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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-08-08
Thp Dolls Wedding.

There's a wedding today in the garden
Where the p:nks and the m%arieolds stand
The prctt.cst wedding that ever was seen.
! know. for ] pe.ped through the t~reiilscs
green.
The hr.dc is a dol that IS nearly as tail
As the lily that leans TO look over the wall.
In a gown cf pink silk she is go~rgcous'y
WIN a plume in her hat and a brooch on
her breast.
The groom Is a sailor boy gallant and
In a cap n a Jacket all braided with
Doth doa.os belong 70 a hss'e Of three j.,
Whose face bubbles over with frol.c and
There are roses above, there are roses
And the ps tails Of roses lie thick on the
And the robin is there with his zilyery
And The cr!,,e clad in his n~lme-colored
suit.
Little Tiny the terrier married the PAR
sitting up on 4 bench with "A serious air,
with grandmother's kerchief as clerical
And eTandmother's spcctacles over his
Minnie irving m Frank Lesi:e's Monthly
The Little French Doll.
The little French doll vas a dear Nt'Ic doll
TriCkcd out in the sweetest Of dresses,
Her eyes were Of hue
a most delicate blue.
And dark as the night were her t~resses;
Her dear little mouth was fiUted and red.
And this little French doll was SO very well
bred
That whenever accosted her little mouth
said:
Mamma! mammal"
-Engene Fed.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-08-08

Lyndon Leader.
About IL, 1000 pieces OF gold plate came
up to town from Windsor for the state
concert. 1t was brought by special train
under a guard OF soldiers. and was
hedged round at every step with as elab-
crate a system of receipts as the heir
loom Jewels of the empress of Austria.
There is about $40. 000, 900 worth az plate
in the care OF the gold pantry depart
ment.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-08-08
Totals -, AZ, 704 55i,621 1921, O7S
THE cnTfTH
Totals ....1,GO2, 4S6 GOO, 7Os 975,0S7

Totals .....1 COZ, 1856 600, 7O6 975,0S7 iS
The aggregate democratic vote In these
fwenty-nine states was, at the last cleo
ton, 2,Oi6. $50: the populist vote was
Mrs. winslow's soornINo SYRUP for children
teething. softens the gums, reduces inHammato7
silays pain, cures wind collie. CSC q bottle.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-08-08

New York Herald: $50 Pauline sold
her new song?' Yes. indeed; the editor
was tickled to death with the way in
nit"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-08-08
Guarding RoyaIty's Gold Plate.

For WORKOUT business men nothing
equals DIR. Kay's Renovation. See advt.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-08-08
The Li,tle Erench Doll.
Halls Catarrh Cure
Mans Durable Orxnns.

ken internally. Price 70 cents.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-08-08

Then h1fpoked at Lord Henry. Dorian
Gray ia dearest friend" he said. He
has a simple and beautiful nature. Your
aunt was quite right in what she said of
him. Your influence would be bad. The
world is wide, and has many marvellous
people In it. Dph't take away from me the
,ne person that makes life absolutely lovely
70 me, ana gives TO my art whatever wondcr
or charm it possesses. Mind, Harry, thrust
you| he spoke very slowly and the words
seemed wrung out OF him almost against his
will
What nonsense you tslki' said Lord
Henry, smiling, and, taking Hallward by
the arm, he almost led him into the house.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-08-08
Shoudst thou tomorrow d!

Shouldst thou tomorrow die.
William Watson.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-08-08

Courage has gone out Of our race. Perhaps
we never really had it. The terror OF
society, which is the basis Of morals, the
terror OF God, which is the secret Of religion
these are the two things that govern Us.
And yet
Just turn your head q little more to the
right, Dorian, like q good boy said Hall
ward, deep In his work, and conscious only
that q look had come into the lads face tina,
he had never seen there before.
And yet" continued Lord Henry, In his
low, musical voice, and with that graceful
wave Of the hand that was always SC
characteristic Of him, and hat he had even
in his Elton days, 81 believe that il one man
were to live his life out fully and complete
ly, were TO give form to every feeling, ex,
preston TO every thought reality to every
dresm-I believe that the world would gair
such q fresh impulse of joy that we would
forget all the maladies of mediRvslism, and
return TO the Hellenic-to something finer
richer, than the Hellenic ideal, IL may be-
But the bravest man among US is afraid Of
himself. The mutilation Of the savage has
Its tragic survival In the self-denial thai
mars lives. We are punished for ouI
refusals. Every impulse that we strive u
strangle broods in the mind, and poisons
Us. TIE body sins once. and has lone with
Its sin, for action Is q mode Of publication
Nothing remains then but the recollection
Of a pleasure, or the luxury of q regret. Tn
only way TO get rid Of Q temptation IL Il
yield TO It. Resist IL and your soul grows
sick with the longing for the things IL has
forbidden to itself, with desire for what ii
monstrous laws have made monstrous and
unlawful. II has been said that the greai
events Of the world take place in the brain
Il is In the brain, and the brain only. thai
the great sins Of the world take place
also. You. Mr.. Gray, you yourself. with
your rOse-rcd youth and your rose-whix
boyhood, you have had passions that have
made you afraid, thoughts that have fllei
you with terror. day-drsams and sleeping
dreams whose mere memory might stair
your cheek with shame"
"StepIr mpEmursd Dogian Cray. ''stop
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30

national complications. and who subse-
gently escaped from Moro Castle at
Havana by means of. rope, returned to
this city to-day and gives some facts
which are far from hattering to the Span
ish cause.
Whitcomb was captured while on his
plantation, and without trial or being per-
mitted to communicate with his Govern
ment he was marched off to MORO Castle
on the trumped-up charge OF having as
sisted the insurgents. On reaching the
prison he was tied hand and foot with
several Cubans. In the morning an execu-
tioner came around and, marching up to
each Cuban, in turn shot him dead.
Whitcomb was allowed to live, but was
thrown into a miserable dungeon. After
a weeks stay, and by the persuasive
power Of some money which he had man
aged to secret, on his person, he was al
lowed the freedom of the Jail yard. This
obtained. he was able to bribe the guard
to get him a piece of rope, with which be
managed to make his escape.
Whitcomb said that he knew of twelve
Americans who were confined in the
prison at the present time, suffering the
most horrible indignities, merely on
charges raised by the Spanish authorities
that they had assisted the insurgents.
Whitcomb will start for Washington early
next week to give testimony to the State
Department in regard to the imprison-
ment of Americans
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30
BUCK MCCARTHY WHIPPED
Chicago's Fighting Alderman Is
Badly Mauled by One of
His Constituents.
Battle Royal in the Leland Hotel,
Resulting in Number of
Battered Heads.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL. April 29.-Alder-
man "Buck' Mccarthy of Chicago, the
famous slugger of the Twenty ninth
Ward, was badly thrashed this morning
by William Webb, also of the fighting
Twenty-ninth. One eye was nearly
knocked out and he was thrown down,
kicked and beaten.
The row occurred in the headquarters of
the Second Congressional District in the
Leland Hotel
Buck was in bad humor over the dis
tribution of some delegate tickets and
began to threaten. Webb did not wait for
trouble, but began it himself. He let out
with his right and knocked Buck over a
chair; the next blow caught the Alder
man under the chin and the third sent
him to the floor. Webb then varied the
proceedings by kicking his PROSTATE foe
in the head, and when Mccarthy was res
cued he was covered with blood and was
nearly unconscious.
He was taken to his room, where ply
slcian attended to him, and later in the
day appeared on the floor of the conven-
tion with both eyes nearly closed and the
general appearance of having had an ar
gument with threshing-machine
Several other statesmen also became
mixed up in the row. and o number of
them had battered heads when the hostili-
ties ended.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30

Office has received dispatch from Pre-
toria saying that the death sentences i'm
posed upon the leaders of the Johannes
burg Reform Union yesterday have been
commuted.
The Daily Telegraph to morrow will
publish a dispatch from pr ia dated
April Is, saying that che accused reform
leaders without exception received their
sentences with dignity. John Hays Ham
mond, after being sentenced, collapsed
and was taken Immediately to the Jail,
where he was placed under the care of a
doctor and the chief jailer. The bitterest
feeling exists among a majority of the
prisoners, who consider that they were
badly advised in pleading guilty. Fully
forty of the prisoners avow that they could
have proven their innocence, except so far
as joining in the movement at the last
moment constituted guilt.
AT the annual meeting of the Primrose
League, held at Covent Garden to-day,
Lord Salisbury said in an address that he
was sure President Kruger would not use
unworthily the power which circumstances
had placed in his hands.
Lord Salisbury referred to the leaders of
the reform movement struggling for what
they conceived to be their rightfuI liber-
ties in the Transvaal. This assertion was
received with loud cheers. President
Kruger's name was received with kissing
from some parts of the Premier's au-
dience. There was a very large gathering
present, but most of those IN attendance
were ladies.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30

rant, and then the Palace drugstore, op-
poslte the Palace Hotel, on the second
corner, above the Portland. Across Sec
ond street, the Masonic Temple, a two
story brick, stayed the progress eastward
and heroic efforts were made to prevent its
burning.
By this time everybody on Myers and
Bennett avenues and on six adjacent
blocks began to move out. East of Third
street embers falling ignited the tempor-
ary building hastily set up on the first
burned district. By O'Clock the whole
town was abl:ze, and up above Carr ave-
nue. people were moving out their most
valuable household goods.
On the corner of Second and Bennett
stood the Bimetallic National Bank, and
next to it, in the Cripple Creek Mining
Exchange, was the temporary home Of the
First National Bank. Ali the money was
locked up in the vaults and the place aban-
doned when the flames crowded the clerks
out. North of the banks were the tele-
graph and telephone offices, which had to
be abandoned.
Late in the afternoon the wind veered
around to the east, driving the course of
the conf1agration to the more sparsely
built-up residence district, and the fire
died out, leaving the High School building
the only one of any size remaining in the
camp.
The list OF business houses destroyed
would include every firm of any size in the
city-banks, hotels, postoffice, dry-goods,
hardware, clothing, professional offices,
restaurants, rooming-h livery barns,
big gambling halls and many residences.
When it was realized that the fire would
now die out the people who had raced to
the hill began a wild scramble to find
quarters for the night. Special trains bore
hundreds quickly away to Victor and to
Florence and to Colorado Springs by the
Midland Terminal route. Others will go
later tonight.
There are at least two dead and several
injured rs a result of the Palace Hotel ex-
ploslon. An unknown man was shot by a
policeman while looting a burning build
ing. Only one of the dead men has been
identified. His name is Griffith and he
worked at Gold King.
Among the injured is one of the Rose
brothers, of Rose & Leddy, druggists; E..
II. Smith, G. E. Youngston, John Krei ger,
E. Bradley and Gene Leyden, but these
names cannot be vouched for. 1t is i'm
possible tonight to arrive at definite facts
as to names of in ured or complete list
of firms.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30
PROSPECTIVE DUEL.
After War of Words, LeMingtons Mayor
Challenges the Ex-Mayor to Mortal
Combat

LEXINGTON, KY, April 29.-Mayor J.
Hull Davidson last night challenged ex-
Mayor Henry Duncan to duel. Both
have their respective organs and have at
tackled each other in the papers. David
son appeared at the Phoenix Hotel last
night, waiting for Duncan, but the latter
did not appear. The feud between the
Davidson and Duncan factions is of long
standing. Several years ago Duncan de-
feated Davidson for reelection as Mayor.
Duncan employed an expert bookkeeper
and went all over the accounts of David
sons administration, and claimed that the
examination showed Davidson to be in
debted to the city $4,000. Davidson de-
MED this, and the fight between the. two
men and their friends has been very bitter
since. Trouble is expected.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30
Il PACIFIC GIBRALTAR.
The EsQstiniaH Military and Naval Sta
tion Practically Io,preomeble.

The EsQWinlaH Military and Naval Sta
tion Practically In,pregnebte.
HALIFAX, N. S., April So.-A we'll
informed British army officer stated to a
United Press reporter yesterday that the
strengthening and equipment of. the mill
tary and naval station at Esquimalt, B. c.,
has been going on very quietly for some
time. This is now one of the most power
full and important naval stations in any
part of the British empire. Vast quanti-
ties of ammunition and war material OF all
kinds have been accumulated there in
large shipments. The Notifications are
very extensive and as impregnable as
time, patience and science could make
them. The expenditure at this station has
been tremendous, and it is evidently the
intention of the War Department and ad-
miralty to make this place the stronghold
of the Pacific. The officer said it is not
generally known, but it is true neverthe-
less, that there was very large number of
engineers at Esquimalt, and the conclusion
was arrived at in the same quiet manner
that the place should be armed and forti-
fed. The works and Notifications at Es-
quimaIt would surprise the world when
their extent and importance had become
known.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30
DOM PAUL SIGNS
A COMMUTAT|ON,
The Lives of Hammond and
His Companions Are
Spared.
BOERS ARE MERCIFUL.
Many Sign a Petition Asking
That Full Pardon Be
Granted.
PUNISHMENT NOT YET FIXED.
Executive Cemency Asked by the
Judge Who Imposed the Death
Penalty.

PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA, April 29.-Dr.
Leyds, Secretary of State of the South Afri-
can Republic, informed Sir Jacobus Dewet,
the British Diplomatic Agent, to-day that
the death penalties imposed upon John
Hays Hammond, Colonel Rhodes and
others had been commuted, but that it
had not been decided what form of
punishment should be substituted
The Executive Council is now in session.
considering all the sentences imposed by
the court yesterday.
In passing judgment upon the prisoners
the Judge said it was his painful duty to
impose extreme sentence, but he hoped
that the executive would authorize the
same degree of clemency toward the pris-
oners he had shown at the beginning of
the year.
Monster petitions are being signed here
and in Johannesburg. asking the Presi-
dent to fully pardon Hammond and his
associates. The Boer jurors before whom
the condemned would have been tried b ad
they not pleaded guilty, also signed a
memorial asking executive clemency.
The State Attorney has officially denied
the statement that any agreement had
been made in accordance with which
lighter penalties would be imposed upon
the leaders in the reform movement in
consideration of their pleading guilty to
the charges against them.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30
CAP PTUREO BY A
SPANISH GUNDOAT.
The Filibustering Schooner
Competitor Comes to
Grief.
AMERICANS ON BOARD.
Prisoners Taken to MORO Castle
to Await a Naval Court.
Martial.
ARMS AND AMMUNITION LOST.
A Woman and Her Child Who Were
On the Vessel Were Taken Ashore
in Irons.

HAVANA, CUBA, April 29.-The Spanish
gunboat Mesagora has captured near
Berrasos, on the northern coast, the Amer
ican schooner Competitor of Key West,
loaded with arms and ammunition, for
which she was seeking landing place.
On board of her were Alfredo Laborde, DIR.
ents, who are held prisoners. Some of
the filibusters succeeded in jumping over
board and swimming ashore. Others who
jumped into the sea were drowned. The
insurgent General Monson was mem ber
of the expedition.
The persons who were captured on board
the Competitor, and those who were taken
in the water while attempting to swim
ashore, have been lodged in MORO Castle.
They will be tried by a naval court-martial.
The naval commander is absent in Man
zanillo, and Captain-General Weyler, who
is impatient for the trial of the prisoners,
has requested him to delegate his author
ity to another official, in order that the
proceedings may not be delayed.
Further details of the capture of the
Competitor show that a detachment of
guerrillas captured thirty-two boxes OF
ammunition which had already been
landed, and took two prisoners, apparently
Americans. Shortly after discovering the
schooner the gunboat opened fire upon
her, killing three of her company. Many
others of those on board sprang into the
water and swan ashore. Among those
who took to the water was the leader,
Laborde, who was captured, however, be-
fore he could reach shore.
KEY WEST. FLA, April 29.-The news
OF the capture of the schooner Competitor
caused intense excitement in this city.
Many of the young men said to have been
on board the ill-fated schooner have fami-
lies in this city.
A passenger on the Mascotte to-day re-
ports that he say about twenty men, one
woman and a child being landed on the
dock, al in chains. Among the men he
reports seventeen Americans. According
to an extra published in Havana this
morning there were only four men cap
tured.
TORTURED IN MORRO CASTLE.
Ttcelre americans Held Capfirs IN the
Spanish Prison.
BOSTON, MASS, April 29.-Walter s.
Whitcomb, the young American planter
whose reported execution by the Spanish
authorities seemed likely to cause inter-
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30
KRUGER HAS THE PROOF.

VIII Make Public Facts duplicating the
South Afriean Company.
PARIS, FRANCE. April 29.-The Temps
publishes dispatch from Pretoria saying
that the Government of the Transvaal Re-
public intends to publish documents PROV
ing that an understanding existed between
the chartered company and the Johannes
burg Reform Committee fully four days
previous to the time of DR.. Jameson s
starting on his hid into the South African
Republic.
Numerous kilograms in cypher and a
code for their translation were found
among DIR. Jameson's personal effects, and
several communications are alleged to
have passed between prominent London
financier and Lionel Phillips, one of the
leaders of the reform movement, in regard
to the projected revolution. These show
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30
srARTED BY INoENDIARIEs.
little Doubt as to Hoc the Confagration
Originated.

little Doubt q S to Ho.c the CONFIRMATION
Originated.
DENVER, CoIo., April 29-That the
second confagration at Cripple Creek was
OF incendiary origin there is no doubt
L. J. Moynahan, the owner of the Port
land Hotel, is in the city. He says that
the hotel was set on fire last Saturday by
an incendiary, who covered pile of sacks
with coal oil and put them under Koch s
Opera house. On the first appearance of
the blaze it was immediately put out by
the watchman. On inquiry Moynahan
discovered that Mr.. Brewer. the lessee,
carried 5000 on one-half OF the furniture,
which he owned, and for which he paid
Mr.. AirEeart $500 at the time of purchase.
On finding out these facts Moynahan i'm
mediately came to Denver and, calling on
the State insurance agent at the capitol
building, he notified that official of the
fact that the place had been set on fire.
and also called at the Office of the Board
of Underwriters in Denver to find out
which companies carried the insurance.
Brewers lease expires May 1. or on next
Friday, which Moynahan has refused 10
extend. Moynahan thought that immedi-
ate action was necessary, as the $4,000 in
surance was not Cancelled on the furni-
ture. The hotel building cost Mr.. Moyna-
han $38 900, outside of the lots. The in
surance is only $1,000.
Residents of Cripple Creek are in town
since the first fire and to-day have alike
told of suspicious circumstances attending
the rapid spreading of the first fire. Many
persons in Cripple Creek, having paid ex-
orbitant rentals during the boom last
winter, and finding heavy stock of goods
on their hands at this time, have been
sorely tenn pied.
The insurance adjusters are on the
ground, and much light will be thrown
upon this phase of the Cripple Creek fires
after they get together their evidence.
Though the town authorities have been
of late waging warfare on crooks and tim
horn gamblers, many remain who are
practically peuniless, and they, too, have
doubtless had hand in assisting the rapid
spread of the flames on both occasions.
President Steele of the Chamb Der of Com
merce promptly wired the Mayor of Grip
pie Creek offers of assistance, and then.
without awaiting a reply, proceeded to
arrange for a special train. chemical en-
gine, a squad of police and provisions.
This, however, proved unnecessary, when
the following telegram arrived:
CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo, P MA thou
sand of our people are homeless tonight. Can
you have tents sent us? We have enough bed
ding. The fire burned itself out We have no
use for firemen or policemen.
HUGH STEELE, Mayor.
Accordingly necessary supplies will be
sent down on the first regular train to-
night. The Western Union has shipped
down wire and instruments, but will have
only one wire-that used by the Flor
ence and Cripple Creek Railroad-during
the night. The Postal Telegraph will set
up temporary quarters tonight, and the
telephones are working under difficulties s..
NINE REPORTFD killed.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30
LEE TAKES THE OATH.

The NetU Co nsuL- General Soon to Leave
for Harana.
RICHMOND. VA, April 29.-General
Fitzhugh Lee took the oath of office and
executed his bond as Consul G eneral to
Cuba here to-day. He expects to get his
final instructions from President Cleve-
land Friday or Saturday and it is probable
he will 90 to Havana next week.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30
Big Fire at White sulphur Springs.

WHITE SPRINGS, FLA, April 20
White Springs was nearly destroyed by
fire last night. The fire originated in the
White Sulphur Springs Hotel and spread
to the Harris livery stable in the Paxton
block, then TO DIR. L. NJ. Anderson's office,
stopping at the Postoffice and Knight &
Pritchard's dry-goods store. The loss will
reach many thousands of dollars, with no
insurance except on the hotel. The guests
lost their baggage
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30
BARNATO,s REVENGE.
The Kofir King Closing All His Mines
in the Rand.

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, April
90 The Diggers' News says: Barney
Barnato, the Kaffir King, is very bitter
concerning the sentences imposed upon
Rhodes, Hammond and others at Pretoria,
and is showing his resentment by closing
all his mines and selling all his landed
properties in the Rand. The people are
paralyzed at the prospect, as the closing
of the Barnato mines will throw thousands
of men into the already overfowing ranks
Of the UNEMPLOYED
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30

Perished in u Nebraska Storm.
IMPERIAL, NEBR., April 29.-During
the wind ana rainstorm last night Miss
Leota Brown, aged 20, who had gone to
drive some cattle in, died from exposure
within quarter of mile of her home.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30
HAMMOND CoLLAPsED.

Overcome When the Sentence of Death
Vas Passed Upon Him.
LONDON, Eng, April 29.-The Colonial
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30
NINE REPoRrED KILLED.

Tsco Tremendous Explosions S,ceU the
List of Fatalities.
DENVER, Colo. April ga telephone
message from Altman, on Bull Hill, states
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30

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