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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-02-12
MINNEAPOLIS TIMES WINS OUT
Minneapolis Trust Company Is De-
feated After n Very Lengthy
n'.iaI

lrtaI.
Minneapolis, Mimi, Feb. THE
greatest libel suit ever tried in Mime
sofa came to an end yesterday with a
verdict of not guilty. The action was
brought by the Minneapolis Trust
company against the Minneapolis
Times, w. f. Haskell, its manager,
and John Blanchard, its editor, and
was a criminal prosecution by indict-
ment. The ease was on trial two
months and the jury, after being out
twenty-four hours, brought in a ver-
dict OF not guilty as to the defendant
Haskell, which will settle all cases.
The indictment grew out of IN edi-
torial comment by the Times on the
conduct of the Minneapolis Trust
company, as the trustee of certain
West Pullman bonds, a part of the as
sets of the defunct Guarantee Loan
company. These bonds, the Times
charged, were disposed of TO a So
called creditors association at 10 cents
on the dollar, but five days notice be-
ing given to the owners of the bonds,
for whom they were held in trust and
who were scattered from Illinois to
Maine. The West Pullman property,
the Times asserted, was afterwards
rebonded for $24O.O00 more than the
original debt.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-02-12
ParaIyzed His Own Party.

Huron, Feb. THE appointment of
Charles L. Mccoy to the position of
agent for the Indians at the Cheyenne
agency is a paralyzing surprise to re-
publicans here. Mccoy has long been
regarded as a resident of Cripple
Creek, Colo, and his name had not
been mentioned i'm connection with the
position. Ii was generally supposed
that Senator Hatch of Potter county
would be named for the place, and
McCoy's appointment came like a
thunderbOlt from a cloudless sky. His
appointment is another whack at the
"boys in blue" for whom there seems
to be but little regard in the selection
OF men for federal positions in South
Dakota. Potter county people will APP
preciate the appointment less than any
other, as they have been several times
turned down in the selection of men
for Office in their countrywide the
Gettysburg %postoffice aad the Lebanon
postoffice. A hot time i'm the q. O. d.
ranks in Potter county may be looked
for next fall.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-02-12
Supreme Court Decisions.

Pierre, Feb. 1.-The supreme court
Yesterday afternoon handed down de.
cisions in the following cases:
Lottie b. Ben ct al. VS.. Emile Ben,
Bon Homme county; Judgment modi.
led, Fuller dissenting.
l.. Z. Church VS.. Elisha Walker, Ly-
nan county; on rehearing; affirmed.
Alvah y. Towne VS.. John Liddle and
Edward Back, Mcpherson county; af-
irmed.
Patrick Daley VS.. John Forsythe and
Frank Brown, Pennington county;
affirmed.
White Sewing Machine company VS..
G. NJ. Simpson ct al, Codington coun.
ty; reversed.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-02-12

Gath" in his last letter said:
's~hakespeare's two London friends
,meaning Drayton and Ben Jonson)
followed him up to Stratford and
drank so much ale with him that he
took fever and died. The only au-
thority for this is the doubtful story
Df Rev. John Ward of Stratford, who
made such an entry in his diary in
1868. 1t was a spiteful notation, how
ever, and has been rejected by med
lcal science. Strictly speaking, no
fever can be contracted by drinking,
md Sh~akespcare's death did not occur
ill nearly three months after the trG
had their little frolic. Although it
was presumably typhoid fever, he did
not die till twenty-nine days after he
was taken down. A modern English
writer states that Shakespeare was
tor three years Il martyr TO Ill health,
Dr the victim Of a nervous complaint,
and finally died Of a paralytic or
apoplectic stroke.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-02-12

The circumstances Of the ease are
that the McCracken woman attended
n Parce child at Batavia a week ago.
The child was sufferings with diph-
iberia, but no physician was sum
y The woman insisted that she
could cure the infant with Christian
Science methods and was paid for each
visit to the child.
When the child died no physician
could be found to sign tho death Ger
t~iacste, and the Coroner was cslIed.
The jury returned Q verdict In accord
ancc with the facts, and later the
mother and father Of the child and the
McCracken woman we're indicted Tor
criminal negligence by . grand jury.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-02-12

Mrs. Sarah Stanley Gray died at
Lawrence, Kas., recently at the age
Of IS years, after "A somewhat remark
able life. She rode on horseback in
1929, with her husband, from Hageis-
town, Md, to western Ohio, and they
settled in the wilds, where they
brought up five sons and four daugh-
tiers. Both of Mrs. Gray's grandfathers
an,. her father had fought in the revo-
lutionary war. She had two rules of
life patriotism and religion. When
the war of the rebellion began all of
her sons and the husbands of her
daughters went TO the front. 1t is
said that as long as she kept house,
subsequent to 1929, not n pound OF
butchers meat was served at her ia
bic, the gun bringing down all the
family wanted.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-02-12

Cranberries are not injured by freez-
ing. They are often sent as far as
Manitoba in open box cars. When they
arrive they are frozen into solid blocks
of ice. The sides of the cases are
knocked off and the berries are ex-
posed in a solid mass, like cakes of ice.
They are chopped off exactly like ice,
and the citizen of Winnipeg is so ac-
customed to buying his cranberries in
blocks that he doesn't mind it i'm the
least.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-02-12

Schiller's bell, which suggested the
famous Song of the Bell" is doomed.
Cast at Bale in 1886, it has been in the
belfry Of S~chaffhausen for over 400
years. Latterly a crack has made its
appearance in the metal, and it is ST.
lent. A member of the municipal
council of the town proposed TO have
it placed in the local museum, but the
majority took a more unitarian view
and decided that it should be melted
down. Upon the bell is the inscription
"Nivise voco, mortuos plango, fulgu-
ia FRANCO Il call the living, / mourn
the dead, / break the thunderbolt).
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-02-12

1t is said of the Aberdeen Journal,
which has recently celebrated its one
hundredth and iftieth birthday, that
happily lost from the files, a partici-
pant in the battle of Cullcden was in
terviewed two days after that historic
combat. 1t was about the earliest
newspaper interview ON record, il so.
and the loss of the number containing
It is much to be deplored.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-02-12

For the benefit OF Il conductor who
had suffered an accident which en-
dangered his earning ability the con.
solidated Electric Railway company Of
Santa Barbara, Cal, gave the gross re-
ceipts Of its lines for M day while
he was in hospital. His case appealed
TO his fellow workmen and the public,
as he had been a faithful employe and
The other employees of the company on
the same day gave their days earnings
to him, and patrons of the road had
conductors ring up sums ranging as
high as $50. The car receipts amount
ed to S327,05.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-02-12

Another New York society woman
whose husband is down on his luck is
going into trade, and a peculiar trade
at that. In stead of branching out in
the millinery line, she will devote her
talents to the dressing Of the the So
called society drama in accordance
with the canons that prevail in the
world of fashion. AS gowns nowadays
count as much as the performance, this
new departure will be set down as one
step toward the long talked about ele-
walton of the stage.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-02-12
Journalistic OmcehoIders.

Sioux Falls, Feb. 7.-Eighteen South Da-
kota newspaper men are enjoying federal
positions under the Mckinley administra-
ton at the present time and half as many
more have hopes. II is the same way with
the populists. All the good Offices In the
state are held by newspaper men. Arthur
Linn Is c~ommandant OF the Soldiers
home; MarIs Taylor. public examiner; T.
II. Ayres. the governors private secre-
tary; J. Fl. Kipp, insurance commissioner
u. @. King, assistant insurance commits.
sioner; r. 2. Dowdell. state oil inspector.
and Stacy cochrane. commissioner OF irrS.
cation.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-02-12

The simplest public railroad now OPP
Grated is thought to be one between
Atami and Odawara, in Japan. 1t is
"a narrow gauge road and is run by
man power. The cars have seats for
four persons each, who sit back to
back. A train consists of two or three
cars, and is drawn up hill by half a
dozen coolies. At the top of the in
cline the coolies jump on the platforms
and the train runs down to the termin-
us by gravity, with the speed of an eX-
press. 1t is said there has ne,er been
an accident on this road.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-02-12
POstomcc Robbed.

Tyndall, Feb. 4.-The postofice in
This city was ~burglarized about 3
o'clock yesterday morning. Dyna-
mite was used and the safe was shat
cred. Files, brace, bit and other tools
Ised were identified as belonging to
local blacksmith shops, from which
hey were stolen. Two hundred dol
ars in cash and 5000 in stamps were
AIKEN. Three arrests have been made,
but all the men were turned loose,
here being no clue. Postoffice In.
spect0r Fosness has been SEN for.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-02-12

New York, Feb. Tin furtherance
of the plan of merging the New York
Central and Lake Shore roads. the d.
rectors of the former have authorized
the issue Of 500. DOC. 900 in hundred
year 3 IL per cent collateral gold
bonds,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-02-12
ARCHBISHOP IRELAND'S LAND CASE
Commissioners Yoemans Decides Both
for and Against the
Prclate.

Washington, Feb. Commissioners
Yeomans of the general land Office has
decided the case Of the Catholic Arch
bishop Ireland Of st. Paul, involving
30, 900 acres of land, contracted for by
him from the st. Paul, Minneapolis and
Manitoba road, and afterwards found
not conveyable from the government
to the road, the archbishop having
located many schools on the property,
Yeomans holds the archbishop had no
right to purchase under one contract,
involving 5000 acres, but had such n
right under the other. In the first
case, however, the rights of the settlers
are protected.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-02-12

Berlin, Feb. THE minister of ag-
riculture said In the Prussian diet that
American horses developed influenza
after importation. and added: IF the
importations increase we shall certain
~ be forced to adopt q suitable quar-.
antine to protect ourselves"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-02-12
Death or Charles Wright.

Chamberlain, Feb. 4.-Chas. Wright,
aged 20, an early resident of this sec
lion, died ut his home in this city. He
was the father of George Wright, pro-
prietor OF N of the leading hotels
here, and was a former resident of
Chippewa Falls, Wis.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-02-12

A Canadian traveller who has spent
a couple of years in the far northwest,
part of the time along the Peace river,
says that there are in that country at
least four herds Of wild buffalo, num-
boring altogether not less than 1000.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-02-12

"Your boy" said the professor, "has
q fine head" "He gets that from
me-" interrupted the old man. For
learning" finished the professor. HE
gifts that from me, john" spoke up
the old lady. II vas in the third read
er when you married mel"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-02-12
A CHILD DIES WITHOUT HELP
Batavia, H., Parents ana n Christian
Scientist Indicted for Grim.
iual Negligence.

Springfield, ILL.,, Feb. 2.-Dr. j. A.
Eagan, secretary of the state board Of
health, has received q communication
from States Attorney Jaslyn Of Elgin,
stating that he would prosecute Wjllet
McCracken, q Christian Scientist, for
violating the medical practice act and
Mr.. and Mrs. Psrce Of batavia for Grim
nal negligence in allowing their child
70 de w{tbuait summoning the aid OF
! phy1lcfan.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-02-12
PENSIONS FOR THE VETERANS
Old Soldiers of Iowa md Nebraska
Remembered by the Gov
crnpnent

Washington. Feb. 5.-Yesterday the fol-
lowing pensions were granted:
Iowa-Original: John M. Matheson, Mil
ford. IS; Albert ID. Dodds. Cherokee, Sc:
George w. G. Crofts. Summitville. S.; s.
Lemont Benedict. Mitchell, Sc. Additional:
crease: Adam Borscel, Morse. 81 TO $40.
Widows: Eunice A. Wymer. ~Springdale,
IS: Mary X. Jaeger, Dubuque, IS.
Nebraska-Original: Samuel X. Carri-
gan. Plattsmouth. IS: Milton b. Bishop,
Beatrice. S.; Jacob +. Lanschanky, Fair
mont. Sc. Additional: John Carpenter, Su-
perior, So to SO. Restoration and Increase:
sl2. Reissue and Increase: Robert Hos
kins, Nemaha, 81 tao $14. Widows: Mar
tina A. Oatney. Arapahoe, IS: Maggie
Pierce. Plattsmouth, IS.
Thomas Fay was yesterday appointed
postmaster at Hinton, Plymouth county,
Ia. vice ID. Winter. tr., removed.
A postofiice has been established at Two
Bit, Lawrence county, South Dakota, with
Emma A.. Suffer as postmistress.
Ruth Clayton of Minneapolis has been
appointed assistant teacher at $40, and
Russell Ratlife of indian disciplinarian,
at Sl2O, In the Pine Ridge Indian school,
South Dakota.
The senate m committee has de-
kyle's amendments for the improvement
OF the Missouri river at Pierre, Yankton
and Elk Point. II the house passes a river
and harbor bill with these amendments
there will be q total appropriation Of
$2so.0 900 for work at the points named.
The p~ostofice department has made an
allowance of 1886 for rent. fuel and light
for the postofice at Tyndail. s.. D., for one
year from January Is.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-02-12

Washington, Feb. THE president
has nominated the following for lows
postmaxters; w. II. Tyrell, waverly;
G. n. Elder. Rock Valley; A. w. Lee.
Ottumws; A. N. Brimer, Corning; n.
e. Bolingsr, Alton
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-02-12

All this talk about the disappear
snce of the Indian rae ought to stop
when il. is demonstrated that they
have Indians to burn in Oklnhoma.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-02-12
SHEDS NEW LIGHT ON HIS HISTORY
Picture of The Crucifixion Found I'm
h Ruins or the Palace or
Tiberius.

Rome, Feb. 2.-In the palace of EN-
peror Tiberius. Prof. Marucche has
discovered an old picture representing
the scene of Calvary, with the inscrip-
tion: Honor to Christ" This pic-
ture is regarded as the most import
ant archaeological discovery of the
century.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-02-12
THOUSAND MEN FOR CUBA
Minneapolis Man ut Aberdeen Look.
ing for Men TO Emigrate

TO Cuba.
Minneapolis, Feb. IA Journals
Aberdeen, $. d., special says: Jim
Patterson Of Minneapolis is here work.
ing on IA scheme to take Il thousand
men to Cuba, landing them July 4. lie
says he is backed by a syndicate of
itch Americans, who have big planta-
lions in Cuba which they are willing
20 cut into small holdings and sell on
;ery easy terms. There will be enough
steamers in New Orleans July 3 to
carry the whole number and land them
II Cuba together. The company guar
lntees protection from Spanish inter-
ference from New Orleans to Cuba.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-02-12
A Miner KnlAd-

Rapid City, Feb. 4.-James Lintz, a
miner in the Holy Terror at Keystone,
was instantly killed while coming up
in the cage from the bottom Of the
mine. His head struck q projecting
beam. He leaves a wife and two chill.
lren.
Erickson Murder Case.
Sioux Falls, Feb. 4.-After two DAVIS
II sparring between the lawyers in the
Erickson murder ~ q jury was &C.
ured and the court is occupied in
soaring evidence on the part OF the
fate. What the theory of the de-
ense will be has not Yet developed.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-02-12
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
The Senate.

Washington, Feb. 5.-After some
preliminary business, Lindsay Of Ken
lucky had read a resolution of the
Kentucky legislature asking him TO re-
sign because he refused to vote for free
silver. He reviewed his votes favoring
the gold standard during his first term
and said his position was fully under
stood when he was a candidate for re-
election in 1894; that he was elected
by the solid democratic vote and that
the men who are now calling for him
to vote for free silver were the e
who had changed principles, and he
did not propose to be dictated to by
them, especially as a majority of the
voters of Kentucky favor the gold
standard. At the conclusion of Lind
says address the senate went into eX-
ecutive session on motion OF the for
eign affairs committee.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-02-12
The House.

Washington, Feb. 5.-A bill was
passed amending the act granting
rights of way through the public do
main for tramways, canals and reser-
voirs to cities and private corporations.
Heretofore these rights were given
only for mining and irrigation. The
house then proceeded to the consider
alton of private bills.
The private pension bills favoIably
xs-saa~s
first considered. Hopkins, rep, Illi-
nois, made some desultory remarks on
the first bill. The democrats, who are
anxious to reach the private calendar,
charged the republicans with trying
to filibuster away the entire day on
pension bills. Several republicans de-
MED their disposition to filibuster, but
continued to prolong the debate.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-02-12
MURDERED BROTHER AND SISTER
a CALIFORNIA; Youth Who Feared He
Had Lost HIS share OF HIS
Fathers Estnte.

Suisin, Cal, Feb. 7.-rFank Bell was
arrested ON a ranch near Elmira and
lodged in Jail charged with murder
ing his brother and sister, Lewis aud
Susie. by poison. He thought he could
not recover an equitable share of his
fathers estate.
The evening times., 1898-05-27

exact situation in the Philippines, and the where
abouts of Simpsons and Schley's fleets; also what
attitude France is assuming in the execution Of
the neutrality laws in Martinique.
1t requires no very vivid Imagination to
realize the scene when the telegram was
sent. Evidently there had been a long
and thorough discussion of all the tre-
mendous questions that confront the
country, and. at last, the anxiety to know
the latest developments became uncon-
trollable, and the telegraph was invoked.
The mental attitude of this Mississippi
hamlet is universal, from the Atlantic to
the Pacific and from the Lakes to the
Gulf. 1t means that 10000 900 of Anglo
Saxons have awakened to the fact that
there is other business in life besides
raising crops. manipulating stocks and
''scalping' markets.
We have sometimes forgotten that ma
tions are not great because they are
rich. and that, in the eternal order Of
things, they can only be permanently rich
because they are great. The lesson will
not be forgotten in our time. The real
basis of our abounding prosperity in re-
cent years must be found in the limitless
devotion with which millions of Ameri-
cans. In the four terrible years, laid ev-
erything on the altar of their political
principles. Now once more the foundation
The evening times., 1898-05-27
No spanisL Help for Manila.
(From the Boston Journal. J


In spite of braggart Spanish talk there
need be no fear that Spain will send out
an armored squadron TO fall on Admiral
Dewey and retake the Philippines.
The distance from San Francisco to Ma
Mia Is long. but the distance from Cadiz
to Manila is longer. The former Is I,0e9
miles: the latter, via the Suez Canal, IS
$500. The great waterway from the Med
iteranean to the Red Sea would be open
TO the Spaniards if they desired to avail
themselves of it. for by the terms of
the joint convention of 1sSS the canal can
be used at any time by armed ships or
merchantmen of any nation in war or in
peace. But the insuperable obstacle TO
Spanish attack upon Manila would be the
extraordinary length of the voyage and
the necessity for frequent recoaling. Most
of the coal stations along the route are
British and il is not conceivable that.
with all their professions of sympathy and
friendship, our kinsmen would supply
with fuel and help along its way hos
tile squadron steering TO strike at what
is now virtually a port of the United
States. The ordinary principle of neutral
hospitality by which belligerent is al
lowed coal enough to take him to the
nearest friendly harbor could by no man
ner of ingenuity be SO stretched as to
fill the bunkers of Spanish armorclads at
Alden for instance. to enable them to pro-
ceed to Singapore.
Moreover. Spain has no armored ships
to spare for such Quixotic undertaking.
Her Cadiz fleet contains only seven in all,
and IL any of these are drawn away it
will only enhance the present American
naval superiority in the Atlantic. Judg-
ing by the gun practice of Manila, too,
Admiral Dewey has very little to fear
from Spanish ships. however large and
powerful. even If by some magical means
they could transport themselves to the
Orient
The evening times., 1898-05-27
OBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS.
Steamship Men PrOtest Against Har.
bOr Regulations.


John S. Wilson. president of the Balti-
more. Chesapeake and Atlantic Railroad
Company, and chairman of the meeting of
steamboat representatives. held recently.
arrived in the city today and he will call
upon Secretary Alger this afternoon to
urge upon the Secretary the modification
of the regulations governing the use of
Baltimore harbor al night by bay line
tsamers. Senators German and Welling-
ton and Senator-elect McComas and the
Maryland members of the House OF Rep
resentatives have been invited to meet
the committee at the Secretary's office.
and urge the removal Of the restrictions
in the use of the harbor imposed by the
mines.
Mr.. Wilson will be accompanied by the
following committee W. W. Anker b. &
o.; Henry Williams. OF the weems Line:
w. c. Eliason, of the Colchester Compa-
ny; Clarence Shriver. of the Ericsson
Line: Reuben Foster. of the York River
Line: John S. Cuttings. of the Queen
Annes Railroad Company. and n. p.
Bond, vice-president of the Baltimore.
Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway Com
pany-
II is stated that Chief Engineer Wilson,
of the War Department. is opposed to a
modification Of the harbor restrictions.