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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-08-04
INGERSOLuS BODY BURNED.
Only Mrs. Ingersoll and a Few Friends
Present ,

Only Mrs. Ingersoll and a Few Friends
Present d,
NEW YORK, July 2S.-The body of
Robert G. Ingersoll was removed from
Dobbs Ferry to the Frcshpond, Long
Island crematory this morning. The
body was in a plain black coffin, with
out handle or ornament or even a
name plate. The top Of the coffin was
covered with roses.
The funeral party included Mrs.
1ngersoll, her two daughters, Clint ton
b Farrell, Walston II. Brown, Major
O. ]. Smith and Mrs. Smith and Fred
erick c. Penfeld.
The body Of the dead ~agnostic was
transferred from the bier to the coffin
at 9 o'clock. When the widow was
ready the hearse started down the
long hill that has been the joke of
Colonel Ingersoll many a time. A
special train waited at the station to
take the party to New York city.
The incineration is to be strictly
private. The time has not ever been
set. in order that the public may not
know. The funeral party will wait
during the hours while the body is
consuming, to take the ashes back
with them.
The funeral urn has already been
selected. 1t is the choice from a thou
sand Of George Grey Bernard, the
sculptor and the dead mans friend.
This is only temporary. but it will
satisfy Mrs. Ingersoll until a finer one
can be made. She is determined that
the ashes shall not be away from her
a single moment. Whatever was
written by Colonel Ingersoll directly
before his death is still unpublished
and will moi be printed.
The body was placed in the retort
in the Fresh Pond crematory shortly
after noon. 1t will take from six to
eight hours for the incineration to be
complete. Only the members of the
funeral party were allowed in the
crematory.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-08-04
A CHINESE HOSPITAL.
CAN CHOOSE NATIVE OR EURO
PEAN METHODS.
queer Institution in the British Colony
u Hong Kong Which Is Considered
Rather u Observation-Disclosures with
Criminal Intent a Prevalent Evil y

IN the report of the Hongkong Med
zeal Department for 1897, which the
London Lancet summarizes. several
pages are devoted to the Tung Wah
hospital. DR.. j. M. Atkinson, the prin-
clpal civilian medical officer of the COL
ony. considers that the existence Of
this institution, in which more than
tour-hfths of the inmates are treated
by so-called Chinese methods, is some
anomalous in a British colony.
Without discussing the expediercy of
humoring the prejudices Of the Chinese
population, who outnumber the Euro
peans by twenty to one, he is of opin-
ION hat from a medical point Of view
the hospital ought to be abolished, al
though he admits that it serves a USE
lul purpose as an asylum for desti-
'utes and a resting place for the dying.
me medical staff have no knowledge
OF surgical treatment and no instru-
ments; pitch-plaster Is their panacea
lot all surgical injuries and diseases,
II they never administer chloroform.
Aooo, Wucu LII. AIhluSOu
showed them the relief which a cathe-
ter gave to a patient suffering agonies,
they smiled and seemed highly
amused, but it did not occur to them
that such knowledge would be useful.
The patients are mostly poor people OF
the artisan class, coolies, etc., all OF
whom have a dread of the foreigner
and his methods. Treatment OF Euro.
pean principles carried out by a China
man. DR.. Chung, may be had Ly those
who desire it, and it is the practice for
the head coolie to ask the patients at
the time Of admission which system
they prefer. DR.. Atkinson considers
that the INDECENT Chinese should be
treated according to European methods
In a hospital under the direct super
vision Of the colonial surgeon in
charge, the Asiatic medical staff being
employed only as dressers, a course
for which there Is a precedent in the
Taa Took Seng hospital at Singapore
where the great majority Of the pa.
tients are Chinese. There were five
cases of datura poisoning investigated
during 1897, all Of them being with
criminal intent. All the patients re-
covered.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-08-04
GREAT SHIP CANAL,

ALBANY, N. Y, July IS. -Engineer
George w. Rafter, in charge .: tho
survey for the proposed ship canal
from the Great lakes to the Atlantic
ocean, has completed his preliminary
work and drawn his report. The pro-
ject is to cut a canal thirty feet deep
and $40 feet wide, which is three and
n third times the depth and five
times the width Of the Eric canal,
from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario
around Niagara Falls, leaving Lake
Ontario at Oswego, through the o.
wego river to Oneida lake, thence
through the Mohawk valley to tho
Hudson river. A single lock will be
a thousand feet long, with walls over
fifty feet high.
The commissions work also includes
a similar survey for a canal of the
same character leaving the st. Law
renee river at the head Of the Coteau
rapids and thence into and through
Lake Champlain.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-08-04
THE HEAVIEST B. g. o. TRAIN,

When the receivers Of the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad began the now famous
series of improvements Of the physi-
cal condition Of the entire system,
the1r object was to increase both the
train o a and the number Of revenue
tons per mile and at the same time
reduce the cost Of transportation.
Much has been done. and by the low
ering OF grades, elimination Of curves,
laying OF new steel rails and the pur-
chase Of heavy motive power they have
very materially added to the number OF
cars per train. But it was not until
the 18th Of March last that a demon
stration was made Of what might be
expected Of the new Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad. Enough new 50-ton capac-
1ty steel cars had been delivered to
give the operating department a chance
to experiment. Fifty steel cars. each
weighing $4,000 pounds, were loaded
with an average OF 5000 pounds of
coal. To them was coupled a new
22x28 inch consolidation locomotive
weighing 168, 200 pounds and having
"a inch driving wheels. The start was
made from Cumberland, Md, and the
destination was Brunswick, Md, on
the second division. In his report Cen
eral Superintendent Fitzgerald says
the train was pulled with comparative
ease and that the class of engines used
will be able to handle so cars of so
tons capacity each on that division
without trouble. Hitherto the train
load on that division has been 325 units
OF 6h tons each or about 1900 tons, a
40 per cent increase over that Of five
years ago.. The so car train was COM
puted Us containing 4s7 units, or $685.
100 pounds gross. The net weight of
coal in the train was 4.758.1 100 pounds.
1t was by far the heaviest train ever
handled over the line and demonstrate
ed that heavy power, modern equip
ment with safety appliances, and a
good track. mean more revenue tons
per mile and a decreased cost Of trans
portation.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-08-04
LAKES OF KILLARNEY SOLD,
Richard Croker and an Irish Poor Buy
the Famous Estate.


LONDON, July so,-The true signih
canoe and proportions of the schem,
involved in the purchase of the Muck
ross estate, including the Lakes OF
Killarney, are just beginning to de
velop. 1t is apparent that Mr.. Peck,
who has previously been named as
the purchaser, is only a figurehead in
the deal, which he engineered on be,
half of Mrs. Edward McConkey, q
niece of the late Samuel j. Tilden, and
who for many years resided at Grey.
stone, the estate in Wcstchester
county, n. Y, formerly owned by Mr..
Tilden.
Mrs. McConkey is the wife Of a rich
baltimore engineer, who is now re.
siding in England. She inherited her
uncle's love and large estates and the
sale Of the Irish lakes appealed
strongly to her nature.
In order to secure the success of her
scheme, Mrs. McConkey enlisted the
aid OF a famous Irish peer on the one
side and of Richard Croker on the
other, and, though the purchase was
made by her alone, both of these gen
tlemen gave her assurances of their
aid in developing her plans.
Mrs. McConkey's idea was to create
around tie Killarney lakes an aristo-
cratic settlement on the Tuxedo plan,
devoid Of the clubhouse feature, and
so practical was her project that she
already would have been able, had
she SO desired, to dispose of the prop
erty at twice or thrice the original
purchase price.
The fortunate combination of an
Irish peer and Mr.. Croker has inter-
ested both the Americans and the
Irish people in the plan. Mr.. Croker
has been in town for the last three
days busily engaged with his solicitor
in preparing the deeds for the pur-
chase Of the principal site adjoining
Muckross house. For the site alone
he stipulated to pay 81, 900, 900, and he
is required by the terms of the sale to
put a proportionate amount in a resi-
dence, and he agrees to employ at
least 50 Irish servants on the ground.
The Irish peer interested will secure
the adjoining tract, where an equally
beautiful building will be erected.
The scheme links the names of Til
den, Croker and the Irish peer with
the Lakes of Killarney and establishes
the first large American state on Irish
soil.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-08-04
B. g. o. REcElvERsHlp ENDED.
Now Omcers Have Taken Charge Of the
Road.

Now Omcers Have Taken Charge of the
Road.
Baltimore, July 1.-The ~receivership
OF the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
terminated at II o'clock last night and
the property was turned over to the
stockholders without celebration or
formal ceremony. John X. Cowen
and Oscar G. Murray were appointed
receivers Of the company on February
18th, 1896. by the United States court
for the District OF Maryland. Being
familiar with the needs OF the property
the receivers decided that the only
wise course to pursue was to practi-
cally rebuild and re-eQuip the railroad.
The physical condition was bad. its
equipment Anticipated and inadequate
to handle business and Its insuf1ciency
was such as to seriously injure the
revenues. The receivers plans were
discussed by the security holders and
as a large majority agreed to the pro-
vision of enough funds to place the
road In a condition to handle its traf-
nc, they obtained permission Of the
court to issue certificates for the pur-
chase, by means of equipment trusts
and receivers certificates, of new cars
and locomotives and to improve the
physical condition of the property.
The plan also provided for the payment
IN full Of all receivers indebtedness,
the entire floating debt of the COM
pany, represented by promissory notes
and negotiable obligations and OF all
car trust obligations, enabling the COM
pany to begin the fiscal year Of 1Ss9-
1900 with all its obligations paid. For
the reason that reorganization was
possible without a foreclosure, the orig
inal charter Of the company remains In
force, and the next annual meeting OF
the stockholders will be the 73d. The
new stock Of the company is held by In
terests which cannot fail to be Of great
help to the property and much new
capital has been invested in the se-
curities. and there is a suflciency Of
money for still further improvements,
which are in progress. with q view to
still further reducing the cost Of trans
p%ortation.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-08-04
WEYLER is GIVEN A SLAP,
Discussion of Army Bill In Madrid Got
Him Into Trouble.

Discussion of Army Bill In Madrid Cots
Him Into Trouble
MADRID, July es.-The discussion OF
the army bill in the senate led to an
exciting scene. General Weyler, ar.
guing against any reduction in the
strength of the army, warned the gov
eminent hat the present situation
made a revolution highly probable,
since it had never been so easy for the
army and the people to make common
cause. He himself, he said, had never
thought Ct heading a rising. but it
must be confessed that revolutions
sometimes cleared the political atmos-
phere and accomplished the work Of
regeneration.
Senior Dato, minister of the inter-
Tor, replying, severely censured Gen.
Weyler, declaring that q general who
with 800, 900 men had failed to sup
press the Cuban rebellion had no right
to make such threats, and that any at
tempt at revolution, no matter by
whom, would be proceeded against
with the utmost rigor Of the law. The
senators warmly applauded Senior
Dato's speech The army bill was
adopted.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-08-04
WANTED TO Be ANNEXED.
fhe Petition From . Caroline Islander
Reached AmorIoa Too Late.

~ A0SASlOu crO" . NoFOll00 ISLANDER
Reached Amorios Too Late
SAN FRANCISCO, July 2s.-The ma
Gives of the island Of Kusale, in the
Carolines, want to be annexed to the
United States. The king, high chiefs
and leading men on the island TO the
number of seventy-two have forward
sd a petition to that effect to San
Francisco, with the request that it be
laid before the President. They say
not a word about the Spaniards or the
Germans, but simply ask to be taken
ander the folds of the Stars and
Stripes. The petition was forwarded
to the President yesterday.
When the barkentine Ruth arrived
from the Carolines a few months ago
she brought the news that the Ger
mans were trying to secure a foothold
On the island of Kusale and that the
natives were preparing to resist them.
Now that Germany has purchased the
group from Spain, she will at once
Jake possession, and then there may
be a war on Kusale similar to that in
The Philippines. The petition of tho
kusalers has arrived too late.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-08-04
Moro Companies Paw Fines,

JEFFERSON CITY, NO., July 29.-The
following insurance companies paid
their fines Of ST., 900 each to the clerk
OF the supreme court: st. Paul Fire
and Marine Company, the Michigan
Fire and Marine Company, the Madge-
burg Fire Company of Germany, the
Traders Insurance Company, the
American Fire Of New York. the
Queen Insurance Company. the Union
Insurance Company OF Philadelphia
and the Manchester Fire Company.
This makes twenty-eight companies
which have paid fines.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-08-04
Beer InspectIon Hald Yallh

JEFFERSON CITY, No., July 20 AT.
torney General Crow holds that the
defect in the record Of the house jour
nal on the passage OF the beer inspec-
ton bill does not vitiate the bill. He
holds that as the bill went to the
governor on the same day it was taken
up in the house to be signed, when
the protests were fled and rejected,
the presumption is that it was filed at
the proper time. The bill was prop
erly signed when it reached the gov
ernor. and hence the defect in the rec.
ord will not be fatal to it.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-08-04

To do the right thing at the wrong
time is as bad as to do the wrong
thing at any time. How often have we
Numbered just at this point! If we re-
view the past we will see that in many
cases we have brought trouble upon
ourselves, not because we did a wrong
thing, but because we did just the right
thing to be done, but we did it at the
wrong time. We need great caution
and care. Guard we'll this point.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-08-04

Robert Burns, the Scotch poet, was
a plowman in Ayrshire.
DR.. Thomas Bishop of Worcester
was a lin~en-draper's son.
Homer, most illustrious Of poets,
was at one time a beggar.
Columbus, the discoverer of Amer
Tea, was the son Of a weaver.
Terence, the celebrated Roman
aramatist, was at one time a slave.
,Plautus, one of the greatest Roman
comic poets, was the son Of a baker.
Demosthenes, the most celebrated
orator of antiquity, was a cutters son.
Joseph Hall, bishop of Norwich and
theological writer, was a farmers son.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-08-04
GOLD FOR THE BLIND.
Each Sightless Person In New York Re-
ceiyoB $50.

Each SiEhtless Person in New York Re-
ceivos $50.
When the palms Of almost 1900
blind men, women and children were
crossed with $50 each yesterday they
did not need eyes to see and know 1t
was in gold, two $40 pieces and one $40
piece. It was the annual tribute from
the city in pity for their misfortune,
and at the same time had a practical
side in that 1t aided In preventing the
recipients from becoming public charg-
es. One would have thought the world
had lost its sight and doubled its own
vision to see 700 blind persons feel
their way to the Office of Superinten-
lent Blair of the Outdoor Poor at
Twenty-sixth street and East river.
They came from all directions and In
many ways, those who were able walk
ing alone and those who were not, led
by children, whose faces had grown
patient under the weight of their dread
responsibility. And always and every
where was the steady pat. pat, pat of
700 on the sidewalk, those who
were led taking the center Of the walk.
and those who were alone being guided
just as surely by the curb. The only
difference was that the blind attended
by children gave a forward, sweeping
motion to the canes, while those along
the curb had cultivated an inward
swing, SO as to detect any post in the
way Of their hating steps. But all
were in utter darkness. Only the
warmth on the lids of their sightless
eyes told them the sun was shining on
their u%pturned, expressionless faces.
City corporations must have souls.
after all, to have done such a good
deed as that Of yesterday, and as this
city has done for years in annually
distributing $4,000 to the blind, lit
must have been a soul that did not
even forget the little detail of paving
them In gold, two 500 pieces and one
$40 piece, SO that they could know
what they were, and need not be re-
minded anew Of a misfortune v
present In their inner thoughts. Not
satisfied with paying those who were
able to make their way to the office,
the weak and sick of the sightless were
hunted up at their homes all over the
city. And there must have been a soul
behind 1t when the corporation ordered
ina all be paid the full amount freely
and without question, and on the same
aay-the only really pleasant day to
them In all the 365.-New York Press
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-08-04
ITALY WILL GET INDEMNITY,
No Way to Avoid Paying for the Lynch
Ing OF the Three Forolg ners.

No Way to Avoid Paying for the Lynch.
Ing OF the Three Foreigners.
WASHINGTON, July 2s.-Italy VIM
be paid n indemnity for the lynching
of three Of the five Italians at Tai
lulah, La, and the state department
will lay down the principle for once
for all that an alien does not become
a full Pledged citizen of the United
States until naturalization papers
have been formally issued to him.
OF course the state department will
pursue the regular legal course for as
certaining all the facts in connection
with the %lynching, and there will
doubtless be considerable diplomatic
correspondence between the two coun-
tries before the incident is closed.
But state department officials apprecl-
ate that there is no escape from the
payment Of the indemnity. No direct
demand has yet been made by Italy,
but there have been broad hints
dropped in that direction.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-08-04
BIG FILIPINO TOWN TAKEN.
Brigadier General Halls Force:
Capture CaIamba.
HAS OVER 1900 POPULATION.
rass and Worry the Iusurgents-The
Twelve Wounded.

MANILA, July 2s.-Brigadier Gen.
eral R. II. Hall, with 1000 men, has
captured Calamba, on Laguna de Bay.
The loss to the United States forces
was four killed and twelve wounded.
Calamba is about thirty miles south
west of Manila. 1t is much farther
south than the United States troops
have yet penetrated on land. 1t has
a population of II, 47u and is twenty
seven miles from Santa Cruz, on the
eastern shore Of the bay.
It's capture is not considered of any
strategical Importance except as a
part Of the plan to harass and worry
the insurgents
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-08-04
LUETGERT DEAD IN HIS CELL,

Body OF the Chicago sausage-maker
Found In the Prison Coll.
JOLIET. ILL.,, July 2s.-Adolph L.
Luetgert, the Chicago sausage-maker,
who was serving a life sentence in the
~penitentiary here for the murder Of
his wife, was found dead in his cell
to-day. The officials were unable to
ascertain the cause Of his death, and
an inquest will be held to determine
whether he killed himself or died Of
heart disease.
Luetgert was found guilty of MUIR
der in She second degree, and sem
fenced to prison for life in Chicago,
February 10, last year.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-08-04
Never Enters Kansas.

Chicago Tribune: William Allen
White recalls that Frederic Reming-
ton, now famous as a writer and H.
illustrator, used to farm near Eldorado,
and the hired men on the farms near
rum Grove made a monkey Of him
by getting out a bogus warrant for him
Tor horse stealing and telling him the
justice of the peace would bind him
over. Remington got so scared that he
LETT the country. He has never ever
passed through Kansas since then.
fearing arrest.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-08-04
Huge Twlno Factory,

CHICAGO, July 2o.-The Mccormick
Harvesting Machine company is erect
ing one Of the largest single Irvine
mills in the country. The structure
is expected to be finished and in oper-
alton on November l. 1t will occupy
the space of an ordinary block, will
have a capacity for employing several
thousand factory hands and will cost
upward Of $500, 900 to build. AS the
Mccormick concern does not cooper
ate with the trust. the extensive pro-
duction of Irvine contemplated is ex-
pected to have considera BILE effect
upon the cordage trust.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-08-04
Minors and Soldier. Disagree.

SEATTLE, Wash, July es.-Miners
Who arrived on the steamer Elihu
Thompson from st. Michaels, report
strained relations between miners and
soldiers at Cape Nome. On July II
the soldiers dispersed a meeting Of
miners for protesting against the acts
of the United States officials. 1t is
stated that a protest, which is being
extensi vely signed, will be forwarded
to Washington.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-08-04
Rough on Rat. In Coffee.

CARMI, ILL.,. July 20. -.Walter S
Warthen, his wife. son and married
daughter and a neighbor, Berry Car
ter, we're poisoned Tuesday noon.
On Wednesday Floyd Warthen. a lad
Of IA years. grew worse and died that
night. Sheriff Ackeman summoned
Warthen's daughter, Mrs. Ivy Crab
tree, and elected from her a confess
sion that she had put rough on rats
in the COTE and cabbage served at
dinner.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-08-04
Chopped His Family to Pleee.

BRAZIL, Ind, July 2s.-charles
Wolfangel became violently insane at
his home in Denmark, south Of here,
and, selling a Ratchet. chopped his
two daughters AID wife to death
while they were sleeping. He then
took a knife and cut his own throat.
The murdered children were 8 and ~
years old.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-08-04
EOQuRh Man

ne sent her his love in a letter.
The foolish man should have known
better,
For, 10! when he tried TO forget her.
She sued on the letter;
He'll never forget her;
Inc jury said he was her debtor.
Philadelphia North American.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-08-04
Coxey Buys . Steel Plant.

P1TTsBURG, Pa, July 29.-"Gencral"
Jacob S. Coxcy has purchased the old
steel plant OF Graft, Bennett & Co., 1T
Millvale, near here, and will remove it
to Massillon, Ohio. 1t is his intention
to erect a large open hearth steel
plant at a cost of $50, 900. The new
works will give employment to 3oc
men.