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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-04-17

The + of the group OF Philippine
islands is about the size Of California.
The total population is about 1000, 900.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-04-17

eases caused by Uric
acid in the blood, or
ydisordered action
Of the Kidneys or
organs. The
Kava Kava Shrub,
or as botanists call
it. Piper Methys-
ticam, grows on the
bank Of the Gauges
river, East India,
-
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-04-17

London society journals say that
skating on the new bicycle skates Is to
be the fashionable craze during the
coming summer in England.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-04-17
Arsan,,na,s nav c-nsus gives n tot,,

Argentina's new census gives a total
population Of about 4.o92, 900. OF whom
!, GAG. 900 live In cities. The leading city,
Bucnos Ayres. has a population OF $685.
e54. making 1t the largest in South
America
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-04-17

| believe Piso's Cure is the only medicine
that Will cure conSumption.-Anna NJ.
Ross, Williamsport, Pa, Nov. u, 1895.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-04-17
Reached Fifty Feet.

.Vicksburg, Miss, April AT noon
The river reached fifty feet. kilograms
from Pallullah report all the levees
safe.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-04-17
No-to-Bac for Firtv Con,s

over 400, 900 cured. Why not let No-To-Bac
regulate or remove your desire for tobacco?
saves money. makes health and manhood. Cure
9uardn' eed, soc and 81, all druggists,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-04-17
Fortunes Favorite.

"Oh, how can you drink so much?"
asked the Earnest Worker.
1T s'prises me sometimes" said the
Hopeless Case. IT'S jist luck, l guess"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-04-17
llaIes. Reduced.

London. April S.-The tank of Eng
lands rate Of discount a been reduced
from 3 per cent to 2k.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-04-17

The longest word in the English lam
Is disproportfonableness.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-04-17
ARE FIGHTING HARD
IN The PHILIPPINES
Spanish Forces Are Meeting With
Many Discouragements in
in the Contest.
Il HUNG CHANGES INFLUENCE
Said TO BE On the Increase at PekiD
IA Horrible Murder and Grew
some Execution Of the
Perpetrators.

Vancouver, T.. c., April 10.-The
steamer Empress of Japan has arrived
from h orient. She had an unusually
large number OF Chinese on board, 190,
and they were detained at quarantine
for some time. The Empress brings
the following advices:
Reliable Information In regard to OPP
er3tions of the Spanish troops In the
Philippines Is still difficult t. obtain.
There is a superdbundance Of highly
.0lOred reports appearing, favoring the
Spanish, but the information furnished
Jy correspondents at Hong Kong Is OF
an entirely different character. The
spanish FORCES are meeting with a stub
born resistance In Cavit. and it will yet
- many months before this province is
clear of rebels. The insurgents D
tinue 10 attack all conveys with ammu-
milton and stores and the movements Of
the royalist troops are in consequence
greatly hampered. The captain gen
eral mas applied TO the Spanish govern
.rhent for 5000 additional troops.
The troops operating in the province
OF Cavit are suffering severely from
disease. Executions are Of frequent oc-
c~urrence. Large numbers Of the native
NAcNlo IN oNAAl kpAli6 ONNi W NhN NN~f
and It is evident the rebels have re-
ceived a large supply Of firearms.
At the battle Of Salitran, fought
March 8, the Spanish general Seabola
was killed.
Chinese News.
For his services while attending upon
Vi Hung Chang during his recent tour
there has been conferred upon NJ. De-
.erng the rank of brevet civil premier
button, which only I'VE other foreigners
nave had the honor Of receiving, name
y, the late General Gordon and Sir Rob-
srt Hart.
There are indications that Ii Hung
Chang is coming into fuller power
shortly, but there are still a great many
attempts made to undermine his newly
acquired influence over the emperor.
rhe empress dowager and Prince kung
are still his champions.
A story OF a horrible murder comes
from Bang Kok, where a young girl
was caught clipping with her lover n
confined in the house OF her relatives,
who broke every zone in her body as a
punishment. The fingered III
fearful agony for fourteen days. TWO
men and women were sentenced 10
death for the murder and were behead-
ed. The execution was a barbarous at
rair, the headsman being drunk and the
convicted wretches were slashed in a
most fearful manner before death re-
leased them from their sufferlngs.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-04-17

CAscARETs stimu. ate liver, kidneys and bowels. Nov.
or sicken, weaken or grlpe. lOc.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-08-14
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
WASHINGTON NOTES.


THE commissioner of the general
land Office is having a new map made
of the Alaskan country, which will be
of the greatest value to persons con-
templating a trip to the gold regions.
It will show all the rivers and lakes
and all the routes to the gold fields,
including those through British Co
1umbia- The maps will be out in a
couple of months.
The British government has in
formed the American bimetallic COM
mission that it will probably reply to
the proposals of the commissioners On
behalf of the United States in October.
The Russian mission has been ten
dered formally to Ethan Allen Hitch
cock, of ST. Louis, by President Nc
Kinley.
Mr.. PRESTON, the director of the
mint, estimates the gold production Of
the world for 1896 to have been $685.
600, 900, of which the United States
contributed over SO, 600, 900. For 1897
he believed the worlds gold product
would reach at least 1910, 0oO, 900, an in
crease of SS5, 600, 600 over 1896.
The postmaster general proposes to
recommend to congress at its next ses-
sion the establishment of postal saw
ings banks and he is collecting all the
information possible on the subject
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-08-14

and that we will make a practical test
of postal savings banks within a year.
At this time 1 have no definite plans
in view, but propose 10 thoroughly in
vestigats the subject during the sum-
mer SO that I win be prepared to make
an intelligent recommendation to con-
grese in December. 1 have sent for
tho blank forms and other matters
used in this SERVES in Canada and
the information it Is peesi bic to find"
Says Cuba Is Lost to spain.
INV YORK, Aug. e.-Ths World pub
fishes an interview said to have been
obtained with John Sherman, secretary
of state, just previous to his return to
Washington from Amagansett, L. 1.
In this he is represented as saying:
Spain viii lose Cuba That seems to mo to
be certain She cannot continue the struggle
Already the conflict has cost her more than
Es0o, 0oeeoo Her money Is ssne ana shc can
get ne more. Sho has roaehcd the limit of her
borrowing capacity. She cannot pay back
what she has already borrowed The only
thing lefs fer her to de is to rersadfaee
revolution Having rcpudfated them, she
begin anew but she will have to begin without
Cuba That country is devastated The in
surgents have been fighting with only the hope
Of ultimate success as their reward The Span
ish soldiers have been battling for pay. The
pay will stop and then the conflict win stop
By stopping the struggle, by Withdrawing her
troops from Cuba and by repudiating her debts
is her only way to recover. Sooner or laser
she must de this.
Pension Roll Reaches Nearly a Million
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.-The pension
roll of the United States has almost
reached the million mark. At the be-
ginning'of the fiscal year the pension
ers numbered just $50, 52s, an increase
of 10, $50 for the past year. During the
year SO, 1o1 new pensions were gran ted
and 1911 persons were restored to the
rolls Old age and disease, however, are
making great inroads into the lists, for
therewere 81 800 deaths during the year.
Other sources of loss were 1,O74 from
remarriages of widows, 1,s45 orphans
attained majority, 2,6S3 failures to
claim pensions and $500 losses from
unrecorded causes
Increased Production of Gold
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.-Mr. Preston,
the director of the mint, estimates the
gold production of the world for 1896
to have been S2o5. 900, 900, of which the
United States contributed over S53, 00O,-
600. For 1897, it is believed the worlds
gold product will reach at least $780,
600, 900, an increase of $35, 900, 900 over
1896.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-08-14
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

NOTICES were posted about Clayton
N M, warning all negroes to leave
the town before August Is and nearly
all of them made preparations to get
away by the time.
PRINCETON, Ind, was recently re-
ported to be in the throes of mad cat
scare and a wholesale determination
of the felines was begun.
WHILE Clifford Chissum was being
lowered into well at Altus, Ok. the
rope broke and he fell to the bottom
and was fatally injured.
THE American Association for the
Advancement of Science convened at
Detroit, Mich, the other day with a
good attendance, 20 delegates from the
British association occupying seats on
the platform.
Two more cases of men afflicted with
anthrax have come to the attention of
Sioux City, Ia, physicians. The men,
a butcher and a dairyman, were infect
ed through skinning diseased cattle.
j. M. TRAUT was murdered at his
home in Ryan, 1. T., by some unknown
one who stole upon him while he lay
upon the floor asleep and fired two
shots into his brain. Traut was deS-
perate character and had many enc
mics.
ROBBERS entered the house of Philip
and John Devo, aged brothers, in Cam
bria county, Pa, bound and gagged
them and a 3O-year-old nephew and
ransacked the house. Failing to find
any money they burned the feet of the
three with lighted sticks and knocked
out most of the young mans teeth
with a revolver.
QUARANTINE has been established at
the National stock yards. East ST.
Louis, Ill, against cattle afflicted with
Texas fever.
AT Barnum, Tex, fire destroyed the
planning mill, lumber yard, a number
of houses belonging to w. I. Carter &
Bro, a number of cars and three small
bridges belonging to the Kansas &
Texas railroad. The losses were $780,
600, with small insurance.
SECRETARY BLISS has published an
official notice warning all persons GO
ing to the Klondike gold fields of the
dangers to be encountered at this
season of the year, and the gravity of
the possible consequences of being de-
tanned in the mountainous wilderness
during five or six months of an arctic
winter where no relief can reach them,
however great the need.
FRANK c. CONWAY, who murdered his
wife at Ogdensburg, n. Y, was cleo
trocuted at the Clinton prison on the
10th.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-08-14

A GRADING company at work near
Valley, Neb., exhumed 10 skeletons re-
Gently, five being women Residents
of the locality could not account for
them being there nor recall any bury
ing ground as having been located at
the place. The bodies were not buried
in any cofhns-
LIZZIE HOFFMAN threw her baby,
sewed in bag, into the Hudson river
at New York. but the bag filed with
air and floated, saving the child's life
The mother was arrested.
THIRTY thousand people witnessed
the final contes of the national meet
of the League of American Wheelmen
at Willow Grove. Philadelphia, on the
18th. The finishes were all intensely
exciting. but only one record was
broken, Fred Schade covering one-third
mile in 50 As seconds
THE discovery of new diamond fields
was reported in the district west of
the Kimberly mines in Africa, the
find being said to be fully equal to
those of Kimberly.
SENIOR CANovAs DEL CASTILLO, the
prime minister of Spain, was shot and
killed by an anarchist at Santa Agueda,
Spain, on the sth. The assassin was
arrested. Great excitement prevailed
in the place.
The sensational story sent out from
Ottumwa, Ia, to the effect that Gov.
Drake was on his death-bed at his
home in Centerville was denied by his
son-in-law and ply stefan, who said that
the governor had never been in a crit
ical condition, and that he was improv-
ing rapidly.
THE grand stand at the White Horse
race track near Lancaster, Pa, gave
way just the winning horse passed
under the wire. There were fully g.
600 men, women and children on 1t and
hundreds of them were buried in the
debris. Over 300 were njured and four
killed.
NIGHT Waterman at Homestead,
n. j., heard a woman shriekinE Il am
burning up; save mep' He rushed to
her rescue, beat out the flames and
picked her up, but she was dead 1t
proved to be his wife, who was the
victim of a lamp explosion.
JURsE PERRYMAN was legally hanged
at Hattiesburg, Miss, for ASA ting q
woman.
By an explosion at the cartridge fac
tory of Rustchuk, Bulgaria, As persons
were killed and many others injured
and the lives of 60 of the latter de-
SPARED of.
HEhE were I'VE V1CClIDS OF GQe neat
at Cincinnati on the 4th and % prcstra-
tions.
FIVE lives were lost and scores of
persons sustained serious injuries 81
of them being fremen, in an explosion
which took place during the burning
of the Northwestern grain elevator at
Chicago. Either the bursting of a
boiler or the explosion of mill dust
caused the awful havoc. The build
ing was of composite construction and
the explosion caused perfect bonn
bardment of thing, bricks, etc, at al
most white heat, leaving little of the
building save the framework and a
great pile of blazing wheat The loss
was estimated at $500, 900, fully in
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-08-14

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.-Postmaster-
General Gary is in favor of postal saw
ings banks and proposes to recommend
to congress at the next session the es-
adjustment of such banks in this
country. 1T is very likely" he said,
in discussing the subject a few days
ago ''that some sort of legislation will
be enacted at the approaching session,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-08-14
GENERAL NEWS


tiona1 Christian alliance opened at
Cleveland, O., on the sth. It was ex-
pected that 5000 visitors would be
present during the two weeks that the
meeting continues.
FISHERMEN found the body of four
year-old boy floating on the surface Of
a pond near Quitman, Ga, and it was
identified as that of the son of Mrs
Idella Powell Banks, widow, and
she was arrested. She afterwards con-
fessed that she murdered her child be-
cause he was too ugly to live
THE mill of the st. Cloud (Minn.)
Lumber Co. was destroyed by fire the
other evening. A dozen other build
ings caught fire, but were saved.
A FREIGHT train went through q
bridge spanning the Wabash river near
Geneva, Ind, and the engineer and
fireman were badly injured. Owing to
the wreck a passenger train was sent
round over another line and it jumped
the track and the engineer was killed
and several other trainmen were seri-
ous1y hurt.
GEORGE WILLIAMS was killed by
lightning near Jackson, Miss. The
bolt entered the head, breaking his
neck and backbon
THE long drought in the district
around Meridian, Miss, was broken by
a most disastrous rainfall which swept
away bridges and fences and did great
damage to crops in the 1owlands.
ACCORDING to the National Apple
Shippers association at Buffalo, n. Y,
the probable yield of apples for 1897
based on an average of 100 as full
crop-in Missouri will be so; in Kan
sas, rs.
AT Houston, Tex, Esseck White was
AL .-.1 H. L 4
and his companion. ArmaS Phillips,
lynchers- The two had attempted a
criminal assault upon two young
women.
THE New York World recently pu b.
Hshed an interview in which Secretary
Sherman was represented to have said
that Spain would lose Cuba, that there
would be no Hawaiian protectorate
unless extraordinary occasion should
arise, and that there was no longer a
shadow on Anglo-American amity.
THE August crop report of the Orange
Judd Farmer, of Chicago, based upon
returns from all the principal agricul-
tural counties of the country, makes
the condition of the corn crop on Au-
gust 1 S6.4 against SS.4 on July L.
Mr. SOLOMON ZIMMERMAN and his
wife, each as years old, were both
killed while driving across the West
Shore railroad tracks at st. townsville,
N. Y.
AT the free-for-an pacing race at
the Columbus, o., driving park on the
9th there were four starters-Joe
Patchen, Star Pointer, Lottie Lorrain
and Badge. Joe Patchen not only won
the race on its merits, but paced the
fastest mile ever made in the Grand
circuit, equaling the worlds record of
GODS, made by John R. Gentry at Glens
Falls.
Four persons were burned to death
at Cincinnati the other morning in a
frame dwelling by a fire which started
from the expulsion of a gasoline stove,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-08-14
Wichita Bonds Finally Bought.

State Treasurer Hefiebower, who
held out for some time against the
state buying $25. 900 of Wichita bonds
with permanent school fund money,
on the ground that Wichita was al
ready too heavily bonded, finally gave
in and the bonds were purchased.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-08-14
PRACTICAL TEST.
Postmaster-General Gary Will Recon-
mend Postal Savings Banks

Secretary Sherman Sees No Hope for Spain
The Gigantic Pension RoH-Increase
of Gold Production Estimated
by Director Preaton.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-08-14
Minor State News.

The receipts of the state peniten-
tiary for July were S9,711 and expendi
lures S13,915.
The Santa Fe railroad is introducing
the block signal system between Holli-
day and Newton.
Ed Leedham, farmer near Caney,
committed suicide the other day be-
cause his wife scolded him.
Senator Royal Mathews, of McPher-
son. will stand for the repu blican NOM
ination for congress in the Seventh dis
trict.
The entire national guard of Kansas
will encamp at Topeka during festival
week and one day will give sham
battle.
Senator Baker is kept busy at his
home in Leavenworth these days lis
tening to the opportunities of office
seekers.
The Hutchinson & Southern railroad
will extend from Hutchinson to Pat
terson, Harvey county, to connect with
the Frisco.
A cyclone near Russell the other day
demolished a new house and killed
two carpenters that were working on
the building.
1t is rumored that the Missouri Pa
cifc will extend branch line from
Conway Springs through wellington
to Arkansas City.
tramp has sued ID. A. Laws, of EN-
poria, for So, 600 damages. The tramp
stopped at Laws house to beg, and the
bulldog tore him up.
Since Gov. Leedy was indicted into
office there have been five deaths among
those directly appointed to office either
by himself or other state officers
A RECENT democratic convention at
Laken developed bad blood and one OF
the defeated candidates publicly horse
whipped Editor Purcell, of the Index
There is remarkable family near
Morrill,. 1t consists of 125 children
and grandchildren, and not one dead
The parents are both alive and strong
The state owes Atchison county S.
500 for the care of insane patients for
three years, and the county will pay
no more state taxes until this claim is
allowed.
Chester 1. Long says he will again
be a candidate for congress from the
Seventh district, and denies that he IS
after the republican nomination for
governor.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-08-14
FAVORED ABOVE ALL.

Two Hundred Million Dollars VIII This
Year BE Given to Farmers OF America.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. "a special from
New York to the Republic says: Last
week was notable one in the markets
of the country. It was a great week
for the American farmer and the men
who handle farm products, specula-
lively otherwise The price of
wheat advanced six cents a bushel,
and although the cereal has shown a
tendency to weaken under the large
offerings, prices continue steady on
speculative basis Corn has
held firmly at an advance, and
all farm products are higher sympa-
thetically. 1t is truly a harvest year
for the farmer, for at the prevailing
prices, which may be attributed to poor
crops in other countries, not less than
$500, 600, 600 will be distributed among
the men who till the soil, in addition
to what they would receive otherwise.
Naturally, the crop situation has in
huenced trade in many lines, especially
among the railroads, and this improve
ment has brought with it a feeling
that an era of good times is at hand.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-08-14

Thousands OF pounds of Kansas
creamery butter are purchased every
week by Kansas City packers and ex-
ported to foreign countries In the
last two months Armour alone bought
in Kansas 276,73O pounds, paying 1917
cents per pound.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-08-14
Rev. Frank Bristol's Rapid Rise

CHICAGO, Aug. 9.-Rev. DIR. Frank NJ.
Bristol. pastor of the First Methodist
church, of Evanston, who has been
called to the pulpit of the Metropolitan
Methodist church, of Washington, the
place of worship attended by President
and Mrs Mckinley, sawed wood to pay
his way through college. While a stu
dent he was noted for his eloquenee
and his ability as an orator has grown
as he grew older. He is now the high
est paid Methodist minister in thin
country.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-08-14
Would Abolish western school Districts

In a circular recently issued State
superintendent Stryker advocates the
wholesale adjustment of schools in
sparsely settled districts in western
Kansas and recommends a collection
and delivery of pupils He says in
many districts there are but three to
five pupils.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-08-14
Depositorics in Every County.

The various publishers who have
contracts to provide textbook for Kan
sas schools have appointed G. w. Crane
and ]. F. Alberts, of Topeka, to establish
repositories in every county, where
local dealers can be supplied. The.
law allows local dealers ten per cent
profit on books sold.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-08-14
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

The Santa Fe railroad will spend
S152, 900 in the erection of buildings
along its lines in Kansas this fall
This does not include smaller depots,
and other like improvements The
new buildings are: Winfield elevator,
$4S, 900; Topeka shops, Ss5, 900, Dodge
City depot, $50, 900; Argentine roun1-
house, So, 900; Hutchinson depot. SILL
600; Newton shops, $4,000, Winfield
depot, 200.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-08-14
Misfortune Drove Him Insane.

A. L. Snyder, for many years a
wealthy business man of Topeka, died
in the asylum recently. Six years ago
he got into trouble with the plumbers
union and spent his fortune fight
ing it.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-08-14

Gov. Leedy has stated that matters,
were shaping themselves as to-
warrant him in calling a special ses-
sion of the legislature in September or
October to pass a maximum freight.
law and to strengthen the anti-bribery
law
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-08-14
Written Contracts Are Valid.

In an opinion recently rendered the
encouragement says that where writ
ten contracts exist between school
boards and book firms, whether in city,
district or county. such contracts are
binding until they expire.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-08-14

Supreme Court Must Decide.
In the opinion of State Superintend-
ent Stryker, a textbook contract is
only binding upon the school board
that makes it. He says no board can
bind its successor. The question will
be taken to the supreme court
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-08-14

Topeka has the distinction of being
the home of the only colored female
lawyer in America. Her name is Edna
Lyle, and she graduated recently from
the law department of a colored uni
versity at Nashville, Tenn.