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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18
South Omaha.

SOUTH OMAHA, Aug. -.
Hogs-Heavy, A.50to5.l0; mixed, s4.50@
300; light, 81 50(d5.M.
Cattle-Stockers and feeders, S3,00G3.50
cows, Sl.25M2.75; common, s 1.00G1.W.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18
Wales vl.ltc tho Chicago.

CowEs. Aug. 1.-The princeo OF Wales
visited the flagship Chicago Of the
European squadron this morning. The
yards were manned and tho customary
salute was fred as he appeared.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18
THE ARkE
Sioux City Live stock.

UNION STOCK YARDS. Sioux CITY,
Aug. l3-Hogs-Heavy, "a. 100000; mixed,
"a. S004.9 5; light, $4.65g4.05.
Cattle Beeves, ~s2.50eS;00; COWS and
%neifers, Sl.0O@2.30; bulls, sl.00(Gl. Los;
Ftockers and feeders, s1.50d2. 10; year
lings and calves, 81. 2591.75.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18
Minneapolis

MINNEAPOLIS, August ID.
Wheat-Closing: Aug, 6945c; September,
H14c; on track, No. l hard, 50I1c; No.
northern, 5Sc; No. 2 northern, 56Hc.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18

About q dozen years ago q young lad
living at Newcastle-on-Tyne got lost
and was put in the work house. He
was apprenticed to q farmer, but ran
away to sea and later enlisted as q SOL
dier. Finally returning to his native
city he discovered his mother, who had
long considered him dead.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18

In France the wife whose husband
objects seriously to her going on the
stage makes herself liable to divorce
by persistinR in her desire.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18

SELMA, Ala. Aug, l0-Tho house Of
Mrs. Betty simpkins, Mt Pine lucky.
was destroyed by fro Wednesday
night. In rescuing her baby 10th tho
eother and child were 80 badly burned
they died IN . few minutss.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18

Glass, copper, zinc, lead, platinum,
carbon, plaster, petroleum, silk, cotton
and paper arc used In the manufacture
of incandescent lamps.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18

According to the Engineers Gazette,
world, which dates some 1000 years
back and was written in Egypt, con-
tains a rule for squaring a circle.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18

Scientific ~cIsanlinsss 10 TO be pro-
noted In French school rooms by boiled
drinking water, damp cloths instead OF
dry busters and breems, aad an anti.
septic cleaning ono . week.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18

In a car of cotton opened at Bidde-
ford, Me-, recently seven tramps were
found. They had been there two days
without food, fresh air or water. Their
only complaint was that sit had been
as hot as the devil"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18
Realm E.tend. Oyern Large Arca.

WEST UNION, Ia, Aug. l0.-A fine
rain, extending ove northwest Iowa
and rs far south as independence. fell
last night and this morning.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18
Kansas City.

KANSAS CITY, aug. -.
Cattlc-Native steers, $4.05q4.50; cows
md heifers, 81. f5@2.60; stockers and feed
ers, 81. 10d2. so; calves, A.00a7.00,
H~ogs-Heavy, $5.05Ga5.20; medium, S4.05
ga 10; light, $IS5@5.00.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18

Two colored women OF Sedalia, Mo-,
run a farm themselves and, when plow-
ing time comes, in lieu of using a horse,
one woman draws the piow while the
other guides il.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Aug. 1.-Two
residences and the Baptist church in
Franklin, Tenn, burned early this
morning. Loss, SIS, 900; insurance only
SO, 500, on one of the residences.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18

SAN Francisco, Cal, Aug. 1.-The
Blythe estate has been transferred In
sntirety to q public administrator. The
estate II vslued st sbopt %. 300. 900
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18

SALEM, O., Aug. 1.-THE Salem Wire
Nail company signed the wire drawers
scale yesterday and the works here and
at Findlay will commence operations
Mondav
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18

The piles which served as the found
alton for Trajan's bridge over tho Dam
ube, A. d. 105. are said to be still visi-
BILE at low stages of water.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18

Fanny Crosby, the blind Methodist
hymn writer, has written 5000 Sunday
school hymns, many of which are
widely known.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18
Union County Also Gets Some.

CREsToN, Ia, Aug. l0.-This locality
was blessed with good local shower
this morning.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18
DR0UTH BROKEN AT DUBUQUE

fhe First Rain Since june rs Falls This
Morning. =
DUBUQUE, Ia, Aug. l0.-A splendid
rain lasting several hours fell this MORN
ing; the first since June Is, fifty-six
days. The storm came from the east.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18

OF 81, 900, 900 rays Of light and
warmth radiated by the sun 1000, 900
fall on the planets Of the solar system.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18
Heaviest Rain Sine. Nav

Sioux FALLS. $. d.. Aug. lo.-The
heaviest rain since May II fell hero
today.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18

Herodotus tells us that the number
of ZONE employed in making bread
for Xerxes' army was beyond count.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18

There is a constantly growing trade
not only in electricity sent to the Gus
toner by wire, but in regularly stored
electricity. Storage batteries are much
used for running Photographs and
charged at places that make a business
of manufacturing electricity. The
price is about so cents per cell, and it
takes from six to ten hours to charge o
battery, the time varying with it's size.
Stored electricity is handled hike any
other commercial article.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18

The first bakers who followed their
craft in Rome were slaves captured
during the expedition against I'll Ii. G.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18

From the dream of Pharaoh's baker,
nineteen centuries b. c., 1t Is learned
hat baking had become a distinct pur.
suit.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18

ALTOONA, Ia, Aug. 1l.-ThiA county
has been visited by a heavy rainfall
within the past twenty-four hours. II
rained all night very hard Mt this place.
This Is the drst rain to amount TO any.
thing In sixty days.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18

Helena, Mont. is 1900 feet above
the sea, and has an average of 260 sun
shiny days every year.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18

FIumming birds are now about,
winged jewels, with wings that seem
bit a feathery mist when the bird IS in
Aight. Their fearlessness is remarka-
bic, and their acrobatIc performances
are OF the most fascinating character.
The birds must weigh next TO nothing
for you may see one seize the stein of a
delicate flower and hang by 1T while
drawing nectar from the depths of the
blossom. 1t is noteworthy that these
birds often fly late in the afternoon,
toward sunset, and even when dusk Is
coming on. They rarely Might, and
when they do the tiny body hides the
delicate claws that clutch the tiny
bough.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18

A 81. Louis man lost his life recently
while attempting TO save q drowning
dog. The brute was saved.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18
THE C0NFEREES Dl SAGREE.
Republican Members Of the COMMITTEES
So Informed.

WASHINGTON, Aug. l0.-The republi-
were this morning told that a disa-
greement would be reported and were
asked il they would agree. They con-
sent.d and q disagreement will, 1t Is
said, be reported today, A motion to
discharge the conferees will follow the
disagreeing report.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18

The discovery OF leaven is attributed
to the Egyptians, and II was from them
that the Hebrews learned IL.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18

zAsEsyILLE. O., Aug. u.--Charles
Settler, q saioonkeeper at Rendviile,
o., vas shot and killed early this morn.
jnr by Peter Napier. q coal miner OF
torning. Stettler was jealous OF his
wifc and this led TO a quarrel which
resulted in the homicide. Napier was
arrested.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18

Dakota county pioneers and old settlers
will hold their annual reunion at Clinton
park, DAKOTA City, August 80.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18

Tho average annual rainfall over the
whole earth u thirty-six insheA
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18
HUNDREDS ENTOMBED.
Polish Coal Mines on Fire-No Hope for
the Miners.

WARSAW, Aug. 1.-The extensive
coal mines near Dombrowa, government
of Grant Bradno, has been burning
since yesterday afternoon. The fire
was started by an explosion of gas
when a full force OF men was under
ground. The main shaft was wrecked
and conn., aratively few miners have
been rescued. The latest report is that
several hundred men are entombed In
the mines and all hope Of saving them
has been abandoned. The mines are
owned by the Franco-Italian bank.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18

DIVER mn Inch of Rain In Hardin County
Iowa FALLS, la, Aug. li.--This
section was visited by q good rain last
night, Over an inch of water fell. The
weather 10 still unsettled. with indioa-
tions Of more rain
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18

The breathing operation in q snail is
one of the queerest processes magma
bic, and is carried on without the least
semblance oflungs. The oriice through
which he takes his supply Of 1.-The
breath of life" is, of course, called the
mouth, Notwithstanding hat it is sit
uated In the side Of his great sucker
like foot The process of breathing is
not carried on with anything like reg
ularity. as it is in most creatures, the
mouth simply opening occasionally to
let in a supply of fresh air, which is X
pcllcd By the same opening as soon as
the oxygen has been exhausted. Tho
snai!'s peculiar mouth is provided with
l. tongue set with hundreds of fine teeth.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18


"IIere they are! All male birds and
good singers Only - cents each; dirt
cheap, because they're n drug in the
market cried a man over in the GER
nan quarter, with n dozen Gagged ca
naries at his feet on the curb. The
price was really about half the usual
rate, and the hawker explained that
German canaries had been overim-
ported. One dealer had received 5000
birds, and many others had got in
large numbers. The bird fanciers
would not buy because hard times
made trade duh, and prices had to
come down. lie had already been two
days offering birds dirt cheap in IA re-
gion where canaries are dearly beloved.
II is worth noting, in view Of the de-
effectiveness of the elm beetle, that
some elms growing among forest trees,
seem TO escape the blight of the insect.
A resident of the suburbs, whose elms.
standing in a lawn, have been eaten to
ghostly semblance of their earlier
selves, says hat "A young elm, 300 yards
away on the edge Of "A wood, is still as
fresh and green as last May. Entomol-
gist Southwick OF the park depart
ment has been very successful in his
war upon the elm beetle, but lie thinks
hat elms the country over will be
greatly damaged unless measures are
taken TO protect them.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-18

L. A.. Williams, a matchmaker of
Broadway, New York city, recently
accomplished a remarkable mechanical
f%eat-that of drilling Il hole through
the entire length of ommon pin,
from head to point, the opening being
just large enough to admit of the pas
sage Of n fine hair. Mr.. Williams is
the mechanic who two years ago cut a
sewing needle in two ~lengthwise and
then drilled holes and fastened it to-
gether SO nicely hat the split could
not be seen with the naked eye.
The morning call., 1894-01-15

make, and upon the truck. supported by a
platform of solid timber and lashed by
ropes. huge sandstone bowlder weighing
over eighteen tons. It's contour was much
the same as the big end of an egg, the
upper part being round. At distance it
looked like a mammoth pumpkin in fairy
tale.
The bowlder is about seven feet high and
has circumference OF twenty feet and six
inches. 1t was brought by rail from Liv-
ermOre and will mark the grave of the late
9. II. Simpkius, a California pioneer. in
Laurel Hill. He bad often expressed a
wish for monument modelled by nature,
not by marble-cutterS. and his executor,
Captain Knowles, after much search
found a suitable bowlder. convenient TO 3
railroad. 1t will remain in its natural
state, with the exception of a small square
which will be chiseled off for a tablet.
The weather being wet and the streets
muddy yesterday ascent OF grades was
made with great care and no little skill,
ana the contractors were relieved when
the last hill in the cemetery was overcome
and the giant bOwlder deposited. The
cost of carriage from tho depot TO the
cemetery was S150
The morning call., 1894-01-15

city, when asked for his views on the
cigarette expressed himself in this man.
ner:
II have been engaged for over twenty
seven years in this business in this city. !
have a large family of boys, not one of
whom uses cigarettes. From their infancy
up that has been my one stern point with
my children-they must never use ciga-
rettes. You will probably think ii strange
for me to say that. / would rather see one
of my boys come home staggering from in
toxication than for him to have a cigarette
in his mouth. This is the reason why: /
could break him of the liquor habit before
ii had worked him any material harm, but
not so with the cigarette. | could break
him of il, of course, but he would never be
the same boy-he would not be my own
child. / will say this, believing with all
my soul it is true, that if boy smokes
two cigarettes day for week he never
will recover from the effects. light or heavy
as it may be. that it will leave upon him.
"Of course you may look around my
store and see many thousand dollars
worth of them, but it is not by my will
that they are here. My trade demands
them and l must keep them. but il it were
possible for the efforts of The CALL TO be
so crowned with success as to cause DrO-
hibitory law against their sale, or tax them
as we do OPIUM, / would gladly diminish
my stock or wipe it out altogether. In my
own estimation there Is nothing that is
quite so bad as cigarettes.
Their sale To young children, | think
you will find, is confined to those small
dealers who are scattered all over the city.
Their income is not large anyway, and
they resort to any meaEs to sell their
goods. If they were all arrested and sent
10 Jail i would be very glad; for any per-
SOD who knows the drug-by that l mean
cigarettes-as | do. and will then sell them
to little children, should spend portion of
his time in prison."
The sentiments expressed by this jobber
were voiced by every one engaged in like
business, that was asked for au opinion.
The morning call., 1894-01-15

stuntiug drugs. To sign the pledge is to
say. 81 will be n free man and climb to the
top of the tree and not groYel at the roots,
hog among the herd Of hogs, unknown
or ignODle."
The School Department is supporting
The CALLS crusade IN every way. The
teachers hail this chance to diminish one
of their most serious obstacles in teaching.
and will recommend all boys to sign the
pledges. Hereafter the Board of Educa-
tion may present each boy who signs with
q handsome individual certificate of men,
bership in the league ana a decorative
button.
Any number of boys may sign THE
CALLS pledges and it will be interesting
TO learn which school has the greatest
numb Der of really manly boys.
Wise principals of schools are con-
tributing of their intimate knowledge of
the evil. 1t is daily under their observa-
tion and constantly in their thoughts as a
serious obstacle in their work.
IHE CALL has much pleasure in publish
ing the following letters On the subject,
Professor Stones gra pbtc sketch of the
disgusting manipulation of "tObacco" for
cigarettes being specially noteworthy in its
way:
LAFAYETTE PRIMARY SCHOOL.
Dear Morning Gail: Your circular with
'pledgos'' in favor OF the anti-cigareIte move.
ment just received.
l wish TO assure you I am in full sympathy
with the "movemenr." and shall do all IN nv
power TO create a sentiment in Its favor. 1t il
high time something was done to try and stop
The morning call., 1894-01-15

arettes crime. During years of criminal
indifference they have insinuated them
selves amo ong the necessities of the trade,
and only until some movement such as
The CALL has commenced is carried to
Certain success will they remain So
While on tour of inquiry among the
larger tobacco and cigarette houses many
interesting facts concerning the use and
sale of cigarettes were learned For
instance, the sale of cigarettes is estimated
to be five times larger at night than in the
day time. After O'Clock in the evening
any and all persons can buy the ''coffin-
nails" whether it be boy or girl. under or
over 16 years of age. Particularly is this
a fact among the small dealers. including
those who have the customary stand in
front of saloons. In the evening the
greater portion of the cigarette-smOking
population is at leisure, and the hours
are whiled away toying with the seductive
drug. Around the various stands a crowd
is usually cOngregated, engaged in con-
versation or idleness. In some cases
the proprietor is busy talking with some
friend, when a little tot, hardly able 10
rest his chin on the counter. steps up and
calls for pack" Engrossed as he is in
conversation. the dealer seldom looks at
his customer, but thrusting his hand into
the box throws out package, and SCOOP
ing in the child'S nickel continues his con-
versation, unmiDdful of the crime he has
committed. ALMOST universally Is luis Tue
case In the evening.
In addition to the circulars sent out by
the Chief of Police to every tObacco-dealer
about year ago. calling attention to the
law against selling cigarettes to children
under 16 years of age, leading tobacco
firm also sent one out to all its customers.
For time they served their purpose WELL
but as weeks and months rolled on some
dealers grew bOlder. until at the present
day the circulars lie buried in the dust or
thrown into the waste basket while cigar
cites are sold broadcast to any and all
who may wish to purchase them. For
those who have been trapped in their
ilIegitimate traffic the wholesale jobbers
extend no pity. They one and all say that
after having been warned and openly de-
flying the law the dealers must take the
consequences.
prominent tobacconist, who for many
years has been engaged in the trade in this
The morning call., 1894-01-15
WEATHER OUTLOOK.
No Immediate Prospects of a Cessa-
tion of the Present Storm.
More Rain.

The present storm, instead OF moving
eastward, as was anticipated on Saturday,
has continued over Washington and Ore
gon. and yesterday increased in energy.
The barometer last night read 90 Is inches
at Olympia, which is an unusually low
pressure. The barometer yet a ten
dency to rise over Southwestern Califor-
mia, where last night it's reading at Los
Angeles was 1924 inches. Due to this
barometric gradient the rain yesterday ex-
tended over the whole of California north
of the Sc degree north latitude, and gales
prevailed along the coast from San Fran
cisco northward. The rainfall was heav.
lest at Red Bluff and Roseburg where l. .O3
and Ito inches of rain respectively were
reported. Rain also fell over Northern
Nevada and over Oregon, Washington,
Idaho and Western Montana. The pres
ent storm is the most severe of the winter
| so far
| The temperature has fallen over Wash
| ington, Oregon and Western California
during the past twenty-four hours, and
has risen slightly over Nevada and Utah.
Cloudy weather and rain prevailed last
/ night over the Pacific Slope from Fresno
| porthward; clear weather continued over
| Southern California.
The conditions last night were favorable
| for coutInua ion, ,of rain and brisk to high
/ winds, with slightly lower temperature
over Northern California. Nevada, Utah,
| Washington and Oregon.
| In this city yesterday the maximum tenn
| perature, according to the observations of
| the Weather Bureau. was 56 degrees, the
minimum 90 degrees and the mean tenn
perature % degrees. The total rainfall up
to last night for the present storm was .04
| OF n inch, the total for the season so date
| being $50 inches. Last season up to the
same date the rainfall amounted to 1906
| inches.
The forecast for the thrty-six hours
ending at 3 A. NJ. Tomorrow is that in
Northern California there will be c0ntinu-
Gus rain, with a slightly cooler tempera-
| ture; fresh to brisk southerly winds, with
| gales along the coast.
Southern California is to be favored
with fair weather. except in the north
western portion, where there will be rain.
There will be slight temperature changes
and fresh westerly winds.
| In Nevada and Utah there will be rain,
with slightly CO olsr temperature. Ari-
The morning call., 1894-01-15

To-day the boys may Join the Anti
Cigarette League.
THE CALLS pledges VIII be found
at all the public schools and all the
manly boys will sign.
The names of boys signing Will be
published in THE CALL.
Principals will aid the movement by
having the signatures imm ediately COM
smunicatad to THE CALL for publtca-
tion.
To-day The CALL is offering the boys
of the public school good chance TO free
themselves once and for all from the
cigarette habit. Pledges to abstain from
cigarette-smoking until the signatory is of
age have been placed in every school in
the city. and the boys will be invited TO
subscribe TO them.
Every boy, who is wise, will sign. 1t
may be that many do not smoke. and are
assured that they never will do so, but
recognizing the value OF their example for
others they will sign and use their ntiu-
eDce to induce others to sign. The pledges
are declarations of independence They
mean emancipation from the slavery Of
The morning call., 1894-01-15
JOHN HOLTUn.
lie Will Go TO New York to Catch
Balls Fired From a Cannon.

John Holtum, the man who catches can
non-balls. will leave This afternoon for
New York, where he will have contest
with Charles Blatt in caDnon-ball catch
Ing. There has been put up $500 side
and Holtu m bets that he will catch every
ball fired from the cannon and that Blatt
Will not face the muZzie once.
Holtum will come back 10 this city after
the contest and will do the balloon act. lie
says that at an elevation of 300 feet he Will
catch cannOn-b ball shot to the balloon.
ing the ball on the lam. He says that he
will stop it at 100 feet in future. ana can
throw 21-pound ball 500 feet TO Dulis-
eye. He is anxious to meet SandOw.