
hi, divinity heretofore, but the brother
here at present has become reconciled
and converted to the faith, and will 30
home soon to propagate it.
DENVER special: All records for
long distance photograph signaling
have been broken by the CniIeu
States army sigma corps. Il message
having been sent by sun flashes from
Mount tncompaghre, Col. to Mount
Ellen. Utah. a distance of IS3 miles.
by Captain Glassford, chief sigma Off
Ger. /. >. ~. Department Of Colorado.
and his assistants. The BEST former
test vas l01 miles.
DENVER special: Representatives
of the M~ennonites from Hayes City.
Kan. have arrived here on their re-
turn trip from an examination OF the
San Luis Valley. AS Il result of their
visit the society will purchase ten Sec
tions of land. to which 300 families
from HAYES City will remove to en-
gage in farming.
MADISON, Wis. special: The COM
mittee to investigate the charges that
Prof. Ely had been teaching social
isll. the right to strike. etc. has re-
ported. fully exonerating the professor
from all charges.
MILWAUKEE. Wis. special: Edward
DrummOnd, treasurer OF the Wauke-
sha committed suicide at the Wau-
wau;osa Sanitarium, where he was be-
ing treated for melancholia. II, took
n.hnlir mid