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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26
The Cuban Policy.

Thus far there car be no difference of
opinion in regard TO the course of the
President. 1t Is true that he has not ac-
knowledged the belligerency or the in
dependence of Cuba. There has been
a grave conflict Of statement in regard
to the status Of the Cuban insurgents.
1t Is admitted that there has been suf-
fering and hideous cruelty; that lives
have been ruthlessly taken; and that
gross and disgraceful practices have
gone on. The President is appealed to
by a large element OF humane and lib
erty-loving people of the United States
to interpose our power and prevent n
continuance Of these barbarities. Some
there are who seem impatient at his de-
lay. But when the reasonable people of
America consider the vast amount Of
difficult and important questions which
have urged themselves upon the Presi-
dents attention. his course needs no
apology. He has set out to thoroughly
sift the facts of the situation. That Is
the first requisite. When he has fully
satisfied himself from reliable sources
that the condition in Cuba demands
American interposition he may be ex-
pected to act in a wise and judicious
manner.-Ohio State Journal.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26
UNIQUE IN HISTORY OF INDIANS
Their Desire to Build a Monument
at Wounded Knee a De-
parture.

Washington, June 1S.-The desire of
the Sioux Indians to erect a monumen!
to those who participated In the battlE
OF Wounded Knee. as reported In the
dispatches from Rapid City. s. d., has
not been officially communicated to tho
Washington authorities. and pending
the receipt Of the petition Of the In
dams no attention win be paid to the
matter. lust what action will be taken
then Is only conjecture, though many
veterans in the Indian service think IA
would only be just to the Indians. H.
view or the alternating circumstances
OF the fight. and as a simple token oil
recognition OF the valor Of the tribe. Nc
similar issues have been raised before 50
far as the authorities here can recall.
though such marks Of commemoratloil
as stones. etc., have been placed on tbs
battle field 10 represent the marches OF
some Indian leaders. An attempt 4,
raise = substantial shaft ON the lines
OF the government monuments already
erected NJ an idea In Indian history ant
II taken 70 indicate q greater cIvllixa
ton among the Indians than was lookcd
~.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26
PREPARATIONS FOR A BIG TIME
Annual Picnic at st. Williamsviiie
on the Path.

Huron, June 21.-The annual picnic
at St. Williamsville takes place on the
cath inst. in a a grove twelve miles north
of Cavour. Among the speakers is
Father Desmond of St. Martins
church, Attorney L. III. Mouser and
Hon. A. T.. Chamberlain of this city.
These picnics bring together settlers
within an area of thirty miles from
the grove, and are always n source of
much pleasure.
w. j. Lyon, an ~ex-union veteran, has
gone to the soldiers home at Hot
Springs. lie was one of the early set
slers Of this city and while in the army
received promotion from private to
captain for bravery in battle.
Mr.. William Wurfel of this city, and
Miss Jennie Bachmap of Pleasant
View, were married Wednesday even-
ing at the home of the brides parents,
w. II. Bachman and wife, by Rev. B.
ii. Burt of this city.
The farm residence of Edward Carr
was struck by lightning during
Wednesdays thunder storm. The
building was somewhat damaged and
Mr.. Carr and John Eyer, a neighbor,
were affected by the electric shock.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26
Popocrats Nave No Use for Democratic

lie Organizes are apparently ueteF"
mined not 10 receive gold" Democrats
back into the fold. Bryan protests
against the attempt Of the latter to
raise the tariff issue this year. He is
reported to have said recently that the
tariff issue is M more prominent this
year than 1t was last, and II then failed
TO keep the gold men loyal TO their
party. For that reason he sees no cause
for raising the tariff issue this year.
As a matter of fact, there seems 70
be no ground upon which the gold and
silver Democrats can compromise their
differences. They are as far apart as
ever. The Bryanites are determined TO
make free coinage the issue again. That
will be the ase in Ohio, and il will
doubtless be the case in other States.
The Democratic party in 1897 will be
under Popocratic control the same as Il
was in lShG. 1t follows. then, that the
true Democrats" as they cali them
selves, will either have to still their
conscience and turn in with the Bryan
ties. go 1t alone, or give their support to
the Republicans once more.
If the gold men are anxious TO de-
stroy the influence of the Bryanites
they should assist the Republicans to
restore prosperity by passing a protect
i've tariff law and then help to admin
lister another overwhelming defeat to
the party OF cheap money and repudla.
ton. That would do the business.-Ex.
change.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26
HUSBAND TO DE ExECUTioNER
Colonel stone tn Drop Brown Into
Eternity.

Deadwood, June BY a special re-
quest Colonel l.. y. stone, husband Of
the murdered by the colored
man, Brown, in this city, will be permit
ted to perform the execution OF the
murderer on the day appointed. Prob
ably such an occurrence has never be-
fore happened in the history Of crime.
II no change Is made in the plan July
IA, some time between the hours OF 10
q. m. and 2 p. m, Mr.. Stone VIII place
the black cap over the head OF the con-
vlcted and win cut the cord that holds
the death trap and will swing the muir
derer of his wife into eternity. Mr..
Stone has been especially DESTROYS TO
see justice done to the murderer and 1t
was through his intercession that the
negro's life was saved from lynching.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26
A Years supply of Foreign Goods.

If anybody is in doubt as TO the accu-
racy of the recent statement of Chair
man Dingley that a years supply of for
e.sn goods will probably be in the ware
houses of the country by the time the new
tariff bill can get upon the statute books,
let him examine the following figures
showing the customs receipts since the
election of Mckinley and a protective
Congress. They are as follows: Novem-
Der. 1896, S9.930,3S5; December, $l0,-
719,412; January, 1897. $l1,276,S74 Feb.
ruary, $11,5S7, 260; March, SD, S33, $50;
April, $24,454,3 51. When it is remem-
bered that these figures relate only 10 the
dutiable goods and that there has been
an especial rushing in of no~n-dutiable
goods likely TO be transferred 10 the dutia-
bic list, it will be seen that the food Of
importations now passing through the
custom houses of the country is m
thing enormous.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26
RUNNING PAPER OF THEIR OWN
Union Printers In Opposition TO the
prpSs.

Sioux Falls. June 19.-The printers OF
the Sioux Falls Press walked out Tues
day night owing to a disagreement be-
tween the business department and
themselves as TO the day they should
be paid off. The business department.
said they would be paid on the 9th and
Goth of the month. The union objected
and withdrew their men. The district
organizer Of the union arrived from st.
Paul yesterday to try and settle the
difficulty. The printers have issued a
paper called the Morning Union. The
Press has put in %non-union men n has
ordered type setting machines.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26
Cages Speech.

All that is necessary cannot be ac-
complished at once, and the country
ought to be willing to wait patiently
for the solution of the serious problems
with which the new administration
was confronted, especially when such
good progress already has been made
and such positive assurances Of its
plans for the future are given.-Illinois
State Journal.
1t is not %imprudent to feel certain
both that Mr.. Gage has said nothing
which Mr.. Mckinley does not approve,
and also that the administration, in
v%enturing thus to make what amounts
to a promise, is not speaking without
evidence that Congress will not be UNI
willing to take some step in the direc-
ton Of currency reform.-Milwaukee
Sentinel.
The so-called currency reformers are
impatient of delay and falsely accuse
the administration and the Republicans
in Congress with being Indifferent to
the currency question, alleging this to
be the chief reason for the hardness Of
industrial and business recovery. Sec
rotary Gage refutes the accusation, and
his assurance will be received by the
country with satisfaction and conf
dence.-Omaha Bee.
The Republican party is opposed to
the free coinage OF silver except by in
ternational agreement. and as such an
agreement is out of the question the
business world should appreciate the
fact, and show by lis h%opefulness that
it has confidence in the President. At
the same time, If we are to have q re-
newal of prosperity, Congress must act
promptly on the tariff and must enact
such a measure as will. while yielding
an adequate but inextravagant reve-
nue., property protect American labor
without promoting monopolies at home
or Observation-Disclosures Ledger.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26
nj. worialy EJECT.

A New York firm applied to Abraham
Lincoln SOME years before he became
president for information as to the
financial standing OF one of his neigh.
bors. Mr.. Lincoln replied: yours OF
the 10th received. ! am well acquainted
with Mr. 49,, and know his circum-
stances. First of all, he has a wife and
baby; together they ought to be worth
$50, 900 to any man. Secondly, he has an
office In which there 10 o table worth
fl.50 and three chairs worth. say, one
iollar. Last of all. there il in one cor.
9 q large rat hole, which will bear
looking into. Respectfully.
"A. LINCOLN"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26

Cleveland. June l9.-The republican
primary election for the Endorsement
Of M. A. Hanna for senator was "A Of
the most bitterly contested primaries
in the history of the city. 1t was .
factional fight between the Foraker
forces, represented by Mayor McIkis-
SON, and the Hanna forces. In order
70 coneentrate the strength Of tho
Hanneites they plneed = legislative
ticket IN the field. This slate wna
broken BY the Foraker men. but the
iegislettve delegation will. however.
yote tQr Ha1Naa fur senator Il elected
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26

In Austria a law has been passed
making it A punishable offense for pa
rents to take young children into bed
with them. This arbitrary interference
with the liberty of the subject has
been rendered necessary by the large
number of deaths OF infants through
being overlaid, the annual average hav-
ing been for some time past as much
as 1000.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26

In compliance with an order of the
Missouri state board Of health in re-
gard to quarantine all officers who take
prisoners to the p~enitentiary must ear
ry with them a certificate Of health
signed by a local physician and oun
tersigned by the secretary OF the state
board OF health, which certificate must
state that the prisoner has not been eX-
posed to any contagious disease for
thirty days prior to his transfer to the
~penitentiary, This certificate must be
approved by the secretary Of the state
board Of health at st. Louis.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26

Mr.. Cleyeland's Reform Club speech
had the usual amount Of phrases about
''sordid greed" selfish interest" and
partisan ambition" There is little
wonder that these phrases occur so Of
ten IN Mr.. Cleveland's speeches. 1t
would be strange if those things which
have dominated his life should be lack
ing in his speeches.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26

A Springfield, Mass, gentleman who
is fond of playing practical jokes upon
his wife, no matter who is present, gave
a little party the other night, asking his
wife to provide a light supper. In due
time the guests were ushered to the din
ing room, to find on the table simply
a dozen kerosene lamps, brightly burn
ing. The joker is not so fond OF light
refreshments as he was.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26

foreign competition. But il does not
protect American ships which are sub
ject to foreign competition. The Elkins
discriminating duty bill proposes to
remedy this defect by imposing a high
er duty on imports in foreign than in
American vessels. The Elkins bill
ought TO be a part OF the new tariff bin.
1t is the same kind and quality of pro.
lection. 1t will also increase the rev
pnnp
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26
Business Improvement.

A recent dispatch reports that after
IN idleness Of nearly three years the
Maryland Steel Works, at Sparrow's
Point, have started up. This means
work for 1000 idle men. Dispatches
Of this character have been frequent
cver since the election of President Me.
Klnley and the assurance OF a return
to the system Of projections: and they
are the strongest possible evidence OF
the prosperity which is sure to return
when protection, along true protection.
list lines, Is once more established. The
people Of the country ask no more than
that the Senate will act as worthily as
has the House. and that the Dingley
bill. when 1t passes the Senate. will en-
body the true principles for which the
voters declared last November.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26
PROVINCE OF ASSAM DEVASTATED
earthquake Shocks Continue With
the Most Destructive
Rasulfs. y

aClcutta, June 19.-Almost the n
ire province of Assam has been devas-
:ated by an earthquake. The ruin is,
appalling. Courts, jails, hospitals and
treasures have collapsed. The loss of
iood supplies is enormous. The crops
ire mostly ruined, and a great scare
ty of food Is expected. franc is dif-
acult, as many Of the roads are COM
demolished. The shocks still
continue, and much alarm is felt, espe-
rally as renewed shocks are reported
from various places in Bengal. Heavy
rains are immensely increasing tho
damage.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26

plaud the rice tariff and want a duty plac-
ed on cotton. and so on through the South.
In all these cases they insist that the
particular duty they ask is only a "reve-
nue." rate. Nevertheless, they know that
the figures named are a part of the pro-
tective system of the Dingley bill.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26

A Kentucky strawberry grower re-
ports a clear profit this season of s729.S 3
on seven acres Of ground. Numbers OF
women and children who would have
earned money In no other way. made 81
or 81 a day picking berries. Another
grower OF strawberries reports his clear
profit TO have been $357.5O on two acres
OF ground.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26
THE JURY c0uLr NOT AGREE
Alderman Dickinson OF Minneapolis
Will secure Another Trial
Charged With Bribery.

Minneapolis, June 19.-The jury
which has been sitting in the case OF
Alderman c. Il. Dickinson, charged!
with accepting q bride from the Penny
Press for securing q contract for the
city printing, reported its inability to,
agree this morning and was dis
charged after being out forty hours.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26
CUSTER CHRONICLE
JOSEPH KuBLER PUBLISHER

d. p. Freeman, who edits a weekly
paper at C~arterville, Ga, declares that
he was the youngest soldier in he con-
federatc army, and seeks to gain re-
Elected glory from the fact that his
grandfather, Alexander Murray, was
the Oldest one Mr.. Freeman says he
entered the service when not quite 10
years Of age. He served In the Sixth
Georgia from 1862 till the end of the
war. The grandfather, on the other
hand, had seen seventy summers and as
many winters when he enlisted in 1864,
and he had taken part in two previous
,Nprg
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26

1t Is claimed that the oldest pack OF
cards in the United States Is one that
was found not long ago in a closet In 9
very old New Jersey house. The cards
are Of English make. and evidently
Of the time Of Charles /.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26
THEY DECIDE TO HOLD A FAIR
Tri-State Attractions TO BE Offered
at Sioux Falls.

Sioux Falls, June 21.-A big meeting
was held last night by the business
men of the city and it was decided TO
have a tri-state fair this fall. 1t is
proposed to build corn, wheat and oat
palaces in different parts of the city.
The merchants are to build booths in
the principal streets in front of their
places of business. A good racing
program was arranged.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26

Most Of the cities and towns in Mich
igan are buying voting machines that
cost about 5000 apiece. They are con-
structed something on the order Of the
ordinary slot machine. 1t is claimed
that these Will obviate the necessity Of
recording and tallylng clerks, judges,
police officers and the like. thereby saw
ing about 40 per cen annually In the
cost of e.oCtlOns.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26
Calling a spade q Pitohfork.

Calling o spade a ~pitchfork does not
make II such. Democrats, when they
want the products of their sections pro-
tected. speak Of the rates proposed as A
revenue duty" Nevertheless. they are
perfectly willing TO accept the rates Of
the DingIey bill. which everybody knows
and recognises as a thoroughly protective
measure. The Texans make no objection
to the Dingley rates on wool. the Louis
lana and Florida people approve the rates
on sugar. and those Of South Carolina ap-
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26

Advocates Of short skirts say that
few women would have persisted at the
burning Of the Paris bazaar but for the
fact that they stumbled on their skirts
and fell In a helpless mass. Three wom-
en- who had been through 4 previous
panic raised their skirts and were thus
enabled TO escaDe.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26

A new way TO pay old church debts
has been developed in New Orleans. 1t
IS novel, modern and ought to do the
business. Ten churches Of the co,ored
brethren have placed the financial OBJ
legations in the hands VI a regularly or
ganized corporation called The Church
Debt Liqu.ddting Company and this
company will undertake to pay UP all
the debts Of its patrons by means Of en-
tertainments and other sources
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26
GENERAL GOVERNMENT GRANT
Patent Received by the Land Com-
missioner.

Pierre, June 21.-The land commits
sioner's Office has received a patent for
S21 acres of educational and charita-
BILE lands, all situated in Edmunds
county. This brings the total pat
ented lands of the state to within S.
102 acres of the total of 69s.0S acres
granted to the state by the general
government at the time of the admis-
sion of the state. OF these different
grants not yet patented there are yet
to 90 to the
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26
WRECKED BANK RESTORED
Reorganization OF the Concern
Which John r.. johnson
Pulled Down.

Logansport, Ind, June 1o.-The re-
organization of the State National
bank of this city on the wreck left by
John +. johnson, under the name OF
the City National bank, is now conn
plete. Frank II. Fowler Of Grand Rap
ids, Mich, was chosen cashier. John
Gray, a leading dry goods merchant
OF the city is the president. The cleo
ton of Mr.. Fowler was due TO q de-
mand upon the part of the governments
for an experienced banker.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26

When once filled in a Moslem grave
is never reopened on any account. TIC
remove the faintest chance of Its being
thus dehled a sypres tree Is planted
after every intertnent, so that the Gem.
eterics resemble forests more than any.
thing else.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26

A recent thunder storm in the neigh
borhOod Of Berlin afforded an opportun-
lty of ~ assuring precisely the power Of
a flash Of lightning. The eXpcrimenters
took as their basis the mount OF iron
fused by a flash OF lightning, and ac-
cordlng to the statement which they
have published the power OF a flash Of
lightning is on an average equivalent to
1000 horse power,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26

The costliest macadam ON record once
paved the streets OF Kimberley, South
Africa. The celebrated roldbcd was
studded with diamonds and hundreds of
valuable gems We're taken from it. a
peddler, thirty years ago, while hawk
ing his wares from farm house to farm
house. found a shining stone by the
wayside and, thinking 1t might he Of
some value, sent ii TO a ge0logiSt, who
at nee recognized il as a fine diamond.
That was the beginning Of the great
Kimberley diamond mines.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26

A Kansas City woman sued her hus-
band for divorce recently, alleging
harsh. barbarous and unbearable
treatment" The specific charge was
that he came home mad one day and
cast her sealskin into the furnace.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26

In the last o ear statistics show
that the consumption Of spirits has been
cut down more than one-third and OF
wine nearly one-haif. This decrease is
credited to the spirit OF economy in
duced by the hard times.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26

Electric lighting will cost New York
city 81, 250,0 900 this year. Philadelphia
will spend $647, 600 for the same purpose;
Brooklyn, $3.50, 900; Washington, d. c.,
and St. Paul, Mimi. SITS, 900 each; st.
Louis and San Francisco, 800, 900 each,
and Buffalo about S125. 900.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26

Muzzles are used on refractory wornen
in the penitentiary at Cologne. Last
year a muzzled girl was found dead in
her cell. 1t was alleged that her death
was due to suffocation, and the persons
in authority were charged with man
Slaughter. but afterwards acquitted.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26
Terrible Man.

Chicago Tribune: Visitor In Wash
ington)-Isn't 1t unusually dark this
morning?
Democratic Congressman with much
ferocity)--Yes. The sun Is rising very
reluctantly. 1t Is afraid Speaker Reed
won't recognize it.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26

New Orleans people are speaking
rather der.sively Of their city council,
which recently refused to appropriate
$3.50 for much needed crosswalks to en-
able'thc public to ros dry shod, and at
the same session appropriated that
amount OF money for fans and other
aids to their own comfort at their meet
inpG
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26

BY the consolidation Of the two great
iron manufacturing firms of Schneider
and Canet of Paris the heads Of the two
foundries visited President Faure re-
Gently and assured him that France
now has an iron manufacturing plant
rivallng the Krupp establishment in
Germany
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-26

The expenses Of Great Britain are
now about $500, 900 yearly, or nearly
$1,000 per minute, but every tick Of the
clock represents an inflow OF a little
over SIG into the British treasury, thus
leaving an annual surplus of about $780,
600. 600.